Local Hour: That's Why They Call Me Marco

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz Episode: Local Hour: That's Why They Call Me Marco
Release Date: March 3, 2025

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Overview

In this engaging episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz dive deep into the recent Academy Awards, dissecting its impact on the film industry, particularly focusing on the state of movie theaters in the post-COVID era. Joined by contributors Mike Ryan, Greg Cody, Adnan Virk, and Jessica, the team navigates through critiques of the ceremony's execution, the challenges faced by independent films, and proposes innovative solutions to rejuvenate the theatrical experience.

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1. The Oscars: Triumphs and Tribulations

Discussion Highlights: The conversation kicks off with Adnan Virk and Jessica analyzing the outcomes of the recent Oscars. They commend the success of independent films like Nora and The Brutalist, highlighting their achievements amidst a competitive field. However, they also express disappointment over perceived snubs, particularly concerning actors like Demi Moore and the controversial moves by Adrien Brody.

Notable Quotes:

• Adnan Virk ([02:14]): "As I said before, cinema in general really did well. The Brutalist still did very well to be able to say we got best actor, best score, and best cinematography."
• Jessica ([03:00]): "Demi Moore... she's got to be the biggest loser of the night."

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2. The Decline of Movie Theaters

Discussion Highlights: A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to the precarious state of movie theaters. Jessica articulates concerns over the industry's reliance on box office revenues and the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hosts argue that the shift towards streaming services has undermined traditional theatrical releases, threatening the lifeblood of cinematic art.

Notable Quotes:

• Jessica ([05:04]): "The importance of going to the movies... that is the lifeblood of the industry that you and I love so much."
• Mike Ryan ([08:54]): "What's happening in Hollywood right now will kill the movies unless the theaters keep it alive."

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3. Proposals for Revitalizing Theatrical Releases

Discussion Highlights: Stugotz and the team brainstorm potential solutions to revitalize movie theaters. Suggestions include segregating streaming releases from theatrical-only films in award categories to emphasize the unique value of the cinema experience. Additionally, they contemplate restructuring the Oscars to be more concise and engaging, possibly by adopting a segmented format akin to a television series.

Notable Quotes:

• Stugotz ([08:54]): "The Oscars need to recognize that and resuscitate the whole theater experience by making theatrical releases their own category."
• Billy ([34:18]): "What if instead of, you know, a four hour, five hour ceremony, you release the Oscars on Netflix as a four part award ceremony with cliffhangers at the end of every episode?"

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4. Critique of the Oscar Ceremony Structure

Discussion Highlights: The hosts critique the traditional format of the Oscars, labeling it as excessively long and outdated. They discuss how the prolonged runtime alienates younger audiences and fails to maintain engagement. The conversation points to specific moments in the ceremony, such as Adrien Brody's speech, which they felt detracted from the event's overall quality.

Notable Quotes:

• Mike Ryan ([02:30]): "The runtime, the whole point of 7:00pm Eastern... I know maybe it sounds like I'm quibbling over 15 minutes, but it felt bloated."
• Dan Le Batard ([14:28]): "He didn't waste our time and it didn't run late because he was just bullshitting in the middle of the show. It ran late because they did a random 10 minute ode to James Bond."

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5. The Future of Action Franchises

Discussion Highlights: A spirited debate ensues over the future of long-standing action franchises like James Bond and Jason Bourne. The hosts express mixed feelings about the recent directions these franchises are taking, with concerns about the dilution of their original essence due to continuous resurrections and ownership changes.

Notable Quotes:

• Greg Cody ([17:42]): "There have been too many [James Bonds]."
• Mike Ryan ([15:50]): "Daniel Craig... gave up on us. Decided, you know what? I'm gonna be selfless and I'm gonna sacrifice myself and I'm gonna die."

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6. Technical Glitches and Flow of the Show

Discussion Highlights: Intermittent technical issues and interruptions are briefly touched upon, with the team humorously addressing the challenges of maintaining a seamless broadcast. These moments add a layer of authenticity and camaraderie among the hosts.

Notable Quotes:

• Mike Ryan ([05:04]): "The Hulu feed crash, that's one of the biggest losers of the night."

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7. The Role of Journalism in Sports Broadcasting

Discussion Highlights: Towards the episode's conclusion, the conversation shifts to the intersection of journalism and sports broadcasting. Mike Ryan grapples with his journalistic integrity while being honored to support local sports teams, highlighting the delicate balance between professionalism and fandom.

Notable Quotes:

• Mike Ryan ([36:17]): "I'm at a journalistic crossroads today."
• Stugotz ([36:43]): "You are abdicating all sense of journalism by literally becoming a cheerleader for the Panthers."

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Conclusion

This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz offers a multifaceted exploration of the current state of the film industry, particularly emphasizing the challenges faced by movie theaters and independent films. Through incisive critiques and creative brainstorming, the hosts advocate for meaningful changes to preserve the cinematic arts. Their candid discussions, enriched with humor and personal insights, provide listeners with a comprehensive understanding of the evolving landscape of entertainment.

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Notable Moments:

• Adrien Brody's Oscar Speech ([26:17]): The team criticizes Brody for perceived self-importance and interfering with the show's flow.
• Creative Solutions for the Oscars ([34:18]): Billy proposes transforming the Oscars into a multi-part series on streaming platforms to enhance engagement.

Key Takeaways:

• The necessity to preserve and support movie theaters against the rise of streaming platforms.
• The potential overhaul of the Oscars to make them more concise and audience-friendly.
• The importance of maintaining journalistic integrity within sports broadcasting.

Transcript

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Stugotz]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Stugotz]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Stugotz]

Shadow Show. Shadow Show.

[Jessica]

Shadow Show.

[Mike Ryan]

Shadow Show.

[Jessica]

Shadow. In it, shadowing it, it is clear that a Nora was the biggest winner of the night.

