Transcript of Local Hour: 28 Nuggets

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Chris, you got a challenge ahead of you today. Yeah.

Of course, the way we go around here, it's not exactly going how as I planned, but I have to eat a shit ton of nuggets.

Do you have a strategy?

Well, the plan was to have fried ones. I guess this would be-I think those were on the way, by the way.

The fried ones were on the way.

What happened was there was a delivery issue with the fried ones, so I have more grilled nuggets than I could ever want.

Who orders grilled nuggets in real life?

I've never had one.

I don't think I even know what a grilled nugget looks like.

As I hold one, they're just-I thought you see everything. It looks like little chicken breasts cut up into pieces. Are they good? I'll take. You want me to take my first buy right now in the Shadow Shop? Yeah, why not? Why not? One down the hatch.

Here we go.

That is a big nugget.

That was a big one. The bigger than I expect from a certain chicken is establishment.

Honestly, decent.

Did you get to pick the kind nugget you wanted?

I got some options. Yeah, I thought this one would be the easiest. I think of them as the smallest. I think of them as... I don't know what I'm doing here, but I think of them as lightly. It just feels like a more genuine breading.

The breading is not as thick. The McDonald's one is almost like a shield of armor.

I'm not excited. I was at my parents' house last night, my dad going under the knife. Right about now, I'm glad this is what I'm doing while my dad is having a very serious procedure done. Serious?

Can I text him? It's a knee. To support.

You can, yes. I was at my parents' house last night. My mom, my wife, not happy with this. They're like, This doesn't seem healthy. Why'd you agree to this? I'm like, I actually had a lot of options. I picked it.

Juju put it on the poll. Who's more likely to die today, Chris or Greg?

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Today feels like a fun day. I know it's been fun all week, but today especially feels like a fun day. We have a challenge happening right now. Number two. Chris Cody's got to eat 99 chicken nuggets before the end of the show. Has to.

Has to attempt to. It's a gray line.

How do we judge attempting?

Right now, you're looking at it.

He's doing it.

If it's an authentic effort, we'll see. We don't want Chris throwing off on camera. Authentic effort.

What does this come to? We will. What does this come to? Billy ate an onion and to the hospital for three days. And we're attempting.

I thought it couldn't get worse.

It's Zora's Miami. Christ Almighty.

Respectfully speaking, Billy didn't want to eat the onion.

He was forced to, which is the point. He needs to be forced to eat the onion.

You think you got to force him to eat? We have a Chris Cody counter, by the way, up in the corner.

But here's the thing about Chris. I know this about Chris, okay? I've spent a lot of time with Chris. Me and him have broken a lot of bread together. He's a big guy, okay? But he doesn't eat that much. For real? He's a guy that eats very I do all my real eating in hiding.

When I'm in public, you look at me, you're like, That's a normal.

He eats normal. His caloric intake inside the car is astronomical.

Oh, man, it's gross. You should see in between my seats.

Oh, yeah. The little fried carcasses.

I took a ride with him. There was an entire cheesy gordita crunch.

Every once in a while, I'll just do a gander down there, and it's just... That's when I know I need my car cleaned.

Chris's car has a whole fast food service thing. Got a menu. Like Richie Rich. It's just right there in the car. It's like, Hello, Mr. Cody, what do you have today?

The usual? I reached back to get the seat belt, and it was just a Mountain Dew Baha bast.

Are you doing any dipping?

I'm starting with Ranch. They don't have Polynesian. We are not prepared for that.

What? Wow.

We can't. Where would they get that from? I can't work like this.

Terriffs.

I want to point out something that probably isn't going to tickle that many people, but it tickles us. Yesterday, there were actually nuggets in the building. Say, Hey, pack these up and save them for Chris for tomorrow for his big challenge. As they put them in the fridge, there was a conversation. Should there be a note placed upon it saying, Gino, do not eat these? Because Gino Fuentes is notorious.

Oh, he's a fridge thief?

He's notorious. Noturious. At the lunch, whenever the lunch isn't finished, you ever wonder why there aren't any leftovers in the fridge the next day?

Yeah, I do wonder who takes the leftovers.

Gino Fuentes.

While you're out of my boy, have you?

I am But I'm here to defend him because, of course, no nut was left, and of course, the nuggets were eaten, and everyone said, Gino, and I said, No, this is like saying there was a shark attack. You guys went in the water.

You knew what it was when you went in.

Shark did shark things.

