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Greg Cody, do you know any of what Jason Benetti and Boog Schaumbach did last night, or is everything we're about to unveil for you going to be a total surprise?

The latter.

A total surprise?

Yes, I watched none of the baseball, partly intentionally because I thought it would come up today and I wanted to be surprised. I'm eager, to say the least.

How many do you want him to have done to be satisfied? Catchphrases on the Tigers'— your catchphrases on the Tigers-Rays broadcast, how many would be enough for you to be happy about it or thrilled even?

Okay. Happy? Any. Thrilled? 3 or more.

Jeremy, how many did he do? 9.

What? 1 per inning? Or how does that work?

That is how that would work.

What?

Oh my gosh.

I believe you just added a catchphrase that I have not—

Yes, I've not heard that.

That is not on there, is it?

I know. I haven't said that in years.

That is—

further away from the mic, please.

Yeah, that's good.

Uh, Mike, I'm, I'm just a little worried, Mike, in general, that we're feeding—

we're feeding his narcissism too much.

Yeah, yesterday was a little, a little rough. You know, it's one of the, the great go-to jokes, but also what The Lebatard Show does famously is run jokes into the ground. Yeah, we cannot continue to run Greg Cody's narcissism into the ground.

It's essential for our likability, but he delights in been in it so much, and he's so happy, and he's at his worst and his best when he dips into the depths of the narcissism. Did Boog do any? Because I'm pretty sure he forgot. I'm— I have not heard anything. Did Boog forget on one of the busiest days of his life to do any of the catchphrases? I've not heard from Boog. None of us can reach Boog. All of us are trying to get a hold of him to find out. Meanwhile, Bonetti's in the middle of the broadcast, like, timestamping stuff and sending it to his producer.

Like, he's just—

I hate to say this, but I'm going to have to.

He's the best.

He's better than Boog.

Wow.

I hate to say it.

Gives you the inning, the batter.

It's the easiest thing to say. I'm not saying he's better at broadcasting baseball. I'm saying he's better at doing our job for us. So Bonetti will be on with us, uh, and we will talk about all of this. And also, I came in here today and I cannot believe what I'm about to say because I thought they were trying to trick me. I have said since it happened that the ball bouncing off of Jose Canseco's head before he got to the warning track and going over the wall for a home run is the best play in baseball history. And I am told it's happened twice in the last couple of weeks in college baseball.

In Major League Baseball, and not even the time we were talking about 5 weeks ago when we tried to get a hold of that minor league center fielder and he asked us for cash for an interview and we're like, get out of here, we just want to talk to you about how the ball hit your forehead and bounced 70 feet.

Should have paid him.

How much he asked for?

I don't know, I gotta find out because I regret not paying him. 200 bucks.

But now, but now all of a sudden we got any number of people that we can pay because it's happening.

It's a proliferation.

This is a plague. It's a trend. If it's not a plague, it's a trend.

When you have multiple— in the last month, we've had 3 home runs bounce off of heads.

Is it a plague or a blessing?

It's a blessing. It's a gift to baseball. It really is.

So too is Jason Benetti. Let's hurry up and get this thing started so I can get to some of those catchphrases.

Star of the day, star of the day, it is the star of the day. Star of the day, star of the day, it is the star of the day. Star of the day, star of the day, it is the star of the day.

The New York Knicks are playing in the NBA Finals tonight for the first time in 9,840 days. And the hockey championship is unbelievable that the Vegas Golden Knights come back from 2 goals down. I thought when they got 2 goals down it was all over because all they do is block pucks with their face.

Hockey championship? That's what they call it.

Yes, I have a, a stat of the day quality stat regarding Game 1 of that game last night.

Too late, we already played the imaging.

That's okay, it's a bonus. Okay, it's a bonus stat of the day. Before last night, teams trailing by multiple goals at any point in a Stanley Cup Final Game 1 were 0-55.

Hockey championship.

Carolina, the first team to blow a 2-0 lead in a Stanley Cup Game 1. Really?

Yep.

