Local Hour: The Soda Drinker's Body

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Local Hour: The Soda Drinker's Body
Release Date: July 23, 2025
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Billy Gill, Chris Cody, Greg Cody, Zach Zaslow, Amin Elhassan, Tony

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Introduction

In this episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, the hosts delve into a lively discussion centered around the theme of the "Soda Drinker's Body." Recorded at the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, the conversation navigates through personal anecdotes, humorous banter, and insightful commentary on lifestyle choices, particularly focusing on dietary habits and their impact on the body.

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Tony's Legal Situation and Train Incident

The episode kicks off with a brief mention of Tony's recent troubles related to being kicked off a train:

• Chris Cody [00:29]: "Billy, did Tony get arrested? Like what happened?"
• Billy Gill [00:32]: "Arrested? No, I heard that he was. He's not here yet. He was kicked off the train is my understanding."

This leads to a lighthearted exchange about Tony's legal standing:

• Billy Gill [00:44]: "Luckily I got acquitted. So if he arrives, I guess we'll get that story."
• Chris Cody [01:03]: "Wait a minute. That means it went to trial."

The conversation underscores the camaraderie among the hosts as they tease each other while touching upon serious matters.

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Jury Duty Insights

A significant portion of the early discussion revolves around the complexities of jury selection:

• Billy Gill [01:45]: "Maybe acquitted. Yeah, justice system is finicky."
• Dan Le Batard [02:08]: "What is the perfect way to get selected? Like you have to be indifferent."

Billy shares his experience with jury duty, highlighting strategies to avoid selection:

• Billy Gill [02:22]: "Play it cool. I had a judge that was friends with Dan. He said you should have just brought your own microphone from the studio. I ended up getting not selected."

This segment offers listeners an amusing yet insightful look into the often-daunting process of jury selection.

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Dining Preferences: Sitting at the Bar vs. Booths

The conversation shifts to personal preferences in dining, specifically the choice between sitting at the bar or in a booth:

• Zach Zaslow [06:34]: "I always want to sit at the bar."
• Greg Cody [06:50]: "I'll tell you right now. I'm gonna count them out for you. Number one, immediate seating."

The hosts debate the merits of each setting, considering factors like service speed, ambiance, and intimacy:

• Chris Cody [07:15]: "Is it better to just not go on a date at all?"
• Dan Le Batard [07:34]: "My dad's first date with my mom was famously at a Pizza Hut."

Dan shares a humorous family anecdote about his parents' first date at Pizza Hut, highlighting the unconventional nature of their choice:

• Dan Le Batard [07:35]: "They sat on the same side of the booth, and it freaked my mom out."

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The "Soda Drinker's Body" Debate

A central theme of the episode emerges as the hosts engage in a spirited debate over the concept of the "Soda Drinker's Body":

• Billy Gill [09:16]: "It's just a descriptor. If you find it insulting, that's you judging other people's body."
• Chris Cody [10:28]: "That's absolutely an insult."

The discussion delves into body image, societal perceptions, and the implications of labeling someone based on their beverage choices:

• Zach Zaslow [09:55]: "You're wrong."
• Billy Gill [09:57]: "If you already have a soda drinker's body, just indulge. Drink some soda."

This segment highlights the hosts' differing viewpoints, balancing humor with thoughtful commentary on body image and health.

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Local Establishments: La Vaquita Farm Stores

Shifting focus to local businesses, the hosts explore the concept of La Vaquita farm stores:

• Billy Gill [28:38]: "It's shaped like a little barn. It's called farm stores."
• Greg Cody [34:21]: "According to the farm store website, it costs anywhere between $230 and $570, $1,000."

Billy expresses his aspiration to purchase and repurpose a La Vaquita store into a personal studio:

• Billy Gill [29:28]: "If I was doing Zoom work, it was gonna be from inside a farm store that's down the street from my house."

The discussion touches upon the uniqueness of these establishments in South Florida and their potential for creative repurposing.

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Stadium Surroundings and Local Businesses

The hosts critique local stadiums, particularly focusing on their surroundings and the lack of vibrant establishments:

• Greg Cody [38:05]: "It's the only modern building I've seen that doesn't have a shit ton of bars and restaurants outside."
• Dan Le Batard [38:51]: "You'd think they could have one. Like, I get it. Maybe we don't have enough attendance to have a whole Wrigleyville."

They lament the absence of lively pre- and post-game venues, contrasting it with other known sports areas like Wrigleyville.

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Conclusion: Embracing Personal Choices and Local Culture

As the episode wraps up, the hosts reflect on personal choices related to diet and local culture, reinforcing the show's theme of blending sports insights with everyday lifestyle discussions:

• Billy Gill [28:51]: "I have pizza more than once a week. So the soda ends up making its way back into my house."
• Greg Cody [32:16]: "Metal Arc media can turn that into a vaquita. Studios for Billy Gill."

The episode concludes on a lighthearted note, emphasizing the importance of personal preferences and the influence of local establishments on everyday life.

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Notable Quotes:

• Billy Gill [02:22]: "Play it cool. I had a judge that was friends with Dan. He said you should have just brought your own microphone from the studio."
• Chris Cody [10:28]: "That's absolutely an insult."
• Dan Le Batard [07:35]: "They sat on the same side of the booth, and it freaked my mom out."
• Billy Gill [28:38]: "It's shaped like a little barn. It's called farm stores."

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This episode masterfully balances humor with meaningful discourse, offering listeners both entertainment and relatable insights into everyday choices and local culture.

Transcript

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[Billy Gill]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Chris Cody]

Billy, did Tony get arrested? Like what happened?

[Billy Gill]

Arrested? No, I heard that he was. He's not here yet. He was kicked off the train is my understanding.

[Dan Le Batard]

As were others, not just him. I think it was a train issue.

[Billy Gill]

Well, well, well, you know, I guess if he comes in, we'll figure that out. I did ask him though. I said there's snitches in this office saying that you were almost arrested a few weeks ago. And he said, very true. Luckily I got acquitted. So if he arrives, I guess we'll get that story. If he gets here, I acquitted.

[Chris Cody]

Wait a minute. That means it went to trial.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, he does. He's not big on words and just knowing things.

[Chris Cody]

You know what, that's what it's going to say on his tombstone. Wasn't big on word words and like knowing things.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, I mean he'll he. He's big on thinking he knows things, right?

[Chris Cody]

Well, he's big on thinking he knows words too. He is guiltier than anyone here of using words incorrectly.

