Hour 2: The Great Billboard Compromise of 2024
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drum beating. Who's done it best? We've had LeVon Hernandez recently. We've had Mike McDaniel. We've had Juan Pierre. Who's done it best? Greg, get your microphone in position before the segment starts. Thank you. Juan Pierre was strong. Mike McDaniel brings a great energy to it. No one's been as bad as Dan Marino. Those are some of the best ones, I think. Usman was pretty good, too.

It's Jason Taylor that they canceled on. Really? Why? Because Jack Nicklaus is, I guess, the golden bear. If you have the option of a person that is known for how much winning they've done in their sport or Jason Taylor on a day that you can clinch, no disrespect to Jason Taylor, who's an all-of-famer. Yeah.

This is the biggest celebrity they've ever had drumming this drum. With that math that Mike just did, I regret Dan Marino ever doing it last year. This feels right, though. Jack Nicklaus. It does. This feels big. This feels like it meets the moment. It feels slow, though. We'll be there. We'll carry him.

Bring in a champion for this. I do wonder if there's any vetting of like, does he know how to do it? Or is it just he's in? He's in. I wonder if there's any email back and forth of sending a video of this is what you're going to have to do just to make sure you're good with it. He's Jack. He's got it. Stu, do you think Jack Nicklaus today can hit a drive further than Chris Cody? And Chris Cody can launch off the tee. 100%. Yes. Wait.

I say no. I mean, I've seen him hit. Have you guys seen the master? Like the par three? No, no, no. Like, like the first tee shot, the master. It looks like he hits like 150. Right. Well, he doesn't. That's me, guys. That's my drive. He's older than Joe Biden. Like he's,

84. I mean, when you put it that specific way, he's 84. He's not hitting a driver further than Chris Cody. Like, are you out of your mind? Yeah, but I mean, still sounds like he can spank it occasionally. Yeah. So I think he can ratchet it up just one time. I worry about it. I don't think you get, you gotta pound that drum. You gotta pound it.

Gary Player is older than Jack, and he's hitting his drives right now 250. No, no, Gary Player is of that group of old guys, the youngest one, and hits it the furthest. I'm telling you, I'm going to see. I don't know how I can look up how far he's driving. You have a map presently on your desktop. Jack Nicklaus Drive. Jack Nicklaus Driver Distance. My location to Jack Nicklaus Drive. Gary Player is older than Jack.

That's what I said. By four years. This is a run for a title. No detail is too small. But I'm telling you, Gary Player is in better shape. He's moving around more. He's hitting the ball further than Jack Nicklaus. Would Gary Player be better at the drum? Humble brag, I did recently, well, Glenn Frey was still alive with the Eagles, but I went to an Eagles concert and Jack Nicklaus was standing right next to me the entire time.

Rhythm, he was fine. He looked spry. Now, granted, it was a while ago, but he looked fine.

Shockingly fine. Since we're speaking of golf, I will tell you guys that I don't know that it's ever happened in the history of the show what happened after yesterday's show. I find Stugatz to be among the people in my life over the course of my life to be the least introspective. He doesn't do very much in the way of regret after things have happened. He just sort of keeps...

keeps life moving and doesn't inspect the tattered remains of what he's left in the rearview mirror. But after yesterday's show, he felt like he blew it because he wanted to talk more about Rory McIlroy, as he likes to call him, because of the way that he choked.

And I don't know if you felt bad for him. I do know that Greg Cody felt bad for him because it is pretty rare that you see. I know we talk about it all the time in sports. We love to go on television and say that somebody was afraid of the moment.

But it's rarely as isolated as that where you can see that somebody has fallen apart on what should be easier for them. Because I heard you guys talking about one of the putts being something that Greg Cody would have demanded as a gimme at some point. I would say two of the putts. Yes. Yeah, right? You would have stormed off the green if you weren't given the gimmies that he missed. Oh, yes. Yes, I would have. And it takes me five holes to get over that.