You know what they call that 2-0 lead?

Yeah.

The most dangerous lead in sports.

They do.

Dos a cero. Let's get to these catchphrases because Greg Cody is filled with delight right now. We've got 9 of them. I don't know what we would have done if not for Jason Benetti. We're sitting here trying to support Boogs' cause and then he just forgets about us. It's weird. And he put in very little effort into helping us while asking us to put in a great deal of effort to help him.

Wow, very critical.

I mean, you, you asked us to do something. We were going to raise a bunch of money for charity for you, and then you didn't do it.

And so we needed Bonetti to bail you out. Nick Wright is going to be here in about 40 minutes to talk about an assortment of things, and we're going live throughout, uh, the show and the week this week. But, uh, the first of these from Jason Bonetti— Roy, give me what we've got. The first of the Jason Bonetti, uh, Greg Cody catchphrases that he dropped into, uh, Rays and Tigers last night.

You know, you watch the Tigers for a 10-game span over the past 3 years and what do you learn? Maybe not a whole lot.

Oh, okay. It's what'd you learn?

What do you learn?

Eh, it's close.

What do you give him for that? You're the one. He's going to be on in about 20 minutes and we're going to tally it all up and he's going to match whatever it is that I pay per catchphrase. Tony is keeping the numbers back there. What do you pay for that one? It's $100 for them done perfectly well, $200 anytime he gets the tone right on a song, if he's willing to do a song.

Yeah, he gets a demerit for not specifically going, "What'd you learn?" "What'd you learn?" And saying it in that cadence, "What'd you learn?" I offered before the game, I told him I'd go over them with him.

He said, "I don't need any help. I'm going to listen back to the catchphrases." And already he's got one wrong. What would you give him for that one? How much are you giving him?

"What'd you learn?" Well, I guess like he's not trying to do a Greg Cody impression.

Well, he should be.

To get maximum dollars. Yeah, to get maximum dollars for charity.

Yes, you got to honor it.

Look, Hee Haw 3 Bidet Up is not the same if it's just Hee Haw 3.

Like, he disrespected the bidet up.

Yeah, me maximum.

Learn has to take longer than would ya.

Would ya learn?

Yeah, what do you learn?

Yeah, see, that learn is way too short.

Okay, it was a little bit of an effort. I'm going to reward him with $75.

Okay, so there is a deduction.

He's paying a tax.

There's a cost. Somebody with ALS is getting less money because he I did this poorly.

It's like gymnastics though. We do count in level of difficulty, and that was a relatively easy one.

Yeah, way to learn.

We've got 9 to get to. Gimme, I hope we got something better than that one.

34-year-old left-hander gets a pop-up. Out number 1 as Feduccia puts it away, and we get a message from Figer Law.

If you've been injured in a motorcycle crash, make Figer Law your first call.

Figer Law, all we do is win.

All we do is win.

If it, uh, stays like this, he's singing in the 8th inning.

Very good. Oh, help me, Rhonda.

So he did the very good parrot, but he didn't do it the right way.

Very good. No, that was a very pedestrian effort by Van Ness. I hate to say it because this is for charity. I support the cause.

Didn't sound like it.

Yeah, you know, I'm, I'm a strict grader. You don't want me as your high school teacher. Trust me, I'm strict. When I give out an A, it's for excellent quality.

I don't want you with making me comfortable with ALS either.

Well, you know what? You gotta earn. Gotta wanna learn, gotta wanna earn. He wants to try, but he didn't want to earn the max.

But now he's gonna be on with us a little while. We're gonna yell at him about these things because he didn't do it correctly.

Very good.

That's the way that you do it.

That's all you need.

What does he get for that? Keep those two in the holster, Roy, because those are the two I'm gonna be critical about when he comes on. What do you have to say about this, Cody? How much is that one worth?

65.

I think the only thing worth remembering from that clip is Fiker Law.

All we do is win.

What a great sponsor for Tigers games.

Yeah, it is.

So much better than the Marlins one.

Sponsoring Tigers.

