Cam filmed part 1 of his Bar Rescue episode in Illinois last night + Rainout last night created a doubleheader today
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Hello Goo moaning. This is HotTakes Central. I think I think it's
gonna be fun now You're camp Charlieand jim on five ninety the fans,
Oh Baby seven o five in Kirkwood, Missouri. Hot Take Central coming at
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you, Cam Jans and Jimmy thecat Hayes call here, Bartemas on the
Twoes in the threes. Charlie's comingin at Charles Leonard Marlow coming in at
eight thirty. Charlie Tuona is comingin at nine thirty. Jimmy's got a
bounce because uh the rain delay actionlast night. So he's got a long
one today one way or the other. Because it might even get delayed a
little bit more because there's a bigstarm coming right now according to Angela Honey,
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So it might be a long dayfor you, Jimmy, but you
know how it goes. Man,what's up, dude? What up?
Long? Long? I was tiredthis morning, but I'm sucking it up
like I've been rain for given.No, no, no. When they
put it in delay, there wasa low rain, then it was clear
and then people, look, Idon't trust anyone that doesn't have super Doppler
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exactly Channel two has super they havepower Doppler. Yes, regular doppler doesn't
work anymore. But at the game, everyone's got the apps, of course,
and they're like, there's a bigstorm coming in. But there was
like a window. Usually games whenthere's rain, where's the window? They
got a window. Where's the window? They had a window and they could
have gotten through I think six orseven before the rain came, but they
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bagged it. So it'll be twelvethirty five. There is rain in the
forecast today. It's gonna rain untiltwo two. That may be delayed.
Otherwise, we still even though wedid a pregame yesterday for a game that
wasn't played. Now we have todo a pregame again. But it'll be
fine. And the nice thing issometimes you sign veterans and you go,
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what what are we doing? Yousign a guy like Kyle Gibson who you
don't even have to think about it. He was a starter for yesterday,
so he'll start game one. Somepictures are very touchy. Yeah, no,
I already warmed up for yesterday.Now I need I can't, I
can't start that. I already warmedup. Yeah, like he's a guy,
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doesn't matter he'll you want me topitch you, let's go. Let's
go to a regular dude. Andthen the starter in game two. I
believe it'll be Polante, but Idon't think they made it official yet.
Polante. I will check. What'sup? Cool, what's going on.
I'm excited to hear your story fromyesterday. Oh long, long, that
was a long process, man,you were doing TV. Yeah, no,
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it all worked out. It was. It was great. But uh,
you know, I usually drives meeverywhere with that kind of stuff.
But like, well, let thembring a car out. We'll uber over
there. They're paying for it.It's all good. And and so it
starts pouring, man, like rightbefore we're leaving. And you know how
I am, Like I by thetime I left the house, like that's
when I'm in bed, kind ofjust chill axing, you know. So
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this guy shows up in a minivanand he drove so fast he drove and
Kate and I run a back.This is the first time've been in the
back of a car in a longtime too, by the way, and
like, I just gave me memoriesof driving home from the Lakey of the
Ozarks as a kid on highway fiftyfour where my dad's trying to get home
because he's got to go do constructionthe next day. And we've been out
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in the sun and doing this anddrinking soda and whatever, and I remember
being like, you don't going throughin the backseat, like oh god,
oh I'm getting sick. I pullover Dad, and I puke everywhere,
you know what I mean. That'show I felt for an hour going all
the way to Illinois last night forthis thing. And I'm like, poor
Kate's looked at me like you okay, started to get kind of like white
a little bit, and I'm like, damn, i gotta go on camera
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like I'm like, I'm freaking puke. So let me was it really the
ride or just you over? Becauseno, I've taken, like, like
everyone, dozens and dozens of wobers, and I've never once thought to myself,
I'm worried about an accident. Ialmost like disengage. I couldn't.
Kate and I are falling boom,He's flying down like you know, Fox
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Creek. I'm like, dude,you gotta slow down. There might be
a cyclist on this damn thing thatyou're gonna hit. There's deer everywhere.
You're going one hundred and twenty milesan hour. No, I mean okay,
and then he'd slow down, thenhe go fast again, and finally
I'm like okay, whatever, andthen he got on the highway. I'm
just like, oh my god.So I felt crappy right when I showed
up. But dude, you showup to this place, man net to
hide you. Guy comes out,waits for you, puts an umbrella so
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you don't get any rain on you. You go into this other little thing
that they rented out right across thestreet. There's people everywhere, like production
everywhere. I mean at least seventyeighty people. That's how I mean,
big, big deal deal. Sowe're waiting playing they mic us all up
and stuff like that. They kindof go over everything that we're gonna do.
We're like, all right, we'reready to go, losy. You
guys are gonna walk in, you'regonna sit right here, here's the bar,
blah blah blah. We're gonna we'regonna talk to you and tell you
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what to order and blah blah blah. So finally like, okay, we're
all ready to go losely and Iand then John Taffer like textas one of
the guys and said, no,we're changing that. I'm gonna go.
We always bring up John Teffer isthe host. He's the host. He's
the big dog. He's a loudguy. He's the one that goes in
here and goes shut it down,and he yells at everybody like big deal,
been doing this for a long longtime. Man. He also liked
the executive producer. Yet he's likethe the he is in this Paramount studio,
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so like they you know, it'sparamount running the show. He's the
big dog. He runs everything,big time boss. So he's like wow,
and that one of their little guy'slike wow, okay, you guys
are going in with John. Henever does that, so it's pretty cool.