[Billy Gill]

Listen, if I had Tony's confidence, I would be unstoppable with my abilities and dashing good looks. If I had Tony's confidence, I mean, you wouldn't have seen me for five years already.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, but if you had Tony's ignorance, you would have been arrested and you'd be serving a 10 year prison sentence.

[Greg Cody]

Or maybe acquitted.

[Billy Gill]

Maybe acquitted. Yeah, justice system is finicky. They'll let anyone be a juror. Literally anyone except the people who want to be jurors. I found when I'm on jury duty, the people who are too eager to be jurors, they usually get kicked out. Which is like, why do you want 12 miserable people here deciding the fate of someone? Hey.

[Dan Le Batard]

What is the perfect way to get selected? Like you have to be indifferent.

[Billy Gill]

I don't think it's like just outwardly say crazy crap anymore. I don't think that gets you off.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, but if I want to get selected, like play, I got to play. Don't be too eager.

[Billy Gill]

Play it cool. I had a judge that was friends with Dan. He told me he shared a taxi with Dan. I told Dan this already. He said that he's a Spanish play by play guy for the University of Miami and that him and Dan shared a cab once. And he said this in front of the. He had a story for everyone. Every single person he was, like, interviewing. He had a story. Like, wow, he could relate to the person. Yeah. So I was talking to him and this guy, every time he would ask a question, like, does anyone have a reason why xyz? And I was like. And I kept putting my hand up for almost everything because I did have reasons that I could relate to these situations. And at a certain point, he said, you should have just brought your own microphone from the studio. I ended up getting not selected.

[Dan Le Batard]

Are we still sharing cabs? That's not a thing.

[Greg Cody]

In an inauspicious debut for Judge. Right? Where were you? I used to do Spanish language play by.

[Billy Gill]

No, I think. I'm not sure if he still does.

[Zach Zaslow]

Or he does or not.

[Billy Gill]

Dude. The guy was late because his dog.

[Chris Cody]

He's very powerful. He's been powerful for 30 years.

[Billy Gill]

So should I not tell the story?

[Zach Zaslow]

Wow.

[Chris Cody]

No, you should tell.

[Billy Gill]

The guy was late because his dog vomited in the middle of his kitchen and he had to clean it up. So he kept all of us waiting. And then he had to leave early because his friend that passed away, that used to be a bank manager, was having the branch named after him. So he had to go all the way down south for it. So it was a short day for us.

[Chris Cody]

Whoa.

[Greg Cody]

You stumbled onto another Wild Billy Wednesday.

[Chris Cody]

Hold on to your hats, partners.

[Billy Gill]

It's about to get wild.

[Chris Cody]

Amin is ready to go. Is Zaz ready to go? I feel like Zaz is ready to go. More confident than I've ever seen him. Chris, you can take it up. You're the ep. Chris, you go ahead and take up with Amin. Why it is he's on his phone as we start the show.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was just funny. You're like, meen's ready to go. And I'm just like, yeah.

[Chris Cody]

He's just still staring into his phone. He looks a little. Feels a little sluggish. Bill, you want to lure him out? We haven't really heard from him in a bit.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, I've missed him. Where have you been?

[Zach Zaslow]

Where you been?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, traveling.

[Dan Le Batard]

Vegas.

[Greg Cody]

That too.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, better.

[Dan Le Batard]

Better with the wife or the boys.

[Greg Cody]

Vegas. Vegas is never a family trip. It's always a work trip.

[Zach Zaslow]

Someone claimed recently that Vegas is a better time when they're with their wife than their friend.

[Dan Le Batard]

I crushed it this weekend with my wife. It was amazing shows. I got Some sleep ate Vegas.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, it was Chris that said that.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was just, I'm telling you, it's a game changer. I never thought I'd say it.

[Greg Cody]

I think, I think it all depends, right? On what kind of relationship you have.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Zach Zaslow]

If your friends are losers.

[Greg Cody]

Or maybe you've got a wife who's a go getter or a significant other who's a go getter. But like, to me, Vegas is crystallized with, there's no such thing as clocks and there's no such thing as calendars other than, like, oh, we have a reservation at 9. We have. But like, it's 1 in the morning. Let's go eat. If you're with people like that, whether it's friends or significant other, then it's like you're in the, you're in the wrong place. Like, there's no such thing as time. Let's go hit up this bar. Let's go. Let's gamble. Whatever you do, it's whatever time o' clock it is.

[Dan Le Batard]

If your grand lux Cafe is 24 hours, it's a place for me that's, that's the pinnacle.

[Chris Cody]

You also look like that. If I go in there, that's what I'm going to see. It's going to be an ocean of a thousand Cody's.

[Zach Zaslow]

Is that a tabletop? Two in the morning at Grand Lux?

[Billy Gill]

Yes.

[Greg Cody]

You got to do at the bar, man. That's the, that's the, that's the thinking man's play. Right? You don't get it. Wait for a table. No, I could. I sit at the bar.

[Zach Zaslow]

I love sitting at the bar. At restaurant, when my wife and I go out to dinner, we have date night every now and then. Sometimes you got to devote time to your wife. All right? Everybody knows this. And when we go out to dinner, I always want to sit at the bar. That's always my preference. She doesn't always let us, you know, but I, that's always my number one choice. I'll say, hey, can we sit at the bar?

[Billy Gill]

Cause you don't want to wait for a table? Or just because you like it there better?

[Zach Zaslow]

Well, that's part of it, but also like it better. I, I, I like the, I like the way we're sitting next to each other at the bar and I got a guy right there who's ready to give me drinks whenever I want my drink.

[Greg Cody]

There you go.

[Zach Zaslow]

And there's a TV in front of me that has sports on.

[Greg Cody]

Right.

[Zach Zaslow]

I just, I love being at the bar.

[Billy Gill]

I think that's not the point of the date.

[Greg Cody]

I'll tell you right now. I'm gonna count them out for you. Number one, immediate seating. Number two, service is a lot faster. The food comes out faster.

[Zach Zaslow]

Can you give me another makers?

[Greg Cody]

The refills are fa. Everything. Number three, as he said, television. Number four. This is how you sell it, honey. When we're at a table, you're crossing. I can't hear you so loud. You're right next to me. Proximity. I can hear you speak. I like being next to you and close to you, it's more intimate.

[Zach Zaslow]

Yes.

[Greg Cody]

That's why you sit at the bar.

[Zach Zaslow]

Because then what happens, too? Like, if we get seated at a booth and then she pulls the mover, it's like, do you want to sit on the same side of the booth with me? And I'm like, no, I'm not an asshole. But if we sit at the bar, it's like, all right, we're next to each other, and I get credit for that, you know?