Look, Billy said, Watch out for Gino for a reason.

Well, certainly around food. That's a non-negotiable one right there. You have to watch out around Gino when it comes to-I'm happy now.

I got my fried nuggets here. I got some chicken. Okay. No, No, this is not Polynesian. This is Chick-fil-A. I can't work like this.

Chris doesn't like Chick-fil-A. I don't.

Who does? It's I.

I do. It's okay.

To me, it's combining two unnecessary condiments. I'm not a big honey mustard guy, not a big barbecue guy.

Oh, honey mustard Come on.

Yeah, not for me, Klab. Okay.

Throwback.

Mike, thoughts on the revelation of the college football playoff rankings version 1. 0?

Do you want the national perspective or the homer I pick Miami one.

It's local hour, baby. You know what I want.

I'm actually fine with where Miami is ranked, although in the top 25, you have a handful of teams that have the same record as another team that they played head-to-head. In every case but one, the team that won the head-to-head matchup was ranked over the team that lost.

What was the one?

Miami, Notre Dame. Now, I actually think that there was encouraging messaging from the committee. They said that they need to see a more consistent Miami. The good news Miami is there's a month left in the season, and they can't lose another game. It's pointless right now to have these conversations about comparing resume. Not pointless. I mean, it's good water-cooler talk. But if Miami doesn't go 4-0, they don't belong in the discussion, period. Full stop. That being said, it's a little confusing, but I do think that if Miami puts together clean football for a month, they'll be in that discussion. Right now, over the last month, because you got to include a bye week there, Miami has played well for two quarters. That's what the CFP has seen recently, and they're taking the recent stuff into account.

Let me ask you something. If the Canes win their final four games, does that jump you seven spots? Because that's what the Canes need. They need to jump seven spots.

College football is wacky, but I do think that... Do you see Notre Dame falling in the rankings? No. I only see them climbing. Only climbing. They have a tough game against Pit, a common opponent that Miami will close the season with.

And Pit plays Georgia Tech as well. That's a huge game. Three straight weeks, Pit is playing against teams that are trying to...

Georgia Tech, yeah. I think Pitt's got three ranked opponents to close the year. Georgia Tech has a couple of big games. One against Pitt.

So as a Canes fan, you're rooting You're going to have a pit here.

I actually think Notre Dame winning isn't all that bad. If Notre Dame wins out, they're going to be in contention for the top four.

No, I mean, you're roon for Pitt to get wins. You want them to knock off Georgia Tech. You want the Canes to eventually beat Pitt in the final game. It's like, Okay, this is a good win.

I think the committee has told you they actually value head-to-head matchups. The one example is Miami. But if Miami puts together a month of clean football in which they have a good solid point differential, I think they'll be in that discussion. I really do. They were in that discussion last year without the resume that they have this year, without the defense that they have this year.

Yeah, but what were the Canes going into that last week where they lost to Syracuse? What were they ranked?

I think they were certainly in TFP position.

Right. I mean, that's a major difference.

Yeah, but look, they're 18 right now. You need to get inside the top 11. I think that that can happen. Look what happened with Texas. I told you guys on the air a month and a half ago, they're already pouring dirt on Texas's grave. Watch this SEC work.

If you're going to lose, lose early.

That's what you're I see work. They're talking out of both sides of their mouth, too, because it matters what you've done recently. Now, Texas hasn't lost recently, but they went to overtime against Mississippi State. They barely got over the line against Kentucky. They almost blew it against Vanderbilt. They're going to help these SEC teams, and We'll fight that propaganda fight, but Mario and company need to do their job. I feel pretty good about Miami's argument once it gets to that point. Also, national perspective, don't understand the Oregon thing. Their best win is against Northwestern. They're doing the exact same shit that they did last year with Mizzou in ranking Tennessee. Tennessee's best win is against Mississippi State. They have no business being ranked. They are only ranked number 25, so three teams can say they have a ranked victory. And it's Tennessee. This is how it works. But I'm encouraged because a lot of people, I love the national narrative, and I love the discourse, a lot of people are seizing on, Hey, this doesn't make sense. These two teams played. That should matter. So you got a month to play good football. I like where Miami is at.

I think the tough part for Canes fans is that you don't control your own destiny, right? You're hoping that things happen ahead of you, and you're like, Oh, man. Hopefully, Pit can beat somebody. Hopefully, the Canes can beat Pit. Hopefully, Virginia Tech can upset somebody somewhere. And it's like, that's the part of the story.