So John's like, we're gonna walkin, camera's on us. We're
gonna sit this table, we're gonnagrab the menu. We're gonna order everything
on the menu. We're gonna ordera drinks, we're gonna evaluate it,
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ask questions, do your thing.So we walk in or sit down,
and then you're hungry, brother,I'm starving. Losey's starving. So you're
like, okay, we're gonna getsome. I don't give a damn what
the kind of food, because Ilooked and I did all my research on
bar bar Rescue, and there's somenasty food people we eat because they go
to the bad restaurants that need help. And so I'm like, I don't
give a damn. I'm starving.We drove an hour in fifteen minutes,
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like I'm going to eat something.So we order all this stuff. They
start bringing out drinks, and thedrinks are crap, dude, like whiskey
sours and stuff like that. Theydon't know what the hell they're doing.
You know. They brought out amargarita and I tasted and I'm like,
oh my god, it was ashit. It was just in a little
plastic, crappy, just a bunchof little things that they need to figure
out. There's no theme to youknow. The restaurant is from the eighteen
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hundred. I don't want to giveaway too much because you're not supposed to
be supposed to go back there Fridayto do like another reveal after they clout
a follow up whatever. So we'resitting there, order a bunch of food,
start drinking, start tasting the camerason us. We're kind of giving
our opinion. First off, themenu is kind of crappy look and just
little things like that. So Isee these guys going to one of these
little little area to get food outand drinks, and this one like cooler,
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this big fridge fridge station that's kindof on the other side of the
bar, which is really odd.It's like a weird so you have to
walk by to get it and walkaround people. It's really weird. So
I'm like, why are they doingthat? And John's like, I don't
know. Let me go in there. And he opens up the door,
opens up the fridge. Black moldeverywhere everywhere on the walls on it,
and there's food. That's where theyget the food. That's what I'm making,
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some drinks and stuff like that.He walks out and goes shut it
down. Get everybody out, don'ttouch anything, don't do that, don't
put your glasses down, get outnow. This is contaminated. So we're
there for not that long, didn'tget any any food. He shuts it
all down, and then Lozi andI kind of wait go outside to kick
everybody out. He goes in thereand does this thing and yells at everybody
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or whatever. So Lozie and aredoing I follow up interview afterwards, and
we are just starving, rain pouringdown everywhere. But so we weren't really
in there too too long because theyhad to boot everybody out because of this
freaking black mold, which is Iguess you know you can't deal with that.
You got black death, you gotblack mold, like you ain't selling
your house. The specter's gonna comein like this is contaminant. You gotta
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clean this up big time. Sothey have a chance now to where they're
gonna go in there and they're gonnaclean it all up. And if he
does the rest does a good job, then I guess they're gonna get the
grant from from bar Rescue and they'llget help. But if they don't,
they're not gonna help them that well. So how much do they giving don't
I don't know. But the thingis, the deal is if you can
get it right, we will fxyou up. Yes, because they deal
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with this all the time. Dude. If I look back, I did
like binge watching. You know,some of the restaurants were disgusting. He
was going to and they knew thatthey're going in there, and they still
didn't figure out some of this stuff. I saw a restaurant that they had
grease in there from like years man, with little chunks, and you could
tell because it's this all burnt likemeat from like other chicken and stuff like
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that, or it could you putit. He puts the pan in there,
and all of a sudden, thegrease starts piling up and he has
to let it out every like twoseconds because it's all because you have all
that meat in there and it startsboiling. It's just disgusting, I mean,
disgusting restaurants. This was bad too, man. This just shows you.
You know, you like going todie bars and stuff like that.
You like going to these restaurants.You don't know what's in the back,
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you know what I mean? Andyou could tell by this to be a
nice one. And you don't knowwhat's in exactly, but you could always
tell if you walk into a restaurant. How I was picking his brain,
like we're talking them outside and stufflike that. Very smart man, been
the game a long time, knowshis stuff. He's like you could just
look just look down there, lookat that, Look at all that that
grease down there. Look it upthere. You can tell they don't clean
that, they're not cleaning that,they're not cleaning that. Look just look
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at there. You don't have toget up. Look you see that.
I mean he's pointing things out leftand right. These guys knew, they
knew they were coming in business andthey and they still didn't figure that.
That just shows how aloof they are. What was the bar crowd? Like?
It was all staged? Okay,so they had they had people from
around town that volunteered to come orwhatever. They picked out and picked people
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out, so they're all waiting forus, and they clap and we walked
in and then we walked in andthen they let them all in. So
it was kind of stage. Butthere's still like people from around town.
So but it was cool. Man, it was cool. It's cool talking
to people. We kind of hungout afterwards for a bit. But those
guys man, theduction crew, Imean, I go, how long have
you been working? We go weekon, well two weeks and then maybe
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we'll have like like three or fourdays off and that he goes there two
weeks that we're working. Man,I mean, it's all day, all
day. He's just one season,right, Yeah, they have an off
season. Yeah, not guaranteed,not much though, No, no,
not not really. He churns themout, churns usually they make they usually
the off season is like when theyactually the shows are actually on. That's
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their off season because they work oneseason. Then they put them in the
can they get he said, producers, editors get it ready for the April
of February. That's what it was. April of February. So it's like
hockey season, you know what Imean, January, So so they get
February. Yeah, that's crazy.Yeah, they're working so hard man,
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and you know, he's probably notthe easiest guy to deal with, you
know, so like everything's got tobe perfect. So it was a cool
experience. I was star didn't getto eat. He didn't get it,
didn't get eat. I was sickwhen I got there too, because that's
stupid ass car, right, Butbut it was good. It was cool
experience. Man. He's a goodguy. And by the way, Joe
Fressa, I hooked him. Ihooked him up with your liqueur and he
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appreciated that. So there you go, man, there you go. I
don't know what he did with it. He might have left it there,
I don't know, but I gaveit to him, did your Joe?
I did my job right there,So that was it was a cool experience.
