The Big Suey: The Great American Restaurant (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
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Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now, here's the marching band to nowhere, Fat Face and the Habitual Liars.

This episode is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Nice. Nice rebound, Wah. Roy Wood Jr., I admire his hustle. I admire his humor. I admire his ambition most of all. He is now writing a book. He's written a book, and it's a great Father's Day gift, although I think you're going to have to put a coupon in a card and preorder it because I don't know if you can physically get it in your hands in the next week.

but he's got a new book he's written, The Man of Many Fathers. Roy, it's good to see you. Thank you for making the time. I did not think you had the time to be writing a book. That's why it took two years to write, Dan. I did not know that a book would

- Would take that long. I thought it would be something quick and easy. I thought I would do it like other comedians, Dan, and just make a book full of jokes that I never performed on TV and trick y'all asses into giving me $30. But as I started writing, I figured, well, you know what? Let me give a damn and actually tell some stories about men in my life that actually made a difference, you know?

It's a story that... It's a book I want to inspire you, but also let you know you're not alone in having worked with somebody who was high on cocaine and they were better than you at the job. I'm sorry for laughing, Roy. So, Roy, I know a lot about Roy's story. It's incredibly touching and interesting. And he's...

He's masking it with jokes, but I'm excited. I pre-ordered the book. I can't wait for it. Only thing better than seeing a Roy Wood show is texting with Roy because all the jokes that he will not say on stage, I get every now and then, and they are outstanding.

Hey, my only purpose is to let y'all know that Roy's my friend. I mean, what are you doing? I don't give a damn about Roy. I don't give a damn about y'all. I would like the audience to know I got cool, famous friends. Okay, but he's on the show right now. So do we. He's with us. He don't like y'all, though. What? I mean, he's here because you got a big audience. He don't really like y'all. Mommy and Daddy are fighting. Pick a side. Are you here because you don't like us? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm just joking. I'm joking. No.

But no, my pops died when I was 16. And when I had my son, you start reflecting on all the lessons you got as a man from other men.

and a lot of them did not come from my father. So as I started making a list of things I wanted to try and teach my kid, I start reflecting on what was instilled in me and where did I get that. And it came from a myriad of different people. And so I just wanted to kind of compose a lot of those different stories into one big thing. There's a great story in there that I don't think we even have time to get into now, but like the first time you stand up to a terrible boss

and you choose your dignity over money. You know, like, just moments like that, stories like that. So for me, it was Shoney's.

In Tallahassee. I don't know if you remember the great American restaurant, Shoney's. Dan, it was doing well. Is it dead now? So it's gone? Shoney's? There are no more Shoney's? I passed one on my way home from North Carolina. They're still kicking. They're still kicking. Shoney's is still kicking out there somewhere. I don't know about kicking it. Shoney's is where single-A baseball teams go to celebrate winning a three-game series now. And I say that with respect. It's...

It's a fallen institution. When Applebee's and Red Lobster got cheaper and they added a lot more alcohol, it kind of killed Shawnee's vibes. But my point is, if you've got a supervisor you don't like, slap their ass in the face. Slap them, but make sure you don't need the job anymore. That's the important thing. That would be very important. I think it's also a little bit reckless, though. You're now telling people to commit a crime. I think there's an assault involved with a slapping there. Metaphorical.

It's only a crime if they snitch, Dan. Like, why in this scenario did the person snitch? Maybe they're cool to lose a fair one, you know? I did not know. I don't know what you speak of. I assume that if you slap somebody in the face, that's going to result in problems that nobody around here needs. But I think we've all wanted to do that, and somewhere...

