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The Miami Marlins are back. Yeah. He's right. He's right. Nine out of 12. 13. Nine out of 13. There you go. Swept the Giants. Big time. That's a good team. Making moves. This is the beautiful thing about baseball, right? You look at your record, you say, hold on. I mean, how can the Miami Marlins, who are 34 and 45, be on the move, right? But there's so much season left. Still time. So much season left.

Who would have thought the Marlins would be buyers? We're not even at the all-star break yet. Well, you never know. You don't think they'd be buyers? Why not? A little bit. Out of the cellar, not even in last in the NL East anymore. That's how you call your whale. Out of the cellar, maybe still cellars, but they're not in the cellar, and that's all that matters. So has Sandy been bad because he doesn't want to get traded? No, he's been good now. He's good again. Oh, he's good again. That's why you got to trade him now. Who knows?

He's coming off of Tommy John. You know, it takes a lot longer than 10 months to actually come back from that. And his his rehab was essentially in games during the regular season. Those were his rehab starts. So he's he's looking back to normal. This is a they lead baseball in hits and batting average this month.

There you go. And this month isn't like two days old either. It doesn't really matter in terms of scoring runs necessarily. But yesterday, hey, season high, 12 runs. Augustine Ramirez, that kid's real good. You know what they call it? They call it baby steps. Baby steps.

You work your way up. You can't be awesome out the gate. You got to work yourself up with baby steps. Now, here's my question, though, because you raise an excellent point. The trade market is such a fickle thing. You got a guy that's like, I got to get rid of him. I got to get rid of him. But no, his stock is terrible right now. We're not going to get good value back. Okay, wait till he starts playing well. He starts playing well, and then they say, got to get rid of him. I'm like, I don't know. Hold on now. Hold on. Let the man cook.

Ten months at the Tommy John? So, Zazz, are you of the belief that, hey, I had a plan from the beginning to get rid of him as soon as I got good return on value and I'm sticking to it? Or do you adjust and say, hey, it looked pretty good and we're winning? Well, okay, we're winning. Baseball is still 162 games. Yeah. All right. So, yes, they're winning right now. The fact of the matter is you only keep Sandy Alcantara if –

if his prime aligns with when you think you're going to be a contending team. So this year?

And the answer to that would be they don't align. So you have to trade him now. And maybe you get two, three huge prospects and you need all of it to align together at the same time. I will say the one thing when it comes to Sandy that was always the case from the beginning of the year and remains the case because it's obvious he's returning to form is that Sandy is not in an expiring contract right now.

there's two more years of control of one more year of the contract, one more year of a club option. So the reality is, is if the Marlins don't get the type of package that they want for a player like Sandy at this year's deadline, they hold on to them. And look, I know that ownership loves Sandy. This front office loves Sandy. This coaching staff loves Sandy. Sandy loves to be here. So it's the type of thing where some teams that go through a rebuild can't

keep one guy as the stalwart of that foundation. Moving through that, you can see Freddie Freeman on the offensive side with the Braves. He did that with them where they got bad and got good around him. Maybe Sandy is someone who gets to stay here forever.

for the long term and if not the marlins really have all the leverage at the moment the rare opportunity to keep sandy on the beach if the marlins have won nine out of 13 why is dane meyer so upset i mean so mad do we have this video he's been so good too he very impressive what he did so he struck out paint the picture here jeremy what's the scenario here why is he so upset

Um, it's just a strikeout. It's just a standard strikeout in the regular season. Didn't he go like hit list in the series? Yeah, he had gotten his batting average up to about 330. He's been one of the best players on the Marlins this season. If they're going to have an offensive player who's at

the All-Star game, he may be that player, him or Kyle Stowers. Well, they could have a pitcher. For the audio audience, he snaps a bat that isn't broken over his knee. Now, are we holding against him that he does go for the thin part of the bat? He goes for the handle. No, because you know what? He does it so fast that

that when you watch it in real time, you can't tell that he did it over the thin par. It looks smooth. Yeah, I don't think it was premeditated as one fell swoop, grab, swing, back, right? But, again, your team is up 8-5. It's the fifth inning. He wanted to add on some runs. Looks like a me guy. I mean, you guys are up. I don't think so. I think that's a team first guy. He wanted to add on. He was mad. Apparently the announcers called it Bush. Yeah.