I mean, I'm fuming if nobody gives me a two-and-a-half-foot putt because secretly when I'm standing over that putt, I'm worried that I'm going to miss it. And apparently Rory McIlroy was too. That's the amazing thing. That's a big—Stew Guts, tell me if I'm wrong. The biggest difference between an amateur golfer and a professional golfer isn't the distance off the tee, although it's that too. To me, the biggest difference is these guys—

On a 15, 18, 20-foot putt, they expect to make it. Yes. Or at least get it down in two. Right. Whereas I'm nervous over a three-foot putt. Of course. And so to see— While demanding that a two-foot putt be a gimme. Yes. So to see a Rory McIlroy choke over a two-and-a-half-foot putt is—

an amazing thing to me. It was an amazing final round to the US Open. It's why you watch that stuff. There were so many interesting things about it. He had a two-shot lead. Rory did. He hasn't won a major since 2014. He's come so close so many times. He's had five second-place finishes at a major. But to miss those two putts and then to see the crowd

rooting for a guy in Bryson DeChambeau who they hated like three years ago who plays for Lynn and they're chanting USA USA USA for a guy who earns his money from a Saudi fund I mean it was we don't care we do not care we don't care about anything but yes I did feel bad for Rory and people could

There

They're totally different things. Okay? Shoffley won the PGA. Both players played well. Rory lost that U.S. Open. I don't expect Rory to go out there and do anything for Bryson. Not a single thing. I don't know how you're managing to say his first name more bizarrely. I don't know.

It's just a tough name for me. I mean, given the fact that he hasn't won a major in 10 years and this was his opportunity, it doesn't surprise me that he... Are you wheezing? It sounded like wheezing. The guy that says he could beat me in a holding your breath competition. It sounded like wheezing. Maybe take a hit. You know what? Take a hit of the asthma, and it did sound like there was some whistling coming through his nose. It wasn't quite wheezing. It wasn't...

But he was also talking at the same time. I'm sorry to do that. I've just never heard you wheezing when you're not coughing. I wasn't sure whether he was wheezing or on 6th Street over there, there's a train that comes through. And I just thought that from a distance, there was a bit of a whistle. But he was the one talking. I didn't think it could be him because he was talking. Hit that like a weed pen. Yeah.

You all right? I apologize. That's okay. Catch your breath. In the meantime, Chris and I have been obsessing over Drive for Your Life. I think Jack Nicklaus would be a slight favorite. All right, so guys, here's a hypothetical. We get a large gallery around the T. Now, they're allowed to do their warm-ups on the range, both Jack Nicklaus and Chris Cody. This is so ridiculous. But there's like a 10-minute waiting period before...

Between them on the driving range and them going up to the tee. You have all those cameras out there. All that pressure. That's the huge gallery we might get to. You only get one attempt at it. It probably wouldn't get to Jack. No, that's what I'm saying. That's what we didn't play. I have no doubt. If they're both hitting it flush, Chris Cody's going to out-drive them at

fairly easily. Chris, you're about 300 yards, right? Yeah, a good one. I would say average like 260, 270. Chris can freaking drive. No, he can drive it far. He has played in front of galleries before at Lake Tahoe. But he says he gets nervous. Yeah, the first couple holes, though. You get nervous. Yeah, but Jack wasn't walking up on the tee. That's what I mean. If you built this up and it was a big thing and Jack's right next to me and there's thousands of people. And you're going up against the Golden Bear. First of all, it wouldn't be safe. We'd have to move the galleries a little back. No breakfast ball. I don't know.

Yeah, it may be like he may duck for it 150 yarder up the middle, but... My swing speed is just better than his. Yeah, but you may shank it because of all the pressure. But Mike, in fairness to Chris, what we're saying is Chris would have to choke. If they both hit flush drives, Chris is going to win. Well, that's what I'm putting my action on. Right, Chris choking. Chris choking. Like, he's going to go up there and maybe try to do too much and really put on a show from the tee.

