The Big Suey: David's Debacle

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Podcast Summary: The Big Suey: David's Debacle

Episode Title: The Big Suey: David's Debacle
Release Date: August 4, 2025
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Greg Cody, Mike Ryan
Guests: Tony, Chris Cote, David Sampson, Billy Corben

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1. Mispronunciation Mishaps and Name Challenges

The episode kicks off with a humorous and relatable discussion about the frequent mispronunciations of names encountered by the hosts, particularly focusing on athletes' names. Dan Le Batard opens the conversation by admitting his own struggles:

Dan Le Batard [02:03]: "I have no problem with people who mispronounce names because I am guilty of it."

The group delves into specific examples, such as the mispronunciation of "Debacle" and Samoan names like "Omiyataka Nika Ogumake." Tony questions Dan’s pronunciation:

Tony [02:15]: "Deble."

This segment highlights the challenges broadcasters face in accurately pronouncing diverse names, leading to playful ribbing among the hosts.

2. Presidential Council: Athletes with Controversial Pasts

A significant portion of the discussion centers around the formation of a presidential council composed of athletes with checkered histories. Chris Cote expresses concern over the inclusion of figures like Lawrence Taylor and Mariano Rivera:

Chris Cote [07:21]: "I don't think you can relate to that quite."

Dan defends the administration's choices by suggesting that these athletes support the administration's agenda:

Dan Le Batard [07:43]: "People who support you can't turn your back on the number of people who voted for Trump."

The conversation critically examines the optics of normalizing individuals with past controversies in high-profile advisory roles:

Chris Cote [08:27]: "It continues to send a message that stuff like that is okay when you continue to normalize it."

3. Nostalgia for the Presidential Physical Fitness Test

The hosts reminisce about the mandatory physical fitness tests from their school days, recalling the dreaded monkey bars:

Dan Le Batard [11:07]: "I had the hardest time. It was a big thing and I was a small kid."

The playful debate over who among them can successfully navigate the monkey bars leads to laughter and light-hearted competition:

Mike Ryan [16:48]: "I can't do that."

This segment serves as a nostalgic nod to childhood experiences, fostering camaraderie among the hosts.

4. Frustrations with Self-Checkout Systems

Transitioning to everyday frustrations, the conversation shifts to the inefficacies of self-checkout systems in retail environments. Mike Ryan shares his exasperation:

Mike Ryan [33:37]: "I can't understand the difficulty that so many people seem to have with self checkout."

The hosts discuss common issues such as scanning multiple items and the lack of proper handling by some customers, emphasizing the preference for human interaction at checkout counters.

Tony [34:15]: "I hate the self checkout. It's really something that should be banned from American retail."

5. Concessions Chaos at Marlins Games

A key highlight of the episode is the recounting of a debacle involving running out of hot dogs at a Miami Marlins game. Dan Le Batard addresses the situation:

Dan Le Batard [42:06]: "It was so bad. We didn't actually run the hot dogs."

The discussion explores the logistical challenges of concession management at large sporting events, comparing it to other venues like the Bristol Speedway:

Tony [43:23]: "So who's at fault? Name that name. Who with the Dolphins at that time was in fault?"

The hosts analyze accountability, ultimately attributing the shortage to Bruce Schulzey’s management:

Dan Le Batard [43:24]: "Bruce, you're out there. He was a big time guy in the early 2000s with the Dolphins back when they were winning playoff games."

This segment underscores the complexities of event management and the impact of administrative decisions on fan experience.

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Notable Quotes:

• Dan Le Batard [02:03]: "I have no problem with people who mispronounce names because I am guilty of it."

• Chris Cote [07:21]: "I don't think you can relate to that quite."

• Mike Ryan [33:37]: "I can't understand the difficulty that so many people seem to have with self checkout."

• Dan Le Batard [42:06]: "It was so bad. We didn't actually run the hot dogs."

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Conclusion

In this episode of The Big Suey, Dan Le Batard and Stugotz, along with their lively co-hosts, navigate a gamut of topics from the humorous pitfalls of name pronunciations to the more serious implications of including controversial figures in government advisory roles. The hosts blend personal anecdotes with critical discussions, providing both entertainment and insight. Whether reminiscing about childhood fitness tests, venting about retail frustrations, or dissecting management blunders at sports venues, the conversation remains engaging and relatable for listeners who enjoy candid and diverse discussions on sports and pop culture.

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[David Sampson]

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[Mike Ryan]

Why are you listening to this show.

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Tony]

I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for that.

[David Sampson]

In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.

[Chris Cote]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there.

[David Sampson]

That hasn't happened to you guys.

[Tony]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Dan LeBatard]

I have no problem with people who mispronounce names because I am guilty of it. I have a I can't do it. I had a word wrong yesterday. Greg Debacle. Apparently that's not how to pronounce deble.

[Tony]

Yeah, deble.

[Dan LeBatard]

I've been pronouncing it debacle my whole life.

[Tony]

Really.

[Dan LeBatard]

And I don't consider myself get out of town. I thought it was debacle. I thought it was almond. I can give you a top five words that I've learned through nothing Personal. That I've been pronouncing wrong my entire life and no one bothered to tell me.

[Greg Cody]

You have it off the Dome.

[Dan LeBatard]

Almond debacle.

[Chris Cote]

A lot of people pronounce it almond. Just like salmon. It's a very Miami thing.

[Tony]

Almond Joy.

[Dan LeBatard]

Almond Joy.

[Tony]

Really?

[Greg Cody]

Well, I don't see anything wrong with that.

[Chris Cote]

Debacle is crazy. I've never heard that.

[Dan LeBatard]

I've never heard debacle How.

[Tony]

Wow.

[Mike Ryan]

Running the Marlins.

[Dan LeBatard]

It was always. It was always just a debacle, which is why I thought it was going great.

[Tony]

That's funny.

[Dan LeBatard]

Sovereign.

[Chris Cote]

That one's okay. It's understandable.

[Dan LeBatard]

I. I'm recently. And I'm not. Not, not educated.

[Tony]

You're a smart man. I feel like I am an otherwise smart man. Sovereign saying debacle.

[Dan LeBatard]

Sovereign.

[David Sampson]

David, we have video or sound of you not being great with names.