[Adnan Virk]

Yeah, there's no question. I mean, I'll be more even more specific and mentioned Mikey Madison who said, you know, just this is really her moment was great and poor better things the show. And I love the fact Shawn Baker acknowledged Tarantino when he won. He goes, quentin, loved your work. And by the way, there would be no Mikey Madison without you. So thanks for casting Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is something that people do forget. So I think that was. Was definitely one of the bigger wins of the night. I mean, obviously it's Sean Baker and a route. The fact that this guy's going home with four Oscars, he does set a record in terms of that category. And I do think Adrian Brody is a big winner of the night. In addition to the Brutalist, the fact that the Brutalist was again, a movie made in VistaVision, which is something they use the 1950s. Brady Courbet is a former actor turned director. If Anora is the biggest winner of the night, the Brutalist still did very well to be able to say we got best actor, best score, and best cinematography.

[Jessica]

Oh, they're not at all. Yeah. Tell me, who's your biggest loser?

[Adnan Virk]

I'm gonna say God, I think it's. I was going to say I Think it's a complete unknown because their one chance was Timothy Chalamet and he doesn't win it. So a complete unknown. Eight nominations.

[Jessica]

Her, I'm gonna say the biggest loser of the night. And I love her. I love her so much. But Demi Moore, I. I think that she expected to win. I think this was her moment. And she had some great speeches along the way, but this was going to be the crowning achievement of a career. And I. When you st. Elmo's Fire about last night, you go back and then you look at Indecent Proposal and you just go through her career. And this was her time, and I felt for her. But I still have to say that she's got to be the biggest loser of the night.

[Adnan Virk]

Demi less in this instance, rather than Demi Moore. I mean, that was. That was. And you know, because this is. This is the moment.

[Mike Ryan]

Right?

[Adnan Virk]

She never got nominated before. This is your one chance. She's not gonna get another nomination. We all know that. The substance, by the way, is like, it's. It's so shocking. It got this much attention. Like, this is a horror movie, which is gruesome and grimy. And when Mike Ryan recommended it to us, I was like, I'm not sure about this. And you don't like these types of movies. So it was. It was a cross. Like, the fact it got this many nominations is remarkable. But as you said before, it got.

[Jessica]

The open ad man.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

Conan opened the show out of Demi Moore's body.

[Adnan Virk]

Yeah, like you're getting that.

[Jessica]

The prime real estate. All right, number one takeaway.

[Adnan Virk]

Well, it's a great sign for independent film because that's what Honora was. This was truly an independent way made by Sean Baker, which he's really passionate about. He goes, it was $6 million. We used every single one of those dollars to make him way, which was authentic and lived in. As I said before, a comedy, a drama, a tragedy.

[Mike Ryan]

It's.

[Adnan Virk]

It's a wonderful, beautiful film. And also the Brutalist, which is an independent film financed by Brady Courbet. A story about an epic, but an immigrant, the Rise and Fall Guy. Pierce, by the way, one of the biggest winners of the year. I love him. Finally got his first Acade Award nomination. He's so great in the Brutalist for best supporting actor. Those are a couple of big winners there. And I just think, as you said, cinema in general really did well. My Biggest Loser, by the way, in addition to just the year itself, the runtime, the whole point of 7:00pm Eastern, David, was they know the Oscars goes three and a half hours, sometimes four hours. So it used to always start at 8:00 Eastern and then go till midnight. Everyone's like, oh my God, wait for your late local news etc. So they move it to seven. And the thought is, okay, even we're hoping for three hours, even if it's three and a half, 10:30 is still reasonable. But this 10:45, I know maybe it sounds like I'm quibbling over 15 minutes, but it felt bloated.

[Jessica]

I thought the elements of the show dragged, okay, and that made it feel worse, but it caught up quickly at the end. And the stream said it would end at 10:32, so it only 10 minutes.

[Adnan Virk]

Over by that log.

[Jessica]

10 or 11 minutes over. And Brody himself was 40% of the overage. So just keep in mind that that is a big factor.

[Adnan Virk]

Okay, what happened with Hulu that. Apparently the Hulu feed crash, that's. That's one of the biggest losers of the night.

[Jessica]

So I want to say that my takeaway from the year in movies and my takeaway from the show. We heard people talk about movie theaters, the importance of going to the movies. It starts with Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible saying, I'm going to put movie theaters on my back. I'm going to demand a theatrical release, and you must see my movie on a big screen. What we learned today, when you hear an independent person and person who's making small movies, small budgets, talk about the importance of movie theaters, that is the lifeblood of the industry that you and I love so much. And that lifeblood is being torn apart by the very commercial that Conan had in the show trying to convince people to go to a theater. That was the theme of the show. It was getting people back post Covid because the destruction of the revenue structure of the film business has been severe since COVID and it was starting and now it's been severe. So my takeaway is that there are quality movies that studios are afraid to green light. And I hope that the winners of the Oscars this year, the quality of the movies and the size of them, will allow studio executives to be more brave in their choices.

[Billy]

This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast.

[Mike Ryan]

I didn't like last night, Cody, that I realized while watching the Oscars how much my viewing habits have changed. Where Conan O'Brien, to me, is one of my idols. I can't, I can't explain how much I admire the way that he's reinvented himself so that he can do in his 60s. An award show that would be self aware. Like comedy self aware. Because he really is a comedy giant. So I just want to watch him. But I don't have three and a half hours of that in me. And Adnan and David eat it up. They were up late into the night eating up every morsel of information on the Oscars. And I realized while watching it, I don't even have the stamina for what has become an old person's show.

[Stugotz]

Why wouldn't I love it then? If it's an old person show, I.

[Mike Ryan]

Would think that you would love it. You didn't love it.

[Stugotz]

I didn't see a single one of the films. You know, it's a weird thing about me. And I must get this 10 times a week. They're like, you were featured in a major motion picture. Absence of malice. How can you not be.

[Mike Ryan]

You don't get that 10 times a week.

[Stugotz]

How?

[Mike Ryan]

You don't.

[Billy]

You do not.

[Mike Ryan]

You do not.

[Billy]

That's your amount.

[Mike Ryan]

There's no way. You get 10 times a week that. There's just no way.

[Greg Cody]

There are some weeks where it's like eight times.

[Stugotz]

Well, I am.

[Billy]

But then there's the 12 weeks, and then it averages to.

[Stugotz]

I am exaggerating.

