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Dad, I kinda want this show to not get aggregated today.

Yeah? How come?

Like yesterday's did.

Yeah, okay.

Let's just bring the temperature down a little bit.

Way down.

I mean—

How do you propose to do that?

I mean, we should have the New York media pin Dan down.

Yeah, the New York media was portrayed in a funny manner yesterday. I thought Dan was acting like these Giants beat writers are you know, champions of democracy and out to save America from the abyss. And I just picture some tired, beat guy wondering what he's gonna have for lunch and wondering when the hell he gets to cover a winning team. But you never know.

You do never know.

You never know.

Why are you so winded? Why are you so winded?

I'm not winded.

You're just carrying the show, Dan.

Seriously, I got a show on my back here.

Did you get nervous?

Nervous? I don't get—

you sounded—

I get even.

Not the same.

Can I tell you, can I tell you what, guys, what just happened before we turned on the microphones? Because it's unbelievable. He was ready to go and start the show, and he was alerting everyone in the room. Zazz, you saw this, right?

Yeah.

He was alerting everyone in the room that he was ready, got in front of the microphone, and then said do it till you're satisfied. Said it loud, said it to himself. And I'm like, that must be in the top 20. He's like, oh no, I forgot.

We stumble on a new one every day.

I don't think that's even on the list.

So he went and wrote it down. And so now— but he's already got his list of 60.

I know, but now it's 61.

70 is a possibility.

69.

There you go.

Okay, you do it till you're satisfied.

There you go, baby.

What were you guys talking about in the bowling alley yesterday? I overheard from sources nearby that you and your dad were complaining about me at the bowling alley.

Uh, you know, I wouldn't say complaining. I would say just making fun of you.

Commenting.

Yeah, commenting. That's a nice neutral phrase for it. Yes, you got a little, uh, you got a little agitated, got a little, uh, you know, worked up. I've seen it before.

So you did what to the New York media?

I told them to ask Jackson Dart questions, and this is what the— this is what the reaction—

but the context that Greg has given me is that you're, you know, having them be champions for democracy and that whole thing that you did.

It was more you were sweating while saying it.

It was like— it was like he thought that the New York media, the New York Giants media, was like All the President's Men, right? You know what I mean? Like, it's like Woodward and Bernstein.

Exactly. These are beat guys. They're tired. They just want to cover a winning team for the first time.

I want some tongue sandwich.

They're there for free food.

This is what he's saying, that the thing— sandwich— the thing that he just did is it is a bunch of tired guys who look like Stavey who just want to get to the nearby deli for lunch and just write a couple of paragraphs about the Jets and kill the rest.

You're turning them into Oprah, right?

They gotta ask the hard questions.

What is the Nick Nick Bobik?

It's the name. It's a '60s song. The name game. Nick Nick Bobik, banana banana bofick, me my momick.

Okay, Rosanna Banana Vanna, Rosanna Banana Vanna, Rosanna Banana Vanna.

I'm the kind of guy that— Nick Nick Nick Nick, who made this salad? Hey Butterfinger, who made this salad? Nick Nick Bobik, who made this salad? Georgia! That's not That's correct!

Very good!

It's a parrot that says "very good" out of the side of its mouth?

That's correct.

What does this have to do with The Name Game?!

I'm not gonna take a quiz... Santa Claus!

Rosanna Ba-ba-na ba-ba-na—

Who made it to salad? Me my moment!

Very good!

Let's go states! We're rolling now huh?

That's not correct.

Doesn't make it right.

Bye bye guys!

Don't go showering to try to please me. Brilliant. No, I mean the song. I don't mean my role in it. That was just well done, well put together, that kind of thing.

I'm having an, uh, an interesting experience on a nightly basis now, Dan, at home. So my, my wife's trying to be supportive, all right? Trying to be supportive of me and my career. And so She likes me to play her back a lot of the show. We'll watch it on YouTube in the evening.

That'll end soon.

