Transcript of Hour 1: The AFC South Group Chat (feat. Spero Dedes)

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Dan doesn't make sense.

What the fuck was that? Dan is really weird.

Spiro is here, and Tony and Mike are very excited about that. But just before we get to him, and I'm sure... Maybe Spiro hasn't seen this. I'd be curious if he has. But when Mike mentioned Jeff Bram every single time, anyone mentions him. All I think of with Jeff Ram is not grizzled football coach who returns to Louisville heroically. It's XFL quarterback who played like two minutes after getting his neck just totally cranked and then gave one of the all-time interviews in the history of the XFL.

Orlando Rager led by quarterback Jeff Bram. 17. Orlando Rager led by quarterback Jeff Fromm, 17.

No, I'm sorry. That's the wrong video. We'll get that in a second. Here it is. Here it is. No, he's coming off to the sidelines.

No, this is a highlight package, which I'm appreciating. Yeah, let's rock a hook. You know what a sicko I am about spring football is I saw what was in queue, and I'm like, That's not it. No, that's not Jeff Braum saying, Let's ride. That's not it.

The Orlando Rage were so good that first season until Jeff Braum got hurt. Then the LA Extreme came in, and Tommy Maddox ends up getting back into the NFL as a result. What a name. They had the sickest jerseys. Look at those. Look at those Orlando Rage jerseys.

He's in a girney on the field.

This video is pretty great. Not for long. Because he was laid on his side.

Yeah.

Yeah. That's good shit.

For a guy to take a hit like that and then come back on the sideline, the cheer team on, that really was touching. I'm getting goosebumps not thinking about it.

Me too.

Yeah, man.

He was on. There he is.

Hold on.

Hold on.

He was taking that hit just six days ago.

Well, let me answer that question by asking you two questions. One, is this or is this not the XFL? Yes, it is. Two, do I not currently have a pulse? Yes, I do. Let's play football.

Come on, Dan.

Come on, Dan. I'm taking the plus 13 and a half. I'm sorry to say this.

God, and that was before champion was back to being champion, too, those jerseys. Spiro, you know what we're talking about, right?

No, brings back memories. I missed the XFL. How are you guys doing?

Thank you for your maiden voyage with our show, Speedo.

It looks like a movie.

It's an unbelievable injury. His face was sideways, and he was concussed in a way that... No, this was not- Where's his chin strap?

He's got a pulse.

He played six days later. Tony, Mike, explain to the audience and to Spiro it is that you love him, love him more than you guys love most anunciors.

This has been percolating for close to a decade. I think about seven years ago, I noticed that you got a lot of AFC South assignments. You become basically the unofficial voice of the AFC South. And while those games may not scream at you at the start of the schedule, when the kick-offs begin at one o'clock, you're always a prominent fixture during the witching hour because this division is so competitive. And let me just say, When you say Moale Cox, it's goosebumps. I don't know what it is, specifically about Moale Cox being in the back of that end zone when Spiro Adidas is on the call. But it's magic, man. It's like he is your signature player. When I close my eyes and I think of an AFC South game, the soundtrack of it is Spiro Didi saying, Touchdown, Moale Cox.

Yeah, no question. We just wanted to shout that at you. It's what I associate you with It's just that one four-syllable, beautiful name.

I guess our question is, do you agree, Moale Cox?

I do, Mike. Thank you. I just want to formally thank you for your support and your love over the years. I know that we do have one fan around the country who appreciates what we do in the AFC South. We actually have a text group chat with my partner, Adam Archaleta and Addidi and my producers. The title of it is AFC South Crew. Hell, yeah. All right. Is our group chat.

I accept your invite.

Yes. You will be getting an invite as soon as this interview is finished.

It is funny to watch Chris Myers went to my high school, and the highest he will get in broadcasting is, Why get some of these games over here? Because Jacksonville is where I have to go every once in a while. You're expecting him. For some reason, you guys were thinking you were going to hear him on the Raiders the other day.

We thought it was going to be Colts Raiders, which is when I close my eyes, I hear Spirodita's Colts, Raiders 425 in the afternoon window, and I'm like, all of a sudden, I'm into that game.