All we do is win.

There's so much—

is that guitar or is that just Auto-Tune?

It feels—

there's a riff somewhere in the guitar there.

It's a good riff.

All we do is win!

He cut out the riff, but there's a riff right after that.

Yeah, you can go ahead and play the whole spot for— like, I'm sure, like, we're giving them free advertising, but there's a reason why that ad stayed in there. We did not need it, but that ad is incredible.

The ad was much better than the parrot. Right.

I'm giving money for the ad.

If you've been injured in a motorcycle crash, make Figer Law your first call. Figer Law. All we do is win. All we do is win!

Who is when?

Let's play a third one here, see if these get any better.

I'm the kind of guy that likes when the Tigers score 15 runs in 2 games.

Now we're cooking.

Okay, that's not bad. Yeah, that's a step up.

I'm the kind of guy who said it the way that you say it.

Not quite fast enough, but he ran the words together in a way that he's learning. He's learning. That was good.

I'm the kind of guy.

I'm the kind of guy that— that was an improvement.

A little further away.

I'm going to give him $105.

Woo! A little tip on that.

I'm the kind of guy that—

5% tip.

Not much of a tip. When I said a little tip, I didn't mean anything other than it's very little.

Ayo.

Number 4 on the list.

We're only halfway through Jason Benetti polluting the sacred broadcast of the Detroit Tigers.

Tigers starting defense brought to you by Marygrove Awnings goes like this: Green, Bierling, Perez, McKinstry in short, the double Zach left side of the infield, Torres and Torkelson on the right side, and Dylan Dingler has the plate. Two Zachs, two last names that start with T, and DD. Follow? Follow? I'm not going to take a quiz. First pitch to Yadi Diaz.

I'm not going to take a quiz.

He said that. I'm not going to take a quiz.

He said that well. He said that well. Just said the words. No, but he had a cadence to it.

I'm not going to take a quiz.

I'm not going to take a quiz. I love the word. The quiz is a half an octave lower than the rest of the words, which is pristine.

I'm not going to take a quiz.

Maybe turn completely around.

I'm not gonna take a weird—

just, just, just let's turn our back to the mic. Yeah, yeah. And then just answer questions.

That was, that was, that was better. That's the best one today that I've heard.

Do you think there are people listening to the Tigers broadcast or watching the Tigers broadcast they watch every day, and at some point they just think to themselves, Jason's saying weird things today?

Yes.

When there are 9 of them. Yes, I just want my Spencer Torkelson pure and clean, what I'm used to. I don't want, uh, I don't want anything else. Uh, Mike, you've noticed, and this is troubling to me, um, the more we delve in his narcissism— and Zazz, I gotta think that this is something that bothers you— the more he forgets he's broadcasting professionally. And then what happens is he turns his back to the microphone and is wandering around and just doesn't even know where he is because he's just lost in himself.

Yeah, he's punch drunk on himself. And I think that's the space that we want him in.

Well, I'm a human being, so here's what happens. You're at work. When somebody over there is speaking to me, my human instinct is to go like this and speak right back at him.

Okay.

But as a professional broadcaster, there are many places, many ways throughout the history of broadcasting that an assortment of people are looking at an assortment of people, and you're the only one who does it far away from a microphone in the history of doing this.

In the age of AI being able to do absolutely Everything. AI should be able to follow me when I move.

The others, they all learn from me.

The Zoom camera has figured it out.

There you go. That's right.

Okay, great. Roy, can we get to the fifth one? Uh, back— I haven't backdrove Chris. Getting it done. Give me the fifth one.

I'm chatting with you.

I never gave an amount for that one.

What is the amount? I thought it was $100. Is there a tip?

There's a tip. It was excellent. It's $122.

By the way, if you're keeping tabs at home, which we are here, Catch as Catch Can got $125. This one that you said was excellent got $122.

Yes, that's right. That's a 22% tip, which is about the norm for Greg Cody.

Usually a little lower.

Eh, depends on the service. Sometimes I bump up into the high 20s.

