The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Splitting Your Meal

Episode Date: June 5, 2024

David Samson joins the show to discuss the Florida Panthers capitalizing on their trip to the Stanley Cup Final from a business perspective, a lifetime ban in the MLB, and High School NIL. Then, a debate breaks out throughout the Shipping Container as Chris Cote asks the crew how they feel about splitting a meal. It's an all-out war in here with people on both ends of the split spectrum. Plus, horse girls, Lucy was a great restaurant server, and, hey...the NBA Finals are comin' up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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That's dairy farming forward. 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. Alright, David Sampson is with us. Check out his podcast, Nothing Personal. I'm excited to speak to David because I am wondering and have been wondering for a while, the real long-term effects, David, of the Florida Panthers, if

they were to win the Stanley Cup, what would that mean in terms of financial impact for that team in terms of fans for that team? Because I think it's a great story. I'm just not certain how much it helps the Panthers moving forward and you would know best. Yeah, it's actually going to help them a lot because they're still trying to recover from the your mark years and people may not remember he used to be the president of the Panthers. And while I was president of the Marlins,

they would drive us crazy under previous owners because they were giving away sponsorships, they were giving away tickets, and it made it look as though they had all these corporate partners, but the actual revenue was so low. And when you give tickets away, it's then hard to charge for tickets.

And then Vinny Viola came in and he has really been an incredible owner with Matthew Caldwell as team president. And they have set up the team both on the ice and off the ice to capitalize on this stretch and this window with their second straight Stanley Cup appearance. Their revenue is up their local gate revenue. And this coming at a time when the TV revenue, you know with the bankruptcy of Fox Sports Florida

or Bally's or whatever you wanna call it, but they're making up for it with corporate revenue, ticket revenue, and they're charging what they should be charging. And if they win the Stanley Cup, then they get to even increase prices more than just being in the Stanley Cup. you could get a 50 million dollar bump in your local revenue next year And that's all because they've done it the right way

It's pretty cool to watch how much of a financial difference David is there in winning the Stanley Cup because we were talking Yesterday and Chris Cody was saying I'm happy with my team making it to the Stanley Cup final year after year. And we made a reference to the Buffalo Bills, like, well, would you rather be the Buffalo Bills who make it to the Super Bowl four years in a row, or would you rather be the team that wins a Super Bowl but then is, you know, not relevant for straight years making it to the championship? So I guess how much of a difference does the championship make over having sustained success? Well, we talked about that with the Marlins and the Braves.

You remember the Braves won one World Series during that huge run of division titles, 14 in a row. And the Marlins won two World Series, but never made the playoffs. And what we agreed, and I had this talk with John Sherholtz, looking back, you wanna be the Marlins and have the two rings and then be nowhere the other 12 years.

Looking forward, you want to have the opportunity to get the rings. So you'd rather have the 14 straight playoff appearances. I'm sort of of the mind I'm looking back because there's way more time spent looking back in life than there is looking forward, depending on age, but in sports, that's the case. So I'd rather have the rings. When it comes to price increases, it really depends. Winning

the cup allows you to charge more next year. But in terms of this year's revenue, it's about the number of home games hosted. So you want to host all four games this series. If you are Florida, that means going to a game seven. Interestingly enough, given a choice to win the cup in six in Edmonton or come host in seven, if you can guarantee a win, you'd rather host in seven. But since you can't, you'd rather win it in Edmonton. But I think, I mean, we think longterm though, like winning the championship also has a financial benefit in that you have a 10 year anniversary, a 15 year anniversary.

You have merchandise that you can sell forever, where if you're looking short term, like, yeah, we're in it every year. Bill, you're speaking his language. I mean, did you see how excited he got when he started talking about raising ticket prices? And the Panthers are celebrating the 30th this year. No, but yeah, you're celebrating the 30th of existing, right?

But you can then celebrate the 10th, you'd celebrate the 50th year of the existing and the 20th year of winning a championship, right? But you can then celebrate the 10th, you'd celebrate the 50th year of the existing and the 20th year of winning a championship, right? And you offset that by a year or so. And then you just have these things that you can constantly be celebrating. You sell throwback jerseys and hats and patches and all of this stuff and you have special days

where if you make it to the, you know, Stanley Cup final four years in a row, you can raise ticket prices because there's the interest anyways. And you can say we're a contender every year, but if you don't win that championship, you miss out, I would think, on all that other future revenue, not just short-term, long-term.

Yeah, winning is everything. Making it to the finals and losing, it's fun while you're doing that, but I've never gone to an event and seen anybody wear a pennant ring. Never seen one. And you get a ring for winning the pennant for making it to the World Series.

Never seen one. I've never seen a pennant ring. Right. Do you have yours? Only a pennant. No, you don't get it. When you get a World Series ring, you don't get a pennant ring. Right.