Basically, Spiro, you should have investment properties in Indianapolis. They must all know you.

Arch and I do check real estate trends in Indianapolis and Jacksonville at the start of every season. We've spent so many times, so many weekends there and so many days there. It's gotten almost comical at this point. But I will say, seeing the cults go now to this higher level, it's almost like seeing one of your children grow up to do wonderful and amazing things. So we are enjoying seeing some of these successes of our babies go on and do great things in the world.

Look, the Colts might be too good. I don't want them to get Nance and Romo assignments here. This is not good. You got to ride the horse at Brungia. There is an official voice of the AFC South here, and now we have a team that appears to be AFC Championship caliber. Spiro needs to be on these calls. Get Nance out of here.

Yeah, I don't know if Nance and Romo on a Colts game sounds right. There's something off with that. I'm going to lobby my boss.

I got to hear him say Moale Cox. I've never heard him say it, but it just It won't hit the same way. Moale Simon is saying.

It is a great name to say. Just punch it. It's like, phonetically, it's just one of those nice names. You just enjoy it coming off your tongue.

Spiro, spiro.

Spiro, Because we love. Because games we love.

Colts versus jaguars.

This is the highlight of my broadcast career, fellows. Thank you very much.

Thank you for making me feel good. But as someone who's as good as you actually are, though, you do hear the music and what it is you do. And as they make fun of you on Mo Ali Cox, It is a musical-No.

Make fun.

I thought they were giving me a compliment.

What are you doing, Dan?

What are you doing? Spero, pay him no mind. He's a shit, sir. We are team Spero here.

Dan just doesn't understand. He doesn't get it. He doesn't get our connection.

Daniel Jones, everyone in the league, when you hear them talking about him the way they are presently talking about him and presently talking about Indianapolis as best team in the league when we don't know who's good in the league, it's confusing to you?

I think it's wonderfully confusing. I mean, this is a guy who got beat up as much as he did in New York with the New York press and the fan base out there. And it's just cool to see him have a moment like this in the NFL. Because look, say what you want about Daniel Jones and his shortcomings and some of the stuff that happened with the Giants. The guy works hard. He stays out of trouble, and I think he's a liked teammate in his locker room. So I think to see someone have a moment in time like this is cool to see. Who knows if it lasts? Obviously, it's going to get tougher as the year goes on. But I think when you have a running game and a player like Jonathan Taylor, Dan, in your offensive backfield and some of the other guys that they have around him, who knows? It's one of those wacky years, and you guys were just talking about it. There's no dominant, unbeatable team. And maybe this is a year that a team like the Colts can get into the playoffs and win a postseason game and see what crazy things might happen.

Spira, we know it was a whole story a few weeks ago with Tom braided and the production meetings and coaches. Are they going to give information? Do you ever feel like the coaches are not being completely forthcoming with I do.

I think some guys are guarded, Jonathan, and I think that comes across, obviously. There's some coaches that are open books and that will answer any question you have in some of those settings. And it is a different setting. We're in their facility. We're in, usually, a little meeting room, a conference room, and it's very casual. It's very informal. But as you guys know, there's some guys that are very guarded and measured in what they say. And one thing I always found interesting, it's the older coaches that have been doing it a long time that seem to be looser and more open to answering our questions. And it's the young guys, usually, not all the time, but it's the new guys. The guy has been doing it only a couple of years that are a little bit more measured. And that's one thing that I've always found interesting. The whole thing with Tom braided, I think it was maybe much to do about nothing. The one thing I will say that maybe I understand how some teams would be a little... Would have an issue with that is that he's now a partial owner, obviously, of the Raiders, and he's gaining access to guys who are potential free agents who may be coming on the market, and that could give him maybe a little bit of an unfair advantage because it gives him a chance to maybe build a relationship with one of these guys.

And so that was one thing that was brought up that made sense. But all the other stuff I thought was maybe probably blown out of proportion a little bit.

When you say, though, that the young younger guys are more careful, I would assume that's because they, as the young people, treat it even more as if it's an information business and they don't want you to know anything, and the old guys are just more comfortable doing it old school, that the young people think all information is important information, so why would they give you any of it?

