Transcript of Hour 2: Good For You

This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stugats podcast.

I'm allowed to use the N-word. This is unfair what you guys are doing to me.

A weird way to start this segment.

Good for you, Dan. I'm really tired of what's happening around here. Good for me, Dan. Good for you, Dan.

I think you forgot the voice. You forgot the voice. No, I'm saying you get out there. You forgot the voice. You get out there and you do your thing.

You got to say it in his voice. Just say it as a gacky. In fact, I'm sorry, Tony, you're going to have to leave for not understanding that that's-Not understanding my own character?

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That's crazy.

Quint Tarantino can do it. You can't do it.

That's what I'm saying. I want you to reflect.

That was my father saying peste, which is Spanish for that stinks. There's a smell in here. And tremendo comeied is a tremendous eater. That is what my father just called Tony, and it wasn't strong enough.

You said, I can use the N-word. And he said, Good for you, Dan.

He was very clearly going somewhere with it. At least that's what we're going to tell everybody.

This Sunday night, from at least 5: 45 to 8: 45, and maybe later Eastern, we're going live on YouTube to cover Selection Sunday and the Oscars at the same time. David Samson is going to be down here in his tuxedo. We've got other special guests lined including Miami head coach Jay Lucas. Hi, Lucas, as I like to call him. We're going to have a number of things, including, I'm told, the character that Jeremy is breaking out as Party Supreme. Instead of Marty Supreme, it's Party Supreme, Jeremy. You could skip ESPN, you could skip the E-RED carpet. Come hang out with us instead, 5: 45 to 8: 45 Eastern, at least on Sunday.

This is going to be an extremely distracting Sunday because you have those two things going on simultaneously. Two major events, we're combining them But you also got a lot of great sports going on at that same time. You have the final round of the players, the players, the best hole in golf, the island green, the players. You also have Indian Wells. You also have left turns from Las Vegas. There's a lot going on on Sunday at that time.

We say Native American Wells now.

That's Party Supreme, ladies and gentlemen. Always there for you when you want to have- Is he just a party pooper? When you want to have Party Pooper Supreme.

This is just a new Debbie Downer. Hr.

We We got to find something between the extremes of Jeremy's Party Pooper Supreme and Tony, Dan, good for you. You should be allowed to say whatever you want.

We were just talking about that scene from Modern Family. I think you were just doing a recall when they were like, We got to bring it in tight. We got to be like the family of the Black tight-end in the blindside. And he's correct it, offensive line. He's like, I'm sorry, African-American kid.

That show's so good, man.

I would argue that it is the best sitcom in the history of network television. I love the writing on that show more than I love the writing on any other sitcom that there's ever been. But I do realize I'm in the minority on that one. Put it on the poll at Lebitard Show. Does Modern Family have the best writing in the history of network comedy television writing?

I can see where I erred there. But I thought it was not the same thing that I was thinking, then obviously, what happened? I was thinking another thing, right?

This is important.

Is this your apology?

I thought you got a pass to say something when, in fact, it was a different thing. I'll take that.

Minor penalty, two minutes. Dumpster juice take.

Dumpster juice take. I don't care.

Your apology wasn't great. Reflect.

I heard.

You got to go again. You got to leave here.

It's tight in there, by the way.

The Cody's, I know. People are getting haircuts. It's very tight in there. The Cody family loves itself a cruise, and Greg Cody has twice joined us from his vacation because he chose to vacation as the Dolphins cut to, the Dolphins signed Malik Willis, and Bam out of bio went for 83 points. What It's been hard for him to miss more in a couple of days locally than he missed. The band thing is just- Can you guys get me, please, the video of Cody joining us from his cruise vacation? Either one of them is fine. I'd like to play both of them. They've been real crowd-pleasers. Greg Cody joining us from Vacation. We've missed him this week. We always love having him around. He makes everything a little bit better. If you guys could get for me both of those videos of Cody joining us as a disheveled mess from Vacation, taking no interest in taking care of his hair. I would appreciate you guys doing that. Please play for me the first of those two videos that we got.