Do they understand what the definition of Bush is? He didn't do anything wrong to anybody. It's Bush. If your behavior is directed at the other team, that's when something's Bush. If anything, he just complimented the pitcher. He was so angry by the pitcher striking him out that he snapped a bat over his leg. What?

What is Bush about that? And by the way, after snapping that bat over his leg in the fifth, he came up in the eighth inning, singled the center after a walk to start the inning, ended up scoring in that inning. Marlins scored four runs. So in his next at bat, he got a hit. All that is is just letting go of some emotion, getting to the next at bat and moving through it. And that's why Dane's had such a good year. He's been he's been a wildcat.

Really, really, really good center fielder for the Marlins this season. That's how you bust slumps, boys. Take a bat, break it over your leg. Let everybody know you're upset. Some people might call you a me person. Just let it all out. Let it all out. Come back.

Drive in some runs. The idea, though, of a team that is eight games under .500 poised to make a run. Like I said, baseball, the season is so long. It makes everything in play, even the most ridiculous. One of my lasting favorite baseball memories was, it was, I think, on Bob Costas' show, and they had...

Mad Dog on there. And this was the year the Giants won the Super Bowl against the Patriots, right? And also the year the Mets collapsed. And, you know, Bob asked Mad Dog for New York radio, how would you rate those stories? He said, Giants making some probable run for the wild card, beating the best team of all time. It's a 9.9 out of 10 for us in terms of radio topics. The Mets being in number one at the beginning of September,

and missing the playoffs. That's 10. That's a 10 out of 10. Yeah, that's 10. That's a 10 out of 10. And again, that's the thing that can only happen in baseball. What a time to be alive in New York Sports Radio. Oh my God, those two things happening in the same season. We got two stories, one of them is a 10 out of 10, the other one, eh, it's a 9.9, which you want to talk about today. But the idea that like, hey, even with like a month to go in the season or a few weeks to go in the season, you can still f*** this whole thing up. Yeah. Is remarkable. And the opposite, right? The opposite, which is even though you've been terrible...

Go in a little bit of a heater, all of a sudden, things don't sound so ridiculous. Yeah, yeah. No, baseball, I mean...

Like, I remember when the Marlins won the World Series in 2003, if you're invested in a baseball team the entire season... And that year, it was a summer where I was... It was my last summer in college. So me and my buddy were like, we're just going to watch every Marlins game every night. And this was before the season started. Marlins were supposed to be bad. We had no idea they were going to be any good. Matter of fact, they started bad. They were 10 games under .500. They fired the manager, you know? When you're invested in baseball where you're watching everything...

Every night. And your team ends up being good, ends up being a storyline late in the season. Yeah, that's baseball at its best. Baseball is really good if you're invested, you watch every single night, and your team is interested. All this baseball talk. I'm going to go next week. Twinnies are in town. I call them the Twinnies. Have you not been this year? No, I've been. Twinkies.

No, I call them the 20s. The 20 twin twins. I have been once this year, but I'm going to go again. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to use GameTime. I'm going to download the GameTime app. I'm going to create an account. I'm going to use code Dan because that gets me $20 off my first purchase. Whether it's last minute decision to catch your favorite team or you're chasing that perfect summer night, GameTime has your back with incredible last minute MLB deals. Download the GameTime app today. Last minute tickets. Lowest price. Guaranteed. Hell yeah.

The fun part about this type of part of an MLB season for a team that, let's be real, probably doesn't miraculously turn into a team that makes the postseason is making a really fun run right now. And maybe... Oh!

The NBA news, it never stops. According to Sham Sharania of ESPN. Who did he trade for? Masai Ujiri is out as vice chairman and president of the Toronto Raptors. Sources tell ESPN this is a cataclysmic

Could it be the guy who got drafted not being happy to be there? He's like, you know what? I'm out of here. You don't want to be here? I'm out of here. It's the last straw. You drafted a guy who doesn't want to be here. But then you saw on whoever's Instagram account, I don't know if it was his or if it was the team, they posted a picture of him as a kid wearing the old school Toronto Raptors shirt. That doesn't mean anything. Kids wear anything nowadays. Was that the rare happy F word?

