Hour 2: Spoiler Wednesday

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz – Hour 2: Spoiler Wednesday

Release Date: March 18, 2025

In the "Spoiler Wednesday" episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, host Dan LeBatard, along with co-hosts Stugotz, Chris Cody, Greg Cody, Billy Gil, and Jeremy, navigate through a myriad of topics ranging from space missions and rising grocery prices to the delicate art of handling spoilers in television shows. The episode is marked by lively discussions, humorous exchanges, and insightful commentary, making it a must-listen for fans who enjoy a blend of sports, pop culture, and everyday life topics.

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1. Astronauts Stuck in Space and Spacecraft Mishaps

Timestamp: [00:48] – [01:50]

Dan LeBatard kicks off the episode by reminiscing about the real-life drama of astronauts stranded in space. The conversation delves into the unforeseen challenges that extended space missions can present.

• Dan LeBatard: "They were supposed to be out there for a week, and then something happened to their craft..." ([01:01])

• Billy Gil: "They’re going to be so mad when they find out how much they cost." ([01:37])

The team reflects on the logistics and human emotions tied to such space missions, blending humor with genuine curiosity about the practical difficulties astronauts face.

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2. The Soaring Cost of Everyday Groceries

Timestamp: [02:24] – [06:14]

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing the alarming increase in the prices of common grocery items. The hosts share personal anecdotes and strategies to cope with these rising costs.

• Stugotz: "Olive oil prices have skyrocketed. I think they've doubled in the last year to the point now you buy like an average sized jar of olive oil and it's like $18.99." ([04:20])

• Chris Cody: "I've been on this lime case a long time. Sometimes you can get nine limes for a dollar, other times three limes for a dollar." ([04:41])

• Billy Gil: "I bought gum the other day for $6." ([05:48])

The discussion highlights the unpredictability of food prices and the impact on consumers, with the hosts humorously contemplating unconventional solutions like selling eggs outside arenas.

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3. Navigating Spoilers in Television Shows

Timestamp: [11:00] – [18:25]

A central theme of the episode revolves around the challenge of avoiding spoilers for popular TV shows such as "White Lotus" and "Righteous Gemstones." The hosts engage in a spirited debate on establishing guidelines to respect listeners who wish to avoid plot revelations.

• Dan LeBatard: "I have gotten a lot of feedback... people feel like we spoil things and we should have warned them." ([11:24])

• Chris Cody: "Spoiler Wednesday seems like a perfectly reasonable thing." ([15:35])

• Billy Gil: "What's the proper amount of time and is it show dependent because you weren't doing a Survivor spoiler." ([14:55])

The trio explores the feasibility of implementing a "Spoiler Wednesday" to discuss recent episodes without compromising the viewing experience for all listeners. They consider the diverse viewing habits of their audience and the complexities introduced by the instantaneous nature of modern media consumption.

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4. The Unique Appeal of the Savannah Bananas

Timestamp: [32:10] – [36:32]

Transitioning from television spoilers, the hosts shift their focus to baseball, specifically discussing the Savannah Bananas—a team renowned for its entertaining and unconventional approach to the sport.

• Jeremy: "It's not baseball, it's banana ball. There's a huge, huge difference." ([32:27])

• Stugotz: "It's just a modern-day Harlem Globetrotters." ([34:27])

• Greg Cody: "It's a clown show. Banana ball." ([35:43])

The conversation highlights the contrast between traditional baseball and the Bananas' high-energy, fan-centric games. While some hosts express fatigue with the team's antics, others appreciate the fresh take they bring to America's pastime, emphasizing the generational appeal and the whimsical elements that attract families and younger audiences.

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5. Tracy Morgan’s Health Update and MLB/WNBA News

Timestamp: [24:30] – [28:24]

In a brief yet heartfelt segment, the hosts provide an update on comedian Tracy Morgan's health, who recently battled food poisoning but is reportedly recovering. This segment transitions into broader sports news, touching upon MLB's Marlins and mysterious illnesses affecting players.

• Jeremy: "He has made a post to Instagram... I need to shout out the crew that had to clean that up." ([24:33])

• Chris Cody: "Happy that Tracy's okay now." ([27:43])

Additionally, the conversation touches on the Marlins' controversial open tryouts and the WNBA's attempt to introduce male practice players, sparking discussions on sports management and fan reactions.

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6. Concluding Thoughts: Embracing Diverse Interests

Timestamp: [36:07] – [36:32]

As the episode winds down, the hosts reflect on the diversity of interests within their audience and their commitment to catering to various preferences without alienating listeners.

• Dan LeBatard: "Let people like what they like. No one's making you go watch it." ([36:00])

• Stugotz: "Enjoys it and I can dislike it." ([36:05])

This final segment underscores the show's inclusive atmosphere, encouraging listeners to embrace their unique tastes while respecting others'. The hosts advocate for a balanced approach to content discussions, ensuring everyone feels welcome regardless of their interests.