I think it'll all work out. It's college football.

What are you pretty funny is what happens if Pit just wins all those games? Because then they'd be a two-loss team with wins over Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, and Miami in their last three weeks.

Well, what happens is-If they win all those games, they'd play Virginia on the AC Championship, right? Well, Bellas, Miami closes the season with Pit.

No, but I'm saying-I'm saying if they win, they have three games left, and they're Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Miami.

If they somehow pull off an upset of all three, we're rooting for Pit right now, but they might just be the team that's the sleeping giant in this entire scenario. They only have two losses, and one of them is an over time.

And the CFP The argument would be they're a totally different team after they made the quarterback change, too.

I don't know. I don't know, man. Do we want Notre Dame to lose to Pit?

I think the argument to be made is you want Notre Dame to keep winning. I know I'm in the minority. A lot of people think that you want Pit to keep winning, to set up a big, important game at the end of the season. I think you call Checkmate on the CFP committee, and they've tipped their hand with how they value head-to-head everywhere else. Their own words is they need to see a more consistent Miami. Thankfully, you have a month to show them. So you put yourself in that position and you dare them to do what they did a month prior, which is rank Notre Dame ahead of Miami.

So if we're talking about how much they value head-to-head, all right, how much does head-to-head weigh up against what you looked like in the beginning of the season versus what you look like now?

But now is not what the end of the season looks like. Look at what a month did to Texas. They dead in the water. A national punchline. They didn't even have to look good in these games. They beat an injured John Matier and barely made it out against the likes of historical punchlines in the SEC, Kentucky, Mississippi State, and Vanderbilt. They almost did that game.

Mississippi State is sneaky decent.

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Chris don't look so hot right now.

I'm not going to lie, I thought these nuggets were going to be smaller.

You should go two at a time.

Yeah. I thought he was going two at a time.

That was my plan. In my mind, these nuggets were half the size.

If you weren't listening during the shadow show. He is not looking good. Chris said his wife and his mom both expressed concern about this challenge.

I'm cooking right now. 14 in.

That's a pretty good- You have your eyes are watering.

No, I'm already knowing that I'm going to hate all of today.

Did they get you the Polynesian sauce?

No, but I don't even know if I want it at this point. I think I'm about to ditch the ranch.

Have you considered doing the Nathan's Hot Dog eating move where you-Dunk it in the water?

Dunk it in the water?

Don't do that.

I'm not there yet.

We're not that desperate.

Also, that's more about speed more than number. That's about like, I need to get all of these in now in the shortest amount of time rather than-Okay, I think you're right.

Also, I see the chat filling up here with, It should be a group effort with everyone in the room. What?

I mean, it's his punishment.

I see that it's like comment after comment.

It's like, he does not have the YouTube chat.

Don't get me wrong. Liar.

You have to come in here and get some. Comment after comment. I'm looking at it right here.

I would love to partake, but I don't want to ruin the integrity of the challenge here.

No, I'm close to do that.

We'll keep going here.

Here are all the head-to-head matchups inside the CFP where the committee got it right. Alabama Is that a number 4? They're ahead of number 5, Georgia. Why? Because they beat Georgia. Number 5, Georgia is ahead of number 6, Ole Miss. Why? Because they beat Ole Miss. Number 11, Texas is ahead of number 12, Oklahoma. Why? They beat Oklahoma. Usa, number 19, ahead of number 21, Michigan. They have a head-to-head victory. Michigan is ahead of Washington because they beat Washington. Miami is eight spots behind Notre Dame. They are the lone outlier.

Look, I'm for Miami, okay? I want them in. Let's make that abundantly clear. But all of Those examples you just gave, like Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, and the team that one is ahead of them. Those teams are all playing well right now. Notre Dame is playing well. The Canes are not. Exactly. And hence, they're eight spots more.

It's a gag, which is why Miami needs to play well for a month to be in this argument, because I think Miami is properly ranked right now. I think so, too. If this is the end of the season, you can throw your arms up and say, Why doesn't the head-to-head matter? It's what you're going off right now. The committee themselves said they need to see more consistent Miami for us to entertain that discussion, give them that reason to entertain that discussion, they'll be fine. The hardest thing that Miami has in front of them, because we can talk about permutations and how the propaganda machine works for the Big Ten in the SEC, and how the hell is Oregon ranked number nine? None of that shit matters. The hardest thing for Miami to do is bounce back from the loss at SMU and run the table the rest of the way. If they do that, I feel good. That is a huge mountain for them to climb.