[Dan LeBatard]

WNBA president is Nika Ogumake.

[Greg Cody]

That's a tough one. Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do you know, Izzy, what goes on with Coca? Every day is in the rundown. I never actually know the spelling of people's names because he does it in. In what should be a. Phonetically. Phonetically.

[David Sampson]

That makes it harder for me. I don't know how people just read the phonetically spelled out one and be like, oh, okay, that makes sense. I spend, like 30 seconds on it.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh.

[Dan LeBatard]

Miyataka as an example. So it would be O, H, and then me, E, and then A, and then take a. And I'm supposed to read it. Omiyataka Nika Ogu Macke. Now is that wrong? As I sit here today. So I'm not going to criticize that. How wrong is that? Right. Just beyond. What is it?

[Chris Cote]

It's wrong.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's wrong.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know.

[Tony]

Knows. He just knows it's wrong.

[Dan LeBatard]

So I'm willing to go out on a limb and try it. And you'll just stay quiet. That's. That tracks. I'd rather try now. Tua is a famous one.

[Tony]

Yeah. How'd you do with that name? First time you tried it?

[Dan LeBatard]

I went to a.

[Tony]

Okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

But it's. But at MetalArk, at CBS and various other places, they didn't want us doing that.

[David Sampson]

It's tricky because there's an invisible N in there.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is it tango Bailoa.

[David Sampson]

Not Tonga. Almost like the tongue. Tongue of Iowa.

[Tony]

Tongue of Iloa.

[Dan LeBatard]

Tongue of Iloa.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

We acknowledge it's hard, and we're always looking to make fun of people who miss it. And Trump got it very wrong. And people then used it as confirmation bias, and I was bothered by that. Let's listen to how he bungled this name and to a tag O Valia.

[Mike Ryan]

The quarterback who is really, he's been fantastic. He's been.

[Dan LeBatard]

When he's not injured, he's great.

[Tony]

He's got to stay healthy, but he's. And he's a great guy.

[David Sampson]

David, that's a trick. You just got to sing your way through it.

[Dan LeBatard]

I thought he did great.

[Tony]

Tag O Valia. I don't blame Trump for that. I blame the advisor who's supposed to 10 minutes before he says that. Explain to him this is how you pronounce the.

[Greg Cody]

Greg, here's the thing. He got the little chunk from the advisor of like, hey, when he's healthy he's good. If he's injured, you know, whatever. He's got an injury history.

[Tony]

So.

[Greg Cody]

So he nailed that. The problem is the name, you know, Ovalia.

[Dan LeBatard]

I just don't want to make fun of that because we could put a group a tape together. My guess is our great video team at any time could put a tape together of names that I've butchered. That you've butchered, right? It's part of the business.

[Tony]

No, you're right. I mean I probably went the first year after he was drafted saying Tagovaloa, you know, event. But eventually you learn that the way he pronounces it in the Samoan culture is tongvaloa and so you adapt and. But as somebody who has a mispronounced last name, I think it's important to get a name right. I think that's a sign of disrespect or even insulting if somebody gets your name wrong now you have a, you have a last name, a name that's never ever mispronounced. So I don't think you can relate to that quite.

[Dan LeBatard]

I've misspelled.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

People assume there's a p in it.

[Dan LeBatard]

So I very much get upset when people put a P in it, especially now that the Internet's around.

[Tony]

True. Yes.

[Dan LeBatard]

So there's no. I view mispronunciation and misspelling as two totally different things. Misspellings are inexcusable because you can go online and get the spelling.

[Chris Cote]

Any other takeaways that you have from Trump and his look away Avengers counsel that he, he formed for this Lawrence Taylor who has stuff a no contest with a 16 year old girl, Triple H, who was a part of WWE when Vince McMahon was doing his thing and it kind of boggles the mind as to how he didn't know something was up. I read that Mariano Rivera is a part of this council as well. He has his name in a lawsuit involving children. So why Harrison Butler, who's just a kicker, that's his only offense. But it's still puzzling. Why? Why does this administration seemingly go out of the way to normalize that kind of stuff? To put it very lightly, I don't.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think what the administration is actually trying to do is put together a group of athletes who are in favor of the administration and not be as hard to find as you think, and then those who are willing to stand up and acknowledge that they're okay being part of the administration. So what you're having is people who support you can't turn your back on the number of people who voted for Trump. It's not 5 million people. There are 80 million people who agree what he's doing.

[Chris Cote]

But this is an optics thing. Lauren Saylor even said, I don't know what we're doing, but I'm just here to help. If that's the bar. You can't find conservative leaning athletes like Kirk Cousins, for example, that have pretty spotless images. Certainly compared to the baggage that I outlined with Triple H, Lawrence Taylor and Mariano Rivera, you can't like it just, it's, it continues to send a message that stuff like that is okay when you continue to normalize it. And being on a presidential council that is, I mean, back in the day, supposed to be something that is bipartisan, you would think that stuff that is in Lawrence Taylor's past would be a disqualifier. Just because we're literally parading these people around to make speeches in front of a microphone, don't you want squeaky clean people?

[Tony]

It seems to me that Trump's priority is having his own vanity glorified. If I'm being honest, in my opinion, and Lawrence Taylor literally said the words, I'm here to serve you, Mr. President, or words to that effect. So this was a guy who was predisposed to be thrilled to be there, even though he also said, I'm really not sure why I'm here. It was just a whole cluster.

[Dan LeBatard]

You could be thrilled to be somewhere and not know why you're there.

[Tony]

Can you?

[Chris Cote]

I mean, just like Joe Biden for.

[Tony]

Four years, you don't find out he.

[Dan LeBatard]

Was thrilled to be there. In his mind, he was there for 15 years too. There's a little nugget about that that you may not know. I totally understand why you're saying this, Mike. I just don't view it as a consideration that Trump was making Nor do I think he has to. You've got a selection of people who may not want to appear on the dais with him. I used to call it dice, but that's number one on the list.

[Tony]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

Like, if they invited LeBron, LeBron would.

[Stugotz]

Not have been part of this.

[Dan LeBatard]

Council wouldn't have come.