You won the World Series. What's the need for that when you have a World Series ring? Correct. Yes. So I've never. So Buffalo, I assume they've got a bunch of rings, but I don't think they wear them to bar mitzvahs. Too soon.

They're not proud of those rings, is that what you're saying? I'm saying you don't often see rings from the minor leagues as well. When you win a championship as team president, they send you a ring. And if I didn't have a World Series ring, I'd be more apt to wear those, but I don't wear those now. You nailed the cough button there.

I mean, it was a great job. We all noticed it. It was a great job by you. Billy's saying, eh. Slightly. I thought he did a good job. David, a lifetime ban for a guy who won 4% of his bets on baseball.

What a bad gambler. Yes, right. You should be banned for that. I mean, how about the guy who got suspended for a year for betting like $99 total? Right. Here's the thing. It doesn't matter if you win 1% or 100%.

There's not that many rules. I talked about on this morning. It's or 100%. There's not that many rules. I talked about on this morning is nothing personal. There's not that many rules that we need to say in five different languages. This is one where everyone gets it. You don't bet on baseball. It's really quite simple to me. There's not even a nuance. And this player and others, they bet on their sport. They bet on their team. That's how you get a lifetime ban. His career is over and he gave up a career, lifetime earnings, whatever they will be,

whether they're 700 grand or 70 million, they're now zero all for the opportunity to lose some money while betting. And the guys who got suspended a year, it's just asinine economics, giving up 700 grand to try to win 30 bucks. Why? I don't get it. Why should a blam did don't he pay?

Why do players keep, why does this keep happening, I guess, to players? Like you saw this in the NBA, you see this in the MLB now with multiple players this season getting suspended. You saw it a couple of years ago in the NFL. Is it just like young night, even Tay, I guess, to not put it any better. Like, why would you risk your career and all of those earnings to place a couple bets?

And I think about addiction sometimes because addiction makes you do things that you wouldn't normally do. But I don't know enough about all the instances, but certainly by reading, I wouldn't necessarily say Porter, EPAY for sure, but Porter or Mercano, I'm not sure that they were gambling addicts. And I just think that they suffer from a huge dose of stupidity. And that's what we try to legislate against when we're talking to players. But there's certain things that you just would expect that nobody would do because anybody can do

the cost benefit analysis. Man, I better not bet on baseball because I'm gonna get caught. It's not that I'm going behind Publix with my bookie. I have an IP address. I have an account. I'm on a network, DraftKings, that can find me in two seconds flat and turn me in.

It is the most bizarre thing. on a network, DraftKings, that can find me in two seconds flat and turn me in. It is the most bizarre thing. So David, yesterday Florida decided that they are gonna allow high school players to start earning NIL. Oh, my daughter just missed it. I know, so close. Florida isn't the first state to do this.

Missouri has done something like this as well. What can we expect to see both in Florida and the rest of the country? What are you laughing at? It was so upset. I am, I really am. Because not that it would be in an UTMA account for your daughter, what you're upset about

is that you don't get to take advantage of the NIL that she would get from her talent and that you would use to buy cigarettes or to gamble. Bingo. That's funny. Yeah, it's all for her, David, come on. Is that why everything is for her? Set the age of fee. All of your travels, all of your everything.

I do it all for her, yes. You're the father of the year. Well, thank you, I appreciate it. So it seems like free agency is now gonna hit high school. We said on the sporting class and also on Nothing Personal and on this show, frankly, that all NIL is is college-free agency Everyone's open on one-year deals as much money as you can make go get it

I guess that's what they're gonna do in high school where what Florida believes is let's get kids to come down here go to High school here whether it's IMG or st. Thomas Aquinas wherever it is. They will get paid and Query are these players too young? Does it open up a huge Pandora's box of parents, Stu gots, taking advantage of their high school kids in ways that are unsavory, nefarious, and overall bad for a career? I think that we are gonna witness all of that take place. Something that I think is interesting about this

is what Missouri has done, which has benefited Missouri college athletics, is they have said you can get NIL deals in high school if you commit to play college in Missouri. Interesting. Which I don't know if there's a direct correlation between the season that Mizzou had last year, which was really, really good

compared to their previous year and that NIL deal. But I'm curious if Florida would do something like that to try to keep the talent in state, especially when Florida is such a good recruiting ground for college football, all sports in general. Yeah, I'm not sure that Florida has certainly competitions between schools, but Florida is a destination state for all these sports, for football, baseball,

all of them really, even basketball, given how great the hurricanes have been. So that Missouri thing is interesting. It's you're bribing the high schoolers, please don't leave. I know in Wisconsin where I was born, they want people from Milwaukee to go to UW Madison and play there, but they don't always choose it. And you feel like you're being shunned when someone from Wisconsin goes to Michigan, let's say, or someone from Missouri would go to pick a state,

lose Oklahoma, you would just be upset about that. So interesting that now they're gonna do over the table bribes to stay in state. Well, they're saying if you wanna make money as a high school athlete in Missouri, you have to commit to a Missouri school. It's what Mike Ryan is working on right now for the state of Florida.