Yeah, I think that's a good point, Dan. I think the other thing is they don't know who they can trust yet. I don't think that they've done this long enough to know that we're not the local media. We're not the local beat writer who maybe is looking to find that got you moment that I'm going to go write something negative. We know that if we betray confidence, if a head coach tells us something about a player and we use that on the air, we're going to see this team probably two weeks down the road, four or five weeks down the road. If it's an AFC South team, as you guys know, I'm going to see them probably very often. So if I betray that confidence, they're not going to maybe even want to see me again. So that's something that I think some of the younger coaches don't understand. But eventually it's explained to them that, Hey, the CBS crew that's in here to do the game, this is not the local beat writer. I think most of them get it. I think when that happens, it makes for just a really nice free-flowing conversation where we can get all kinds of good juicy tidbits on the team.

Spiro, as the official, unofficial voice of the AFC South, tell us how good Kam Ward is going to be based on what you've seen. What's his ceiling in the NFL?

It's a great question. He has these moments, as you guys have seen, where he just shows this crazy potential where he's running all over the place, and he makes these throws that shows you the arm talent that he has. But now, like we've seen guys with so many of these first-round high draft pick quarterbacks, he's going to have to go through the trauma of a coaching change and everything that comes along with that. Because the NFL, professional football is so different than all of these other sports. A coaching change, it's not like it is in the NBA where a new guy comes in and everything pretty much stays the same. In football, everything changes. I mean, it's a new regime. It's a whole new playbook. He's got an entire offseason of preparing to play in a Brian Callahan-led offense. Now, he's going to have to completely turn the page. Who knows what they do in the offseason? I don't think anyone thinks Mike McCoy is going to be the long-term coach there. And so how does he handle that? From everything we saw, we had them, I think it was week two or three. They said that he processes really fast.

He's very bright. He's got a high IQ. That lends me to think that he will eventually be okay. But I just think that they need to make... I mean, these decisions that they've got coming up in the offseason are going to be vital and will go a long way in determining what player he becomes. Because I'll say this, the other interesting thing is we travel, we go into all these different NFL buildings. You can very quickly, after just Spending an hour, a couple of hours there, seeing how they run their practices, seeing what the infrastructure is around these young quarterbacks, it becomes very quickly evident why certain teams have success and why other teams don't have success. I think Tennessee is at a crossroads right now. They got to make some big decisions coming up. Don Levatard. Greg, how's your birthday going so far?

I invented it. It's going fantastic. My wife and I are staying home tonight. We're watching the debate on TV. We're going to do something special for dinner. It's a nice day for me so far.

Stugatz.

That sounds like not a super nice night, the debate.

Old people love that shit. Yeah.

That's exactly right. Old people do love that shit. I'm old now. I can't deny it anymore.

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugats.

Spira, correct me if I'm wrong and ChatGPT is wrong, but I I remember this about you. You went to Fordham, and I think you went to school at the same time Tony Reale did. You guys called games together? Yeah. That's a lot of Mediterranean energy on one broadcast. Was Tony always like that?

Tony, he was probably crazier when we were at Fordham. He was a little wilder back in those days. But yeah, Tony was a year ahead of me, so we did a lot of Fordham games together. A lot of traveling up to Olean, New York to do St. Bonaventure Fordham games in these wacky long bus rides. So it It was great fun, man. And just to see him. I mean, never in my wildest dreams did I think that... We all knew Tony was very talented, obviously, but he wanted to do games. He wanted to be a play-by-play announcement. So to see him eventually become Stat Boy, we're like, holy crap. Tony's on ESPN. He's working with Cornheiser and Will Bond. That was incredible. And then to go to the next level and to have this crazy long-running show, man, it's just amazing to see. And he's one of the sweetheart guys, just as you guys know. He's just incredible. So I hope he's doing well, and I can't to see what he does next.

You shouldn't be on this Cleveland-Miami game, right?

It feels wrong.

Even though he does do a lot of AFC East games. Also, I one time saw Spiro at an unnamed resort over in Fort Lauderdale. I'm not going to say which one it was, but I saw him at the coffee shop, went up to him, me and my brother said, Hey, Spiro, big fan of yours. He said, Thanks, man. Gave me a thumbs up and then kept going. Super lucky. You remember that?