I'm so happy. It didn't look happy. So this is really interesting. So this isn't him being moved to a different role. He's out of the organization? He's out according to reports by Shamshirania. Here's the issue, right? First of all, there's no way they did not want him around all of a sudden. This is one of those things where they knew. So you think he wanted out? Now here's the problem.

There were multiple jobs that were open this offseason. The Suns' job was open, right? It went to Brian Gregory because he went to Michigan State. The Hawks' job was open. It went to Anse Salah, who was in that organization already. The Nuggets' job was open. That went to Ben Tenzer and John Wallace. One guy was working for the Nuggets. One guy had worked for the Nuggets. So there were opportunities for him to go out and get a job.

They waited. All the jobs got filled. And now he's out? And he was in the final year of his deal. And he's in the final year of his deal. I kind of feel like... Did he want to interview and they didn't let him? No.

Well, it says that Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment and Ujiri have decided to part ways as well. He was entering the final year of his deal. So this does feel like the type of thing of saying either he was trying to get an extension, thought he might, didn't, and then now is frustrated that he knows he's going to be on his way out. Or maybe that's a situation where...

He did want to go explore. The Raptors knew that. His agent didn't handle it properly, and now he ends up fired. You don't get to be as good as your job for as long as that guy's been good, and then it comes down to the agent mishandled it. Like, if him and the Raptors wanted to be together, they'd be together. Okay, so let's take a step back for a second, because you say there him being as good at his job as he's been, and yes, Masai Ujiri has this reputation where he's like a really good executive. Okay, so...

How good has he been? All right. Like we know going in 2018 made a huge move to trade DeRozan. We're going to take on Kawhi, even though we have no guarantee that he's going to be here. They win the championship outside of that move. Like they're bad and they bid bad for a couple of years. How good is he actually? That's cyclical. First of all, being bad for a couple of years. Sam Presti was bad for how long?

For how long was he bad, right? Not him being bad, obviously, but his team was bad. Oh, I mean, he's been there for 17 years. So it happens. It happens to the best of us. Jerry West was the GM of a bad team in Memphis, right? Bob Myers came in and the Warriors weren't great, and he got out as soon as they stopped being great. So I think, and obviously we operate in a market here where the Godfather is being tarred and feathered

On this show. People trying to push him out. Despicable. Despicable. Exactly. And you know what he needs to do? Diamond to the forehead. Get it back. Thank you. You get it. I get it. This guy gets it. You see him get up there, by the way, for everyone who's been questioning his acuity and all of that stuff. You see when they made that pic, him get up there and bust out those dance moves? I mean, that's a man. Were those dance moves or finger guns? Those were finger guns, but with a little pizzazz. And look what he was saying. You see?

Yep. Veiled threats also as to like, these are finger guns for now. But if this talk continues. Might turn into something a little bit. Might. Might. Might. Got to throw that out there. But yeah, so Masai has had a team that won the division twice.

A bunch of years in a row. Yeah, they were good. Went to the conference finals. Lost to a generational player. Kept losing to LeBron. Right. And built a champion on a very risky move, right? Not only trading the most popular player in the franchise at that point. But for one year. For a guy who only had a year left. For a guy who was coming off of injury concerns, right? But it worked. And nobody blamed him for it. Matter of fact, and that's not even to mention his...

His tree, so like Tim Connolly, who is the GM of the Minnesota Timberwolves, he got to Denver after Masai left. Masai, the guy who's going to take over probably in Toronto, Bobby Webster, is one of the brightest guys, one of the guys that people say this guy should be running his own team. It looks like it might be the opportunity right now for him. The question I have is what team in the league right now

regardless if they just signed their GM or if they've had their GM for a while, it's like, ooh, Maasai's on the market. Is there any team that has an opening? There are no openings. There are no openings at this point. They all opened and got filled

The last one being the Nuggets a couple of days ago. - Oh, so he's gonna sit out a year, he's gonna collect on the final year of the contract. - Sure. - And open a new job next year. - Maybe do some TV. - Imagine the vacation he's just planning right now. Got like 12 months off. I'm gonna go to, that's just like, I always think about that. Anytime a really rich person gets out of work, I just picture them being like, where you wanna go, honey?