Bad idea.

We're doing it like on a nightly basis.

Eyyy!

It's been going on for a while now, and she only wants the funny parts. Like, she doesn't want the sportsy stuff. It's not for her. But we'll watch a lot of the shows. And so the days of the week that Greg is here is a really weird experience that I'm watching on the couch with my wife. It's uncomfortable couch.

It's because she's into my dad, huh?

So they start to love him.

They do.

Like, okay, that hasn't happened yet, all right? Like, maybe we'll get there. It hasn't happened yet. She's like utterly confused with him, you know? Me and— we've, we, we've, we've gone through the history of this plenty on this show. I for years did not appreciate Greg's appearances because he's not a radio person and he constantly makes mistakes and like, it's almost like he doesn't take it seriously. But at least, at least I understand what's going on here. My wife has those same opinions and like, she doesn't understand how it's allowed, how he's allowed to be here.

What do you mean allowed? Well, like, he's a legend.

Well, she doesn't know that, but like yesterday, like yesterday, for instance, when he coughs and he can't breathe, all right, and he can't get out any of the words, I didn't tell my wife that that was about to happen, that that was coming up.

She's never seen it happen on television, right? She's never watched a paid professional program anywhere where it's happened to a broadcaster, right? Where he's just a sentence in and he just starts coughing and then you don't understand the rest of what he said.

I'm getting the Joker!

So he does that, and my wife is horrified.

Can I make just one comment that I feel every time I hear that I get kind of annoyed by? Is that his, like, whatever he said about getting the Joker, it really does overshadow the full-throated joke that I think you guys heard in your ears, but the rest of the audience doesn't hear now.

Yeah, that's a private show you guys did that was funnier to you guys to an audience that didn't hear it. It would've been great if they'd heard it.

It was on mic, but he overshadowed it. Started.

So my wife was horrified when he started coughing like that, and she just goes, what? Why is that allowed?

She said it out loud to me. Yeah, to me. Shit. But she said out loud, why is that? What? He's coughing. He's been coughing for 10 years around here. It's like part of the— it's part of the show.

It's one of the—

it's one of the accents.

COPD.

She doesn't understand how, like, why wouldn't that be? And I know it's a live show, obviously, but Why wouldn't that be edited out? What?

What?

Why is that okay for him to do that?

And does she understand this show at all?

No, but this is— no, wait a minute.

This doesn't get the show.

No.

Whoa.

I would not say that. I would say this is almost every relationship of any listener I've listened to in our audience. It's how their significant other ends up getting into the show. Why is the person I love so fascinated by this and find it so funny? I want to understand this weird Zazz language. I'm not going to do it with wrestling. I'm gonna do it with— why is Cody there?

Like, she, she's confused as to how he's a regular on a very big, you know, radio show, podcast, whatever you want to put it, but seemingly doesn't understand anything.

Yeah, your wife doesn't want to learn. She didn't want to earn.

She does want to learn because her husband wants to earn.

Juju's like, ah, that's his queen right there.

I don't know. She's really confused the days that—

You should tell her that he once had hundreds of people lined up to look at his toenail.

Thousands. No, it was more than 100,000. No, it was thousands.

Well, it was—

I'm talking about money I could have made.

Yeah, you blew that. Uh, Zaslav— what Zaslav just— what Zaslav's wife just realized with Discovery is what Zaslav realized once upon a time when he was a producer at the start of everything we were doing here and Cody was on the show. He'd get, "Why is he there?" Isn't it the same thing?

Yes.

Then he would sing a song and you'd be like, "Oh, okay." I'm watching my wife go through all of the emotions and opinions that I had 20 years ago about Greg's appearances.

I come around to people though, you know? I'm an acquired habit.

My mom thinks you're the best part of the show. She thinks you're the star, Greg.

See, that's a woman.

So does mine.

That's a woman.

What is that supposed to mean?

Put on the poll at Levittard Show. That's a woman. Yes or no?

