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Don't reject me.
To be back on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thanks, Bill.
I love the honesty even when it's dishonest.
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It's history.
The events. The figures. I take pride in the words, Ich bin ein Violiner. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. The drama.
It's hardcore history.
Oh, that's awful.
Don't fucking say it to yourself, man.
I expected it.
We will not forget our Constitution, and we will not forget our God. Can't do that. Today I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense. It's all about common sense. First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.
What's that tell you? That tells you they did it on fucking purpose, dude.
All illegal entry will immediately be halted and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came. We will reinstate my Remain in Mexico policy. I will end the practice of catch and release. And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.
Under the orders I signed today, we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
I thought about it, but then I decided that remorse would get me nowhere. He is here to live without regret. He was my only friend for a long time.
It was necessary. It was weird. I felt no remorse. I thought I would.
Mm-hmm. I actually felt nothing.
Shut your fucking stupid face.
Frank, Frank, get out. Okay.
This doesn't look like corn.
Don't wanna fall asleep cause I miss you babe. And I don't wanna miss a thing. Cause even when I dream again. The sweetest dream will never do, I still miss you, babe. And I don't wanna miss a thing. When they get into it where he's like, I don't wanna miss one smile. I don't wanna miss one kiss. And I just wanna be with you, right here with you. That song is crazy.
Too close, dude. Too close. You know what they say about that movie, huh?
This kid better go to the NHL with a five-hour practice.
But there's like two little balls of fucking mozzarella cheese, a lot of sauce, and one... Pepperoni. What are we doing here?
You open up a piece of cotton candy, it's right at the front. Like, bro, right here, eat my shit. We can all learn something from cotton candy.
Yeah, yeah. All these brands, they don't fuck around.
Alle. Ich öffne diese kleine Sache und es gibt viel Gumm. Ich freue mich auf den Fakt, dass du diese ganze Sache mit Gumm gefüllt hast. Warum kleben wir die Gumm zu dieser Seite des Packages? Ich versuche es zu entfernen.
I'm ruining, because then I'm just, then I'm this. Then Greg Louganis is getting double fingered in my pocket.
Und es sieht dumm aus. Ich will es nur in Ordnung nehmen.
Get playful, gum. Get some metal. Get some play. How much does it make the... I'm so angry now.
Das ist es. Das ist alles. Ich weiß.
The sentence you just said. Dude, Hawk 2 just hard launched her boyfriend Pookie. Yo, dude, did you hear that hot dude hard launch your boyfriend Pookie?
See, now we can't talk about corn! Now when you say Mexican street corn, you're like, hold on.
So here's the thing. I'd like to start exercising, but I've got a thing in my brain that makes me not go.
Fuck you. I just wanna, just like, fuck you, dude.
How can this make you joyful? This guy's a husband, he's a father, and he's being gunned down in the middle of Manhattan. Why is that making you joyful?
a black woman, and a communist.
Their damn village happens to be resting on the richest unobtainium deposit.
I'm the king of the world!
That really sucks, lady.
I thought I would kill you.
Please welcome a great actor, Mr. Al Pacino.
I would have voted for Obama for a third term if I could. Best president in my lifetime, hands down.
Hi, Barbie. Hi, Barbie. Hi, Barbie. Hi, Barbie. Hi, Barbie.
No! God, oh my God.
The whole multiverse thing. It's not great.
The whole multiverse thing.
No, Alfred, stop. This isn't you. Here is... So dumb. It's brilliant. No!
All right. When's the murder mystery start?
Sure.
130.
440.
100%.
100%.
And I get it.
Yeah.
Jake Paul.
Okay.
I feel like so queer. I'm queer. But that's like, I've never, we're not living in a world that's designed to be queer. That's what I think, I think I've always told myself, I'm a lesbian, but I think you, I think being here, I've realized, oh no, I'm not lesbian, I'm queer. You what? And I think that's really cool. I'm switching letters! You're a queer bitch.
I really need a wee. Is this bad? Can you block the door?
And then I'll have a little wee. Don't tell anyone I've weeded, though, all right?
Well, wait a minute, because you're giving me stage fright.
Close my eyes. No, they do this, don't they?
Good?
I feel bad now.
Dollar signs going off now.
Hired me.
I mean, Toronto winning in 2019 is up there for me. Toronto. Championship, what are we talking about here? Clippers.
But they were so dominant in the regular season. But that's a good one. Starless Piston team. And because I just kicked the crap out of the Lakers. So that's a really good one. Clippers would be huge. Clippers would be huge. Especially because Kawhi, he hasn't finished a playoff series in forever. And now you want him to go. Think about it. He hasn't finished a playoff series in forever.
Now you want him to win.
I was just going to say that.
I came here today hoping for the history of the 75 Clippers. Yeah.
This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.
Dan, this has taken over my life. They're here next week. They never come to Florida. They're playing two shows 10 minutes from my house.
Next Thursday and next Saturday. I mean, how could there be a world where Pearl Jam is playing 10 minutes from my house and I'm sitting at home, not at the show? But I got shut out from the fan club tickets. I got shut out from the on sale at Ticketmaster. There's literally like 10 seats available on Ticketmaster right now. They're $1,000 each, and they're all the way up in the Raptors.
I lay awake. I didn't sleep last night, honest to God. I lay awake at night thinking, how am I going to get tickets? It's ruling my life. I need to move on.
Don't say no.
Don't say no.
Game time is great, but not for this. Out. Out.
Don't you care about me? It's a source of extreme stress in my life right now.
It's a good competition. I like this. Is it? Because we're all working for you, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know if I want to waste an ask on Zaslav. No, no, you should waste an ask. How about this, though? You get for one night, and you get for the other night.
I'm the best person to sit with at a Pearl Jam show.
They haven't played this since 1999.
That seems like a good person to go to the concert with. I'm the best person to go with. Haven't opened with Ocean since 2003. You were there for that, right? Wow, they start out the show with Back to Back off of 10. This is an incredible show. Buckle up, Dan.
This is exciting but also very stressful because it feels like you can help me out and then I can start sleeping again. I don't lay awake at night checking online for tickets to become available.
That's a fine. True story. Stu Gatz got me tickets one time for Pearl Jam. This is like 15 years ago. He did. Okay. I was going to get seats. They have to be decent enough seats. And it's a very big deal for me. Okay. You can't tell me you're going to, it's all taken care of. And then like last minute in typical Stu Gatz fashion, like, ah, I'm sorry. I couldn't come through.
I told him, I said, you have to understand our friendship is on the line here. If I'm trusting you to get the tickets, you're telling me, don't worry. And then you don't come through. I don't ever talk to you again. Our friendship is over. That's how serious this is. He did come through.
I'm a very nice boy.
Well, the B guy is the A guy.
Meaning he has someone that he refuses to go to. He's going to go to the other guy first.
Come on. You don't want to go with me. Ed comes out. They do a third encore. Wow, they haven't done three encores in 20 years.
I'm trying. I need to start sleeping again. You trying.
I don't understand. You said you told the Uber driver there's no one in security, you're going to be good. Were you, like, texting him when you were already in the airport? Made it.
He was always guarding Jimmy.
They're hunting him at the end of the game.
I mean, that game wouldn't have been close if the Warriors lost and they had to play the winner of tonight's game, Sacramento-Dallas, on Friday. That game wouldn't have been close, but how much fun would that have been if it's an elimination game for the Warriors and it's not even the playoffs? I was rooting for Memphis to win last night just so we could have that chaos on Friday.
They wouldn't win a single game against Oklahoma City. I don't think.
Not recently. Not recently, but yes. But we did it here. Yeah.
I think once here and maybe once in the Clevelander.
But are you saying out of your mind because they're not good enough or out of your mind because Kawhi hasn't finished a playoff series in a thousand years?
Yeah, yeah.
It's already changing things. It's worse that they're not getting along. They didn't know each other three minutes before they stepped on the plane together.
Mama, you know I love you. Mama, Mama, you're the queen of my heart. Your love is like tears from the stars. Mama, I just want you to know loving you is like food to my soul.
Everybody gave him the elbows. Like, you remember when they did that in game three? It's so beautiful. Better than porn.
