The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: The Great American Restaurant (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

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Cuervo. The tequila that invented tequila. Proximo, cuervo.com, please drink responsibly. Cuervo. The tequila. That invented tequila. ProximoQueervo.com. Please drink responsibly. Queervo. 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 LeBoutard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that.

In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants, just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries that if they're just there, that hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face and the habitual liar.

This episode of, oh, I'm sorry. This episode is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Nice. Nice rebound, wah. Roy Wood Jr., I admire his hustle, I admire his humor, I admire his ambition most of all. He is now writing a book. He's written a book and it's a great Father's Day gift, although I don't know, I think you're gonna have to put like a coupon in a card and pre-order it because I don't know if you can

physically get it in your hands in the next week, but he's got a new book he's written, The Man of Many Fathers. Roy, it's good to see you. Thank you for making the time. I did not think you had the time to be writing a book. That's why it took two years to write, Dan. I did not know that a book would take that long. I thought it would be something quick and easy. I thought I would do it like other comedians, Dan, and just make a book full of jokes that I never performed on TV and trick y'all asses into giving me $30.

But as I started writing, I figured, well, you know what? Let me give a damn and actually tell some stories about men in my life that actually made a difference. It's a story that, it's a book I wanna inspire you, but also let you know you're not alone in having worked with somebody who was high on cocaine Better than you at the job. I'm sorry for laughing Roy's or Roy. I know a lot about Roy story It's an incredibly touching and interesting and he's he's

Masking it with jokes, but I'm excited. I pre-ordered a book I can't wait for it only thing better than seeing a Roy would show is Texting with Roy because all the jokes that he will not say on stage, I get every now and then, and they are outstabbed. Look at me, little wheel. Hey, no, my only purpose is to let y'all know that Roy's my friend. I mean, what are you doing?

I'm cool. I don't give a damn about Roy. I don't give a damn about y'all. I would like the audience to know I got cool, famous friends. Okay, but he's on the show right now, so do we. He's with us. And he don't like y'all, though. What? I mean, he here because you got a big audience. He don't really like mommy and daddy are fighting

Pick a side Are you here because you don't like whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. I'm just joking No, my pops died when I was 16. And when I had my son, you start reflecting on all the lessons you got as a man from other men. And a lot of them did not come from my father. So as I started making a list of things I wanted to try and teach my kid,

I start reflecting on what was instilled in me and where did I get that? And it came from a myriad of different people. And so I just wanted to kind of compose a lot of those different stories into one big thing. There's a great story in there that I don't think we even have time to get into now, but like the first time you stand up to a terrible boss

and you choose your dignity over money, like just moments like that, stories like that. So for me, it was Shoney, um, in Tallahassee. I don't know if you remember the great American restaurant shownies, Dan, it was, is it dead now? So it's gone shownies. There are no more shownies. I passed one on my way home from North Carolina.

They're still kicking. Yeah. He's just still kicking out there somewhere. Let's let's, I don't know about kicking it. It's in it's shownies is where single-A baseball teams go to celebrate winning a three-game series now, and I say that with respect. It's a fallen institution.

When Applebee's and Red Lobster got cheaper and they added a lot more alcohol, it kinda killed Shawnees' vibes. But my point is, if you got a supervisor you don't like, slap their ass in the face. And slap them, but make sure you don't like slap their ass in the face and um Slap them, but make sure you don't need the job anymore. That's the important thing. Okay that I think that would be very important That's a I think it's also a little bit reckless though. You've you're now telling people to commit a crime I think there's an assault involved with a slapping there you want to be foracle

It's only a crime if they snitch Dan like why in this scenario did the person snitch? Maybe they cool to lose a fair one, you know, I did not know I don't know what you speak of I assume that if you slap somebody in the face that there's good there that's going to result in problems that nobody But I think we've all wanted to do that and somewhere I was curious why it is you tackled like Writing funny is really hard, obviously you do it well, but you're tackling here subject matter also that I would think would make you emotional, would it not?