A little sensual for my taste.

I mean, this early.

I mean, I love people who love me.

Well, this is it. It's the— it's had the—

so does Trump.

It has had the inverse effect on me. The more he sits next to me, just like my dad, the more people like him and the less they like me. And it's because of what happened the last couple of days. That you guys were whispering around at the bowling alley when you got the drinks in you and started talking real honest loving talk last night.

I think we should get the New York media on my dad maybe. Then the people will see the real him.

Yeah, they should investigate me.

Were you like this, Dan, as a kid?

That's it, that's the question.

What does that mean? That's such a broad question. Was I strident and got in the way of my obviously right and righteous points?

Yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But what was Christopher Columbus really doing?

But why would we buy eggs from them, Mom?

I just imagined last night at bowl— like, I want to know how it started, you know? You, Chris, you and your father at the bowling, maybe you got a pitcher in front of you. Like, does one of you turn to the other, go, so damn, we just thought—

there's not even words needed, it's just a look and We know we've seen it before.

It's like, that's your man's now. That's your man.

Yeah, that's yours. That's yours now.

Somebody's gotta deal with it.

Don't make it right.

But can you share it with me? Would you guys be kind enough to share with me the criticism? Because I don't know what the criticism is. I just know that your son today told me that my tone was bad yesterday.

Yeah, it was awful. Yeah, it was really bad. Even more so than usual, which is saying something. No, I just felt like you were assigning duties upon these New York beat writers that they probably don't want. You know, they cover a football team. They're not looking to save democracy. What they want to do is find out whether what Jackson Dart is doing, how that plays in the locker room. I do think that's a legit story for them. From their perspective is whether or not it affects the chemistry of the team. And that's the head coach's concern. He doesn't care about politics. They don't care. Even the ones who came out against him, Abdul Carter and such, they don't really care about politics. They're just wondering about divisiveness in the locker room, which is a legitimate concern.

Yeah.

Dan, why are you trying to save democracy?

Democracy dies in darkness.

Jordan Renan there fighting for democracy, right?

We have some tough questions for you, by the way. And by we, I mean the New York media.

This is my— oh, this is my punishment for the last couple of days.

Tough questions. We're the New York media and we ask tough questions. Was I drunk when I did that? Maybe.

You see, you got home from the bowling alley, drinking with your dad, complaining about my tone, none of which you did anything about yesterday when working and not drinking.

Oh, my face said a lot.

Biggest game in 20 years.

No, that's not on that level. I kept it together.

I need content from Tamara watching him. Like, I need to see what that looks like.

So do I set up a camera?

She's going to have so many questions. Like, she's going to have so many questions about everything happening. Happening with Greg Cody.

She's offended the way that I used to be offended.

Well, I— you used to be offended that Greg Cody was such a big part of the joke as everything that we were doing at the very centerpiece, that he's become the star of the show and you don't understand why he keeps getting rewarded for it.

How does he not know to speak into the microphone? How does he not know that there's a clock? I, I like— I just, I didn't get it.

Hold on, again, to Greg's defense here, people that are just watching you for the first time and seeing all of your idiosyncrasies are like, how is this guy allowed to stuff. Maybe my wife is one of those people. She's like, what's, what's up with this guy?

Okay, I have— I may have idiosyncrasies, which is debatable. I may have idiosyncrasies, but no one's going to say I don't know how to do my job. I don't know how to do radio.

Well, there's the times that you don't speak into the mic, the mic falls, you don't turn on the mic.

Remember you went to, uh, take a poop for like 45 minutes?

Yeah, that's true. You're prone to the malaprop.

I guess we're just ignoring this bet of asking Dan tough questions.

Do it.

Go ahead.

You came home drunk. I just want to set the scene.

You want to hear it again?

Wait a minute. You are at the heart of America. Chris Cody, always down the middle. You and your dad are at a good old—

down the middle, Chris.

American bowling alley.