Okay, so I'm on vacation in the Caribbean, and all stuff keeps happening in South Florida sports. Stop it. I'm on a beach in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, and I find out that they're canned, too. Cantuna, and sign Malik Willis, the Dolphins have. Now we're docking in Barbados, Rum capital. We'll be doing some wrong later today on a a beautiful Rome tour. There's a rival crew ship in the background. Anyway, now we're pulling into Barbados, and all anybody's talking about is Bam out of five is scoring 83 points. Somebody told me Bam scored 83. I'm like, In a week, in three or four games? That's pretty good. 83 points in one game. Hey.

Good morning. You're probably going to see the path.

Okay. You're probably going to see... I'm probably going to see... Okay. I know. I'm so high. No, that's okay. Those are our friends from the suite next door. What was I saying? Oh, yeah. After three, four games. South Florida sports, quit doing things that are newsworthy while I'm on vacation. Have a little respect. Bam out of bio, of all people, scored 83 points. More than Michael Jordan ever did, more than LeBron James. It's just insane. Anyway, I'll be drinking some rum today while things keep happening in the South Florida sports.

He gave us three anyways in there, and I was expecting an MVP chant after all of them. I can't believe how much John Schneider both looks like Stugatz and how much his left hand looked like Stugatz's left hand. Let's play the other video of Greg Cody joining us from Sandy Beach's, not the cruise ship itself.

Okay, so as I'm recording this on a beach in Tortola, the dolphins have got cut to a tongue of law as expected and signed Malik Willis, which I predicted they would and advocated that they do. And so congratulations, Dolphins, for following my advice. But here I am, not doing my job. Basically, just drinking a rum drink on a beach in Tortola, which, by the way, Tortola to me always sounded like a pasta, a type of pasta or the actor, the famous American actor, John Tortola. But instead, It turns out it's the biggest island in the British Virgin Islands. We're here on the first stop of our crew. Had a great time so far. A lot of drinking, a lot of partying. Went some money in the casino, which is always a bonus. Did well in the slots, did well at roulette, loved the big wheel, the big clicking wheel, and took a master class in how to make a tenderloin. We had a bourbon tasting. It's been fantastic. We'll come to you again soon. See you later. The C, right in my background. See you later.

How do you feel about his tua analysis there and his Malik Willis analysis as he just took you on a tour of Things I've done. Basically, a celebration of Greg Cody's narcissism. Zaz spent the entire time shaking his head at Cody. He disgusts you, and you can't help yourself from liking him.

It's an interesting experience that I've had with Greg Cody for sure. The first part of it is, it's not exactly an obscure prediction he make that I think the Dolphins are going to sign Malik Willis.

Well, no, he advocated for them doing it. It wasn't just, I think they will, they should.

I mean, great job. Bullseye, Greg, You nailed that one. But yes, while I lack respect on his sports opinions and sports columns, I have gotten quite soft in how I actually feel about him. I'm a little bit soft now these days.

Hunter S. Thompson looks like shit.

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Oh, wow. That's pretty good. It's in there.

It's better. You think I haven't been practicing?

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I want to just replay that entire video so that you guys could experience what it's like to be a Cody family member and loved one. This is Erlene, his wife, who has to stop and video him. No, I want the second one. She chimes in on the first one. Yeah, no, but I want the second one just because what I want to analyze here is the backstory that isn't told here. I don't want the one with him with the cruise ship in the background. I want the other one because I want you to see, Come here, Hon. Hon, I want to do a video because Tua has been let go and they've signed Malik Willis. This is a big story. Let's count how much time he spends talking about the big story and how much time he just spends telling you about what he's been doing.

Okay. As I'm recording this on a beach in Tortola, the dolphins have cut to a tongue of law as expected and Malik Willis, which I predicted they would and advocated that they do. And so congratulations, dolphins, for following my advice. But here I am, not doing my job. Basically, just drinking a rum drink on a beach in Tortola, which, by the way, Tortola to me always sounded like a pasta, a type of pasta or the actor, the famous American actor, John Tortola. But instead, it turns out it's the biggest island in the British Virgin Islands. We're here on the first stop of our crew. Had a great time so far. A lot of drinking, a lot of partying. Went some money in the casino, which is always a bonus. Did well in the slots, did well at roulette, loved the big wheel, the big clicking wheel, and took a master class in how to make a tenderloin. Had a bourbon tasting. It's been fantastic. And we'll come to you again soon. See you later. The C, right in my background. See you later.