I was curious why it is you tackle, like, writing funny is really hard. Obviously, you do it well. But you're tackling here subject matter also that I would think would make you emotional, would it not? Very much so. And, you know, when you look back at the idea of parenting, the problem is that when you reflect on where you learn things, you have to reckon with the fact that there are a lot of things you never got from your father, even when he was living. And so reconciling that...

is difficult because we're also, like all of us as parents as a whole, you want your kids to have a life that's better than the life that you had. So you want to work to provide that for your kids. While at the same time that I'm raising my son to have a better life, I'm reckoning with the fact that, well, I didn't have a dad like me. So in a way, you almost end up jealous of your own kid, but you're the reason that you're jealous of the kid

And so you constantly oscillate between being proud and happy that you're able to do these things, but also having a moment of reflection and that you never got that moment. And your father's passed, so you don't get to ask those questions as to why. And I think that's the thing that's the most difficult is that when you have a parent that's good dad, bad husband, if that makes sense, it's hard to be able to

to not look at how he made certain choices in his life and not want to go, "Yo, man, what was your problem? Why would you do that?" And get an honest answer. And so I think accepting the fact that you'll never have all the answers to why your parents did the things that they did, I think that's one of the most toughest things that we have to swallow as adults and push forward and just try and be better versions of them. - So if you're offended by

getting slapped in the face. You're probably the boss that deserves to get slapped in the face. And also... Edward Snitch. Edward Snitch. Would call the authorities immediately if anyone slapped me in the face. And also, Roy, is there one lesson that...

you learned or that you share in this book that you would make sure that anyone who buys this book walks away with? For me, it's the idea of always knowing who you are and not allowing anyone to compromise that. And I think that's one of the first things that I believe the industry tries to ask of us. I believe it's one of the first things that significant others try to ask of us, if I'm being honest, you know, because you can be with somebody and then that person may want you to conform and turn into something

you know, that you aren't. I think that the idea of, you know, I tell a story in the book about, about, you know, about the time that I got booed at the Apollo Theater and the lessons that I learned from that. And a lot of that came from, I'm not going to say a pimp, like, here's a sidebar question real quick. Let me just ask you as a black man. When you see a dude

out on the curb, but he's not selling drugs, but you don't see any women. Is he a pimp or a hustler or a drug dealer? Which occupation? Because I don't even think I gave this dude the right job title. Well, it depends on whether he has on a panky ring or not. Oh, no, he didn't have on a panky ring. He had on one of them super thick, all leather Ava Rex jackets. Oh,

- Oh, that feels very hustler drug dealer like to me. - If he was a pimp, he's gone through a lot of roster cuts and he probably needs to make some free agent signings. I'll just say it that way. - The rebuilding mode? - I think the biggest, to answer the question, you can get lessons in life from anybody.

And for me, having just got booed, I'm walking back to the hotel in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which is pretty rough, and dude just comes up to me. I explain to him what's going on. He goes, "Man, I got shot three times. I'm still here." And he just walked off. And it was, like, such an insightful moment to have with just a random stranger. But the idea of knowing that you need to bounce back, that you can get back up off the ground, I just --

I think that's the biggest lesson that I feel like anybody can take away from this book. And, you know, it's a great Father's Day gift that you won't get until the end of October when it comes out. No, I mean, I think it's powerful. Learning from other people's experiences is really hard to do. As a father, I know, like, trying to teach my kids based on things that they haven't experienced. I'm so impressed when they can internalize it, even though they don't understand it and haven't experienced it yet. But the biggest thing that I'm working on with my kids right now is learning.

take a responsibility. Just, I don't need a story. You messed up. - How do you teach that though? That's the thing is that we come up in different struggles, like all three of us, right? All with respective super blue collar, middle class, lower middle class, lower class upbringings, just depending on what job your parents got that particular year. How do you teach that type of struggle when your life is different?

I rode an airplane three times total before the age of 25. My son is Delta SkyMiles gold medallion. He's nine. I remember telling him one night, I was like, if you keep this up, we're going to fly Spirit. And he cried. Oh, he cried.