In order to guarantee that Florida kids stay in Florida, he's gonna start paying Florida kids? No, I was joking. But that's all, they're not bribing them, they're just saying, if you wanna earn money, you have to commit to a Missouri school. But that seems impossible to legislate with the transfer portal as well, right?

And with the fact that commitments don't actually mean anything right now, right? How long do you have to stay? Well, that's, but they can't, who's even enforcing this? Like who's the body that would enforce this? Because the NCAA seems to have lost complete control over where people are staying, where they're playing and stuff, right?

So how are you gonna tell a high school kid, hey, you can make money in high school if you promise that you're gonna stay here and then think that they're actually going to? It happens once you've signed. So like once you have signed, hey, I'm gonna play football for Mizzou, then you can start earning those benefits from high school.

So you'd have to sign as a junior with Mizzou? Yeah, I mean, I would assume that it's probably more of a thing for seniors just because they sign normally, you know, your senior year, but you could sign earlier. I think it's, yeah, it's based on signing, and I don't know if there's anything with the transfer portal or not, but I mean, if you play at Mizzou for a year and you transfer out, they can't take the money earned in high school.

Commitment seems so tiki-taka right now, though, anyways. They are. Like, it doesn't really mean anything to be committed to high school. That's free agency. That's the business we are in right now, and NIL has caused that. You all got what you wanted. You have free agency in college, and it's gonna be in high school too. Let's be honest, who's signing up to stay in Missouri?

I mean, nobody is the answer. I love St. Louis. Well, St. Louis, right. That's one city. That's Missouri. Name all the other places you've been to in Missouri. Go ahead. What is this game?

Jefferson City. I can't, look at me, I can't. Kansas City? Kansas, Kansas City. Kansas. Kansas City. Kansas. Well, nothing personal. Check it out wherever you get your podcast. David Sampson is the host. David, we appreciate your time as always. Thank you. Bye-bye. Howdy, sports fans. I assume you're sports fans if you're listening to this podcast.

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Don LeBretard. I think I would have been on his side. I would have looked at you like, what did you say? I'm telling you, me and my friend, the rest of the way home, all we kept saying was, I ain't cheating! Stugats. It's like, why'd you say that? I'm telling you me and my friend the rest of the way home all we kept saying was I Cheating still gots I think he got I got a Chris Chris won this one for sure not that I Jeremy It was great. This is the done libertar show with a still gots

I've kind of become a person that I have something that I do that I'm a little embarrassed about. You've always been a person. I always have been a person. Always been a human. It's a big one. Always growing. Second one. You're a person. You're still a person.

So I go to restaurants now with my wife a lot, and not always my wife, sometimes my dad, sometimes friends, and I've become, hey, do you want to split something guy? You do this? I do. Oh, you suck. Because I become like, I can't pick one thing. Like I always want to try two things on a menu.

So I'm always like, hey, what are you getting? And if they're getting one of the things that I'm considering, I'm going to throw out there, hey, let's split something. And I don't know why I don't like this about myself, because it's just, I feel like I'm an annoying friend to eat a meal with now. Oh wait, you do this with friends?

I've done it with friends. Oh no. Let's split a burger. Like, we're not like sharing saliva, we're cutting the burger, it's all, it's a clean split. So I do this usually when I'm torn on what it is that I want. Like, if I'm not certain if I want chicken parm or a burger, I'll say,

hey, you get the burger, I get the chicken parm, we'll go halfsies. Exactly. I love a good, all right, my wife's gonna get a Philly, I'm gonna get the burger, I'll cut my burger in half, now I got a half a burger and a half a Philly. It's just a delightful meal. What's wrong with this? I don't know, it's just, I don't like the way people look at me when I'm the one of like, hey, you wanna split something. That look back you get is never a good look. Maybe if I was having, I'm gonna go to lunch with you, Lucy, because it feels like we could vibe with that. I go out to lunch with Jess and Lehman constantly,

and I'm always like, you guys. Ooh, a three-way split. Yeah, we three-way split. Yeah. If I want a burger, I'm gonna order the burger, I'm gonna have the whole burger. I don't want half a burger, I want a whole burger. So like, unless we're getting something like wings,

we can split wings. If I order a 10-piece, 12-piece, 15-piece, we can split that. But like, unless we're getting something like wings, we can split wings. If I order a 10 piece, 12 piece, 15 piece, we can split that. But like you get yours, I get mine, but I'm getting my own sandwich or my own meal. Don't sleep on a half a burger. No, that's the problem is there's always someone that gets the short end of the stick on this situation.