Easy. He started out.
Not just an award for everybody being awesome. The awesome award. Everybody wins.
That's a good one.
I've been blessed to not see vultures on the balcony. You feel me? They always do put me up on the 1,000th floor. That is a fact. And the balconies are this narrow. So narrow.
Ah, man, the crowd has always been the crowd, man. Salute to the audience, the wonderful audience. That's G-P-Z-B-O-Y, sir. Oh, keep going.
He says, a tucked in polo shirt with shorts is wild. Please someone tell Samson. And so consider this your notification. Good award. Good award. The tucked in polo shirt is a wild award.
I'm not award worthy.
I'd like to give David Sampson the best beard award on the show.
Not delicious. El Lobo Mallow says, Samson looks like the manager for the towel inventory at your local water park. Oh, my God.
I'm going to clap it up for that.
Yes, sir, I tuck my shirts in, especially when I'm in professional environments. Right. This is a professional environment?
That was Mally. Also, happy Black History Month. The NFL is reportedly removing the in-racism logo from the Super Bowl end zone after the White House announced it that President Donald Trump will attend on Sunday.
I'd like to also give an award to Amin Elhassan's family for understanding. You can't take those vows with you on the bus, so use them.
Right. And oh, my goodness. Those shoes are incredible. Salute to Asia Wilson for dropping those shoes. They're dropping this May. The pink Nikes. Oh, man, I was I'm overwhelmed because I think that those shoes are going to be just as popular as Sabrina UNESCO shoes, which are worn all over the NBA right now.
Yeah, they're awesome, bro. They fire.
This isn't the one that came out that she promoted yesterday.
They're tired. Also, I'd like to award the Sam Bocelli Award to Jaguars for hiring Tony Bocelli as their new executive vice president. Wow. Good job, Jags.
Do you want, are you one who wants Shador or would you rather go ahead and get Abdul Carter or I guess, or Travis Hunter is a possibility there also.
Where was the A team?
You're a good athlete. Coaches tend to like good athletes. That tends to be the case.
Right. I think that's normally what happens is with coaches, you're a good athlete. They treat you well. You like them. They like you. That's always been my experience. Never really had a coach I didn't like. Met a lot of guys who work at Foot Locker who said that their coaches were assholes. Happens all the time. Man, if it wasn't for that coach hating on me, man. Yeah, bro.
You know who coaches don't hate? The dudes who make their job a lot easier.
oh yeah and he told me he's like if you if you were not a walk-on you would not be on this team right now i go to if you're a scholarship guy and you were playing basketball and sprained your ankle you would have gone i was like okay coach the funny thing is like we did it all the time like we played basketball in college all the time the coaches didn't mind they didn't hate it they appreciated it i hated it yeah playing against the football players oh it's weird we would play some some a version of basketball it was physical no fouls oh
Why do you think slam ball never caught on?
Weren't there, like, some serious injuries in slam ball? Yeah, it ruled. It was, like, jacked up. I feel like that might have been part of it.
Like, seriously?
No, they just, so they have it happen so often that they got a well-oiled machine. They get them out, they get them to the bathroom.
back room they bring out the blue tent before you can see it they just tent the kid are you calling an ambulance if you just like maybe sprain your meniscus like you're probably going home and you're like oh that doesn't feel good and then you're going to the doctor and for that lawsuit though i'm trying to sue i feel like chris you're the type to get on there i need an ambulance i can't move no not you need ambulance but you're the type because i've been to those my kids are probably just leaving that range my youngest kid just leaves in the range where i have to go to those type of parks never want step foot on there same i don't actually jump i just watch
It's like, sign this waiver, and then you can go pay. You can do it ahead of time. And if you do it ahead of time, when you get there, they make you physically sign it also. So you can go through an electronic waiver process, and I'm like, yeah, we're going to breeze right through it. Then I get there, and they're like, you did an electronic waiver. We see. Now fill it out with ink.
Oh, they make you do it twice? Oh, hell yeah. They ain't playing. You're not going to get no suing in there.
They do, so the gymnastics, Dominic Dawes has gymnastics. gyms in the Maryland area and they're also, their gymnastics half ninja course. So like the kids, my youngest daughter loves ninja courses. Kids do love ninja courses.
They do have basketball hoops though. Get that corner three off.
Taking bets? Yep. You got it. You're like, hey, who's got a red shirt?
Red shirt's been on a three-game run. Who's next going to take a blue shirt? Going to take a red shirt. What you got on that? You're just a numbers runner.
I really am. All right. Speaking of overwhelmingly talented, right now we got all one seeds, all chalk in the final four. And it's like, it's not just that they're one seeds. I think they're Four of the best, excuse me, four of the top ten Ken Palm teams ever in these Final Fours. Like, how excited are we? Are you one of these guys who wishes we had one Cinderella in here?
I said it all, like, shit, man. I didn't realize that. The whole setup, man. My apologies. Let's pretend like I didn't say it all.
Nailed it. Charlie and I have been work friends for a long time. And I think in the last year or so, we've probably become like real friends. Oh, wow. In the last year? Damn.
I was trying a bit. I'm gonna explain it to you. No, I think that the friend progression, so there is a level of friend that when you know all the embarrassing stuff, that's what I'm talking about. I think that a lot of people, you consider your friend, But you're not really friends until you start to meet their friends and you start to find out things.
So when Jessica was talking about fans barking, all I could think about was Charlie's friend who, and this is not a friend from last night. This is a different friend. This is a different friend who says, or not says, who on third downs, he's a Commanders fan. And on every third down, he gets to the three-point stance and says, let's heat them up. Yep.
Losing to the Eagles by 50.
Heat them up. You got to blitz. Send a blitz. That just means get some pressure. Heat them up. We got to heat them up.
This is why I said it's only been the last year or so that I feel like Charlie and I are at a level of friendship where I really know Charlie because I would never introduce anyone to my three-point. I have friends who do very embarrassing things. Three-point stance at a bar every third down, yells, let's heat them up.
I mean, you met Kevin. Kevin came to the show a couple times. And DeQuelle. Oh, yeah, you met DeQuelle a bunch of times. He hasn't met any of my embarrassing friends.
Or are you super excited about the overwhelming amount of talent and great coaching that we have in this year's tournament?
When it was tush push time, did he get in a four-point stance? Because you know you've got to get four-point stance for tush push. He's three-point only. He's an edge guy. He's an edge guy. He's a pass rusher. Only on third down passing situations.
Hold on, hold on. I'm sorry. I think I failed to explain this. Every single Commander's game... Unclear.
If he's doing it at a bar. You think that the man who does a three-point stance and yells, let's heat him up at a bar is at home sitting with his leg. I sure hope our boys are victorious on this very important pivotal. Third down, no, let's heat him up.
this man's a lunatic. No, I think he believes the team needs him. It's one of those, it's kind of a superstition, but it's like, I gotta get down this three-point stance.
Eat them up. God. I went to a game last season. I got invited to the game and the third down thing made me think about it. I was invited to this game in a box and a guy warned us before the game started. Before the game started, he was like, he told the whole room, I just want you guys to know, I'm a third down noisemaker. It's a classification that I never heard of, and I didn't know you needed.
I didn't think it was the justification or clarification that you had to make until third downs hit. And then what happened? And then he went nuts. And it was like a box where all the people were invited. And, you know, there are certain boxes that are a little bit quieter. It's like no one in here is like a super fan.
These are people like a company owned the box and they brought people just as like a reward. So in this box, everyone's just like, OK, cool. This is nice. It's nice. And he is going ape. Give me. Give me. I need it. Just.
Great glutes. Great glutes. Okay. I don't think that you can get in the three-point stance at the bar. I just couldn't do it. I appreciate those guys who bring that energy. I don't. It makes it more fun. You don't?
Okay, so two-point stance, two feet on the ground. Three-point stance, one hand on the ground. Four-point, two hands, two feet. What is the number that goes when you're just on your back in the bar?
No, no one knows. Just wondering. Just wondering. Just imagining that I'm at a bar. Some people two-point stance, some people three-point stance. There's a couple guys who drink enough that just pass out.