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Notable Quotes:

• Dan LeBatard: "Do what you want to do. I like when you take the steering wheel and say, you know what? Screw you, everyone. I'm gonna spoil things on my own terms." ([18:14])

• Chris Cody: "Maybe sell eggs outside the arena the way they sell waters." ([02:24])

• Billy Gil: "What's the proper amount of time and is it show dependent because you weren't doing a Survivor spoiler." ([14:55])

The episode masterfully weaves humor with substantive discussions, making it both entertaining and thought-provoking. Whether debating the merits of modern baseball entertainment or grappling with the ethics of spoilers, the hosts deliver content that resonates with a broad audience, all while maintaining their signature comedic flair.

Transcript

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Stugotz]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Stugotz]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Stugotz]

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[Chris Cody]

This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do you guys remember the astronauts that were stuck up in space? Well, they're finally coming home.

[Greg Cody]

Wow.

[Stugotz]

Exciting.

[Billy Gil]

How long were they up there?

[Dan LeBatard]

Like nine months. They were supposed to be out there for a week, and then something happened to their craft, their spacecraft that got sent back home without them. And now there's finally a crew going to the ISS to replace them and, I guess, rescue them. So they're coming back.

[Billy Gil]

Sullivan, can you try and get a hold of one of them so that I can find out what are the practical difficulties in expecting to go to space for a week and ending up there nine months? I would imagine that there are all sorts of difficulties any of us wouldn't understand. I'd like to talk to an astronau.

[Chris Cody]

Get eggs.

[Billy Gil]

That's the chief question, obviously, that we would all fall.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, my God. They're going to be so mad when they find out how much they cost.

[Chris Cody]

Now I think they're going back down. I heard I haven't bought an eggs. Sometimes I hoard eggs. That's probably bad, right? But I buy at the wrong time.

[Dan LeBatard]

2 to per. 2. 2 per person. Grocery store.

[Chris Cody]

Now. Yeah, yeah, I think I've seen that sign. But, like, I'll go. And if it's like a price that I think is going to go higher, I treat it like the stock market. My. My goods. So I'll go. And if I get the sense that egg prices are going to go up, I'll say, you know what, $8.99 is a lot for, you know, 18 eggs, but it's better than 1029. So I'm going to get two batches of 18 eggs. But then, you know, you're playing with fire because you come back a week later and now they're 479 for 18. So it's really a dangerous game that I'm playing with my produce and with my goods there. But that's what we have to do. Thank you for asking.

[Greg Cody]

Maybe sell eggs outside the arena the way they sell waters.

[Chris Cody]

That is such a good Business, by the way, if. No, not the eggs, the water. If you, if you could successfully sell water honestly, and you have the right. I'm not a salesman by nature.

[Greg Cody]

We know this like $4 for like a 24 pack, something like that, you.

[Chris Cody]

Can get a 24 pack of water, right? Or even like you go to like a SAM's or a BJ's or Costco or one of these big box stores as they call them, right? You buy a 40 pack of water, you get that for, let's say 6.99. If you sell it for a dollar each, right? You could, you could probably jack it up to $2. You sell it for a dollar each, that's $40 you made on that one pack. If you do $2, that's $80 that you can make. Now you need to find people. You can't do 150. We all know that. You can't be on the side of the street selling bottles of water for 150. Once you start breaking it into fractions of a dollar, things get complicated. People just keep driving by you. But if you have the wherewithal to do it and go out there and sell that water. The ROI on that, Dan.

[Billy Gil]

Yes, I agree. I've often thought that whenever seeing someone sell overpriced water that that would be a good business. Can you guys please, for me, before the end of the show, find me some short actors whose height would shock the audience. And also I'd like to ask all of you recently, what is something that you have purchased that you have been alarmed by how much the price of that has gone up? Because a lot of people are talking about fruit. A cup of coffee. A cup of coffee is now at a price point that is totally absurd for a cup of beans. I told you recently that a regular small smoothie with fresh fruit I saw for over $9. Give me some shocking, some sticker shock that you guys have gotten recently on stuff that is a lot more expensive than it used to be.

[Stugotz]

I use quite a bit of extra virgin olive oil in cooking. Olive oil prices have skyrocketed. I think they've doubled in the last year to the point now you buy like an average sized jar of bottle of olive oil and it's like $18.99. It's like very expensive relative to what it was a year ago. I don't know why.

[Chris Cody]

I think that a lot of people focus on like the main things, right? Where you have a situation and I've been down this path before, you have like the Situation, like the eggs. Everybody buys eggs. Or you have things. It's like, wow, this now costs like $12. Before it was 10. The ones that really add up are the things that were like multiples for a dollar, things that were like a matter of cents, and now it's a lot. So like produce or produce fruits or things that we talked about a lot. I've been on the lime case a long time. Everybody knows that. I've been on this lime situation a lot here where, you know, sometimes you can get nine limes for a dollar, other times you can get, you know, three limes for a dollar. And you essentially are tripling the price. You say, oh, What's a lime? 33 cents. Yeah, but when it was 8 cents a week ago, that's a huge increase in price. So that's where you guys, if you're out there and you're the consumers and you're shopping, keep an eye on the small ticket items because that's how they get you and that's how these things start adding up. I remember when a blow pop used to be a quarter. If I were to go buy a blow pop now at a gas station, I bet you that that would be damn near 75 cents at least. That is three times the price. And you think with still less than a do. Yeah, but before I could get four for a dollar, now I can get one for a dollar.