[Mike Ryan]

You're saying you get approached daily on your star turn, being in a newsroom in absence of malice. 50 years now.

[Greg Cody]

What he said. You're putting words in his mouth. Sometimes there's a day that he could be approached, like nine times in a single day.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. I mean, everybody wants to know, what was Paul Newman like? How was Sidney Pollock to work with?

[Greg Cody]

I've always wondered.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. And. And he was great. You know, I tried to stay away from him. I'm a young actor at that time, you know, I'm in my late 20s, I think, but it was a great experience. But, you know, all this time later, the movies have left me behind. You know, I just don't feel involved. I don't go to theaters. I don't like the theater experience. I've been to one film in the last seven years.

[Mike Ryan]

You heard what they were just saying on status of the industry, where the theater experience pays for everything. Like, if you care about art instead of commerce. And I know both of those are inextricably linked. What's happening in Hollywood right now will kill the movies unless the theaters keep it alive.

[Stugotz]

Right. And what the Oscars need to do is recognize that and resuscitate the whole theater experience by making theatrical releases their own category. Like, I think movies that come out on Netflix or any other streaming service should be in a different category than movies you can only see in a theater. And that would prop up the theater releases as something special.

[Greg Cody]

None of this would get you out to the theaters, though.

[Stugotz]

That's right.

[Billy]

Well, I mean, that's the thing though, you know, I mean, to get to the theaters, make a movie worth going to the theaters.

[Greg Cody]

Right.

[Stugotz]

Like I'm going to watch it on tv.

[Mike Ryan]

Right.

[Stugotz]

You know, like my, my wife, yeah. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. So my wife just told me that that film will be available in my home viewing audience soon and I'll watch it.

[Greg Cody]

It's just curious to offer up solutions to save an industry when you yourself say that won't be enough to actually get you to participate in the change that you see.

[Mike Ryan]

Look, this is why he's the hall of Fame columnist that he is. He's built an entire journalism career atop that particular fraudulent.

[Greg Cody]

Are you a Hall of Fame writer?

[Stugotz]

I am not.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay.

[Stugotz]

No. The only hall of Fame I'm in is the Orange Bowl Media hall of Fame.

[Greg Cody]

Are you saying that he has a baseball hall of Fame vote?

[Mike Ryan]

Okay, I'm sorry, Mike, I didn't think I need to make this clarification. In the local hour, a Miami Herald legend, Greg Cody is for all time in the local hour, a Miami Herald hall of Famer.

[Greg Cody]

No, but they don't actually have. Do they have one?

[Stugotz]

No.

[Greg Cody]

All right, so he is not all hall of Fame. Do we have a Hall of Fame?

[Mike Ryan]

I'm not. Look, he's. Greg Cody is absolutely. A 20 year anniversary Le Batard show with Stugatz hall of Famer. That's not up for dispute.

[Greg Cody]

It's not a Hall of Fame either. We don't have a Hall of Fame.

[Billy]

Is there a Greg Cody show Hall of Fame? He could make one if there's a.

[Greg Cody]

Theater in my hall of Fame.

[Stugotz]

And I guess, I tell you, Billy, man, he's. He's on the mark.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wasn't your fantasy football league going to start a Hall of Fame?

[Stugotz]

My fantasy, my. The regular pfpi, not PFPI fantasy is toying around with the idea of a Hall of Fame. Really, you know, as it is, we the. By the way, speaking of movies, the Dad's Dynamics cup PFPI championship trophy weighs almost twice what an Academy Awards Oscar weighs.

[Mike Ryan]

Wow.

[Stugotz]

Like 8 pounds to roughly 14 pounds. So I correlate that with, you know, what's got the heft, you know, what do you want to hold?

[Billy]

Some would say it's more prestigious. Right? Because less people have won a Dance Dynamic cup than have won Academy Awards.

[Stugotz]

That's right. No question about that. But to Mike's point, yes, I'm a proposer. I am proposing a solution to help resuscitate movie theaters. But I'm an idea man, you know? I'm not going to participate in saving the theater, but I'm going to suggest how it might be done.

[Mike Ryan]

Billy, it's crowded in here today.

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

And I'm gonna need a little better from you then. That's why they call me Mark. Okay, Just a little.

[Billy]

I'm on the mark.

[Mike Ryan]

Just a little.

[Billy]

You can refer to me as Mark.

[Mike Ryan]

But no one calls you Mark.

[Billy]

Some do.

[Mike Ryan]

No, I'm gonna need.

[Billy]

You have.

[Mike Ryan]

Listen to me. It's crowded in here today, and I need you to be better.

[Stugotz]

Wow.

[Billy]

I'm trying. I'm just coming here. Can I ask you a question?

[Mike Ryan]

Do you like the Oscars? Because I've got a room here that I'm dealing with today where I think that Jessica's the only one who actually cares about the art of what we're talking about. I don't think any of you actually care about the Oscars at all.

[Billy]

Well, the good thing about the Oscars, right, is that they basically tell you beforehand, this is what we're gonna talk about today, these movies, right? I didn't see any of those movies. So I don't need to watch the Oscars today because what do I care who wins an award amongst movies I didn't watch this year?

[Greg Cody]

Am I failing that miserably to project that I like movies?

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

It's a little too much, though, Michael.

[Dan LeBatard]

Talk about Nosferatu.

[Greg Cody]

It's a little too much.

[Mike Ryan]

Scan the room stories for an eternal love story.

[Greg Cody]

I lost one. I think you missed the point. Yeah, yeah, I like movies. I watched the Oscars. Watch. Watch the whole thing. Also, how do you not have a stamina for a show that's aging older? You said that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I'm confused about that, too, because you said. You said that you feel like you're aging out of it because it's a show for old people. Wouldn't you be aging into it?

[Mike Ryan]

Right? Well, what I. What I was watching. I said that off air, not on air. What I was. What I was watching.

[Greg Cody]

Your takes are so.

[Dan LeBatard]

You sort of said it.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Ten minutes ago, too, when we started the show.