[Billy Gill]

Do you think it's better to go on dates the way you go on dates or not go on dates at all? Because, like, your date is. I want to go to the bar where I have someone serving me a drink, and I have a TV in front of me, and we can get in and out as quickly as possible.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

And I would argue that's not probably a date that your wife wants to go on. So is it better to just not go on a date at all?

[Dan Le Batard]

My dad's first date with my mom was famously at a Pizza Hut. And they sat. My dad sat on. Sat on the same side of the booth, and it, like, freaked my mom out. She's like, why is this weirdo sitting on the same side of the booth as me?

[Greg Cody]

With the results, though.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Zach Zaslow]

They go into the Pizza Hut with.

[Billy Gill]

A day to a pizza buffet.

[Zach Zaslow]

Oh, that's a boss move. I miss that Pizza Hut.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Tony]

But one of the best things you can do is if there's, like, a bunch of fancy spots that you want to hit in Vegas, just on one given night, you can go sit at the bar, grab an appetizer and a drink from one hop to the other, go sit and have your meal and a drink in another, and then, you know, nightcap at the next one. And now you've got an opportunity to check out all those different restaurants that you wouldn't have been able to either afford or go to otherwise.

[Dan Le Batard]

Speaking of restaurants, I actually found it hard to find Coke in Vegas.

[Greg Cody]

Really?

[Dan Le Batard]

A lot of Pepsi.

[Greg Cody]

Every place you go, oh, God.

[Dan Le Batard]

Every place you go.

[Chris Cody]

I'm going to have to kick a mean out for that. Like, he's been slow in this morning, and I'm going to have to kick him out for just not understanding what the hell's going on around here.

[Dan Le Batard]

Minor penalty.

[Billy Gill]

Two minutes for not listening.

[Chris Cody]

It's not the perfect penalty. I'm going to get the penalties refreshed so I have the perfect penalty.

[Greg Cody]

Comedy.

[Dan Le Batard]

But I'm telling you, you think like Vegas. Everywhere, it's Pepsi everywhere. My wife. My wife's one of these people. After a night of drinking, she likes her lunch with a nice Coca Cola. Nowhere. Every. Every hotel in Vegas, I swear. Restaurants, Pepsi.

[Zach Zaslow]

I don't drink soda. I don't know about any of that.

[Billy Gill]

Really?

[Zach Zaslow]

Nope.

[Billy Gill]

Your whole life.

[Zach Zaslow]

My whole life?

[Billy Gill]

Are you just stopped?

[Zach Zaslow]

No, my whole life.

[Billy Gill]

Why?

[Zach Zaslow]

Just. I was never. We were never a soda house when I was a kid, and we're not a soda house now. Like, my. My kids, they don't. They don't know soda.

[Billy Gill]

Really? Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

You want some right now? We have some here.

[Zach Zaslow]

No, man, I'm doing just. Do I look like I need soda? I'm doing just kind of have a.

[Billy Gill]

Soda drinker's body, though, without drinking soda.

[Zach Zaslow]

I mean, I don't know what that means, but I'm going to take it as an insult. Whatever.

[Dan Le Batard]

If you said to me I either drank a lot of soda growing up or no soda, I would lean the. The more.

[Billy Gill]

Who for? Zaz?

[Zach Zaslow]

Yeah, I mean, there's plenty of soda.

[Chris Cody]

I'm sorry to do this to you, but I did say Tony's the worst with words and.

[Dan Le Batard]

Go on.

[Chris Cody]

And Chris is the worst with words.

[Billy Gill]

What?

[Chris Cody]

Sorry.

[Zach Zaslow]

My gimmick.

[Chris Cody]

I'm sorry to interrupt.

[Tony]

I would lean the more like, I.

[Chris Cody]

Don'T even know what you're saying there.

[Billy Gill]

Try it again.

[Dan Le Batard]

If I said you've either had no soda in your life or a ton of soda, I would vote a ton of soda.

[Billy Gill]

Wild it. You just look like a soda drinker.

[Zach Zaslow]

All right. Yeah, you're wrong.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, oh. Why don't. Why not? If you already have a soda drinker's body, just indulge. Drink some soda.

[Zach Zaslow]

Okay, first of all, I think. I think I haven't always had a soda drinker's body. Okay, I've never even heard that before. I don't know what thing. I've never heard someone say, wow, that homeboy over there's got a soda drinker's body.

[Billy Gill]

I have never heard that.

[Dan Le Batard]

I have one too.

[Zach Zaslow]

Yeah, this Is why it's a little bit insulting.

[Billy Gill]

It's not insulting. It's just a descriptor. If you find it insulting, that's you judging other people's body.

[Zach Zaslow]

You've heard that before. You've heard once. You've heard someone described as they have a soda drinker's body.

[Chris Cody]

I. I am gonna be honest with.

[Zach Zaslow]

You right now, and don't tell me I.

[Greg Cody]

Well, it's just.

[Chris Cody]

No. What's gonna hurt me about this. Okay, what's gonna hurt me about this is I don't like succumbing to the things sometimes that make Wild Willie Wednesday successful. But when he said that, my initial reaction was legitimately. That's one of the best insults I've ever heard.

[Billy Gill]

Was it an insult? The scripter.

[Chris Cody]

You have a soda drinker's body is not something I've ever heard, but it's absolutely. And it's absolutely an insult.

[Dan Le Batard]

I got sports, Dion, waiters.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, no. Kyle Lowry.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that's a good one.

[Zach Zaslow]

I think Kyle Lowry's got an ice cream sundae's body.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, I don't believe we should be body shaming anyone.

[Billy Gill]

This isn't shaming, just descriptors. If you guys find it insulting, that's on you for receiving it that way. Just descriptors.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, I'm gonna put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Is it an insult to tell someone they have a soda drinker's body? Well, because I don't think of soda as healthy. I think of it as sug. And I think, like, okay, maybe you mean a triathlete who needs a lot of glucose, but I don't think it's what you mean.

[Tony]

I got one Zaslow softball teammate, Mike Lowell.

[Zach Zaslow]

That's right. You think he's got a soda drinker's.

[Tony]

Body, Good body, but a soda drinker's body, not super defined.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's good, because we can't just keep doing chubby people.

[Billy Gill]

Like, he's not chubby.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like, let's. That's what I mean. You're playing the game. Well, let's find someone that's not chubby.

[Billy Gill]

Justin Bohr drinks a lot of milkshakes.

[Tony]

Right?

[Chris Cody]

All right, let me get Tony caught up here as he arrives and we find out.

[Amin Elhassan]

Hey, Dano.

[Chris Cody]

He's been arraigned or acquitted?

[Zach Zaslow]

Exasperated.