Really? Do you remember that, Spiro?

If I say the name of the resort, you're going to know.

Wait, in Fort Lauderdale? So that would have been-A couple of years ago.

Say it. We don't want anyone to know where he stayed It took 15 years ago.

So we were there for a Dolphins game.

You were there for a Dolphins-Patriots game. You were there with the whole crew.

Was this the Diplomate? It was. Atta boy.

Don't say it. We weren't going to know where Tony was.

It was 10 years ago. No, it's not 10 years. It was two years ago. But I'm protecting Spiro, not me, by the way.

This is part of the problem.

It's not a secret. It's the CBS Hotel. That's where all the crews are.

Okay, so now that's it.

Anytime Spiro's in town to cover the Dolphins, he's at the Diplomate.

That's why they can't send her the big game. The security risk.

Well, you call in-I You have a security detail.

It's a lot of blood autograph seekers.

You calling Dolphins Browns. I'm sure you're going to do a great job with it, but this is the problem with the cults being too good, man. This is not my AFC South voice.

By the way, what was the group chat like? I feel like a fish out of water.

What was the group chat like when Callahan got fired? Was it popping? Was it buzzing?

God, I can't. Honestly, we were a little sad. We like Brian. Brian's a good dude. He's been great with us. He was actually one of the few young coaches that would give us great stuff in our meetings. And just for whatever For whatever reason, it just didn't work out. So a little sad, to be honest with you, to see Brian go. I think he's a good guy. He's obviously a really good offensive mind, and I don't think there's any doubt he'll probably be an OC somewhere next year. But you don't want to see a guy lose his job like that, especially the good guys. Brian's definitely one of the good ones.

Mike, you didn't get what you wanted because he's just saying he gave us information in the meetings, and that's why he lost. The other guys weren't giving him information.

He's got relationships with him, although I can assume that you like Liam Cohen. He speaks like he's a breath of fresh air when it comes to media availability. Spiro, you are famously Greek. We can tell this by your name. I would like to run a culinary king of the mountain with you because I'm part of a big Greek family, so I would like to know what Spiro Didi's things by process of elimination is the top Greek dish. Will you indulge me here?

Yeah.

Wait, you're Greek? No, I'm airing it into it. Big Greek family.

Okay, got you.

All right, we begin with dessert. Lucamadis versus Baclava.

Baclava.

All right, so baklava versus postizio.

Well, that one's a dessert. I know.

We're playing King of the Mountain, though, Spiro. That's the rule. Come on, Spiro.

Play the game. Come on.

Pastitio.

Pastitio versus- You know how he pronounces it, too?

Pastitio versus Jiro.

Pastitio.

Pastitio versus Suvlaki.

See, it just depends what the quality is. I would I'll go Suvlaki.

Suvlaki versus Musaka.

Suvlaki. I'm not a Musaka guy.

Suvlaki versus Saganaki, which is just chips.

We love that.

I love Saganaki. A good Saganaki is very good. I'm going to stick with Suvlaki, though.

Suvlaki versus Spanacopita.

Spanacopita.

That's the champion.

And look at this beefcake from Hofstra right here. It's Riaale. Look at these two guys. Riaale was the one who... What did I say? Hofstra. Jesus Christ.

That's got to be the worst haircut ever in the history of broadcasting.

I'm sorry, I made it Hofstra.

No, my haircut.

No, your hair is killing it, man. You've been doing this for a long time.

I look like Foley D from Jersey Shore, my goodness.

It was as a Mediterranean man myself. It was really cool seeing you get your start really early. Yeah, I'm Mediterranean. Got that olive skin. You know about that olive skin, Zaz? You don't know about that olive skin, Zaz?

You don't know about that olive skin, Zaz? No, I don't know shit about that, Zaz.

But Spiro has been doing for a really long time. His voice has been associated with the NFL. He's still a very young man. It was crazy that you got your break so soon. That doesn't happen like that.