For those of you scoring at home, the first 15 seconds where I was right, the last minute was nothing about the big breaking news that he had to get his wife to immediately do a video about.

He's also such a fraud. I'm telling you, he does these type of content videos a lot on travels. Every single time, he's having a great time. He never says we're having an okay time. We haven't gotten to the good part. It's just this generic, We're having a great time out here.

So his wife is actually sitting on that bench with him holding the phone? Yes.

She hates him.

Chris, have you been jealous that he's on a cruise and you're not on a cruise?

The funny thing is, just by happenstance, he's on a cruise the same week. I was at an All-Inclusive earlier this week, and I think I might be... Because you know the Coties, big cruisers. I might be an all-inclusive guy now. All-inclusives are great. I don't need the rocking. I don't need the rocking. I realized that these all-inclusives, it's the same thing as the drink package. I thought for some reason that these all inclusives, they try to limit you. But no, it's whatever food you want, buffets, restaurants, any alcohol. It's not like... It's all inclusive. It's my first all inclusive. I thought maybe it'd be a wedding where it's like, We have this whiskey for you. You can get the good whiskey for a price, but we got this included. It's not that. Maybe I went to a good one, but I think I might be an all inclusive guy now because I love the pool. It's way better at an all inclusive than on a cruise. Pools on the cruises are a little sad and very overcrowded.

Just, I don't know. I have found, and my brother traveled the entire world on cruises because of what it is that he was doing, but I found them to be petri dishes for disease, all of it in the Whirlpool.

You go into the pool on the cruise?

Oh, yeah. I don't spend a ton of time there, but yeah. No, no, no. They got a swim bar.

Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Will you go in the Whirlpool at the Cruise, yes or no?

No. Upon further reflection,

Yeah, it wasn't a great look.

My bad.

A better apology. We got one. But to be fair. We got one to do it. No, no, no, no, no, You got the apology right. Just don't say anything else. We're fine with where it is that things have ended up there. I don't do public pools. I don't do pools with other people. I don't like it. You're a private pool guy, only? I get that. I don't want to be in a pool. I don't want to be in a close vicinity with people that I don't know who don't have their shirt on and the legs are out. I don't dig it. Our pits.

I get where you're coming from with that.

You're not worried about the peak?

What do you want to say, dog?

Zaslow's judgment is sometimes a little strange. The most recent evidence that I have of this is that Zaslow, who everyone now knows as a rising star at ESPN radio, or it's been happening enough, I guess, that we can say he's already risen as a star because they're using him all over the place. Freddie and Harry, the show that he did, Afternoon Drive on ESPN radio, asked the question, who are the most untouchable athletes in sports? They asked an assortment of people this, and see if you can find Zazlo's nomination on this list. It's, of course, Victor Wembenyama, Patrick Mahomes, Shoheya O'Tane, Josh Allen, Connor McDavid, and Roman Reigns.

What does that mean?

Roman Reigns is an untouchable athlete in sports.

Untouchable. They would never get rid of him. The question was, untouchable athletes, meaning the team would never trade him, would never cut him, they would never entertain offers of not having him on their team anymore. Roman Reigns. Untouchable.

You could say it that way and think it is impactful, but it's ridiculous what it is that you're saying. He does not belong in the class as those other people.

It's only two teams. It's Wemby.

It's Wemby, and there's Roman Reigns.

There's O'Tani, who's third somehow on this list.

I put him second. I would trade Mahomes before O'Tani.

None of those guys have scored 83 points in a game.

Fourteen months ago, I would have said Luka.

To consider, when I started working at ESPN Radio, my biggest concern was, are they going to allow me to do my job?

You did the Bullshit, Joe.

Lakers fans are turning on Luka. Have you I've seen this? That is interesting to watch happen when they have the oldest player in the league on their team, and numerically, the Lakers appear to be a good deal better when it's just Luka and Austin Reeves and LeBron getting out of the way, but he's not going to get out of the way. They're not going to be good enough defensively. You can't have those three players running around and expect to win playoff games with your defense. They just have a flaw that be overcome. What do you do? Honestly, I haven't considered what I'm about to say since the New York Yankees took Alex Rodriguez, who was a better defensive shortstop than Derek Jeter, and made their team worse by putting Alex at third base and leaving the captain at shortstop. I have not considered since then what I'm about to say, which is the Lakers have a problem in that LeBron, mathematically, makes their team worse if you play him too many Oh, we had a good run with that Aaron topic. The three good years. Because I had so rarely seen Zazlo, a team, do what team architects never do, and they shows emotion and sentimentality over what makes our team better.