To just like, oh, no doubter. I'm going to out drive this guy by 150 and then right into the drink. And the person that loses dies? Because do you want to be the guy that kills Jack Nicklaus? That's more pressure. And live? Put it on. Which live? No, like you want to be alive and be the person that killed Jack Nicklaus. I don't know. It's so confusing. How would your life be in the golf community? I imagine you can't play golf anywhere ever again. Yeah, you'd be ostracized. Golf community. Yeah.

At Levitard Show, put it on the poll, would Chris Cody outdrive an 84-year-old Jack Nicklaus? Have you ever played a Jack Nicklaus course, a design course? I'm sure I have. I did one in Reunion, and there was a house under construction, and it had his Golden Bear logo on it. It was a really huge house. I'm getting somewhere with it. I'm getting somewhere, but...

He apparently, if he designs a course, gets to have a house on whichever course he designs. Makes sense. And that's why there was like a graffiti Golden Bear logo on this house that was under construction. It's part of the deal. No matter where he designs a course, he gets a house on that course. I would love to do an interview with somebody who can answer all my questions about the greatest perks that celebrity athletes have.

people get because what Greg Norman must get for designing courses, like just what are the ridiculous opportunities that these people get better than banging a drum as an 84 year old at a, at a hockey game? Because I would imagine that we would all be sort of embarrassed by how it is that rich people could get things for free that they don't need because they're rich people. Like this home was a multimillion dollar home. That's right.

That was under construction. Right, of course. And he has multi, just in real estate alone, that's probably the real value in doing these courses for him. He'll get a fee for designing it, but he also gets real estate. He has a club in Palm Beach called the Bears Club. I didn't spend enough time. With a massive house.

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I didn't spend enough time yesterday on something that is being neglected as we talk about whether or not the athleticism of Chris Cody will hold up against the past his prime golden bear when Chris Cody is also past his prime because my back hurts. Oh my God. This is funny. Like Stu gots.

limped in here today because he played a set of tennis against his daughter. 7-5, I mean. He limped in here and he is legitimately hurting. His whole body hurts. And Chris Cody, again, I mentioned this yesterday, but I didn't delve into it.

Chris Cody had a non-contact back injury. Chris Cody's back seized up from just sitting around. It wasn't that it was while he was sitting down. It was not an action injury. He was just sitting there and his back seized up at one point and he howled in the general direction of his wife.

I wasn't even reaching for anything. There was no movement. I was sitting. It happens. And it was, ah! Yeah. Oh, I just did it there. Doing it. And I literally just, dude, the worst pain. Yeah. I have no idea what it is. Back pain. It's your back. There is rarely anything that is more taken for granted than back health. Oh.

Because once back pain grabs you. I was like, what if I just can never walk again? It was that sharp of a pain. I'm like, where did this come from? What if my whole life is over as I know it?

It's your biggest fear. If you have lower back issues, any movement, a sneeze could throw it out of place. And it is the worst feeling. You say a sneeze, but he wasn't doing anything at all. I understand that. Sometimes you just move the wrong way. You get up off the couch the wrong way. And all of a sudden you can't walk for four days. He wasn't moving. There wasn't movement involved. It's the rare non-movement back injury. He just seized up. And what washed over me was...

How pathetic that is. Like how you have to just take some inventory of where you are in aging and mortality.

When you are so dad that you injure yourself without an action. This is like Howard Bryant tearing both his hamstrings getting out of bed in the morning. You could do that, Dan, or just take the big needle. I mean, that's what I did, and it hasn't acted up in 10 years until yesterday. Wow, you're in bad shape. Like, you're in bad shape from playing a set. I didn't mean it overall, although that too.

You're in bad shape from what happened playing against your daughter. You don't seem well. Rachel got really good at tennis. I have no idea how, but usually I would beat her 6-0, 6-1. Maybe I'd give her three games, 6-3. She took me deep into a set, 7-5. I mean, I beat her 7-5, but she took me deep into the set. But she beat you. I was not planning on playing 12 games. But you're broken. You're broken today. And she's fine. Yeah.