[Amin Elhassan]

Acquitted, as always.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, I don't. Well, What? I don't know.

[Amin Elhassan]

Glove didn't fit.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, let's turn it down just a little. Let's turn it. You just got here, and we got a Lot of people who are already doing show. And it wasn't our fault you were late, so let's settle down.

[Amin Elhassan]

Wasn't mine either.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, but. But let's just settle down for a second and let me tell you to shut up. Let me see if I could catch. Catch you up, Billy, if you want to be my Tony translator, He's not good with words. We've already established it, so I'm going to try and catch up here. Tony, first question. Tony, when you need exactly the right word to say in our group of people, who's the worst at having the correct word to say? Who has the most trouble with words around here? Who would your vote be for the people who are on air?

[Amin Elhassan]

Guy to my left over here.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sup?

[Amin Elhassan]

Sometimes says things that don't make sense, but I'm also very close second to. Sometimes I say things that don't make sense, but I also say things that make sense that go over your head so far that Izzy on days has to go like, yeah, you said the right thing. And I was like, okay, perfect.

[Dan Le Batard]

Dan didn't understand I'd lean more.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, Tony, you've come in here aggressively today. I'm just.

[Amin Elhassan]

I'm just answering the question, Dan.

[Billy Gill]

I'm just telling you, like, we're moments away from Tony challenging another person. It seems like it's you.

[Chris Cody]

So I just see where we were headed is we were going to have our first ever me challenging someone in the office to a fight because he comes in here like he owns the place, and I need him to settle down because we've been doing some show and he got here late, and so I'm going to catch up here. Do you like sitting at the bar for dinner? If you and your wife walk into the restaurant, are you and your wife going to prefer sitting at the bar for dinner?

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah, I'd like that.

[Chris Cody]

All right, put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Do you like sitting at the bar for dinner? Okay, Zazzle. You said before Tony got here that you're not an asshole because you don't sit next to your wife in a booth if there are two seats across from each other.

[Zach Zaslow]

We've been married. This year will be 18 years sitting on the same. I'm sitting next to her on the same side of the booth. Come on.

[Greg Cody]

It's called romance. Try it.

[Chris Cody]

All right, so let me put this on the poll at Lebitage just broke up.

[Billy Gill]

You keep. You count that gap.

[Zach Zaslow]

That was before we were married, player.

[Billy Gill]

So 18 years of marriage.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

Okay. Some people Celebrate their entire anniversary. I was 10 years in before I got married. So I lost credit for 10 years of a relationship. That's crazy, right?

[Zach Zaslow]

I don't know, man. I haven't told a lot of time to thinking like that.

[Billy Gill]

What do you mean?

[Zach Zaslow]

Just. I mean that you lost time.

[Billy Gill]

I'm saying in terms you're trying to.

[Zach Zaslow]

Accumulate hours with your wet. With your marriage. I don't understand.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, because like if I've been married for six years. Coming up on six years this week.

[Zach Zaslow]

Right?

[Billy Gill]

But. But to get. We were together before for 10 years.

[Zach Zaslow]

Like you wish you could be able to tell people you're married for 16 years.

[Billy Gill]

No, I should get credit for being in a 16 year relationship.

[Zach Zaslow]

Or earlier.

[Billy Gill]

Sounds AM radio. I can buy a ring.

[Zach Zaslow]

Oh, so. So it's about. It's about money. Not about.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, like for instance, you love money. When Billy gets the.

[Zach Zaslow]

We know that. Women, wives. Come on.

[Chris Cody]

You better be careful. Wives is one thing. You say wives, that's one thing.

[Zach Zaslow]

That is a.

[Chris Cody]

You better. You know what? You know what? Hold on a second. Because he's getting too comfortable too. I need all of you to get a little less comfortable. Just slightly less comfortable. All right.

[Billy Gill]

We've got a penalty. Five minutes.

[Zach Zaslow]

Major asshole.

[Chris Cody]

I know. It's a Wild Willy Wednesday. Just slightly less comfortable. Comfortable.

[Zach Zaslow]

I talk fast. You know the words. They come out wrong.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, where does he rank on the list?

[Chris Cody]

Get your soda drinker's body out of here.

[Amin Elhassan]

He does have a soda drinker's body. He drinks like Coke. Heavy. Not even zero. Not even diet.

[Dan Le Batard]

The best part is he just said he literally has never drank soda.

[Chris Cody]

So you're getting caught up.

[Amin Elhassan]

And anything else, Daniel?

[Chris Cody]

Yes, there's much, much else. The more as Chris likes to say. Don Lebatard.

[Zach Zaslow]

That was a long story.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, it's the only kind he tells.

[Billy Gill]

It's a short one for me. I tried to speed it up for you guys.

[Chris Cody]

You forgot about Leagues cup stugats.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

La Carreta is a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the 97 Marlin celebration. Because it was Lavon.

[Billy Gill]

Well, when Fidel died the first time. This is the Don Levatar show with the stugats.

[Chris Cody]

So put this on the poll as well. You got four seats in a booth. Are the two people sitting next to each other in two empty seats with two empty seats. Assholes. Cause you. None of you guys do this. None of you will sit next to your wife in a booth.

[Greg Cody]

I'll do that. Romance. You should try it sometimes.

[Chris Cody]

Zaz. Doesn't drink soda. But is Zaz having a soda drinker's body, Is that an insult? Cause Billy said that to Zaz and then said it wasn't an insult.

[Amin Elhassan]

Well, it takes one to know when Billy has a soda drinker's body. He drinks soda like there's nothing wrong with that.

[Billy Gill]

That's fine. I drink soda.

[Chris Cody]

No, but he. But Billy's got a high school pole vaulters.

[Greg Cody]

Collegiate. Collegiate.

[Chris Cody]

Excuse me.

[Amin Elhassan]

High school too, though, because that's how he started. He had that.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, wait a minute. So does Bill. No, because I think you don't think of soda drinkers. Body is soft.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah. I'm looking at Billy. I think he's a little soft. Yeah. Like, he has, you know, he does his peloton stuff. His lower body's very strong, but the upper body needs a little work.

[Billy Gill]

I weighed myself two days ago, and it's the second second heaviest I've ever been.

[Greg Cody]

Really?

[Billy Gill]

Yeah. Second heaviest.

[Greg Cody]

What's the number?

[Billy Gill]

The number now?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

Well, now I feel judgment.

[Dan Le Batard]

When was the heaviest?

[Greg Cody]

Not the heaviest.

[Billy Gill]

So right now I was at 203. Nice. That's. It's not nice.

[Dan Le Batard]

When was that?