Yeah, no, I was very lucky. I had the good fortune. One of my college professors at Fordham worked in PR in New York City. And so when he heard my tape at the local Fordham radio station called FUV, which a lot of the pro guys have come out, like Mike Breen and Bob Papa, Michael K, all those guys. And so when he heard my tape, he said that he knew a lot of people in the business, and he could help me. And he actually got my gig doing the XFL. So that was my first foray into the pro ranks, and everything started from there. It was a wild, crazy ride.

Spiro, when you're doing the tournament and you're doing what? Three four games in a row? I mean, it's going to be so hard, right?

Crazy. Yeah. The first day of the tournament is probably the most taxing experience that you could have doing this because it's not only the amount of games, but it's also the fact that you want to... This is the big moment for these players and these teams. So you're studying, you're preparing around the clock leading up to that first day of the tournament. So you've got the mental stress of wanting to do these guys justice and to give them their proper due. And so it's unlike any event, any assignment that any of us get, any of us that are fortunate enough to do the tournament. And it's great. And now, to add to the craziness, my partner, Jim Spanarkel, and I, the last couple of years have done both nights of the first four in Dayton. So it's the multiple games Tuesday, two games Wednesday, get on a plane, go to our first round site, and then four more games on Thursday. So it's pretty bananas. And I just got to get sleep, man, that week before the tournament because you know you're going to be catching an hour or two if you're lucky.

Last question before we let you go here. In terms of the runs that you've been associated with, whether it's multiple Laker Championship chips or Linsanity, what do you regard as the highlight of what it is that you've been around where you're getting the most goosebumps because you're like, you can't believe that you've arrived in a place. I don't even know how old you would have been during Linsanity, right?

Yeah, man, Linsanity got... 2012, so I was probably maybe 35, 36. That, Dan, was crazy just as this little brief sustained run. But I think when I'm at the end of my career and I'm thinking about the big moments, it's probably going to be the run with the Lakers. And just because-I thought it was a touch down, a Moaley Cox in the back of your head. That's number three. That's number three, I'm like, yes. But just to experience the NBA Finals at that young age was wild. But then for it to be Lakers, Celtics, the ultimate rivalry in the history of the NBA, and to experience it twice, to experience what the fans were throwing rocks at our bus, getting in and out of the arena, shaking the bus as we were coming out after they had beaten us in 2008. All of that stuff, man, it was just incredible. Just to be behind the curtain when they eventually won it and to be at the Championship Because you see these teams celebrating championships in the locker room as a kid. Then all of a sudden you're in that locker room, and then you're at the postgame celebration where everything just is just incredible.

So to experience all that stuff with Kobe and Phil Jackson and all those guys was quite something.

Now, typically, Dan likes to pretend this is a piano bar, but you're not on a Colts game this week. So I have a request. Can you give us a faux-ally Cox? Just for your boys, one last time here in the back row I love the unofficial voice of the AFC South. Can you call us a Foe-Ali Cox shutdown in the back of the end zone? You ready? I don't know.

Oh, my God. He's going to do it for us.

It's going to be a third and 10, Indianapolis down six. He's always there. 27 seconds left. Daniel Jones from the gun takes this snap, drops back, rolls right. He's got a guy, back corner of the end zone, fires, and it's caught. Mo Ali Cox and the Indianapolis Colts in front are going to win it on a last second toss.

It's a tie game, actually.

Again, it's Mo Ali Cox. Well, they need the P-A-T. Yeah, they got a kick for this, remember, round six.

Oh, no.

They do need the P-A-T.

He blew the call.

Why he's doing Brown's game?

You guys are sticklers, man.

That's why I'm the AFC South.

I blew it.

The next time the real thing happens, put a little extra on it. Your boys will be listening.

I will.

Thank you, Spiro. I appreciate the time.

Thanks, guys.

Thank you.

F carista.

Because we love.

Colts versus jaguars.

Don Levatard. Jess, you can't talk about double-digit national titles when every single call of you winning the national title sounds like this. Oh, there's Stuffy Jack running down this island. If the audio-That's not true. Yeah. And there's a World War II veteran pitching into another white guy, and he avoids another white guy. Oh, my God. Notre Dame, the Fighting Irish, have done it again for the eighth time, only paying white people. Stugat, Chubby checker. I'm sorry. He's black. He's black, and I was really going, What's a white name? Chubby checker? I picked him like, I'm sorry, man. I'm improv in here. It was a pretty cool rib. I thought I didn't hear you correctly, a white Chubby checker running down the side. He spells it differently. All right. His name is Chubby. Maybe you didn't hear me correctly. His name is Chubby checkers. There's an S at the end.