Very much so, and you know, when you look back at the idea of parenting, the problem is that when you reflect on where you learn things, you have to reckon with the fact that there are a lot of things you never got from your father, even when he was living. And so reconciling that is difficult because we're also, like all of us as parents as a whole,

you want your kids to have a life that's better than the life that you had. So you want to work to provide that for your kids. While at the same time that I'm raising my son to have a better life I'm reckoning with the fact that well, I didn't have a dad like me So in a way you almost end up jealous of your own kid but you're the reason that you're jealous of the kid and so you constantly oscillate between being proud and happy that you're able to do these things, but also having a moment of reflection and that you never got that moment.

And your father's passed, so you don't get to ask those questions as to why. And I think that's the thing that's the most difficult is that when you have a parent that's good, dad, bad husband, if that makes sense. It's hard to be able to not look at how he made certain choices in his life and not wanna go, yo man, what was your problem? Why would you do that? And get an honest answer.

And so I think accepting the fact that you'll never have all the answers to why your parents did the things that they did, I think that's one of the most toughest things that we have to swallow as adults and push forward and just try and be better versions of them. So if you're offended by a boss getting slapped in the face, you're probably the boss that deserves

to get slapped in the face. And also... Edward Snitch. Edward Snitch. Would call the authorities immediately if anyone slapped me in the face. And also, Roy, is there one lesson that you learned or that you share in this book that you would make sure that anyone who buys this book walks away with?

For me, it's the idea of always knowing who you are and not allowing anyone to compromise that. And I think that's one of the first things that I believe the industry tries to ask of us. I believe it's one of the first things that significant others try to ask of us, if I'm being honest, you know, because you can be with somebody and then that person may want you to conform and turn into something, you know, that you aren't. I think that the idea of, you know, I tell a story in a book about, about, you know, about the time that I got booed at the Apollo Theater and the lessons that I learned from that and a lot of that came from,

I'm not gonna say a pimp, like, here's a sidebar question real quick. Let me just ask you as a black man. When you see a dude out on the curb, but he's not selling drugs, but you don't see any women, is he a pimp or a hustler or a drug dealer? Which occupation? Because I don't even think I gave this dude

the right job title. Well, it depends on whether he has on a Panky ring or not. Oh no, he didn't have on a Panky ring. He had on one of them super thick, all leather Averix jackets. Oh, that feels very hustler drug dealer like to me. If he was a pimp, he's gone through a lot of roster cuts and he probably needs to make some free agent signings.

I'll just say it that way. In rebuilding mode? I think the biggest, to answer the question, you can get lessons in life from anybody. And for me, having just got booed, I'm walking back to the hotel in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which is pretty rough, and dude just comes up to me. I explain to him what's going on.

He goes, man, I got shot three times. I'm still here. And he just walked off. And it was, like, such an insightful moment to have with just a random stranger. But the idea of knowing that you need to bounce back, that you can get back up off the ground, I think that's the biggest lesson

that I feel like anybody can take away from this book. knowing that you need to bounce back, that you can get back up off the ground, I think that's the biggest lesson that I feel like anybody can take away from this book. And it's a great Father's Day gift that you won't get until the end of October when it comes out. No, I mean, I think it's powerful. Learning from other people's experiences is really hard to do.

As a father, I know trying to teach my kids based on things that they haven't experienced, I'm so impressed where they can internalize it, even though they don't understand it and haven't experienced it yet. But the biggest thing that I'm working on with my kids right now is taking responsibility. Just, I don't need a story.

You're messed up. That's it. How do you teach that though? That's the thing is that we come up in different struggles like all three of us, right? All with respective super blue collar middle class, lower middle class, lower class upbringings, just depending on what job your parents got that particular year. How do you teach that type of struggle when

your life is different? I rode an airplane three times total before the age of 25. My son is Delta Sky Miles gold medallion. He's nine. I remember telling them one night, I was like, if you keep this up, we're going to fly spirit. And he cried. Oh, he cried. I think those are the things that I struggle with, you know, even with this book, man, like it's not like you're going to read 12 lessons and go, I have all the keys. It's just here's a couple of values that I learned from various people, some respected, some weird, some random street hustlers going through a rebuild on a corner in New Jersey. So you know, to me, I think that we just have to always realize that, you know, I'm 46,

I'm still learning about parenting. I'm still gathering knowledge from people. And sometimes from people younger than us too. I think that's also a mistake that we make at a certain age is that we think because you ain't got as many gray hairs as me, that you don't know anything. And that couldn't be any further from the truth.