[Chris Cote]

Understood. But there are plenty of athletes like Bryson Dechambeau, who was there, that are known to be conservative leaning and within one Google search on the first page are implicated in something terrible with children. There's plenty of people that have clean backgrounds that are conservative leanings that I think would. That you wouldn't have to have this discussion around.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm sorry, did you think that there was a qualification for being on this council to have had an issue with children? You're not making that bridge, are you?

[Chris Cote]

No, but I'm saying why isn't it taken into account, especially everything surrounding the President right now as he moves the most infamous human trafficker to a living human trafficker to a minimum security prison, Club Fed in Texas. I feel like you keep sending these subtle messages, and in Maxwell's case, a not so subtle message that the person that was held up by the right as being a champion against these sort of things turns out to be quite okay with it, will reward them with positions in the administration, will move you to a minimum security federal prison.

[Tony]

Well, Trump too has been rewarded in the middle of a campaign. He says of neo Nazis, there are good people on both sides. Nobody seems to care or not enough people say they flooded.

[Chris Cote]

That was during his first administration. We were so far removed from that stuff. And that was his huge first scandal. But now something seemingly happens every day.

[Dan LeBatard]

That they're not scandals anymore.

[Chris Cote]

No, no.

[David Sampson]

It's normalization.

[Tony]

Yeah. I mean, Lawrence Taylor being there was a blip. Right. Nobody seems to care.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't mind.

[Mike Ryan]

It's also a commission for bringing back the presidential physical fitness test. Like, this is a stupid thing, that council of stupid people.

[Chris Cote]

I took that very seriously and I think it went away because not everybody got the pull ups.

[Tony]

Were hard.

[Greg Cody]

Let's be honest.

[Mike Ryan]

All the things going on, this is the least serious and important.

[Chris Cote]

I got like a red patch, which I think was not as good as the navy blue patch. You wanted the navy blue patch. What about the yellow one?

[Tony]

That was bad.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. You don't want yellow.

[Tony]

Yellow's bad.

[Mike Ryan]

Yellow's bad.

[Tony]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

I can't believe that. I had the hardest time. It was a big thing and I was a small kid. I couldn't climb the rope free climb. A rope. And they, they, they'd hang a rope from the ceiling in my elementary school and there'd be bigger kids who were able to grab it and climb themselves up. And that was always part of the physical fitness test. And I just. I couldn't do it.

[Tony]

Yeah, I remember those tests as well.

[Dan LeBatard]

I was very weak. Maybe I'm still weak. Do you guys remember Izzy, I figure you were great at that stuff.

[Chris Cote]

Who was the president?

[David Sampson]

I was the third fastest child in my elementary school.

[Tony]

Really? Yellow.

[David Sampson]

We used to have races all the time.

[Chris Cote]

Did you have.

[David Sampson]

It was always actually fourth.

[Chris Cote]

So, Izzy, you participated in the presidential challenge.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

You didn't have a choice.

[Chris Cote]

You had to do it.

[Tony]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

They made you do it. What are the three faster kids up to nowadays?

[David Sampson]

One of them got a scholarship to Wyoming and played wide receiver out there. Didn't make it to the league, though. And the other two are, you know, just around.

[Chris Cote]

Greg, when you were doing this under Taft's administration, what were the physical challenges that you had to complete?

[Tony]

I remember and I could be wrong. Maybe I'm misassociating this with other stuff in phys Ed, but I remember the, the monkey bar thing where you'd same you'd be off the ground doing this and moving forward on A.

[David Sampson]

No, 100%. Monkey bars back in the day was.

[Mike Ryan]

Part of it really. Why do you just lose the ability to do that? Like little kids can do monkey bars so easily, but as an adult, they don't weigh anything. Not even.

[Greg Cody]

That's the whole purpose.

[David Sampson]

Your hands get a little weaker, a little bit more fragile.

[Tony]

I found that. I found the monkey bar easy because you just use your forward. Wait. It's a momentum thing. Right? Your. Your weight takes you to the next bar.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is that you actually go from one bar to the next to the next. You never had the hand catch up. I was always the catch up.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, no, you don't want to do that.

[Dan LeBatard]

I couldn't catch up.

[Tony]

Really?

[Dan LeBatard]

Who can swing?

[Tony]

I swung.

[Dan LeBatard]

I highly doubt it. I highly doubt it.

[Tony]

I can do it now.

[David Sampson]

Monkey bar.

[Tony]

You can do it now. Monkey bar. Not that difficult.

[Dan LeBatard]

If we had. What I would give for monkey bars in this studio.

[Tony]

This.

[Dan LeBatard]

There's not one chance you could go from bar one to bar three with one hand while the other hand is bar two.

[Tony]

I didn't say I skipped a bar.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, no, that's not skipping a bar to bar. That, that. That's. Well, when you go bar to bar, that means your left hand skips a bar and goes to the next bar while your right hand.

[Tony]

Yeah, I can do it. I've done that. Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

You're telling me that I have no love in a room full of hate.

[Mike Ryan]

I think that's a standard way to do it. Is how he would do it. You do one and then the other.

[Dan LeBatard]

And then you swing.

[Mike Ryan]

But David, point is right.

[Greg Cody]

You're going one to three with the same hand.

[Mike Ryan]

But. Okay, Greg's confused. Greg thinks that you're saying that he's skipping bars in the middle. What David does is David goes one hand, then the other hand on the same bar, then the other hand. No, I don't. The other hand. Yeah. I think yours is more of the common form to.

[Dan LeBatard]

I agree it's more common, but I'm also saying is he can't do it.

[David Sampson]

Now, look, there's a lot of things on this show that Greg has claimed he can do. This is the only one I believe.

[Tony]

Why? Yeah.

[David Sampson]

Thousand percent.

[Mike Ryan]

Why would you believe.

[David Sampson]

Because it's not that hard. And he's only 70 years old.

[Chris Cote]

How many years now?

[Mike Ryan]

How many people here do you think could do that?

[David Sampson]

Not you. Are we just said it.

[Mike Ryan]

Hold on. Are we just talking three bars?

[David Sampson]

Five of us?

[Mike Ryan]

How many bars?

[David Sampson]

I mean, what's standard? Is it like a dozen?

[Mike Ryan]

Let's say it's about a dozen.

