Transcript of Local Hour: Has Dan Ever Had Pizza?

I don't know what's about to happen today, Dan, but what I do know is Chris is walking around in the room over there before the show starts to talk about what a big fraud I am. And I don't know what that's about.

Who's he telling that to?

He's like, Oh, Zazlo, big fraud, big fraud.

Phony Baloney, I believe I said as well.

Wow. What are you talking about?

Which is worse? Put it on the poll at Levitard show, Big Fraud or Phony Baloney.

You got something to say when you say it.

I wanted to save it.

No, I guess now we're here, though.

Just mumbling phony.

I heard the word cucked, too, out there somewhere. No. I heard it.

Dan, weeks ago, months ago at this point, Zazlo made fun of me for going to Vegas to see the Backstreet Boys.

That's right. He went to Backstreet Boys and took his wife all the way to Vegas for Backstreet Boys.

Remember what he said he's going to Vegas this weekend?

I'm gone tomorrow night.

You know what he's doing there? No. New Kids on the Block.

What?

Phony Baloney.

He has a friend on the band.

Yeah, but it's the same thing. You can't make-Same exact thing. You can't make... It is the same thing.

It is the same thing. It's a worse thing. It's the same thing. You know what?

Jeremy's got this right, actually. Not surprisingly, he knows the nuance between the boy bands. Of course I do. He's right. You're going Are you going to a rip-off version of that? Are you going to the- Yeah, right.

New Kids were first.

They were first, but worse.

Don't sell them short. There's a possibility here that he hits up his friend in New Kids for tickets of BSB at the Sphere, too. Oh, yeah.

I'm definitely not going to see Backstreet Boys at the Sphere. I don't believe you. Everybody knows I cannot go to the Sphere because I have vertigo, and I would get very sick during the show. So I cannot go to the Sphere, all right? So don't even worry about it.

Everybody knows that? Everyone knows.

Everybody knows that.

The Sphere is dangerous for you?

Yeah, the visuals and the spinning.

Can you put me there? What happens? You walk in and you're like,.

I would just be in the middle of the show, and I'd probably start puking. It'd be bad.

Are you the person that those warnings on Netflix or the streamers where they say, strobing lights?

Where I have epilepsy.

I don't know anybody who those warnings are for. I don't know anybody. When they put this has smoking and also strobe lights that make people dizzy, I've never met It's for people epilepsy.

Yeah, different things, epilepsy and vertigo.

Yeah, that's why they're called different things.

Thank you. But you're saying that the sphere and the strobing lights are affecting your vertigo. I'm not making a big leap there, am I?

No, because it'll be motion sickness.

See, this is scaring me because I'm going to the sphere for the first time the following weekend, like whatever the 20th or 21st, whenever that is. I've never been before. My wife has been before, but I've never been. Now, you're scaring me a little bit.

Who are you going to see?

Whoever's playing the next weekend. You don't I don't even know. I think it's the Eagles, but I'm not sure. She told me.

Don Henley said, This might be the last year that you can see the Eagles.

I know. Please.

That's why we're doing it. But my friend is in New Kids on the Block. I'm going to see my friend perform. Who are you friends with in Backstreet?

You're a phony baloney. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I don't want it. He doesn't remember who he's going to see. Wild.

I think it's the eagles.

There can't be many people going to the Sphere in a couple of weeks who don't know who they're going to see.

I like the idea that he's on the plane for the 6 hours flight, and they're like, What are you going to do in Vegas? I don't know.

At some point, I'll come up on the flight, a couple of cocktails in. I'll ask her, Who are we seeing, by the way? Eagles? Yeah, that's what I thought. But it could be somebody else. I agreed to it, so it must be somebody I want to see.

I hope it's Baxter.

No, it's not a boy band. It's an old man band.

We had the closed when he said boy band.

Oh, okay.

This is the Dan Levatore show with the Stugats podcast.

Bryce, since a ball, Mike Biamonte has got to go out better than this. That is as bad a loss as I've ever seen them have last night. I'm not even kidding, even though they were only a five and a half point favorite in that game. That Bam out of bio quote, coming out of that mouth when that team's not good enough and he's the guy you need to beat Utah at home when Utah is trying to lose. You guys saw the Bam out of bio quote, right? I mean, I just have never seen that come out of a heat mouth before where he's saying, We've got to find a way to win against the teams that are, I guess you can say, trying to lose. Utah benched its players in the fourth quarter. They just lost this way at Orlando. And when Ethan Skolnik asks Utah's coach, Will, whatever his name is, when they ask him, Hey, how tempted were you to put in Mark in it in the fourth quarter? Wasn't going to. Had no intention. Zaz accused people yesterday of point shaving and said they should be put in prison because of what Utah is doing.