I like envisioning your son at nine years old walking to the front of the line of the lounge and just pushing his way through. Excuse me, excuse me sir. Yeah. I'm here. Let me in. My favorite thing to do now with my son Fox, my favorite thing to do is give him his own boarding pass and let him board with the boarding group without me and just let him cut in front of those zone three ghettos. I'm zone two, you bitch. Get out the way. Because we're teaching them how to assert themselves and all that stuff.

So one of the first things, especially as a New Yorker, you got to learn how to throw them bows and get through the crowd, man. No one's going to give it to you, man. You got to weave them, Bob. And you know, New York, you gotta shove. You gotta check somebody into the glass to get with your boarding group. So it's those little moments like that

where I'm like, yeah, that's my boy. He can write a book. The funny thing about that is what you're saying. It's like, there's a balance and there's a time for everything. And I think oftentimes we want these firm rules like always be like this, always be like that. Like there's a time to be assertive,

there's a time to be deferential and understanding that is something that you have to learn. I have a bunch of stories similar to that. On our way down to my family, we're down here for a little bit of a Miami vacation. And before we left, my wife was like, hey, go get your goggles, pack your goggles. My 12 year old son was like,

eh, we'll just get some when we get there. Oh. With what money? Entitlement. I was what money? Entitlement. I was like, what? Entitlement. What? If you don't get your ass in the garage.

No, that's too late for that. It's too late for that. If he, what do you mean? You don't get your ass in the garage. It's already there. Once, if he's already grown up in a way that makes him expect to get the goggles when he gets there. Get your ass in your garage ain't gonna correct that. You find the goggles, they in the garage, man.

Put it on the poll, please. In New York, do you have to shove, can you guys look up for me, please, the number of Shonys that there are in America? Because I don't believe it. I know there's one in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Definitely one in Orlando. Definitely one in Orlando.

And it needs to never die. Shonys need, and put that on the poll as well. Do we need to make sure that Shoney's never dies? But booed at the Apollo though? I'm sorry to interrupt you. I just, you don't have one that hurts more than that, do you? It wasn't getting booed at the Apollo that hurt.

It was what happened on radio the next day. I was doing Mornings in Birmingham at the time. I get booed, Now you got for context you gotta understand, nobody from Alabama gets on TV ever. Before me, I think it was Ricky Smiley was like the only person. Like this is pre-Rubin Studdard American Idol, Birmingham talent pool, pre-Taylor Hicks and Bo Bice and all of that. Bro, I got booed. I go on the radio the next day after my episode airs like a week later, the day after it airs, somebody calls into the station

and goes, yeah, tell Roy if that's the best he can do, he need to start telling people he from Montgomery. You ain't ripping the crib right, click. Oh no. That hurt, because that person was looking forward to be doing well and representing, you know, it's a lot of it's a lot of responsibility man when you from you from a place that don't get put on much you supposed to represent you got to over represent and Not represent that right? I mean getting booed at the Apollo's kind of a rite of passage, isn't it?