Heart of America.

Illinois?

No, heart of a bowling alley.

That is the heart of America if you've been in this bowling alley.

Yeah, lane 34. We represent the blue collar.

Also, the red is represented there as well.

Put it on the poll at Levittard Show. Is the heart of America at your local bowling alley? Like, what do you— don't look at me like I got this wrong. You guys are drinking beers at the local bowling alley and you're complaining about what? You hear that? You agree with that, Levittard? You agree with him? But goddamn, was he an asshole and annoying about how he delivered all that.

What I'm really like is like, what questions did he want from the— like New York media, these tough questions. And then I was like, I got an idea. I'm going to go home and make this. Tough questions. Tough questions. We're the New York media and we ask tough questions.

You do that on your phone?

No.

Do you ever— do you ever get embarrassed? Like you get home last night, you're going to go—

you go to your laptop, like 11 7:45 PM and I'm in my office doing this.

Yeah, do you get embarrassed or like, I don't want my wife to walk in right now and see what I'm doing, hear what I'm doing, and then I have to explain? Because I get that all the time.

She's upstairs reading smut, so she wasn't worried about what I was doing.

Her time's better spent reading smut.

That's all she does, dude.

Smut.

Ever since this Heated Rivalries, all she does is watch these shit.

My wife's in the same boat.

It's canon now.

Okay, we gotta Just say there's stuff here. We're not going to get into it.

Oh no, there is. Honestly, some good stuff.

Oh, she doesn't know.

Fist me, guys.

She doesn't—

do you know that Chris is married to a—

guys, we're going to allow that.

Married to a twin.

He did just say that.

Fist me, guys.

We don't need to go down the twin rabbit hole, Tony. Thank you.

But Trista doesn't know. I want to give her the lore.

The lore.

Legend and lore.

The lore.

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Don Lebatard. Surely every time you're watching this, you recognize that your wife is laughing that she married, she married Larry David.

I do. Yeah. One of the great characters in the history of television, in my humble opinion. And, and to my credit, my personality—

in my humble opinion, followed by to my credit.

To my credit.

Amazing.

My personality.

Just amazing.

Predate. Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Stugatz.

Oh wow, I'm not going to say Larry David patterned himself after me.

All right, put it on the poll please, Jude. You did, Greg Cody, copyright being an asshole long before Larry David. This is the Don Levitar Show with the Stugatz. So that was the production that Chris Cody decided to make, and there are tough questions. You've got a series of tough questions because I do, I do think And this may be deflection on my part. I'm here for the analysis on you guys telling me how I did my job poorly the last 2 days. I'd actually like to spend some time in that playpen. But also, Zazz has been coming in multiple days saying, my wife is mad at me about this a couple nights ago, and now my wife doesn't want me in the bedroom.

I'm gonna have a tough week.

Doesn't want me in the bedroom today. And I think there are uncomfortable questions to be asked there as well.

You know about that foreplay?

Well, so on Monday, this is a couple nights ago, right? On Monday, it's 8 o'clock, and obviously I watch my stories at 8 o'clock on Monday night, it's WWE Monday Night Raw. And so my son and I were in the family room and the show is starting, and I tell my wife, I go, hey, you can sit down, come on, my stories are coming on, come watch. She's like, what the hell are you talking about? And then Obafemi is on the screen, I go, come on, Obafemi! And my son and I were doing the strut. And my wife was mortified, and she goes, "You know what? You're out there asking for a couch? You want somebody to sponsor you and get you a new couch here for the family room? I'm gonna buy you a trailer. I'm gonna buy you a trailer for you to live in. You're gonna live in a trailer from now on." Trailers for sale! So, that's— so she wants me to live in a trailer, alright? And then last night, this is— see, this is some bullshit. Last night, I go upstairs, it's not even late, it's like the middle of the second period in a hockey game, but I wanna watch in bed, obviously on the iPad, and I go upstairs into the bedroom.