They tried to do it, and the heat wouldn't allow them to murder themselves.

Made me look like a sucker last night.

Like a cuck.

No, no.

Yes. No. Yes.

Admit it.

We'll get to the phony baloney controversy here because Zazlo is going to see a boy band in Vegas. I don't know if you guys have I've seen. Vegas is really hurting. This shouldn't surprise people, given what's going on in the economy. But the Mirage closed. Rio is about to close. A bunch of places are about to close because Vegas is really hurting.

I'm about to give it a boost.

Zaz and Cody are headed the next couple of weeks to give it a boost. Zaz to see new kids on the block, and Cody to see old men on the block. And he's not sure, though. He thinks it's the Eagles, but he's not totally positive.

Yeah, whoever's playing that weekend, I'm seeing.

I have here- He's just showing Cody, I'm doing a little bit of Dan Lebitard finds out here. I have a video that you don't know that we have, and I want an explanation for what it is that happened here in this video during your Super Bowl party.

We are about to miss kickoff. How do you get it over there? Greg- How do you get it there?

How do you get it there? How do you get it there? How do you get it there? How do you get it there?

Greg, touch the remote, and now we're going to miss kickoff.

My voice panicking. Another crisis solved. There we go. Another crisis solved. Nobody left him. We'll make the top 10 on the catchphrase countdown. Another crisis solved.

I want to wipe that camera, though, Greg.

Little plug for the countdown. He's like, Will that be on Greg Cody's catchphrases?

And mix in a water.

Why does that living room look jaundiced. That living room looks like out of 1970s Jacksonville. Is it the pain on the wall?

It's not the- It's not the- It's not the- It's not the- It's not the- It's not the- It's not the- It's not the- Why is it a bad shot?

Well, what happened? What's going on? First of all, what happened? Because you Look at my wife panicking. As you're standing nearby doing nothing. All you've done is harm and then took credit and turned and swung and did a promo. The best television I've seen since Tony marveled Jason Garrett turning to a camera with one gleaming tooth and smiling at a camera.

I'm telling you, this is seconds before kickoff, and he touches the remote, and all of a sudden, we can't get it off the screen, and my mom and my brother have to come running in.

Well, I normally don't touch a remote.

Right, and you did it right before halftime.

The only reason I did it was the volume thing. We had it at 99 or 100. It was blaring, and I was about to make an announcement to hold the commercial sacrosanct and shut up when the commercials come on.

That did nothing because I didn't hear a single commercial.

That's a good announcement, though. It's important.

Yeah, it is important.

He did it during a commercial, by the way, that announcement.

You got to do it sometime.

Zaz, why are you looking at Cody this way?

Why don't you know how to use the equipment in your home?

My wife always handles the wand.

The wand? Yeah.

Whoa, that's a T-shirt. Baby. That's a T-shirt. Valentine's Day is coming up. We have a resident love expert, Greg Cody, and we have an assortment of questions for him. My wife always handles the wand.

See what you did, Zaz? That's on you, by the way.

It is. You're a phony baloney. It's been proven.

I don't know why I'm a phony baloney.

Tony, would you like to explain to him how it is and why it is that he's a phony baloney?

You made fun of Chris for doing something. Now, you're going to do the same thing, but older and worse, making you a phony baloney.

I'm going to the original. I'm going to the O-G, New Kids on the Block. There would not even be a Backstreet Boys, or in sync for that matter, if there wasn't a New Kids on the Block. That's the argument. Let's make sure we get that straight, all right? Number two, and more importantly, one of the guys in the group is my friend.

I'm going to see my friend perform. A friend?

Oh, yeah.

By the way, huge fan of this show.

Watches every day. Friendly?

Watches every day. No, if he watches every day and he sees Zaz on the show, they'll become friends inside of that.

We are friends. We've been friends for over 10 plus years. Yeah, sure.

Is he going to bring you on stage?

No, but we'll be sitting right next to stage.

He got invited to his birthday party? Not a friend. I don't think so.

Is that the rule?

How are you guys doing this? He's a birthday party.

He's a grown man. He's no longer a new... He's a new kid. I thought he was a new kid on the block.

I'm just saying he must have had a 50th recently, a 40th.

But is that the way you're doing friendship? Did they invite you to their birthday?

If I have a 50th birthday party, I don't invite you. You're not my friend. I put it on the poll at Lebitard Show.

If you're not invited to that guy's 50-year-old birthday party, are you his friend? Go ahead. Who would answer yes to that? I want to get to this heat story because... And there is, I believe, a tournament team in town. The University of Miami plays a giant game, the biggest of the year, tonight at home against North Carolina. North Carolina is a big letdown spot for North Carolina. This is exactly where you want to play them, where they just won a buzzer beater against Duke, and they've had two cord stormings, and now they're going on the- Embarrassed themselves. They embarrassed themselves with two cord stormings?