I guess but the thing that they don't tell you about the Apollo's that it's rigged against you First of all all they shoot Three episodes in one night with the same crowd so by the time you get on stage as a comedian the audience has been there Two and a half hours you're dealing with crowd fatigue number two The drinks are three dollars at least they were in 2002 when I got booed so you got 1500 people in Harlem who been drinking $3 well vodka for two and a half hours. They just booed a kid singing a gospel song and then here comes me, hey y'all, I'm from Alabama. I show them y'all ain't got no Waffle House up here. And then

you get booed and then you go back down into this green room with all of the other amateur night acts that are all waiting to go up. And it's like, it's like, if you, if you could ever see somebody coming back from the electric chair, like after getting fried, I don't know if that makes sense. And half the room has survived. The other half is waiting to go, it's like walking the green mile, walking the green mile. So there's so many things that you're up against. Like Apollo back in the day would have a music act

every episode, like a major music act. So they would shoot all three of those acts. So I think the night that I taped, it was Ja Rule, I think Faith Evans came, Ja Rule did two songs for an episode, Faith Evans came Ja Rule did two songs for an episode, Faith Evans came out and did two songs for an episode, and then it was P. Diddy and the family, they did like a whole medley, whatever,

like that was how the show started. And then you do all the Apollo kids, then you do the real amateur, there was a man in my episode, I wish I could find the whole episode, bro, there was a man in my episode, I wish I could find the whole episode, bro. There was a man in my episode at Showtime with the Apollo. He was a black guy in his 60s, roller skating melodically to Lou Rawls,

and they didn't boo him. And I'm like, really? That's what we're letting across the scene? Look, I know this is a place for black talent, and we get to showcase the best of blackness, but what are you gonna do with the roller skating to Lou Rawls? Is there a talent agent in the crowd? Oh, you got all the gifts, kid, what's your name?

Mr. Stanley, oh, Mr. Stanley, good to meet you. Where does this go? Sandman, Sandman, gotta get out there on that one. You gotta do your job, Sandy. You gotta get out there and take care of that. No, it was also, they respected him because he looked like he was marching back in the day for our rights.

I get why you didn't boo him, but it's not fair. No, that's not fair, that's not the opener. Hey, I gotta disagree with you there. I understand that the reason that we had this theater and could perform at this point is in part because of the sacrifices he made. But don't soil our stage with this foolishness. Yeah, if the family's listening, I'm sorry, I hope you're somewhere. It's still roller

skating to Lou Rawls. Come open for me. All right. Put it on the poll. Was the guy roller skating to Lou Rawls not booed because he marched during the civil rights? For our rights. He was like 65. Because he marched for our rights. Okay, but I don't believe that's why that happened, but okay. That's where the well drinks were respectful, just at the roller skating loo, all this guy. There's some respect for age, like, Dan, you get this.

There's some respect for age and experience. All right, I've got some sports questions for you before you get out of here, and I tell the people, the man of many fathers, fathers by his book support the people who support us Roy Wood is one of the greats who is supporting us and we appreciate his time and As I said his ambitions, but as a Cubs fan Do you want to tell people that you've got that Suzuki is a top 20 hitter in baseball? Like do you want are you beating your chest about your baseball team because you have a good baseball team? Like, do you want, are you beating your chest about your baseball team?

Because you have a good baseball team. No, because I want us to be good, quietly. And then in October, then we can start playing with pressure. I love the fact that y'all don't cover Suzuki the way that y'all cover everybody else in the league right now. I know he's not your favorite Japanese player. I know there's one in Los Angeles that y'all seem to love a little bit more,

but guess who got him in the number? Suzuki do, bitch. Yep, that's right. That's what I was trying to lure out of him. Pacers Thunder, do you have any thoughts there? This is not obviously a series that America is going to embrace for viewership reasons, but it's great basketball.

It's fun basketball teams. If you appreciate basketball, you gotta love it. But, you know, I think this is when the NBA needs to, like when you have a middle America NBA finals, this is when the league has to start paying influencers to go to these games. Like, you gotta get Timothy Chalamet and just,

hey, don't you mind just sitting courtside in Oklahoma on a Tuesday night please. Just you know because that's where the this like the finals are supposed to be with the casual fans coming in. I think that that's probably where the league they'll never admit it but they're probably behind closed doors going oh we need it New York. But you're gonna get a good series you're gonna get a deserving champion. Halliburton has shut up everybody's mouth. Don't know how I feel about the nickname Halliband.