And we know we can trust the committee because they took off their hats and put on that hat rack.

Yes, their crispy white hats that they were given as they walked into the facility just for the photo.

Somebody asked yesterday, How do you know whose hat is who? Because they're not taking any of those hats home. The hat stayed on the rack. They left.

What do you guys think about this strategy? I go ham on the chicken. Oh, for this first local hour. Like actual ham? I take Big Sui off.

You can't take it off.

In hour one, we go back at it.

What would your goal then be by the end of the local hour?

I get to 30. I got 22 minutes.

Then you have to Okay, so then you're saying you did 30 the first half of the day, and then you want to do 60 the second half? You have no change.

I'm just trying to put a good effort. You're pacing well.

You're at 60. You're doing good.

But I don't know if I can keep this pace.

Why not? We have to figure out at some point in this show what will qualify as completing the challenge while also coming first.

No, no, no. 99. That's the punishment. It's not like have Chris eat lunch early. It's a punishment for losing at the Dentec Bucket.

It needs to be 51%, at least.

I got to ask this question.

That is such an out 51%.

It's a weak effort.

Let me ask the question. Sucker. Braunstroman.

That would make him a sucker, right?

Hold on. Braunstroman, yesterday, we asked him, Do you have any advice for Chris? And he talked about fasting, and he talked about drinking water.

I did drink a bunch of water this morning.

Okay.

Then I peed when I got in. I felt like my stomach was wide open.

Did you fast at all yesterday? No.

You had dinner. I heard that the fasting thing was not... I saw it in the comments. Yeah, I was like, you shouldn't do that.

I think that helps. The comments, as a guy who's doing it, Michael Jordan is giving you insights to excellence, and you're going to say, No, let me listen to the comments.

So many times in my life, I'm always like, I am so hungry. I'm going to eat a house. Then when you're that hungry, you don't eat as much.

Why are we doing 99, by the way?

It's because of Joey Chesnut. This all came from Joey Chesnut ate 99 nuggets, I believe, at a baseball game in the span of 10 minutes. And so we added the Joey Chesnut challenge, but it's a challenge. This is where we will all need to determine German, where I actually like our ruling on 51. It gets him to 51 nuggets over the course of a few hours.

Then he's only doing half of the punish.

It's a ridiculous challenge that nobody could do.

The whole point is that nobody can do it. Yeah, but he's doing just 10 minutes. Nobody could do it.

I'll tell you, I think I have the answer, all right? I think the timing is appropriate here. This is a committee right here. This is a committee. You are a judge.

Hold on. Can we get a hat rack in This is a committee.

And if we get to a place where the committee decides that an acceptable effort has been made to achieve the goal, then I think you're good.

An update on the challenge for Joey Chesnut. He was challenged to do a 99 in nine, so 99 nuggets in nine innings.

Nine innings, yeah.

He ate 275.

What a show off. Damn.

99 in 10 minutes.

You guys are making me have less energy for this. If I If I put in a great effort, I eat 65. Okay, but 65 is not 51. You're telling me I got to do next week? That's horse.

Chris, you're Miami Hurricanes football right now, right? Horse shit. The only thing you can do is win out and hope. That's horse. Hope the committee sees kindly on your most recent escapades. But complaining about it like certain people, that ain't going to help. You just got to go out there and win, baby. By the way, have we ever had the 999 challenge as one of the punishments?

We should do that as a punishment.

I I wanted to do it, man. What is that? You go to a baseball game and you have nine hot dogs.

Baseball is not happening right now.

When it was happening, I had to see everything.

Nine hot dogs and nine beers over the course of nine minutes. No way. So it's a dog and a beer. A dog and a beer?

With 99 nuggets this morning.

No one said it's got to be the tall boy beer. No one said it's got to be a Dodger dog, a regular hot dog, and a regular beer. One for him.

Automatic vomit.

How many innings do you think you get into?

So essentially one per inning, one of each per ending.

How many innings?

Four.

Four? Come on.

You're going four beers, four dogs.

Bier sits in my stomach. A beer is really heavy for me. That's why I drink the brown stuff. I got this hair on my chest. My man. You got hair on that chest? No, I got hair on this chest. I'll show you later.

I love the way we improv here, man. It's a co-rack.

It'll You get four hats on that.

Okay, here we go.

I'm not going to spit it. Man, I am just searching this for the smallest nuggets.