Yeah. Violence ensued.

Caleb Wilson is a problem. I don't believe the Miami Hurricanes have a player as good as he is. That's no sleight on the Miami Hurricanes. He's one of the best players in the country, and that's a giant game. The student section is going to be full tonight. They're honoring the UM football team as well. So it'll be the best crowd of the season as well. The best crowd these players have ever played in front of, correct? Like, best home crowd.

It's a whole new team, whole new staff. There isn't a holdover from last year. So, yeah, definitely. And it's at a finally a convenient time. These game times have been weird. Putting Cal and Stanford in the ACC has really mucked things up.

What time is tonight?

Tonight's seven o'clock tip. It's better than the nine o'clock weeknight tip that we had against Stanford. That point guard is very good, by the way.

So they lose at Cal the day I said they were a tournament team? They lost as an 11. 5 point favorite. Beat BC, haven't played a whole lot of good teams. Mike's still questioning whether they're a tournament team, and Joe Linaardi is saying they're a 10-seed. They've got the record you want to have, but now begins the difficult part of the schedule and when you're going to test yourself against the boosers or Kam Boosers, I guess, because his brother's not playing as much.

Yeah, he's not that good. Yeah, but Kam is amazing.

Yes, Kam is amazing.

If Miami wins this game, they are are pretty entrenched unless they fall off this last quarter of the season.

But this is a tough 10 days they've got. This is the toughest stretch of their schedule with opponents and everyone else. If they're going to be a tournament team, it will reveal itself right now.

True, Henderson's coming back tonight. Great defender. This is the type of team that you don't want to face when you have the emotional highs, the court storming against your biggest rival in Duke. You hop on a plane a couple of days later and you play a tough as nails defensive team. The type of team that J. Lucas has built down here is not fun to play on any night, especially when you're feeling yourself.

A big festive crowd is what it is that's being expected tonight there. It would be the opposite of what I imagine was at that heat game last night. Can you guys tell me how many road wins Utah has? I know Sacramento had three, Washington had five, and these teams just can't win on the road. These truly terrible teams can't win on the road. The circumstances that you had last night is Utah, the stat from Amin is amazing. Three years ago, worst defense in league history, topped two years ago by them having the worst defense in league history, topped this year by this being the worst defensive team in the league.

Last night was their seventh road win.

They sit their starters. They sit their starters in the fourth quarter. Their coach is not trying to win. They're actively... They are. Sacramento and Washington are trying. They're trying to win. Utah is not trying to win. They're the only team in the league, the only one that you could point to and say, They're doing this. They're in the fourth quarter. When they have a lead, they sit their best guy.

Yeah, that was obvious tanking. Now, Bam didn't use the word tanking. He said trying to lose. Same thing. What interests me about that is that that's usually unspoken among players. Players very rarely say tanking out loud. That's a media thing. But coaches and players hardly say it. That's an Adam Silver problem, though, because when you do what they did in the fourth quarter, it So blatant. So blatant.

He'll fix it. He'll get to the bottom of it. Sewing needle.

Would you rather be Utah or Miami?

That's amazing. That's starting five. If they're fully healthy, the jazz starting five is- No, next year, they'll be fine.

They got so many pics.

You see, Utah had a vision, and they stuck to it.

Yep, lose for a decade.

And now they're well positioned. I cannot imagine. Just like the current NBA champion. How did they get good?

By being terrible for a really long time. Miami just held still. You're going to have so much fun with that.

What happened after... I don't even know how you show your face around here, given what we've seen at a Miami- Jack shit over there. How do you show that thing?

I don't know what you're talking about. Jack shit. It's Pesant Sees, bro.

The Super Bowl meant we didn't even have to talk about the Miami heat blowing a 20-point lead against Boston. It's Pesant Sees Day.

Here's the thing, though. They've blown 32 double-digit leads since the last season, and it's the most in the sport. Is there any reporting being done about Norman Powell and the personal issues? Because while I respect all of this- He had a child.

No, he came back, though, and then he It hurts. The personal.

He's had back tightness for a couple of weeks here. He needs the all-star break. He hurt his hand. I wouldn't be shocked if he also missed Wednesday's game. He might play because they'd like to end the first half on a good note, but he was out yesterday because it's the second night of back to back, three out of four last night.

All right, so Norm Powell is out. Tyler Hero is out. Oh, Hero's out? Well, you're going to have trouble with size. Pela Larson as well. That's what happened. You had trouble with size. Kalil Ware had to play a bunch, and they don't want to play him a bunch. He had to play a bunch. They had a size advantage where Spoh is like, I don't know what to do with their size advantage. Like, hey, does Spoh rare- You've seen Mark in the three?