Just like planning a three week vacation across the world. - Not only that but like-- - I wanna be rich. - You know how happy? I worked with Tom Thibodeau when he was at ESPN. I've never seen a guy so happy, man. The dude was, he was joy every time he came in the room.

Slapping backs, making jokes, asking questions. Hey, how's it going? I'm like, wow, why does everyone complain about this guy? This guy's awesome. Same thing with Stan Van Gundy. Stan Van Gundy, we know him. We know Stan Van Gundy. That's fun and awesome and loves Blue Bloods and other terrible CBS shows. And then there's another Stan Van Gundy. There's another Tom Thibodeau. There's probably another Masai Ujiri who the public doesn't see. It's a dark side. It's a competitive side.

I want to win. And that, you can't turn that off. You're not like, oh, that at work, close the laptop. Hey, honey, how was your day? No, man, that job follows you. It haunts you. What job is that, by the way? Like, I've yet to experience the job where I close my laptop when the day's done and I'm unbothered until I come into the office the next day. You only work at work. Like, what? Whose jobs are these? Because it doesn't seem to exist in this world anymore. It's a good question.

Because even my wife, who has a job that I would think has that. What's her job? School counselor. Oh, no. Counselor, man. Still gets calls and emails and texts and stuff outside of work hours. What if you work at a restaurant? You don't bring that work home. No. No. You would think. But when I worked in retail, when I was in college, I worked in retail. I had my schedule. And you'd think. You'd be like, okay, well, here are the hours. That was one thing that they would do towards the end that I did not like. When I started working.

$4 million a year store. When I left, $40 million a year store. Very different store when I left than when I entered that store. Take credit. And when I left... You left it in a better place than when you got there. Some are saying, not me. I'm not saying that it was all me. I'm not saying it was just me. But, you know, no coincidence. You know, tenfold what it was when I got there. But I will say this. When I got there, it was like just...

"Just give us the times that you can work." And then when I left, it was like, "We need a printed out copy of your school schedule "so that we know we can't schedule you then, "but outside of that, we need people "to be available all the time." And it's like, "Hold on a second." - Your life is my life? Is that what they just said? - And I was like, "Hold on a second." So they give you your schedule, but then they call you like, "Oh, you know, Jeffrey called out today. "Can you come in and come?" And it's like, why?

don't call me today. Why are you calling me to work retail today? You have a couple of bullet points. Like what was the reason for the growth? Like what did you implement? It's a good time for bras and panties in this country. If I'm going to be honest with you, it was a good time. There was exponential growth,

The Victoria's Secret fashion show was a cultural phenomenon at the time. Pink, the brand, started taking off. Little doggies were everywhere. People wanted those plush doggies. It was a good time to be in the Victoria's Secret empire. It might have been timing. It might have been me. Who knows? How is it now? Do we know? Right when he left. Fell off.

You know, we don't need to get into that right now. They had those documentaries, turns out. Oh, that's right. Deep Dark Secrets, Victoria. Hulu. There were secrets at Victoria's Secret, it turns out. I wasn't privy to them. What was Victoria's Secret?

What was the secret? She was a whore. Oh, whoa. Scandal. You go out there, you thought it was just a dress. He's like, whoa, what's going on down there? That was a joke, friends. I'm sorry. I see Jeremy over there in the corner is very offended. Offended for Victoria. Jeremy has that face. I'm just shocked that you said it.

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Victoria wasn't a real person either. What? Wow, that's not a way to talk about that. The rumor I heard was that Victoria's secret is that there is no Victoria and the dude's name is Victor. And he's just kind of like some creep who's like, oh, I think they should wear this. I got to be honest with you. That was a rumor. There wasn't like a... Okay, so like when you get a job at most companies, you don't sit down for like a history lesson of the company and where the names came from. So I don't know all of that.

I don't know the name, where it came from and all that. I do know that there was all those documentaries and I think the business wasn't as booming. Hey Zazz, did Dan ever tell you why we're called Metalog Media? No. Oh, I see.