[Tony]

You think 10 or 12.

[Mike Ryan]

You think that four out of this group of people can do 12 bars on the monkey bar?

[David Sampson]

I think five out of seven of us can do it.

[Mike Ryan]

I'll come right out and say, I cannot do that.

[David Sampson]

You were a collegiate pole vaulter.

[Mike Ryan]

I know, but I live in. In reality now.

[Chris Cote]

Now can't do not even pulling yourself up that much. You're just that much momentum.

[David Sampson]

It's not like they're that far away.

[Dan LeBatard]

Guys are misremembering what it takes. I go down, they have these bars. It's one of the things that the budgets have done when they didn't do stadium financing is they added, like, little parks where you can work out.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

And so it's public and so there's hands everywhere. But there are monkey bars. Right? On South Beach.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

So we could all go to south beach and we could shirtless, do the monkey bars. And I'm telling you now you're talking that Izzy, in my opinion, with Mike and Tony as a possible two and three, that's it.

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[Chris Cote]

I think all of us could do 12.

[Tony]

12.

[Dan LeBatard]

I, I, I'm telling you now that I can.

[Greg Cody]

12 what? Consecutive 12 in a row.

[Chris Cote]

Just like 12 a dozen. Monkey bar handle hand.

[Greg Cody]

You know what the issue is for me is that I've always been so long that my feet drag on your head bottom and I can't exactly end up.

[Mike Ryan]

You're a big guy.

[Greg Cody]

I am.

[Tony]

It's hard.

[Greg Cody]

It's easier when you're lighter to be able to do the monkey bar. That's the same way with pull ups.

[Mike Ryan]

That's why like American Ninja Warriors. So hard. You look at these guys and you're like, oh my God, this guy's like a 6 foot 4 Adonis. This person's gonna be like great at this. And then they get, it's like, oh no. You have to have all of your weight on like your four fingers.

[David Sampson]

Whoa, whoa. That's quite the leap of monkey bars to American Ninja Warriors. Greg knows this. Right on the first one, Greg, you just let the weight take you and you just start the momentum. You just got to grab the bar and don't be afraid. Let your weight continue to take you.

[Dan LeBatard]

Exactly.

[Tony]

Rhythmic thing.

[Mike Ryan]

What's my motivation? What's underneath me? If all piranhas, okay, but is it fire? Is it lava?

[Dan LeBatard]

Sand?

[Mike Ryan]

Sand on sanding your shoes. I could do two and I'm down. I'm in the sand. I don't know my shoes.

[Greg Cody]

What if it's a piranha lake full of piranhas?

[Mike Ryan]

Then, then we're talking if I have the proper motivation to not why dogs do better.

[Tony]

Yeah, snapping the alligators.

[Greg Cody]

Well, that's a good one, Greg.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean I could pull the old Peter Pan and run across the tops of the alligators. You know what I mean? That's very good point.

[Tony]

Yeah, very good point.

[David Sampson]

Same outfit too, right?

[Dan LeBatard]

I miss those challenges.

[Chris Cote]

Why would Peter Pan do that?

[Mike Ryan]

I think it was Captain Hook or shmee that did. I don't think Peter Pan, actually.

[Chris Cote]

He's got the power of flight. Why would he even try?

[Mike Ryan]

Well, Captain. Yeah, well, Captain Hook notoriously lost a battle with a crocodile alligator.

[Chris Cote]

Captain Hook was very good at, like, lost his hand, you know, at balancing between the two jaws that were trying to close on him.

[David Sampson]

That's right.

[Greg Cody]

Like John Claude Van Damme.

[Mike Ryan]

If I was on Captain Hook's boat and I see a captain that lost a battle with an alligator, I think I'd try him. I think I'd see.

[Greg Cody]

But he's got a hook.

[Mike Ryan]

I think. I think I'd give it a go. I think I'd see what we could do here, you know, pirate life. Not for me. I'll just say that right now, I don't think I'd be a good pirate. So if I'm gonna be a pirate, and I know that I'm gonna be living with, you know, like, famine and scurvy and whatever, I want to be the captain. Scurvy is what I want to be called. You know what I mean? I don't want to be like some underling on some pirate ship getting scurvy. I'd go, try this, Captain, and if I die, I die. But it's better than living a life full of scurvy and servitude, you know, he's right.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. But you get to the other side, and you get the treasure. The whole purpose of being the pirate is that you get what you steal.

[Tony]

Oh, they share.

[Mike Ryan]

They didn't get a share. Not a good share.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's a small share. Don't get me wrong. You always want to be the boss. Boss gets the most share.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, I know.

[Dan LeBatard]

Out of everything. You guys know it.

[Chris Cote]

Captain Hook would also be a good addition to the presidential council. Not just because he's ideologically aligned, but that dude hates kids.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

On the balance of things, you can be like, okay, well, these guys are the guy that quite. But Captain Hook hates kids.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't like kids either, but that doesn't mean I have an issue with them. In terms of what you're describing.

[Tony]

Hmm.

[Mike Ryan]

Clarify that you don't like kids, but you don't have an issue with them. What do you mean?

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, what Mike had been describing are legal issues that people had with kids. Oh, Zagak, I don't have that.

[Chris Cote]

Okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

I just generally don't enjoy kids. I had a kid at my house this weekend leave.

[Mike Ryan]

You left the kid alone in your house?

[Dan LeBatard]

No, the kid had parents, okay. Parents came with the kid. And that was not allowed because there's no pets. No kids allowed at my house. And they showed up with the kid.

[Mike Ryan]

How'd this happen?

[Greg Cody]

He's got like a rule book. It's like, no, no pets.

[Mike Ryan]

No, I know, but touch this. Why the kid? Why was there a kid in your house?

[Dan LeBatard]

There was some issue that all of a sudden, no babysitter, no this, no that. There's a kid there.

[Tony]

What's the age limit on that rule of yours?

[Dan LeBatard]

Bar mitzvah.

[David Sampson]

Oh, so they can find your friends.

[Tony]

Yeah, they can be 14.

[Dan LeBatard]

14 is not a kid.

[Tony]

To me it is.

[Mike Ryan]

That's. No, no.

[Dan LeBatard]

You're responsible at 14 to not touch stuff.