[Mike Ryan]

What I was watching last night, okay, because of my changed viewing habits on I'd Rather have. And this happened to me accidentally. I didn't expect it. Don't give me a three and a half hour movie. Give me eight one hour shows and I might binge right through it. I might go eight hours instead of three and a half. But don't tell me beforehand that something's three and a half hours because I don't have the attention span for this anymore. But as I'm watching it with all the pageantry and all the dancing, I'm like, I can see how this would appeal to a certain demo over 45 that has a romantic relationship with the movies and what the movies mean and what an award show about the movies mean. And I'm telling you that even with all of that as backstory, I'm tuning in because I want to see Conan. And not even. He kept me there.

[Billy]

You said that he was one of your heroes. What's the appropriate, like, age gap to have a hero? Because, like, you guys are similar in age. He's a little older than you. Right?

[Greg Cody]

But can you have a younger hero?

[Billy]

Yeah, can you have a hero that's younger than you?

[Greg Cody]

Cool. I show speed. You're my hero.

[Mike Ryan]

He is 61 and I am 56. But I'm just saying that I'm watching through like his entire history and evolution, how he fought through the late night wars and was more authentic than any of them, more self aware about, like, being consistently funny and amusing about himself and being likable enough that at 61 he hosts the Oscars. And I'm guessing he boosts their numbers merely by putting his particular imprint on it because he reaches across 30 years.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, I thought he was really funny and that his whole premise of I'm not going to waste your time, it worked. He didn't waste our time and it didn't run late because he was just bullshitting in the middle of the show. It ran late because they did a random 10 minute ode to James Bond.

[Stugotz]

That probably not random.

[Dan LeBatard]

Need that.

[Greg Cody]

This whole 007 thing is weird. It's almost as if everyone just kind of put to bed the notion that 007 movies are going to be interesting anymore because the ownership officially changed hands and now it's in the hands of Amazon. So, like, everyone's saying goodbye to 007 not because it's going anywhere, but because there's just going to be more of a saturated 007 market now because they're going to churn these out. It was weird.

[Dan LeBatard]

I honestly assumed it was like Spawn Con. Like, it was like, hey, remember James Bond? You're going to watch it now on Amazon.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, I wonder as we cheapen the movies because 007 and that entire franchise, you can make the argument whether you want to go Mission Impossible, Bourne or any John Wick. It can be argued, greatest action franchise there's ever been in the history of the movies. When Daniel Craig is asked, you know, when he's asked six or five Bonds in what do you care? What do you think about what they're gonna do with the character next? He says, I don't care because they're gonna cheapen the bleep out of this.

[Greg Cody]

You know what? Shut up. You died. You ruined the whole thing. You died. James Bond's not supposed to die. Could do without you telling me about the rest of the franchise when your film is part of the problem.

[Billy]

Worst James Bo, by the way, if we're going to be honest, you know why that's a bad day? Cuz he died.

[Greg Cody]

He died.

[Billy]

None of the others died.

[Greg Cody]

That's not his fault.

[Billy]

It is his fault.

[Adnan Virk]

It's not his fault.

[Billy]

All the others figured not die.

[Stugotz]

Did you watch the movie?

[Billy]

Yeah, I watched the movie.

[Greg Cody]

He died and he didn't come back.

[Billy]

Exactly.

[Greg Cody]

When Ethan Hunt dies, he at least comes back. He's died twice.

[Billy]

Guy gets it disavowed and it looks.

[Greg Cody]

Like he's going to die a third time from the looks of this trailer, but we don't know. No. Definitely gets disavowed, though.

[Stugotz]

How many James Bonds have there been? Can anybody name them all? Because I stopped watching after Sean Connery. No, I think all the. I think all the living James Bond should.

[Mike Ryan]

Dalton. It's Pierce Brosnan. It's Daniel Craig. There haven't been that many.

[Stugotz]

There have been too many.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay? But that's.

[Billy]

Now they're gonna have died. Except one. You know who died multiple times to come back? Jason Bourne. Dude, that guy's drowned like seven times and still keeps coming back. Somehow. He's not a quitter. He says, you know what? I'm not giving up on you guys. The fans. Daniel Craig, quitter, gave up on us. Decided, you know what? I'm gonna be selfless and I'm gonna sacrifice myself and I'm gonna die. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

[Stugotz]

Get out of here, loser.

[Billy]

Thank you.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay, you guys are not again respecting yet another giant franchise. This happens so much around here where things that have earned 50, 60 years of prestige, you guys yawn and spit in the face of. Because we're better than double. Oh, seven. You tell me he's died. How many times has Bourne died? You said that Tom Cruise has died. Twice.

[Greg Cody]

Ethan Hunt has. Tom Cruise can never actually ever heard.

[Billy]

Of no time to die. James Bond. That's what all of them had except him. Apparently, he had plenty of time to die.

[Greg Cody]

So there have been 25 official 007 films. There's two that are in the unofficial category, but they're satire. So 25 official 007.

[Mike Ryan]

You're not okay with the Bond franchise resuming with the plot twist? Oh, he wasn't actually dead in the last one. Here's the plot twist.

[Greg Cody]

I don't know how they're going to dig themselves out of the mess that the last one put us in. I assume they're just going to be like, hey, forget about that crappy ending. We're starting anew. Which everyone's fine with. I'm not mourning the passing of 007. I think that they made terrible creative decisions. I'm happy to welcome our new tech overlords.

[Stugotz]

Part of the reason why the theater is dying is that. And I'm pontificating as someone who doesn't go to movies, I get the irony of that. But movies reinvent themselves too much. Like the franchise is killing the theater. Batman films, you know, Marvel.

[Greg Cody]

Statistically not the case. The franchises are keeping them afloat.

[Stugotz]

No, we don't like that. Cr.

[Mike Ryan]

I can't think of a subject that you have less expertise on that you're going to.

[Greg Cody]

Your last movie you went to was swing vote.

[Stugotz]

No, no, no.

[Billy]

And there's only one. In fairness to Greg, there was no swing vote too, right?

[Stugotz]

I saw Rocket man in the theater.

[Billy]

There you go.

[Greg Cody]

Pre pandemic.