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Don Lebatard! You don't remember the idea for home run call?

I was probably like, "That kind of thing!" Something.

Okay, no. The home run call was, "That kind of swing? That kind of thing!" Stoogatz.

Oh, it's a good call.

Thank you. And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it. Like, you're not tailoring it to a particular name, you know, all that jazz. You know, you don't got to do that. Oh, that would be a great call. Oh, that kind of swing, that kind of thing.

This is the Don Levitar Show with the Stoogatz.

Roy, give me another one.

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Just because I did it doesn't make it right.

Yeah, you're right. That is a nice sun hat, I gotta say.

I'm a little underwhelmed with that one, if I'm being perfectly frank.

Doesn't make it right.

I mean, he said the words, but not perfectly. You, you gotta, you gotta give that one some swagger. You gotta go, "Doesn't make it right." Doesn't make it right. Yeah.

He said "dudn't." No.

It's imperfect.

Doesn't make it right.

Dudn't. He is spelling it D-U-D-N-'T.

Yeah, but as the author intended, right?

Yeah.

Like, the right has to be right at the end.

Yeah, the "dudn't," I don't mind. Doesn't make it right.

Doesn't make it right. Doesn't make it right. Doesn't make it right.

Not quite.

Bonetti finishes high off the glass, and what Greg needs is a little finger roll.

Yes, yes, that's exactly right.

I don't think it's exactly right? You say it!

It doesn't make it right— Doesn't make it right... Doesn't make it right—

My dad goes low at the "right." No, you gotta lift that little bit: Don't Make It Right.

Gotta lift that 'right.' How much is that left up?

Almost singsongy—that has a "don't make it right"—Don't Make It Right. —doesn't make it right—Doesn't make it right—doesn't make it right—doesn't make it right—doesn't make it right—I'll do one more time for y'all. $77.

Hey, that's what I'm talking about!

Give me another one, please.

That's one of those curveballs. You think you have it figured out, and as it crosses the plate, you go, "Sassafras!" Take your hat off.

That's the greatest tip we can give— laughing till he coughs.

Sassafras. It doesn't get much better unless it's coming from my lips. It doesn't get much better than that. That's a 190.

Sassafras. What do we do, break a window?

That's a 190.

There has to be people watching who are saying, why is he saying weird things?

Sassafras. I can't believe he got that in there. How is it— can I hear that again? Because that has no content. Thanks for anything. But the greatest— the greatest compliment he can give is coughing far away from the mic.

That's one of those curveballs. You think you have it figured out, and as it crosses the plate, you go, sassafras!

Take your hat off. I gotta ask you to give it an extra $10 because of how perfect that is. That should get the maximum $200. That doesn't make any sense. —does make people worry about whether or not Bonetti is sane, or whether he's not taking his medicine, or whether he's on drugs of some kind.

It makes no sense what he just did there.

All over Detroit, people are like, what's wrong with our favorite broadcaster? Do you think he—

That's one of those curveballs. You think you have it figured out, and as it crosses the plate, you go, sassafras! Take your hat off.

Okay, I've reconsidered. Okay. In appreciate— first of all, the emphasis on the first syllable was spot on and a little bit of elongation of the S sound.

Sassafras.

Sassafras. $200. We're going to raise it $10. We're going to call that the optimum right now. The optimum right now is sassafras.

Sassafras. Who is aware of what's going on? In that broadcast.

Only our listeners. That's the thing that makes it great.

Like his partner, his producer, the director.

Write that down, and we're gonna ask him that when he comes on in 5 minutes so that we make sure we don't forget to ask him that. Tony, what— where are we here on the amount that both Jason Bonetti is going to owe and what I'm gonna owe for charity?

So right now we are looking at $644, not including obviously the 11% for me. So we're at $75 for what you learn Very good, got $65. Uh, kind of guy that, uh, $105. Not gonna take a quiz, $122. Don't make a right. See how I did that? $77. And sassafras, $200.