He's seven feet tall.

You understand, though, that Spoh doesn't usually go, Yeah.

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Don Levatard. Is there a back in my day?

There is, actually.

What? Were you not going to tell anyone?

Wait a minute. You guys. Wait a minute. It's a Tuesday.

Stugatz. Here's your guy, Greg Coty with Back in My Day.

Shit, I can't help my head.

Okay, here it is. Sorry. Adultry.

That is-Oh, yeah.

Wait a minute. We are back.

We're waiting for this one. This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugats.

The reason that Zaz will not get any traction on wanting to jail everyone in the Utah organization for point shaving is because the players they do play are trying to win. Bryce Sensaba is trying to win. Do you or do you not have to do better for Mike Biamonte? He's gone from Lou Aldang to Bryce Sensaba. That's not the way for him to retire. No.

Lou Aldang is perfect. He don't get any better than that.

Lou Aldang. You know John Conchar?

They told Barry Jackson that they felt like they had a team that could make some noise in the playoffs.

Fart noise.

Everybody thought so the first month of the season. They were like the darling of the league.

Oh, Jeremy was excited. 14-7.

Four and a hundred and four and 140 points a game.

You know the Marlin signed Chris a one-year four-million-dollar deal yesterday. He's basically their calcontrel of this year. He's there to eat up innings. He'll compete for a rotation spot. But Braxton, Garrett, and Max Meyer are both back.

Your hat's patronizing. I mean, after that heat game last night, you come in here wearing the old-school Marlins hat. Look at me. I put on a Miami heat jacket here.

I represent. I mean, the Marlins, it's P's and C's today. They have the teal uniforms coming back. That's why you wear the old-school Marlins. They have a teal uniform. You know they've never worn those teal uniforms?. Never worn teal uniforms in a game before, only in spring training and batting practice. So these two uniforms, it's a debut.

How about that? Well, wait a minute. No, that was what it- Nope.

Never worn that jersey in a regular season game ever in the history of the franchise.

Those uniforms are the ones that I thought they played with in 1993?

Mandela effect. No.

Batting practice and spring training.

Yeah, I think those are spring training jerseys.

Look at the- The Berenstein bears.

The crowds that will show up to see those new uniforms. The crowds that will show up. They're going to fill that stadium because of the uniform gimmick.

I got excited there because That dugout in that photo is clearly the old Pro Player Stadium dugout. They clearly just recreated it. But I would love them to turn their current dugout because that just brings me... I would love to go back to Pro Player Stadium.

They're doing good things with the brand here.

Man, I miss that stadium. That just brings me back to my high school years. I know it was empty. Trust me. I know it was sad.

Nobody says that.

I'm telling you, but you bring it back to my junior year. David Samson- Going to every game.

I'm with him. David Samson built that stadium on Calleocho as a modern new It stinks.

It's a bad ballpark.

I snuck in a twelve-pack of long-neck beers into Joe Robby for a Marlins game one time. Fish tank seats. I got caught.

The peanuts. Cody's crew. The peanuts guy with the glasses on.

The Publix Power Alley.

I wore long cargo pants, so it had lots of pockets. I put several long-necks in each pocket. I'm waddling into the stadium when I get my ticket. Don't want them to clank or break in We made it to our seats. We made it to our seats with the 12-pack of beers. Take them all out. We're drinking, we're drinking. By the third ending, the usher comes down, notices we're drinking longnecks. They don't sell longnecks.

As a criminal that's a pretty amateur movie. You were looking pretty good with the cargo pants. You got through because all of security is bored there because they got seven people coming through, so security's not paying attention.

Well, we used to sit in a section where there was never an usher.

You were about to save $100. All you had to do was be a less sloppy criminal. You can't drink a beer that's clearly not sold there.

We're pound and long necks, which they very obviously do not sell at the stadium. She comes and she confiscates it from me.

Why wouldn't you just buy a couple of cups?

Cans, maybe. She's like, Is this it? No, we got more. Then I reached under the seat and she's now walking up the stairs holding six beers. Everyone's laughing.

What a waste of beer. What a ballpark.

Left field scoreboard.

I can't believe what you guys are saying right now out loud to an audience that's listening.

I said it the very first game at that monstrosity in Little Havana. It's a bad ballpark. It's never been good. It made me miss a football stadium without a roof at the time.

Nobody liked that place because of the rainouts. So you'd have five-hour games.

The rainouts were great. You just going to the Concourse. It was so hot. But man, it felt like baseball. That's the nostalgia. That's what's missing. I'm glad that they're bringing back the teal uniforms because there is zero connection to whatever team that ballpark houses. They have totally different uniforms. They don't let any players stick around long enough for you to actually grow attached to them. The only connection point that Marlins fans have to that team, they don't even have the same name. Would you be in favor of them changing it back to Florida Marlins?