[Mike Ryan]

Let's do this. Let's do this. Let me. Do me a favor. Do me a favor. Can I just send Greg Cody to another room and we'll give him two minutes. Floor is yours. Say whatever you want about the movies, but for now, can we allow that you are the least qualified person on earth to have a strong gas bag opinion on anything movie related?

[Billy]

It's the opposite. He's the most qualified because he's the one not going to the theater so he can tell you exactly why he's not going.

[Greg Cody]

Mark's absolutely right.

[Stugotz]

This is a first perspective. Okay? This is a friend. Oh, wow. I'm an independent thinker.

[Billy]

That has to be a fine.

[Stugotz]

I'm not beholden to the movies.

[Mike Ryan]

It is a fine. I will pay a five dollar fine. A new fine for snorting. Greg, go into the other room. I will get two minutes of your talk in a second, please. Okay, I want to get all of your Oscar Opinions. And I want to. I want to have. The floor is yours for you. Go as long as you can and we'll just help you from in here. But in the interim, I do want to get Jessica's opinions as someone who cares and actually watched all of the movies. So you guys give me no expertise for 20 minutes. Haven't watched the movies, have a ton of opinion. Just watch.

[Dan LeBatard]

Did you watch I'm still Here?

[Greg Cody]

I did not watch.

[Adnan Virk]

I'm still Here.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, there you go.

[Greg Cody]

You watched all of them. I did watch about 25% of the brutalists before I realized this is not gonna win. So I'm not sure when I'm gonna do this with my life. But I did watch Nora. I did watch Dune 2. I think I watched more than half of the nominated films. I even watched Sing Sing because I thought it was gonna get nominated and it wasn't and it should have been.

[Dan LeBatard]

That was a really good movie. Yeah, I think that there were a lot of movies worth seeing in the theater this year, Billy, but there's a lot of stuff going on, so sometimes you just don't have the time to go. And that's fine. And now you can stream Anora tomorrow if you feel like watching it, because you found it at one Best Picture. So I thought, I don't know. It was a good night. It was a fun award show. I think the middle part dragged, but that's when I put on my jammies and brushed my teeth and washed my face and get ready for bed. So I was. I was content having a good 40 minute stretch where I could just walk away for a little bit.

[Greg Cody]

I cease being happy for Adrien Brody about four minutes into his speech because it's a. It's a cool story. 20 years in between wins, his career was thought dead, Comes back, is a two time Oscar winner. That's an elite class. But then he started rubbing it in everybody's face like, hey, I've actually been here before. And he's like, real quick. I know how to do this real quick. And then he goes on the most inefficient diatribe that no one actually remembers or anything like that. It wasn't super poignant. He was trying to be, but it kind of missed the mark. We were all just kind of upset because they wrapped up the previous person and that wasn't very fair.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I thought that the big winner were the last night was people like Mike who were like, I'm gonna watch the Brutalist if it wins Best Picture. And then it didn't and now three and a half hours of your life you get back. So have fun. Enjoy it.

[Greg Cody]

I think I'm gonna watch Heretic again.

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[Stugotz]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Stugotz]

Don LeBatard it's the classic first ballad hall of Famer, the Musical Fart. Okay, where it can be a creaking door, it can be an orchestra. Orchestra tuning up before a concert. And the bassoon is a little bit off key and it comes out like that. Stugats the musical part. It's a beauty. It is a beauty. Me. Sorry.

[Billy]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Mike Ryan]

Brody put everyone off and delayed the entire ceremony when we were. This is what I'm telling you about. My viewing habits. When I'm noticing they're changing, I'm inside of a portal. I think you guys can understand this. You're watching a show that has always mattered in America and is also viewed as the height of liberal elitism that separates this country between everything that's burning in California and how the rest of the country views liberal Hollywood. And Adrien Brody gets out there now.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, they've always viewed it.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, yes, no, I know, but what I'm saying is that over the pandemic, we all realize when they tried to keep this annual very important American symbol of a show up in the air. Oh, this is silly to do this now. All of this is stupid. The industry shut down. They're fighting over money and AI is going to take over soon. This is the last vestiges of America being able to celebrate itself and what it used to be on television. This, this show as a. As here's Hollywood. But it's also being torn asunder by tech people and being torn asunder by streaming. And we got to keep the theaters alive and the writers are fighting over AI spaces. Like the commerce of all of this. It threatens the beauty of the art. And then Adrien Brody gets up in the middle of it and gas bags and people remember why they hate self important actors.

[Greg Cody]

No, they don't hate it. They love. They love it. It's a celebration of America's celebrating its obsession with celebrities like it's an award show. All of it is silly. All of it is dumb. All of it is them patting themselves on the back. And I think most people are kind of wise to that and admit that this is a guilty pleasure of theirs. One thing that I don't like that they've done for like a decade now because I guess one of the award show hosts was too mean when it came to respecting the categories is they do this whole thing where they have either former winners or presenters come out and they list the nominees. But when it's an actual acting category, they're like, Stanley, your bravery as you played a cardinal, it knocked me to my knees. Your courage under such circuit. Like they're.

[Dan LeBatard]

He should have been nominated, by the way. Stanley Tucci snubbed.

[Greg Cody]

But they always do that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Ray. Fine. Snubbed. Should have won.

[Greg Cody]

And they always ended.

[Dan LeBatard]

Colman Domingo also should have won.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you.

[Dan LeBatard]

They both should have won.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you. Bravo. And then they just move on to the next one. I'm like, where's the joke there? We're.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is all a great Earnest. Yes, but I think this year they had to change it for the best actress category because Emma Stone came out and then they were like, these are the nominees for best actress because the actress who played the main character and Amelia Perez was Embroiled in scandal and controversy throughout this entire awards season. Also, another big winner last night. All of the haters of Emilia Perez because they won for best song and I think a couple other ones. But like none of the big awards. And so if you hated that movie, which most people did, whoo, what a relief.

[Greg Cody]

If I may, this award show for me will always be remembered for its open. I think arguably the wicked number at the start was the greatest performance I had ever seen at an awards show ever. Finally supplanting Ricky Martin's bursting onto the scene with a cup of life.