My wife's already in there, lights are out, she's trying to go to sleep, but Dan, she's not asleep yet. Apparently her new thing is she has to fall asleep before I come in the bedroom. I don't know why.

It's a thing, I'm aware of this.

I can relate.

She's not asleep yet, okay? All I want to do is lie in the bed, obviously tummy time, with the tablet on my stomach and watch the hockey. Dan, I don't even put sound on the iPad. I could watch it on mute, no big deal. I understand what's going on.

Sports are bright though. They're very bright.

I put the blue light down, all right? It's on my iPad. She wouldn't let me stay in the room. I have to leave altogether until she falls asleep.

I'm—

I went into the— I went in the Zaslav mansion living room because I wanted to lie down. I'm lying down on a couch in the living room, not even watching the TV, with the tablet on my stomach. Instead of the tablet on my stomach in the bedroom, I now have the tablet on my stomach in the living room.

So if I were to dissect, uh, what just happened for your wife, okay, you did some great work as a great professional radio host, and Cody beat you with a song in the middle.

Trailer for sale.

All right, you get that whole story.

You took us into your bedroom, you gave us maximum intimacy, and Greg Cody stole the money. Walked— you are a cuck. He walked, he walked into your bedroom and just sang a song, and that would explain to your wife why it is he's so good at this.

Yeah, she liked that, your wife, when I went, "Trailers for sale." That is some bullshit, what just happened.

And he looks aroused.

It's so unfair. He was not trying to help Zazz. He just came in.

He had the thought.

He heard trailers.

He heard trailers.

Timing was awful. It wasn't even good timing. He heard trailers and just sang it.

Not only that, he just inceptioned. He just did a meta on Zazz, a double cucking because—

A double cucking?

—he talked about in the future tense, your wife liked that. So now when Zazz watches that tonight, she's going to be— Greg Cody's going to be talking directly to her and then she's going to look at Zazz and be like, I did like that.

Yeah, we're gonna have a great guy to act the whole bit.

Yeah, for 20 years, the most confident Zazz I know is the one who knows that he's got the good stuff and he's got the ball and he's doing solo. He did not expect with a parasol for an old man to walk into his bedroom singing a song and take it— take the set, take the segment from him with a syllable. Couple of syllables. Trailers!

And that kind of stuff doesn't go away. Next time Zazz and his bride are, you know, making love. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Somebody's gonna hear that. No. In matter of fact.

No, no, no, let him cook, let him cook.

That can be part of Zazz's foreplay. No. Keep going. But you have to whisper though. No. You whisper like this. Trailers for sale, baby! That kind of thing.

I guarantee you Zazz is gonna think about you next time he's in focus.

That's the worst part. That's the worst part.

Best part.

Did you just breathe self-satisfied in the microphone? Like after taking— taking— well, you made it that way.

It could be because I'm drinking coffee.

No, it's because what you're talking about, it did sound like he was Like needing a cigarette.

Yeah, I could use a cigarette.

Did we just get an old man all hot and bothered? Is that what just happened?

Takes more than that. I was talking about Zazz. Oh, okay.

So I deflected masterfully. Go ahead. So what was wrong with the way I did the show the last 2 days?

I feel like we've covered a lot of it so far. Just your tone.

Honestly, it was the tone.

I think that's what, in all seriousness, what we were saying is like a lot of the stuff you were saying we agree with, but it was just like, I feel like it gets lost in your tone, but you've heard that forever. So. I don't know what we're gonna do at this point. You are who you are.

The people basically were saying online, where was all this smoke when your homegirl was the headlines?

Well, and I would— I saw that too, Juju, but I like— that feels like a very false equivalency. Like, you're not demanding answers, you're demanding questions.

I mean, I thought it was the most benign thing said most stridently. The New York media should ask Jackson Dart a question. I mean, nobody disagrees with that, do they? But I didn't say it that way. Right.

And you said that they should make him uncomfortable, which I think was a little bit of a red flag to some people.