Chris, what you need to do, a little advice, you need to swap. You need to go one fried nugget, one grilled nugget, one fried nugget, one grilled nugget, two fried nuggets, one grilled nugget.

Okay.

Balance out the palate. Yeah, make it enjoy what you're eating.

Oh, yeah. Enjoy it.

All right, guys.

Enjoy these.

Everyone, come put your hats on this thing. I don't take my hat off. No, you're not because you're Miami. Why doesn't he take his hat off? He can't. He's not the committee.

My belly button in my hat. Yeah, that's not coming off.

What? That's it. There's two things I never give up. My belly button in my hat.

I'll show you anything else.

Everyone, put your hats in. Come on. Go ahead. We're going to be impartial with this. This is to show that we're going to judge you in question.

Who are my guys I can trust here? Jeremy's in my pocket. Wait, hold on.

Are you turning it to your dad? I need your support.

Jerémie's in my pocket for sure. Roy, I feel like will have pity on me. 51%. I just need one more vote. I need three.

We got one One, two, three, four, five, six. Six hats here. Six votes.

So I need three. If I tie, I win. Probably should have a tie. I need four to go against me to lose.

It should be an odd number.

It should be seven.

Tess, You're bald?

You're bald?

Yes, I'm bald. I choose to be bald.

What? Hold on. He's really nice out there. Kristen can vote also.

No, it's this room right here.

It's got to be someone with a hat.

Two, four, six, seven people. That's who you're voting on right now. Well, no.

If we give him a vote, then he's going to vote for himself.

There's a dog in here.

Ethan's dog's in here. That's why I said she has a vote.

The dog doesn't have a hat. You got to have a hat. How else will we know you're impartial? We've got to find a seventh person with a hat. Maybe it's Gino. You can't trust Gino.

Guys like the hamburger. The nugget burgler.

This is what I want to do. We're going to do this secret ballot style, but not one vote. We're going to do multiple rounds of this. I want everybody to write on a piece of paper, not you, Chris, How many constitutes Chris completing the challenge?

I should get a vote. I'm in this room.

You don't get a vote. You don't get a vote. You're not in the room.

You want to vote? You take off the hat.

Take off the hat. Will we then average it out based on what everyone writes down?

I like that. Jeremy Roy, help me out. Let's go.

We don't average it out. We go one round, and then we have a discussion, and then we have another round of voting. Like a committee. Yes, like a committee.

Or should it be whichever number gets the most votes? So if people duplicate a number, then you can eliminate.

That's tough, though. That's tough.

From there.

I think the average is probably better.

I like talking it out and then having a final vote after that. So for now, just give me your number. Don't confer with one another what number you're going to put on that sheet. Fourteen.

Who was that?

So bad. Just put it on the sheet.

You are your father's son.

Fold it up and bring it home back.

Nuggets are so big. I swear they're messing with me here. They double battered them or something. No.

Double battered? No, they're not that considerate. Whenever you can see Can you see the flesh?

If I take a... Never mind. I wasn't going to say if I bite it in half, does that count as two? No, it counts as half.

The smoking reduces appetite, right?

It doesn't-This is going to be 21.

Cigarettes? Yes.

Yeah, cigarettes.

Black and mild cigarettes, anything like that.

That'll make you eat less, right?

Well, we were talking about fasting. The trick is to expand your stomach, not to contract.

You're actively averaging a nugget a minute.

That's a pretty good clip, man.

That's a pretty good clip, man. I'm already heating life, guys.

That's what I'm saying. That'll fall off a cliff pretty quickly.

Well, he just got to stay in that mode.

He just said he wants to take all of Big Sui off.

Yeah, that would be a bad strategy. If you do that, that's a horrible strategy.

I can take a step outside. Do we have those votes in? Recharge the batteries.

You want me to collect ballots?

Can someone from outside the room come collect the ballots to ensure the security? Ernst & Young over here.

The pace is making me want to change my numbers.

Remember, these are anonymous votes.

I love how small this is.

Found a small one. Beautiful. Speaking of smoking cigarettes, Tony, you got a top five jobs you to smoke a cigarette at?

Guys, at the Flaneigans, it made me think of a great pastime of being able to smoke wherever you wanted. A cig break? A cig break, right? Mm-hmm. Used to be able to just go light up wherever you wanted. Didn't matter where it was.

It used to be in the break room. You go to where the coffee and the fridge is, and you just light up right there. Just a haze of smoke. Then they change the rules. You got to go outside. It turned right outside the front door of the building. That's where everyone was at.