I wanted to ask you guys about something because you know I have been interested in these streaming wars, at least in parts, because it's become evident to me, talking to people and reading about it, that all of these CEOs that are getting so much money to lead us into the future of televised entertainment, they really don't know what they're doing. Like, they're in way over their head.

on an assortment of things and i i think we assume that these people know what they're doing in their defense it's changing so quickly it's hard to figure it out correct but when you have ceos who get all of these giant things that are bigger than all of the employees by multiples that uh that carry businesses you expect them to lead you into a future what i'm telling you is that what they're paying this people these people most of them do not know what they're doing in a way that has become a

obvious to everyone in Hollywood by the decisions that are being made. After the strike, they didn't know how to handle the strike. They sort of ended the strike without knowing what it is that they're doing. And they now also don't know what they're doing. And it's part of why you're getting such homogenized content, such content that doesn't take any chances. It's all a little bit the same. They're all trying to copycat things as the hedge funds come and ruin another thing. But in the middle of that, Netflix is winning.

And Netflix is winning, at least in part, because they've got so much money, but they can also be nimble with that money. So you saw what happened with Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut, right? Did you see that Netflix is going to pivot to take that from Nathan's because they have the dexterity in order to do live content where they can suddenly take that holiday by just taking the two brands in competitive eating and saying, oh, you're going to discard that? Okay, we'll take that and look at what we'll do.

We'll end everything that you have over there, and Joey Chestnut will be a vegan hot dog eater, and we're going to pay brands, and we're going to do it live. It is super interesting to me to watch the big money, because Amazon's not going to sit this out, Stugatz. Bezos is not going to sit this out. They're competitive. They're going to lead on the live programming, but Amazon's going to have to get in that game. What's remarkable about Netflix is this veering into a long...

The groundwork was laid long ago, but we're seeing it all actually play out now. Them really turning to live events...

kind of happened as they did the password sharing thing and the crackdown there which really it really worked because it was not like eight months ago you're saying that they're winning now eight months ago strike was going on people were worried oh you can't actually show your subscriber base you'll tank the industry you'll tank the stock price they were in a bad way and in just a couple short months they've totally turned the narrative around

And Netflix is going to turn this chestnut versus Kobayashi thing into an annual thing or into something that continues as a franchise, just the way they did in golf with that thing where once a year they have the four celebrities play around a golf. That's going to be the same thing with eating now. They swooped in and they're going to own this franchise.

Netflix is now going to own competitive eating. They have the two guys you want to see eat. I can't believe it. It's amazing how nimble they are because as soon as the news breaks, Joey Chestnut, as soon as that stuff comes in about the vegan hot dogs, and there was even a back and forth. No, no, he's not exactly out.

Before you can get that sentence out, Netflix announces him versus Kobayashi. Well, presumably his agents were putting all that together, right? And that's why he takes a $1.2 million deal because he knows he has the Netflix things coming. When you say people are going to get in the game, do you mean Amazon's going to have hot dog eating contests also or just general live events? Live events. It'd be great if everyone just had their own hot dog eating contest like Apple has on Amazon. But Netflix has the two guys you want to see, right? They do.

That was a smart move by them. I'm going to read something to you about Netflix from Vulture's streaming newsletter. Less than two years after Wall Street, many in the entertainment industry soured on Netflix. There's been a vibe shift from both camps. The streaming giant is back on top, arguably stronger than ever. In recent weeks, its stock price...

has flirted with all-time highs as investors applaud Netflix's return to double-digit subscriber growth and quarterly profits measured in billions. Those gains have come in no small part by a series of moves consumers would probably say they hate, cracking down on password sharing, putting commercials on shows, and hiking the monthly fee. But those viewers seem pretty satisfied by Netflix's content strategy, embracing both ambitious bets like Three-Body Problem and Ripley, as well as crowd-pleasers such as The Night Agent and The Roast of...

