Dan Le Batard

This is awkward as all get out.

Oh, God.

I remember that so vividly.

Cannot underestimate how many bikini-clad beachgoers, or whatever Mike Ryan said there, were actually at the edge of the pool right in front of Chris, also teetering on the edge of many things at that point in his life, it seems.

The thing that I remember there, and Chris is doing the happy hands of the battery now, is that there was a black screen in front of his face, and I could see out of the side of my eye, as I was yelling at the security guard, that he looked terrified inside of the costume, but there was no evidence of that because his hands kept moving happily the way a mascot does, so he stayed in character as a mascot, but he was indeed scared.

correct oh i was very scared what i remember most about that was in the stairwell before we walked down i dan kind of just checked in with me of like hey we're going down here but you're cool like you're good with this right and i hit him with like the bad boys dan we ride together we die together like i legitimately said that verbatim i'm like i'm in this with you let's go

You know what I was actually pissed off about there?

It's that First Take came down here and I'd been asking for years to have our staff be able to have some of the continental breakfast that they put out.

And they told me it's $11 a day each person, Dan, if you want to do that.

Then First Take comes down here and they just start eating all the muffins and they don't have to pay for anything.

And so that's where it started.

And then they wouldn't let us interact with their show.

And so I just got pissed off and made a mess.

Yes, you made a mountain out of the muffins.

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