And what time did you get home? One? We got to bed
at one thirty. Yeah, soyou're tired. Yeah, yeah, it's
all good. I got easy totell me about it. I got easy.
I don't want to hear about it. I got an easy day today,
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Andy for two hours, Benning tenfor an hour and a half,
a meeting, so I'll be strugglinga little bit. But you got to
suck it up, man, That'swhat you do, You suck it up.
So anyway, that's what That waspretty cool though, man, to
be behind the scenes in a bigtime show like that, So it'll be
pretty funny. I think Lodzy andI did a did a good job.
We didn't even get a drink thatmuch, so they kicked us all out
and we're sitting out there in thepatio and the Losi's like goes to one
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of the people working for by Rescue. He goes, can you go in
there the contamination area and grab us, you know, five beer? And
she did. She went in there. So it's kind of like, yeah,
they kicked this out, but Idon't care. I'm thirsty. Yeah,
go in there. I don't careif it's I need some beer.
Man, I'm dying here. Butyou had a bottled beer, Y're fine?
Yeah, but it's still it's sillon that fridge, dude, you're
still it's all no, no,no, no, that's that beer is
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on the ground sealed. That beeris on the ground where all that black
mold is. They're touching with theirhands, they pick it up with I
mean it all. It's nasty,dude. Restaurants, I'm telling you,
there's a lot of those like that. Man. You could just look around
and just peek around, and ifit's dirty in little areas, you know,
the rest of it's dirty too.So anyway, would I want to
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own a restaurant nom Cam's Deli.That's man, that's a little different,
you know what I mean? Rightaround even like a butcher shop, like
corner butcher and stuff like that.But you got to have people to work,
man, Like you know over thereinfant and they have all their kids
do everything, you know what Imean, so they kind of know what
they're getting. But to own arestaurant. If you've got a successful restaurant,
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man, that's it's not an easything to do, especially now there's
so much to it. Man,And if you f up a couple times,
especially in a small town where you'recompeting, it's like six other bars
or whatever, and you have ayou have a one bad night where the
food's bad or whatever. Like,people are turned off, man, they
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turned right off. One little thingcan turn somebody off and they'll never come
back. But if you're in alittle town, they are on a lot
of options. You'll fix it andyou'll tell them there you around a booze
because we messed up, Come onback, free around a booze that cost
you money. Cost you a lotof money, you know what I mean?
Every time you hand out free drinksand hand out free drinks that cost
some dude these I saw another episodewhere these guys just handing out, hand
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out just an extra little extra ina shot, and they added it up
a month, just that little extrabecause they're pouring a little too much.
Eight thousand dollars. They lost eightthousand dollars. You ever see they have
those yes things on the bottle,yes or what the poor is and then
they got an eye in the sky. Yes, but you got to watch
and pay attention. I can't eventell you how many times I go to
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bars and I see the people inthe bartenders hooking people up, hooking them
up. If I'm if I ownthat, I know it seems petty.
It adds up so much to thousandsof dollars. So if you're already hitting
the line man every single month thisand you're just getting ripped off by your
bartender because he's trying to hook peopleup, thousands of dollars, it's crazy
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how it adds up. I havea bartend. Hell well, I mean
for like a charity thing. I'veI've done it for a summer a mobster
and yeah, and I would becausethey were stealing from me. I would
steal a little back because they weretaking taxes out. They weren't paying taxes
no no, no, no,yeah, yeah they weren't, so I
would. I made myself a partner, and like every fifth drink would go
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to me and worked out that way. I would just keep a running tab
in my head and then at theend of the night I evened up.
I mean, Jimmy, if Inever made a mistake. If I owned
a bar. I go to somebars, you know, some like the
people we went to high school with, they're drinking the whole time. They're
taking a shot. I mean,if I own that bar, bank nobody
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is drinking all the job. That'swasting money. Like it's crazy. Every
don't think they do It's I don'tunderstand that. The key of your bartender
is never do that. Never,never let the Never make a big deal
out of giving a free drink tosomeone, because everyone sees it. If
there's video, just give them alittle wink yes, and then kind of
it's implied, take care of mewith the tip, and we got a
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little thing going. These these bartendersliterally every time you get a shot,
they take one too. That's potentialsix dollars. That's a six dollars shot.
But I will say this, likein certain places, almost like a
DJ, bartenders attract people like theybuild up their following and out and part
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of them is they're partying with you. And so I know I've seen that
before, and that might be partof why they have that bartender because he
makes it a party atmosphere and he'llhe'll drink, but in the end you're
selling more booze because of him.I don't know, I'm I don't know
if that's the case. But Iknow in Dewey Beach, where I used
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to go when I was younger,they were guys that had been there for
a while. Everyone knew him.And you go to that bar and oh,
you know, we're doing shots withwith Benny or whatever his name is.
He would sort of create the partyatmosphere and you're probably sold more booze
because yeah, I still would belike, no, you're not drinking on
a job. Hell no, man, No, I'm not saying I run.
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I'm just saying because I watched.I was watching and told you I
was watching like this like the bestof of Bar Rescue, and like they'll
have like little categories like bartender's aproblem, Bartender's a problem, and he's
and John's Like this is one ofthe biggest issues when bars aren't succeeding is
because of these guys behind the barhanding out thousands and thousands of dollars worth
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of booze because they're they're friendly andstuff. I got. Yeah, you'll
bring people in, but you're's costingyou way more than you think you only
have so many shots anyway. Sothey get that free one, they're probably
not gonna have another one, youknow what I mean. Like so that
water down the booze a little,yeah, I mean, and that then
people will be like, oh,they watered down the booze. I'm not
going in there. You know,just just so much to it, man,
so crazy again. I just tipthe cap to all y'all out there
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and own restaurants, man, andyou're succeeding because it ain't easy. It's
not easy at all. I thinkit can go about location and what you're
selling and what the market can bear. So if you have a lot of
money out there and you are lookingto invest, Cam's Deli is the way
to go. Cam doesn't have toprepare the cold cuts, he doesn't have
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to buy the cheese. No,he's gonna put his name on it.