Tom Brady. And it doesn't hurt that rival conglomerates have once again taken to leasing their biggest library titles to the enemy, allowing Netflix to give its member access to linear TV faves such as Young Sheldon. Overall, this year's ranking race wasn't even close, says one veteran TV publicity executive. Future installments of this survey may actually need to place Netflix in its own above-it-all category, with everyone else fighting each other down below while the king sits by and takes it all in amused.

They announced themselves with what the ridiculousness of Jake Paul and Mike Tyson is because everybody's trying to get into live sports. But now you're just going to take over sports? You're going to take competitive eating. You're going to take boxing because you're going to take a big night in boxing and just put on a circus event of ridiculousness as you already get in the wrestling game because you're making Nick Khan and Vince McMahon all kinds of rich because they have a product

that they can put live on Netflix. And MMA is about to come up again at ESPN. Dana White's going to get out of there in 2025. He's not going to be at Disney anymore. He's going to go over to Netflix. Man, they've been such great partners to him. I'd be curious to see how that plays out. It's going to be interesting. I love that it can, like a streamer that made its billions upon billions on video on demand. And you watch on your own time, now making a play for loopholes

linear televisions big ratings grabbers live events live sports roast that feels like an event i wouldn't be surprised to see if they make a play on an award show because these are things that you have to experience live and if linear tv is going to start getting out resourced in that game then the whole thing looks super different until we all just revert back to cable television

Greg, I heard you and your son talking and he was accusing you of privilege because of some take that you had about parking.

that I wasn't privy to, but I only caught a piece of it. And I'm not used to your son looking at you. He's a child of privilege and accusing you of privilege. But what was this parking-related take, this privileged parking take? It's my latest pet peeve, and I introduced it on my podcast. And it's become a real thing in my neighborhood. Okay.

neighbors are parking their cars on their lawns. Okay, you got a driveway, but there's a couple of cars in the driveway, three cars in the driveway. You need more room. I don't know how many cars you got at your house. Maybe it's eight, nine. People are parking on their lawn, not on the swale, but on their lawn. Wow. And it's ugly.

I don't know where privilege comes in. It's ugly. I'm saying it's because you have a house that your sons have left and you only have two cars there. But there are people who have houses where they have their sons living there and their sons' sons. And there are people with a lot of, like, where are they supposed to park? But you want your neighborhood to present the right way. Thank you. When people are buying a house, you want them to drive through that neighborhood thinking it's a good neighborhood and parking your car on the grass of your house? No.

Does not suggest that this is a good neighborhood. I don't know what he's doing here. Greg has every right to be upset. I'm just thinking of Swale. I drive through your neighborhood. People park on Swales. I don't see people pulling up past the sidewalk. I'm going to take a picture of it and show you. Okay. I'm with you that that's...

That's a little odd. You got to pitch in in the neighborhood. You do. You have to keep your roof clean. You have to keep the driveway pressure clean. You have to do what you have to do. And the biggest perpetrator happens to be the guy I've already got a beef with because he's the holiday besmircher who's putting up his Halloween decorations in late August. He's got like the premier corner spot in the neighborhood. It's one of the first houses you see. He crushes all the holidays. I love this guy's house. When I'm going to my parents' house, it's like a...

good energy and I guess he parks on his swale. How many people live there though? Because Chris's point is a good one. If you have eight people living in a home with six cars and you only have a driveway for three or four cars, what are you supposed to do? Okay, he had, this guy has a driveway. He's got a swale.

But he's parking his cars willy-nilly all over the grass, never in the same spot twice in a row. Smart, because if you do that, the heat of the engine is going to burn a patch in the grass, and the tire marks are going to kill the grass as well. So he's doing the right thing. But I'm going to take a picture and show you. Every time I drive by, there's like any—he happens to have like a couple of big giant—

pickup trucks. Big, giant pickup truck. That's why, right? That's why there's no more room in the driveway, right? Because they're... Get a bigger driveway. I mean... Yeah, it's just... What? Stu Gatz is right. It's an eyesore. It's an eyesore. Isn't this the type of thing that would bring down the property value of your house?