[Billy Gil]

I bought gum the other day for $6. $6?

[Chris Cody]

What kind of gum was this? Is that like neuro gum or something?

[Billy Gil]

The little small.

[Jeremy]

When you're checking out at Publix and you just grab some gum to add it, it's $6.

[Dan LeBatard]

I bought a Cheeto last week. That was $90,000.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Billy Gil]

Let's look at this Michael Jordan Cheeto here. The flamin hot Air Jordan Jumpman.

[Greg Cody]

He's half ass.

[Dan LeBatard]

I agree with Chris.

[Billy Gil]

Ridiculous.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, The Charizard, like, we all agree, we all agree. If you saw that Cheeto, if you pulled it out of the bag, you'd be like, holy shit, that's Charizard. This is supposed to be an Air Jordan Jumpman Cheeto. And I thought it was going to be the Air Jordan logo. It's not. He's like, he's making a layup. I don't know what this is.

[Billy Gil]

Asinine.

[Greg Cody]

He's legs are barely spread.

[Billy Gil]

He's calling for the ball in the post. It is not the. It is not the. It is not the Jumpman logo.

[Jeremy]

It's actually Thomas Bryant. When LeBron was breaking the Record. It's Thomas Bryant calling for the ball of the post can.

[Chris Cody]

Do you want to make fun of me, Dan?

[Billy Gil]

Always.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, so when, when we were, when we were talking about limes a minute ago, I got very confused because sometimes we have guests that are joining us and they're just kind of like sitting in the zoom and they're on the monitor. Right. So like they'll hear what it is that we're talking about. And we don't have a guest scheduled right now. Right. But I looked up and I was confused at which monitor I was looking at and I just saw Ronde Barber nodding along to everything that I was saying. And it's because Ronda Barber is on another show and I was like, channel. I was like, Ronda is on this whole lime talk right now. I didn't even know he was on the show today. And I was just totally confused. I'm old.

[Billy Gil]

How did you feel about fake opening day today? The Dodgers of course win on their on their path to an undefeated season because they've taken baseball and broken it over their knee. How did you feel? What are the we had a Major League baseball game and the Major League Baseball season start during our show, start at 6:00 this morning and end the game ended during our show. What happened and what are the updates that you want to give people?

[Chris Cody]

So the Dodgers, Spoiler alert. I don't know if you are if this is the fan base that records baseball games and goes home and watches them later in the day, but if you are, spoiler alert here upcoming, don't get mad at us. This isn't a white lotus situation. This game was already played. So the Dodgers and the Cubs kicked off the season at 6am today and they finished the game before we even started our workday. And yesterday Dodgers end up winning. Spoiler alert. Dodgers ended up winning four to one over the Cubs. They have another game tomorrow again at 6am so if you're up at 6am you could watch it or I don't think you can even listen to it to boot. Go to Japan to cover the game. I was wondering that.

[Jeremy]

I think the broadcasters are doing it all remote.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, that's whack.

[Stugotz]

Oh wow. Lame.

[Greg Cody]

I heard Benetti was on the call. I'm not sure if he was there though.

[Chris Cody]

I felt so bad for Benetti. He's such a great guest and he was so good last week. And then I saw like the Fox promotional thing where they put out like the headshots of all the broadcasters are going to be working on the show. And like, I don't know if they provide their own headshots or if Fox, like, takes the headshots for them, but poor Jason Bonetti. Well, it's not that it's a bad headshot. It's that every single person who took their headshot and provided it to Fox for their broadcasting, you know, games, teams this year, whatever. By the way, if you're interested in baseball broadcasting Friday, I'm going to be doing another game for you. Just a quick aside during march madness.

[Dan LeBatard]

At 6am because I kind of liked waking up to 6am baseball. I listened to it on my drive into work this morning. I watched it in the makeup chair.

[Chris Cody]

I had it Hulu on my phone and I was listening to the audio while I was driving. It was probably not smart. Anyways, so Jason Benetti, friend of the show. Dare I say at this point in time, everybody takes their professional headshots. They're looking head on, big smile, whatever. Benetti is looking off to the side. Like, if he's like on the poster for Stepbrothers. So the poor guy, no one told him, send us a headshot where you're looking head on. So everyone is looking straight at the camera except poor Benetti, who just looks confused as though he doesn't know where the camera is because he's looking off in a different direction. And I feel like if you're putting together this promotional stuff, you have to reach out to him and be like, look, Jason, this is what we're doing this year. Try to send us one of those. Or like, just take another headshot where you're looking straight on. No one bothered to tell him. Everyone. Eric Caros, Dontrell Willis, everyone looking straight ahead except poor Jason Benetti.