Yes.

I'd be, make them teal, make them the Florida Marlins. Let me get some nostalgia connection to this team. It does feel different when I see them wearing that. I'm like, Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I don't have any connection to the new stuff.

There is a reason why they have specifically Marlins on the front there and not Miami, and it is to tie it back to the nostalgia that you're used to of seeing Marlins. That's been the name the whole way through, whether it's Florida Marlins, whether it's Miami Marlins, they're the Marlins franchise. Bringing back the deal, they are trying to harken back to their history. They had the Marlins Legends Hall of Fame open last year. This year, it's Détrain and Beckett being added to play it in that 2003.

It was a great crowd to honor Leland last year. Remember, it was about 100 people in the- See, this is the problem with the Marlins, though.

They're using the past as a crutch. The dolphins do the same thing a little bit. Miami supports winners. If you're the Marlins, the teal uniforms are nice. They're going to please a lot of kids who go to the game, maybe.

No, it's pleasing our age. It's pleasing the people who buy tickets.

Guys, eye on the ball, okay? You let Jeremy do what you didn't want to let him do. He went to Marlins and you stayed here because he hypnotized you with the throwback uniform. He sure did. Eye on the ball, okay?

It's opening weekend at Markelight Stadium this weekend.

In summary, the Marlins use a crutch of the past instead of spending money now to create a winning team.

What did the Yankees do, Greg? Did they sign anybody big this season, or are they relying on a team that has a one-a-a-world series since 2009?

The Yankees win.

The Canes- Win what? Point-and-a-half favorite tonight against North Carolina. And it's the crowd. I didn't understand what was happening with the point spread last night, Utah and the heat, right? Everything I just told you. Historically bad defensive team not trying, not playing its starters late. That combination of things, you ought to score 140 points on that team. That's what should happen. And the point sprint kept dropping. It was Utah underdog by seven, six, five and a half. And I'm like, What do they know? Who knows what here about Utah's size advantage? Wasn't Utah also on a back-to-back? Didn't they just do this the previous night in Orlando? It was Saturday night. It was Saturday night.

And the heat were on a back to back, and they had no Norman Powell or Pela Larson, which meant they started Davian Mitchell alongside Simone Fontechio, Klohware- Jeremy, they played the Wizards. Myron Gardner. That was an AAU team. And Bam out of I.

I told my son to lay the six and a half.

My fault. The Canes are a one and a half point dog, not a one and a half dog.

Yeah, that's basically a pick-em. Let's go. Let's go. Cocaine.

The Canes are more desperate. Haven't they lost three out of five? I mean, they're struggling to make the big tournament?

No, wait a minute. They're not struggling. What are they, 19. 5?

I guess dating back to the FSU loss, this is their worst stretch. It's weird.

Yeah, they lost two out of five.

Yeah, they'll go up to Syracuse, win that game, then struggle against Cal.

Carmelo's kid doesn't play defense either. No.

The Sanford game was a random rock fight. They're not playing in these games the way that you would think a 10 seed would play. Much like the heat, their best form was at the start of the season.

Win this game tonight for the Canes, though, and all that conversation goes away.

Huge for your season. Huge for your program.

Well, you announced yourself, right? Because people- They got some recruits in 10, too. Before losing to FSU, they got ranked. Did they not? Did they not end up? They were right there. No. Okay. Brandon Marshall was right there? They were right there, but they weren't quite ranked.

That was a crime because when they were like, I think, 15. A crime?

Yeah. Like point shaving? Utah needs to be in prison for a crime?

At one point, the Canes were like 15 and 2. Their only two losses were to top 10 teams, and yet they weren't ranked. I thought they should have been ranked then. Now, they wouldn't be ranked now because they're on a little bit of a skid.

Yeah, but compared to college football, the rankings, obviously, in season means something in college football. It really doesn't mean anything in college basketball. Just keep winning games.

Oh, but no, what it does mean, though, is when your name is in there and then you win a game like tonight's. Tonight's is the one everyone's going to be watching. Carolina brings that with them. North Carolina coming off of... Hey, so John Shier, again, Duke's lying. There was no staffer punch in the court storm. This is the second time Duke claims that their people are punched and injured during stuff, and there's never any video, even though every kid in Cameron Indoor has a... Or actually, it's not Cameron Indoor. Every kid has a camera, and there's no video of this?

Yeah, the story changed, too. We stopped being punched in the face. Then we got trampled. There's no video of a trampling either.

Aren't we still waiting for a video of Kyle Filipowski getting hit as well? He played last night.

Did he break his leg? Didn't they say he hurt his leg or something, that the court storming injured his leg?