So I don't I think those are the things that I struggle with, you know, even with this book, man, like it's not it's not like you're going to read 12 lessons and go, I have all the keys. It's just here's a couple of values that I learned from various people, some respected, some weird, some random street hustlers going through a rebuild on a corner in New Jersey. So, you know, to me, I think that we just have to always realize that, you know, I'm 46.

I'm still learning about parenting. I'm still gathering knowledge from people and sometimes from people younger than us, too. I think that's also a mistake that we make at a certain age is that we think because you ain't got as many gray hairs as me that you don't know anything. And that couldn't be any further from the truth. I like envisioning your son at nine years old walking to the front of the line of the lounge and just pushing his way through. Excuse me. Excuse me, sir. Yeah.

I'm here. Let me in. You know my favorite thing to do now with my son, Fox? My favorite thing to do is give him his own boarding pass and let him board with the boarding group without me and just let him cut in front of those Zone 3 ghettos. I'm Zone 2, you bitch. Get out the way.

Because we're teaching him how to assert himself and all that stuff. So one of the first things, especially as a New Yorker, you got to learn how to throw them bows and get through the crowd, man. No one's going to give it to you, man. You got to weave and bob. And New York, you got to shove. You got to check somebody into the glass to get with your boarding group. So it's those little moments like that where I'm like, yeah, that's my boy. He can write a book.

The funny thing about that is what you're saying. It's like there's a balance and there's a time for everything. And I think oftentimes we want these firm rules like always be like this, always be like that. There's a time to be assertive. There's a time to be deferential. And understanding that is something that you have to learn. I have a bunch of stories similar to that. On our way down to my family, we're down here for a little bit of a Miami vacation. And before we left, my wife was like, hey, go get your goggles, pack your goggles. My 12-year-old son was like, we'll just get some when we get there. Oh.

Oh. With what money? Entitlement. I was like, what? Entitlement. What? If you don't get your ass in the garage. No, that's too late for that. It's too late for that. What do you mean? You don't get your ass in the garage. It's already there. Once...

He's already grown up in a way that makes him expect to get the goggles when he gets there. Get your ass in your garage ain't going to correct that. Put it on the poll, please. In New York, do you have to shove? Can you guys look up for me, please, the number of Shoney's that there are in America? Because I don't believe. I know there's one in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Okay.

Definitely one in Orlando. Definitely one in Orlando. Okay, and it needs to never die. And put that on the poll as well. Do we need to make sure that Shoney's never dies? But boot at the Apollo, though? I'm sorry to interrupt you. You don't have one that hurts more than that, do you? Oh, um...

It wasn't getting booed at the Apollo that hurt. It was what happened on radio the next day. I was doing mornings in Birmingham at the time. I get booed. Now you got, for context, you gotta understand, nobody from Alabama gets on TV, ever.

Before me, I think it was Ricky Smiley was like the only person. Like, this is pre-Reuben Studdard American Idol Birmingham talent pool, pre-Taylor Hicks and Bo Bice and all of that. Bro, I got booed. I go on the radio the next day after my episode airs like a week later. The day after it airs, somebody calls into the station and goes, yeah, tell Roy if that's the best he can do. He need to start telling people he from Montgomery.

You ain't ripping the crib right. Click. Oh, no. That hurt because that person was looking forward to be doing well and representing. You know, it's a lot of responsibility, man. When you're from a place that don't get put on much, you're supposed to represent. You got to over-represent and not represent that much.

I mean, getting booed at the Apollo is kind of a rite of passage, isn't it? I guess. But the thing that they don't tell you about the Apollo is that it's rigged against you. First of all, they shoot three episodes in one night with the same crowd. So by the time you get on stage as a comedian, the audience has been there two and a half hours. You're dealing with crowd fatigue. Number two, the drinks are $3. At least they were in 2002 when I got booed. So you got...

1500 people in Harlem who've been drinking $3 well vodka for two and a half hours. They just booed a kid singing a gospel song. And then here comes me. Hey, y'all, I'm from Alabama. Y'all ain't got no Waffle House up here?