[Tony]

Really?

[Chris Cote]

Have you been 14?

[Dan LeBatard]

I have. And I've had 14. I've had three 14 year olds. They're messy. No, but they're responsible.

[Tony]

Okay.

[Greg Cody]

Aren't you worried about the mess though? Or is that something you can clean so you're not too worried about it?

[Dan LeBatard]

I came to Florida, abandoned your house. I left.

[Mike Ryan]

The kid's still there.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

Eminent domain. No.

[Dan LeBatard]

Squatter.

[Mike Ryan]

You lose your house now that.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, no years.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know.

[Dan LeBatard]

Main is when you eminent domain. If you guys want to do that in your own homes. If you own, you can put a fence and it's not really eminent domain. It's called adverse possession. But you can put a fence not on your property line. And if your neighbor doesn't say anything after a period of years, you've adversely possessed that property, you can then go to the town and you can redraw your property and that land is yours.

[David Sampson]

What if you live in a condo like room of the next person?

[Mike Ryan]

I could put a fence around my neighbor's house.

[Dan LeBatard]

You can put a fence around more than your property. Fence in your property that's larger than your property. If the owner of the other property does not say anything and it goes on for a period of years, then you've adversely possessed that land and it becomes your land.

[Mike Ryan]

But it has to be connected to my land. Like I can't just go to the beach and make a sandcastle. Like, this is my beach now.

[Dan LeBatard]

If you lived there and you put a environment around it, you could not if it's federally owned or state owned, but if it's somebody else's property, you'd then possess it.

[Tony]

Really? And you think that would withstand a legal challenge?

[Dan LeBatard]

That's the whole point of that's whatever's possession is.

[Tony]

Wow.

[Dan LeBatard]

So that's legal concept.

[Mike Ryan]

So what if you get home and there's just like, boogers everywhere. This kid just, like, made his own booger fence around your house. Like, what are you going to do? I know that. I mean, you ran away just with.

[Dan LeBatard]

The kids being washed away. It has to be a permanent structure that shows the delineation of the property.

[Mike Ryan]

I meant more so like, this person, this little child, has done such foul things in your home that you don't want to get back into your home, and you've been away so long that then the child claims the home to be his or hers.

[Dan LeBatard]

It would not happen in my situation. I appreciate what you're trying to protect against. This one was just more like, I had a written list of rules. What rooms you can go into, what rooms you can't, why you can touch what you can't. And I just. I swallowed hard and I went. The. I went to my room a lot and I closed the door and I put headphones on quite a bit.

[Mike Ryan]

Does it sound like those rules Sounds like you were grounded in your own house.

[Dan LeBatard]

I. But I don't mind being in my room. I was totally fine. I've got everything I need.

[Mike Ryan]

Do you think about now, like, inviting these people over again? Like, how has this impacted this friendship?

[Dan LeBatard]

We had a conversation.

[Mike Ryan]

Did you?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, of course.

[Mike Ryan]

You bring it up. You say, we have to talk.

[Dan LeBatard]

You can't just bring the. You can't just bring. That's when you get invited to a house with. With your friend. Do you show up with another couple if you get invited?

[David Sampson]

No, definitely not just the people that were invited. But I'd like to know how that conversation went, because at some point, you definitely insulted their kid. No, no.

[Dan LeBatard]

The kid's super cute. I just said, this isn't a house for kids. And I didn't know you were bringing a kid.

[David Sampson]

And they were okay with that.

[Dan LeBatard]

They were like, oh, I totally understand that.

[Tony]

Hmm.

[Dan LeBatard]

They were just saying that I wasn't rude.

[David Sampson]

It sounds less like their friends and more. You're just renting out your place.

[Dan LeBatard]

I would never. Well, you know me better. I would never rent out my place.

[Mike Ryan]

I think next time you invite these people over, you have to leave out, like, knives and stuff and just, like, make sure that it's very. Not kid friendly.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's not a kid friendly house.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, I would imagine at all.

[Tony]

What if the kid being brought into or walking into your house is two weeks until his bar mitzvah? Like, he's almost there, but not quite.

[Dan LeBatard]

Then I have to do a behavioral evaluation before the kid comes over.

[Chris Cote]

A background.

[Mike Ryan]

Did you know the kid was coming. Are they surprised you with the kid?

[Dan LeBatard]

It was basically a surprise, which was suboptimal.

[Greg Cody]

Does that kid get the PDF of your rules or do the parents get the PDF and then they look at it and then they delineate?

[Dan LeBatard]

Parents do, but I did take the kid on a tour to show what you can touch, what you can't touch.

[Mike Ryan]

Wow.

[Greg Cody]

What's something that he can't touch?

[Dan LeBatard]

The World Series trophy.

[Mike Ryan]

Do you have a printed out list or you have like a QR code when you walk in that you scan and then people like the QR code. Oh, we can show you.

[Dan LeBatard]

Coca does that a lot. I don't know how to do it. And are they ever going to run out of unique QR codes or is it infinity?

[Greg Cody]

It's infinite.

[Dan LeBatard]

It is infinity. I don't think anything's infinity, but I guess QR codes are. It's like snowflakes.

[Tony]

They all look alike too, but they're.

[Dan LeBatard]

All the dashes are a little different, I guess.

[Tony]

It's insane.

[Chris Cote]

It's weird that Major League Baseball is.

[Mike Ryan]

Now doing a diamond instead of the actual square.

[Chris Cote]

They flipped it. They inverted it. I saw it on commercial.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's smart. Did you see it as part of the speedway game?

[Chris Cote]

No, it's just a commercial on MLB Network.

[Dan LeBatard]

Have you ever planned something that you want to go so well and then it just rains and everything gets ruined?

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

I wanted to ask you about the speedway game because it was on. I wanted to see Bristol Motor Speedway in the baseball game attached to it. And I thought it was just one game. It was on. I left my TV on at night, and the next day I turned on Fox and they were still playing.

[Dan LeBatard]

Same game. It got.

[Tony]

Same game.

[Chris Cote]

It got suspended. So I saw a lot of David Ortiz going out and serving people beers and whatnot. And then I read an article later in the evening that people were describing this as Major League Baseball's fire fest. So what happened?