[Billy Gil]

Are you sure that he's not someone who likes to zig when others are zagging? His sense of humor strikes me as somebody who would do something like that on purpose because like you, he enjoys the occas. Occasional awkwardness.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, that used to be the formula on record albums. Like if the Beatles would put out a record album, three of them were looking straight at the camera. And then one guy's going like that, you know, just for effect.

[Greg Cody]

I like the vibe he's giving off in it.

[Chris Cody]

It's a good vibe.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think he just has a good side because, like, in pictures, I'll. I'll tilt my chin down to the left a little bit because, like, I want more of my good side showing straight on. I, you know, asymmetrical face.

[Greg Cody]

I like what he's got going on more than Adam Wainwright. He has taken up a lot of that square.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah, his left eye is looking at the camera. His right eye appears to be wandering.

[Stugotz]

I like that. Look at me.

[Greg Cody]

Just to clean up here. Actors that are 5, 7, Jesse Eisenberg, Robert Downey Jr. Mark Wahlberg, James McAvoy, and Rami Malek.

[Billy Gil]

Thank you, Chris, for getting me an answer to that question because I think some of those will be shocking to people. Please forgive me here because I was not aware until you guys started making this reference over the last couple of days. I evidently ruined White Lotus people. Or I ruined the Walton Goggins penis scene for people.

[Dan LeBatard]

There's an ongoing contentiousness between our show and some of our fans. Just in general, in general, but also specifically about spoilers. I have gotten a lot of feedback over the last month or so, but also four years that we spoil things and that we don't give good spoiler tags before we talk about things. And this is ramped up in the last three weeks because we've talked about White Lotus, which the first four episodes were kind of a spoiler, spoilerless show, in my opinion. Nothing really happened. But also, you gave away on Monday that spoiler alert for Righteous Gemstones, episode two of season four, Walton Goggins had a nude scene in the first act of the episode, which some people felt was a spoiler and we should have warned them.

[Greg Cody]

Perhaps we just spoiled it again, but.

[Dan LeBatard]

I gave a spoiler.

[Chris Cody]

What is the spoiler there? Like, you're going to see a wiener now.

[Greg Cody]

If you're going to see a wiener, you don't want to know before.

[Chris Cody]

I don't want to know before. I feel like there's a thing called consent.

[Dan LeBatard]

I mean, I do agree that it was. I would have preferred to not know it was coming, but it didn't, like, ruin the episode. And also, people are mad last week when we said that the first episode of the season was just a civil war Bradley Cooper.

[Billy Gil]

So what is so so.

[Dan LeBatard]

Which I also disagree. Like, we're not saying, like, oh my God, Tony Soprano shot Paulie Walnuts in the head like spoilers. That doesn't happen in the Sopranos, by the way. Well, I guess that's a spoiler that it doesn't happen.

[Chris Cody]

Can we make a show rule? Because, like, here's the problem is everybody is watching at their own pace, right? So are we just not allowed to watch until everyone in the world has watched it and discuss it? Can we say, like, hey, you know what? Moving forward Wednesdays we will discuss the happenings of the Sunday night shows. And if you don't want to know what happened on the Sunday night show, watch it before Wednesday or we're gonna skip it on Wednesday. Spoiler Wednesday seems like a perfectly reasonable thing. Monday is a bit aggressive for a show that's on at 9 or 10 o'clock at night. I understand why people wouldn't have seen it. And people got mad at us when we discussed White Lotus I think on a Tuesday or Wednesday last week. But if we let them know, hey, if you want to watch this with. It's like a book club. If you want to watch this with us, our visual book club Wednesdays, we will have our visual book club where we will be discussing the happenings of these two shows that we have been discussing and that are relevant in pop culture. I learned the hard way when I accidentally ruined the finale of Survivor, of all things, like two years ago in which I thought I was the only mad at you still watching Survivor and I said, oh no, a lot of people are, dude.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, Survivor has an insane cult following. I have a bunch of friends that are like so into Survivor, they're texting about it.

[Chris Cody]

No clue.

[Dan LeBatard]

Chat non stop. I have no idea what they're talking about half the time, but they're like super into it. But I'm with you, Billy. I think, I think generally we're trying to do our best when it comes to spoilers. We're trying to, we're trying, we're trying.

[Chris Cody]

To do Spoiler Wednesday seems like a fair compromise. Dan, do you like Spoiler Wednesday where we can talk about the Sunday you're.

[Billy Gil]

Saying we're trying to do our best and I cannot make that allegation because I've not been paying attention to what the rules are here. And I'm still not clear as we talk about it here, what would be the universal consensus on when I'm allowed to talk about certain Sunday shows? Like when would it be okay? And I'm asking the question, not sarcastically, I'm asking sincerely, what's the proper amount of time and is it show dependent because you weren't doing a Survivor spoiler.

[Chris Cody]

The next day and I ruined it the next day.