No, I've done this a lot. No, yeah. The person who cuts, the other person gets to pick which half they want. No, you're the initiator. That's how it's always fair. No, no. I'm the one, if I cut poorly, then the other person gets to pick which half they want. That's how it's always fair. If I cut poorly, then the other person gets to pick the bigger half.

The initiator is always the one that takes advantage of the situation, because you're always there and you're the one that wants to initiate this, and then the person's like, yeah, sure, whatever, and then it's like, but no, I wanted to eat what I wanted to eat, you just wanna eat half of my meal, and now I'm eating half of a meal that I didn't really want, or I would've ordered that meal.

Find yourself a someone, like I did with my wife, who wants the smaller half. My wife's a big, I'll take the smaller half. No, I'm not wearing it. Works perfectly with me. I found myself a someone who has $9 for their own burger. That's what you really need to find. I mean, $9 burgers are hard to find these days.

That is true. I think we're just surprised, all of us, we're surprised that you're willing to split anything when it comes to food. Well, I mean, I'm serious. I'm shocked by that and that's why you're embarrassed by it. He got you. He did get me.

That's how it's done again. That should be your rebuttal for every insult. Okay, I have a question for you guys. How do you feel about if you go on a thing with a spouse significant other, whatever, right? And they're like, no, I don't want, no, I just want the thing. I don't want a good drink or I don't want a fryer. I don't want whatever. And then it becomes, whatever, right? And they're like, no, I don't want, no, I just want the thing, I don't want a good drink, or I don't want a fryer, I don't want whatever.

And then it becomes, well, you do want, you ate all of mine. Now I didn't get it, I wanted it. It is a buzzkill when the answer's no. You wanna split something? No. Oh, it hurts really badly. It's like, okay, well, this is, good thing you have a good attitude about this. It's just.

Well, but why can't you just order what you want? I'm not gonna order two, now, you're calling me, he just made a fat joke. You think I'm going to get fat jokes? I'm going to take a burger and a Philly cheese steak. Just decide. It's hard sometimes. Sometimes you can't decide. That's why I just want to ask, just in case, hey, if you were in the mood to split something, this is what I'm thinking about getting. Like maybe. There are two separate conversations. If you're in the mood for two things and you want to split it and go have these and the other person's willing That's fine. What you're ashamed of what you're saying is you go in with your wife and you say hey, let's just split a meal

There is no two meals. There's one meal and you're splitting it I don't like the social no that doesn't seem right because if you are just getting one burger and that's it between the two of you That's crazy and I remember as a server that used to make me so sad because those were always the difficult tables too that had like a million and 10 requests. I'm like, I'm gonna get $1 for all of this. If it's two separate orders, but you're splitting the two, that's great, go for it.

You get to try new things. My favorite is to go to like the family style restaurants that are designed to be shared. Love those. Well, here's the thing. If you split a meal, you're gonna have to decide together what you want. Well here's the thing, if you split a meal, you're gonna have to decide together what you want. I want my own meal.

So if we split a meal, she's gonna wanna have, okay, I want this side, like I don't want this side. Abby wants to split the salmon with me, not the chicken pork. I wanna clarify here, this is not a constant reaching over. This is a, when the food arrives, we cut stuff in half, we put stuff on the plate, so the meal starts

and it's like, I have my food, you have yours, there's no reaching across. When you, look, if I want two main items, now you have me in a spot, if I can't share, I have to turn a Philly into an appetizer. Because I want the steak and I want a Philly, and you know what I mean, it's like, now I'm turning a clear entree into an appetizer.

And that's an embarrassing look. Wait, Jeremy, what are you laughing at? Someone ordering a cheese steak into an appetizer. And that's an embarrassing look. Wait, Jeremy, what are you laughing at? Someone ordering a cheese steak as an appetizer? Turning a Philly cheese steak into an appetizer. It's never been done before. Can I get the spaghetti as an appetizer because my wife won't split it with me. But you guys are also stealing.