Yeah, there was actually at least a video of that one beginning I'm beginning to think Duke exaggerates when they lose these games to North Carolina. Also, John Shier, beta.

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Okay, Nikola, quiz Frage.

Homeoffice Barstado or Fahrtkosten. Was bringt uns mehr? Moment, ich check das kurz.

Oha, Homeoffice gewinnt. Bringt uns 150 Euro mehr im Jahr.

Ja, richtig. Aber wieso weißt du so was?

Weil wieso Steuer die Erstattung live anzeigt?

Das ist einfach die Steuer app für alle Fälle.. I want to address, Toni and all men who would wear that shirt in public. Stugatz.

Don't do it. This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugatz.

While we're talking college basketball, can we talk about Syracuse basketball player Donnie Freeman, Uncrusting and uncrustable? This is just monster behavior. He's eating it uncrustable.

This is triggering.

You should- It doesn't have a crust. And he's peeling the crust off of it.

Wow.

And it's just, I need an explanation because that little crust part of the uncrustable is delicious.

It's false advertising. You're not... Okay, you need an explanation. Well, do you understand people who pull the crust off their pizza?

Yes, but there's a crust to be pulled. Here, there is no crust to be pulled.

Dan, have you ever seen an uncrustable before? Yes. The whole thing is that they don't have a crust.

No, I have not.

I actually like the little pinched part of the uncrustable. It's like my favorite part of the the uncrustible, and you're choosing to take the delightful part of the uncrustible and just turn it into a PB&J.

Hold on a second. Dan, you know people who... I know people who don't eat the crust on pizza. You know people who pull off the crust on the pizza?

The top of the crust, that they don't like the the bready crust that doesn't have the cheese on it, not the entirety of the crust.

But they pull it off, and then they just hold the other part and eat the other part?

That's barbaric.

You've never seen a pizza box filled with crust because people do that?

They eat it after, right? They eat a whole pizza, and then you leave the crust.

A good piece of pizza.

Why are they ganging up on us? This is our experience. Put it on the poll at Lebitard Show. Do you trust people, or how should I phrase this? Because you're saying people don't do I'm saying I do know people who do not eat the top end of crust of pizza. No, that's not what you said, though.

That's not what you said.

Do they rip it off before they eat the regular slice? Yes.

They're attacking us.

That's crazy behavior.

You have serial killer fronts. Yeah, I've never seen that in my life, dude. You're telling me they're friends of Dexter?

You're telling me they're people who have a slice of pizza, and before they take a bite, they rip off the crust?

Yes, guys. Again, what do you mean? You're saying no, but you're talking about the piece of the pizza that doesn't have cheese. They don't want just bread.

They want- That's right. But Dan, what 99% of what people do is you have a slice, you're holding the crust. You eat the crust, the pizza, up until the crust, then you just put that crust. You need it to hold the slice. That's right. Most people just don't eat the crust. I haven't seen a lot of people before the slice is eaten.

Dan, his friends will rip it off.

Stand your ground. This is ridiculous.

Then they're just holding with the cheese and the sauce in their fingers?

That's insane.

Only crazy people. Cereal killers.

I eat the crust last.

Switching gears. What do you mean Denny Hamlin? I'm asking you to make that my voice, and don't try and sneak in your things in my subconscious, your topics. I don't want to talk about Denny Hamlin anymore. It makes me sad. Got them off the crust thing. At Lebitard Show, do you trust people who do not eat? What is that called? Because the whole thing is the crust, right? Is it not the whole...

Have you ever had pizza in your life?

All right, I'm on their side. What is the base? This is sovereign, even for you. What is the base of the pizza called?

It's called the Undercarriage.

The Undercarriage.

Nobody calls it that.

No, you need a good Undercarriage. When you look at a pie, you're like, How's the Undercarriage?

That's not also the crust?

It technically is.

No, Undercarriage has been popularized.

It's baked dough. That's what a pizza bottom is, baked dough.

But nobody calls it the- No, it has been. Dave Portnoy has popularized the term undercarriage.

You lift it up, what's the Undercarriage?

Dave Portnoy has popularized the term Undercarriage.

Say what you want about him. He's seen a pizza before.

At least he's seen pizza before. Are you trying to deny Dave Portnoy's monopoly over pizza reviews? Are you trying to deny him that? Look, you can deny him plenty. He's on the pizza game.

I'm not denying that. One bite. I am denying that he's popular. All right, put it on the poll. At Levitard Show. Has Dave Portnoy made you call the bottom half of a pizza The Undercarriage? Just put it up that way because you guys are saying he's popularized it. I didn't know that it was called The Undercarriage. I don't know what to call it. Have you ever had pizza before?

I can't I don't believe you know people, or at least you're claiming to know people, who rip off the crust of a slice of pizza.