And then you get booed, and then you go back down into this green room with all of the other amateur night acts that are all waiting to go up. And it's like, if you could ever see somebody coming back from the electric chair, like after getting fried, I don't know if that makes sense.

And half the room has survived. The other half is waiting to go. It's like walking the green mile, walking the green mile. So there's so many things that you're up against. Like Apollo back in the day would have a music act every episode, like a major music act. So they would shoot all three of those acts. So I think the night that I taped, it was Ja Rule,

I think Faith Evans came, Ja Rule did two songs for an episode. Faith Evans came out and did two songs for an episode. And then it was P Diddy and the family. They did like a whole medley, whatever, like that, that was how the show started. And then you do all the Apollo kids. Then you do the real amateur. There was a man in my episode. I wish I could find the whole episode, bro. There was a man in my episode,

Showtime with the Apollo. He was a black guy in the 60s, roller skating melodically to Lou Rawls and they didn't boo him. And I'm like, really? That's what we're letting across? Look, I know this is a place for black talent and we get to showcase the best of blackness, but what are you going to do with the roller skating to Lou Rawls? Is there a talent agent in the crowd? Oh, you got all the gifts, kid. What's your name? Mr. Stanley? Oh, Mr. Stanley, good to meet you.

Where does this go? - Sandman, Sandman gotta get out there on that one. You gotta do your job, Sandy. You gotta get out there and take care of that. - Nah, it was also, they respected him 'cause he looked like he was marching back in the day for our rights. I get why you didn't boo him, but it's just, it's not fair. - No, that's not fair. That's not the opener. - Yeah, I gotta disagree with you there. Like, I understand that the reason that we had this theater and could perform at this point is in part because of the sacrifices he made. But don't soil our stage with this foolishness.

Yeah, if the family's listening, I'm sorry. I hope you're somewhere. It's still roller skating to Lou Rawls. Come open for me. All right. Put it on the poll. Was the guy roller skating to Lou Rawls not booed because he marched during the civil rights? For our rights. He was like 65. Because he marched for our rights. Okay, but I know...

I don't believe that's why that happened, but okay. That's where the well drinks were respectful, just at the roller skating new rolls. There's a respect for age. Like, Dan, you get this. There's a respect for age and experience. All right. I've got some sports questions for you before you get out of here, and I tell the people, the man...

of many fathers. Buy his book. Support the people who support us. Roy Wood is one of the greats who is supporting us, and we appreciate his time and, as I said, his ambitions. But as a Cubs fan, do you want to tell people that you've got, that Suzuki is a top 20 hitter in baseball? Like, do you want, are you beating your chest about your baseball team because you have a good baseball team?

No, because I want us to be good quietly. And then in October, then we can start playing with pressure. I love the fact that y'all don't cover Suzuki the way that y'all cover everybody else in the league right now. I know he's not your favorite Japanese player. I know there's one in Los Angeles that y'all seem to love a little bit more. But guess who got him in the number? Suzuki do, bitch. Yep.

That's right. That's what I was trying to lure out of him. Pacers Thunder, do you have any thoughts there? This is not obviously a series that America is going to embrace for viewership reasons, but it's great basketball. It's fun basketball teams. If you appreciate basketball, you got to love it. But, you know, I think this is when the NBA needs to, like when you have a middle America NBA finals, this is when the league has to start paying attention

influencers to go to these games. Like, you gotta get Timothee Chalamet and just, hey, would you mind just sitting courtside in Oklahoma on a Tuesday night, please? Just, you know,

Because that's where the finals are supposed to be with the casual fans coming in. I think that that's probably where the league, they'll never admit it, but they're probably behind closed doors going, oh, we need it in New York. But you're going to get a good series. You're going to get a deserving champion. Halliburton has shut up everybody's mouth. Don't.

