The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: I've Paid My Legal Tender
Episode Date: October 24, 2024Dan WOULD write a book, but he won't tell us about the topic because he's afraid of the expectations. Dan and the Shipping Container are asking the important questions today like, "When did the Intern...et start?" Then, give that man his strawberries, tipping in a cashless society, and bananas are strawberries if you don't question it. Plus, despite being furious over a slight delay in the start of the segment, David Samson and Adnan Virk join the show to discuss the World Series and why people should buy into the hype while being disrupted by talk of kidney beans and traveler's checks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings.
Why are you listening to this show?
The podcast that seems very similar
to the other Dan LeBattard 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 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, fat face and the habitual liar.
Dan, what's that in your hand?
That was very natural, Mike, but I'm excited about this.
It is a coloring book meant to celebrate
our 20 year anniversary.
We've always prided ourselves around here
on having a different artistic look.
And I like some of the pictures here.
There is Roy and Mike as as Riggs and
lethal what is it? Thank you. Actually we can't use them to sell this book so don't
say their names. Okay I bleep that all out. I also have a mean here falling in
American can't say that either. Greg Cody is wearing a you can say okay. Thank you
What is he wearing he's wearing that
Stugats is guy
Mayor of flavor town day that book is so much thicker than Stu gots his book lebatard af comm it's lot of fun. I urge you to check it out.
The Dan Lebatard Show with Stu Gott's struggling mightily
to try to keep the book industry alive in this country
by selling a whole lot of books.
From zero books to like 14 books in a year.
I know, we weren't doing any books
and then all of a sudden Mango Publishing started sniffing
around the oil wells over here lion book
We got a coloring book. We got out this that Dan. What are you gonna write a book?
It's an excellent question
The most I'm doing right now is coloring book is what I have for you levitard af.com
I would I would have to leave what we're presently doing in order to do that. It's time-consuming
Don't leave if you could write a book about any topic,
what would it be?
It's the book I've been trying to write for 25 years
that I will tell people about when I'm ready
to have the burden of expectations of having to write it.
It's a good book.
Burden of expectations.
Burden of expectations is a great word.
Yeah, that's a good title.
Can you give us a fake answer for the sake of the show?
I have pages all over the house that I've come back from a time when you would have
pages to write on as opposed to the pre-computer.
It's all over the place. It's gone from house to house. There is a book.
There's a smattering of a book.
You have a manuscript.
Every, well, no, but it's pages are everywhere. Some are in storage.
Sci-fi?
It's not a manuscript. It's not a manuscript.
Were you the guy on the typewriter during Tua's press conference?
That is a mystery we need to get to the bottom of.
Izzy, you laugh, but I think that you started
with something like couplers,
like you're 10 years younger than me,
but you are also pre-internet when you started this.
Well, I knew that I was the young guy in the crew
when I was a young reporter.
When all the other reporters were calling their computer
their machines.
Oh, my machine.
I was like, what are you talking about?
There's been one thing that I've picked up
from the oral history, and that is very clearly,
Dan does not know when the internet started.
Yeah.
I feel like it was about 2004.
Wow.
No.
What were you doing for 10 years?
We were talking about the heap,
and he stopped short of the most recent episode.
He's like, I'm not gonna say it was pre-internet,
but it was pretty close.
I'm like, what?
I had a YouTube page.
When did Facebook start?
It feels like pre-Twitter,
when do you regard as the beginning of the internet,
because there's a famous clip of Brian Gumbel
on the Today Show, the most popular show in America saying what is this internet
thing and I think that's early 90s that that show is existing so what do you
guys regard as the advent of the internet because I really do sort of
think of it as whenever it is Twitter started I know it's before that. Wow.
I wasn't on Facebook and I wasn't on Instagram.
Like I wasn't doing that stuff.
When I was in high school.
When I was in high school.
Pre-social media.
You had an AIM?
You had an AIM account?
You were welcomed with you got mail.
I should be saying pre-social media
is what I should be saying.
That's what you should be saying.
That's what I should be saying.
That's exactly right.
95?
Thank you for the correction.
Al Gore invented it, yeah.
But this is one of the ways that I a job here's another and i am right
about this i will not be wrong about this this is something i would say
this is been my number one cause over the last three years and that the cause
that i am absolutely most right on however
i sound like this person and i look like this person when I do it. I paid by legal tender. I'm coming out with my sword. I paid by legal tender in this utopian place.
I had a wheelchair clap. I had a wheelchair clap. Arrest him. I dare you. Take that to arrest. He paid by legal tender. You will take his coins and you will let him leave with his strawberries.
The biggest life hack is having an English accent. Exactly.
Because if that were a Southern accent, he'd sound crazy.
Yeah, Dan started off by saying,
I sound like that gentleman.
You sound nothing like that gentleman.
I don't care what he complains about, I'm on his side.
Give that man his strawberries.
You know how crazy he would sound
if you were trying to barge through automatic doors
saying I've paid my legal tender? I regret so much that I have not yelled that for those of you not not watching video here and
everything we just did is
Much better when supplemented not just by his accent
but the way that he looks and everything that's happening there a
Man tried to pay for strawberries with coins and they say we don't take coins here we do not want your coins he threw them all on the table and then barged out of the grocery store and he had the perfect sentence which i wish to repeat over and over again i regret that i have not made a public show of this and gotten arrested yelling i've paid my legal tender because this man is right. He's on the right side of history and the law
That's God earned American money and he should be able to spend it in a restaurant or a grocery store to get his goddamn strawberries
I don't know about God
strawberries and I'm offering exactly the right amount of money here so you people take
Money, and I will take my strawberries outside
You can't take that
I paid by legal tender
No no no, don't break your dog
I paid by legal tender and I am going now with my strawberries
The ovation he gets from the dude in the wheelchair
Is this your stocking place?