The neighbor doing that? Yes. That's what I'm saying. Yes. 100%. Yes. Oh, if you thought Stugatz knew all of the rules of the neighborhood just because of etiquette and is just being polite, you don't think that every root good thing that he does is tied to whatever it is that makes him money? This guy's like a half a mile away from my dad. It doesn't matter. This guy's not affecting my dad's dream. I hear Stugatz though. All of a sudden, Stugatz is a community organizer. You got to keep your roof clean. Why do you think that is? Yes, it's the head of the HOA.

I mean, driving down the value of his home. How long have you had that home? You probably rode a horse and put some stakes in the ground for it. I did. I got the horse out back. Parked in the front would have been funny. Yeah, parked on my lawn with the horse. I'd rather have a horse.

parked on a lawn than a big-ass pickup truck. It's ridiculous. Is his driveway otherwise full? Is that the reason that it's happening? You would have him park where? What's he supposed to do with the other car? I see a big pickup truck on his grass when there is a spot in the driveway.

Okay. Well, it's probably because someone's left while that was part of it. His wife's not home yet. That's her spot. I'm going to go to City Hall. I'm going to speak to my commissioners and see if I can get this done. You're not doing that. Yes, I am. You're not going to do anything. You're not going to do that.

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Don Levitard. He, for some reason, would do a Gary Stevens impersonation of the offensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins and the University of Miami. Go ahead. Do you want to do that for the people? Your Gary Stevens impersonation? You want to give people some of that? 30 years in the making. Stugatz. What?

Who needs me? Oh, that? What? You've done it my whole life. You're going to go to Buffalo and win with Bernie Pommely? Who needs me? This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stukats. That's right. It's time for...

Against the Scraps!

And the Panthers have a four-game winning streak. So the Florida Panthers are going to win the Stanley Cup tonight at one and a half goal favorite against the Spurs. You guys okay with that? Did I misunderstand you, though? Did you say the Panthers have a four-game winning streak? Home winning streak. Okay, home winning streak. Okay. I went one in the last one. Yeah. On the road.

You're not jinxing them, though, by picking them, right? Just to be clear? Just to be clear. Okay. No. Matthew Kachuk might have jinxed them. He pulled his best messier. He said, we're going to go out there. We have an opportunity to do something big. We're going to go out there and do that.

He didn't say what, though. Yeah, did he say what it was? Do that. He also didn't say, well, he said we're going to go out there and do that tonight. Right. Wow. Okay. But it worked when Messier said it. It's the Eastern Times final when Messier said it. What do you want me to do? Like, you just control what you can control. I'm wearing my closeout jacket today. I've seen two Prince of Wales trophies lifted in the last two years when I wear that jacket. All right? Yeah. Messier said Greg was right, by the way.

But he's not a great one until he wins a cup. Yep, he did. Messier was on my side. He also said he was McUnderrated, which is weird. He was making mistakes. Mike, who you got? Nationals, Diamondbacks tonight. Slade Ciccone's not very good. They have a bad bullpen. I think the Nationals can tee off a little bit. So we're going to go Nats against the Spurs. Hey, you just snuck that in there, man.

I, too, am going to take the Florida Panthers tonight, Dan. Oh, shit. 0-1 in the last one, as we reported earlier in this very exclusive segment here. But you know what they're going to get tonight, Dan? Some home cooking. Yeah. That's what's going to happen. They were the last team to arrive. Edmonton beat them here. I don't know how, but...