Now they got a smoking section further down.

Further away because people were complaining, I walked to the door and it's smoking here. Now it's all the way over there.

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Stugatz. Mike, are you doing something like this right now?

I lost a lot of weight doing intermittent fasting and low carb, so now I'm getting back to it.

But how much in that 6 to 8 hour window, how much can you eat?

Unlimited? If I could just eat unlimited, I'd do that.

That'd be fun.

For 6 to 8 hours.

You can't eat unlimited.

Try me.

No, I mean... This is the Dan Leventhal Show with the Stugats.

You ready?

Yeah, I'm ready.

Number 5, long haul trucker.

Oh, yeah.

That guy's just smoking in the car.

That's what I'm saying.

No, he doesn't. They don't.

They got a great job. You just put the window down, light up, and just cruise, baby.

Not in a That's not a cigarette break. Got to put on that. Because he's working while doing it.

No, the top five is top five jobs you can smoke a cigarette at.

Oh, while doing. Okay, sorry.

It's a long haul trucker, number 5. Number five. Number four, Line Cook.

That's discussed. It's discussed Do you think it's not happening? It's made with love.

They step outside. They step right outside the door. I've worked at these restaurants, guys. The back door, it's always... It stays open, but it has one of those... What's the thing? A door?

A door?

At the restaurant.

Like a saloon door?

At the restaurant, it's the plastic that covers the doorway that they It's like the plastic that covers the doorway that they can-The sheets of plastic that you can-You guys haven't worked at restaurants. A curtain? You guys haven't worked at restaurants.

I have a sneak in suspicion. Chris is trying to overcome two different obstacles.

You guys have maybe performance enhanceers?

You guys haven't worked at restaurants. You guys haven't worked at restaurants.

Number three, Tony.

Shit's kicking in, huh, bud?

That's why the eyes were watery.

I told you, two is too much, man.

Number three, a security guard. At a bar, like a security guard, some like a doorman, bouncer, just rip a sig no matter what. Just be out there. It's your ID. Let me see. Okay.

Yeah, no, I'm with it.

I've seen it. A little 20 underneath the ID. There you go.

You're good.

What happened at Moes back in the Grove? Rip Moes, by the way.

Moose juice. It's a different- Again, Brouwer guys, don't get it. Waterdale County, possibly. I apologize.

Number two, Tony. Number two. Ray Charles over here.

Radio producer.

Oh, smoke break with Mikey Cee.

He had to go out and take a smoke break. No, it's not.

What? Because back in the day- You can't smoke in these studios.

Back in the day, you could.

Do you know how flammable The reels were. Back in the day, you couldn't.

Cooks are not smoking over the food.

Mike, you see, he produces my campus tour show. Oh, my God.

Let's go. That man has a pension.

Tell him we said hello. I will.

He loves everybody here. Is he still working out?

He loves everybody here.

He look good for a while.

Is he Jack right now?

I don't know. He's in Bristol. I'm where I am. I don't know.

Does he still have that lump on his head? I don't know.

He doesn't see him. I haven't asked him about the lump, but he runs the board for me every Saturday morning.

Tony, the number one job you can smoke a cig.

Construction worker. You're just out there plowing away.

With a jackhammer.

But you got it outside. It's also ashing the cigarette as you hit the Jack Hammer, too.

Question for you. Missing from your list. Police, Detective. Show up on the scene. Oh, my God. There's a third one this week. Should we light it up?

You're right.

When they're typing up their reports, too?

I also met a doctor, too. I also miss Doctor, too.

Oh, Doctor. Doctors.

How many times you see at the hospital, you pass by and there's Doctor smoking outside.

That's a break, though. Now, while they're working.

Doctor used to be smoking in the office. When you sit down, it's like, It's terminal cancer. Exactly. He'd be smoking right there, man.

Why did you not get it? What could it be? No clue.

Above my preg, I got to put you on a specialist.

I got to send you to a specialist. I love it, man. No, man, it's funny. I don't smoke. I've never smoked. And yet there is a nostalgia I feel about the haze of this. The haze.

You used to go into a bar. Did you feel you were missing out when I was like, Hey, you want to go get a cig?

No, well, not really. But it was more so Zaz. I remember when you go to a bar and you open that door and it was just like a fog. And you really couldn't see. Are there a lot of people in here? Not so many people. How many girls? How many guys? You couldn't tell because the smoke made everything mysterious. Then you got to the bar and then you turned around like, Oh, didn't know you were there, and you strike up a conversation. Now I open the door, boom, I see everything. The mystery has been removed.