It's her fault now because she doesn't want to give you half of her meal because you can't decide what you want to eat? Like I said, I don't like the person I've become. There's nothing wrong with this. Everyone's being too mean. It's okay to share You wear with your wife if it's okay to share with your wife, but if me and you go to the bar, bro

I'm not I could not disagree with you guys Wonderful there's nothing better than sharing a meal we get one of your chicken wings We actually did that at the at the group dinner. We went to we all kind of that's exactly what happened Well, I got two things I remember you guys talking about how you were splitting me and my dad did that and Jeremy and Lou I think we all got the same our side of the table was really kind of like what's going on over there You guys are also speaking from such a place of privilege and that my wife's a vegetarian

So there's so many times where I don't have an opportunity You got so you because my wife is pro pro and plus it's plus 190 190 and you want in on this Give me give me 210. No no I think you're gonna stay together I don't think you're gonna get a divorce I know this subject better than anyone was one of them a vegetarian no okay one of them was a horse girl though you say what you're gonna say a horse girl yeah what's a horse girl horse girl no wait finish your sentence for pins and needles in and needles You are not gonna get divorced I said no

What's a horse girl? You guys don't know what a horse girl is It's a girl who likes horses But they really like horses Did you guys ever have the kid in your school that would gallop? No We had a couple of them I know horse girls

They love horses, usually their name is Grace, not enough. Your mom would gallop around? She wouldn't gallop around, but she was a horse girl. Put it on the poll, the girls who gallop in school usually call Grace. Isn't they are? That's always their name. That's the most accurate thing

Lucy's ever said on the show. Was the horse girl the reason why the divorce happened? I think so. Okay. But I gotta say, it's my dad's fault. He knew she was a horse girl from the jump. That was my question. Did he always know knew she was a horse girl from the jump. That was my question. Did he always know that she was a horse girl?

Yeah. And your wife's not a horse girl. A divorce girl. Oh God. That's not bad. Like a divorce, but divorce. It's not terrible. Two minutes.

What? You're not in charge. It's okay. It's up to Juju, I'm sorry. That's what I'm talking about, a jean horse girl. A lot of jeans. Yes. It's a huge part of it.

They all dress the same sort of. Well I'm talking about the name. The name, yeah, he meant the name of jean horse girls, a lot of jeans. Yes. It's a huge part of it. Yeah. They all dress the same sort of. Well, I'm talking about the name. The name, yeah, you meant the name jean. Jean, J-E-A-N. I don't know any jeans. I know a lot of jeans. You know a lot of jeans?

From the country. As horses or people? I went to a school of agriculture and horticultural sciences. Really? Where we had to fish and stuff for grades, so yeah. You had to fish for grades? You dig me. That's crazy. Wait, hold on a second. That's a class. You went to a school where you had to fish and stuff for grades so yeah you're the fish for greats you dig me that's wait hold on a second that's a class where you had to go I don't know if we got an a or a minus but the activity was fishing so we

well we all went out and dug holes and like catfish would come out of the hole really that feels like pass or fail like not really a grade right I'm not sure how this was like fourth grade this I'm not sure how, this was like fourth grade, I'm not sure the logistics. Fourth grade? In fourth grade? Absolutely, come on, that's why I'm telling ya, y'all don't even know who y'all be standing around.

I'm cultured, y'all boy be acting like I'm just street. No, I got more to my repertoire. I love this. This is cool. Lehman would love this school, you should talk to Lehman. I'ma talk to him, I'ma hit y'all, ladies salute. Did you have like a future Farmers of America at your school?

Yep, in the FFA, I had the Calderoy blue and yellow jacket. You were in the FFA? Come on man, I tell you, I don't know who y'all talking to. So I'll be session me one day, we'll get in on me. Come on. Why are you asking us to do that? I don't know who's making this. Let me get some fries off your plate though.

I was in it. Look, here's the thing. When you go and you split, I will say this, and people obviously are disagreeing with me on this. I think that if I have to go and I have to choose to eat half of a meal that I don't really want to keep My wife happy that falls in the for worse category in the for better or worse that I agreed to when we got married What if it's something you're interested in eating? Never seen the delight Elses face when they're trying to make a decision on their meal.

You think to yourself, there are these two things that I would really like. And they might want one or both of them. You say, hey, would you wanna split these two things? And they're excited about it. That's one of the best feelings you can have at a meal. It usually starts with a conversation of like, ooh, that sounds good.

I think that sounds good too, but I'm deciding between this. You have to listen closely at the table. And then you're like, oh, okay, well, we both, that sounds good. I think that sounds good too, but I'm deciding between this. You have to listen closely at the table, yes. You're like, oh, okay, well we both think this sounds good. What do you think about this option? It's not like we're just like, hey, this is what I'm getting, this is what you're getting, and we're splitting it.

There's usually like discourse to decide, and both parties agree to the matter. I like, you can have a bite, not half my meal. Right. You can try it. You can eat half of their meal. No, no, half my meal right half of their meal no no I wouldn't want half of it out, but it becomes your meal together This is also this is also a problem that I don't encounter because like when it's like a situation It's like what do you want to eat my answer always is I don't know like so there's rarely a situation where I know I want

Two things because I don't even know the one thing you don't have like your thing at most restaurants you go to I'm not gonna split a big mac. Those are Billy's restaurants all the fast food Every time I call him that's where he is To get fast food when you go out to a restaurant though Billy Yeah, there's there's something that you gravitate towards more than more than not Yeah, I mean it depends on what type of restaurant right you have a Mexican place that you go to off I've eaten with Billy, burger guy. If I don't like something on the menu,

I'll go to a burger. Burgers usually pretty safe. I think what we're saying is when I go to La Bamba in Plantation, great Mexican place, I know what I'm getting. Flautas. I think about it for days. Exactly.