He's gonna take a percentage. I'lltake a percentage of his percentage, and
uh, we'll make everyone happy witha lovely deli in this area. What
else do you think attracts people ata bar? What's the main thing?
The talent? Yeah, that's anotherthing. So you could have a you
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know, you got a good lookinggirl, that's gonna attract a lot of
people. It does, but shecan be back there doing all that's telling
you. Just you're losing thousands ofdollars every single month from just handing out
a little bit in a shot eachnight. It's crazy. It's crazy.
So just a good experience, man. Cool, And that's cool that you
did that. Yeah, I'm supposedto go Friday, but we're going to
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that comedy club. Baby, we'regonna see our boy do his thing.
What times that start? Seven?Oh? Cool? All right? Did
you get free tickets? Yeah?Yeah, yeah, you got them free
tickets? Or did you have topay? I got them free? Yeah,
dude, good, good for you. We're not gonna let that happen.
I would have paid that. Ifyou would have paid, then these
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guys would pay. I was preparednot gonna let you pay. Well,
no, I wouldn't have mentioned it. I would have Just you're not paying,
though, are you? No?Okay, okay, what an expensive
debt. That's almost like, ina sense charity you're getting. No,
that's not charity because you don't needto. You don't like I'm in major
debt. No, that's why.How much of little tickets probably pretty expensive
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for him. Ummm, I hadn'teven looked at you. I don't know
what's what's a going rate for amid guy. I'm just curious. It's
like twenty bucks, so this guy'sprobably sixty. Maybe there are a bunch
of like extra chargers. They're kindof get thrown in there. Yeah,
so Biden wanted to get rid ofthat. Haven't taken place yet, but
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uh, it's gonna save your junkfees. Oh yeah, it would have
costed me. Uh hell of alot of money. How much. Well
if I did the six, wellthat would have been someone the neighborhood of
one ninety plus all these extra chargesthey could throwing. So yeah, no,
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so and your place, let youhave six tickets. Yes, that's
nice though, that is that's whatyou should do for your employees. I
agree. But this is a bigdog, So I'm surprised that they hooked
you up like that. You know, it's not sold out really, Yeah,
I mean I'm sure that as weget closer, it'll get closer.
I mean some of the big dogs, like they some people sell out like
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months in advance, like the hugeacts, and then other people like get
popular as it gets closer to theshow. And so since I asked like
a month in advance, Okay,cool, Well, what you must be
a good employee. I've known themto do that. Yeah, I was
thinking of that too. I've neverasked for the favor before, which I
think helps my cause. Yeah,good for you as a worker. I
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guess it's different there. You canjust show up when you're supposed to be
there. Here, we'd like youa few minutes earlier so we can know
what the live reads are. Ifyou keep you pull some sound. But
they're showing up with the damn good. Can I play a clip though,
and I just want to get youropinion on it. Can you look up
Bill Lindsay's Stanley Cupp's Game seven StanleyCup call. He does radio. He's
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not the main guy, but Iknow he played for the Panthers. But
I just want to I just rememberCurbs, like you, don't step on
the moment. Let Curbs do histhing, just like when they won with
Joey. Joey said a little andhe stopped himself when the Blues won the
Cup. I remember because you hearthe call and Curve this is his moment.
This is his moment. Let himgive a call, let hear the
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ambience of of the of the ofthe fans, or whatever case is,
and then you chime in and andyou know, tie it together or whatever.
But I remember that when Joey hecould and he stopped himself, and
good for him. But just tellme what you think with this. It's
a radio call. It's not theTV call. It's Bill Lindsay and Doug
Plagans. I think, so okay, then we are gonna go. Fans
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to their feet, who sharp pass, Miss stric Idle down to our right,
force Lee in the corner. He'lltry and hold this. Ten seconds
left two What Panthers a dream thirtyyears in the meeting his the real.
The Florida Panthers have won the StanleyCup. Lord Stanley has coming home.
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You always will have the pleasance ofFlorida. Oh my god, The Panthers
have won the Stanley Cup for thefirst time in franchise history. Cut up,
start the celebration, South Florida.The Panthers have done it. Stanley
Cup should be the fit the mountaintime Lo Florida Panthers on twenty four Stanley,
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He's actually good. Bill. Heplayed in League long time, so
I get it. But as thecolor guy, yeah, everyone knows.
Let's frame the moment and then letthe moment take over and then express you
know, give it, give ittwenty seconds. And then and then this
guy, I don't know these guys, but then the play by play guy
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is trying to and the guy's screamingwhile he's talking. That, ain't I
get the excited The Florid Panthers wonthe stay. It's natural and maybe people
like it. I just for yearsdoing that. I'm gonna not do that,
you know, like I just wouldlet him do your thing and then
let the just kind of chill themoment at the moment he breathed with,
just listen to the crowd, let'sfeel that excitement. You know. It's
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a lot like it's the Stanley Cup. I get it. But I had
my big moment for that high schoolchampionship game and Angelo Rossi stepped on it.
There's no stepped all over you.I don't know where that audio is.
I know that you guys have playedit before, but that was in
the Nate era and I've looked andI can't find it.