I feel like that should be the largest of five.

Chubby It sounds like a college football name.

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stukats.

Jeremy has been cooking in the other room. He badly wants to talk baseball.

I like this version of JT.

He's been warming up the entire game, trying to get in the game. We have not allowed him in the game. So, Jeremy, go ahead and give me whatever thoughts you have on last night's baseball games, pitch clock, and in other places, you have a very confined space here to talk baseball.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Dan. He was spectacular. And what he taught everyone once again is that throwing strikes is really all you need to do as a pitcher. Mixed quadrants, up, down, left, right. Stay in the zone. Give the team an opportunity to hit, and great things happen. He was dominant after Blake Snell was technically better the night before. Complete game, three hits. It was insane. Dodgers are unbelievable, Dan.

Yeah, that's part of the problem. Greg is now officially in the mode where the only thing that he's interested in in baseball, I'm guessing, would be, will the Dodgers lose? What's happening? Did you get bored by You're not sparing your hero? No, not at all.

You just pulled the mic lower.

He's creeping lower and lower.

His leg is killing him, guys. He has it up. You need an ice pack?

No, he really gets me. Yeah, my leg is hurting very much. Roy?

Roy's asking if you want an ice pack.

That'd be great, actually, if got one. No, I thought Spiro was great. Dodgers against Mariner's is my ideal World Series, as long as you can guarantee me a Mariner's win. Nobody outside of LA wants to see the Dodgers win again. Nobody, except in Canada, wants to see the Toronto Bluejays win. Milwaukee is a popular, Cinderella-type team, but nothing like Seattle with the dumper, big dumper. We're a Marinders nation right now. That is America's team, the Mariners, they have to beat the Dodgers because right now, the World Series matchup is foregone.

Foregone? Yeah, it's a foregone conclusion. You can't do that in baseball. You can't do that. It's not like the Dodgers. You can't do that in baseball.

Yeah, you can. Thank you, Roy. Can I get a Miller light as well? Roy, that's half-ass.

You can't just give him a- Can I get a Miller light? You got to put a towel around that, at least.

I mean, Roy, but you got to put it on his knee, though. A Miller light.

I didn't think anybody heard me.

That was good analysis. This is Greg.

Thank you. Mark my words. If it's not a Dodgers, I almost said Seahorse, Marinders World Series, I will walk from here to Seattle. But only if I get my knee-On that knee? Only if I get my knee-How long would that be?

Marinders are minus 6: 50.

Greg.

All right, it's a bet.

If not, Dan has to do it. No, if not, Dan has to buy you a white Camaro.

A white Corvette. It was right there for you.

Where are we on that?

Where How are we on the white Corvette?

You got to get me a Vin.

I'll do it. Vin Scully.

That Vin.

Thank you.

Man, I'm beaming from Spiro. Dude, he's so good. That was a throw. I can't believe you saw him years ago. In person, man. At the Diplomaten, you didn't tell me.

Me and my brother were there and we were like, Dude, I think that's Spiro Deedy. And then he turned around and we were like, Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's Spiro Deedy. We were like, We have to give him a thumbs up. Spiro, big fan. He's like, Thanks, boys.

We should have... Let's have him on again and have Riaalee on. That'd be nice. A little class reunion.

For Hofstra.

For Hofstra, as Dan liked to put it.

You're on one today. Yeah, you are.

The thing that I wanted to ask Zaz, okay, because I've been asking Chris Cody for a couple of hours now to get me the sound of Billy Ripping Europe. It's a Sui award winner. I wanted to get to some of Zaz's stories from Europe because I cannot think of anyone in our world more ill-equipped to appreciate the finer points in Europe. We've got two Coties around here and to Billy, then Zaz.

I have that sound for you, and I will play it in a second. I want to update you, DL, that it would take approximately 60 days to walk from Miami to Seattle.

Just to be clear, that's the end of my bullpen outing. That was the full extent.