Why would I be asking myself, Have I ever had pizza before? Because, man, I'm confused on this one. No, no, no. Okay, then speak in your normal voice and stop speaking in that one. As my inner I'm like, I need you to stay in character. If you're going to attack my vulnerabilities from in there, stop being yourself and stay in character.

They're holding the cheese and the tomato sauce with their fingers?

It's impossible almost to rip off the crust. You almost to cut it with scissors or use a knife because the crust is attached to the rest of the pie.

Then he called under the pizza crust, just a rough look.

Speaking to the mic.

Speaking to the mic, Roy is asking you to speak into the mic. I'm right here.

I'm here, the mic's Sure.

Are you guys worried? I don't know if you're made sad. Obviously, Vegas is something that is almost always exciting as you're taking off for Vegas, and then there's great regret on your flight home, especially if it's a red eye. But I did not know until recently that the Mirage, one of the giants out there, is done. The Rio is smaller off the strip, done. There are problems in Vegas now because it's being affected, obviously, by a lack of disposable income in the economy in ways that are startling. You guys are headed there. You're headed there for a romantic weekend. This is you- Phony Maloney. This is you being romantic, taking your wife of how many years?

Oh, boy.

Quicker than that. Oh, no. Quicker than that.

Oh, no. Why can't I think about it for a second? Oh, my God, camera.

I'm not allowed to think of it for a second. This year will be 19. I can't think about it. Do some quick math.

Kick-saving a beaut.

Oh, my God. Why does everything have to be a tip of my tongue?

Did you just say the tip of my tongue?

Tip of your tongue.

I like that character better. That character needs to speak more. The other one needs to speak less.

How do you know the parlor doesn't sell them?

The tip of your tongue is what you were saying? Yeah. You don't have to have everything on the tip of your tongue, but this is you're meant to do a romantic weekend. That's what you're aspiring to do.

We're going to Valentine's, new kids on the block. My wife's never been to Vegas. It's all going to be very exciting.

Cody, I want to quiz you. What is Zaz saying here?

How do you know the parlor isn't seldom?

How do you know the parlor isn't seldom?

The end is where you got trade.

How do you know the parlor isn't seldom?

That's what it sounds like to me.

The end of that is so much clearer than the beginning of that.

Say it one more time.

He got the hard part right. I don't know how you got the part right.

That's not decipherable.

How do you know the parlor isn't seldom? This is good attack.

I heard seldom.

This was in reference yesterday to Jordan Hudson, Bill Belchick's girlfriend, wearing the shirt that she wore to North Carolina Duke that makes fun of Bob Kraft and the name of the salon that he was caught, sex trafficking. It wouldn't be the parlor, sell them-ing them. It would be, how do you know the parlor doesn't sell them?

How do you know the parlor doesn't sell them?

Yeah, now that you say it, I can hear.

But the how do you was the hardest part for us.

All right. Finally, I'm going to surprise all you guys, Cody, most of all right now, because we were making fun of, how do you not remember Bill Polian, whether you voted for Bill Belichick or not? I was making the argument, well, in your '80s, that's something that you can be forgetful about. Then we did a failed quiz with Greg Cody, where he voted for his Hall of Famers, and he's had trouble with his memory just today, because he didn't remember that he's going to see the Eagles in Vegas. His wife told him, but he doesn't remember who he's seeing. So, Greg Cody, you're scared of what I'm about to do right now, right? Who did you vote for the Hall of Fame two weeks ago when we did that quiz with you here? Do you remember who you voted for? Because you voted for four people, and that laughter suggests that he's cornered.

Yeah, I'm stalling right now.

Do you remember which sport you voted on?

Well, I'm a baseball Hall of Fame voter. I would remember whether or not I voted for a specific player, which is why when you ask somebody, Did you vote for Belichick or not?

Who'd you vote for? Who'd you vote for?

Ask me if I voted for a specific player. That's the issue here.

You can't get a one of them?

Because Tony Dungy was asked if he voted for Belichick, and he refused to answer. If you asked me whether I voted for Jack Flackman for the Hall of I'll tell you whether or not I did. Greg- I will take a quiz.

Greg, you're trapped, right? You cannot remember a... You voted two weeks ago for four people. We did a big show of it publicly.

It was actually about It was just before Christmas. It was probably seven or eight weeks ago that I actually voted.

No, but I'm not asking you who you voted on your actual ballot. I'm asking you for who you voted on in that quiz we had you take two weeks ago. They handed you the ballot, the football ballot.

You don't remember either of them?

Wait a You don't remember either of them? You don't remember who you voted for for the actual Hall of Fame, and you don't also remember in the quiz- You tell me a player, I'll tell you if I voted for it.

Not how this works.

100%. Greg, do you- And I will guarantee my answer.