Mathematically, empirically, Aarod had more range as a shortstop and was a better defensive shortstop than Jeter, but they couldn't do that to Jeter and move him to third base.

But at least there's an end date here with the Lakers. We all know this is very likely LeBron's last year there. Here's where the criticism of the Lakers is a little bit unfair, and I'm plenty critical of the Lakers and certainly of LeBron James. But here's where the criticism is a little bit fair because when the move for Luka was made last year, we all knew it was made for the future. It was not supposed to be a move that helped them right now because they don't have any size. They traded away. They also traded away their best defensive player. They're not going to be good on that end of the floor now trading away a great defensive player and getting a really poor defensive player. But everyone was cool with it because, all right, in the short term, we're not going to be great. But in the long term, now we have our foundational piece. But the way that we treat this team, it's like as if we haven't had that conversation.

But there was also the weird situation with the Mark Williams trade that got rescinded, too. Speaking of rescinded trade- Terrible job by the Lakers. That was supposed to be the piece, the rim runner. Rim runner, I'm Greg Cody. The rim runner, the guy who's protecting down low, that was supposed to be the piece. Then they're like, Yeah, no. His physical is terrible. We're not going to do that. It's like, now you're looking at what you had in Dallas in a worse way because you have the Kyrie in Austin Reeves. You got an old guy somewhere walking around like LeBron who's not going to play defense. But it's like, All right, this is just more Dallas.

But we really should be judging the Lakers and Luka starting next year. That was always what the conversation was when the was made. It's this is a trade for the future. Maybe we could have some fun while LeBron is still here, but this is about the rest of Luka's career.

It would be frustrating to waste a great Luka year as he is what he is, but he's only ascending toward his prime in terms of age and when you could build a team around him. The irony is with all this conversation, they're nine and two, and it's just him and Austin Reeves, they're so much better. They are still tied for third at the moment in the conference. Now, everybody's separated by about two games, but they have an opportunity for home court in the first round and may play well enough to do it. The problem is, is when they're at full strength, they're actually worse than they are when they're not.

What do you do with what it is I'm presenting you guys, though? I'm presenting you with empirical data that says they're worse when Luca has to play with LeBron. What do you do? You say, at least there's an ending. Yeah, that ending is in the first round of the playoffs when they get knocked out as the higher seed because they don't play playoff defense. That team is more ripe for an upset in the first round than any team in the sport because they do not play what playoff basketball requires. They can't do it. It's not they're doing it one way in the regular season, and then they'll turn on something else. If Austin Reeves, Luka, and LeBron are getting minutes, you're not going to guard anybody, and you can't play winning playoff basketball that way. You can't even dispute what I'm saying, which is they are more susceptible to an upset than any team in basketball if they do indeed play with home court advantage as the higher seed in the first round.

You can just wait three months and LeBron will be on the team and that's it.

But you're going to give away this season? You're going to give away.

I'm not going to give away. You're going to fight as much as you can, but you know you have limitations on the team.

But what I'm asking you guys is, and the reason I'm paring it against the Jeter thing, if it were anybody but LeBron, we'd be saying you can't be playing him. You got to give the team over to Luka, and you got to see if you can be the Mavericks by surrounding Luka with the players who are going to play good defense. You can't ask the oldest player in the league to be a key defensive cog for you. So what do you do? You just acknowledge you're going to be worse and then lose when no team does that? The entire thing about labor and load management is we're going to be right and at our best when the playoff start, you're going to not be able to reduce LeBron's minutes, correct?

I don't I think they're going to want to reduce LeBron's minutes because once you get to the postseason, there are no back to backs. I mean, heck, sometimes the game's on Monday, the next game's on Friday in the first round. They're going to maximize LeBron if anything come play As is right now, they're going to be in the 4-5 seat against the Denver Nuggets.

How many games do they win against the Denver Nuggets?