[Mike Ryan]

That was amazing. And that was the previous Tony remembers.

[Greg Cody]

I was a little boy, but I do remember Tony.

[Mike Ryan]

Latin people represent right there. He hit that ceremony with so much Latin that our people were proud. And thank you, Ricky, for breaking through to the other side.

[Greg Cody]

No one had seen hips move like that before in their entire life. But Cynthia, when she got that note, when she delivered the note, I mean, it's a where were you? Type of moment.

[Mike Ryan]

This is what I need to say to you. You need to take it back because nothing will top Ricky Martin and what he did for our people.

[Greg Cody]

Did you watch? Did you watch the number?

[Mike Ryan]

Mike, you need to. Mike, what about my people?

[Greg Cody]

What's going on here?

[Mike Ryan]

You need to take it back. Let's go to Greg Cody in the other room. Get two minutes of unfiltered thought on what is the least qualified man in America to be talking about the Oscars today? Go ahead, Greg.

[Stugotz]

Least qualified man. I'm the only one among us who's been featured on a major motion picture absence of Malice in 81. Mike's talking about the greatest hips in America. Elvis Presley's hips were barred from appearing on the Ed Sullivan show in the mid-60s or whenever that was because those hips were moving. The Oscars need to. It's funny they have a category for editing because they don't edit themselves. It's funny they have a category for short films. How about a short Oscars? They need the Oscars to be a concise one hour award show. Eliminate all the fluff. More wheat, less chaff. There's just too much going on. They eliminated the songs because all five of the best song nominees were awful. So granted, we didn't have to hear that, which is great. Otherwise it would have been a five hour show. Talk about a metaphor for the night. The brutalist. It's brutal watching anything for three and a half hours, whether it's a film or an award show. Come on, you. You. If you want to attract the non movie aholic. Jessica watched all 10 films that were nominated for best picture. God love her. You. You could put a gun to my head and. I wouldn't do that. Come on. I'm just saying.

[Greg Cody]

I bet you would.

[Stugotz]

You. You. No, no. You could offer me a lot of money to watch the Brutalist for three and a half hours.

[Greg Cody]

Well, I've already talked you down from gun.

[Stugotz]

Okay, well, that kind of thing, you know, I mean.

[Mike Ryan]

But if he put a gun to your head. If we put a gun to your head, you'd watch all ten of the movies.

[Stugotz]

I don't think I would. I. I would play the odds. I would assume that the gun was either jammed or had no bullets in it. You know, I'm gonna play.

[Mike Ryan]

Those are playing poor art.

[Stugotz]

No, they're odds.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, now you're saying the gun might not be loaded. It's a different metaphor.

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

I mean.

[Greg Cody]

No, this gun is loaded. You better watch Anora.

[Stugotz]

Bad gambler. Nora. Now, Anora sounds like it's a terrible name for a film. Anora, but. And so is the. The Dylan film has a terrible title.

[Greg Cody]

A complete unknown.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, People need to, you know, consult with me on. On the title of a film or something, because Honora. I didn't. Is it a woman's name? What is it? Nora. It sounds like a car. I drive a Toyota Anora. You know, again, I. I think Cilantro.

[Dan LeBatard]

She doesn't like her name either, so.

[Stugotz]

Toyota Cilantro. What?

[Dan LeBatard]

She goes by Annie.

[Stugotz]

Okay, that makes sense. But anyway.

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

And he's definitely done.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. These people in back of me were chanting my name a couple of minutes ago. It's weird. They're being silent now while I'm talking, which is great. They're like dummies back there. But I'm trying to fix film. I am. I'm trying to save the theater experience. Marshal. All of my background in film with absence of malice.

[Mike Ryan]

And you mentioned that.

[Stugotz]

Look, I haven't had a role since.

[Greg Cody]

We're up to four times this week where he's been talked about that.

[Stugotz]

Thank you.

[Billy]

It's usually 10. We're pacing high this week.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, has two movies coming out this year, so you are not. I mean, you are not the biggest movie star we have around here because you were in the new newsroom of Absence and Malice. Absence of Malice. You didn't have. You didn't speak a line, correct?

[Stugotz]

It was a featured scene, but you.

[Mike Ryan]

Didn'T speak a line, correct?

[Stugotz]

Not that I recall. No. I think they left me on the cutting room floor. You know, I didn't grovel to Pollock enough. You know, he didn't give me a speaking line.

[Mike Ryan]

No, listen, listen. You were in absence of malice because you happened to be in the newsroom that day and you were in the background and you didn't say anything, and you've been talking about it for 50 years, but you don't even have a SAG card.

[Stugotz]

And SAG. Come up with a better name, a better acronym. Who. Who invent Screen Actors Guild. Come up with a different name so that your acronym is not sag. You know, when people sag, there's like, you know, have an effervescent acronym, something upbeat. Not sag. That's another thing I'm going to fix. You know, if I'm in charge of the movie. I'm full of ideas. I'm not a movie fan, but that gives me the. The perspective, the bird's eye perspective. I'm on a ledge. I'm looking down at the movie industry. I'm seeing what's wrong, what needs fixing, and I'm volunteering to do it. And I'm as serious as I can be when I say cut the Oscars to a concise one hour. Okay? Now, Conan O'Brien was great. I watched because of him. I was not let down. He had the great line about the brutalist. It was so good. I never wanted it to end and it never did. Great line. Conan O'Brien is fabulous. He's not a hero of mine. I mean, I don't want to carry Greg.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay, hold on. Just hold on a second. Billy wants to get in here. Give me some.

[Billy]

No, no, I'm fine here. Greg can go. I just. I wanted to come up. I want to. I want to volunteer to help Greg fix the Oscars, if we can.

[Stugotz]

Thank you.

[Billy]

And here's a solution that I have and maybe, you know, will capture Dan's attention and the attention of many others. So what if instead of, you know, a four hour, five hour ceremony, you release the Oscars on Netflix as a four part award ceremony with cliffhangers at the end of every episode? You know what I mean?

[Mike Ryan]

Are you scared?

[Billy]

Do something along the lines of. And the winner is. And then boom. Are you black screen. You're like, I need to see who won that award.