You should be able to spend whatever you want
This is an absolute joke. You want one, mate?
It's the perfect phrasing.
You want one?
Do you want one, mate?
It's the perfect phrasing for that scenario, Dan,
because it's legal tender.
You're telling them you have to take this by law.
Get me out of here.
Absolutely right, and I am absolutely right.
And in our cashless society,
when you guys are gonna give all the numbers over
to Elon Musk and he's gonna live on Mars with them I will be down here on earth
swallowed by flames and sea with a dollar in the air shouting I paid by
legal tender with my last dollar in my last breath you you will take my cash I
I you will not make me feel alone by having cash I won't have an aversion to
credit cards is there something do you not like that it's not an an aversion it's the it's the way that I've always done
this and I wish to be stubborn to the very end and stop with your wokeness. Do
you not like rewards points? Something you can't get with cash. I like paying
for with cash I like that baggage handlers at an airport that I don't
have to Venmo them that they've lost their entire income because nobody gives
them ten dollars anymore because nobody has ten dollars to give them tipping industry
Yeah, huge blow. Oh my god. There's a cocktail reception. Just got the drink
Why do you think that all service industry has gone to total shit?
We used to give them money for their services
you know where I got a tip request from on the little screen there where you're paying a
mechanic a You know where I got a tip request from on the little screen there where you're paying? A mechanic. A mechanic was asking for a tip.
You already ripped me off, buddy. You want more money?
I tip the mechanics.
Since when? They have a labor fee!
My dad is not a manly man
and my dad always used to fill his tire tub
because he had no idea how to do it.
He would just drive up to an auto parts store
or a Jiffy Lube and be like
hey, can you put air in the tires?
You're like two bucks.
I mean, that's not really going to a mechanic.
That's just tipping a dude for free work.
I'd stop doing that and become a real man.
With a family of my own paying legal tender.
I feel like everyone, like every nail salon I go to,
every hair place I go to, they all accept Venmo tips.
I tipped someone two dollars yesterday on Venmo.
Are you doing much in the way
of tipping valets that way? Because I don't I don't think I've ever valet my car. Wow.
Really? I tip drivers if the hotel the very fancy hotel provides a shuttle.
I asked for a QR. Anyone here tip Uber drivers? Absolutely. Within the app they allow you to do
that. It improves your rating.
Back in my day, they paid them well enough
where you didn't have to tip.
That was the whole point of Uber.
I don't have to tip the guy.
Bait and switch, right?
It's a bait and switch.
Now it's like, hey, here's 37%.
I gotta pay the guy 40 bucks more than my actual ride.
Like, what are we doing?
They got us in the tent with no tips.
Whenever there's live music, Mike,
they always have, somebody always has
their Venmo thing right there,
and I always make it a point to stand, the photo and stand there while I tip so everybody knows I'm tipping the performer
I'm not gonna let those people with the dollar bills get away. Yeah, I'm not just doing this for them to enjoy the know
I'm doing this so people recognize and I was kind and polite
The better move is you go up and go to take a picture then walk back in and never give the guy a buck
Yeah, and then people see all this guy this guy. That's what he's doing.
Stu Gotts has been pretending to be charitable.
He's Venmos himself.
The way that Stu Gotts does charity is,
hey, does everyone see me doing charity?
It's actual fraud.
And then he walks away from that.
Because what it is is totally counterfeit.
But he gets the credit without delving into his
debit. He doesn't have to give any cash ever. You guys
remember most famously, I'd love to hear this in the oral history because
as much as I've loved the oral history and hearing Mark Hackman again
yesterday with some people might not have context for what Mark Hackman was.
There was a time in this show. Mike, what's the oral history reception been so far?
Overwhelmingly positive. I haven't really seen a criticism from a listener.
Just like our Michael Schmidt interview?
That has been the polar opposite. The only praise that I've heard of that interview
has really been inside of this room,
which I think speaks to a larger disconnect.
Michael Schmidt is gonna be on with us again,
because I enjoy doing that.
What? That's surprising.
That's surprising, because I thought he didn't enjoy
his time, but he was pretty difficult to read
throughout the interview.
But I did listen back.
For everybody that was here in the studio
and listening along, they all kind of felt like
Chris's line about Stepson at the very end.
Oh no.
At the very least, in not one.
I don't know, I think he gives off a little eye and eagle.
Like he's just hard to read, but also just funny and dry.
And so I don't know if he necessarily took offense
to the Chris Cody, he didn't take offense
to much of anything. He's gonna do an opening to a show for us at some point next week. He
wants to do a sports radio show but it was it was a bit awkward and I did think
the Stepson comment was out of bounds and I think that's where we lost him.