Hello Goo moaning. This is HotTakes Central. I think I think it's
gonna be fun now You're camp Charlieand jim on five ninety the fans,
Oh Baby seven o five in Kirkwood, Missouri. Hot Take Central coming at
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you, Cam Jans and Jimmy thecat Hayes call here, Bartemas on the
Twoes in the threes. Charlie's comingin at Charles Leonard Marlow coming in at
eight thirty. Charlie Tuona is comingin at nine thirty. Jimmy's got a
bounce because uh the rain delay actionlast night. So he's got a long
one today one way or the other. Because it might even get delayed a
little bit more because there's a bigstarm coming right now according to Angela Honey,
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So it might be a long dayfor you, Jimmy, but you
know how it goes. Man,what's up, dude? What up?
Long? Long? I was tiredthis morning, but I'm sucking it up
like I've been rain for given.No, no, no. When they
put it in delay, there wasa low rain, then it was clear
and then people, look, Idon't trust anyone that doesn't have super Doppler
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exactly Channel two has super they havepower Doppler. Yes, regular doppler doesn't
work anymore. But at the game, everyone's got the apps, of course,
and they're like, there's a bigstorm coming in. But there was
like a window. Usually games whenthere's rain, where's the window? They
got a window. Where's the window? They had a window and they could
have gotten through I think six orseven before the rain came, but they
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bagged it. So it'll be twelvethirty five. There is rain in the
forecast today. It's gonna rain untiltwo two. That may be delayed.
Otherwise, we still even though wedid a pregame yesterday for a game that
wasn't played. Now we have todo a pregame again. But it'll be
fine. And the nice thing issometimes you sign veterans and you go,
(02:02):
what what are we doing? Yousign a guy like Kyle Gibson who you
don't even have to think about it. He was a starter for yesterday,
so he'll start game one. Somepictures are very touchy. Yeah, no,
I already warmed up for yesterday.Now I need I can't, I
can't start that. I already warmedup. Yeah, like he's a guy,
(02:23):
doesn't matter he'll you want me topitch you, let's go. Let's
go to a regular dude. Andthen the starter in game two. I
believe it'll be Polante, but Idon't think they made it official yet.
Polante. I will check. What'sup? Cool, what's going on.
I'm excited to hear your story fromyesterday. Oh long, long, that
was a long process, man,you were doing TV. Yeah, no,
(02:45):
it all worked out. It was. It was great. But uh,
you know, I usually drives meeverywhere with that kind of stuff.
But like, well, let thembring a car out. We'll uber over
there. They're paying for it.It's all good. And and so it
starts pouring, man, like rightbefore we're leaving. And you know how
I am, Like I by thetime I left the house, like that's
when I'm in bed, kind ofjust chill axing, you know. So
(03:08):
this guy shows up in a minivanand he drove so fast he drove and
Kate and I run a back.This is the first time've been in the
back of a car in a longtime too, by the way, and
like, I just gave me memoriesof driving home from the Lakey of the
Ozarks as a kid on highway fiftyfour where my dad's trying to get home
because he's got to go do constructionthe next day. And we've been out
(03:29):
in the sun and doing this anddrinking soda and whatever, and I remember
being like, you don't going throughin the backseat, like oh god,
oh I'm getting sick. I pullover Dad, and I puke everywhere,
you know what I mean. That'show I felt for an hour going all
the way to Illinois last night forthis thing. And I'm like, poor
Kate's looked at me like you okay, started to get kind of like white
a little bit, and I'm like, damn, i gotta go on camera
(03:49):
like I'm like, I'm freaking puke. So let me was it really the
ride or just you over? Becauseno, I've taken, like, like
everyone, dozens and dozens of wobers, and I've never once thought to myself,
I'm worried about an accident. Ialmost like disengage. I couldn't.
Kate and I are falling boom,He's flying down like you know, Fox
(04:11):
Creek. I'm like, dude,you gotta slow down. There might be
a cyclist on this damn thing thatyou're gonna hit. There's deer everywhere.
You're going one hundred and twenty milesan hour. No, I mean okay,
and then he'd slow down, thenhe go fast again, and finally
I'm like okay, whatever, andthen he got on the highway. I'm
just like, oh my god.So I felt crappy right when I showed
up. But dude, you showup to this place, man net to
hide you. Guy comes out,waits for you, puts an umbrella so
(04:34):
you don't get any rain on you. You go into this other little thing
that they rented out right across thestreet. There's people everywhere, like production
everywhere. I mean at least seventyeighty people. That's how I mean,
big, big deal deal. Sowe're waiting playing they mic us all up
and stuff like that. They kindof go over everything that we're gonna do.
We're like, all right, we'reready to go, losy. You
guys are gonna walk in, you'regonna sit right here, here's the bar,
blah blah blah. We're gonna we'regonna talk to you and tell you
(04:57):
what to order and blah blah blah. So finally like, okay, we're
all ready to go losely and Iand then John Taffer like textas one of
the guys and said, no,we're changing that. I'm gonna go.
We always bring up John Teffer isthe host. He's the host. He's
the big dog. He's a loudguy. He's the one that goes in
here and goes shut it down,and he yells at everybody like big deal,
been doing this for a long longtime. Man. He also liked
the executive producer. Yet he's likethe the he is in this Paramount studio,
(05:21):
so like they you know, it'sparamount running the show. He's the
big dog. He runs everything,big time boss. So he's like wow,
and that one of their little guy'slike wow, okay, you guys
are going in with John. Henever does that, so it's pretty cool.
So John's like, we're gonna walkin, camera's on us. We're
gonna sit this table, we're gonnagrab the menu. We're gonna order everything
on the menu. We're gonna ordera drinks, we're gonna evaluate it,
(05:43):
ask questions, do your thing.So we walk in or sit down,
and then you're hungry, brother,I'm starving. Losey's starving. So you're
like, okay, we're gonna getsome. I don't give a damn what
the kind of food, because Ilooked and I did all my research on
bar bar Rescue, and there's somenasty food people we eat because they go
to the bad restaurants that need help. And so I'm like, I don't
give a damn. I'm starving.We drove an hour in fifteen minutes,
(06:04):
like I'm going to eat something.So we order all this stuff. They
start bringing out drinks, and thedrinks are crap, dude, like whiskey
sours and stuff like that. Theydon't know what the hell they're doing.