[Mike Ryan]

Greg, are you standing up and sagging?

[Stugotz]

Yes. This is. This is the. This is what the SAG Awards does to you, right? I'm sagging. I'm sagging. The life has gone out of my body. My limbs are limping. I'm sagging the SAG probably saw on the set.

[Mike Ryan]

You don't have a SAG award, right? You don't have a SAG card. You don't have a car.

[Stugotz]

I do not know. I wouldn't have one unless they change the name of their company.

[Mike Ryan]

Greg, come back in here. I don't know.

[Stugotz]

Pro union, by the way.

[Billy]

Are you?

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Great.

[Billy]

All of them.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Greg, come back in here. Greg was making fun of me before the show, and it's a good thing to make fun of me for because I'm at. At a journalistic crossroads today. Okay? The Panthers, the champion Panthers, have bestowed upon me an honor. Question mark. Because I am being invited to bang the drum to introduce the mighty champion Panthers before they face off against a dynasty they vanquished in Tampa Bay tonight. And Greg Cody thinks that I shouldn't do it. And he's the only one around here who thinks that I shouldn't do it. Roy and his son and everyone else here is encouraging me. Is encouraging. Gregson and Roy are encouraging me to do this tonight. And I don't think I should do it journalistically.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, no, you shouldn't. There are a number of reasons why you shouldn't do it, you know, and it takes a. It takes a close friend to be honest with someone once in a while, you know, Plainly, you're not a hockey fan. You know, you think Roberto Luongo is still the goaltender. You don't know which end of the hockey stick to hold. You don't like hockey. You never watch hockey. You're disqualified from banging the drum. Slowly. Disqualified.

[Billy]

None of that had anything to do with journalism.

[Stugotz]

No, no, no. But I'm getting to that because the journalism thing is ridiculous. This guy used to be a journalist. Yeah, correct. He is right now. If he bangs the drum slowly and you have to. It's all about the rhythm. Don't do it like Dan Marino. He's never lived it down. Had he made the super bowl championship, they would have taken his ring away after he banged that drum. The thing you have to do is you have to realize that you are abdicating all sense of journalism by literally becoming a cheerleader for the Panthers. Okay? You might as well be on their payroll.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, I don't. I don't think I should do it. Wow.

[Stugotz]

I don't either.

[Billy]

Are you holding out in case, like, you work for the Times in two years? Like, what are we talking about here? You're gonna go back on the hockey beat at some point.

[Dan LeBatard]

They're not gonna Hire?

[Billy]

Who cares?

[Dan LeBatard]

It's way too much about politics for them.

[Stugotz]

Dan's gonna be working for the Hollywood Son Tatler in five years.

[Mike Ryan]

He made him sleep.

[Stugotz]

Did you like that one, Greg?

[Mike Ryan]

You like that one? You like the Tatler? Hold on.

[Stugotz]

We're placing it place that he went back to it.

[Mike Ryan]

All right, hold on.

[Greg Cody]

How long has that guy been dead?

[Mike Ryan]

Hold on.

[Greg Cody]

I think Rick Riley has written something more recently than you have.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, he did.

[Dan LeBatard]

He wrote a book about Trump.

[Billy]

Is he still, like, wandering around in Italy somewhere?

[Greg Cody]

I think he's in Tuscany somewhere. Yeah. Mark.

[Mike Ryan]

Mark, I'm gonna need you to settle down. I've paid the fine. Okay? It's listed as snort. You got me to snort, Mark. I need everyone here, though, to back off and just marvel at the majesty that was Greg Cody pulling off art the last six minutes that left him breathless because he's got way too much material. We're not going to have much from him the rest of the show. He just blew a gasket. He just came out firing on two subjects. He's got more. He's got more on me banging the drum. But I just want you guys as his producers today, because he's going to be a runaway freight train. I'll show to recognize that what just happened there is. Greg Cody made himself laugh by mentioning the Hollywood Sun Tattler, a newspaper that's not existed in this town since about 1980. Something.

[Billy]

Not even.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay, no, hold on. Okay, please look up for me the history of the Hollywood Sun Tatler, because he, right there was talking to the audience of our podcast that he thinks is in their 80s.

[Billy]

In their 80s, 1942-1971.

[Mike Ryan]

The Hollywood Son Tatler existed in this town for a very small time. And Greg Cody then after that, made the joke even more inside, replacing Ed Plaistead, a sports editor of the Hollywood Sun Tatler. He didn't think anyone heard it, so he made it again. He said it a second time. It's not. It's a joke that no one listening to this would understand. No one remembers who the sports editor was of the Hollywood son Tatler in 1971. You simply cannot make that joke here.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, you can, because if you don't know, you should know. And then you're going to look it up. You're going to Google the name, except it's a weird spelling on his surname, so you're not sure how to Google it. But subscribers used to call it the Tatler. The Tattler used to land in our lawn at 1440 I'd read it before I ever read. Before I ever heard of Edwin Pope. I used to read Ed Plaistead, who once wrote a column criticizing the NBA commissioner who had died like three years earlier. And he wrote the column as if I was still alive. But where was I?

[Mike Ryan]

He wrote the column as if he was still alive. He actually.

[Stugotz]

Very critical column of the NBA commission.

[Mike Ryan]

You're saying he wrote a column about somebody who had been dead three years already? So wait a minute. Who had been dead for three years? That can't be true, what you're saying.

[Stugotz]

I think it is. Name the NBA commissioner right before the last couple like this. This would have been going back to the 60s, probably.

[Mike Ryan]

Greg, you cannot be serious saying that a columnist in 1970 wrote a column about the NBA criticizing a commissioner as if he were alive? A commissioner who had been dead for three years.

[Stugotz]

A few years, yeah. Set rec. No, The Hollywood Sun.

[Mike Ryan]

Explain to Tony what a set wreck is because you're amusing yourself there with a newspaper term that he does not understand.