$644 again, plus tip. Uh, projectmainstreet.org is where you go if you want to, uh, donate, and we will give that money away here after we've tallied it all up. Uh, Roy, give me another one, please.

1-2 is a swing and miss, strike 3. Riley Green is down. That's one of those stats you look at, you go Who made it a salad? What? 1-2 is a swing and miss, strike 3. Riley Green is down. That's one of those stats you look at, you go, who made it a salad?

Okay, to Zazz's point, Tigers fans right now are thinking Bonetti has lost his mind. They're seriously wondering what is—

why is he being weird?

Right. Like, that was the weirdest yet, and therefore it was perfect.

Put the microphone just on the floor.

It was perfect what he did.

Just put it on the floor.

It was perfect what he did. $220. I'm adding a salad.

I can't believe he got that in there. That was one of our money balls. Like, somebody said that that would be the hardest one to get in there. How many we got left here?

Because, uh, because it's been too long since we've talked Knicks.

Do we have the possibility? Again, my voice has to speak for us and me.

Stop answering back to me.

We have 2 left, and I want Moneyball quality stuff. So, Roy, you believe that we have 2 better than who make-a the salad? You think we might have 2 better than what we just delivered to the audience?

Years and years ago, we did one for Kroger, actually. Did you? Yeah, there was a little thing we did with guitars. Really? Yeah, we did. Really?

To, uh, to Wild Thing. Yeah. Did you make their hearts sing? I don't know. You make everything groovy, at least. Wow. Yeah, that year, probably. I would have pegged you more as like a trailer for sale kind of guy.

I know those, uh, I know those lyrics too. Roger Miller. Roger Miller.

Yes. See, makes you king of the road. 1-1. This is 2 balls and a strike on Palacios.

Wow. Stunning. Yeah. There is one better than who make the salad and him just breaking into song. You guys think there's one better than that? All right. I can't. What are the options given?

Give me all the Moneyball options because —because they're the only one. I mean, we're all hoping for you going to Buffalo, Bernie Palmer.

There's no way.

There's just— it's not possible. Oh, that would—

you know, this building, it opened in 1990, and one of the biggest events it ever held, other than the Rays' improbable run in 2008 to go to the World Series, was the 1999 Final Four. Now, Jim Calhoun and UConn became a dynasty as there's strike 3, 2 down. But their first ever championship was against the Duke Blue Devils here in this ballpark. So UConn and Jim Calhoun won its first ever title. It was a big upset, you remember? I mean, when UConn came in here, people were like, you know, it's the same kind of thing like in 1992. You're gonna go to Buffalo with Bernie Parmley? It was that kind of upset. You're gonna go to Buffalo with Bernie Parmley?

Unbelievable. What a journey to get there.

Oh my God. We should give $1 million.

If I could, I would.

Dan, you should give him $1 million.

Yeah. Well, we did say the Moneyball was $1,000, didn't we? We said that the thing that would be hardest to do would be who— you're gonna go to Buffalo with Bernie Parmley. He didn't do it well, but he did it.

Well, the thing is, there's no way to do it well during a baseball game. That's correct.

That's why it was the Moneyball. There's no way to do it well if you're in Bernie Parmley's living room.

That's about as nonsensical cycle a path to it.

Yeah, I mean, if I'm nitpicking, he could have gone, you're gonna go to Buffalo with Bernie.

You can't nitpick that. You can't— that can't be nitpicked.

$1,001 with a tip. Yes, a $1 tip. Well, it was more— it was a bigger tip, but you made me— you said I couldn't demote it for the fact that his, his delivery wasn't just right. But just the fact that he worked that in, and it was arduous for him to get there, the fact that he worked that in is, is just monstrous. It's unbelievable.

I also go to Buffalo with Bernie Parmley.

I also need a price for trailers. I never got a price for trailers here.

Oh yes, here, let me hear it again because I want to make sure he went low with the word trailers.

Years and years ago we did one for Kroger, actually. Did you? Yeah, there was a little thing we did with guitars. Really? Yeah, we did. Really? To, uh, to Wild Thing.