Short rest for the Panthers, but they're going to feel it. They're going to feel it in the den tonight, in the barn, if you will. There it is. They're going to win by minus one and a half. I hate that we're in a contract year with DraftKings and that all around us there's serious and good gambling analysis, and that's how Billy gets in. Billy's on fire. I'm right every single week. I predicted the UFL championship game. And he called it a barn. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, he did. Yeah, that's true. He did call it a barn. Mm-hmm.

The analysis, the conclusion that we're making around here, because I do have a decision to make on behalf of the company. They are claiming in the department that helps us buy things, they are claiming that they are running out of billboards in Edmonton and that we have to make a decision quickly. I told you McAfee was going to buy them and you guys didn't listen to me. That's what Big Billboard would say in Edmonton. That is true. They're digital billboards. They can create another one like that.

They're saying, though, that they don't have many left and that if we want something to run from now until June 25th, we have to do it right now. Allocation? I have seen Angel has done a good job with the graphics. So I have seen a number of the options. These could go up.

This could go up in a way that if the Panthers lose tonight, people streaming into Edmonton for game six would be seeing billboards of Greg Cody saying Greg Cody was right. But that's not funny. If they lose game five, I don't understand. It's kind of funny.

I think it's funny. Because we're the idiots? Yeah, but at the end of it, I just want to understand what you guys think. You guys are of the belief that what is going to happen here is we're going to put up billboards, and then 40 years from now, somebody's going to say, do you remember that time that the Levitard show cost Florida and the Panthers the Stanley Cup by putting up a billboard? Yeah. Yeah.

That legacy will be carried on through my children. That's funny. Because I would hold you personally responsible. That's funny. It's not funny. Okay, because you take this very seriously. Yeah, well, I'm sorry. It's only the hardest trophy. It's worth the win, Dan. My daughter will be impressed that, wait, this guy that everyone hates, he used to be your boss? Like, yes, honey.

The thing that I'm laughing about is that you guys think that we have any control over how the hardest trophy in sports is won. Like, that's the part that's funniest to me. Okay, yeah. Superstitions are stupid. The second funniest part to me is that this particular person

This hockey expert is saying something that we could say as the most common sports radio argument that we present to the aliens as what's the dumbest things humans do. They take something that's great and they argue about whether it's underrated or overrated or properly rated when everyone rates it differently. Like that's it's almost the dumbest sports argument.

This guy who's clearly great at skating on razor blades faster than everyone else and doing things with the puck that change the way the sport is played, even though Barkoff is on the other side, that we can affect it by putting an old man's picture up who's got bronchitis and can't get through a segment without whistle wheezing. You're only going to make Greg Cody...

And fans of just anarchy happy. You're going to make most of this market upset. You're certainly going to make all the other markets upset by being so brash. It's going to be a terrible look for us if they lose tonight. Go back to Edmonton while you have celebratory billboards up. You're doing it for a small fraction of folks, right?

We're looking at you. Do you not care for us? We're asking you to not do this, please. Most people won't get the joke. It'll just make us look unorganized and be like, why did they do that before they won? We're the three biggest Panther fans that you know. We're all looking at you, asking you, please, maybe don't do this. Maybe your brand and all that, maybe you can do all those hijinks after we actually win. But on the front end, maybe, just maybe, let's see if we can do something for the first time in franchise history, please.

The man said that Conor McDavid plays seven minutes a night. Well, I said seven minutes a period. No, you said seven minutes a night. I knew what you meant, Greg. But you guys are misunderstanding Dan. Inventory is tight, okay? I don't buy that. And if it's tight, so be it. You got to act now.

While supplies last. You're looking around to your allies and it's Billy Gill and it's Greg Cody and no one here is acting in good faith. I think the audience would like me to do this and you did claim yesterday when I'm asking did we get used by Dan Hurley you're like get used. Attention's the only thing that matters. Attention. Attention's all you ever

want around here. Attention. That's what we want. I don't understand what you're doing. It's apples and oranges. Well, what's the payoff? It's attention, right? So either way, you get the attention. Who cares? We want the attention. No one wants this. No one wants this. No one

No one wants this. If the attention is, look at these idiots. They lost and they put up a thing like they won. That's not funny. It just makes us look dumb. Guys, you can put one in front of my house if we win. Just wait. Coming from Mr. Everything's good for you. All right. As the star of the billboard. Thank you. As the star of the billboard, let me propose a very simple compromise. The billboard goes up in Edmonton tomorrow morning if the Panthers win tonight. Deal. Fine.