I know how I feel about the nickname Halliband. Yeah, it's tough. But outside of that, I'm fine with the finals. I'm not here to create a whole new debate. But, you know, that one flies a little too close to, you know, freedom and dead veterans. Dang, why you ain't ask my man about the Stanley Cup final? It's happening right now. You asking about basketball? I asked him about baseball. I did ask him about baseball. Well, you know, the Atlanta Thrashers have a good chance in the Stanley Cup final. Yeah.

You know, as we all know, my favorite NHL team is the Atlanta Thrashers. The name of the book is The Man of Many Fathers. I want to play this sound for you and get your thoughts on Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise, I'm sure your book is not as emotional as this is, as Tom Cruise is about Father's Day. Also, I've got to ask, Father's Day is just around the corner. What would an ideal Father's Day look like for you? Hey, you know, just having fun, man. Making movies, big adventure, having a great time. I love it.

Nailed it. I love it. I love it. Don't you ask me no other questions, Heifer. I told your ass before we turned the camera on that we talking about the airplane flips.

Ask me about the submarine. Ask me about the sky. That's it. No ad libs. You're getting exactly. Yo, respect to Tom Cruise, who rarely surfaces ever for media. Y'all ain't going to ever get him on a podcast because of behavior like that. That's what you get. Try to trick him. That's discipline. Put it on the poll, please. Are you ever getting Tom Cruise on the podcast? Because he's so right about that. Tom Cruise ain't ever coming on anybody's podcast. Just having fun, man. Nah.

Just tying up the loop here for showings.

Roy, Shoney's. 65 restaurants between Shoney's and Captain D's. Wait a minute. I'm reading here. Shoney's, which operates as Shoney's Restaurants and Captain D's Restaurants. Don't fall for it. 65 restaurants across 17 states. I've got different information. I've got 900 Shoney's in 28 states, most of them in Tennessee. Ain't no way. I'll fall for it. No way it's 900 left. What's these? 400 in Tennessee? Come on, man. 24.

24. I'm told there are 24 in Tennessee. I'm telling you, Shoney's was the king. They had an amazing breakfast bar, but Saturdays cannot carry a franchise when Applebee's, Chili's,

Olive Garden, Outback were all attacking you and coming under $10 a plate for food, and you don't have a liquor license. You were doomed from the jump. And God bless the owners because they were devout Christians and they didn't want to fool with liquor, and that's part of what happened. But you see Cracker Barrel gave in, didn't it? Cracker Barrel tried to hang on, and then they was like, all right, now, get the liquor flowing. We about to die. See what happens? All of our customers. Shoney's was balling. Cracker Barrel got too many customers that be roller skating.

We can do it. We can play. We can dance.

Shorty's was balling until integration. That's essentially what happened. They let a bunch of other people in the league, and Shorty's could no longer compete. They couldn't do what everybody else could do. What is Captain D's? If I got to ask you. Roy, thank you for being on with us. The Man of Many Fathers is the name of the book. It's available now for pre-order at crownpublishing.com. Go to roywoodjr.com. Yeah, just go to my website. For his latest dates and shows. Thank you, sir. Good seeing you, as always.

All right, bro.

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Stugatz. These are smiles till the broads are clutch again. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz. I wanted to ask you guys a handful of questions. One, going back to what we were saying before, I still haven't been able to shake off of me Chris Cody shaking his chest and yelling at everybody. We broke them mentally. I

don't feel like he should be inserting himself in that breaking the way that he is because he had three beers at the concession stand during the game. Four years, season ticket holder. Territory member. Been a season ticket holder before Kachuk was here. All right.

Those are bona fides, but you saying we broke them mentally is a bridge too far for me, is what I'm saying. You saying that you had anything to do with Conor McDavid's breaking. You don't think that Conor McDavid's, you know, someone points in the direction of Chris Cody and says, buddy broke you.