I just think they're going to lose in the first round. I think you know that already, so you're going to just choose it? You're going to do nothing in the way of trying to be slightly better when the entire job of management is to make you slightly better.

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It's tough for LeBron because the way that he was aging, the way that he was always going to continue to be an efficient player as he aged, was really to just be a point guard who runs the offense and then occasionally goes off for whatever amount of points. But Luka is best when he has the ball in his hands. He's not an off-ball player, and it puts LeBron in a very strange position on the floor.

But that's why he's moved and pivoted offensively to be the screen man and to play that dirty work. The problem is not on the opposite side of the floor. The problem is on the defensive side of the floor, where we talked about Jordan Miller being able to cover one through four and a half. Lebron can cover the four. He's not moving out in the wing like he used to. And of course, he's 41 years old.

Is this where having the head coach be your former podcast partner ends up hurting them?

I just don't know what you can do. I don't know what choice you have.

Well, can't you do like you saw Eric Spolster now when Norman Powell, before Norman Powell got hurt recently, Tyler Hero was coming off the bench because you can't have those guys in the lineup together. They've not been Miami. And similarly here with the Lakers, I don't think JJ Reddick can pull that move with LeBron.

I want to ask the audience just as a thought experiment, though. If I tell you, you're playing Vanderbilt more, I don't even know what you'd physically do if you're the Lakers to try and get more defense. But is there a scenario that I can put in front of you that you guys would be willing to try? Because I'm telling you on the front end, the Lakers know they can't win this way. Rich Paul already said it. Rich Paul said it on that podcast he is doing with Max Kellermann, said it and is going to say fewer things because he said it. He's not able to say everything that he wants to say, no matter how powerful Rich Paul thinks he is. But I really do ask the all of you, what do you do and do you guys think that there's been any coach in history that has the cojones to say, LeBron, you're going to play less. It doesn't make us better to have you out there We have to do it this way. I don't know that there's a coach that exists that can do that. I find that part interesting when you put it against the coach's job is to give everybody the best chance to win.

And here, emotionally, they cannot do it.

It has to be a coach that has so much power in his organization that he can do whatever he wants. Think about Spoh. Would Spoh send LeBron to the bench and be like, Hey, you're coming off, you're playing 26 minutes a game?

Even then, we remember the end of Dwyane Wade when he was no longer the same player. In 2018, they were like, Hey, man, end of the game, it's you. Thirty-nine minutes a game. He would be still giving it to LeBron, no matter who their star was.

Someone like Popovich probably would have done it, considering he sat Tim Duncan, the final possession against Miami in game 6. That's Tim Duncan, but Popovich felt that that was what was best for the team. So, yeah, maybe Popovich would have done it.

Speaking of the Lakers, by the way, Dwight Howard was there looking completely unbothered at a Laker game as he files for divorce when his wife is putting on the internet a massive bag of cocaine that she says belongs to Dwight Howard. Yeah, that thing. Okay, let's see here. Good for him.

I thought Tony was going to defend that, too.

Minor penalty, two minutes for Adding nothing.

Adding nothing? I have a couple more things to say.

Wait, it's a legend.

We did not talk about the College Football Roundtable. We did not talk at all or mention at all. Donald Trump getting involved with college football and trying to rescue college football because he doesn't have anything better to do. He's handling everything else so competently. Why are you still here, Tony? I helped you.

It is true. In Tony's defense, I mean, you logged a grenade, and we were all going to let you sit in silence. And Tony at least tried to give you a- It would have been better.

He didn't give me anything.

Yeah.

I said that thing.

He actually gave you something where nobody else gave you anything, but we didn't like it.

But it was a bad thing. I can't kick you all out. Otherwise, I'd just be sitting here talking to myself.

At the start of the segment, I messed up. Okay, hand in the air. Is that on me, coach? I'll take the penalty.

Okay, thank you, Tony. I appreciate you being so gracious. Team player. You offered nothing. The college football roundtable, the fixing of things. I can't think of anyone I'd want around college football less than Donald Trump.