I don't know if I want to know. I do think I offended people in the YouTube
chat by saying I tipped someone $2. It was a $10 service. That's 20% I'm a good tipper
That's a great tip. That's a great tip. Yeah, it did it kind of felt like
He was diminishing the relationship between a father and son just because he was the dad that stepped up
So I didn't hear the entirety of the interview I heard like bits and pieces cuz I was here, but I was doing other work
This is the guy that said are we done yet? Is that that guy? Yes?
Yeah, okay
You gave him a shot because I was listening you gave him a shot to like start up the first 30 seconds of a morning radio
Show came out super flat didn't do it. No, he wants to do it now
I know he wants to do it, but he had his chance and yeah
You want to be mr.
Johnny on the spot and come up with stuff to do I think he wanted to be mr.
Johnny on the spot and come up with stuff to do? Do it. I don't think he wanted to be Mr. Johnny on the spot.
I think you're projecting that onto him.
When somebody knocks on your door,
when it's, sorry about that,
when somebody knocks on your door
and it's supposed to be Uber Eats
and they leave at your door, right?
That's the, you're supposed to leave it at the door,
but they knock, do you adjust the tip
and knock it down?
Because I do.
I alter the instructions.
When I want them to knock, I say please knock.
And when I don't want them to knock.
Do you ever want them to knock? Never. Sometimes, yeah. Really? Sometimes I want them to knock. When do you want them to knock. I say please knock and when I don't want them to knock. Do you ever want them to knock? Never.
Sometimes, yeah.
Really?
When do you want them to knock?
Sometimes I want them to knock.
When my ring is down, I'm like,
I can't see the video here.
But when I order something, especially if it's a meal,
I'm watching them for the entirety of their drive
to my house to see how,
and then I get notifications as they approach,
which always sounds very threatening when they're like,
this door dasher is approaching, and I'm like, ugh.
What is that?
Anthony usually gives me a hard time
because I like peer out the window, I'm like,
did you hear yet?
And then when they do knock on my door,
I hate that so much, I make it as uncomfortable as possible,
so I try to answer it before they go away in my underwear.
Are we done?
I want to understand from you guys
a couple of different things
that I don't totally understand.
Earlier, Jessica, you whispered to me
that Izzy acted with his ass off
in the spin room that Jeremy created.
I didn't see what Izzy was doing.
What was he doing that made you say
that he was acting his ass off?
There was a couple of cuties in that spin class.
Oh, I wasn't acting.
You were flirting.
You were flirting.
Did you get his number?
You were flirting is what it is that you were doing
while Jeremy did the spin class.
What were you spraying in his face?
Me?
That was the other spinners
that were sweating profusely in front of him.
It was really unbelievable, salty.
That, as sweat is, he's still a little wet.
Where is the strangest guy, where is the strangest place
that you guys would be willing to say you do tip
that would make you a strange tipper?
Because I think some people are having some disagreements.
It seemed clear to me that what Tony was saying there
is I don't Uber tip.
You guys were like, of course I Uber tip.
And Tony's like, no, I thought that was what we were doing
with Uber, you were cutting some of the costs for me.
What Uber's actually doing is ripping off its drivers
and taking away too much of the money.
And so you would tip them because they're in the service
industry, but Tony's saying, nope, not for me.
Well, I got guilted into tipping Uber Eats drivers
and Uber drivers, but mostly Uber Eats drivers.
And then I just started thinking about it.
I was like, I can order from the same place over and over
and it's the same distance.
And the only difference is the price.
So if I'm extra hungry, why am I tipping more
if this guy's doing that or woman is doing
the same amount of work getting it from point A to point B.
So I don't do any percentages on Uber Eats.
It's just a $3 or $4 tip every single time.
My strangest tip is that, you know,
like when they give you a check at a restaurant
or somewhere else and the tip is already built in,
I will tip on top of that.
Sucker.
Like a double full tip or just a little bit more?
Not a double full tip.
I'll just give a couple extra percentage points.
So it's a built in 18.
But don't you feel weird putting in like a $3 tip?
We'll get to 20.
If it's a built in 20, we'll get to 22.
Just, you know, an extra few bucks. It makes me feel good and I also. And that's it. Yeah, that'll get to 20. If it's a built-in 20, we'll get to 22. Just an extra few bucks.
It makes me feel good and I also.
And that's it.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Because I pay cash, I would say that one of the strange
places that I'm always leaving money is anytime I'm at the
grocery store, I'm giving the cashier a tip.
I don't think most people are doing that.
Are you going to Publix?
Because you could be getting them fired.
I'm not going to Publix.
This is at Whole Foods.
But I also think those tend, especially in Miami, to be pretty terrible jobs, like because
people are rude, people just look past you, you're not a human being.
I believe that the service industry has gone to shit because of the lack of cash in our
environment that kept the service industry in a place where people would be less bad
and care more about service.
Am I wrong when I say that it's hard to get a human being
on the phone to use a phone as a phone?
At this point, aren't you guys annoyed
when your phone acts as a phone and actually rings
and asks you to answer it?
You're annoyed at this point when your phone acts
as a phone.
I come out the gates yelling representative,
but that's not the service industry.
Talk to an agent. Talk to an agent.
Talk to an agent.
Agent.
Agent.
So Dan, are you proclaiming that you are some sort
of superhero because you are still carrying cash
and saving our economy?
I pay legal tender.
That would be my superhero slogan phrase.
I pay.
Yes, the accent is better.
I sound obnoxious instead of charming.
You should try it.
No, I'm not.
But Dan, strawberries are a night shade.