You know. They brought out amargarita and I tasted and I'm like,
oh my god, it was ashit. It was just in a little
plastic, crappy, just a bunchof little things that they need to figure
out. There's no theme to youknow. The restaurant is from the eighteen
(06:27):
hundred. I don't want to giveaway too much because you're not supposed to
be supposed to go back there Fridayto do like another reveal after they clout
a follow up whatever. So we'resitting there, order a bunch of food,
start drinking, start tasting the camerason us. We're kind of giving
our opinion. First off, themenu is kind of crappy look and just
little things like that. So Isee these guys going to one of these
little little area to get food outand drinks, and this one like cooler,
(06:47):
this big fridge fridge station that's kindof on the other side of the
bar, which is really odd.It's like a weird so you have to
walk by to get it and walkaround people. It's really weird. So
I'm like, why are they doingthat? And John's like, I don't
know. Let me go in there. And he opens up the door,
opens up the fridge. Black moldeverywhere everywhere on the walls on it,
and there's food. That's where theyget the food. That's what I'm making,
(07:10):
some drinks and stuff like that.He walks out and goes shut it
down. Get everybody out, don'ttouch anything, don't do that, don't
put your glasses down, get outnow. This is contaminated. So we're
there for not that long, didn'tget any any food. He shuts it
all down, and then Lozi andI kind of wait go outside to kick
everybody out. He goes in thereand does this thing and yells at everybody
(07:30):
or whatever. So Lozie and aredoing I follow up interview afterwards, and
we are just starving, rain pouringdown everywhere. But so we weren't really
in there too too long because theyhad to boot everybody out because of this
freaking black mold, which is Iguess you know you can't deal with that.
You got black death, you gotblack mold, like you ain't selling
your house. The specter's gonna comein like this is contaminant. You gotta
(07:54):
clean this up big time. Sothey have a chance now to where they're
gonna go in there and they're gonnaclean it all up. And if he
does the rest does a good job, then I guess they're gonna get the
grant from from bar Rescue and they'llget help. But if they don't,
they're not gonna help them that well. So how much do they giving don't
I don't know. But the thingis, the deal is if you can
get it right, we will fxyou up. Yes, because they deal
(08:15):
with this all the time. Dude. If I look back, I did
like binge watching. You know,some of the restaurants were disgusting. He
was going to and they knew thatthey're going in there, and they still
didn't figure out some of this stuff. I saw a restaurant that they had
grease in there from like years man, with little chunks, and you could
tell because it's this all burnt likemeat from like other chicken and stuff like
(08:37):
that, or it could you putit. He puts the pan in there,
and all of a sudden, thegrease starts piling up and he has
to let it out every like twoseconds because it's all because you have all
that meat in there and it startsboiling. It's just disgusting, I mean,
disgusting restaurants. This was bad too, man. This just shows you.
You know, you like going todie bars and stuff like that.
You like going to these restaurants.You don't know what's in the back,
(08:58):
you know what I mean? Andyou could tell by this to be a
nice one. And you don't knowwhat's in exactly, but you could always
tell if you walk into a restaurant. How I was picking his brain,
like we're talking them outside and stufflike that. Very smart man, been
the game a long time, knowshis stuff. He's like you could just
look just look down there, lookat that, Look at all that that
grease down there. Look it upthere. You can tell they don't clean
that, they're not cleaning that,they're not cleaning that. Look just look
(09:20):
at there. You don't have toget up. Look you see that.
I mean he's pointing things out leftand right. These guys knew, they
knew they were coming in business andthey and they still didn't figure that.
That just shows how aloof they are. What was the bar crowd? Like?
It was all staged? Okay,so they had they had people from
around town that volunteered to come orwhatever. They picked out and picked people
(09:43):
out, so they're all waiting forus, and they clap and we walked
in and then we walked in andthen they let them all in. So
it was kind of stage. Butthere's still like people from around town.
So but it was cool. Man, it was cool. It's cool talking
to people. We kind of hungout afterwards for a bit. But those
guys man, theduction crew, Imean, I go, how long have
you been working? We go weekon, well two weeks and then maybe
(10:05):
we'll have like like three or fourdays off and that he goes there two
weeks that we're working. Man,I mean, it's all day, all
day. He's just one season,right, Yeah, they have an off
season. Yeah, not guaranteed,not much though, No, no,
not not really. He churns themout, churns usually they make they usually
the off season is like when theyactually the shows are actually on. That's
(10:28):
their off season because they work oneseason. Then they put them in the
can they get he said, producers, editors get it ready for the April
of February. That's what it was. April of February. So it's like
hockey season, you know what Imean, January, So so they get
February. Yeah, that's crazy.Yeah, they're working so hard man,
(10:50):
and you know, he's probably notthe easiest guy to deal with, you
know, so like everything's got tobe perfect. So it was a cool
experience. I was star didn't getto eat. He didn't get it,
didn't get eat. I was sickwhen I got there too, because that's
stupid ass car, right, Butbut it was good. It was cool
experience. Man. He's a goodguy. And by the way, Joe
Fressa, I hooked him. Ihooked him up with your liqueur and he
(11:13):
appreciated that. So there you go, man, there you go. I
don't know what he did with it. He might have left it there,
I don't know, but I gaveit to him, did your Joe?
I did my job right there,So that was it was a cool experience.
And what time did you get home? One? We got to bed
at one thirty. Yeah, soyou're tired. Yeah, yeah, it's
all good. I got easy totell me about it. I got easy.