Maybe Billy's on to something. I do actually know the answer to that. Is it? Because when they told us the name, they gave us that whole origin story. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Will Potters, right? Do you guys remember? Like some bird of flight. Yeah, it was like some bird that rises with the dawn of a new sun or something like that. Really? Yeah. Yeah, it's like something about birds. I do believe that was my idea. If I can go back to Masai Ujiri for a moment. Yeah, sure. Go ahead.

When do you think is the appropriate time for the wife? You know, Masai Ujiri, he comes home today. I assume he was already at the office. He comes home today, tells his wife, we're out, we're free. What's the appropriate timing for the wife to start planning the vacation, you know? Because you know she's thinking about it. When do you get to start planning? Because you don't want to be crass where it's like,

you're already online and you're checking for the getaway. You got to give it a little time to breathe, right? You're already on Expedia. Now, I have a Sayu jury coming home and knowing it's only a matter of time before she finds out. So let me just stall this as long as possible. She said, how was work? It was fine. And then the next day you get up and you leave and you go to work. You're not doing that thing of like, I'm still going to work. Yeah, you get up, you get dressed, you put on your suit and die. Go to like Barnes and Noble and look for a new job.

Reading the classifieds. Not even looks for a new job. Just sit there and just enjoy the silence. That was me after the ESPN thing. Yeah? Just going to a coffee shop. I started a day trader account. I was like, I'm going to attack the market. Yeah.

This was during the pandemic. Remember, this was like when everyone was getting in the stock market. Did you tell your wife? Oh, no, I did. I'm half kidding. But there was a couple days before I went back to the show, I did like in the morning go to a coffee shop. And I'm like, I got my TV account here. Really? I'm getting that resume. You never know. Did you get that weird attachment that people have on their laptops that opens up like two more screens? Oh, no. I never understood. Why do people need multiple screens?

Maybe I'm an idiot. Maybe I'm an idiot and I live the blessed life just talking about people who chase balls around and stuff. But why do people need three screens? My wife's obsessed with this. She just got a third one. She's like, it's so exciting. Now my mouse moves across all. It's just like, why? Yeah. Why not just get one really big screen? I use multiple screens. Or alt tab. Alt tab. Alt tab. Alt tab. Alt tab.

Altab, why do you like screens? - I have two screens in the Zazzle Mansion Network Studios. I use two screens. They have different responsibilities. - Give me the responsibilities for each screen. - Well, for instance, on one of them, I'm recording myself

when I'm doing Zaslow Show 2.0, and on the other one it might have my advertising reads, or I'm on the internet, so they have different functions. They're both being used at the same time. - You stare at yourself when you're recording? - Yeah, yeah, everyone does that, right? - Look, I'm out here, I'm looking up stuff, I'm typing stuff.

Especially if you do a solo show. There's no co-host that you gotta read visual cues off of. You just stare at yourself. - Yeah, I think everyone does that though. I don't think that's a strange thing. - I've never done a solo show, so usually if I'm in a Zoom, I do see myself, but I'm looking at the other person. - I'm looking at the other people. - If I was doing a solo show, I might minimize it, 'cause what do I need to see myself for? - Well yeah, it's on a smaller screen, but I'm looking right, it's like I'm talking to myself.

I'm my audience. I'm talking to myself. Sometimes you laugh at a joke and you're like, the audience is loving this. See, that's the hard thing that I've experienced. And look, I was doing a solo show my last couple of years on 790 The Ticket as well. But that's the one thing about doing the solo show is...

I can't laugh at my jokes. I don't laugh at my jokes. I don't make a joke. There are people who make a joke and they laugh. I don't do that. Jimmy Fallon. There's not any laughing on Zazz. I'll make jokes, but I'm not laughing. I don't laugh at my jokes. Do you make the joke and then just pause and let that silence sit so that people in their cars... I don't think you could do that when you're doing a solo show. I don't know if it has the same effect. But yeah, that is a thing. I just realized...

I can't remember the last time I listened to a podcast or a radio show with a solo host. Other than Zaslow 2.0. Hey, everyone out there, Zaslow Show 2.0. All right, like, rate, subscribe, tell your mother I say hello. You don't listen to Samson either. Not Samson, not Bomani, not Coward. Like, if they have an interesting guest. No, but all those people, especially Coward, he's got it.