Do you eat those?
Wow.
You were close to getting me to do an impersonation there,
Jeremy.
I was so desperate for your British accent.
I tried to save it.
No, but yes, thank you for saving me.
I don't eat very much in the way of strawberries.
Good.
Because there's bugs in those things.
What?
And pesticides and a bunch of stuff that you do.
Wait, you don't want to wash them. Do you eat bananas? There's bugs in strawberries things and pesticides and a bunch of stuff. We do
Them bananas, there's bugs and strawberries. Yeah, hide do you eat but I do eat bananas. Those are strawberries
Where are the bugs it's like in the little holes and like it's not
If you actually wash it with a certain I think it's vinegar and some sort of you will see all the disgustingness I think it's baking soda. Yeah, you'll see all that stuff come up.
It takes forever.
I think that's why Tom Brady doesn't eat strawberries.
I'm not gonna lie.
I think that's the reason.
No, I think it's an inflammation thing.
It's a pesticide thing.
That's why he's eating all those damn pests.
You guys are just gonna skip past Mike saying
bananas are strawberries?
I don't even know what that means.
Okay, y'all just heard that and just kept it moving,
decided to keep doing show,
and you weren't stopping your tracks
by the idea that Mike just said, bananas are strawberries.
Did any of you hear that, understand it,
what was happening there?
Because he seems to think he's right,
and the rest of us don't know what it even means.
Damn, people have their own set of facts now.
If that's Mike's facts, then those are his facts.
Okay, so bananas are berries.
Bananas are berries.
Well, Mike, the other day you said that any boat
with a bathroom in it is a yacht,
so I'm having trouble believing you these days. Well, you don't think that's true?
Which is untrue, it's a size thing.
No, you gotta have, a guy told me, bro.
Mike, you've been on my boat.
Do you have a bathroom?
Yeah, there's a room in the front of the bucket.
Wait, you have a bathroom in there?
Yeah.
You've been making me sleep the whole time.
Of course I have, nobody's ever using that thing.
Had my wiener out there, twisting in the wind.
I didn't know you had a bathroom in that thing.
That was not true, by the way.
That was happening when we got pulled over while I was peeing on the back of the boat, literally twisting in the wind. I didn't know you had a bathroom in that thing. That was not true, by the way. That was happening when we got pulled over
while I was peeing on the back of the boat,
literally twisting in the wind.
Yeah, bananas are berries.
Not strawberries. But strawberries
aren't berries.
So I got it, but yeah, still shocking.
You eat a banana, you're eating a berry.
No, you were just wrong.
I was wrong.
That's why we moved on, Dan.
But why would he say that?
Well, that was an Uberber fact on the old like in finley's
Whenever us two guys used to do sports centers
Certainly, there are things like this that are correct tomatoes are fruits correct. Yes, and then as our berries
That's true bananas are berries strawberries aren't berries still a shocking. Put it on the poll at LeBotard Show,
are bananas berries at LeBotard Show?
Because I don't believe that that's a thing
that people think is a fact.
I see internet, man.
I don't know what to tell ya.
I don't think, berries to me typically look like berries,
not bananas, but you know.
Even Austin Powers said a twig and two berries.
He's not saying three berries.
Pfft.
That's good fact there.
That's a good way to support your argument, I think.
I wanted to ask Izzy here before we
move on to other NBA things.
The thing that we were talking about
as it related to load management and the problem
of right off the bat at the top of a season as Obama is telling Halliburton, you guys
need to try.
You need to pretend to try.
The season starts in Philadelphia where they're trying to catch Boston and Paul George and
Embiid cannot play and Embiid says he's not playing back to backs for the rest of his
career. Zion Williamson does not play his first game.
Adam Silver has already said, obviously,
that this is a problem.
What do you do as they head into this first season,
or this season, first game of the season
the last couple of days, what do you do with the fact
that already the conversation,
one of the main conversations
is how hard are these people trying?
How much do they actually care?
Well, I don't, I won't read too much into the Zion one.
I feel like teams in the Western Conference in particular,
because the conference is back to being really deep again,
like they, I don't think that they're taking
regular season games off.
I think if you look at the Eastern Conference specifically, there are five teams that you just kind of know are going to be terrible.
And that leaves basically the rest of the Eastern Conference to at least be a play-in team.
So you get yourself right at the end of the season. It doesn't matter what your seat is.
You're going to trust that you're going to do okay. The problem I have with that is,
if you're the Philadelphia 76ers,
what example do you have of this ever working?
I already know, okay, the Sixers,
no matter how they treat Joel Embiid,
there's a 90% chance in the postseason
he is not gonna be able to play like his normal self.
You can probably put a 50, 60% chance of that on Paul George,
who's also missing the season early after a hyperextension.
And you're thinking, yeah, the 76ers are never going
to get into a rhythm to be able to compete
with the likes of the Celtics if they are healthy
and doing well.
So they kind of take the regular season and just,
hey, I'll relax.
When I can get it right, I'll rev up.
And I think that's only possible
because the bottom of the Eastern Conference
is so bad that you have multiple teams
that you don't have to worry about.
I think that Jeremy thinks that the most interesting thing in the Eastern Conference is what's
going to make it into the playoff game, play in game as a ten seed.
That's absolutely the most interesting NBA story this season.
There's a chance, Dan, that a team loses 50 games and makes the playoffs.