[Billy Gil]

You did it the very next day.

[Chris Cody]

I did, but I was excited because it was a girl from Miami D and she ended up spoiler alert. She ended up winning the whole thing. And I thought that, you know, like, if you watch Survivor and you're watching the finale, that's something that you watch.

[Billy Gil]

The day of White Lotus was There that I thought that's something that people watch together.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, yeah. I think that there's also debate, Dan, over what actually is a spoiler saying that someone's going to be naked in an episode. To me, like, yeah, I'd rather be surprised by it, but I wouldn't consider that a spoiler because it's not part of the plot. Right. So people getting mad about, like, oh, finding out the first episode has Bradley Cooper in it. Like, you would have found that out.

[Greg Cody]

That is within two seconds, that's for.

[Dan LeBatard]

Sure, of the episode airing.

[Chris Cody]

I think Wednesday is a good cutoff for us to talk about, specifically White Lotus and Righteous Gemstones, because they're both on Sunday and it's a Wild Billy Wednesday, and we watch well and we watch those shows. So I feel like Wednesday is an appropriate amount of time you've had Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to catch up. And if not, then check out that. We'll put it in the label. This is where we're going to talk about this show. This is our book club.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is like, if you really, really don't want a show spoiled and it's going to, like, ruin your life if you find out, like, maybe, I don't know, don't watch it when it airs or change your life. It's that important to you if you're.

[Greg Cody]

Gonna be someone who gets mad about it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Mad, angry people watch the show. Really mad people. I'm not saying, like, people that are like, oh, you can't. Annoyed people that are pissed.

[Greg Cody]

You can't care that much. And then. But you haven't watched the show, so, like, how can you care that much?

[Chris Cody]

So, like, for example, we can't talk about how the masseuse was murdered until tomorrow.

[Stugotz]

Well, we. We watched the debut of Righteous Gemstones, even though Lebatard had sort of ruined it by not only alluding to the episode, but really describing it in some detail. But I was pleasantly surprised to watch that episode and learn how wrong Levitard was. I thought it was a wonderful episode. I loved the series and I loved that background story. I thought, Bradley Cooper is always good. I love him as an actor.

[Billy Gil]

Which did you like better, episode one or episode two?

[Stugotz]

I haven't watched episode two yet. Why don't you spoil that one for me?

[Billy Gil]

Well, I already did that for the audience in episode two.

[Dan LeBatard]

They yelled at John Goodman for, like, 10 minutes. It's so funny.

[Stugotz]

Okay.

[Billy Gil]

I mean, Walton Goggins.

[Gina]

Oh, wait.

[Dan LeBatard]

Air this tomorrow.

[Billy Gil]

Being angry while nude. Funny, like, it's not just. It's not Just full funny for no.

[Chris Cody]

Reason at all, by the way.

[Billy Gil]

Totally.

[Chris Cody]

But we'll talk about that tomorrow.

[Greg Cody]

I guess we're doing that today.

[Chris Cody]

We'll talk about that. Yeah. Tomorrow's Wednesday. We're doing. That's Wednesday, the Civil War episode. We can talk about today if you'd like.

[Stugotz]

Yes.

[Billy Gil]

Danny McBride using two episodes of Righteous Gemstones to go full frontal nudity with these two things. One, someone enraged while naked is funny. Someone getting in a prolonged fist fight that goes from indoors to outdoors while full frontally nude with bj Even funny.

[Greg Cody]

This couldn't be more of a spoiler.

[Chris Cody]

All right, so Tuesday will be our club this week. Tuesday book club, spoiler Wednesday on it.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah, I'm gonna just keep doing it how I want to do it and everyone can get mad. How's that? I'm not gonna do it.

[Gina]

Wait for Wednesday.

[Billy Gil]

It's not gonna do any of that.

[Jeremy]

All the power to you.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Thank you.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do what you want to do.

[Billy Gil]

Gonna keep doing that.

[Dan LeBatard]

I like when you take the steering wheel and you take charge and you say, you know what? Screw you, everyone. I'm gonna spoil things on my own terms.

[Billy Gil]

Don't care. Keep getting upset and it's fine.

[Stugotz]

The ruin her.

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[Stugotz]

I do. Yeah. One of the great characters in the history of television, in my humble opinion. And. And to my credit, my personality.

[Billy Gil]

In my humble opinion, followed by to my credit, it's amazing.

[Stugotz]

My personality.

[Billy Gil]

Just amazing.

[Stugotz]

Predate Curb youb Enthusiasm Stugats.

[Billy Gil]

Oh, wow.

[Stugotz]

I'm not gonna say Larry David patterned himself.

[Billy Gil]

You copy? All right, put it on the poll, please. Juju did Greg Cody copyright being an asshole long before Larry David.

[Chris Cody]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.

[Billy Gil]

I'm totally fine with that as my nickname. If you just want to make me.

[Dan LeBatard]

That the thing he just spoiled was from season three. That's not a spoiler.

[Chris Cody]

I'm catching aired over.