Greg, do you remember playing this game with us two weeks ago.

Okay, I voted for Andrew Jones.

Yes. In December, you voted for Andrew Jones. We had you take a hypothetical test that wasn't actually an accurate appraisal. With football, Greg. It was a football Hall of Fame. It wasn't a baseball Hall of Fame.

Do you not even remember that we had you vote for the football one?

Okay, that thing.

Oh, my God. This is unbelievable. You ripped Bill Paulian. You said Bill Paulian, and I was like, 81 years old. That's tough to remember stuff.

Bill Paulian was asked, did you vote for whoever, Belichick or Kraft, and he didn't know.

You think you'd get it right if I gave you... Guys, give me... Oh, yeah, of course. Please, because I don't remember, but please give me who the names were that we put in front of him because he only selected four of them, and I'm going to ask him right now. I'll ask him.

Okay, Larry Fitzgerald, Drew Bries. Those were the two obvious ones, and then there were two borderline guys. I don't think I voted for Adam Vinatieri, even though he made the haul. And I did not vote for Roger Craig, and he made the haul.

I'm not actually even sure you're doing this correctly. We'll get an accurate appraisal of this in a second. Are any of you... Put it on the poll, please, Gigi, at Levitard Do you live in a sane world when Luke Keekly gets in faster than Bill Belichick?

Embarrassing.

What's going on behind the scenes with this stuff? This is so dumb. There's so many puppet strings being pulled, and no one wants to come out and say, No, I'm the person behind this. Go ahead, Mike. Those are two bona fide Hall of Famers. Kraft has been on the ballot for 14 years. I don't know how much better of an owner you have to be in that sport. What marks success? What your team's value is and how many championships you've won? He's been in the conversation my entire adult life. I don't understand how he's not a Hall of Fame owner. If an owner can make the Hall of Fame, it looks like Robert Kraft. And the head coach, forget it. It's the greatest head coach of our lives.

Mike, to be honest, it's making me not even care about the Hall of Fame anymore.

It's a joke.

It's a dog and pony show. It's like, Oh, is he going to get in? No. Okay, whatever. It doesn't really matter. He's obviously the greatest coach of all time. I don't really care about it anymore.

What's with this? I didn't vote for him because I thought he was going to get Again, vote for the people that deserve to go in. Don't be like that other person's got it. It makes the entire thing look like a joke.

Greg, I have the full list of names that were available to you to vote for.

Hold on to that for a second. Tony, a dog and pony show, you have referenced a great many times. There's been a lot of them. I still don't have an answer for when the Dog and Pony Show went out of business because I don't think that that's a business.

It hasn't gone out of business. Clearly, with Yannis and with this whole Hall of Fame thing, a lot I have dog and pony shows all over the place.

There has to be an extinction date on the dog and pony show because there are no more- Bet it on Calgary. There are no traveling circuses anymore. We will get to that list in a second. I have in front of me the four people that you voted for, but I'd like... Jeremy, tell me privately so that I can quiz him on this, because I'd like to play this game with him to see if he can actually remember who it is. I already said two of them. You did say two of them, but you can't remember the other two. I want to see if I can get you with any of the others. I don't know why you would be this confident. I don't know why you would lean in your chair that way as if you've got this when you didn't even remember the sport we were talking about, you didn't remember the quiz, you didn't remember much of anything.

It's not about remembering. I thought we were talking about baseball. Brees and Fitzgerald were the two automatic picks. The others were controversial. I don't think I voted for Luke Keekley, to be honest with you. All right.

Forgive me here because I'm delayed in Zazlo, you owe $50, okay? And Money Lion has brought back the fine bucket. Our thanks to Money Lion, banking, lending, investment. Help yourself to Money Lion because they are now sponsoring the fine bucket. And Zazlo got hit with the biggest fine that there is, $50, because he killed David Baker, the retired Hall of Fame Inductor who wanders the Earth. No, not RIP. He's still alive. He's not dead.

He You guys didn't even know who he was. I should get credit for knowing who he is.

This is a master class from us. I do know who he is. I do know who David Baker is, and you owe $50 because you killed him. You said he was dead, and he's not dead.

Where do I got to give the money?

I got to get an actual physical fine bucket now. You got a... Is that 100 behind your ear?

Yes, this is where I keep my money. I keep it in my ear.

No one's thinking about the pizza anymore.

Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right?

Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is one when it hasn't hit triple zero.

Always drink your Jägermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion.

Everything else?

Everything else.

Wearing clean underwear every day?

Well, that's just a personal decision.

Brushing your teeth?

Obviously smart, but not a rule.

Never PP on an electric fence.

Okay, maybe there are two rules, but the one that is 100% that I insist on completely, Jägermeister must's cold. Exactly. You're finally starting to get it.

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