But outside of that, I'm fine with the finals. I'm not here to create a whole new debate. But that one flies a little too close to freedom and dead veterans. Dang, why you ain't ask my man about the Stanley Cup final? It's happening right now. You ask him about basketball? Well, you know it's ball. I did ask him about baseball.

Well, you know the Atlanta Thrashers have a good chance in the Stanley Cup final. As we all know, my favorite NHL team is the Atlanta Thrashers. The name of the book is The Man of Many Fathers. I want to play this sound for you and get your thoughts on Tom Cruise Tom Cruise I'm sure your book is not as emotional as this is as Tom Cruise is about Father's Day

I'm also gonna ask Father's Day is just around the corner what an ideal Father's Day look like for you just having fun man making movies big adventure having a great time. I love it. Nailed it. I love it. I love it.

Don't you ask me no other questions, Heffer. I told your ass before we turned the camera on that we're talking about the airplane flips. Ask me about the submarine, ask me about the sky. That's it. No ad libs. You're getting exactly, yo, respect to Tom Cruise, who rarely surfaces ever for media. Y'all ain't gonna never get him on a podcast because of behavior like that.

That's what you get. Try to trick him. That's discipline. Put it on the poll, please. Are you ever getting Tom Cruise on the podcast? Because he's so right about that. Tom Cruise ain't ever coming on anybody's podcast. Just having pole, please. Are you ever getting Tom Cruise on the podcast? Because he's so right about that. He's ain't ever coming on anybody's podcast. Just having fun, man.

Just tying up the loop here for Shonis. Roy? Shonis, 65 restaurants between Shonis and Captain D's. Wait a minute. Don't fall for it. Shonis, which operates as Shonis restaurants and Captain D's restaurants. 65 restaurants across 17 states. Wait a minute. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm told there are 24 in Tennessee. I'm telling you, Shoney's was the king. They had an amazing breakfast bar, but Saturdays cannot carry a franchise

when Applebee's, Chili's, Olive Garden, Outback were all attacking you and coming under $10 a plate for food and you don't have a liquor license. You were doomed from the jump. And God bless the owners because they were devout Christians and they didn't want to fool with liquor. And that's part of what happened. But you see Cracker Barrel gave in, didn't it?

Cracker Barrel tried to hang on. And then they was like, all right, now get the liquor flowing, we about to die. See what happens, Shodies- All of our customers- Shodies was balling, they was balling. Too many customers, they be roller skating. We can do it, we can play this, we can dance.

Shodies was balling to integration. That's essentially what happened. They let a bunch of other people in the league and Shorty's could no longer compete. They couldn't do what everybody else could do. What is Captain D's? If I gotta ask you. Roy, thank you for being on with us.

The Man of Many Fathers is the name of the book. It's available now for pre-order at crownpublishing.com. Go to Roy Wood Jr. dot com. Yeah, just go to my website. Let's get to, yeah. For his latest dates and shows. Thank you, sir, good seeing you as always. All right, bro.

All right, y'all, the Super Bowl is in the rear view mirror. The draft has come and gone, so now what? Now it's time to get the crew together. You keep the fandom energy going, it doesn't stop when the Super Bowl's gone, we gather. Exactly, and look, just because the pads are off doesn't mean game day stops. Around here, we do game days, even in the off season, and what better way to do that than with a cold drink and your people around.

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at 3pm Easternm. Eastern only on Prime Don Lebatard John Zaslaw How you love that catchphrase Bad news for Opposing teams in the triple a. Stugats. These are smiles till the broads are clutch again, clutch again, clutch again. This is the Dan LeBattar Show with the Stugarts.

I wanted to ask you guys a handful of questions. One, going back to what we were saying before, I still haven't been able to shake off of me, Chris Cody shaking his chest and yelling at everybody. We broke them mentally. I don't feel like he should be inserting himself in that breaking the way that he is because he had three beers at the concession stand during the game.

Four years, season ticket holder. Territory member. Been a season ticket holder before Kachuk was here. All right? Those are bona fides, but you saying we broke them mentally is a bridge too far for me is what I'm saying. You saying that you broke, that you had anything to do with Connor McDavid's breaking.