I'm getting steak fajitas. You're thinking about it for days. Right, so good. Now imagine you go to order and the last minute someone's taking half of that away from you. Half of your fajitas gone, and here's half of a quesadilla that you weren't craving for days.

Fajitas are the most splitable food in the history of food. You can split fajitas easily. I mean, sometimes you get the steak and chicken and you split them. I mean, certain places you have to split. You go to Cheesecake. Oh, I love fajitas for two. When you go to Cheesecake Factory, you have to split you go to cheese you go to all I love fajitas for two you when you go to cheesecake Factory you have to split that meal. Have you gotten the shepherds by a cheesecake factory?

8700 calories Cheesecake factories the one that has the crazy menu, right? Yeah, it's like it's way too much way too much stuff Yeah, I couldn't do too many options. You can fan through the menu Well, you love me because there's so many options you could, you could go with a party of four and split meals four ways. You only get two out of like 500. Yeah. And I don't split every single time I go out to eat, but if we're at a good restaurant. She's just willing.

And it's like also a cool way to try something now. Thank you! I don't like new things. I like trying new things. I don't. I think the even ground here, the middle ground is we just order a Lot of things and then we all pick from them I like a tapas

I went to an Italian place on the H that we had I hate that well because then that is now your it's time to split the check and then you always have someone that's like You know what we should get lobsters for the table Yeah, there's three groups. Split it three ways. Yeah, three groups each have one group eats all the lobsters. And then it's like, what's left?

Oh, french fries, that's what my meal was for today. And how much is my french fries? That bill is paid for. Exactly, right. I'm gonna get y'all this. $8,000. You gotta have an uncomfortable conversation. I don't know why y'all don't talk to y'all friends.

I tell my friend, hey bro, you ain't eat lobsters, bro. I ain't gonna give a damn, I have four fries. I've been in situations, pre-marriage, I was in situations, pre-marriage, I was in situations, and I hope they're not listening, pre-marriage, I was in a situation where you go out to a restaurant, right? And then it'd be like, you know,

four single people or people that are dating, whatever, and then like a married couple, right? And each single person or unmarried person puts their card in, and then the married couple puts in a card for both of them. And it's like, ah, hold on. That's not how numbers work because there's two of you now paying with one card

and each one of us is paying with an individual card. One of you is essentially eating for free. That's when you're like, hey, Carl. No, I don't say that. It's actually costing you more money because the split is less. It's not one eating for free, it's that you're paying more for the same meal.

Correct. I'm paying more. You ask that other person who didn't give a you're paying more for the same meal. Correct. I'm paying more. You ask that other person who didn't give a card, hey, where's your card? No, I would never do that. As a server, if that would happen, I would be like, so do you guys want two on this card? Wow.

I was a great server, so I was always very keen to like, oh, okay, so these people are paying, these people are paying, or you just ask, can you split it by what everyone ordered? At the beginning though. Yeah, at the beginning. What's the expectation when you do that though?

If you ask a waiter or server to split it at the end, that's a jerk move. How annoying was it as a server to have something split like four or five ways? I think it wasn't my favorite thing. It's not like incredibly difficult. I think the worst is when you would be like a table of 10 and at the end they'd be like,

it's gonna be 10 separate checks. And I'm like, well, guess what? It's gonna be 45 minutes before you get your check. And then they get pissed because you took so long to get their check. You didn't tell me ahead of time that there were 12 separate orders here. That's the key.

Say it ahead of time and you're good. You have to like go through the system and be like, okay, so he got a Diet Coke and he got a burger. And then usually you forget who ordered what. So then you have to go through the system and be like, okay, so he got a Diet Coke and he got a burger, and then usually you forget who ordered what, so then you have to go back and be like, okay, so who got the Buffalo Chicken Wrap? Now you're doing Long Division Butter Fries. Now you're putting letters next to things,

like this one's mine, this one's mine. If it's five people or more, you need to say it ahead of time, or six. Do you ever ask or is that then rude? Sometimes I do ask, but I think for for the most part people are pretty good about it Yeah, if it's like less than five people if it's like four of you and like hey, can you split this four ways? Yeah, it takes a little time. It's not that much I don't really care that Billy in your scenario if you're single going out with a married couple

Like two is one when you're married. That's it. No, it's not no, but it's on you for going out with a married couple I have a two should not be one when when you're ordering two meals And then you're paying with one card and you're dividing in four ways like when she goes out with your meeting everyone else Like if they split it down the middle, yeah Would you do Lucy and split one card for Jess and Lehman? Usually Lee puts the card down and then he'll just Venmo request me and I have like a big thing of I never want to Be like one of those people that doesn't pay people back the card down and then he'll just Venmo request me. And I have like a big thing of I never wanna be like one of those people that doesn't pay people back.