A DB stance is just... You're kind of like, you know. What number is the stance where you have two feet and your face on the ground?
Thank you.
We just kicked it off. They call it San Ant right now. Do you do a bracket? Do I do a bracket? What kind of question is that?
How did you do this year? I guess that's more a better question. How did your bracket turn out this year?
The four teams that are here, and I alluded to the coaches earlier, two of them are 65 or over. Then the other two are 40 and under. With the changing dynamics in college sports, I think if you would have asked me, I would have said, you know what? Only young coaches.
From here on out, because of how this has all changed, what am I to make of the idea that Pearl and Sampson are in here with Golden and Shire?
We're bringing in college football expert John.
Or excuse me, college. Get your mind off the gridiron. My bad, it's hard. Well, I mean. Hardwood. John Fanta. is also a football enthusiast, but we have him here to talk about basketball. He might be interesting to talk to about the proposal that I just made to David Sampson because, John, welcome to the show. You're a Browns fan, right, sir?
I know you got a hard out, so lightning round coming up real quick, okay? You ready? Great question, though.
What am I to make of this new tournament, the Crown? There's a whole other basketball tournament. The Crown is yours? Is that something that college basketball appreciates and respects already?
Broader than the tournament, we know about the NIL and the – The revenue sharing plan coming forward. The most recent articles that I've read suggest that the Big East is going to become a basketball power because of the disproportionate amount of money that they'll be able to spend on their basketball programs because they don't have to support football programs.
Is that something we should expect? So should next year's Final Four and the Final Four after that be all Big East teams or is there something else coming down the pike?
Let's get under the table.
Way to go, John Fanta. Awesome appearance. Thank you so much, man. John Fanta did it. He's the man. Our first successful interview thanks to a great John Fanta.
enemy thank you guys thanks for not rejecting me started with a bark ended with a bar that's a great man he should have been here hawk should have been here why oh this is a brown scene oh yeah yeah absolutely um i want to commend you all no one referenced soda in that entire interview thank you so much good job guys
Right, but isn't it also like, don't you think that he gets that? The hackiest question you could ask, probably. So that's why I'm proud of you guys.
Charlie's like, I can't do it on command. What? No, I, Dan, new respect for Dan. We all love and appreciate Dan. We are here. Trent Williams. There we go. Billy, we got an update on the search for Jason Mason.
No, well, we were making fun. Dominique was making fun of. I was not making fun of Jason Mason. I was making fun of Taylor.
I mean, I was a little confused why he needed to have glasses on while he was running. That's a good point, man. Just like, I would assume that you want to drop all the weight that you can.
I think it's just, yeah.
His name's not Jason. You said you contacted him. What's his name, Billy? Do you know his actual name?
There you go. For real?
Tony Will. Tony Will.
A hell of a tease. The... Wait a second.
And the email was definitely written by Bill Belichick, 100%.
Lean into it. Yeah, strategic. Let me clarify. Yeah, this is a little surprising. I'm not surprised by the love aspect. We followed his ex-girlfriend on IG. He would be down for all that stuff. I saw him at Gronk's Beach House letting loose. The fact that he would fall this in love and be that public with it is not that surprising to me.
It's the fact that she has seemingly replaced Michael Lombardi that has surprised me.
Can't even do that over the course of 20 years. Before Thanksgiving, I get a little refresher course.
What's the girl that was dating the guy with the cousin number? With the fingers waggling like that? And then whatever Cynthia says, she's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Janet, Janet. I knew that. Knew that. Knew that. It was Janet.
You've got to let that sit, Billy. You've got to let that sit.
I want to get back into the destination wedding in a second. And perhaps this stature has been moved from upstairs to now next to me. I'm proud to have it next to me. Representing discipline in the face of spoiled brattiness. Greg Cody is, he's descended into the stage. I haven't seen it in a long time. I really haven't.
Local columnist, a man of dignity who has written a number of columns over the years and doesn't usually excoriate anyone. I remember at the end, look, this used to mean something when Billy talks about reporters and stuff. It used to mean something when the local columnist was somebody of a certain grace who, in our community at least, you know, When he ripped somebody, it meant something.
It wasn't just gas bags on the radio like us or even kids in the newspaper like me. When I ripped somebody, it meant less than when Edwin Pope was doing it. Greg Cody is now Edwin Pope in our market. And I don't know that I've ever seen him as angry at an athlete as he presently is at Jimmy Butler.
He's descended in the kind of name calling that I did when Saban left Miami to go to Alabama, and I was wandering everywhere calling him a carpet salesman. Like, because he sold everybody a bunch of things about how he wanted to be here. And I wandered around calling him names for an entire year.
I mean, he did. It was the easiest thing. Liar! Yeah. But now, now Greg Cody has arrived at quitter.
If I may here, because I haven't done any reporting on what happened yesterday. I've read the reports. I don't know how much reporting you have done, Greg. I do believe that at this point, I'm led to assume... that the Heat will suspend him if he hiccups wrong.
Like, that the rules have all changed now to whatever it is we need to do to suspend him, he's now practicing with a bunch of guys who don't want to be practicing with him. If you believe in the cultish aspects of... Look, man. These people are very mush. It's us against everybody.
You're either in here or you're not because if we're going to be throwing up every day from the workouts, we're all in here on the same thing to win. You're now embarrassing in public. a guy who's had godfather power in this sport, earned for 50 years.
I cannot imagine how cruel and petty he is doing this as he's got the strength of everybody behind him, Stugatz, because it's the easiest thing in the world right now. to lean back on Jimmy Butler. The entire machine does. Nobody's gonna support what he's doing now. That's not gonna be supported even by the crassest of businessmen, but it is the model for how you get your way in this sport.
They benefited off of it 15 years ago, and they suffer from it now. This is what happens when the player gets the power.
We said this was a statue. It's not a cardboard cutout. It was on the roof of the Elser Hotel because this show now stands in solidarity with Pat Riley. But this particular name calling, can you guys help me? Because I know everybody's tired of this. And look, it's just... It's the gossipy, lame news of the moment in sports if you don't want to talk about Jerry Jones.
Another suspension for a 500 team that had a nice win last night against Orlando in a regular season that only matters for these things. Because Boston's losing against Houston, and we'll make that a nice story, but everyone knows come playoff time, Boston is going to be the team to beat if they're healthy. Even if they go through 20 games, they're weird and lose at home to Houston. Yep.
Yeah, maybe. And maybe the Knicks. The Knicks looked great last night as well. This Heat is a bit of a nowhere team right now. And this kind of stuff... is stuff that sports fans love to eat up. I ask you to imagine, what do you imagine that workplace is like for him right now? The mess he made when I explained to you that this is a cult of people who are going to now line up against you.
You're either with us or you're against us. So now the whole machine works against Jimmy Butler. It's not just Pat Riley. It's not just statement after statement. Here's the suspension. Here's another 500 grand. The media is going to also do what Greg Cody is going to do because the city is going to applaud Greg Cody saying it.
But it is hilarious.
On that one, I might stop you just because I do think he wanted the public spectacle of getting his money by showing up and then not starting. And I do believe it bothered him that he was not starting. I believe the reports that he walked out of practice early. I would stay until the end of practice if I were him every day because I would assume they are looking for ways to find that Jimmy Butler.
You basically have an organization that I'm assuming is when he shows up to work for these next weeks. This week of days, if indeed it's not going to be, OK, we'll keep you after the trade deadline. We've got 10 more teams available to bid on you in the offseason. And then we'll work this to see if you'll ruin the second half of the season. And we'll see if you opt in as your threat.
Like, if that's where all of this is going to go. If they actually don't trade him, because I don't know if anyone in our audience thinks that there's a possibility. But I would say there's a more than 0% chance that they don't trade him. I don't think it's a 0% chance that they trade him before the trade deadline. They might make his life miserable right up into the offseason.
Bills fans tonight, their hopes crushed yet again. It ends for the Bills again in Kansas City. It's not fun to be the champ here to beat the champs and we didn't do it tonight.
You want to keep coming to work? This way.
You'd be stunned if they kept him past the trade deadline and said, we'll try to do it this way with Ware. Ware's going to be Rookie of the Year. We'll try and do it with big front lines.