You don't think that Connor McDavid's, you know, someone points in the direction of Chris Cote and says, buddy broke you. If that crowd wasn't there last night, Dan, it would have been a lot tougher for them to have all that momentum. I was there screaming my head off. I annoyed the guy in front of me. When they do this thing, as the players are walking out, they're like, get up, wave your towel

and scream. So what did I do last night? I got up, I waved my towel and I was like, ah, and I was so lost in the scream that at one point the guy in front of me like looked back like dude, like, and my wife is just like. That's embarrassing. My wife is standing, right, for that guy, right? That guy wasn't yelling. You getting the turnaround look. What? That's embarrassing.

Look, guys, we're trying to be Edmonton here. Did you see that barn? That barn is loud. When they come out, that is the time of the game when we need to be at our loudest. And I wanted to do my part. And the guy in front of me got a little annoyed. You made Dominique snort from waving your towel.

They literally the announcer is like get up, wave your towel. Khaled? And he goes, he goes here they, no it's like that deep voice, it's like their intro voice guy. Here they come and they show Bobrowski leading us out and I'm just like, ah! We got lost in the scream. And the guy in front of me was just like, what, like dude, like a minute of this? Like you're still screaming?

It wasn't a time wave that made me snort. It was a couple different things. So Tony's doing a show for me in my ear, which is fantastic. And also the video room is doing a show for me on the side screen, which fantastic. And also, the video room is doing a show for me on the side screen, which is also outstanding. I was trying to listen, but I... What happened?

What they are doing to Zaz's face is outstanding. So Mega Mind has made an appearance again, and I'm pleased that the video team is amusing Dominique, and it is a lot of forehead. It is a substantive amount of foreheads as well I didn't realize that the backward caption. Oh Man that's not fair Yo, that's not fair Not doctor at all. The size.

They just colored it. Yo that's bullshit. That is how you play hockey though. It is. We can all agree. Captain D's. What is Captain D's and what is the real information

on Shonies? Because Dan, I don't know who told you there was 900 Show knees propaganda is what that is Dan. You know why you shouldn't fall victim to propaganda and he's fired. No, no, yeah Said 900 to me too, and he's not fired but there's 55. No, no, no, we're gonna we're gonna somebody get a camera We're in between Danny. come on in here, Danny. Danny, don't point. Oh, no. Come on in here. Stunt Danny. Come in here and go to the microphone

and stand next to Tony and explain to me. No, don't show me. Don't show me your Shoney's Google search. Oh, it's AI. Don't show me. No, no. Listen to me. Listen to me.

You guys cannot give me information in my ear that has not been vetted that you're allowing Elon Musk's drunk robots to control because you don't know how to do the internet anymore because all of the robots have taken over the searches. I just searched the same thing and the AI response for me says 58 locations across 15 states.

Okay, so Tony, I owe you an apology. Thank you. Because I should have trusted your research. You know I'm thorough. Stunt Danny, explain yourself here. Big moment here, don't be nervous. Stunt Danny, you're sitting in for Lewis, whose judgment is very bad. Don't be nervous when you talk.

Listen, Forbes is a trusted article. I didn't look at the year because it's a tight window. I didn't look at Wikipedia because Wikipedia's worse than AI. Okay, well that didn't sound like an apology. It didn't sound like accountability. It didn't sound like anything other than just- Dominique, you need to teach Danny accountability too. Last time I was down here,

we had a big conversation about accountability and everyone at the show, we discussed and we understood what accountability meant, we thought, and now we gotta start over. So Danny, next time you come here, hold on, hold on. I owned it. No, no, no, no, no.