So it doesn't matter where I am. If I get that Venmo request, I'm responding within 30 seconds. That is the move nowadays, one card and just send me money. Venmo requests, I'm old so I don't know. Venmo scares me. What? I mean I use it nonstop but it scares me.

I'm a Zell man. I mean I'm just sending money. I have no idea where it's going, who's watching, who's taking my-stop, but it scares me. I'm a Zell man. I mean I'm just really money I have no idea where it's going who's watching who's taking my information Because the thing is is you could do that Yeah Some of us are sick in the head me specifically and I love to scroll through my venmo feed love to know what's going on That's how you learn all the juicy gossip speaking of scrolling through the feed Chandler Parson said that this series is just as toxic for Chris steps for zingers going back to face We're this close to crowning an NBA champ, and with the action heating up on the court, channel of Parsons yet again. Back to you Stu. to your first bet if it doesn't hit. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app now and use code DAN, that's code D-A-N for new customers to get a no sweat bet of the $1500 if your first bet doesn't

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I don't care for him, and I hope he has the day he deserves. Oh! Wow, Liz D! Stugatz. I hope he has the day he deserves. That's how I get people when they're really mean to me. I'm not like, go F yourself.

I'm like, I hope you have the day you deserve. I think it's so much like, it's a great kind insult. Yes. It's beautiful. It's leaving it to the cosmos to sort it out. That's a less Southern bless your heart. This is the Dunlavatar Show with the Stugats. This series has nothing to do with Porzingis, okay? the show with the Stugarts.

This series has nothing to do with Porzingis. Okay? No series will ever have anything to do with Porzingis. It is. No, no, no, no, no, no. No one cares if Porzingis wins an NBA title. Porzingis doesn't have to win an NBA title. He's not exacting any revenge on any team. He's

Christoph Porzingis. That's the way. This series is entirely about two people. Jason Tatum, Kyrie Irving. That's team. He's Kristof Porzingis. This series is entirely about two people. Jason Tatum, Kyrie Irving. It's not even about Luca. Really? There is no pressure on Luca to win this. I care so much. There is zero pressure on Luca Donkic to win this

NBA title because we all assume he's going to win one at some point. But Kyrie's won one too. Like I don't know what you're doing with Kyrie there. There's no pressure. He's won a title. The story I don't know what you're doing with Kyrie there. There's no pressure. He's won a title. The storylines are can Jason Tatum finally win a title

and can Kyrie win a second title, one without LeBron James and get back at the Celtics? That's the storyline. People make the storylines. The storyline really is, can the Danny A's years transform it into the Brad Stevens years? Can y'all get it done, man?

Like Mike said the other day, can y'all do it in 1080p? Because it's been a while since anything was possible for Kevin Bledock-Garnett. It looks like, it's time to do it, dawg, because y'all having a great team who advances far in the playoffs every year. I think it's the organization that needs

to prove themselves. As much as Jason Taylor, but if he have a mediocre series and win, we not gonna be like, ah, Jason Taylor, you a fraud. If he have a mediocre series and win we're not gonna be like Jason Tatum You were fraud if he have a mediocre series and lose Gonna be on his head. You feel me? Mm-hmm, but if he has the mediocre series and wins he wins Like he wins, but then the narrative is what Jason Tatum didn't do it had to be somebody else It had to be the help from somebody else. I believe if he have a bad series and they win it's okay, bro. That's why you got this team. That's why your team is number one. You got Derrick White. You got backups on

the bench. Peyton Prichard put in good minutes. You got Drew Holliday already got a championship pedigree and he gonna be the one defending Kyrie Irving. In my opinion, that's one of the best people to try to defend. So I think it's a team effort, bro. Jason Tateum, do not fall for this where you think you gotta be Superman and fade away. That's what's wrong with him. He listening to y'all. He ain't no pressure to pass the ball and drive that guy. Did we hold it against Steph Curry

when Iguodala won the MVP? Because I'm like imagining it's a scenario where Jalen Brown dominates the series and he wins the MVP. He gets the credit. Like are we gonna kind of do that thing where it's like. I don't think anyone took the Iguodala MVP seriously. I mean everyone knows Steph was the MVP of that team.