I mean, he's been trying to get involved, and this seems to be a really tough nut to crack for all legislators and the NCAA. Ondly, the NCAA is a bipartisan issue. Everybody hates them. The most conservative Supreme Court justices, they rule against them, and then they opine and give college sports takes while they do it. It's crazy. This is a really difficult thing to govern. Donald Trump, once again, tried to do something, and I was really happy with a reaction to this, which is everybody, pretty consensus. This is a gigantic waste of time. This is a circus. And if you recall, the initial guest list to this thing made zero sense. You had Bryce and to Lambo, Tiger Woods, Tim Tebo, a lot of guys, ended up passing.

Yeah, why would any of those people agree to go?

Look, this is a time where standing next to Tim Tebo and Tiger Woods, that'd be good for Donald Trump, as he is historically unpopular, right? But the whole thing was just a disaster. There's a million people in this room with, I think the head of the NHL Hall of Fame was in there. It was just a random grab bag of names. I think I saw a metric that half the people that were there actually got a word in. At the end of it, he just asked, What would you like to see happen? I'd like to send it back to the way that it was before. There is zero representation for labor, zero of active students, one woman, one woman in all of this. One too many. It was just a huge waste of time. It was just for Donald Trump to be around some college sports buddies and get a photo op. Nothing came of it. Nothing.

Yeah. What are you smiling about? Because he's so proud of himself.

It was a good line.

He's so proud of himself. It was a good line from Party Supreme. It was a good line, him saying as Zagaki, you broke out your Zagaki for the first time. One too many was good lying in a good window, and he was efficient. You should reward him for that. He should be proud of himself.

I think this is one of those instances where I'm glad Donald Trump is so blunt because he cut right to it. He is surrounded by people in his ear that are telling him, Hey, let's go back to the way that it was, where the labor doesn't get paid, and we don't have to take any pay cuts, and we all just revel in all the money as the money keeps going up.

Make college football great again.

That's what he wants. That's what he wants. He also added something like, Oh, maybe they can get a little something. But they are all upset that labor has any power whatsoever. The power dynamic is crazy in that sport. There was a funny interaction with Tommy Tuberville, who's a former successful coach at Auburn, and he went to Texas Tech Beck, famously, and Cincinnati as well. And he was asked, What would you like to see happen with the transfer rules right now? Because right now, you can go anywhere. And he's like, You get one transfer, penalty free. But after that, you're not allowed to. And then a simple follow-up, Well, what about the coaches? You would think Tommy Tupperville would be prepared for this question. Takes a beat. You got me there.

Sounds like me earlier.

He didn't want to overcommit.

Are you guys going to watch, I don't know the date of the fight. Gina Carano against Rhonda Rousy. What is the date of that? May 16th, Dan. When's the last time? I'm absolutely dialed. When is the last time either of those people and are both of them in their 40s now? Both of them are in their 40s?

Yeah, for sure. They're both, I think Rousy is nine years, Corano is 10.

I mean, Ronda said a lot of stuff that raised some eyebrows.

Spectacular stuff. Mike, she's tough to take. I'm sorry. She is tough to take, Rhonda Rousey. Yeah, I understand. She hates everything. She's angry at everything.

A lot of people have problems with her that have interacted with her. I can't speak to her, but she's not popular in locker rooms.

Nothing is ever her fault.

This is such bummer because she was so refreshing when it all started. I remember talking to her on Highly Questionable multiple times and just being wildly charmed by her and seeing how it is that she became Dana White. Dana White went from saying, This will never be a thing, women fighting, to making her a headliner and being stunned when she lost to Holly Home.

You saw who the co-main event is on that fight, Dana? Francis Nganu, Felipe Linz. Don't like that spot for him.

That's all you got, says.

He tossed his ass out for that. At least he gave me that thing.

I'm allowed to use the-No.

Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right?

Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is one when it hasn't hit triple zero.

Always drink your Jägermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion.

Everything else?

Everything else.

Wearing clean underwear every day?

Well, that's just a personal decision.

Brushing your teeth?

Obviously smart, but not a rule.

Never PP on an electric fence.

Okay, maybe there are two rules, but the one that is 100% that I insist on completely, Jägermeister must be drank ice cold. Or don't drink it at all. Damn, that's cold. Exactly. You're finally starting to get it.

Drink responsibly. Jägermeister L'Core, 35% alcohol by volume, imported by Mass Jägermeister US, White Plains, New York.