If that crowd wasn't there last night, Dan, it would have been a lot tougher for them to have all that momentum. I was there screaming my head off. I annoyed the guy in front of me. When they do this thing, as the players are walking out, they're like, get up, wave your towel, and scream. So what did I do last night? I got up, I waved my towel, and I was like...

And I was so lost in the scream that at one point the guy in front of me looked back like, dude. And my wife was just like... That's embarrassing. My wife is standing... Wait, for that guy, right? That that guy wasn't yelling. You getting the turnaround look...

Look, guys, we're trying to be Edmonton here. Like, did you see that barn? That barn is loud. Okay, when they come out, that is the time of the game when we need to be at our loudest. And I wanted to do my part. And the guy in front of me got a little annoyed. You made Dominique snort from waving your towel.

They literally, the announcer's like, "Get up! Wave your towel!" Khaled? And he goes, "Here they--" No, it's like that deep voice. It's like their intro voice guy. "Here they come!" And they show Bobrovsky leading us out, and I'm just like, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHLLLLLLLLLLLL

It wasn't a town wave that made me snort. It was a couple different things. So Tony's doing a show for me in my ear, which is fantastic. And also, the video room is doing a show for me on the side screen, which is also outstanding. I was trying to listen, but what they are doing to Zaz's face is outstanding. What happened?

So Megamind has made an appearance again, and I'm pleased that the video team is amusing Dominique, and it is a lot of forehead. It is a substantive amount of forehead. Zazzle, I didn't realize that the backward caption... Oh, man. That's not fair!

Yo, that's not fair. He made you blue. Not doctored at all. The size. What you think about? They just colored it. Everything. Yo, that's bullshit.

That is how you play hockey, though. It is. We can all agree. Captain D's. What is Captain D's and what is the real information on Shoney's? Dan, I don't know who told you there was 900 Shoney's around. I will tell you. That's Shoney's propaganda is what that is, Dan. You know what? You shouldn't fall victim to propaganda. Danny's fired. No, no. Yeah.

He said 900 to me, too. Danny's not fired, but... There's 55. No, no, no, no. We're going to... Somebody get a camera. Somewhere in between. Danny, come on in here, Danny. Danny, don't point. Oh, no. Come on in here. Stunt Danny, come in here and go to the microphone and stand next to Tony and explain to me... No, don't show me. Don't show me.

your Shoney's Google search. Oh, it's AI. Don't show me. No, no. Listen to me. Listen to me. You guys cannot give me information in my ear that has not been vetted that you're allowing Elon Musk

Musk's drunk robots to control because you don't know how to do the internet anymore because all of the robots have taken over the searches. I just searched the same thing and the AI response for me says 58 locations across 15 states. Okay, so Tony, I owe you an apology because I should have trusted your research and

You know I'm thorough. Stunt Danny, explain yourself here. Big moment here. Don't be nervous. Stunt Danny, you're sitting in for Lewis, whose judgment is very bad. Don't be nervous when you talk. Listen, Forbes is a trusted article. I didn't look at the year because it's a tight window. I didn't look at Wikipedia because Wikipedia is worse than AI.

Well, okay. Well, that didn't sound like an apology. It didn't sound like accountability. It didn't sound like anything other than just... Dominique, we need to teach Danny accountability, too. Last time I was down here, we had a big conversation about accountability, and everyone at the show, we discussed and we understood what accountability meant. We thought, and now we got to start over. So, Danny...

Next time you come here, hold up. I owned it. No, no, no, no, no. Can we get back to yesterday? You had a whole bunch of excuses. Yesterday, we have a meeting because at one point, Video played the wrong video yesterday. And in our recap meeting after the show, he goes, I'm going to be accountable here. I played the wrong video because multiple people were talking in my ear. That's true. So this is what I would suggest, Danny. My bad. I got you next time.

That is not the Metal Lark way. I got you next time. It is. Danny, I see you, baby. But this was next time. Yeah. Oh, that was terrible. Minor penalty, two minutes for adding nothing. Actually, you do the full elevator. He like bailed on it. He can't do the full elevator because of the shape of his body. He can't go down any floors because his elevator gets trapped halfway.