I want more music. Did you want to give us more baseball? I'll trade you a baseball 30 seconds for every bit of music you make that Billy deems worthy.

I'll do it in 58 days. I like that. That's a guarantee.

Yeah, 58 days. Not 60.

I'm going to be race walking like an Olympian.

You are one.

I know. Thank you. I know that race walk thing. I can do that.

I think he's already forgot his Olympian joke.

No, I get it. You're- Olympi. In. I'm a limpie, I'm a limp, Ian.

Greg, why would you make the bet that if this happens, if the Toronto Blue Jays, who have been very good all season at offense, win four out of five games, that you will be walking across the country on your bad knee to Seattle. That's an asynine thing for you to say.

Or the brewers, because I think he said it's going to be the Dodgers and the Marinars, or he has to walk. So two different things could mess this up.

Yeah. No, they won't. That's my assuredness, my confidence that it's going to be an LA Seattle World Series. It's in the stars. It's done. Okay? Bet it, bank it, book it.

Bet it, bank it, mark your words, book it.

Bet it, forget it. That's right.

Go ahead and Can you give me the sound, please, of Billy Ripping Europe so I could get Zaz's thoughts on Europe?

Europe sucks. I don't know if you're aware of this. We keep saying, Well, in Europe, this would have... Europe is terrible, which is why all of us left Europe. That's why everybody's here in America because everyone decided, You know what? Europe is terrible. The English decided, the Spaniards decided, the Italians decided. Every single person came together at one point in time and said, You know what? We may not disagree on a lot of things, but we can all agree. Europe sucks. Let's just jump jump on this boat and see where it takes us because we can't be here anymore. Because Europe, again, terrible. No air conditioning. Everything is old. Horrible. All they do is try to steal American culture and then tell you all of their old crap is so great. Europe, terrible. And it takes forever to get there. Forever to get there. If I'm boarding a plane for eight hours, Europe better not be where I'm landing.

I tell you, you're pretty spot on there, Billy. All right. I'm wearing this beret right now that I got from Paris. I got it right on the streets there a couple of days ago because it It looks good at me, Dan. But besides that, Europe, what's going on there that's not going on in Cooper City? Let me tell you a couple of things that I noticed there. Number one, in order to watch any sports, and I don't understand, they only do soccer there, apparently, like NBA, NFL, NHL. They're missing out on all the good things, all right? Their time zone sucks. It's not a good time zone. Getting there is terrible. But here's the thing, in order to just watch anything, because I did watch a little bit of football last weekend, Dan, I had to get a VPN. You know what a VPN is?

I don't.

That's like the thing you put on your phone and it hides your location. So you could watch, you could stream whatever you want sports like you normally do on your phone. How is that even legal? I don't know. Come at me, bro. What I did may have been illegal, but I had to order a VPN so that I could watch the sports there.

You don't have to order it. It's already built in your phone, by the way.

I feel like TC knows about VPN. All right.

Like I said- I got a couple of guys. Like I said, come at me, bro. I'm not scared, all right? Do what you got to do to watch sports while you're there. And here's the thing. All these tours, man. Multiple. Billy, multiple?

What? You said the F word. No, he didn't say it. He goes, Fuck.

No, I didn't. It sounded like- No, it didn't.

All these tours, multiple five-hour tours. I was going to say five. That's what happened there. Multiple five-hour tours.

That sounds terrible, Jay-Z.

Five-hour tours.

You feel like you got lost on one of those. And the walking.

It's too much walking. There's steps everywhere. What's with all the steps? Going up steps and down steps. Whatever happened to just flat land?

Europe hates the cripples.

Walk places. You know how the floor, the concrete is? It's uneven. Cobblestone. Can we put cobble? Nobody was ever walking on the streets and said, You know what I love right now? Some cobblestone.

How about asphalt?

Where'd that go? Who cares? Who cares?

Can I ask you something? Have they ever heard of Benjamin Franklin? Because he invented as I understand it, and they have their own outlets over there. How about you respect the guy that invented electricity, Benjamin Franklin.

I got to go buy all these different kinds of outlets. Because we went to London and to Paris, I got to get a London type of outlet and then a Paris type of outlet. What are we doing here? Give me one outlet that works, everyone. My God.