I don't know, man. I don't remember walking into places and I couldn't see anyone because of the cigarettes.

You weren't at the right place.

Come on, man.

Oh, well, I had a bartender back in the day, by the way.

Bartender, yeah. I love a bartender.

What do you want?

That never happened.

A bartender smoking a cigarette?

They might take a cigarette They're not at the... What bar are you guys going to where they're like, What can I get you?

Ashing your drinks.

How about a guy playing slide guitar for a band at a bar? Yep.

A cover band. Cover band. Cover band. Cover band.

Cover band. Good answer, Jeremy. Good answer. Show me A slide, guitar player.

Thank you. Bum, bum, bum.

By the way, going back to grilled, mistake. I'm done with these. Once you get into the fried space- You can't be done with them, though.

You need them because there's not enough fried ones.

I just ate one that... I just I ate one where I had the feeling of, Is this fully cooked?

Gino is going to have to pay for more nuggets, right?

Guys- Chris is definitely slowing down. His posture has changed. I don't like that. And he's got sunglasses on.

Guys, I have five votes in front of me, even though there should have been six plus mine. Oh, you didn't give me your vote.

Oh, yeah. You want me to write it down?

Write it down, please. Just say it. No, we're doing this the right way. What are you doing? Just say it, he said. We're going to delay the update on the vote for a second because I do want to talk to Jeremy.

How many Chris's do we need on video, guys? We Got it. Again, that's the preview. Chris is the one.

Yeah, that's the preview. Yeah, that's why you got the sunlight. How many? Oh, boy. How many MGs?

Be real. 20.

You got two of those?

Wow. Fuentez was like, Just one. I'm like, Get out of here, you child.

Oh, my God. Tony, All-Star Weekend. It happens. I'm having flashbacks. So, Jeremy, I want to talk to you about yesterday's Bulls versus Sixers game. Great game. Came down to the wire. Nikola Vusovitch hits a game winner from the corner. Russian. We get this... Yeah, Russian. We get the call from Stacey King, who does a great job with Adam Amin on the local call for the Bulls. But on the call, Stacey King to... Do we have it? Oh, yeah, let's hear it. The grizzled veteran steps out and hits the biggest shot of the season. Oh, my goodness. Elizabeth. I'm coming again, Elizabeth. Oh, Lord. It's the big one, Elizabeth. The Cardiac Bulls.

I'm sorry, he was doing what?

That call. That's Stacey King. Wait, hold on, because Jeremy did not get the reference.

I didn't get the reference.

Sanford and Sun? Yeah. It's just that there's a couple of words missing.

You think Roy is not going to get a reference? I like that.

I like that he doesn't get the reference because it's not a perfect reference with every single word.

I didn't know that reference. Did you know Sanford and Son It existed? Yeah, of course.

But I did not- You didn't watch Sanford and Sun?

No.

What did you know about that red fox?

I didn't know the reference. When I first heard the audio, I realized once he said the Cardiac Bulls, that clearly this was a reference to, I guess, having a heart attack. But when you first listen to that sound, if you are a young person or someone who did not keep up with pop culture in your time, you don't know what it that he's talking about when he's yelling, I'm coming, Elizabeth.

Oh, Lord. That in the club.

Yeah. I think there's a risk in making references, particularly older references, to where you can end up sounding like I just did.

Look, to me, because Stacey King does this a lot whenever they have a clutch shot or a big moment, he does do the Red Fox reference. But- He's old enough to know the reference, though. He's not good. I don't expect Stacey to get it.

Me?

Or he is?

Stacey King is old enough to- That's fine.

He can know the reference. That's not the premise.

Stacey gets the reference.

What about the audience? What about the people watching? That's my concern. The young people watching NBA League Pass who are like, 22 years old and are just hearing the announcement yell.

No, he's old enough to get it correct, which he did not.

That is not- That is not- Roy has taken this to another place.

I don't expect Stacey King to get any quote right, man. I'm just happy he got it in the general vicinity. Now, the thing is, Jeremy, because he's been doing it for years, my expectation will be, at least for the local Bulls fan, they know. They may not even know what the reference is from, but they know what he's referring to versus you parachuting in or maybe the internet or whatever. It is a funny quote, though, to say the way it is. Guys, I'm really concerned about Chris, and I'm not concerned about the nuggets.