[Amin Elhassan]

£200.

[Chris Cody]

Nice.

[Billy Gill]

I know, but I fancy myself, even though I'm taller. I always thought, like, I was. I grew up a skinny boy, so I've always thought, like, that's my body type. So, like, even though, like, I'm six foot plus, I, you know, I think, like, I should be like the 180s, where I'd really. I'd be like, skinny if I did that.

[Greg Cody]

Same note, too, bro. I was a skinny person for most of my life, and then now when I look at the number, I'm like, that seems really heavy.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

But I look at myself in the mirror and I see a skinny person, but then I see myself in a photograph and I'm like, oh, that dude's not skinny, man.

[Billy Gill]

Well, I have, like, body dysmorphia, right? Because, like, when I. When I was like at 180, 190, I'm like, I should, like, I could put on easy, like 10 pounds of muscle. Be like 200, like, ideal. Like, if I'm fit, right? And then I get to 200, I'm like, Whoa, this is like a threshold I'm probably not going to go back from. And then I'm not gonna get back under 200. 207 was the highest. The thing is that when I do exercise and I put on muscle, I don't lose weight. I stay the same weight. So Then I look at it, I'm like, yeah, I'm fat.

[Amin Elhassan]

Reason is because muscle weighs more than fat.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah. What do you think, Dan?

[Chris Cody]

Well, I'm a bit confused because I don't know. I don't have proper information. I've always thought you look like an athlete. You are an athlete. You were an athlete when you crushed everyone in sprints. It's as good as anyone around here has ever looked. We don't have a better photograph out here or a better athletic memory than you beating Amin and Pablo pulling hamstrings and Chris Cody, who surprised us. And you look muscular. You look like Thor. It's the most confident Billy I have ever seen. So I always look at you and I assume that you feel like you're in an athlete's body. So I was surprised to hear you say that you have body dysmorphia. And then I was further surprised to look in and see no introspection from you. When Tony's saying you've got a soda drinker's body because you genuinely believe that's not an insult.

[Billy Gill]

I told you descriptive.

[Chris Cody]

But because soda drinker's body is an. It's absolutely an insult. He's saying you're soft.

[Zach Zaslow]

Saying you look like you consume something that is entirely unhealthy.

[Greg Cody]

Can I come to Billy's defense here?

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

By way of example, I don't think Dan has a soda drinker's body.

[Chris Cody]

I'm listening to you guys and I'm just saying I've been fat all my life.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's an empanada body.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. Now that. Yes.

[Chris Cody]

You got. You got nothing to say here.

[Billy Gill]

You.

[Amin Elhassan]

Got all the above.

[Greg Cody]

Everybody.

[Chris Cody]

You were saying. I'm sorry.

[Greg Cody]

No, I was saying you don't have a soda drinker's body. I don't. Look at you. This guy consumes soda. You. You got a soda.

[Zach Zaslow]

Except I like. I literally don't drink soda.

[Greg Cody]

Well, that's the.

[Chris Cody]

So that's the other. So, Tony, we have two. What's the more shocking fact? And you'll be fully caught up here whether this person has never. You know what. Not shocking fact. I'm going to say disgusting fact or what's another. Now I'm having trouble.

[Greg Cody]

Number four on the list.

[Chris Cody]

Thank you.

[Amin Elhassan]

You say it and then I'll correct you.

[Chris Cody]

All right. All right. So these are the two things we have to put next to each other that I want to compare. Zaz has never had a soda in his life.

[Greg Cody]

Lies.

[Chris Cody]

Greg Cody's first date was with his wife was at Pizza Hut.

[Greg Cody]

But it was a different. We got it.

[Billy Gill]

How old were they? Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

And we also have to put things in perspective. What? Pizza Hut? That's not the Pizza Hut that you know now.

[Zach Zaslow]

Yeah, that was a classy place. That was a restaurant.

[Billy Gill]

You guys remember when Wendy's used to a salad bar? Yes. That was a proper restaurant.

[Zach Zaslow]

Of course.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Proper society.

[Billy Gill]

How old were they when they went in this day?

[Dan Le Batard]

This was college when they first met.

[Billy Gill]

Understandable. Ish.

[Zach Zaslow]

By far. The. The standout of that story is not that your father took your mother to a Pizza Hut. It's that on the first date, they sat on the same side of the.

[Dan Le Batard]

Booth together and it creeped her out.

[Zach Zaslow]

Like, to this day she should.

[Dan Le Batard]

She still makes fun of him for doing that.

[Greg Cody]

Romance. You should try it sometime.

[Chris Cody]

You guys are saying that Pizza Hut was a classy place. You're saying that back when they served prime rib in first class on airpl.

[Greg Cody]

And you could smoke.

[Chris Cody]

You guys are saying that pizza had. Because in my childhood, I went to Pizza Hut. It was the big reward. That was. That was money in my childhood. But. But it's not because I thought it was classy.

[Zach Zaslow]

Dress up.

[Chris Cody]

No, there was a buffet. Like, I didn't. I don't think of any place classy having a buffet. Do you? Whoa.

[Greg Cody]

Fogo de Chao. Got a buffet there.

[Amin Elhassan]

Texas.

[Chris Cody]

Put it on the Polat Lebatard show. Does a classy. Does a classy place ever have a buffet at Lebatard show?

[Billy Gill]

Same sight on a first date is crazy, cuz. Isn't that like. Same like Ted Bundy era? Also, it's like, that's. That's a little creepy.

[Greg Cody]

Look at that tablecloth. So fancy. Red and white checkers.

[Zach Zaslow]

Oh, my. I wish I was there right now.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, this is a lot better lit than most Pizza Huts. I remember. I remember them being very dimly lit.

[Zach Zaslow]

Look at chandelier.

[Chris Cody]

You guys don't have this right, though. Even through a child's eyes. And that's a fat kid's eyes. Pizza Hut. I went into it and as a child, knowing not what good things were, I was like, this is not a classic, dude.

[Billy Gill]

Pizza Hut is where we would go for. For the end of year trophy ceremony after my baseball league every year. Like, Pizza Hut was like a thing.

[Greg Cody]

I'm sorry. Where were you guys going in college on dates? Were you going out to white linen restaurants? Come on, man. The guy was a journalism major, for crying out loud. How much money you have in his pocket? You go out some fancy restaurant. Pizza Hut was A nice affordable option. It wasn't like going to McDonald's, but it also wasn't going to break the bank. And by the way, romantic. Sit next to her.

[Zach Zaslow]

Creepy.

[Chris Cody]

All right, I should. I've blown these phrasing.