The dopey guy, you know? McIntyre. McIntyre, that's right. And Rachel sometimes. Yeah. I'm by myself. Yeah, man. I mean, like, I just, I don't know what that sounds like. I'm being honest. I'm not, it's like, I don't even know what that sounds like to listen to for 60 straight minutes of someone just talking. Right. How do you break it up so it's not just one long, like, it's not one long Jeremy answer?

Yeah, I guess I just know how to transition. I know how to go from topic to topic. I use sound. I'll play audio bites and I react to them throughout the show. And those are on another screen that you got queued up? No, no, they're on the screen that I'm recording on because this way it's all in the same file. The multimedia is on one screen. That's right. The text is on another. Got it. Yes, correct.

And back in the day, also, you'd take calls when you had like the phone banks you'd have there and you have to call. What is this call? I wasn't a big caller guy when I was doing my radio show. You know, I feel like the people are tuning in to listen to me.

I have some closure if you want to close some loops on Victoria's Secret and its founding and its name and all of that. I love closed loops. So, Victoria's Secret was founded by Roy and Gay Raymond, a couple. And Roy was very, you know... They called him Gay Raymond? No, that was the wife. Oh. G-A-Y-E-R-A-M-E-D.

I thought it was two dudes. That was an unfair setup. There was Roy and then there was Gay Raymond. No. We just called him Raymond. That is not cool. I just called him Raymond. Raymond's the last name. Like Billy, that's aggressive. Well, no. So like Roy would go to the store, but Roy would be very bashful in going to the store because he found it was embarrassing to be buying Gay the lingerie. Gay Raymond. Yeah. It was an embarrassing situation. Straight Roy.

It was an embarrassing situation. So Victoria's Secret was actually founded to be a comfortable place where men

could buy lingerie for women. Really? It's not a comfortable word. I don't feel safe there. Excuse me. It says right here. In 1977, according to Wikipedia, in 1977, Raymond borrowed $40,000 from family and $40,000 from a bank to establish Victoria's Secret, a store in which men could feel comfortable buying lingerie. Who were these men? The store...

Roy Raymond. Gay Raymond. Gay. No, that was the wife. The store was named in reference to Queen Victoria and the associated refinement of the Victorian era, while the secret was hidden underneath the clothes. Bodices and chastity belts and stuff like that. Okay. All right. I'm with it. I don't feel safe walking in that store. No, I don't at all. Well, it's changed since old Roy Raymond. So what was it like back in the day? They had beer and sports on TV and stuff? Hey, come buy your wife some drawers.

I don't think so. I have a thing with my wife where every Christmas I buy her a $50 gift card, which is barely enough at that place. Socks? You can't even get a bra for that. Maybe I do more, but I always do that. And I just make a beeline for the register. What am I going to peruse in here? A man can't peruse in Victoria's Secret. Okay, hold on. You look creepy. Billy just said a $50 gift card barely gets you a bra. Oh, it gets you nothing. I'll be perfectly honest. I have no idea.

How much a bra costs? I just know it's expensive. It depends what you want to get. I don't have a clue. It could be $10. It could be $9.99. It could be $199. I have no idea what a bra costs. I think a nice set is like close to $50. A set? What does that mean? Like the lingerie, the bra and the panties. Like a set. If I'm

More than 50? More than 50. If I'm Mrs. Zazzle right now. Jeremy's looking at girls in bras on his computer. I'm telling you. HR. Jeremy's looking at bras on his computer. HR. I'm trying to company prices. How much are they? Jeremy's looking at bras on his computer. Here's the Victoria's Secret kettle. Jeremy. Jeremy. What do you have going on? NSFW. All right. How much? Your show research. What'd you learn? Yeah.

Now I had to exit the tab. Stay strong, brother. I'll go back. Stay strong, brother. Sometimes you got to do show research and they want to shame you for it. Show research. Because you're trying to be more. Sometimes it's the end of the finals. Who knows? Stay strong. You see your friend gave the heat a D+.