[Billy Gil]

You guys are making all your own rules when it comes to the spoilers. Like, there's no consensus on this. And if in the. In the modern age when people can get things more instantaneously than they ever have. And you're also not giving me. You're giving me a suggestion, but you're not giving me what's a consensus. Because I could do this on Wednesday and still be accused of. Of spoilers since there are no rules. I'm just going to talk about things on our talk show when I feel like talking about them. And if people then want to get mad, that is okay. They can call the West Virginia governor and the attorney general and make all sorts of noise about that and that controversy. I, I asked initially, caring about what the answer was. You did not give me an answer.

[Chris Cody]

Definitely set up a day and time we structured to avoid this situation. We don't want to adhere to the rules. So that's fine.

[Billy Gil]

The ruiner, your rules that we came.

[Chris Cody]

Up with it collectively to benefit everyone involved, but that's fine.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right. Tbd what we do about.

[Chris Cody]

No, we're just going to.

[Billy Gil]

Are you guys, do you guys have any opinions otherwise on White Lotus or are we closing the category entirely on. On any White Lotus? Because there are only a couple of shows. Is there a third show right now? We've talked about paradise quite a bit on this show, but when it comes to righteous gemstones and White Lotus, I don't think we have a third show as a. That we're all paying attention to. Is there a close third place on what would also require. Hey, don't spoil this for me so that I can have an antenna up for something that I'm going to immediately put that antenna in storage and never pay attention to it again.

[Jeremy]

I don't know that we have a third one.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm really into the Pit on hbo, but I haven't watched it yet.

[Chris Cody]

It's a medical in at the Pit Amazing Race, maybe.

[Stugotz]

I would suggest the Food Network Tournament of Champions. Oh, yes, Greg, because that's a seasonal thing. They do the bracket thing. And it would really be a bummer to hear somebody say, well, last night, you watched last night so and so beat so and so. No, that. That's clear. Because you can't be a spoiler on that show without saying who beat who.

[Billy Gil]

Jeremy, can we get an update please on Tracy Morgan?

[Jeremy]

Yes. He has made a post to Instagram. He posted a selfie from the hospital where you can see the back of his phone case and it has a Nick's logo on it. And he said, thank you for all your. I'm doing okay now. And doctors say it was food poisoning. Appreciate my MSG family for taking such good care of me. And I need to shout out the crew that had to clean that up. Appreciate you. More importantly, the Knicks are now want to know when I throw up on the court, so maybe I'll have to break it out again in the playoffs. Hashtag, go Knicks. The good news is, Dan, now we can laugh.

[Dan LeBatard]

He got so.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Food poisoned on St. Patrick's Day that he puked on the court at a Knicks game. Give it up for.

[Greg Cody]

It was not green, though. Like, that would have been wild if it was just like all the green beer.

[Dan LeBatard]

Like, yeah, disgusting.

[Greg Cody]

It was. It looked like throw up.

[Dan LeBatard]

A horrible color.

[Stugotz]

Do we believe food poisoning?

[Chris Cody]

Oh, sure, boy.

[Stugotz]

Okay.

[Chris Cody]

I'm just saying, what would you think?

[Billy Gil]

What are you just saying? It doesn't seem like you're just saying anything.

[Stugotz]

I mean, I'm not disparaging anyone. I'm just saying food poisoning is an easy thing to go to. If, for example, if I get, you know, shit faced and I accidentally vomit on a court, that's poisoning.

[Billy Gil]

That's what you would do.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

I just love that you were try. You were like, trying to approach that so delicately, you know, for example, if I get, you know, shit faced, it was the perfect word to approach that delicately, really. A wordsmith.

[Chris Cody]

Greg.

[Dan LeBatard]

Greg, have you ever had violent food poisoning? Like you can't control what's coming out of you?

[Stugotz]

Honestly, I don't know that I've had that feeling where you're running to the toilet and praying that you'll get there in time. I don't know whether it's food poisoning, though. Like, I never know that unless I'm ingesting something and immediately feeling like it was rotten. I don't know what food poisoning is.

[Chris Cody]

It's. It's hit or miss. Right. It's one of those things where if you don't know, it's just like, it might be food poisoning. Now that Tracy's okay, that we know he has food poisoning and thoughts and prayers, hopefully he recovers from the food poisoning quickly. Baseball started, and I don't know if you guys saw this. A couple stories, one of them along the lines of illnesses. Mookie Betts didn't travel with the team or is not playing in the series because he has a mysterious ailment that they don't know what it is, where he's lost 15 pounds.

[Dan LeBatard]

Really.

[Chris Cody]

Hopefully everything turns out all right there, obviously. And I hate to say this, and I'm wondering if you guys have ever thought about this and some of us Maybe more than others. When you hear mysterious ailment, dropped £15 in a week, something that you're not concerned will be, like, deadly or whatever, and you'll recover from whatever. Like, and again, and I hope everything's okay and we figure out what it is and we can move forward. I immediately thought, like, where can I catch this? Like, and I know that sounds terrible, but I thought, where can I get some of that? Because, like, along the lines of food poisoning, like, there's some times that I have, like, a situation where it's, like, stomach involved, and it's like, oh, man. Like, this is really bad. Whatever. And then, like, two days later, I'm good, and I step on a scale. I'm like, whoa. Like, stomach virus suits me. You know, I've also.