I think you are right. This is all hilarious. And what do you do when you're met with Greg Cody's stinging criticism of Jimmy Butler? And only Jimmy Butler, by the way. Because Greg's not criticizing the heat.
Forgive me for taking this long to get to the Jerry Jones sound. I will ask that the audience and Jessica and Jeremy and everyone, please tell me. Tell me. Give me a sound. Give me something that alerts me to when we've talked Jimmy Butler 12 minutes too long.
Jessica, but this is the thing, right? The thing that's happening with Billy, yes, Billy was cooking. And I would be happy to listen to this viewpoint by Billy because Billy speaks for both the audience and people who are so very tired of all of the heat talk that has infected this show for the last 15 years. For the last 15 years. So you're voicing something that was actually fresh.
It wasn't this musty plume of cobweb smoke that comes out of the old columnist's face when he criticizes the athlete for misbehaving. You gave us some new stuff. You said everyone's a fool, you're all idiots, and we'd be laughing at this if we were still a funny show.
Yeah, Roy thought the hockey show's popularity. Scandinavia. Yeah, he thought we should send him to Finland to go drink beer so he could come back with a guitar riff again.
Greg, he got his line wrong again. I know. You got to get for me, you have to get isolated, him trying to deliver his Zagak there.
And delivering it really poorly. And get me the Jerry Jones sound, please, because I don't want this guy to get away with it. Jerry Jones at 80 cannot and must not be allowed to sneak a head coach past us when we're not paying attention because we're busy with the games this week. And he tried to do it on Friday. He got a bunch of noise at night.
And now Jerry Jones is going everywhere, giving more press conference than Brian Schottenheimer. And he's telling you every way and fashion that he runs the team and Brian works for him. And their franchise is the most valuable one in the sport.
I'll prove to you guys how tough I am. Look at this fool I hired. I can't even imagine how distorted that dude is. Just distorted from whatever comes with fame and wealth in that sport. I said yesterday, Don Van Nada and Seth Wickersham, who are among the best of real reporting that Billy wants on this game in Spain.
No, it wasn't deep. It was a shallow dive. And I've come to expect deep, deep dives from them. And all they did was like, there was some secondhand reporting on stuff that, that confirmed what we already knew that Dan Snyder is a bleep hole and that Dan Snyder is a bleep hole who would not enjoy Washington having success after he's gone. Uh, but the, the reporting from great reporters, uh,
created a story that made it yet more obvious to me man the wealthy in this country are getting so wealthy that reporters can't even really get near them not anymore like the that there's so many shields and and interferences that that if you kill the news media.
Like, Wickersham and Venata are doing it as well as it can be done, and they're going, anonymous sources that were near the dinner and heard about the dinner, because where rich people reside, reporters can't get there anymore to smoke out what the real truth is, and Snyder left in disgrace. Snyder, we didn't even get to the, they did a lot of reporting on Snyder.
What Snyder left in his wake was a disaster minefield that was only revealed to us because the other owners also wanted him gone.
Chris, are you simply laughing because Billy sunk deep into his explanation of who the rooster was because he realized he was ending a segment with a joke for seven people?
What's happening nationally with Kansas City is super interesting because they're going to be so excellent that they beat the bleep you out of you, where you're so frustrated that they always get to win, that that is some of the best and most hissing, defiant kind of winning, when you can tell everybody, you guys didn't want us to win and we won anyway. But I have for many years now,
Secretly, I'm gonna reveal a secret. Tuesday's my favorite day of the week. I know it doesn't seem like it because I'm perpetually annoyed and Cody and Stu Gatz are maximum rodeo clowning. But the problem I have today is I've got Greg Cody fired up about a topic nobody else wants to hear another word about.
However, he's the local columnist who has now descended into willing to call the athlete names. Angry enough to call the athlete names. So I've got that in our holster, but I also have Stugatz in the garage trying to fix a spare tire yesterday. And I have Billy Gill has a bone to pick, and I've got Jerry Jones and an assortment of clown sound. Wow. Big day. You've got a lot.
But Billy with a bone to pick, I snuck that in there. I've got to go there first, correct?
Why don't you want to go to... Okay.
Wait, Chris, Chris, your... Everything's in a different language. Chris, your father... Speak English, Spain. Your father has become so formed... He doesn't want to go anywhere foreign because he's happy in plantation. A cruise ship plantation, don't put me on a 12-hour flight that doesn't have a dozen beers on it so that I can get to another country.
You're not even getting your signature lines right? All right, you know what?
He deserves to leave. You guys, all right, look. I'm not going to kick him out, but he's got to get his signature lines right the first 10 minutes of the show.
It can't be. Later in the show, we will forgive that it's a stamina thing and he's run out of gas, but we can't be 10 minutes into the show and he lazily throws out his a-ga-ga. It's got to be a full force, full Tuesday zagak.
Give me a zagak till 11. Let me press the gas till 11. I'll tell you what's happened here, and it happened to all of us yesterday. Sunday takes a lot out of us. It takes a lot out of us for the whole week. Late night. And so we're going to get a Greg Cody who might be a little fatigued today, a little beat up.
Oh, right this way.
No. What do you mean? So, Jessica, can you walk me through among these things which you're most interested in? Because we've got Jerry Jones after he tried to sneak a head coach past us on Friday.
jerry jones is out here uh talking and it's just great to see an 80 year old man just drunk on power basically running the most valuable franchise in sports and just hiring administrative assistant to be his coach because he can because he's going to run it to the grave you've got that you've got a video of stugatz trying to fix a flat tire in the parking lot
You've got, I'm assuming, yet more bone to pick with Billy Gill and Greg Cody really wants to call Jimmy Butler names.
It's a great idea to make the bride and groom have the community vote on where would you like our love to be celebrated.
Parkland. Well, you're allowing the group, the community to make a joke in that case. I don't want people in my house, though. Well, Billy, let's examine this for a second because I hate that we're becoming this show, okay? Greg Cody is sitting here arguing, I don't want to go to an NFL game in Spain.
But I would imagine if Metal Ark paid for any employee here to go to Spain for that Dolphin game, that would be a prized possession in this workplace because not everyone is so jaded and cynical after a lifetime making money off of sports that they say, I don't want to go all the way to Spain to see the Dolphins play an NFL game. I don't want to be that show, man.
Inside the NBA is complaining a lot about today's basketball. We're now the show that doesn't want to go to a foreign land to watch the Dolphins play because Cody's tired and just wants to drive to Miami Springs.
Do you know what I mean?
This interview is longer than my career.
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I love that. I love going to golfing events. You know what? It's the simple pleasures in life. Just going out there, drinking your hand, wearing shorts, going, woo, after a drive. Rory!
You're just chilling with your drink and you got like an open gate and you're just walking and you're going, woo! It's the best. In your shorts.
Just pastels, patterned shirt, a dad cap. Which hole you guys want to go to?
You guys want to go to 9 or 12? Which way you guys want to go? We following the pack? We following the pack? Oh, I forgot to put on sunscreen.
That's been living in my head since I heard it.
just in the shower shampooing my hair out of nowhere it was a bit overacted he um
I'm scared of it.
I am a little concerned what the hockey playoffs in particular are going to do to my body again. But now I'm approaching it differently because consecutive cup runs, one of them being unexpected as the final seed there. Look, those two years, I didn't know if I was ever going to be there again. It's been a while, certainly. But now I think I'm approaching this.
I put myself and my liver basically on the long-term IR for an entire month, understanding I need to test my mind, body, and spirit. Oh, yeah. Testing my mind, body, and spirit. Testing your eyes with that shirt. I wish I wasn't wearing it.
Yeah. I wish I wasn't wearing this f***ing shirt. Look, I decided to go at Ryan Clark on the one day of the calendar year where I'm dressed more ridiculously than him.
Take my eyes, not the shirt.
You know, I was feeling pretty good about myself. And then I saw that photo, and I just knew it was coming my way.
I shouldn't have been so goddamn good on that clip. Why'd you have to run up the score? Why'd you have to be so good?