Who gave him a D plus? O'Connor. I love friends. Your friend from that incident that you were just referencing. Your boy, D plus. He seems to not like this organization. He had the guy that he drafted going like 14 or 15. And then he'd get him at 20 and it's a D plus pick. I don't get that logic. He seems to have a distaste for this organization at every turn. There's boobs on Jeremy's computer right now. What?

Alright, how much? What is the research? You're doing the research, Jeremy. I'm being told on ChatGPT that bras can be between $30 and $70. Just the bra? Wow. That's what I'm seeing here, too. No idea. No bundle? Except there's one for $8.99. $8.99? See, I told you. $9.99. I was close. Not at Vicky's. Where is that from? Go back to that. No. It's one cup, the $8.99 one. Just one.

One big cup? Yeah, just one cup. That's what I thought he was saying when he said pear. I was like, oh, otherwise. If only we had someone that used to work there that could tell us what the prices are. I told you. I told you. 50 is probably not going to get it done. The thing is they were always launching new bras and then they would like... They always have new bra technology. The latest bra. No, the girls that worked there loved it because sometimes they would either give you a discount or you could claim one.

and then it was 'cause the idea was then you'd tell the clients, oh this is comfortable, blah, blah, blah, whatever. For me it was just like I'd give it to my sister or my mom or whatever and then the perfumes and stuff like that, when there's new ones they'd give you samples and I'd just find people to give them to 'cause I didn't need them. - Chris, how would your wife feel if you, hey honey, I left the show, I don't wanna do this media thing anymore, I'm gonna work at Victoria's Secret now.

I mean, I don't think she would be jealous if that's what you're like. I mean, I think she'd be like, how much are you going to be making? Let's assume the money is even, break even. I mean. Like she'd ask you what the discount is, right? Yeah. I think she'd be fine with it. And what's the level of stability? Have you seen the media recently? That's what I'm saying. You're talking about stability? Shit. Ain't nobody here got stability. Stability? You're talking about stability? That's why I'm saying she'd probably be happy to do that job. Matter of fact.

You're on the site right now. Get Victoria on the line? Employment opportunities. Look it up right now. Job opportunities. I got you. Let me see. Because I'll do it right now. I'll do it live on air. What will you do? I'll quit this job.

And I'll go work at Victoria's Secret. Very stable. Stability. Why? Stability. Oh. Stability. I think. All tab. Stability. I think we have three years. Boobs again. Boobs again on his computer. That's it. Employment opportunities? Surprisingly enough, yeah. The first picture. That's what's there.

Here's about the culture. Fostering a happy, healthy, and inclusive culture is our top priority. We believe in our associates giving back to our communities and putting the customer first. It's been that way since our beginning. I will find job opportunities. I'm going to bring the culture back. I'm going to bring on some flat screen TVs, sports on.

kegerators, we're going to make this a safe space for guys to walk in and buy lingerie for their women. That's the original. That's why they founded the place. That's why they founded the place. I don't know if that's going to work out. Imagine if Chick-fil-A all of a sudden started selling like, I don't know, hot dogs.

And then everyone's like, oh, I love the Chick-fil-A hot dogs. And I'm like, I would come in. I'm like, I want to take it back to why it was founded. They wanted chicken. Is that what Dairy Queen does? Dairy Queen's got that chili dog. I told you all. The player? I got to get back to Dairy Queen. I got to go in there and say, hey, guys, we've lost our way. We're Dairy Queen.

We're not Hot Dog Queen. We're not Chicken Strips Queen. They also got Pretzel Bites. Pretzel Bite Queen? Would you like a job in corporate at the distribution centers or in stores? You could see me working in Victoria's Secret corporate. You could see that. Corporate what? In a meeting room and a chart. Learn more. Q3 sales are up. Two points. This is our newest technology.

He's blushing the whole time during the meeting? I will say this in terms of stability. Like, some weeks, I got 20 hours. Some weeks, I got four. No way. Yeah, it's like it goes up. It's ebbs and flows depending on the year. They have a lot of, like, seasonal... Look, I'm speaking...

on the way things were nearly 15 years ago at this point, if not more. So there's ebbs and flows. There's the busy seasons. There's the semi-annual sales. What's the busiest season other than Christmas? I think you just nailed it. Christmas is the busiest season for every retail place. So that's a busy season, and then they have a semi-annual sale. Yeah, but that's not a season season. You know what I mean? That's like a week. But I bet you get a nice little bump that week, like the week leading up.