[Dan LeBatard]

Isn't that terrible? Apparently. Can you imagine running a facility and running out of hot dogs? I mean, you have to be a total jackass to do that. Nobody does that.

[Tony]

Yeah, right.

[Dan LeBatard]

They don't. And then look at that. Not one.

[Tony]

What year. What year was that? What opening day was?

[Dan LeBatard]

I believe that was 2000. Felt like all of that first ever opening day.

[Mike Ryan]

It's. It's crazy how, like, there was zero.

[Tony]

Were you running to Publix? Like, buying a shopping cart full of hot dogs, bringing it back to the stadium?

[Dan LeBatard]

They were there. We just were reallocating hot dogs for the following day trying to get them back on the ground.

[Mike Ryan]

You were just withholding hot dogs so you have enough for the next day.

[Dan LeBatard]

So the way it works is you have an idea of the crowd and then you allocate a certain amount of food and buns and popcorn and. And everything else. Peanuts, bags of peanuts. And that is what is used for that day. And if it runs out, you have a problem because you haven't prepped the other food you haven't made pop the popcorn. Popcorn comes delivered in a huge baggie to the stadium.

[Mike Ryan]

How is it that there so often seem to be like issues, especially like opening day? It always seems like the, the lines at concessions are way too long and sporting events are a thing where you have sold tickets and I would imagine the walk up is not that great. So how is it that there always seems to be staffing issues where there's things closed or maybe it's new staff and they're not as prepared?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, it's the training. So think about it. If we only open a concession stand on the upper deck three times a year, the people who are manning those concession stands aren't properly trained. They don't have the reps. It's like someone coming in here and doing a show once every, you know, four months, they're not going to be as sharp as if they're doing it every day. And so therefore the lines, it's just not as quick.

[Stugotz]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Billy Corben]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Don Lebatard, you owe me everything. You owe me everything.

[Tony]

You have added 10 years to my career. Yes, I have. Has. You have it.

[Dan LeBatard]

That man.

[Tony]

Who the hell are you?

[Chris Cote]

Stugats.

[Tony]

I am. Who the hell are. You're a rude young man.

[Greg Cody]

You're a fool.

[Dan LeBatard]

You're a fool.

[Tony]

I already called you a fool.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right. You're an idiot.

[Tony]

Again. It's a fool.

[Dan LeBatard]

Twice.

[Chris Cote]

You're an idiot for dismissing how much I've helped you.

[Mike Ryan]

This is the Dan Levatar show with.

[Tony]

The st.

[Mike Ryan]

As a former retail employee and cashier, you were great, by the way.

[Chris Cote]

I've heard.

[Mike Ryan]

Thanks. As a former cashier in retail, I do kind of both like and hate the self checkout because the self checkout at you know, like a Target or whatever.

[Tony]

Should you.

[Mike Ryan]

You should be quick, right? And it's. You're doing yourself just scan Scan, scan. Just get out of there. The number of people that struggle at self checkout seems crazy to me. Like, I can't understand the difficulty that so many people seem to have with self checkout. But as someone who again, like did that in, you know, earlier part of my life, I do kind of sit back and smile at the people who are struggling because those people often were quite condescending, like, oh, anyone can do this. It's like, no, you can't. Like you can't figure out how to scan four items at Target. You have to call someone over. You're holding up this entire line.

[David Sampson]

It's not the easiest thing in the world. I mean, sometimes like the bars, put.

[Greg Cody]

It on the thing and go. Also, I don't need you to have 77 things in your cart. If you've got 800 things in your cart, don't use the self checkout.

[Mike Ryan]

I was in an express link.

[Greg Cody]

Go use somebody else that's a human to do it for you.

[Mike Ryan]

Two days ago with one item and the person in front of me had way more than 10. I didn't say anything.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is it items or if you buy six peanut butters of. Is that one item?

[Mike Ryan]

Six items?

[David Sampson]

That's every time you guys the same one six times.

[Mike Ryan]

The Dan thinking that he does in her face. Basically. Like, if I have a million of the same thing, I'm Dan Levy.

[Chris Cote]

It's a ruling class thing.

[David Sampson]

But Billy and Tony, actually the produce. When you've got produce and it doesn't have something to scan, you gotta like.

[Mike Ryan]

Find item and then you know. Exactly.

[David Sampson]

Organic yellow onion.

[Greg Cody]

Organic. And then charge yourself for the non figure.

[Chris Cote]

It's put on a scale.

[Greg Cody]

My friend does that, not me.

[Tony]

What am I weighing? A pond of grapes? What am I doing? I hate the self checkout. It's really something that should be banned from American retail and global retail for that matter.

[Dan LeBatard]

Because you want the people to have jobs.

[Tony]

Yes. I look out for the common man.

[Mike Ryan]

Greg looks like someone that wants to just talk to a Dolores, you know, at a checkout. Yeah, yeah. Like just how Dolores, how's it going? See how that dates.

[David Sampson]

Have you guys ever been to those?

[Tony]

Like says Dolores.

[Mike Ryan]

Exactly right. You're a union guy.

[Tony]

I am a union guy.

[David Sampson]

Where you can just throw everything in a basket and it just rings it up for you. You don't even have to scan it. You just put it in a box and all of a sudden, boom, there's your total.

[Dan LeBatard]

I've never heard of that.

[Tony]

You should invent that, Izzy.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I saw I know.

[David Sampson]

I saw it in London. I. I checked out in one of those things in London at a Zara.

[Mike Ryan]

Just a regular Zara has that you.

[Greg Cody]

Put on the table. And it knows exactly which. Even if it's bundled up, they still know.

[Tony]

Yeah. How. What is that? Technology. How do they do that?

[Dan LeBatard]

Is the only thing I can think of is that they're scanning the tags. Everyone thing has a tag. And the reason why I don't like self checkout is not because I'm old. It's because of what Tony said. I have a hard time separating which item is which. And so I'm not. I don't want to lie about organic versus not organic or wait something wrong or make any mistakes. So I always wait to check out with a real person because that's always an option.

[Tony]

It is. And I prefer that, you know, you can do it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Just wait on that line.