[Amin Elhassan]

The more shocking thing, Dan, is Zaz not having a soda for doing 19, 000 years of morning radio. He's never had a soda's insane.

[Zach Zaslow]

Because soda's great.

[Billy Gill]

Look at soda.

[Amin Elhassan]

I think of morning radio.

[Billy Gill]

Can I ask a serious question? You haven't had soda for real?

[Zach Zaslow]

No, no. I mean, I've had some sodas, but like I. I don't drink soda. I would never say, can I have a coke? Can I have a Pepsi?

[Billy Gill]

So why do you look like that? Right.

[Chris Cody]

Damn. So I'll be honest. I'm rattled because I'm scared because now Billy's the one getting confidence and I don't know what to. I don't know what to do with it. Like it's a creature I have not experienced in 20 years. And so just blurting. Yeah. I got body dysmorphia and sitting next to Tony. So I'm just confused by what's happening here.

[Dan Le Batard]

I have what I think is our best nomination of. Of a world class athlete with a soda body. Better than Partolo cologne.

[Tony]

That's a flan body.

[Dan Le Batard]

Patrick Mahomes.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, that's a good. Actually what you're. I just thought about the picture of him with a shirt off and it's like that doesn't look like the best quarterback in the world.

[Amin Elhassan]

Soda or beer?

[Tony]

No, see, that's soda.

[Amin Elhassan]

Beer body to me.

[Greg Cody]

I don't think.

[Tony]

No. Jabba Chamberlain beer body.

[Dan Le Batard]

Perfect. Yeah, Perfect. Never been better.

[Amin Elhassan]

Dan. Beer body.

[Chris Cody]

Well, beer body. I associate beer body with Greg Cody. Like to me it's. And it's hardened. So you're. It's like a beer body isn't necessarily soft in the belly. A beer belly is hard.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Zach Zaslow]

Doesn't get hard and round.

[Chris Cody]

Yes. But I don't think of Patrick Mahomes as.

[Tony]

See, that is soda right there. The only reason he's not really defined, he's strong. But the lack of definition coming from.

[Billy Gill]

The soda, he'd benefit from not shaving his body. Like he shaves his nips and he shaves his belly. If he had a little hair there, I feel like it'd mask it a little bit better.

[Greg Cody]

What's it going to look like when he stops playing football? Geez. This is what it looks like when he's working out every day.

[Chris Cody]

I wouldn't body shame him?

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm kind of praising him like this.

[Billy Gill]

Man, can I take that body any minute.

[Dan Le Batard]

He can drink soda and still do that.

[Chris Cody]

I'm learning things this hour. I did not know before right now that this great champion was a porpoise. I did not know that he was oddly hairless. That was something that was pointed out to be. So thank you for teaching me that. I am sorry that I phrased the question so badly on the differences between Cody and Zaz. But what's the better content? Cody, first date, Pizza Hut. Zaz has never had a soda because you guys ended up combining them. But the question I was going for there before I tripped over Billy's confidence.

[Greg Cody]

Was that I'm gonna call. So, like, when you go to McDonald's or burger.

[Zach Zaslow]

Never, never, never, never have soda.

[Billy Gill]

No.

[Greg Cody]

What do you get?

[Zach Zaslow]

You got a meal, the lemonade or the fruit punch?

[Greg Cody]

I mean, that's so much better.

[Amin Elhassan]

Even worse.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, whatever.

[Dan Le Batard]

It tastes 40.

[Zach Zaslow]

You think that coke tastes better than that high C fruit punch?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Amin Elhassan]

How much high C fruit punch you think you've had in your life?

[Zach Zaslow]

Enough.

[Billy Gill]

McDonald's high C orange is elite. Yeah, they discontinued it and there was like a movement and they brought it back.

[Zach Zaslow]

Soda sucks. I got news for you.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, you suck. I got news for you, Don LeBatard. I thought that we were past the Lightning. I thought that we were better than the Lightning. And we didn't give the Lightning any mind. This is loser mentality.

[Chris Cody]

Last year's shirt was World War three.

[Zach Zaslow]

Yeah, our group chat has a good feeling about this.

[Billy Gill]

The pants, the Lightning. The Lightning aren't shit to me. I'm just going to come right out and tell you right now. We have surpassed the Lightning. They're not a formidable foe. They're a joke.

[Chris Cody]

Stugats.

[Billy Gill]

I don't take them seriously at all. Strike me by lightning. I don't care. Nothing's going to happen to me. Lightning are soft. I'm not giving them any mind. I'm not paying attention to them. This series. On to the next round. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, this is getting bad and I don't know what to do about it.

[Billy Gill]

But he took a personal shot.

[Chris Cody]

It's in your contract. It's your day. It's your day. We you negotiate.

[Billy Gill]

Soda sucks. Which is more cutting.

[Zach Zaslow]

Personal shot at you.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah. If anyone knows me, you love soda. I love soda.

[Zach Zaslow]

What are you, the inventor of soda?

[Billy Gill]

I wish.

[Amin Elhassan]

His mother in law has to hide the soda so he doesn't drink it at his house.

[Billy Gill]

I stopped buying soda unless I get pizza. If I get pizza, I get soda. Get a two liter, I get a two liter. And that's where I get in trouble because I then have that for a couple days after. And you know, let's be real. I have pizza more than once a week. So the soda ends up making its way back into my house. And if you're. If you listen to me, pizza establishments. And this goes along the lines of what Chris is saying, if your pizza establishment is offering Pepsi, don't do it. Respect to the Pepsi people out there and the Pepsi Corp. If they're gonna sponsor us or if they don't, whatever. But I will go out of my way to buy Coca Cola elsewhere. I will make multiple stops if I have to.

[Greg Cody]

Really?

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, multiple stops if I have to.

[Greg Cody]

Pizza Hut is a Pepsi kind of. They're in the family, the Frito Lay family.

[Billy Gill]

So I'll have Pepsi if I must. But if I'm ordering pizza, I do. I'm a big takeout guy. Like, I'll order it and then I'll drive and I'll go get it. It's quicker to me.

[Greg Cody]

Yes.

[Billy Gill]

Saves me a couple shekels. I then go out of my way and I pay them a tip anyways, which is a whole like. Well, I'm giving them like 10, 15%. When I'm doing, you know, the majority of the exact effort there.

[Greg Cody]

All you have to do is do.

[Billy Gill]

Your job and then defending on. Depending on where I go, like, then I'll pull into a farm store. Do you guys know about farm store? It's not like a. It's not a national chain. In fact, it's barely a local chain anymore. They've been closing around left and right. There's florists now that, you know, occupy old farms. It's like a drive through convenience store, basically. I'm sure you have.