I don't want to hear about it. I got an easy day today,
(11:35):
Andy for two hours, Benning tenfor an hour and a half,
a meeting, so I'll be strugglinga little bit. But you got to
suck it up, man, That'swhat you do, You suck it up.
So anyway, that's what That waspretty cool though, man, to
be behind the scenes in a bigtime show like that, So it'll be
pretty funny. I think Lodzy andI did a did a good job.
We didn't even get a drink thatmuch, so they kicked us all out
and we're sitting out there in thepatio and the Losi's like goes to one
(11:56):
of the people working for by Rescue. He goes, can you go in
there the contamination area and grab us, you know, five beer? And
she did. She went in there. So it's kind of like, yeah,
they kicked this out, but Idon't care. I'm thirsty. Yeah,
go in there. I don't careif it's I need some beer.
Man, I'm dying here. Butyou had a bottled beer, Y're fine?
Yeah, but it's still it's sillon that fridge, dude, you're
still it's all no, no,no, no, that's that beer is
(12:20):
on the ground sealed. That beeris on the ground where all that black
mold is. They're touching with theirhands, they pick it up with I
mean it all. It's nasty,dude. Restaurants, I'm telling you,
there's a lot of those like that. Man. You could just look around
and just peek around, and ifit's dirty in little areas, you know,
the rest of it's dirty too.So anyway, would I want to
(12:41):
own a restaurant nom Cam's Deli.That's man, that's a little different,
you know what I mean? Rightaround even like a butcher shop, like
corner butcher and stuff like that.But you got to have people to work,
man, Like you know over thereinfant and they have all their kids
do everything, you know what Imean, so they kind of know what
they're getting. But to own arestaurant. If you've got a successful restaurant,
(13:03):
man, that's it's not an easything to do, especially now there's
so much to it. Man,And if you f up a couple times,
especially in a small town where you'recompeting, it's like six other bars
or whatever, and you have ayou have a one bad night where the
food's bad or whatever. Like,people are turned off, man, they
(13:24):
turned right off. One little thingcan turn somebody off and they'll never come
back. But if you're in alittle town, they are on a lot
of options. You'll fix it andyou'll tell them there you around a booze
because we messed up, Come onback, free around a booze that cost
you money. Cost you a lotof money, you know what I mean?
Every time you hand out free drinksand hand out free drinks that cost
some dude these I saw another episodewhere these guys just handing out, hand
(13:46):
out just an extra little extra ina shot, and they added it up
a month, just that little extrabecause they're pouring a little too much.
Eight thousand dollars. They lost eightthousand dollars. You ever see they have
those yes things on the bottle,yes or what the poor is and then
they got an eye in the sky. Yes, but you got to watch
and pay attention. I can't eventell you how many times I go to
(14:07):
bars and I see the people inthe bartenders hooking people up, hooking them
up. If I'm if I ownthat, I know it seems petty.
It adds up so much to thousandsof dollars. So if you're already hitting
the line man every single month thisand you're just getting ripped off by your
bartender because he's trying to hook peopleup, thousands of dollars, it's crazy
(14:31):
how it adds up. I havea bartend. Hell well, I mean
for like a charity thing. I'veI've done it for a summer a mobster
and yeah, and I would becausethey were stealing from me. I would
steal a little back because they weretaking taxes out. They weren't paying taxes
no no, no, no,yeah, yeah they weren't, so I
would. I made myself a partner, and like every fifth drink would go
(14:54):
to me and worked out that way. I would just keep a running tab
in my head and then at theend of the night I evened up.
I mean, Jimmy, if Inever made a mistake. If I owned
a bar. I go to somebars, you know, some like the
people we went to high school with, they're drinking the whole time. They're
taking a shot. I mean,if I own that bar, bank nobody
(15:18):
is drinking all the job. That'swasting money. Like it's crazy. Every
don't think they do It's I don'tunderstand that. The key of your bartender
is never do that. Never,never let the Never make a big deal
out of giving a free drink tosomeone, because everyone sees it. If
there's video, just give them alittle wink yes, and then kind of
it's implied, take care of mewith the tip, and we got a
(15:39):
little thing going. These these bartendersliterally every time you get a shot,
they take one too. That's potentialsix dollars. That's a six dollars shot.
But I will say this, likein certain places, almost like a
DJ, bartenders attract people like theybuild up their following and out and part
(16:00):
of them is they're partying with you. And so I know I've seen that
before, and that might be partof why they have that bartender because he
makes it a party atmosphere and he'llhe'll drink, but in the end you're
selling more booze because of him.I don't know, I'm I don't know
if that's the case. But Iknow in Dewey Beach, where I used
(16:22):
to go when I was younger,they were guys that had been there for
a while. Everyone knew him.And you go to that bar and oh,
you know, we're doing shots withwith Benny or whatever his name is.
He would sort of create the partyatmosphere and you're probably sold more booze
because yeah, I still would belike, no, you're not drinking on
a job. Hell no, man, No, I'm not saying I run.
(16:47):
I'm just saying because I watched.I was watching and told you I
was watching like this like the bestof of Bar Rescue, and like they'll
have like little categories like bartender's aproblem, Bartender's a problem, and he's
and John's Like this is one ofthe biggest issues when bars aren't succeeding is
because of these guys behind the barhanding out thousands and thousands of dollars worth
(17:08):
of booze because they're they're friendly andstuff. I got. Yeah, you'll
bring people in, but you're's costingyou way more than you think you only
have so many shots anyway. Sothey get that free one, they're probably
not gonna have another one, youknow what I mean. Like so that
water down the booze a little,yeah, I mean, and that then
people will be like, oh,they watered down the booze. I'm not
going in there. You know,just just so much to it, man,
so crazy again. I just tipthe cap to all y'all out there
(17:32):
and own restaurants, man, andyou're succeeding because it ain't easy. It's
not easy at all. I thinkit can go about location and what you're
selling and what the market can bear. So if you have a lot of
money out there and you are lookingto invest, Cam's Deli is the way
to go. Cam doesn't have toprepare the cold cuts, he doesn't have
(17:53):
to buy the cheese. No,he's gonna put his name on it.