[Greg Cody]

I can back Billy up on this. I, like, years ago, got super sick, like, for days, puking, and I lost, like, 10, 12 pounds.

[Jeremy]

I got pneumonia in college. Same thing. It was awesome.

[Greg Cody]

And I look in the mirror now, and I just sometimes think that could help.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, we could do it, like, you know, I will not eat gluten. I'll go on a paleo diet. I will stay out of, you know, getting into the sugars or whatever, or just give me a stomach bug, you know, knock it out in three days.

[Billy Gil]

Porzingis recently had a mystery illness. Put this on the poll, please.

[Chris Cody]

And again, hopefully everyone's okay and we recover from this. And it's not.

[Greg Cody]

Seriously, we're okay if we get stomach.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is making me sad.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Poor Zingus.

[Dan LeBatard]

That we all disorders feel. Yes. This conversation that bad.

[Greg Cody]

This conversation. Or imagine If I was 7, 9. What would make you sadder?

[Billy Gil]

Put it on the poll, please. At Lebatard show. Does everyone have the sniffles now? At Lebatard show? Because we talked about this the other day. I do believe that everyone's just a little bit sicker than they used to be. And when you're talking about food poisoning, you're talking about. You'd know it if you were food poisoned. You would just not have control of vomiting and everything coming out of every orifice. Right? You'd be. You wouldn't. You'd have less control over that than you ever did because you had eaten so something that was bad.

[Greg Cody]

And Tracy Morgan, who's battled with alcoholism, has been sober for nearly 30 years now. So your theory that he was hammered.

[Stugotz]

No, I was just using that as an example.

[Billy Gil]

He was saying. He wasn't saying that while saying it.

[Chris Cody]

He's saying.

[Billy Gil]

I'm just saying but he didn't say it. He just asked the question again.

[Jeremy]

It wasn't hammered, it was shit faced.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I used myself as an example.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. He said if it was him, there's another baseball story that I teased and also kind of a WNBA story here because there's similar parallels to these stories. So. So the Marlins recently put out an ad saying that, hey, if you used to play baseball in high school or college, why don't you come out? We're going to have this, this thing where you can play against our single aid team on like practice days and we'll pay you, you know, a sum of money. I think it ended up being like $150. So like former athletes or athletes that played high school, college, professional, whatever. I don't know if high school was involved, but you can come out and try out to be on kind of this like practice squad to play against the single A team. And then yesterday came out where Major League Baseball said, oh no, no, no, that is not going to happen. We're not just going to have a bunch of random people playing against minor leaguers. Wnba, the La Sparks said that they were having an open tryout for a team of men to be like a practice squad to compete against, you know, the La Sparks. And then that was met with a lot of creepy comments on Instagram. And then people like Cameron Brink on the team came out and said, I'm not so sure that I like this idea.

[Dan LeBatard]

Very icky. Male practice players have been a thing in women's basketball for as long as I've been alive.

[Billy Gil]

At least some decades started.

[Dan LeBatard]

Decades and decades and decades. But like Billy said, they put out this tweet and all of these creepy responses were like just making horrible comments about the players on the team. And she was like, hey, this is weird and maybe we need to do a full background check on every single person that we're bringing into our facility.

[Billy Gil]

It is a Marlin story though. There's no outside of the A's, there's not another organization in baseball that would get the negative blowback of you're paying amateurs how much to play against your single A players. What are you shaking your head about, Cody? You're down on the Marlins in general. Another season for the Marlins is starting and they have one baseball player anyone locally can name. They ran off a manager of the year and they are broken in every way, financial and otherwise wise that make it so that opening day, which should be at very least the one day that you are guaranteed. Hope you don't really have pitching, so.

[Chris Cody]

It'S going to be a tough one. That's a matchup, by the way. I don't know. I'm not here.

[Jeremy]

Matchup of the year.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. I'm not here to, like, be selling tickets for the Marlins, but opening day Santor and Paul S.K. is going to be electric. After that, I don't know.

[Jeremy]

I take an hour and a half.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Oh, you know what?

[Stugotz]

They might even sell out that game, which will be unusual for I don't know.

[Billy Gil]

What. Are you going to finish the thought?

[Chris Cody]

Well, Greg was going, so I just.

[Stugotz]

Finish your thought.

[Chris Cody]

Well, no, it's fine. Do you see the Bananas sold out a football stadium the other day? 65,000. And the reports are that the Rays can't even sell out the Yankee spring training facility where they're playing the entire season. Only 11,000 tickets need to be sold. Yeah, like, there's a lot going on in the baseball ticket sales world at.

[Greg Cody]

The moment, and the Bananas are, like, taking a victory lap on the Rays.