They're not going to have home ice this year, so that's going to be a change of pace. They're probably going to open up with Tampa Bay here on the road, and it's going to be a more difficult march for the Florida Panthers than it was last season. But again, they've done this from an eight seed, and they've done it from the one seed. They...
approached march like they were saving their bodies and going to play this healthy game and knowing that they'd already reached mountaintop veteran savvy teams tend to do that this is still a young core that should be in this conversation and give our livers plenty of a workout over the next five years or so this is a core that was put together young and designed for this long run um but it does have brad marshawn on the team and that is a huge point against
Culture was a word that I also created.
And I wore this shirt. Yeah. So I've got a lapel pin joke and that's all I got. And so. You know what? I'm just going to go away for a couple of days. Today was not a great day for me. It was just too much. But it was a great day.
Bad shirt. Terrible shirt.
You know, I lost some weight. Saw this shirt hanging up there for the last few months. I'm like, let me try old girl on. See if I still got it. Then I looked at myself in the mirror. I'm like, it's debatable whether you had it at all, Mike. But whatever. The shirt's on now and we already steamed it. Let's get out of here. Yeah.
Well, I didn't like the way that it looked open, because it's not a quality shirt. This was an IG shirt. So it hangs a bit? Can I see it open? Yeah, yeah, look. It's your classic IG shirt. Classic IG shirt. You get like seven for the price of one, and maybe four of them are good. Matching pants.
No, I don't have the matching pants, but you see how the pattern's done on the inside of the shirt? That's a $12 shirt. Although on TV I should have had it buttoned open. Right.
I'm not wearing that. I'm not wearing the Pacey's with this shirt. This one's actually, you know, it's good.
I mean, you lose a little weight and the nipples look better.
I think generally speaking, right? We feel safe with that. That's a good take. I don't, I'm, okay.
Chris, I'm glad that you mentioned that because I did have a bunch of shirts in my closet that I'm like, I usually would give this away. But I'm going to get skinny again. And I'm going to wear that shirt. They're motivators.
I spent so much money on XXLs, too, and it's just like. You made the leap. But now I'm looking back at the other side of the closet, and I'm like, don't worry. I'll get back to you.
I hosted a gala over the weekend, and that wasn't the great feeling. It's just... Look at me, Louis. Look at me, Louis. Chill it. It's a black tie event. I know I had one tux, and I was just sitting back. I'm like, I know I fit in that tux. I'm not going to put that tux on until Saturday. Normally, anytime someone dies, I'm like... Not because they're dead, but because I have to fit into a suit.
I gotta play this game.
Oh, like Steve Smith.
Come on.
My boldest take from the weekend is that the Tootsie Roll song is way more popular than the Tootsie Roll candy.
It's such an insane video.
This is a video of you running through the tunnel. That's that patented amino acid. It's printing speed.
And as you can hear, it's getting very loud because it is foul time.
A centerpiece? That's not nice.
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Because, you know, I've got to protect sources, Dan. You know journalism, how this works? First, let me say my first part, and then you guys can dig deeper. I'm confident that the picket that Dolphins make at 13 will come from one of two schools, Michigan or Texas.
Well, I have a list of five names. And it's all from those two schools that I think that one of those five guys will be a Dolphin. I know maybe that's not going out on a limb, but that's what I'm reporting. It's Texas and it's Michigan.
For Michigan.
I'm really aspiring, though. Keep an eye on Mason Graham, defensive tackle for Michigan, and Kenneth Grant, defensive tackle for Michigan. You understand why I hate this?
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Imagine if someone told you you couldn't have a Corvette. Stugatz. I'm a grown-ass man who's not filthy rich. I can't afford a Lamborghini. Well, I probably can, but that's beside the point.
This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.
Yes. OK, listen, Zaz's ring is made out of tinfoil and it leaves his finger green. He has the D-list ring. Roz, I want to ask you something, because this has been in my craw for a while for me. They give out too many championship rings. The people who deserve them, you, the athlete, and the coaching staff, and maybe a select few others deserve championship rings for winning it all.
When you start giving them to broadcasters and others like that, don't you think that it demeans the championship ring a little bit?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
You'd be winning giant money if you were betting all of Juju's picks, just not his parlays, because he takes a lot of time with these and he often hits two out of three. A couple of things we didn't talk about today, Stugatz. There was in the Boston Red Sox game yesterday. A game winning home run that went three hundred and eight feet. What?
That is a pop up that is closer to a pop up than it is to a home run. But it went out of the park and it went inside of the pesky pole. Three hundred and eight feet.
It's not very much. It's not an infield pop-up. It was enough in that ballpark. Yeah, to get out.
You don't think that a pop-up can be a right fielder catching it right behind the second baseman?
You're saying it's a pop-up if the outfielder, if the infielder catches it. It's not a pop-up if the outfielder catches it?
Roy is giving us the Mutombo finger.
He really did ruin the entire game. Just took it out, ended the game. The other thing I wanted to point out to you guys, because we didn't talk about this at all. In fact, I think Chet Holmgren was the first mention of anything basketball related in the show today. That wasn't me just mentioning name dropping Stan Van Gundy. The Pacers are the biggest long shot in the last 20 years.
The last long shot like this was the Pistons team that did knock off the Lakers in five games. But a ton of money is coming in on the Pacers. Tons of money. It's at least because they're big value, because they're such a big dog. It's a value play, yes.
They're 5-1 underdogs, but the grand majority of the money is coming in on the Pacers because of how rare it is to have this kind of value from one of the team in the finals.
I believe a ton of people do believe in OKC and a lot of money is coming in on OKC the way that Juju just did it, which is they're going to win on the money line, etc. They're such an overwhelming favorite, but it's just people looking for value. Juju's doing a show after the games that's live on YouTube. It's his Alley Oop show. What do you want to give us in the way of preview?
Not for that show necessarily, Juju, but just on the series. What are you looking forward to seeing?
That's a good name, too. I like that as a... Same body size, too.
There we go. Does he have the same timing on the thunder that you have? Because you and Mike were struggling with whenever it is that you were hitting the thunder there. You were trying to sell it, but doing it poorly.
You really did. It was both very untimely and very tragedy. And appreciated. And I don't think you're sorry. And also appreciated.
We can agree on that, right? Dalton Kincaid, that person needs to be a Hall of Famer in football, just based on name. In fact, Stugatz has said this before. He has said this of, is it Jackson Dart?
I would be saying that of Dalton Kincaid as well, right? Even if he's playing tight end, I'm like, I've got your quarterback. Don't need to see him. Yes, his name is Dalton Kincaid. I don't need any more information. He's just our next quarterback.
It was on your list? Where were your games?
That's the thing. First come, first serve. And then you come in, you kind of... What I was saying, Zazz, was I've got Churraco. Why do you assume I didn't know? Just in case. I got all these things. You come over here and you pick what you want. And then Pepito comes over and he's like, No, that one's really good. Okay. I've got Foot Foot eating like a five-star meal.
What do you think about Mark Dagonal, Sue?
Sanoja on my back.
I'm Latin. Now we've elevated, because now we have the group chat, so now you put the family in the group chat together on WhatsApp, obviously, on WhatsApp, and then you go, and then you have the cousin saying, like, it's just a family affair. It's just a gag. Thank you.
Send him to his guy, though, right? His guy was supposed to take care of him. The source.
I think there may be some legal issues, too. If you notarize something that then becomes illegal, you're on the horse. My mom's a lawyer.
I'm still here. I promise. Tie it to a fan, the fan goes back and forth.
Shout out Alex's mom for doing that.
It's like a two for one, though, Dan. The person that's getting you married in the courthouse is also notarized. You kind of get two for one and you go.
Und ich will dich nie schmerzen sehen. Ich bin froh, dass du schmerzhaft bist. Danke, dass du das gesagt hast.
Ich mag Pacers vs. Thunder. Ich sage dir, die Pacers-Villainy. Ich würde es wirklich toll sehen, dass sie gegen den besten Team der NBA spielen. Das ist alles, was ich sehe.
It was a surprise cast appearance, and I don't want to give anything away other than we already gave away that there is a surprise guest appearance. But if you know who the person is, you know anything about them, it makes total sense. because of something about them that I cannot reveal without saying who the person is.