He's gonna take a percentage. I'lltake a percentage of his percentage, and
uh, we'll make everyone happy witha lovely deli in this area. What
else do you think attracts people ata bar? What's the main thing?
The talent? Yeah, that's anotherthing. So you could have a you
(18:15):
know, you got a good lookinggirl, that's gonna attract a lot of
people. It does, but shecan be back there doing all that's telling
you. Just you're losing thousands ofdollars every single month from just handing out
a little bit in a shot eachnight. It's crazy. It's crazy.
So just a good experience, man. Cool, And that's cool that you
did that. Yeah, I'm supposedto go Friday, but we're going to
(18:36):
that comedy club. Baby, we'regonna see our boy do his thing.
What times that start? Seven?Oh? Cool? All right? Did
you get free tickets? Yeah?Yeah, yeah, you got them free
tickets? Or did you have topay? I got them free? Yeah,
dude, good, good for you. We're not gonna let that happen.
I would have paid that. Ifyou would have paid, then these
(18:56):
guys would pay. I was preparednot gonna let you pay. Well,
no, I wouldn't have mentioned it. I would have Just you're not paying,
though, are you? No?Okay, okay, what an expensive
debt. That's almost like, ina sense charity you're getting. No,
that's not charity because you don't needto. You don't like I'm in major
debt. No, that's why.How much of little tickets probably pretty expensive
(19:18):
for him. Ummm, I hadn'teven looked at you. I don't know
what's what's a going rate for amid guy. I'm just curious. It's
like twenty bucks, so this guy'sprobably sixty. Maybe there are a bunch
of like extra chargers. They're kindof get thrown in there. Yeah,
so Biden wanted to get rid ofthat. Haven't taken place yet, but
(19:38):
uh, it's gonna save your junkfees. Oh yeah, it would have
costed me. Uh hell of alot of money. How much. Well
if I did the six, wellthat would have been someone the neighborhood of
one ninety plus all these extra chargesthey could throwing. So yeah, no,
(20:03):
so and your place, let youhave six tickets. Yes, that's
nice though, that is that's whatyou should do for your employees. I
agree. But this is a bigdog, So I'm surprised that they hooked
you up like that. You know, it's not sold out really, Yeah,
I mean I'm sure that as weget closer, it'll get closer.
I mean some of the big dogs, like they some people sell out like
(20:25):
months in advance, like the hugeacts, and then other people like get
popular as it gets closer to theshow. And so since I asked like
a month in advance, Okay,cool, Well, what you must be
a good employee. I've known themto do that. Yeah, I was
thinking of that too. I've neverasked for the favor before, which I
think helps my cause. Yeah,good for you as a worker. I
(20:51):
guess it's different there. You canjust show up when you're supposed to be
there. Here, we'd like youa few minutes earlier so we can know
what the live reads are. Ifyou keep you pull some sound. But
they're showing up with the damn good. Can I play a clip though,
and I just want to get youropinion on it. Can you look up
Bill Lindsay's Stanley Cupp's Game seven StanleyCup call. He does radio. He's
(21:17):
not the main guy, but Iknow he played for the Panthers. But
I just want to I just rememberCurbs, like you, don't step on
the moment. Let Curbs do histhing, just like when they won with
Joey. Joey said a little andhe stopped himself when the Blues won the
Cup. I remember because you hearthe call and Curve this is his moment.
This is his moment. Let himgive a call, let hear the
(21:40):
ambience of of the of the ofthe fans, or whatever case is,
and then you chime in and andyou know, tie it together or whatever.
But I remember that when Joey hecould and he stopped himself, and
good for him. But just tellme what you think with this. It's
a radio call. It's not theTV call. It's Bill Lindsay and Doug
Plagans. I think, so okay, then we are gonna go. Fans
(22:00):
to their feet, who sharp pass, Miss stric Idle down to our right,
force Lee in the corner. He'lltry and hold this. Ten seconds
left two What Panthers a dream thirtyyears in the meeting his the real.
The Florida Panthers have won the StanleyCup. Lord Stanley has coming home.
(22:25):
You always will have the pleasance ofFlorida. Oh my god, The Panthers
have won the Stanley Cup for thefirst time in franchise history. Cut up,
start the celebration, South Florida.The Panthers have done it. Stanley
Cup should be the fit the mountaintime Lo Florida Panthers on twenty four Stanley,
(22:59):
He's actually good. Bill. Heplayed in League long time, so
I get it. But as thecolor guy, yeah, everyone knows.
Let's frame the moment and then letthe moment take over and then express you
know, give it, give ittwenty seconds. And then and then this
guy, I don't know these guys, but then the play by play guy
(23:21):
is trying to and the guy's screamingwhile he's talking. That, ain't I
get the excited The Florid Panthers wonthe stay. It's natural and maybe people
like it. I just for yearsdoing that. I'm gonna not do that,
you know, like I just wouldlet him do your thing and then
let the just kind of chill themoment at the moment he breathed with,
just listen to the crowd, let'sfeel that excitement. You know. It's
(23:45):
a lot like it's the Stanley Cup. I get it. But I had
my big moment for that high schoolchampionship game and Angelo Rossi stepped on it.
There's no stepped all over you.I don't know where that audio is.
I know that you guys have playedit before, but that was in
the Nate era and I've looked andI can't find it.
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The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.