There's a strong chance,
because if you look at the Eastern Conference,
and on behalf of the show,
I will not include the Heat in this group.
So you take seven teams that you know are good in the East
when you look at the Celtics, Knicks, Bucks, Cavs,
Magic Pacers, and Sixers.
Then you have the Heat and the Hawks,
who are going to probably be filling out
what would be eight and nine of those nine teams.
Who is 10th?
The Bulls are terrible.
The Nets are terrible.
The Raptors, the Hornets, the Wizards, the Pistons.
One of those teams I just named
is gonna be a playoff team this season.
That is the best possible storyline for the NBA is the chase
For 10 with the worst teams of the league keep an eye on the Pistons this year
Keep an eye Kate Cunningham is special Dan. I want you to keep an eye on Kate Cunningham in the Pistons
No, he's not says is he no no he's not I put this in the in the Pistons this year. No he's not, says Izzy. No, no he's not. I had this, I put this in the group chat last season.
I said, Cade Cunningham, he's all right.
He is not special, he doesn't have,
I don't think he has the athleticism to be special,
I don't think he has the shot making to be special,
I think he's a good lead guard,
might make an all-star game,
but I don't think he is a number one on a team
that's gonna do much of anything.
We'll see.
Okay, that is the way to retort there.
I also remember that once upon a time,
this might be unsophisticated basketball analysis,
but I remember once upon a time,
people were arguing that Tony Campbell was a special player
because somebody had to lead the nine win
Timberwolves in scoring.
Who?
I thought you switched to football there with that name.
I do not even remember who that is.
I remember a Timber Wolf leading scorer, a terrible, do I have the name wrong?
There was a Timber Wolf.
Kevin Martin?
No, before that.
Wasn't before.
Was it Bucket by the way?
Kevin Martin was always like in competition, be like a leading scorer.
But whoever was the lead scorer for a terrible timber wolves team almost got to twenty points
a game inefficiently and fooled people into believing that he could be
something somewhere just because someone on these bad teams in the nba has to get
that team to a hundred points the way they're playing basketball these days
shooting as many threes as they are so people get fooled into thinking a
number one on houston or a number one somebody who looks like a number one in Sacramento
Is an actual number one based on what it is Dan was right Wow
What was taught so Tony Campbell put up a season with the Timberwolves is shocking more shocking than bananas being there
No, but correct me if I'm wrong on this don't we do this all the time with the bad teams think tone
Luthor in a riot a lot of people are saying a lot.
I hear a lot of people trying to sell me on the fact that Cade Cunningham is someone special
because someone's got to be good on a bad NBA team.
It's a battle of attrition, right?
Like you look around and be like, oh, that guy sucks.
That guy sucks.
This guy is somewhat good.
He can lead this team to at least something, but the bottle, he read all those, those teams
and they're bad, right?
Like he has an ability to score
I mean, he's not a great shooter, but you can get to the hole like he's good enough
But the Pistons were the worst team in the league last year weren't they yeah?
He didn't I think he missed some games there, but if you look at Kate Cunningham and think okay
He's a special player who can lead a team
What do you look at when you see lamello ball?
Who's more explosive more dynamic has been in it for a few more years, has that desire to finally crack into
the postseason? I see him as that guy who's going to break into probably the play-in and
then just maybe have to win one game to get into the playoffs.
Tony Campbell led the 1989-90 Minnesota Timberwolves with 1903 points 23 points per game whoa I
Wasn't I wasn't a young boy at that time. How do I not know who this person is?
I've been born in sports history to announce the basketball players scoring totals
Wasn't even invented yet
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Don LeBattard.
All these high-paid analysts,
I don't wanna mention names, TNT, ESPM, you know,
oh yeah, they're dead, they cannot, they're not going to make it, you know, They are dead.
They are not going to make it.
Even if they win, if they lose in Miami.
I need to calm you down.
That's right.
If they lose in Miami, they don't get a chance in Boston.
Oh, they are going to have their ass, you know what, in Boston.
Stugats.
They were wrong.
Are they going to lose a job?
No.
Are they going to get a cutting pay?
No.
What are they going to do? Keep predicting.
What is the obvious? They are going to say,
oh, the nuggets are going to win.
Oh, Denver, the altitude.
And you know what? The heat are going to win it all.
This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. Why is David Sampson already shaking his head as if he's filled with disgust?
I could not hear because everybody was muted.
It seemed like Adnan and David were passionately discussing something, enjoying each other's
company.
And then as soon as the cameras start rolling,
I've got David Sampson shaking his head sadly
as if something bad has happened.
Have we kept you waiting again?
What is it that you're mad about today?
We've just been sitting here for 10 minutes
watching you gesticulate vociferously on mute.
And we wanted to start because we're both busy.
The World Series starts tomorrow. We have a lot that we're doing and we're here to talk about baseball movies whatever you want
But if you say 1015, let's start at 1015
Adnan you're nodding your head vigorously here. You're usually the reason that we're late here today is totally my fault
I don't enjoy being reprimanded by Samson though because I kept him waiting ten minutes because I was just explaining something to Izzy over here that helps
us do the show. I, you know, I have to do this show. First off, we're not late
usually because of me. It was one time and David Samson was irate about that
which is why I was put in the penalty box. It's been five weeks since we've done this
segment. The three-minute man was upset. We've took care of it. This is on you,
Levitard. I'm with Samson 100%. Ten minutes of my time. You know how time I've got? That's a lot of equity I have here when it comes to my time.