They could have really condensed some of the storyline. They added an episode this season because the first two seasons was like every day was an episode. And this season, this whole like lunar party or what, full moon party, right? They got its own episode, which is out of character. But they could have really like kind of like Jason Isaacs, we kind of know what is going on there.
We didn't need to stretch that out over four episodes.
I'm open-minded about it. The ending could make it all worthwhile. I agree with you. I'm very excited.
Everyone sort of operates in the gray in White Lotus. No, but he's a defrauder. He's a person who's committed crimes, it appears.
We don't know a lot about him, but I think you can deduce. The world is closing in on him. Do you mean spiritually in his soul, or do you mean his actions? We could get deep about it.
You want to read Monster?
Because I found these quotes to be absurd, right?
OK, I don't even know where to begin because the nudity in Onora was one of the most hotly contested items of Internet discourse for weeks after the Oscars. But also you you just did bring up her vulva. So now now we are talking about it.
But it was, wasn't it?
And most women don't wear prosthetics when they're nude in scenes. And also Hollywood has been making women be nude for a lot longer than we've had, like, you know, constant male nudity, which we talked about to start the show. I just find this whole thing very, very strange. Like, just stop.
Wir fragen die richtigen Fragen und es ist sein Job, sie zu finden.
Das ist die Art von Sachen, die wir... Das hat eine Praktikalität und eine Anwendbarkeit zu den Augen, die ich verstehen kann. Aber der Kamel, es ist Pumpe, es sind Füße.
Kann ich dir... Das ist ein süßes Ring. Wow, die Eyelashs sind immer noch da!
Ist es fair, zu sagen, warte, Draymond, ich verstehe, im gesamten Klima während deiner professionellen Karriere ist es nicht okay, besonders für jemanden wie mich oder einen Sportcenter-Anchor, dich einen angrieren Black-Mann zu nennen. Wir erkennen, dass das ziemlich schwer ist. Und niemand wird das eigentlich sagen. Keiner denkt wirklich darüber nach. Ehrlich gesagt, vielleicht sind es einige.
Er hat uns verletzt, wie ein echter Journalist, so wie er Billy Trapp vorhin verletzt hat.
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Have you tried it?
No, I'm saying the general concept. You think a judge would be caught trying something like that? No, I mean like the ring.
Ich bin es nicht. Ich denke, du bist einer der verrückteren Menschen, der jemals diesen Sport gespielt hat. Aber komm nicht her und sag, ich mache das für dich. Ich denke, du kannst dich verurteilen und zurückdrücken, dass ich nicht derjenige bin, der diese Narrative perpetuiert. Wenn jemand hier ist, dann bist du es, Draymond.
You gotta be careful with that. It's wrong all the time. They tried to tell me Josh McDaniels got fired twice in one season. That's how wrong it's been. Yeah, I'm telling you. Tried to make me believe that Dennis Springer was black. You owe a $50 fine for that one. What? I figured that one out on the air. No, no, no. I saved us from being, you know, misinformed.
It's a combination of the things. Wenn du Leute zu Draymond Green beschreiben würdest, würde Angry oft zurückkommen, wenn jemand den Sport folgt. Der Mann spielt Angry und das ist wahrscheinlich der Grund, warum er eine Hall-of-Fame-Karriere gebaut hat, aber er ist ein Angry-Dude. Er ist unterschätzt. Der Anger macht ihn größer. Er ist ein Angry-Dude. Er ist auch schwarz.
Aber das zusammenzusetzen ist in diesen Zeiten gefährlich. Und wenn du sagst, dass diese Narrative über dich hervorgehoben ist, und um ehrlich zu sein, ich weiß nicht, wie du diese Dinge wahrnimmst. Ich habe noch nie einen Tag in deinen Schuhen gelebt. Ich weiß nur, dass ich dich nie so genannt habe.
Und ich freue mich nicht darauf, dass man sagt, dass das eine Art Narrative ist, die wir bauen, wenn wir alle Augen haben. Wie wir alle den Sport gefolgt haben.
Ich wollte, dass er mit Prejudiz regelt.
Ist Draymond Green wütend?
Ist Draymond Green schwarz? Ja.
Yes. Is he indeed a man?
Is he an angry black man? No, not at all.
I like the show where we find out if the judge is guilty.
Well, we can have Pablo find out. Pablo, you're next assignment.
Did you hear that episode?
Ich wusste nicht, wo das herkommt. Es war ein aktueller Episode über einen israelischen Fußballer, der verhaftet wurde.
How do you identify that it's made for sex? It could just be a stick.
Is it phallic in nature?
Das kann nicht sauber sein.
Das ist exklusiv, wie du von Pat Riley antwortest.
It's part of why you're crazy. Why are you guys making me punch my teammates? Why are you guys making me put Rudy Gobert in a chokehold?
So someone saw a camel take a dump and was like, let's make a dildo. I'm telling you, it could be used for anything. It could have been a hammer.
I mean, some of this stuff is still common practice. Have you ever heard of the Alaskan Pipeline?
Ich kann in deinem Ohr schreien, was ein Alaskan-Pipeline ist.
Shame on all of you.
Wilt, in order to come to that game, took a train. I remember him being there early.
You? The person who agonized four weeks over whether to paint your walls eggshell or off-white bought and financed a car in minutes.
You? The person who agonized four weeks over whether to paint your walls eggshell or off-white bought and financed a car in minutes?
And then we got another one. Hi, Pablo. My name is Matthew. I have a question, and it's actually kind of a conspiracy theory that perhaps only I believe in, but maybe others do, and we shall find out. It revolves around Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game.
We have no video evidence of this happening as far as I know, and the only photographic evidence of this is a locker room photo and a piece of paper that says 100 on it. I'm not sure that I truly believe and trust that Wilt Chamberlain actually scored 100 points in a game. I know that sounds crazy, but I need your help.
Wow.
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Cuervo.
No.
And the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
No, you'd be surprised. You'd be surprised.
We can't. He'd say no to us. You're going to get him on the show just to ask him for a million dollars?
We all think Ladd-McConkie is the best receiver. The second best receiver in the league. The Ladd.
I've done it already. That bone is picked clean.
Why did you go on the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody, by the way, featuring Greg Cody to give a draft recap when people have been wondering where you are for months and you have these other platforms you want to drive them to. It seemed like a funny idea at the time.
I don't disagree with you, but it also is not accomplishing what you're trying to accomplish. It made me laugh when I saw it. It was great. Of course. Of course. He's on the Greg Cody show. And there was some sort of mix up where he was supposed to be in today, but he's not in. And I think it was just a scheduling, you know, snafu or whatever.
But of course, the place to go get to got his thoughts on the draft is the Greg Cody featuring Greg Cody.
So what did you say on Greg Cody's show? What are your thoughts on the draft? Yeah, what are your thoughts on the draft?
You don't have to apologize. It's just questionable decision making.
You're insane. It's not going to be.
Why do you feel bad for Gabriel?
No one cares. God bless football? God bless it. God bless football.
I was just going to say, we have a segment called I Have a Bone to Pick.
I'm going to go grab my phone.
He literally looked at me. He was like, oh, actually, I got to grab my phone.
But you guys are live. Oh, think until you make it.
I put things on my resume I've done once. I was like, yeah.
What was up? Well, because that's true. I just work with you, dude. I know exactly what your skill set is. In fact, I just went to an acting class. You could go there, too.
That wasn't embarrassing. That was an awesome story.
You just set me up to look even worse for the last situation.
A little romantic kayak.
not doing too bad this morning i'm looking i'm like not too bad gluing is not doing too much for me that's so funny what were you guys doing in mexico what's this wrecked show for people who don't know
Right. You're like the coolest person ever right now.
Dude, you bullied each other. We got a good thing going on here, man. Just, like, don't ruin the vibe, all right? Don't ruin the vibe. Yeah. We're doing good over here.
You ever play the Connect Four basketball?
But it's like it's such a beautiful, like intimate day. And, you know, like having the memories of like I had my girlfriends in our bathroom. That's like the bathroom that we get ready in every single day. And like we're all in there together and like sharing those special moments and hearing a knock on the door from my dad. And he's like delivering a little note that Georgie wrote me.