Captain D's. Cut to me, guys. He looked at his watch and then midway through, cut to me, guys. Oh, no, he's not there. Danny can't cut to me. Danny does the cuts. There you go. And then he was like, oh. Yeah. Oh, ow. Dan, so Captain D's, part of the Shoney's brand. There's a couple of them out there. And they're a beautiful, fast, casual seafood restaurant. And what I was telling Dominique is that they have a beautiful grilled white fish. They don't say what kind of fish, but we know it's white.

Put it on the poll, please, at Levitard Show. Is there such a thing as a beautiful, fast, casual seafood restaurant? And notice how I said fast, casual. It's not fast food. It's fast, casual. It's good food fast. I know what you said, but what I'm saying is my fish. I need it to be neither fast nor casual.

White? No, I have a color. Hey, it's white though. Don't worry. So that's the poll question. Beautiful, fast, casual. Is there such a thing as a beautiful, fast, casual seafood restaurant? Because that's why there are so few Shoney's still existing in America. Because everyone knows.

That you don't want to go fast casual on the seafood. So is it 55 or 900? Well, no, I think we got it right. Thank you. We'll get to the bottom. Not 900. Not Danny at a microphone. Not Danny doing the elevator. Not Danny talking in my ear with any information gathered from the internet. I think that's the lesson that's learned. And also, not Danny when it comes to accountability unless we stop him in his tracks and Dominique lectures him about it. But the thing I wanted to ask you guys about...

Both the article that Dominique led off the show with in USA Today about the pain that football players play in. When I ask you the question, game three, where you feel confident enough to shout at the end of a hockey season, grueling, tired, and Edmonton's been a buzzsaw.

You feel the comfort of shouting, we broke them mentally. I want to ask you guys when it comes to depth in hockey, pain of a season, length of a season, how tired human beings are at this point in the season.

Are you not asking Connor McDavid right now to overcome something that comes at you in waves and does not fatigue because of the depth that it has? Do you believe in the idea that the Panthers would have an ability as champions to wear down two players over a series and

When everyone's tired this time of year, when you're talking about the physical imposition of will over the course of a season and how you would break someone like McDavid mentally if you were actually doing it. Do you believe, I believe the OKC Thunder have the ability to do that to anybody over seven games. I just saw them do it to the MVP of the league. I saw the MVP of the league change hands because they did something on defense that wore down a tired champion at the end. What I'm asking you about the Panthers is,

Do they have an advantage over what is now possibly four remaining games? Because not only can they wear you down over a game and then wear you down in the third period, Edmonton has been able to overcome that through two games, but do they have the ability in a physical sport to actually wear someone down over seven games where they have an advantage because two stars are tired?

I think they do. Looking at the ice time for Connor McDavid last night, they played 20 minutes and 51 seconds. That's the fenceman numbers. You don't usually see that out of a forward. He's been out there the entire game, right? He's going to do that for over a seven-game series. He did that in the last series last year. So he has the stamina and the ability to do that.

But the Panthers are going to end up wearing him down. He's going to end up making mistakes, creating turnovers and everything like that. So, yeah, I think they do have the ability to wear down everybody around Conor McDavid, including Conor McDavid himself. I feel like...

Gustav Forsling, who's struggled in this playoffs, this series, he's been great because he's really the only guy. And there are... Nobody can skate with Conor McDavid, but he's by far our best skater. And there were multiple times last night to joke about get in front of him, block him, where Gustav Forsling is affecting Conor McDavid. And he's always out there with him. So...

Gustav's minutes I don't think are crazy, but he's always out there with Conor. So I think Gustav has been a Conor stopper, at least containing Conor so far. The thing that I want to present to you guys and in the context of this USA Today article that I want to talk about, the where of this sport and how injured guys are. I want people to appreciate. I know hockey fans, like the deepest hockey experts, appreciate what I'm about to say.