Can we get back to yesterday? You had a whole bunch of excuses. Yesterday, we have a meeting, because at one point, Video played the wrong video yesterday, and in our recap meeting after the show, he goes, I'm gonna be accountable here. I played the wrong video

because multiple people were talking in my ear. That's... It's true. Is that it's true So this is what I would suggest daddy my bad I got you next time That is not my metal arc. I got you next But this was next time Adding nothing for adding nothing actually you do the full elevator he like mailed on it

he can't do the full elevator because of the shape of his body he can't go down any floors because his elevator gets trapped half way he's got knees cut to me guys he like looked at his watch and then midway through cut to me Danny can't cut to me guys. He like looked at his watch and then midway through cut to me guy Oh, no, he's not Danny can't cut Danny does yeah Dan so captain D's part of the showny's brand There's a couple of them out there and they're a beautiful fast casual Seafood restaurant and what I was telling Dominique is that they have a beautiful grilled white fish

They don't say what kind of fish, but we know it's white Put it on the pole please at lebatard show is there such a thing as a beautiful Fast casual seafood and notice how I said fast casual. It's not fast food. No, let's ask casual It's good food. I know what you said, but what I'm saying is my fish. I need it to be neither fast nor in casual I know what you said, but what I'm saying is my fish. I need it to be neither fast nor casual. White at least. No, I have a color. Hey, it's white though.

Don't worry. So that's the poll question. Beautiful, fast, casual, is there such a thing as a beautiful, fast, casual seafood restaurant? Because that's why there are so few shonies still existing in America. Because everyone knows that you don't want to go fast casual on the seafood So is it 55 or 900? Well, no, I think we got it right. Thank you

We'll get to the bottom not 900 not Danny at a microphone not Danny doing the elevator not Danny talking in my ear with any Information gathered from the internet I think that's the lesson that's learned and also not Danny when it comes to accountability Unless we stop him in his tracks and Dominique lectures him about it. But the thing I wanted to ask you guys about both the article that Dominique led off the show with in USA Today about the pain that football players play in.

When I ask you the question, game three, where you feel confident enough to shout at the end of a hockey season grueling tired and and Edmonton's been a buzz saw You feel the comfort of shouting we broke them mentally I want to ask you guys when it comes to depth and hockey pain of a season Length of a season how tired human beings are at this point in the season Are you not asking Connor McDavid right now to overcome something that comes at you in

waves and does not fatigue because of the depth that it has? Do you believe in the idea that the Panthers would have an ability as champions to wear down two players over a series when everyone's tired this time of year? When you're talking about the physical imposition of will over the course of a season and how you would break someone like McDavid mentally if you were actually doing it. Do you believe, I believe the OKC Thunder

have the ability to do that to anybody over seven games. I just saw them do it to the MVP of the league. I saw the MVP of the league change hands because they did something on defense that wore down a tired champion at the end what i'm asking you about the panthers is do they have an advantage over what is now possibly for remaining games because not only can they wear you down over a game and then where you down in the third period and mndaz it admins has been able to overcome that through two games but do they have the ability in a physical sport to actually wear someone down over

seven games where they have an advantage because two stars are tired? I think they do. Looking at the ice time for Econor McDavid last night they played 20 minutes and 51 seconds that's the fenceman numbers you don't usually see that out of a forward. He's been out there the entire game, right? He's gonna do that for over a semigame series. He did that in the last series last year. So he has the stamina and the ability to do that. But the Panthers are gonna end up wearing him down.

He's gonna end up making mistakes, creating turnovers and everything like that. So yeah, I think they do have the ability to wear down everybody around Conor McDavid, including Conor McDavid himself. I feel like Gustav Forsling, who's struggled in this playoffs, this series, he's been great because he's really the only guy.

And there are, nobody can skate with Connor McDavid, but he's by far our best skater. And there were multiple times last night to joke about, get in front of him, block him, where Gustav Forsling is affecting Connor McDavid. And he's always out there with them. So Gustav's minutes, I don't think are McDavid and he's always out there with them. So Gustav's minutes I don't think are crazy, but he's always out there with Connor.