The only person who held him accountable was Mike. Mike was like let me see it in the finals. And then once he got the finals MVP, Mike was like okay well I can't say no more about Steph Curry. So there will still be some haters out there, but I'm with Juju. Like if they win, they win.

That's sports. If they win and he doesn't play. The storyline of Kyrie is a Stugat storyline. He doesn't like Kyrie. Well no, it has nothing to do with my. You're asking me who has the most amount of pressure. If you were asking me who has the most amount of pressure of all the guys on the Celtics, all the guys on the Mavericks

to win an NBA championship this year, I would say it's Jason Tatum one. Jalen Brown and Kyrie Irving one. I don't know what you're doing with not putting like people have been saying Lucas, a great player for a long time, like he's just gonna skate and not have any pressure here. No, but Jalen and Jason Tatum have been at this moment, at this point, Eastern Conference Finals,

NBA Finals for the last six or seven years. Luca's just getting started. He is. We didn't do this to Tatum after the first one. It took six or seven years. We'll start doing it to Luca six or seven years from now if he hasn't won one yet. But this year, he'll get a pass, especially if he loses to that team. That team has been historically good. Especially if you also lose it. If Jalen Brown already promised Taylor Rooks like five championships

by now. I think he under a lot of pressure as well. so you right, bro. Stu, it's already been six years for Luca, right? And six years when he's 12 years in the league? Yeah, but not six years knocking on the door, though. Sure, but like this is house money because he was, what, a fifth seed? They weren't supposed to make it here. There was so many better teams in the west. Well, that's kind of what I'm saying.

He's a top five player in the league, though. I just, I get what you guys are saying and that this is his first time here and we don't really crush people the first time but if you're a top five top the best scorer in the league I just don't understand how you're fifth in pressure in this series because it's this first time here they made it to the conference finals before this is his first time in the NBA finals and because the Celtics have been here six or seven years now consecutively it's all about whether or not they're going to finally win the championship.

If they do it at Lucas' expense, it's okay. Luca lost to a historical team and took a team by himself, well, with Kyrie, a five seed to the NBA finals. Like, I think people have said, hey, Luca's done enough. Like, he's great, he's awesome, and we'll move on to this in a couple of years. But this year, it's all about whether or not the Celtics will win. How do you see it any other way? I'm not even certain there is another way.

It's the same grace that the Timberwolves have kind of gotten. It's like once they beat the champions, they within themselves was kind of cool and they showed on the court. And they was kind of relieved that, well, at least we got past this. I think that the same thing from the public opinion

is with Luka. We see Luka making it to the championship as this thing that nobody expected nobody had this so we give him credit But like Chris said bro damn merino would like the word bro, cuz you ain't just gonna get here You're right want to do something about it. Hmm Stuart You saying that now next season now because he's already he took a fit see to the finals now He's in the finals. Now the expectations start ticking for Luca next season if he doesn't win here. Yes, I'm saying if Luca if they lose this year and Dallas

makes it back to the Western Conference finals or the NBA finals. Yes, then Luca will have he'll start to feel that pressure right now. No pressure the moment this is over and they lose this. This is a house money series for Luca in my opinion like a house but he cannot lose even if he loses he just can't. I mean he's the reason they're there and he's never been there before you have to go there a couple of times before we start

questioning whether or not you can do it. You have to go there and lose a couple of times and that's what Tatum has done and that's what Jalen Brown has done. Kyrie's pressure is different. Can he do it without LeBron? That's a different kind of pressure. Do you believe LeBron when he says he's mad as hell that he's not teammates with Kyrie anymore? Do we think he's kind of rewriting history there?

A little revisionist history. Revisionist history. From LeBron there. Especially on Tuesdays. Why are you calling him a liar? Because wasn't it his fault that Kyrie is no longer playing with him? Did we forget that? I mean, look, given the option, LeBron at 38 or 39

or whatever he is now saying, hey, you wanna be teammates with Kyrie? Now? He'd say absolutely, right? But if you go back in time to like 2017 or whenever the trade happened, yeah. This is another one on LeBron. What do you expect LeBron to say?

No, like somebody asked him probably, you know how mad is he? Yeah, that's what he got. Nothing's always an option. Like, he can always just say nothing about a situation. But that won't get clicks. Why does he need clicks? Why does LeBron need any more clicks?

Greg Cody says stuff for clicks. That LeBron. Don't bring that up. We guys don't know LeBron. Oh, Greg's already taking a victory lap. He's retweeting the article saying, hey, I heard all of Canada's mad at me. Here's the article.

They got them mad. Check it out. Good God. Well, he's going to join us, Greg Cote, will, at 11.15. But coming up next, I'm very excited for this. The voice of the Stanley Cup, the voice of the NBA Finals, Sean McDonough, Mike Breen together. Next.

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