[Tony]

I know.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, but if you got like two things, Greg. Like you go to Publix, you got a pub sub, you get a bag of chips and a drink, and all of a sudden, like, I don't need to sit in line waiting for somebody who just did a month's worth of groceries and I have to sit behind them.

[Chris Cote]

Boom.

[Dan LeBatard]

Scan. Have to go to the express lane.

[Tony]

Yeah, I enjoy sitting.

[Greg Cody]

They've gotten rid of the express lanes in publixes with the self checkout and taken out express lanes.

[Tony]

I only don't enjoy the line if the people are using, you know, coupons and, and other than check paying with a check, you know, things like that.

[Greg Cody]

There'S no way people pay with the check anymore.

[Tony]

I was behind a checkpair in public.

[Chris Cote]

No way.

[Tony]

A month ago. Less than a month ago.

[Chris Cote]

Customer service for that man.

[Tony]

Tell. Tell her, not me.

[Greg Cody]

Did the cashier be like, like, all right, what do you want me to do with this?

[Tony]

A lady's trying to get a coupon through that had just expired. Okay. It's for like 15 cents off something. I'm like, I want to pay this 15 cents so that we can move along. Did you, I, I, the, the checkout young lady said I couldn't. Whatever. Really?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. You asked that. You asked the cashier. I'd like to pay for the 15 cents.

[Tony]

If you won't take that coupon, I will pay the 15. If I have. I don't have change. Otherwise I'm giving her a nickel and a dime just to get rid of her.

[Mike Ryan]

What's your limit? How far would you have gone?

[Tony]

A buck and a half?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tony]

Okay. Depends on what Hurry. I'm in.

[Mike Ryan]

All right.

[Dan LeBatard]

You know, I've done that. I have.

[Tony]

You really?

[Dan LeBatard]

I've paid for something for a person in front of me online when I thought that there was a possibility of a multi minute delay.

[Tony]

Right.

[Dan LeBatard]

And I didn't find the juice worth the squeeze for whatever it was. I've done it at restaurants, I've done it at stores.

[Tony]

Really?

[Dan LeBatard]

When someone is out buying, if I've got a huge thing and I'm in a rush. So if I've been instructed by my wife to bring back eggs and to bring back something that we forgot for the kids, and I had to go grocery shopping with a list. And then there's someone in front of me who's fumbling and bumbling and I've got a kid who needs to eat. That was an example of the time that I would always do that where I would buy the groceries. Hey, I'll take care of that. No problem.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

And then it just adds to mine. They take the groceries and they get to leave.

[Tony]

Perfect. And did they show appropriate gratitude?

[Dan LeBatard]

Didn't care. I don't do it. I don't do it for the gratitude. I do it for the time.

[Tony]

But you want to. Thank you.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't. I don't need it, really.

[Tony]

See, if I do that and I don't get a thank you, I'm following that guy out to the parking lot saying, what's the matter with you? I just paid for your groceries. I don't get a thing. I don't get a wink and a nod. What's going on?

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't need a wink or not.

[Tony]

Yeah. I don't catch his car as he's driving away.

[Greg Cody]

That kind of thing.

[Tony]

Yes, exactly. Well put.

[Dan LeBatard]

Tony, are you like a bunny boiler?

[Tony]

I don't know what that means.

[Chris Cote]

You boil bunnies like Glenn Close.

[Dan LeBatard]

You've never heard of a bunny boiler?

[Tony]

What does that mean?

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm feeling very old.

[Chris Cote]

Fatal Attraction.

[David Sampson]

I've never heard the phrase bunny boiler, but I knew what you meant when you said it.

[Dan LeBatard]

A bunny boiler is. It started with Glenn Close, was a bunny boiler. Meaning you gotta be careful who you have an affair with. Cause if you do it with someone who boils and Archer's bunny, you've chosen the wrong girl. That's Fatal Attraction.

[Tony]

Okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

But it refers to now, in what I thought was common parlance, when somebody who will do something a little. That's a little cuckoo.

[Tony]

Huh?

[Dan LeBatard]

That's a bunny boiler.

[Tony]

Okay. I had never heard that phrase before today.

[Dan LeBatard]

Scratching someone's car is I was kidding.

[Tony]

I would never scratch someone's car.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, you just said you would.

[Tony]

Well, that was for dramatic effect.

[Chris Cote]

Push a cotton to the corner.

[Tony]

Well, that I wouldn't do. Yeah, accidentally.

[Mike Ryan]

Greg, you said. You said earlier a while ago that. I think it was. Billy Corbin is your mortal enemy. Do you have a number of mortal enemies? Because I know that you and Hyde don't get along, and it seems like.

[Tony]

Why do you always.

[Dan LeBatard]

Domini Foxworth.

[Greg Cody]

That's my mortal enemy.

[Tony]

He used to be, but now we're besties.

[Mike Ryan]

What?

[Tony]

Yeah, Dominique and I are besties now. Oh, good job.

[Mike Ryan]

So only one. You're down to one mortal enemy then? Corbin.

[Tony]

Corbin. Mostly on his side. I could give a. About him. Bricker back in the day. Dave Hyde has never been my mortal.

[Greg Cody]

Zaslo was a bit of a mortal enemy with you.

[Tony]

Yeah, he used to be. We're softening a little bit.

[David Sampson]

I heard on a Greg Cody show episode that Hulk Hogan was one of your mortal enemies.

[Tony]

There was an episode that. That made me, you know, not lament his passing as much as I otherwise would have. But what'd he do to you? I mean, he just. I was in his company once in a work setting, and. And I asked for a minute of his time, you know, and. And when you. When you say, hey, can I have a minute? The.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's never just a minute.

[Tony]

It's never just a minute. But also it implies, hey, can I get you off the side? Just you and I just alone for one or two minutes, and he just completely blew me off. And so, you know, when you do that, you're welcome to. But I don't. You. I give up on you.

[David Sampson]

Nemesis.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Did he call you brother or.

[Tony]

No, I don't recall. This was many, many years ago.

[Dan LeBatard]

What is a mortal enemy? What does that literally mean?

[Greg Cody]

To kill that person to the death?

[Tony]

Yeah, I think that.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, that means you'd be the enemy until you die or they die until somebody dies.

[Tony]

Somebody is dead to us part.