[Stugotz]

It's basically an abbreviation for setting the record straight when you. When you make a pretty grievous error or something. And you fool for not getting that set wreck. But yeah, just before the paper died, they were the ones that famously had the headline, Cody's Slam Paces Drugs. Because at the time, as a little Leaguer, I was the first baseman for a team sponsored by Adler's Drugs. I wore uniform number nine because that was my mother, her favorite number. And I still have that headline somewhere in my house. But I just.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm a little dumbfounded because Dan started the day by being like, the Oscars are too old for me. And then we've. But we've been doing this.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I don't think you should bang the drum after this segment.

[Mike Ryan]

What are your thoughts here on what I should do? Because he's brought to me a conundrum that I have considered here, and he says this is ridiculous for a number of reasons. He's just getting started. If I do this tonight, I will never live it down with Greg Cody. Greg Cody will respect me less if I do this tonight.

[Billy]

I have a possible solution here. And Greg, I don't know if you're willing to participate in this just because, like, Dan's obviously in a bind here where he has to go out there and bang the drum potentially. Right. And you think, you know, he doesn't know which end of the hockey stick to hold, as you mentioned, like, super.

[Mike Ryan]

Offensive, by the way.

[Billy]

You don't. You don't Want him to compromise his, you know, journalistic integrity or whatever. So, like, what if you volunteered to do it for Dan so that he wouldn't be in that spot?

[Stugotz]

No, that wouldn't happen. You know that wouldn't happen.

[Billy]

Why?

[Stugotz]

They didn't. Well, first of all, they don't want me. They could have announced me, but they didn't believe.

[Greg Cody]

This is a part of a Hispanic heritage thing.

[Stugotz]

Right? Yeah, well, you know, I was born in Massachusetts. He was born in New York. Who's more Hispanic? But I am.

[Billy]

It's a fair question.

[Stugotz]

Obviously you are. I'm kidding. But, you know, if you trace Greg's.

[Billy]

Lineage back far enough, Cote could be.

[Greg Cody]

You know, you do both have French surnames.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, that's true. French Canadian. Yeah. The Canucks.

[Greg Cody]

Actually, the French Canadians are the Canadians.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, good point. Yeah. Canucks are Vancouver, right?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Way over on the other side of the country. Beautiful city, though. Been through there on my way to an Alaskan cruise once.

[Billy]

Really?

[Stugotz]

Where'd you stop? Normally, that's not the port, but in that case it was Juneau.

[Billy]

Anchorage. Where'd you go?

[Stugotz]

What's that? Little Sask? No, not. I almost said Saskatchewan. It's a similar.

[Billy]

Saskatoon.

[Stugotz]

No, I'll think of it. I'll get back to you.

[Greg Cody]

Please do.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, but Mark, good work, as always. He hits the mark.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wait, it's a port in Alaska?

[Stugotz]

Yeah, It's a little town that is floated only by the Sitka.

[Greg Cody]

Do you still think Dan is a journalist?

[Stugotz]

Been to Sitka? Skagway journalism is amorphous now, I don't know who is and who isn't. Is Stephen A. Smith a journalist? I don't know. You tell me. But I'm just saying, back in the day. And he knows this. He's considered it, you know, back in the day, if you were a journalist, by whatever definition, you wouldn't cheerlead, either literally or figuratively for the home team. You would try to be honest and fair, but you wouldn't be an overt homer. He calls me a homer. He knows better. I love getting comments like you're a homer, because I know I'm not. And other people think I'm too critical of a team, and somewhere in the middle is honesty.

[Greg Cody]

I appreciate you making this about yourself.

[Stugotz]

Thank you.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's Skagway, right?

[Stugotz]

No, no, no.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'll keep looking.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Thank you. Supermarket.

[Mike Ryan]

Tony, what are your thoughts?

[Stugotz]

Skagway.

[Mike Ryan]

No, Tony, what are your thoughts? What are your thoughts on what I should do?

[Stugotz]

I'm.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm surprised that you're actually Going to make the drive out to Sawgrass.

[Greg Cody]

You know where it is. Surprising. You're gonna get there on time, right?

[Billy]

It's not at the Miami arena anymore.

[Greg Cody]

Don't get there on Cuban time, Dan.

[Mike Ryan]

Because you're gonna miss it. My wife has been asking. We're going where? How far is it?

[Stugotz]

Take a helicopter.

[Greg Cody]

What are you doing?

[Stugotz]

Yeah, they have a heliport there. Yeah, so your copter will fit.

[Mike Ryan]

Can you guys find out for me what it would cost to take a helicopter, please? Because I think if I'm going to make it. Not if, if it. If I'm going to make it. A special announcement, the final selling of my journalistic soul. I should take a helicopter just to avoid the traffic.

[Greg Cody]

You do need clearance, though. Don't think that you can just land a helicopter anywhere that you want.

[Mike Ryan]

Should I do this?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. It's actually a pretty big honor. You would assume that they do this before every game, but they don't. The list of people that have done this is pretty illustrious. The aforementioned Damarino, Jack Nicklaus, Udonis Haslam, Raheem Mostert, luminaries of South Florida sport and entertainment.

[Dan LeBatard]

Didn't Ariana Grande do it?

[Greg Cody]

Brittney Griner. I mean, these are heavy hitters, Dan, and you are, no doubt, heavy.

[Mike Ryan]

Brittney Griner was booed. I'll get booed, right?

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

No, it won't be a boo.

[I]

It'll be a who.

[Billy]

Might be a kin tonight because it's Hispanic heritage. Yeah, that's why they call me Marco.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, there you go.

[Mike Ryan]

I was gonna say.

[Stugotz]

How do you say Spanish?

[Mike Ryan]

I don't even know.

[Dan LeBatard]

Was it Sitka?

[Greg Cody]

Greg?

[Stugotz]

No.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay.

[Stugotz]

I've been to sitcom.

[Greg Cody]

You mentioned that.

[Stugotz]

Did I?

[Greg Cody]

Yep.

[Stugotz]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

Yep, yep.

[Stugotz]

But since we began this conversation, I did hear that the Lebatard show is gonna have a suite with an open bar. So now I'm in favor of you banging the drum.

[Mike Ryan]

The segment has been over for 15 seconds.

[Stugotz]

Well, what do I know?

[Greg Cody]

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