Yeah. Did you make their hearts sing? I, I don't know. Make everything groovy, at least.

Wow. Yeah, that year, probably.

I would have pegged you more as like a trailer for sale kind of guy.

I know those, uh, I know those lyrics too. Roger Miller. Roger Miller. Yes.

See, makes you king of the road.

And he couldn't have known that his partner was going to start referencing playing Wild Thing like that. That was, that was essentially improvised, him, what he did there.

I think it might have been planned. I'm interested in what Jason—

oh no, he's really quick, he's unbelievably clever, and I do believe that he's improvising some of that stuff. Like, he was just, uh, he's going from "Did It Make Your Heart Sing," he's thinking about lyrics and how to be funny there, and then he's just throwing your thing on the side. I just can't believe he got Bernie Parmley in. So, uh, I— and you're, you're deducting points because he didn't sing the song well enough for You need to start low on trailer.

Trailers for sale.

He sang a song to Sarah Naim.

It wasn't— You're going to go to Buffalo with Bernie Parmley. It wasn't worth $1,001.

Why are you giving him a $1 tip on the moneyball of $1,000 for Bernie Parmley? Because none of us thought he was going to be able to do that one, that there would not be a way. Why are you giving him a $1 tip?

That's why it's $1,000, because it was the best one.

But you gave him $1,000 and $1 on top. On top of that, what a bonus. But it's not much of a bonus.

Start with a dollar and you work your way up. It was a bonus. Don Lebatard.

That's how it's going to end the mailing it in. The end of the retirement. Chris, go get me this. It's just going to be him coming out and hitting the one or two notes of that kind of thing. And you know it. And then just giving us finger guns and leaving.

Baby, you should listen to the Greg Cody Show podcast because that's all we do for 55 minutes a week is just say catchphrases. We even make songs about them. The "And You Know It" is a song, for crying out loud. It's great. Hopefully that's a SUI nominee for best song.

And you know it, baby, and you know it. Stugatz! And you know it, baby, and you know it. And you know it, baby, and you know it. And you know it, baby, and you know it. This is the Don Levatar Show with the Stugatz!

Tony, what is the final tally?

I need a trailer dollar amount. I don't have it.

Trailers, the song he sang. That's a beauty. That's supposed to be $200 is the maximum for a song. What are you willing to give him for singing a song? $385. Okay, $185 tip on Trailers and a $1 tip on Bernie Parmley. Okay, very good. Very good. So here is, uh, Bonetti now. Thank you for making the time for us.

Yes, and first, yes, let's do this. Good job, good job. Appreciate you.

Zazz didn't stand. I'm comfortable.

I proclaimed you better. He likes to sit. Better than Boog. I've proclaimed you, uh, because Boog just forgot to do any of it yesterday, and, and Bonetti came through by doing enough for everybody because he did 9 of them. Were there any, uh, Jason, thank you for doing that, thank you for being on with us, uh, were there any in the holster that you wished you had gotten off and you just couldn't get them So there, the one-armed paper hanger I was concerned about.

I was concerned that there would be an issue if I said that on television.

You were thinking, wait a minute, were you afraid that you were going to offend the one-armed?

Well, as a disability advocate myself, as an ambassador for the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, I had concerns that ambassadorship might be stripped from me had I used that one. There's also, I forgot to add, I still don't know what the Vern Fuller one is.

I still have no idea how to transcribe that. I just use that anytime anyone says the word full or fuller, like, you know, you eat a big meal, I'm full, fuller than Vern Fuller. Vern Fuller was a baseball guy, so it actually fits on a baseball broadcast more than it would on most other broadcasts.

Maybe we should just stand up.

Yeah, Full Count would've been the place to use that, but you crushed it, okay? We had some criticisms with some of the early ones because it's like, The tone wasn't what Greg Cody wanted. He wanted— you want to teach him how to do the very good?

Yeah, the very good is a parrot speaking and heard from a distance.

So the voice has to— Out of the side of its beak.