[Chris Cody]

I'm. Look, I'm growing tired of the Savannah Bananas.

[Stugotz]

Join the club.

[Billy Gil]

What?

[Stugotz]

Oh, my God.

[Dan LeBatard]

They were just down here in Miami, weren't they? I saw signs for Bananas parking for like three.

[Billy Gil]

That is one of the great sports phenomenons anywhere that something would grow out of the ground and become. Didn't they get 65? Aren't they making fun of the Rays because they got a crowd of 65,000 for a game and all they've done is make baseball fun?

[Jeremy]

It's the coolest. Like, it's not baseball, it's banana ball. There's a huge, huge, huge difference. But look at this crowd that's in Tampa selling out NFL stadiums and. And by the way, it's worth it because we went as a group to go see them when they were down here. Not the most recent visit, but the visit before that. This atmosphere is electric. Kids are having such an incredible time. And it. It's cool because that part of it, seeing parents and kids, because that part really channels into, like, the nostalgia of.

[Dan LeBatard]

So earnest fathers and sons.

[Jeremy]

You're right.

[Greg Cody]

I will say. In Jeremy's defense, I have not heard a single person say anything other when they go. It was awesome.

[Jeremy]

The entire. We have to defend me from disliking something.

[Billy Gil]

Well, no, I mean. And something that everyone else likes that is also universally thought of as fun that Billy and Greg are tired of.

[Chris Cody]

We're not the only ones. I'm telling you, this is a thing. And by the way, you want to talk about selling out A football stadium. How about the World Series down in Miami? Two different times they sold out. 1997 to 2003. 67,000 people. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. Banana ball with your 65.

[Stugotz]

It's a clown show. Banana ball.

[Chris Cody]

You're running around wearing capes. Actual capes. Look at that dimension. That left field wall is 120ft away. Get out of here.

[Greg Cody]

The Rays should lean into this and just like get wrestling with it and be like, bring it bananas. You guys think you're good at baseball? We'll whoop your ass.

[Jeremy]

I think part of this is if we're being real in another life. I'm on the Savannah Bananas.

[Chris Cody]

You defect hybrid.

[Greg Cody]

I guarantee you. Jeremy looked into the Marlins practice squad thing.

[Jeremy]

I mean, I saw the LinkedIn post.

[Stugotz]

It's just a modern day Harlem Globetrotters, which I, I.

[Greg Cody]

What's wrong with that?

[Stugotz]

I thought we had all outgrown that, you know, throwing a, a bucket of water on somebody, but oh, there's confetti in there. It's not water. Ho ho. I've seen the banana. I've seen a couple innings of a Bananas game. I doubt that it's not baseball. It's just some bizarre hybrid.

[Greg Cody]

What does that mean? I've seen a couple innings?

[Jeremy]

Please explain.

[Billy Gil]

We started the show with you, a Hall of Fame voter, consistently going to Marlins games and not knowing that for 10 years people have been batting the second. The best batter in a lineup. Second.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. I haven't heard that quantified.

[Greg Cody]

I haven't seen Aaron Judge bat.

[Chris Cody]

Second.

[Greg Cody]

Freddie Freeman.

[Stugotz]

Players. If you're the Dodgers, you have the Angels players. Naturally a good player.

[Greg Cody]

You didn't name a bunch of them. Have a lot of good players.

[Billy Gil]

Craig, you're not listening to him.

[Jeremy]

Soto last year.

[Billy Gil]

It's just. Trust us on this, okay? You're wrong.

[Chris Cody]

Let's see where he's going with this whole banana ball thing.

[Stugotz]

Well, it's just, I don't want to, I come off as too critical sometimes. If you love the. If you have little 8 year old kids and you want to take them to see the bananas. Enjoy the clown show. I'm just saying for an adult baseball fan to go to a Savannah Bananas game and really just be delighted by all the ridiculous antics mix. It's just, it's, it's nothing that interests me.

[Jeremy]

I can't like both.

[Chris Cody]

Then the kids are confused. They go to a real game and they're like, hey, where's all the fireworks? Where's the picture on still exactly right where's the guy with the key?

[Dan LeBatard]

Why is this so boring? I thought this was supposed to be fun. This is America's game. We're just sitting here.

[Chris Cody]

Moats in the outfield. Get out of here.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, it's not sport. It's not a sport.

[Dan LeBatard]

You know, but Greg, let people like what they like. No one's making you go watch it. If someone like what they like, Jeremy.

[Stugotz]

Enjoys it and I can dislike.

[Greg Cody]

I. I still want to know the two or three innings that you claim to have watched of banana baseball.

[Stugotz]

I don't. You know, your brain beating me. I don't, I don't write the date and time.

[Chris Cody]

He's not here to take a quiz.

[Stugotz]

Exactly.

[Billy Gil]

He just, he just quoted again, former Dolphins offensive coordinator Gary Stevens, who would walk into the media room and say, your brain beating me.

[Stugotz]

Right.

[Chris Cody]

All right.

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