And then like while I was getting ready, he was in the backyard with his best friend getting baptized in her pool. Like it just, that whole day was filled with so much like magic and, and like God was so present in that day and like nothing can replace it. Oh my God. Thank you.
I go, hug me, brother. You leaned in and you go, real original.
I'd rather stay in here, dude. What's wrong with you?
So what got you into Vines? Like what piqued your interest? You're like, this is good. This is going to be something like people are going to love.
I think it's, like, really important that your kids have this example because I think that, you know, the same way that the relationship that we have with God, that's our father. And so your kids get to see their relationship with their father and the actions that he's implementing.
And so for them, what's so beautiful is that their walk with their faith will be something that they can grow strong at a very young age because you're able to reflect that for them. And the same way that you were kind of, like, I wanted to add on from before you were saying, you know, you're like, I kind of just... Do these things I think are good. I act as a good person.
And you're like, my life is pretty great. And I think that sometimes, you know, that's kind of what God asks of us to have blind faith in a way that we might not understand. We might not know. And sometimes it's not really for us to fully know or understand because the things that God is capable and possible of, we might never be able to fathom.
And so sometimes when we just move with blind faith that he is good and he will be good for our lives, he loves that because then we're a trusting child. And the same way that when you tell your kid, hey, do this because it's good for you, they don't fight you on it because you're their dad and they know you know best.
And aren't you like so grateful and so proud when they just go, okay, dad, you got it. Like, I'm going to do this for you. Right. And I feel like that's kind of how like God views us that when we're just obedient children, he's like, wow, thank you for trusting me. Thank you for knowing that I love you enough to know what's good for you. Now here, like here, I'll help you along.
I'll move you along. Like I'll give you peace. I'll give you joy. And I think that, you know, like.
for me personally you know I I didn't have you know maybe like I didn't really have a father figure growing up now we have a better relationship but growing up I didn't have that reflection so I think it took me a little bit longer to fully understand like how much God loves me and how much this father this heavenly father of mine truly loves me with all his heart and so for a long time I did I did what you do I just like okay you know
I see the fruits that God gives in people's lives, in George's life and other people that I would see that had relationship with God. I'd see the fruit of their life. And so I just moved as if, you know, God is real. You know, God is good. I'm going to do what I think he thinks is best in my life. even though I wasn't fully sure.
And by just doing that, by just doing that, it's like he kept showing me glimmers of himself through my life, and it just became more and more clear that, like, he is the path to, like, a beautiful, fruitful, peaceful life, you know? And I think that it's beautiful that you're on that path, and so your kids will be able to, you know, model that.
Hey, hey, you're Jewish too, okay? We need this back. Whoa, George! We are not a monolith!
We were doing this every day just to hopefully get there.
Oh, you didn't even do like a later on a few months and not.
You want to put on a show?
I've got so much to give a little girl. The episode ends up like, what did he mean by razzle dazzle?
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Were you asking for a sibling or were you just looking for more company? How old were you?
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Oh, yeah, I was.
No, no, no, I was not. I, you know, I mean, I, you know, I'm French Italian, so I was baptized, you know, Catholic and but no one in my family really had a relationship with God or really practiced. And, you know, I think like I grew up and. You know, childhood things were a little chaotic at times. And, you know, we we moved around a lot.
You know, I lived in a few different countries and my mom raised a single mother. And, you know, we really kind of like restarted again from nothing, like two suitcases, you know, restarted our life in Canada after France and Canada, Ottawa. Yeah, you are. I love it.
Oh, yeah, yeah. The people are great, you know. Do you speak French? Yeah, French is my first language.
No, a Parisian.
So I left when I was 10. Wow. And then so it was a nice transition because when I was in Canada, then classes could be half French, half English. So it's easier for me.
So sometimes it was funny because they thought that I was odd, you know, but I thought that their accent was different, you know, so it was funny, but it was, it was really helpful. And some of the best, just the best people. I mean, absolutely. But so anyway, so, you know, with things being a little bit chaotic, you know, I don't,
my mom just honestly I don't think had the time or she didn't know the value of it at the time you know I think for her was just kind of like survive you know like let's let me give my girls the best life possible and just that you know and so um it wasn't until I was 16 17 I moved to California and I met my best friend Michelle and she went to youth group on Wednesdays she's like yeah I gotta go to youth group on Wednesdays you know like you want to come with me
And I was like, OK, sure. And I was so blown away that all these teenagers in Huntington Beach, California, like I thought was so cool, were just fans of God. And it was, in a sense, like cool to go to faith group, like to go to youth group and to have a relationship with God. It wasn't a weird thing. I never grew up around that.
Like in Canada, I don't know what it is, but there aren't a lot of, you know, faith based groups. people or at school, like I really had no one that, you know, had relationships with God. And so that was really different to me. And that kind of, that was like the first seed planted, you know?
And so over time, it just kind of these little moments in my life where I saw peaks of God and, and then, and I started, you know, having kind of this like lukewarm Christian relationship with God where I wasn't, I was Christian, but I didn't really do what a Christian should do, you know? Um, and so it just like worked slowly.
And then I met George and I was able to really kind of like, okay, this is what it's about. Like this is the word and this is like, this is his word and this is how I can use it in my life, you know? And, uh, and now my mom has an incredibly beautiful relationship with God as well. It's kind of like both our relationships flourished with God separately, but
but at the same time and which is really interesting because her and i sometimes really mirror each other you know um and so yeah that's kind of what came about have you been back to ottawa what have you been to canada is your mom still in ottawa no my mom is here my dad is in france and my mom is here um yeah no but i want to take him to canada so bad show him like my middle school and high school canada is awesome have you ever had all dress chips no but i have ketchup chips
It's nice because I guess in a sense that you have...
freedom like there's times where you have a lot of freedom and then maybe there's times when you'd have to like you know yeah sacrifice that portion of time but i guess do you feel like you're in a place in your career now where you can kind of you can make that call you're like is that month away going to be worth it do i want to and i can come back and i have 10 months home or you know
And I get that. He feels responsible. He convinced you to do this thing with him. And then he's like, damn, bro. This person just made me look so bad. Because he felt like he hired that guy. I got a story about that set.
I got a memory of a scar.
Just grab a piece of cardboard and put it in front of the camera.
But so speaking of your podcast, which is great, I love watching your clips are so entertaining because you have all these people, you know, like I love that you're having, you know, Miranda from iCarly and you're having, you know, kids from Disney and Ecolodian. And so it's so fun to be able to see you guys watch your experiences together and, you know, talk about those things.
But who has been your favorite guest that you've had so far?
I just saw that.
Has it been a fun outlet for you? Like compared to, you know, you going on set, having your lines, you know, doing your thing. And now this is kind of like, it's yours. You can do whatever you want with it.
Honestly, that's a smart thing. It's a smart thing to do. If you want to go, but you don't have the money, just sit separately. Why not?
It was so cute.
The backyard... Yeah, backyard brawls.
Okay, I think I've seen it.
I think that's so, that's so useful for a lot of people and for anybody who wants to be an actor. Cause I think when you look back, you know, you get to see like Rachel McAdams, you know, audition tape for the notebook and you're like, wow, it's just, she brought herself and
And it's all those little minute moments where you're like, she relied on who she is and she brought something different to the table than when they sat there. They were so refreshed by her. They're like, she's the one. And they're always looking for that. Who's that person who's going to stand out? So that's really good advice.
What a beautiful time.
And then you hit it and you're like, what am I talking about? I wrote this song.
I've been practicing my whole life.
Same question. What was the technique or the thing for you that did it that was able to make you explore a little bit deeper? Was it an exercise? Was it just time? Was it people?
I'm so sorry, Ruslan. Thank you so much for sharing that.
Such a good question. I said it a little roughly, but you know.
Thank you very much.
Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you so much for that.
You do. How was that feeling? How was that going? Hey, John.
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Okay, but... Like, what you're looking for in discussions about your career, I mean, it's not realistic, okay?
So you don't want my questions?
Alright, those aren't fighting words, Carl. Those aren't really fighting words right now. I'm not going to do this right now, Carl.