[Zach Zaslow]

You don't know about farm stores.

[Billy Gill]

Just not farm stores. Yeah, it's shaped like a little barn. It's called farm stores.

[Dan Le Batard]

The cow on the picture, we call it lavakita.

[Billy Gill]

Lavaquita, which is the cow in Spanish. The little cow.

[Chris Cody]

Exactly. Miami it is.

[Billy Gill]

Pull up.

[Zach Zaslow]

You're like, yo, give me that 2%.

[Dan Le Batard]

They got him in.

[Billy Gill]

Billy almost bought one guy, dude. I had one that I was buying that I wanted to buy for the longest time. You know what stops me from following my dreams?

[Greg Cody]

What's that?

[Billy Gill]

Resources. Yeah, If I had the resources, I would have bought up a series of La Vaquitas and one of them that I wanted to buy, it's right by my house. It's still vacant. Ish. But I can tell they're doing work on it. It said close for remodeling. Reopening in 2014. And they took down that sign last year. So I knew that that sign was a little bit faulty because it had been a decade that that sign was up. I wanted to buy it just to make it my office. So, like, if I was doing Zoom work, it was gonna be from inside a farm store that's down the street from my house.

[Zach Zaslow]

Like your work office would be farm stores?

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, yeah. It'd be closed to the public, but it would be a farm store that I have taken over and made into a little mini studio for me.

[Zach Zaslow]

Stupid idea.

[Greg Cody]

No, great idea, because this is what you could do. Come through the drive thru.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Who do we have today? Oh, it's Izzy Gutierrez, and he's in his car. And you just do the whole interview like that.

[Billy Gill]

The problem is I live in an elderly area, so they would not have respected my drive through. They would not have disrespected my parking spaces that are there for my thing. It's right next to a Sedano's. It would have been an entire disaster. But the point is, is I go out of my way to buy a Coca Cola. So if I go to this one chain, right next to it, there's a farm store. I buy a Coca Cola, they sell it to you for like $6. It's like insane prices at Farm Source because they sell you the convenience and the fact that it's cold.

[Chris Cody]

Billy, I am willing. Okay, this is. This makes me very uncomfortable. To have. To have negotiated with you that you now get Wild Willie Wednesdays. And to have you now this growing confidence that makes it so that I want every local hour to feel like this. And what I'm telling you is if right now we can make a deal of some sort where you find out for me what that Vaquita costs, I would like Metal Arc to buy it.

[Zach Zaslow]

That seems.

[Billy Gill]

I need to stop you on behalf of Metal Arc.

[Chris Cody]

Listen. I need to listen on behalf of.

[Billy Gill]

Stuart rc, Moneyo, whatever his job is. Listen, you gotta stop that.

[Chris Cody]

No, this is what I'm telling. This is what I am telling you. What you just mentioned is such an integral part of my childhood. I don't believe these stores exist anywhere else that I loved so much. It seemed to me.

[Zach Zaslow]

Did they ever exist anywhere else?

[Chris Cody]

Look, I don't know, but when you.

[Billy Gill]

Said I think the business model does, but not that chain.

[Chris Cody]

When I was growing up and I don't know. Do kids always know when they don't have money? Because my parents did a good job of sort of concealing it. And so they tricked us. And I didn't really know, but I knew that pizza hut wasn't a classy place. But it's the best we could do.

[Zach Zaslow]

Still wrong.

[Chris Cody]

And in that time in our life, I've got scared parents. Totally scared. Like, they don't speak, you know, they're in a different country and stuff. The height of luxury to me was, you mean we can drive to la vaquita and just. They'll give you a gallon of milk and just put it in your car like that there. I don't believe that there are tiny drive through grocery stores like this all over America. Maybe there are in small town America. I really don't know. But I've always thought of la vaquita as something that only I've ever seen here. And I would love to buy one of those. And so what I'm telling you, it's.

[Billy Gill]

Hard to get one. I'm telling you, one of them now is a florist. That's where I got my sunflowers from.

[Greg Cody]

Drive to.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah. Well, no, I have to park and get down to get my sunflower. I like when I buy my sunflowers. Everybody knows this about me. When I buy my sunflowers, I like to pick them out myself.

[Chris Cody]

We got to find out what this cost. Metal arc media can turn that into a vaquita. Studios for Billy Gill. Like, that is something that I would love to do. God bless football living out of lavaquita.

[Amin Elhassan]

One on us. One, by the way, for me, if you want to do that.

[Chris Cody]

Well, how many of these are there? Like, I thought these were dead. I have never. I've never seen one again. I only saw them in my childhood, and they were not luxury.

[Zach Zaslow]

I passed by one on how. Andale.

[Billy Gill]

Okay, so is it still open, like functioning as a farm store? Yeah, some are still functioning. Others you can tell, used to be far. They used to be everywhere. But now you can tell this used to be a farm store. It like a Pizza Hut. Like, you can tell what used to be a pizza hut because the distinct shape of the roof.

[Greg Cody]

Right.

[Billy Gill]

And most of them kept that roof and just painted it a different color.

[Zach Zaslow]

Because that was class.

[Billy Gill]

Like, if you see there's an IHOP by me that turned into a bank. And I was like, yeah, that used to be a bank. You know what you know what a lot of banks are turning into now? I don't know if you guys have caught this, and I don't understand what's going on. Restaurants, dispensers. There's a lot of former banks that are dispensaries. And someone told me it's because of the vault, and that's why the dispensary goes and buys old banks, because then they have the vault.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's also the same model of, like, you walk up to a teller and there's like a bunch of different people that are serving you. I've heard. Whoa.

[Greg Cody]

Imagine using that as a bong.

[Chris Cody]

Jeremy, would you do me the favor, please, and just. I don't know how hard this is going to be, but I'd like to know what one of those cost. And I also would like to know what. What. The vaquita near Billy's house. I want to know what one of those cost. Because these are tiny pieces of real estate there. It's the smallest grocery store you've ever seen. I don't. I've never seen them anywhere else. And so somebody please tell me if this is something that's all over the United States or something that is South Florida specific.

[Zach Zaslow]

Why don't we just go to the one near you, Billy, you pull up at that farm stores and you say to the guy, yo, what's this shit cost?

[Billy Gill]

It's boarded up. They bought. They closed the hurricane shutters. And I'm telling you, it says close for remodeling. Reopening in 2014, and it has not reopened. And then recently I've seen they've done like, the exterior work. Like, you know, when there's cracks on, like, the concrete outside or whatever, you see like just a random patches there. Something's. Something's coming. Yeah, maybe they're prepping.