You're explaining things with Izzy? Let's go! Come on!
You know what? I stand corrected. These two people are at the epicenter of a very important time in baseball.
They are authorities on the subject of baseball. We were talking about tipping.
And we were talking aggressively about tipping. So I want to ask you guys the opinion of this as I play it can you guys get me the legal
tender set there's your answer tip no no no I've got a different question I want
to play a legal tipping a legal tender video for you to and ask where you two old people
stand on this because this old man walks into this place and he's paying for
something in coins these people are like this is a cashless store and he does not care you tell me where you stand on this
I'm gonna buy some strawberries and I'm offering exactly the right amount of money here so
you people take that money and I will take my strawberries outside
You can't take that
I paid by legal tender
No no no don't break it down
No no don't break the door. Don't break the door. No, no, no, don't tell him.
I paid by legal tender and I am going out with my strawberries.
I paid by legal tender in this dystopian place.
You should be able to spend whatever you want. This is an absolute joke.
You want one, mate?
Where do you stand on this, Samson? Cash and cashless stores.
If they don't take cash, you can't pay with cash.
Now, I love cash and paying with cash.
I still carry cash, but there are more and more places
that don't take cash.
David, why is it called legal tender?
You have to take it, do you not?
No, absolutely not, absolutely not.
Where's that written?
That's not a rule.
I wanna say the Constitution, but I know I'm wrong.
Businesses get to define currency however businesses want.
Businesses get to decide how they get paid,
and you can choose not to do business with them.
You can't just walk in with pennies for strawberries.
If they don't take cash, they don't take cash.
Go buy your strawberries elsewhere.
You have to laud this guy, David.
He's a British Larry David.
He's taking things to his own hands.
He just wants his strawberries.
I can appreciate the fact he was defined about this
and clearly aggrieved.
Because you and I know what it's like.
We've been to stadiums and it's just all right,
it's cashless only.
Come on, I've got cash, cash is king.
I miss that bygone era.
British Larry David, I think you're onto something there.
David, how can you take up on behalf, well you always do.
Like, you're always taking up on behalf of the business.
This seems wrong.
Take my cash.
I'm just saying that you have the right to put whatever rules
in place you want for whatever it is you're selling.
You're not forcing someone to do business with you.
I would never want to give up business.
My view is I'll take anything anyone wants to give,
from barter to cash to travelers checks because I'm trying to
sell something. If you want to only take it's like people
who don't take MX or discovery.
Well, whatever that's not smart, but that's the way you want
to be. That's fine.
Of course, I'm taking the side of the company to decide even
if they're stupid, but it makes me think of that scene in
planes trains the automobiles.
If Samsung is in a situation like that,
like John Canyon, Steve Martin saying,
I got $25 and a hell of a nice watch.
And then John Canyon says, I have $5 and a Casio watch.
David, you're saying that if I brought a bag of dried kidney
beans to Marlins Park, you would let me go in in lieu
of paying for a ticket with cash?
Like I could, you said you would allow bartering.
Bartering.
So I would personally, but no,
working on behalf of the Marlins,
kidney beans was not one of our accepted forms of payment.
I would be happy to discuss with you the value
of the kidney beans.
The Marlins should have taken anything of value
they could have gotten.
They were dry, they could keep it forever.
You guys should have had dried kidney beans and resold them on eBay.
According to FederalReserve.gov, there is no federal statute mandating that a private
business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods
or services.
Wow.
Private businesses are free to develop their own policies.
I think the argument against it is that it's discriminatory
because you're weeding out people
that can't get a line of credit.
David is looking at you the way that Tony looked at David
when he said travelers check.
What is a travelers check?
What do you mean by that?
With a Q-U-E.
I'm traveling and then I need a check to travel.
What's the, Dave, can you break that down for me please? I don't want to.
Have you ever seen Best in Show?
No.
Yes, how much do you think I can bench?
Let's just say that- They try to pay
for their hotel and travelers checks.
When you have money that sometimes people,
if you're staying in a hostel, they could take your cash.
So what you did when you would travel around anywhere,
hostel to hostel, you'd have something called
the Traveler's Check, which you'd go to the bank and get,
and it's literally an American Express Traveler's Check,
and you have to cash them at the point of transaction.
And so it's not worth it to anybody.
It's worth nothing, literally, nothing except for you,
and with your ID you can use it.
So that's how people would travel as poor people
around the country back a long time ago.
So you would get the check and then you'd give them the ID
and then they're like, oh, you can use it.
Why not just use a regular check then?
Because checks take days to clear
and so nobody wants to take checks generally.
Travelers checks are immediate, they're automatic.
Adnan, why are you shaking your head?
Because your time is valuable
and people want to talk baseball?
Damn, we have an iconic World Series here.
We got the Dodgers and the Yankees
for the first time since 1981.
Tony needs to know what travelers checks are about.
No, travelers checks is what we're disseminating right now.
This is what the country wants to hear, really.
It's a history lesson, Adnan, I needed it.
Tony, that was too much of a detour.
Come on.
The problem with this generationally to me
is you guys know what travelers checks are.
And when you come on here and mention planes, trains,
and automobiles, Jessica and Tony shut down.
They don't care about anything you have to say there.