Good. Yes. He doesn't want that. I'll give you five claps. By then, there's no billboards. They run out by tomorrow morning. They need to know now. This is a very effective troll. There's a billboard shortage. We're not doing this. We're not doing this. Are Kristen or Cynthia out there? Can I ask them what Big Billboard is saying about how inventory is shrinking in Edmonton as we speak? Because they're saying we have to act now. Yeah, bullshit. Okay.

My man, Greg, came around. But Greg thinks it's a brilliant idea, and Greg badly wants to do it because Maximum Me. Thank you. It's a great billboard, too. Especially because the likeness of me is from like 1985. That's what's great. I look youthful. It's just a musty, musty photo. It's me, Maximum, by the way. All this is Dom. The Oilers are really good after a three-game losing streak. Just as funny after.

It's not funnier. They got to win. They got to beat a good team. You wake up in Edmonton and the billboards are there. They got to beat a really good team. A team that's hard to beat. A team that on the balance of the entire series probably shouldn't be down 3-1. It's a good team. This show is playing Panther-like defense right now. Swarming. Yeah. The show's four check right now is overwhelming.

Edmonton should wake up to that billboard after the Cats raise the cup tonight. That's what should happen. And you know it. And you know it. But they can't unless Dan puts the order in now. That's the point. But the order in now is contingent on the Panthers winning. And if they don't win, you eat the deposit. You eat the deposit if the Cats lose. Eat the deposit? I've seen the quotes. We'll live. Okay.

They're not that expensive. It's fine. Trust me. It's like a fourth of your four stops on a flight to Edmonton. Oh, good. We're good. Greg, I do want to celebrate how pathetic your mustache is one week into this experiment. You're going to keep it up, right? This has been meant. Your wife hates it. She must hate what's happening. Well, she's mocking it right now more than hating it. Give her time to hate.

But it's going to take the way that it is now. You look like somebody, OK, who runs a business in railroad in the 1920s. Yeah, that's what I'm going for. Thank you. You're somebody who pays for things in cattle.

Right. That's right. No, I feel that it's coming in. You know, I don't like to look at it because it makes me sad. Slowly, yeah. But I feel like it's coming in. It's not coming in, and it's going to be a month before it comes in at all. It's not a problem. It is barely something that anyone can see, and it's patchy. We're zoomed in on it, and I can barely see it. It looks like you've just missed some spots shaving. It's my playoff stash.

Summer's the best time to run the way you want. Dial it up with new challenges and programs and bring your workouts with you to make the most of outside sunny days. Stugatz, guess what? What? You know what you can do with Peloton? What? Get the app, go outside, ride a bike. Well, I thought you ride Peloton inside. Well, you do. You can ride Peloton inside if it's a rainy day or if it's cloudy or you just don't want to get outside. Maybe it's too hot.

summertime, go outside. I record a lot from my office with you and you've noticed it's sitting there yet. It hasn't been used. Well, now's the time. Summer's the best time to start that push. Right. Can we do it together? Not on the same bike, but we could join a class together. I used to do that. We used to have Guillermo Tan. I'd invite people. We'd all take a class together. Okay. So I think you're starting to get concerned about my health and my age, Billy. I,

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She was on it once and an instructor who was playing Grateful Dead tunes. Let's do that. Okay. Why don't we go for a run outside? Guided run. Peloton. Me and you. That's something we can do together. Okay. Turn on the app. Me and you go outside. Enjoy the summer. Call yourself a runner with Peloton at onepeloton.com slash running. All right.

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