[Dan LeBatard]

So I. I always thought that It's a mortal enemy. Was an adjective for a really bad enemy. Enemy.

[Mike Ryan]

It sounds like it.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's a time issue, though. It's not a. How bad an enemy are we?

[Chris Cote]

It's also arch enemy. Don't ask me the difference.

[Mike Ryan]

No, I think. I think. I think that Greg has different arch enemies and moral enemies.

[Tony]

Mortal.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tony]

Yeah. But Hyde's never been once.

[Mike Ryan]

No, no. Arch enemy.

[Chris Cote]

Arch rival.

[Tony]

He's a friendly rival.

[Mike Ryan]

A friend of me. He's a frenemy, whatever that is.

[Chris Cote]

What Dan does so upset.

[Tony]

Right.

[Chris Cote]

In fact, you miss an opportunity to say, are we still making. Dolores.

[Tony]

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dan. In honor of Dan.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't want to be that. I don't want to be that. But what's wrong with wanting to know the difference between arch and mortal?

[Tony]

It's.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is it arc? I do that one wrong, too.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

I thought it was an ark. Enemy.

[Tony]

No, Noah's Ark. Noah's Ark. Enemy.

[Dan LeBatard]

Arch. The St. Louis Ark.

[Mike Ryan]

Ark. Manning.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is it the St. Louis Arch?

[Tony]

It's the arch. Arch. Manning. Arc. Manning. No, it isn't.

[Chris Cote]

No, famously not. It's a boat.

[Tony]

Noah's Ark.

[Chris Cote]

I think that goes to commands the golden arch.

[Dan LeBatard]

Golden Ark.

[Chris Cote]

McDonald, McDonald's.

[Dan LeBatard]

You're all talking at once.

[Mike Ryan]

Sounds like Max.

[Dan LeBatard]

And if I've ever heard it, the golden Arches. Arches, Right.

[Greg Cody]

They've got the golden arches. We've got the golden.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right, okay.

[Chris Cote]

Hot buns have no seeds.

[Tony]

When you ran out of hot dogs on opening day, did you consider that a debacle?

[Dan LeBatard]

A debacle?

[Tony]

Yeah, it sure was.

[Dan LeBatard]

It was so bad. We didn't actually run the hot dogs. It was you and the media who was promulgating such mistrusts. Which mate? Cuz you were so despondent. Oh, these guys from Montreal.

[Chris Cote]

They're so mistrust.

[Dan LeBatard]

Mistruths.

[Chris Cote]

I thought you mispronounced mistrust.

[Tony]

You did.

[Mike Ryan]

Ran out.

[Dan LeBatard]

Did we run pro player? I'm just gonna ask for the final time. Did the Marlins run pro player?

[Tony]

I don't know what that means. What do you mean?

[Dan LeBatard]

What?

[Mike Ryan]

Concessions?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes. Were we in charge of concessions?

[Tony]

It doesn't matter. You're the Marlins. I'm going to a Marlins game. I want to buy a hot dog. In the sixth inning? You can't sell it to me.

[Dan LeBatard]

The Dolphins were in charge. And you never blame the Dolphins.

[David Sampson]

With all due respect, David, if I go to a Marlins game and they're playing a baseball game and I go to concessions and there are no hot dogs, I'm not gonna say, damn it, Dolphins.

[Tony]

Thank you.

[Dan LeBatard]

What if you go to a friend's house and they're. And the air conditioning doesn't work? Are you mad at the friends?

[Tony]

Yes.

[Dan LeBatard]

Are you mad at the landlord?

[Tony]

I'm mad at the friend.

[David Sampson]

I don't think that's anywhere near the same thing.

[Dan LeBatard]

I do, I do. Sometimes you have to be mad at the boss, at the owner, and not the renter.

[Tony]

So the Marlins were not responsible for making sure there were enough.

[Dan LeBatard]

We had no firing. We had no control over anything. We just Said, hey, we're going to have 30,000 people get on it. It's like the Bristol Speedway. They knew they'd have 90,000 people. Why they run out of.

[Tony]

So who's at fault? Name that name. Who with the Dolphins at that time was in fault? At fault.

[Dan LeBatard]

Bruce Schulzey.

[Tony]

Get him on the phone.

[Dan LeBatard]

I, I, by the way, I've known him forever and he was, he ran it and they ran out of hot dogs. It wasn't me. Okay, Bruce, you're out there. You listen to this show. He used to. I don't know if he still does. There's been some sort of dilapidation of audience which is now coming back. And I don't know where Bruce falls on that scale, but he's no longer with the Dolphins.

[Mike Ryan]

What sholzy up to?

[Dan LeBatard]

I have no idea. Oh, is that a name that none of you have ever heard?

[Tony]

No, I've never heard of it. No. No, no.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, he was a big time. Tony, you're too young, but he was a big time guy in the early 2000s at with the Dolphins back when they were winning playoff games.

[Tony]

Yeah. That is a long time ago.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's so long. I promise I wouldn't get down to that, even though it did come up yesterday at Marlins games, because what I do to fans is sometimes I talk about, hey, we're better than the Dolphins, aren't we? Because that was always a thing that was told to me when I moved to Miami that the Dolphins are number one. You'll never catch them. The Marlins have been way more successful in the Dolphins since I got here, and it's not even close.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, what's the DPP on when you go to a game? Dog per person? What do you guys staff as far as dpp?

[Dan LeBatard]

How many people? How many concessions?

[Greg Cody]

How many dogs per person?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, how many they're going to eat?

[Greg Cody]

No, no, just how? Because you're saying We've got 20,000 people to go in the game today. What's the DPP?

[Mike Ryan]

How many?

[Dan LeBatard]

You only need to prepare like 5,000 hot dogs.

[Tony]

Really?

[Greg Cody]

So it's not even one DPP?

[Dan LeBatard]

No. You think everyone's eating a hot dog.

[Mike Ryan]

That's before the 99 challenge.

[Dan LeBatard]

More than a beer, though.

[David Sampson]

DPP.

[Dan LeBatard]

A lot of drinking, especially in Florida. Lot of beer, not a lot of dogs. That's why we did bark in the park, actually, because we wanted more dogs. Dpps people don't eat and we didn't run out.