We have a generational divide between how it is you guys. Look, baseball's got a generational divide. You care about Dodgers Yankees
because it reminds you of 40 years ago. I don't believe that Jessica and Tony
care about Dodgers Yankees. I don't think it means anything to them
historically. Prenatal mania, come on let's go! Reggie Jackson in 77, game six. 70, 1977?
Yeah, that's right.
You've seen the vintage video, Tony, come on.
Dan opened it up to the group to say anything
and on the platform where most people are listening,
all he got was like, uh, like nothing.
Crickets.
You guys in pause, you can drive a truck through.
I'll tell you what's happening here
in terms of the chemistry just generally
between this segment when you guys come on.
You guys care deeply about something
the young people here don't care about at all.
Like at all.
That's not true.
Jeremy's into the baseball.
Jeremy is very excited.
The pitch clock, Yankees dodges.
Let's go, Jeremy, take the floor.
You explain, no, and then explain to people
why they should care about this World Series
more than any of the other World Series
because this is hearkening to a time.
There were three internet, it was actually,
I'm sorry, three networks, and it was actually pre-internet.
These were the most important games in America
when the Dodgers were playing the Yankees.
Yes, first fall classic since 1956 to feature each league's home run champion.
Okay, we're talking Mickey and Duke Snyder.
First time ever two teams with 50 home run hitters.
First time since 2012, you've got respective MVPs facing off in Judge and Ohtani.
Of course, that was Miguel Cabrera, Buster Posey.
Dan, this was the matchup that I think baseball fans dream of, because back in the day, it was 12 rules.
This is the 12th time we're getting this.
Yankees Dodgers.
The Yankees hold the edge 8 to 3.
And there are so many great memories,
whether it's Sandy Koufax striking out 15 in 1965,
or Reggie Jackson's home run game.
This is what baseball's all about.
Samson, come on.
Back me up.
Let's go.
Bring up a Ron Steyer reference.
I can't back you up, because you're
using examples of people no one's heard of.
That's the worst sales job I've ever seen.
Can I tell you how to sell this year's World Series?
Five of the six big three here are MVPs,
and the six might be the best hitter in baseball
in John Carlos Dayton.
Otani MVP, Betts, Freeman, Judge, Stanton, and Soto.
Who wants better than that?
Six great players in the sport. Go ahead, David. It's a great World Series, David. Stanton, and Soto. Who wants better than that? Six great players in the sport.
Go ahead, David.
It's a great World Series, David.
It's a great World Series.
It is rare that in any sport, you truly get the best players
on the biggest stage at the end of the season,
who are healthy and playing.
It is rare that you get the two biggest markets
to play each other in any sport at the end of the season.
Of course, this matters greatly,
not just to the business on the field,
but for the interest off the field,
where the ordinary fan,
even if Jessica's not interested in this series,
I promise you, if we get to a game six and a game seven,
there will be a level of interest
that even Jessica would say,
oh, I actually will watch to see Ohtani, and she's gonna shake her head, of course, and on character on points say, oh, I actually will watch to see Ohtani.
And she's gonna shake her head, of course,
and on character on points say, no, I won't.
But I promise you that she will,
and now just won't spite me.
But the reason is that when you get deeper into a series,
it raises the interest.
And if you put stars in it, it makes it even better.
So we have an opportunity in baseball
to do something we haven't done in a really long time. And that's to get interest across all demographics, across all generations.
And the hope is, this is the time to do it for baseball.
Is there match in that night?
One of the things we run into here is that Jessica didn't want her college football interrupted
by Aaron judges historic at bats. There's been a divide in how it is that people get into their silos on what
they like and in that time baseball I don't know if demographically it has
lost young people because their advance media is great but they do have an
opportunity here if these are not ten to four games they have an opportunity with
some drama and game six and a game seven to really get a lot of eyes that
baseball hasn't had in a while at man not like you know transcendent eyes all with some drama and game six and a game seven to really get a lot of eyes that baseball
hasn't had in a while, Adnan. Not like, you know, transcendent eyes. All sports fans are
interested because you've got the giant famous sparkly things playing against each other.
Yeah, back in the day, Dan, as you said, when there was three channels, you had 44 million
people watching the World Series in the late 70s, early 80s. Different generation. Last
year, Rangers, D. Bacs drew 8 million. But this year, you're gonna get double digits.
Like David said, these are two of the biggest markets,
New York, LA.
You're gonna get hate watchers, okay?
People hate the 80s, they hate the Dodgers, great.
People hate David Sampson, they watch this segment.
So there's nothing wrong with a little bit of animus
going a long way.
These are popular teams, they're also loathed teams.
And it's gonna make for great, compelling action.
Jessica, why are you making faces?
Well, that shot at David Sampson in the middle of that.
Wow, that was uncalled for.
My question is, what if you hate...
It wasn't uncalled for, it was accurate.
What if you hate both teams?
Who am I supposed to root for
if I don't like the Yankees or the Dodgers?
You want colossal injuries all over the place.
No.
Jeez.
Golly.
You're like, Freddie Freeman's hobbled?
Let's see how bad this thing can get.
Colossal injuries?
That's not what we want to be doing here.
Samson, you don't need to actually manufacture sales
on this one, you're as excited for this
as a baseball series since blank.
Since Marlins, Yankees, and 03.