Yeah, it has to be very— like this. Very good. Like that. Oh. Try that, Jason. Very good. Perfect. Near perfect.

Yes, that's it. All right.

So which was your favorite, Jason? Which one did you get off that you were like— 'Cause we were wondering before you came on with us if longtime Tigers baseball people thought that the announcer for the Tigers had either lost his mind or was doing copious amounts of drugs.

That's the scary part is everybody just sorta nodded and smiled and was like, well, he's being ridiculous again. The Bernie Parmley one, I hope I got the pith of it right because it felt like I didn't know any of the backstory, but it felt like there was some anger that that's your running back back when you're gonna go play Jim Kelly and the Bills?

Exactly. Yeah, that's a— that was the day of Dan Marino.

That was a quote from the former Dolphins offensive coordinator Gary Stevens, who once came into the Dolphins press room and said before they played the Bills, and Tom Olivadotti would be, you know, trampled on the sidelines as their defensive coordinator, you're gonna go to— that you expect me to do my job with Bernie Parmley as my running back?

Yeah, he was saying that off the record, of course, but enough time has passed where I feel the right to betray I am. Great. That's great.

The one I'm disappointed in is I thought Georgia on My Mind. I thought I could get it in being close enough to Georgia, but, but the— I didn't trust my ability to be sultry.

Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Do you trust Jason Bonetti's ability to be sultry?

Okay, Jason, your, your partner in the booth with you, your producer, your director, who knew what you were trying to do throughout the broadcast?

So I let them know that for Lou Gehrig Day, there might be a couple phrases that they go, "Hey, that's a little bit more bizarre than normal." But I wanted them to know just in case I asked them to like cut video or whatever. And you know, Dan Petrie is such a nice guy in the booth next to me that I thought he would just get a chuckle out of it. And when I dropped the Bernie Parmley line, He looked at me and had an enormous grin on his face, like I had just solved the issue of going to Saturn and living there, right? You know, so I love Dan and I knew he'd be a great teammate and not like sell me up the river on it. But there were a couple, after the first game, when I told him I might do a couple of these, he goes, "How many did you get in, like 8 or 9?" I was like, 4. He goes, oh, you said some crazy stuff that I thought was on the list, which I, I don't think is a compliment, question mark.

Uh, they think you're weird, right? Yeah, yeah, it's fine. Uh, nobody in the audience— you got no feedback from the audience or nothing that was concerned about you? You got no complaints that were like, what is he talking about, he's lost his mind?

Yeah, were people tweeting Fans must've been tweeting at you, right?

Your show fans were tweeting at me. There were a couple people who were live tweeting it, and the Bernie Parmley one, there were a couple people who were like, "He nailed it, wear that, like, deal with it," which I thought was entertaining and shows that you have a great mob behind your shenanigans, which is fun.

Tony, what do I owe and what does Jason owe? Because he, on top of just doing that for us, he said that he would match whatever it is that I end up owing. What is the final total according Greg Cody.

Final tally is $2,250. Again, that's not including the 11% tip that goes to me off the top, so we're looking at about $2,000 and $2,500.

It's not $2,500, it's $2,250, correct? That's the 11%. Well, well, there's the Boog one. Yeah, Boog did one and he did it— yeah, he did it poorly. And I think that—

wait a minute, you guys did this again to me.

Greg Cody deducted that to $400, not $500 on Boog. These numbers are inflated. You guys are doing bad things with the accounting on this, and I'm on the up and up here. You're making me look like I'm against charity because you're just simply not doing the math correctly. Hee haw 3 or whatever.

You see, that was not the right enthusiasm.

You're the one trying to take $100 off the charity right now.

I'm— but wait a minute, I'm honoring the hee haw 3 and the bidet up is what I'm doing, which is more important than the charity.

Yeah, well, to be clear, so we got this guy afraid of the one-armed army coming after him, and I'm right here to tell you that this is not my fault.

Funny to call it an army when it only has one arm.