I hope they appreciate what Connor McDavid is being asked to overcome here.

You can hate Florida. You can think McDavid a choker. But when I see him spin through Barkoff that way, I'm like, wow, that's special. But can it be ground down by 20 men? By 70 lines of we're just going to keep flogging you with a bunch of above average people because our depth is unholy. Well, and the key is, like Roy mentions, you got Conor McDavid who's on the ice, defenseman type minutes, like 27, 28 minutes a game.

But he's still on the ice for less than half the game. And I think sometimes that's lost on us, where, yes, he's the best, but he can't be on the ice all the time. And it's over the course of a particularly long season, a grueling playoff run, an emotionally and physically grueling playoff run. To push through that stuff, I think, is really difficult. And we often do this with basketball players. After they lose, we're like, well, what's his injury going to be if he played poorly in a playoff series? We kind of like...

wave our hand at it as if it's not a big deal and then you read some of these articles or you read about what it actually feels like because we hear so we get desensitized to these injuries because we hear them so much like

Go get turf toe. Forget getting turf toe. Just go ahead and bump into a wall real quick. Just knock knees with somebody and see how you feel. And like the Armstead piece, he talks, it was on a podcast that he was being interviewed. And he said after games on Sundays, he could not walk under his own power until Wednesday or Thursday. He couldn't, he never practiced because he could only walk.

move in a football-worthy way under painkillers since the third year of his freaking career. That's the guy we had protecting too? I mean, if you look at the Panthers' injuries three seasons ago versus Vegas in the Stanley Cup final, Aaron Eckweier played with a broken foot. E2 Luce Ronan played with a broken leg. Matthew Kachuk broke his sternum on that hit. Can you imagine? I'm sorry to pick on Danny, but Danny can be a symbol for a lot of us, but

Can you imagine if daddy who just came in here and blamed the internet for his show? These mistake was in here on a broken foot. You don't need your feet to Google, but we would all give him all the latitude in the world. If daddy was like, Hey, 900 restaurants, we'd be like, ah, daddy, he broke his foot yesterday. Guys take it easy on daddy. But if we have a football player or a hockey player or an athlete messes up with a fractured throat,

We're like, you can't miss that block. You're out there, aren't you? We say that shit all the time. Like, you're out there, aren't you?

His throat was fractured. That's not Armstead. That was the other featured participant in this USA Today story because what these people are doing to overcome things is a bit insane, but it is normalized. I don't know how many of you saw this the other day, but there was a game-winning hit in a Mets game by Francisco Lindor, and they just casually said, who's playing with a broken toe?

And I'm like, ooh, that sounds unpleasant to be sliding and doing things with a broken toe. And it also sounds unpleasant to get the painkillers in the feet that you would have to get so that that doesn't hurt because you're playing with a broken toe. I think he's still second with that broken toe. Sliding feet first. Pushing off. But fractured throat. Did you guys know that was a thing? Were you guys aware that the fractured throat was...

If I tell you you have a fractured throat, living is not going to be the same after that, correct? That does not heal in a way that then makes it a not fractured throat in a reasonable amount of time? Now, I am using AI, what Danny used, but I'm reading here that there's really no difference between a fracture and a rupture when it comes to the throat.

Good to know. I'm sure that makes Frank's throat feel better. I'd go rupture, though. I feel like rupture sounds worse. Like, if I had it, I'd rather say ruptured than fractured. You made the point that it's something that doesn't go away, which is...

coach my son's flag football team and sometimes I practice around with them and last Friday I practiced with them. My hip and my knee still feel terrible and I'm limping around. I won't let y'all know it. I won't let my son know it, but I feel awful. When he says chippy game and what those hockey players feel like, just imagine running into the boards three times and hitting it with your shoulder. How you'd wake up in the morning. Let's look into that.