Yeah, but then the couple days after, then you're dealing with returns, and you're like, is this a size thing, or is this like a... They wore it, and then they were like, how do they handle that? Can I tell you, the strangest one that I remember was someone came and was like...

I bought this bra five years ago and like it's worn out now and it didn't last and it's like well yeah because you wore it for five years and then like I had a manager who's like

Okay, we'll honor that and I'm like what I was like wait what like you like the old Costco policy remember Costco It's like you could come in like this TV stopped working. I bought it seven years ago. They're like alright Well, we don't carry that one anymore. So get the the equivalent which is this brand new flat screen You know what? I learned in retail a lot of it is all about the attitude in which you bring to the table of

on some of these exchanges and returns. - Coach us. - If you're coming in hot, and it's a judgment call, which a lot of them, it's like a judgment call, you're like, all right, I'm not gonna, you're here screaming at me, I'm not gonna be putting up with this. - Be decent, and you got a good shot. - If you're nice, more often than not, if you're nice,

They'll be more willing to help you on certain things. Is that not a life? I mean, that works. That's in most cases. I do that all the time. If you're, like, really, really difficult, though, and it's, like, you have the right person, they also just want to get you out of there. Like, whatever you want, man. Just get out of there. So, like, it's about. You're saying you have to be on one extreme or the other. Exactly. Either really nice or, like, a really terrible person. Like, I go with the really nice. Threaten to call corporate. So, I don't know about retail, but I know, like, for flights and hotels, right, for

When they mess up, I tell my friends all the time, you have to go ballistic. Because if you're like, oh, man, I miss my kid's wedding as a result. And they're like, oh, okay, we'll give you 7,000 miles. I'm like, 7,000 miles? That's nothing. That's nothing, right? As opposed to...

I once called American Airlines and told them if I have to pay for this hotel because they messed up. I will tweet about this. No. I'm famous. Well, I brought that up secondarily. Really? I said, if I have to pay for this hotel tonight so I can fly on them, I'll do it and I'll fly out tomorrow morning. But from here on out,

Every single trip I take, no matter how many connections, will be on Delta Airlines, and I will tweet about it every single time. And I've got followers. I'm on TV. I'm on Sports Nation. I layered all that stuff. So you either connect me with someone who can get me a voucher, or just know it's your ass. And I know they review every call. Your call is being recorded for quality assurance. I'm going to assure you this quality. Hold on for a second. I'm going to.

Okay, we got you. They not only got me the voucher for the night that they said they couldn't do. Can't do it. Sorry. That's a good start policy. Can't do it. Got me a voucher for the night and a voucher for the bar. Got dinner paid for and a beverage. I don't like that. You would have gotten my next offer would have been 5,000 miles. That's how you came at me. I would have said, nope, not today. Chris, with those two days of day trading, finance, is that the right place to go for you here on the job application? I'm just trying to figure out which category. Maybe head of mannequin assessment.

- That's what? Jesus. - I had a time where I went to, I got tickets. - So visual merchandising. - I got tickets to WrestleMania when it was down here like 10 years, 20 years ago, whatever it was, right? - Yeah, it was like 15 years ago. - And I was just like, because it was a spectacle, I liked wrestling growing up, I'm like, it'd be really cool to just go to a WrestleMania, right? So I was given tickets. When we get there, they're on the upper deck

And it's blocked view because they had these big palm trees in the corner or whatever because they have a tent. And we weren't expecting it. So people were really pissed off upstairs. You've got to go complain there. They're all upset. The customer service line was crazy. I can't see. They're going crazy looking for anything to do. They'll move you to the floor. So my wife goes over and just goes up to someone off the side and is like, hey.

you know, like I was just, we had this issue. We can't really see whatever. And the woman just hands her two tickets and is like, go. Yeah. Just leave. Don't say anything. Just walk away and go. There you go. We were like 100 level, like 20th row, like right above where the cameras are. Crazy. Did your wife love it? Loved it. Wife love money.

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