I'm trying to understand, like, what does that sentence mean? Like, what are your needs?
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While I was gone, a third Zagaki was born, and I think I heard, correct me if I'm wrong here, Jeremy trying to partake in a fourth Zagaki, and I am here for a future where I am surrounded by a chorus of clucking Zagakis. Stugatz.
Amin El-Hassan was really disrespectful, but also a little bit right when he says, I don't know who Felipe Esparza is, but he sounds like a shortstop. He sounds like a baseball player. That does sound more like a baseball player than a comedian, but he is selling out tour dates across the country. It's currently the At My Leisure Tour.
He has one of the top comedy podcasts here for about a decade, What's Up Fool, and he's got three specials uh, that are streaming on Netflix and Max, and he's got another one coming out on Netflix, raging fool that, uh, streams globally here next month or next week, actually. So Philippe, thank you for joining us. He's also a giant sports fan.
So just you, you wake up this morning, uh, or you wake up yesterday morning to the news or at night, you hear that Luka Doncic is a member of your Lakers and your thoughts were, are, were what, and thank you for joining us by the way. My thoughts were, who is Luka Doc? Okay.
Very good. So you're not that big of a sports fan then.
No, Stugatz was considering just driving up after the flight. He doesn't mind wasting a little money. I mean, he does that every day. He'd go home. He'll just keep driving. Never stop. He'll just miss the exit past his house. Halfway point. Yes. We are going to get to Felipe Esparza in a second, but not before we bring in Amin Alhassan, our regular NBA insider.
Oh, that's okay. I got bad information. He's on your team now. He's on the Lakers. Do you know who Amin El-Hassan is? Well, if you don't know who Luka Doncic is, there's no way. Luka, did he come illegally from Ukraine?
Stugatz, I don't think it was Bob Walk. I think it was Bob Welch, I think he said. Bob Welch, yeah.
Thank you. I thought that that would be your wheelhouse for sure. Didn't you work at Dodger Stadium? Yes, I used to make hot dogs and popcorn, and I used to sell souvenirs around the stands. Your story's kind of crazy, right? I mean, you talk about all this stuff in your special. You don't keep very much out of it. Your journey, was it funny while it was happening?
Because some of the stuff feels like it wasn't that funny.
heartbreaking but um i didn't have a therapist or my mom would just say get over it so stand-up comedy was like the only therapy where i could just release it and let it go well what are we talking about there though because for the people who don't know your story we're talking about deportation how many times uh just just start there on how how you got to this country oh man the first time um we thought we just we just
These stories obviously are not being told by many people on the stand-up comedy tour. How unlikely is your story, the idea that you have comedy specials? Does that even register with you, the idea of being able to make this kind of career with your freedom when you're remembering the time you're in America, you're close to your dreams, and your dreams probably didn't look exactly like this?
You can check him out in a renewed and refurbished oddball with Izzy Gutierrez. What are you making faces about? What's the matter? Who's Felipe Esparza? He's a comedian. He's got three Netflix specials. What's the matter? Okay.
I wonder, you can laugh at some of this stuff, but you see where we are in the country right now at a Raptors game. And the Canadian people are supposed to be polite. They're booing the national anthem. The things that America is doing is landing poorly. And they are making stories like yours and people like you, the other.
You do what with that politically as you live in the middle of it, but are grateful for what this country provides or has provided.
You do your specials in Spanish and English. What language are you funnier in? You know what?
When you have a special coming out, what is the feeling? Because, again, Raging Fool comes out February 11th. Is it nervous, excitement, relief? You've been working on this material for a long time, yes?
You're a dentist, you pervert.
It's over. It's a funny way to describe your special, the idea that it's over and then you have to start all over at the bottom of the mountain. So basically on February 11th, it's not a day of delight and celebration that your special comes out. It's the warning that you have to get back to work. Hurry up. You've got a blank slate, you idiot.
Yeah, that's when you know the stuff, it's time to redo it. But when you're driving over the border, what are you dreaming of doing in this country? How unusual is a career in comedy from where you were?
All right, so put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Felipe Esparza, new Marlon or a new comedian?
Yeah, that makes sense. It's safer, isn't it?
Roy Wood Jr. is a friend of the show. He recently told a story on another podcast about how you taught him about kindness and friendship after you beat him on Last Comic Standing. And he said he and the other comics weren't nice to you. And that for a while, the only person that would talk to you on tour after that was the bus driver. What do you remember about all of that?
Yeah, okay, we will do that in a second. Amin, what were your thoughts from all you've read and consumed? This is a lot of consensus here. Give me some answers to some questions. Incompetence by the Mavericks? Why would you not go to all the teams and see what you could get?
But you were nice to them, though.
Well, there is a picture of me from the pandemic. Yes, very Cuban. Look at it, bro. We both look like Salma Hayek. I will tell the people again that Philippe is on his nationwide tour. What do you want people to know, Philippe, about what it is that you're doing? Is it Raging Fool that you want them to check out? Are you prouder of At My Leisure?
What do you view as your career achievement of the moment?
That's very generous of you. Thank you. Spread the love. Yes, we will spread the Mexican love. Thank you, sir. We appreciate your time on the show. Thank you for taking it.
Yeah, I asked you about the Lakers instead. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Do you know who Pete Carroll is?
Ah, boo. Yeah, that's 22 years without a playoff victory, but your Dodgers are cheating.
Okay, but you're cheating. It's not fair that you get to buy all the players, and just because you get to hold up your fingers L.A. is the best, you're still cheating. It's not right what you're doing to baseball. You're moving.
Yeah, that is part of the problem. But you have all of them. And you have the one that pitches and hits. You have the one that does both of those things. Thank you, Philippe. Good talking to you.
Deferred payments, $2 million for Otani. Get out of here. Goodbye. Shout out to my boy from the California Angels, Joe Adele. That's my man. Okay, but they weren't the California Angels. They were California Angels 10 years ago.
All right, get out of here. Goodbye. Good talking to you. See you later.
What do you do with them when they're done? Because you can't donate bathroom books. You need one book you've read on the toilet. Sometimes I could take that out of there. Sometimes I can't.
Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Can we spell it Booth?
You say this, but still an act of either negligence or incompetence not to go to every team in the league to get the valuable asset that you have a maximum value, no?
I mean, I was theorizing that if you're going to blindside him by taking $100 million away, you do not want anyone knowing that.
How many teams say no to Luka? To their best player for Luka, give me the number of teams.
You think Rich is keeping that from LeBron for 48 hours as part of his agent duties?
No, fair enough. No, no, no. Fair enough. Fair enough. But these are life. These are lifelong friends. And these are business associates who have trafficked over lifelong friendships. And their allegiances are going to be to each other over Anthony Davis or the billion dollar investors.
I mean, would you not agree that LeBron James and Rich Paul are the greatest of friends? Yes, they're great friends, yes.
Okay, so you're telling me that Rich Paul is so honorable that he's going to make sure to take care of the same client he pulled out of New Orleans in order to get LeBron a Fountain of Youth in Los Angeles, that his loyalty is going to be to his job and his client and not to one of his best friends? who is also affected, whose entire economy is affected by this.
It worked out for both of them, but Anthony Davis was brought to be the guy who helped LeBron age.
Stugatz is on his way out of here. He's trying to decide, and Mike Ryan was curiously interested in this in a way that surprised me. He's trying to decide whether to take the 90-minute flight to New Orleans or just drive up right after the show, just drive 11 hours and get there by...
That should be a victory lap. That is sports radio, my man. I think you should be victory lapping right now while you're on your couch. I do believe we are underestimating Anthony Davis, though. Yes, he benefits from being LeBron's No. 2, but he's forever considered a No. 2 because we never got to see him as the No. 1 after New Orleans. And I don't know that that's what we're going to see now.
I think you yourself are devaluing how good Anthony Davis is.
What's the most interesting thing about all of this to you?
By midnight, I was stunned to hear Mike Ryan be interested in this, although I do understand adding at least a couple of hours to your trip if you don't want to deal just with the airport. Getting to the airport, bothering with people at the airport, this is adding 10 hours to my trip.
And it was a hobby. You enjoyed it.