He's in bad shape, man.

It's not about the nuggets.

Everyone's in eating expert in here. They're like, stand up.

I told him he's got to stand up, let the food digest go all the way down.

He's always like, You got to do this. Mike got me warm water. Everyone's an expert.

All right, here we go, guys. Time to update. Vote number one for Chris. This is to claim he's completed the challenge. A amount of nuggets. The challenge is 99 nuggets. Vote number one says 69.

What, your butt head?

Vote number two. It's a sticky note. Hold on. 60. Vote number three. A lot of sticky notes. You guys got excited. It's a supposed note. 51.

Oh, please. Come on, where's my Jeremy?

That's so soft. That was it right there.

That was Jeremy? I needed to do it.

It's an anonymous vote. 99, the refs cheated in Miami versus SMU.

Yeah, that was Jeremy. I wonder who that was. Jeremy UCF.

98. Wow.

Jerk, Zazel. 99, Nine problems. And then the final one is 60.

All right, so we got two 60s.

Hold on. What if that's upside down? Hold on a second. That'll be nine.

Wait. That'll be Benito Santiago.

No, no, no.

That was 60. I mean, you said 69, 60, 51, 99, 98, 99, and 60, which is seven votes. There are six people here.

Well, Gino is the seven.

Oh, Gino was. What?

Yeah, we put his hat right here. That's crazy. Well, we got to have seven votes, man. It has to be. Can't have an even number. You don't know what he voted. He might have wrote 51.

He could have wrote 24.

He could have said that refs cheated in Dallas. Yeah, it's true. He's been saying it all week.

I feel like 51 is way too low.

Let's average That's too low. That's weak. Average them out. So low. That's weak.

51 is too low. I'm also going to say, look, guys-Averaging it out would not go well for you. Because they do this, by the way.

The average is 77. It's 76. 5. Let's go with 60.

Yeah, but how do you do it in a government?

You need a super majority, right? This is how some voting systems work.

This is not the government.

They throw out the low, and they throw out the high, and we take the middles. The mode. We get the extremists out. I think that would go even worse.

Whatever percentage the guy from New York got last night, that's the percentage of the 99 Nuggets I have to eat.

I forgot which one the mode is.

The mode is the one that appears the most.

So it's a mean.

No, the mean is the average.

The median is the one that's right in the middle. So what's the median? The median is the one that's right in the middle.

The median is in the middle of the street. Me and Elhassen.

Yesterday, Yesterday, English, today, math.

So for what it's worth, if we're looking for-It's not going to matter. A grade, if we're talking about what would be a passing grade, do we count that as a D or a C? Because if it's a C and we're going at 70%, that's 69 nuggets. That's also the median of this group.

The problem, Jeremy, is I went to school at Georgia Tech, and we had a class called CS501. We called it the Widowmaker. And your goal in that class was just to get a D because But as they said at Georgia Tech, D is for done. So I would be inclined as a 60 % is what we're looking for. Super majority.

So that's going to be 59 nuggets. Deal. 59. 4.

Well, I'm comfortable with that. We got to do another round of voting, Chris. We're going to update it later in the show, but we'll do another round of-What is this, conclave? In the meantime, you got to keep eating. You can't stop. If you stop, you're just going to screw yourself over.

You think I want to stop?

Yes, I do. I think you want What question is that? I said it breathlessly. You think I want to stop? Oh, man. So local hour, hockey's back, Jack.

I did not like my wake up this morning, man. This is how I Especially recently, you make all the jokes you want about me looking older. I don't care. I think I got a Benjamin Buttons thing going on, but whatever. That's neither here nor there. I've noticed recently, the most clear-cut sign of getting old, I'm fading for these late games. I can't stay up anymore for these games. The heat are on a West Coast trip right now. The Panthers are on a West Coast trip right now. I used to just be like, Nice. Got something cool to watch late night. And now it's, Yeah, I got no chance staying up for that game. I fell asleep last night mid-first period of the Panthers game. And so the first thing I did when I woke up this morning, I see the score is 7-3. I'm like, Damn it. I hate not being able to see my team play. I'm getting old. I don't know if you know that.

It's hard, man. East Coast living? I can't do it, man. I fell asleep last night again trying to watch these games. I don't know how you all do it, man. That's why the West Coast is the best Coast. Everything's done nice and early, man.

You know about that Lord's Time Zone?

It's right here. Lord need to move.

That's horse.

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