You know about that channel?

No, man. I never heard of that channel. The hell is that? Is that a food?

What is a channel? It sounded like you said the F word says.

I definitely did not.

Yeah, it's a FCC issue.

You said channel.

The telephone number, if you want to do boldest take with us, is 305-486-GOTS. 305-486-4689. Oh, the plane ride. I heard about this. So listen to this. We'll get to boldest take in a second. Zaslow on the plane gets creeped out, filled with anxiety by the movie Paul Rudd with Tim Robinson. Friendship makes Zaslow so uncomfortable. It's just total... It's comedy. Tim Robinson is doing... He's got the new show on Max, The Chair Company, where he's the hottest thing as the world's most awkward comedian.

I had never seen any of his stuff yet.

Oh, really?

No. I knew what I was getting into, but I had never seen any of his stuff.

Yeah, he's doing comedy differently than everyone else is doing it. But in this particular movie, why did it freak you out on the plane?

I'm like, Okay, I'm going to watch this movie Friendship. I have 40 hours to kill on this plane. So I put on the movie, and I got to tell you, from a minute in, I didn't know if I was going to be able to watch the whole movie. It gave me odd- I'm with you. I had anxiety right from the get-go. Now, I will tell you, I enjoy I liked the movie. I liked it a lot. But the entire movie, I had very, very... I get second-hand embarrassment really easily. Even if it's not something that's real in front of me, if I'm watching a TV show or a movie, I want to run and hide. I don't know. I have a hard time handling it. And this movie was peak for me. I had Ajita the entire movie.

So it gave you anxiety a little bit.

A lot of anxiety watching this movie.

Well, I have a top five. Anxiety-inducing film. Oh. O-l-i, Whiplash. That movie is a chance.

Can I ask you something about Whiplash? Is the teacher, played by J. K. Simmons, is he a good teacher or is he a bad teacher? He's a bad teacher. He is? He's a bad teacher. Got the best out of his student. He hit the guy.

He got fired. He hit him. Wow.

Teacher is supposed to get the best out of your student?

But really abusively, he got it out of him like... Okay.

That's not my tempo. Just a question. I feel like I'm listening to the big dog talk about Jonathan Gannon. He hit him.

Oh, a lie. On that movie, I thought The whole reason for the anxiety is because they were basically... G. K. Simmons was going for maximum abusive. That's why it made you anxious.

He was one of those single-tier criers.

J. K. Simmons, voice of the Yellow Penet, M&M.

That's right. That is right, Greg. Good job, Greg. Oh, a lie. That was a three facts Jack on The Greg Cody show recently.

Thank you.

Really?

Oh, a lie. Don't breathe. You know what this movie is?

It's a horror movie.

I haven't seen it. It's about not breathing. Don't breathe around him. He can hear you. He's got really good hearing. And also might inseminate you. Creopy. Last O'Ali, The Lighthouse.

Well, that's Wolf the Foe, right?

That's an Ola. It's a Christmas rom-com.

It's awful. It's awful. It It's an awful movie? It'll crawl around in your skin. No, it's a great movie, but only if you want to feel unpleasant. You have to be craving-Who wants to feel unpleasant?

Who wakes up and says, I want to feel unpleasant today?

Dan, I've never seen the movie, but the synopsis is basically, A Pahuso lives in a Lighthouse, right?

No, it's a Christmas rom-com. Number five, Buried.

That's a good one.

That's a good movie. That one is great. Mada Vajda, yeah.

Number four, Requiem for a dream.

I'll never watch that movie again. The Heroin Arm, please.

They should rename that film The Heroin Arm. They should.

That is. Put it on the poll at Levatard show. Should Requiem for a Dream be renamed The Heroin Arm?

Number three, Bo is Afraid. That one was really good, too. This movie is about someone that suffers from anxiety, and it puts you in their shoes. Number two, Uncut Gems. Yeah, that movie's just one big panic attack. It is. Number one, The Coffee Table.

Still haven't seen The Coffee Table. Still afraid of The Coffee Table. Let me hear the Boost Mobile Hot Take Line of Love.

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Man.

Come on.

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