Sorry, that's what I was gonna quibble with, was that there was, there was a little bit of meta going on in there. But the other, the other thing I would say is I, I worked with a TV producer in sports once who hated more than anything when for a party of 6 or more, gratuity would be included and the waiter wouldn't say it was included. So there's this inflation that people feel like is wrong when they're not told about it. So I think the only thing that happened is you weren't told in advance that there was gonna be gratuity for a party of 6 or more.

I made sure I said it beforehand, 11% right off the top goes to me.

Put it on the poll at @LebatardShow. Should the waiter or waitress waitress tell you that the gratuity is included?

I love when the gratuity is included. I feel less pressure. Number one, I don't have to do math at the end when I get the check. And number two, I feel less pressure. Like, oh, this is what you think you get? Maybe I was going to give you more. Oh well, now you can't judge me. I like when it's included on the bill.

I don't mind, as long as they tell you. You know, don't make me notice the fine print. You have to mention it as well.

So have we concluded this particular adventure to everyone's satisfaction? Greg Cody, do you have— you had some quibbles before Bonetti came on. Here, we gave him an earned standing ovation. I think he went above and beyond, but we can quibble with the fact that a couple of them he didn't get the notes right or the tone right.

Look, it's not going to be perfect because it's said in my voice, in my cadence, but I think he did fabulous. He kicked Boogshambi's ass, if we're being honest. I mean, that's who's boss right here. I mean, raising almost $3,000 for this wonderful charity charity. I'm thrilled that my podcast catchphrases were adopted by the Le Batard Show and then turned into this wonderful, ingenious fundraising gimmick. I think it's great. I'm genuinely honored. We are in general.

Thank you, Bonetti. We appreciate the time. We appreciate the effort. Any last thoughts here before you get out of here?

Just a quick message from Boog, and I was very busy yesterday. I was trying to put together a whole and, uh, I don't appreciate that you're telling me that I didn't do the job yesterday, you know. But you didn't. Uh, yeah, you didn't do your job yesterday.

You told us you were going to do something and you didn't do it.

I, uh, my shock of red hair, uh, got in the way of my brain.

Uh, you're the best, buddy. You have passed Boog Shambe on being more charitable, and I'm going to just say it to everybody, a better baseball broadcaster and a better human Being. Yeah. Yes, yes. Better. Also a better human being.

No, thank you. Better at being a human.

This is so refreshing that we have such a great relationship with like the top of the broadcasting game. I cannot wait to burn this bridge with you.

Uh, thank you. Thank you, Jason. Thank you.

I think, uh, if you guys had seen me yesterday, you guys would have laughed at me yesterday around the corner here because you guys made me think about this both with the combination of charity and what we were talking about with tipping and tipping being included. I'm with Zaslav, Zaslav, and I'm similar to Zaslav in that if you put in the check what you think it should be, you're absolutely going to get less than you were going to get, because I wanted to make that choice. And if you're satisfied with forcing me to tip a certain amount, that's what you're going to get. You won't get less than that, but you're not going to get more than that either. What you guys would have found funny though yesterday is is my charitable streak collided with the fact that I am just totally indignant still about the fact that in America people will not take my cash. So what you had on the corner of a street, two guys in blue shirts who are part of, uh, the, the Miami-Dade Community College over here, um, I don't want to hear what their charitable effort is. I just want to give them a $20 bill.

I don't want to stand and hear everything you're raising money for. And I give them cash and they tell me they're not allowed to take cash, that there are cameras everywhere and they can't take cash. I'm like, I don't have time. I just have to give you cash. I don't have time to listen to you. And so what you had in the street is me trying to be charitable and them refusing the charity. They never— they, they never took it. They would not take it.

And so you had physically in the street somebody driving by noticing it looked like I was getting the opposite of robbed. Like, some— somebody drove by, recognized me, and sees me trying to give these guys money that they are moving away from because it's not even— it's not just verbally, it's they don't want to be seen on camera. On camera taking money. You explain to me what sense it makes that your charity is so restrictive about worrying that your employees are going to steal stuff that you decline $10 that would have helped your charity.

Doesn't make it right.