So I think Gustav has been a Connor stopper, at least containing Connor so far. The thing that I want to present to you guys and in the context of this USA Today article that I want to talk about, the wear of this sport and how injured guys are. I want people to appreciate, I know hockey fans, like the deepest hockey experts,

appreciate what I'm about to say. I hope they appreciate what Connor McDavid is being asked to overcome here. You can hate Florida, you can think McDavid a choker, but when I see him spin through Barkhoff that way I'm like wow that's special but can it be ground down by 20 men by 70 lines of we're just gonna keep flogging you with a bunch of above average people because our depth is unholy. Well and the key is like Roy

mentions you got Conor McDavid who's on the ice, defenseman type minutes, like 27, 28 minutes a game. He's still on the ice for less than half the game, and I think sometimes that's lost on us, where yes, he's the best, but he can't be on the ice all the time. And it's over the course of a particularly long season, a grueling playoff run, an emotionally and physically grueling playoff run. To push through that stuff I think is really difficult and we often do this with basketball players after they lose.

We're like, well, what's his injury going to be if he played poorly in a playoff series? We kind of like wave our hand at it as if it's not a big deal and then you read some of these articles or you read about what it actually feels like because we hear, we get desensitized to these injuries because we hear them so much. Like, go get turf toe. Just forget getting turf toe. Just go ahead and bump into a wall real quick. Just knock knees with somebody and see how you feel.

And like the Armstead piece, he talks, it was on a podcast that he was being interviewed and he said, after games on Sundays, he could not walk under his own power until Wednesday or Thursday he couldn't he never practiced because he could only move in a football worthy way under painkillers since the third year of his freaking career. That's the guy we are protecting too? I mean if you look at the Panthers injuries three seasons ago versus Vegas in the Stanley Cup final

Aaron Eklav played with a broken foot It's a loose around and played with a broken leg Matt you could chuck broke his sternum on that hit Yeah, imagine like we just I'm sorry to pick on Danny, but Danny can be a symbol for a lot of us But can you imagine if daddy who just came in here and blamed the internet for his show these mistakes was in here on a broken foot? Like you don't need your feet to Google, but we would all give him all the latitude in the world

if Daddy was like, hey, 900 restaurants. We'd be like, ah, Daddy, he broke his foot yesterday, guys. Take it easy on Daddy. But if we have a football player or if a hockey player or an athlete messes up with a fractured throat, we're like, you can't miss that block. You're out there, aren't you? We say that shit all the time.

Like, you're out there, aren't you? His throat was fractured. That's not Armstead. That was the other featured participant in this USA Today story, because what these people are doing to overcome things is a bit insane but it is normalized. I don't know how many of you saw this the other day but there was a game hit a game-winning hit in a Mets

game by Francisco Lindor and they just casually said who's playing with a broken toe and I'm like oh that sounds unpleasant to be sliding and doing things with a broken toe and it also sounds unpleasant to get the painkillers in the feet that you would have to get so that that doesn't hurt because you're playing with a broken toe. I think he's still second with a broken toe. Sliding feet first.

Oh. And- Pushing off. But fractured throat, did you guys know that was a thing? Did you guys, were you guys aware that the fractured throat was, if I tell you you have a fractured throat, living is not going to be the same after that, correct?

That does not heal in a way that then makes it a not fractured throat in a reasonable amount of time? Now, I am using AI, what Danny used, but I'm hearing, I'm reading here that there's really no difference between a fracture and a rupture when it comes to the throat. Good to know. I'm sure that makes Frank's throat feel better. fracture and a rupture when it comes to the throat. That it's. I'm sure that makes Frank's throat feel better.

I'd go rupture though. I feel like rupture sounds worse. Like if I had it, I'd rather say ruptured than fractured. You made the point that it's something that doesn't go away which is I coach my son's flag football team and sometimes I practice around with them. And last Friday I practiced with them. My hip and my knee still feel terrible. And I'm limping around, I won't let y'all know it.

I won't let my son know it, but I feel awful. When he says chippy game and what those hockey players feel like, just imagine running into the boards three times and hitting it with your shoulder. How you'd wake up in the morning. Let's look into that. Hey friends, it's Jarrah Bear here into the boards three times and hitting it with your shoulder. How you'd wake up in the morning. Let's look into that. Hey friends, it's Jerr Bear here.

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