Only because you were involved, but just as a spectator
that you're not involved in this would be as
Perfect for baseball as anything could be that since the Cubs in 16 and the Red Sox in oh four
Because any time you have a curse that's been broken or a big team that has not won in a long time
That generates a bunch of interest so I would put those up there
but this one, the 2024 with Otani being the playoffs
for the first time and him having the type of year
he's had with Stanton Hot and Judge Judge
and Soto on the Yankees, there is no scenario
under which you've had a more star-studded matchup
that anyone can remember in their lifetime,
assuming they're under 50 years old.
If Otani was going full shohei here
and actually pitching in the series and hitting,
then you got me.
But I've seen two really good teams
against each other before.
But what you do have the chance of having in this series,
okay, the way that Otani struck out trout
in that World Baseball Classic
is so many cool storylines on Soto headed to free agency.
They're gonna have to pay him
because he's the guy I fear most somehow even though erin judge is obviously
uh... a beast and otani has the chance to be better
then like three legitimate baseball giants physically stanton
judge and i think so does like the best hitter plate discipline you've seen
since ted williams he's got a chance to slay three giants in new york and be an
international hero when he does it
well i'll tell you ready is that dan and and baseball put a lot of resources
behind otani in this postseason a lot of money spent overseas and it's paid off
already with the interest that japan has had in this world series and the game to
start is another japanese player about three hundred million dollars yamamoto
and so there's just all sorts of interest across all the different countries.
So you're going to see a lot of press releases coming out from New York and Major League
Baseball about all of the increased interest and ratings and numbers.
And there will be great spin, great positivity.
Honestly, this series is if you want to put it in another sports perspective, you take Steph's Warriors,
you take LeBron's Heat or Cavs, you make them the Lakers and the Knicks, and that's what
you have here for the World Series because you have those markets and those level of
teams and stars and transcendent stars that define a generation here in Otani and Judge
alongside multiple other MVPs and superstars,
that's the comparison you can make,
is those two teams going head to head,
but it's New York and LA.
Had to bring the heat into it.
Okay, I think I'm in.
He said Cavs.
I think I'm in.
I can't guarantee it.
I can't guarantee it.
Tony's in!
Oh my God!
Let's go!
Oh my God!
I think I'm in too, when does it start?
Tomorrow, right?
Tomorrow.
I got a hang. Yes. Oh, Saturday we got MMA too. When does it start? Tomorrow, right? Tomorrow. I got it.
Yes.
Wait.
Saturday we got MMA too.
Friday night is Rutgers at USC.
Oh no.
It's Rutgers, the Scarlet Knights.
It's actually after Jessica.
It's a double header, I believe.
I believe the World Series goes into the Rutgers USC game.
We're back, Jess is in.
What is the single greatest storyline?
Give me one and only one.
You can only give me one storyline.
Which is it.
I'll give you judge Dan because he has not performed well so
far sitting 161 this postseason is a 704 OPS that's league
average it's rare to see the Yankees the underdogs may
believe that they are the Dodgers are favor to win this
World Series and judges yet to be judging he's going to be a
two-time MVP he He's a rookie of
the year. He's a six-time All-Star, but he hasn't had a
signature moment aside from that Holmanov Kloss in game
three. So if the Dodgers win, they probably should win, but
if Aaron Judge doesn't step up, I think Yankee fans would be
pretty upset. David, the biggest storyline for me is
Shohei Otani and how recently we were dealing with a big
gambling scandal that got swept under the rug so quickly
back when this season started in Korea.
And he has a chance to end that season
winning a World Series, his first time in the playoffs,
first time getting postseason at bats,
and he has been a beast with runners in scoring position,
hitting at a historic level, like 17 out of 21 times,
he's getting a hit.
And if he actually gets the MVP and has the commissioners trophy,
he is the number one face of baseball in the entire world and then backs it up
with performance that does not happen every day.
Both of you agree with me that Soto is the best hitter on the Yankees.
Pure.
Yeah, I was going to say Stanton, listen, his numbers have been great 794 slug in nine games
this postseason.
Every time he's there, he's hitting it.
He's got the fourth longest drop by the way of any position
player to make the World Series.
So his at bats or must see TV Dan because anytime he can go
deep.
But yes, pure hitter solo in terms of getting on base plate
discipline and that power Cliff.
Floyd said to me, nobody's better hitting an elevated
fastball and Soto 95 up up in the zone somehow soto
can take it downtown the pitch like that no one can do that
i'd love to visit that so much just the fact that he seemed that the i'd be
you're in agreement that the at bat at to end that guardian series uh... was an
all-timer when erin boone's the one saying it when he's saying
an at bat for the ages just because you kind of knew that Soto was stalking him.
He was timing him the entire time.
It was like watching a cat play with a bird
and it had injured.
So that's what Soto does every at bat.
He is known for that.
And in that particular at bat, Cliff Lloyd's right,
Uncle Cliffy, no that's not Uncle Cliffy, just Cliffy said that he did take the high fastball.
And that's just because he hit the home run.
Who's Uncle Cliffy?
Cliff Robinson.
Oh okay.
Cliff Robinson.
Yes, good work David, good talking to you.
Thank you sir.
I'll check.
I'll feel it.
I only had three questions.
See you guys later, it was nice talking to you.
Thanks guys. Louisville Boston talking to you. Thanks guys.
Louisville Boston College at 730, so.
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