[Greg Cody]

According to the farm store website, it costs anywhere between 230 and 570. $1,000. That's quite the range.

[Dan Le Batard]

And $700.

[Chris Cody]

Well, sorry, it is quite the range. I'd like to find out, though, not just how much it costs. Jeremy, please find for us how many of these there are. Because not the tiny little ones that are drive throughs, because it's not something I've seen before since, but it really did seem to a fat kid like, oh, my God, this is. This is heaven.

[Amin Elhassan]

This is at the doors and pancuano. All of a sudden you get in.

[Chris Cody]

You'Re like, oh, it's hot, but it's instantaneous. You guys were complaining about. You sit at the Bar. Cause you want your food immediately. Wait, I don't have to park. I don't have to go inside.

[Zach Zaslow]

I don't have to.

[Chris Cody]

You're just gonna put the gallon of milk. You're just gonna give through the window. This American place is great.

[Greg Cody]

Blew your mind. Blew young Dan Levitard's mind.

[Zach Zaslow]

I loved it. I thought Farm Stores was so good. I mean, we were there every other night. If we're in the car and we're out, we pass by Farm Source. We always need something. So we just pull up to the Farm Stores. Yo, I need an orange juice.

[Greg Cody]

So what's the inside look like? It's just a bunch of people running around.

[Chris Cody]

It's one person. It's one.

[Dan Le Batard]

You don't go in there. He goes and gets whatever.

[Zach Zaslow]

It's like the smallest version of a gas station convenience store.

[Chris Cody]

It's half a gas. It's a quarter of a gas station.

[Greg Cody]

All this version, the picture looked pretty big. It looked like a regular store, I believe.

[Chris Cody]

Billy's Vagita Studios. All your dreams coming true near your house in. I would love to build studios over there.

[Billy Gill]

It's just it. To be honest with you. And we've. We found it somewhat in this studio, too. I think you would agree it limits our growth options. You know, like, we built to what we are presently. But, like, if I build a Lavaquita Studios and then I have, like, I can't really branch out and have a second show or second studio in there. It's a little cramped. There's no, you know, like, office before.

[Chris Cody]

You negotiate the next building.

[Billy Gill]

Well, no, you need to. You need to think. Think. You need a plan for growth. You know, that's why sometimes we can't. We have the one I us one, though, because, you know, Zazlo is in there. Izzy's in there having a meeting. Well, in the green room.

[Chris Cody]

You know what? It's funny that you should say that, right? Because I. We need to plan for growth. So. Funny thing happened on the way to the DraftKings money. Florida was going to get gambling. And you should have seen how big our next studio was going to be. But we're stuck in a parking garage because this is what eleven is building and the Ulster is building next to all this stuff. But then Florida lost the ability to have gambling. This thing was going to be a sprawling thing, and instead we're all cramped in here. So start with Lake. So you just start there, and then you negotiate your way up, up.

[Greg Cody]

It's like the opposite of Lone Depot. Park, which is cavernous because they. They plan for growth. And I went to the game last night, I saw the Padres play, and I was like, I got to see these Padres. I got to see Tatis Son.

[Billy Gill]

Right, like, also named Tatis.

[Greg Cody]

Yes, Tatis Jr. Jr. Right. And so I went and I'm like, let's see this. And I was staggered by just how big and empty this building is.

[Zach Zaslow]

You've never been there there?

[Greg Cody]

I've been there before, but I don't think I ever. I never sat in the seats. We went to a game where we were in the.

[Amin Elhassan]

The box.

[Greg Cody]

In the box. So it's a different experience. Right. But sitting in the seats where I'm looking at a full row in front of me, that's empty, and I'm looking at whole sections. It's empty. And I, I was like, wait, the Padres are good. This is a good game. Right. This isn't like going to go see, you know, one of the worst teams in the league. This is a pretty good team that's from the west coast or whatever. I thought there would be more people.

[Zach Zaslow]

Thinking if you're like, oh, it's my one chance to see the Padres.

[Greg Cody]

Well, but then the other thing I thought about is like, like, well, they built this thing with the idea that, you know, because the. This was around the same era of all these stadiums and arenas were like, no, big. Big. Because one day we might have a thing that's has like 40,000 people.

[Zach Zaslow]

Well, they built it with the idea that all those in the parking garage, like, all those shops would be occupied.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah. The first floor of all the garages are, like, built with storefronts. There was a brewery that closed, and I'm telling you, there's a urologist office in one of them. And that's.

[Greg Cody]

It's the only modern building I've seen that doesn't have a shit ton of bars and restaurants outside, surrounding, like every single arena in the country that's not like 100 years old or whatever has, like right outside all of these kind of like feeder establishments like Wrigleyville. Yeah. They're just trying to grab. Hey, all the people who are on the way. You want to stop off and get a beer, you get a sandwich order, because it's crazy price in there, or you're leaving, you're going to linger and loiter around there.

[Zach Zaslow]

Instead we got Bull Bar.

[Billy Gill]

They closed that.

[Zach Zaslow]

Oh, really?

[Billy Gill]

Yeah. Boulevard closed you a couple years ago.

[Dan Le Batard]

You'd think they could have one. Like, I get it. Maybe we don't have enough attendance to have a whole Wrigleyville. But like we need one big bar that is like a good place to go before houses.

[Greg Cody]

That's the thing is that houses right there.

[Billy Gill]

It literally was a residential area that they put it in. I think they like bought up like the area around it. So it's not. If you want to go to Little Havana, there's 8th street, like down the street and that's where you kind of go to little Havana. So it never really materialized. I've heard though, and I read somewhere that they're buy up like plots around there that I think they're going to try to turn into something. But I mean we're like 13 years in at this.

[Greg Cody]

Who's responsible for choosing that site?

[Tony]

I wonder who would decide to do.

[Greg Cody]

Something who would have had such little foresight and to just select that of all places. Dan, any ideas?

[Chris Cody]

Don't make the mistakes. I did. Billy. Let's figure out how to buy Laquita. How many of them are there, Jeremy?

[Tony]

There are 60 total stores. There are 40 in floor.

[Billy Gill]

We don't need 40.

[Chris Cody]

So where are the other 20? I would love metal arc media to one day be big enough to buy all of.

[Billy Gill]

No, Stuart, don't do it.

[Tony]

Alabama, New York, New Jersey, Texas.

[Chris Cody]

Do I need to talk to Stuart?

[Billy Gill]

Don't. If you talk to Stuart, he's going to have you taken into like a crazy room.

[Chris Cody]

I don't like to talk to Stuart.

[Greg Cody]

The chief money officer.