Okay. But I mean, in these particular times, it's the meekest of things. Oh, here we go.

We can't say in these particular times. So that's like, that part has to go.

Yeah, that's coded. Yeah. What kind of times do you mean exactly?

The end times. He means woke.

I mean, you, you are rich as fuck and you live in probably a mansion with a hot-ass wife and maybe a dog on the way. Like, the times aren't— the times aren't dark for Dan Le Batard.

The times are great. Oh, so money's the only thing that the world needs to care about, right?

No, in the comments section, for sure.

Definitely the comment section. Yeah. You know about those comments?

So, okay, so you guys don't wake up scared and worried every day.

We do, but that's why we do this show. We have less money.

Yeah, that's very— a lot less money.

I feel pretty good.

Good for you. To America.

And so to ask Jackson Dart to answer some questions when he just did what he did, like, okay, sports guy, you want to be like, yes. I do have a penthouse on the beach. That is correct. Ph. But fighting over these things at ESPN got us kicked out. Right. And we are all pretty proud of what it is that we do around here and got us kicked out around the conversation about the Black quarterback kneeling and a flag. And so the country flips in those 8 years and arrives wherever it is. You feel everything you feel today. And then I got to watch the quarterback of the, of the Giants go out there and there's no way to even have a conversation around any of that. That anymore because everyone's already chosen their sides. Like, there's just nothing. Jackson Dart does that. He's starting to do the tone again.

Yeah, because it makes me mad.

Like, how can you not be pissed off? How can you not honestly just simply be pissed off that every time this comes to sports, it does so in the most bullshit of fashions, and you can't even ask any questions about it because it knocks the fun out of everybody? Then we're here for the laughs. Dance, dance.

Yeah, I want to remind you, bro, you was right. Now we just relaying the messages from online. Like, you 100% right. My brother Colin Kaepernick still ain't got the black ball off of his back, you feel me? And I think that Jackson Dart, you willingly stepped into that arena. So now we're going to ask you, oh, why were you so willing to step in that arena? Is the question. Like, what about Trump was so appealing that you say, oh damn, the locker room, what this could do over here, damn my friends and the questions, or damn the media, the questions they could possibly ask me, I support this man? And I think the correct Question to ask him is why.

So you just say it like that, Dan? Yeah, I didn't.

I never do. It's why I can be right and wrong. Like, the way it comes out, the way that it comes out ends up making it wrong. This room turned against me and everyone agrees with me. Facts.

We buried the lead on today's show, by the way. I'd like to wish a very happy birthday to my sister in the Lord, Trista Crick.

Oh, yeah. Oh, happy birthday to her.

Oh, done. Thank you, appreciate that.

We don't have a song? We don't have a happy birthday? Happy birthday to her. I don't care. Good luck. Chris, you're proud of yourself because you couldn't, you found it very quickly. Juju didn't alert you. You found the her. You needed the her. We don't have a lot, the her's not as high as the him.

Good job being born, Trista.

Thank you. Well, I don't make it a big deal, but we did have a whole conversation about what 40 means. For women. What did 40 mean for you, for you three when you guys turned 40?

I don't know. Nothing. No, I don't know.

You could just still have kids until you're 80. Who cares? You know, like, 40 means nothing.

I could have kids as long as I want. That's right. Nothing.

I'm going to— that's wild.

Nothing, uh, nothing wrong over here. So these are the uncomfortable questions for me. This is— is that one of— is what was 40 like for me 17 years ago?

You want some uncomfortable questions?

Because I got one. No, I don't want uncomfortable questions for anybody but Jackson Dart.

How much do you weigh?

Hey, man, I don't know. I'm gonna say 250.

All right, I'll let you know when I got another one.

That's it. What's the most you've ever weighed? Probably 290. Really? Wow, Dan Levitard almost pushing the big 300.

How about that? Where do you stand on foreplay?

I don't stand. Hello! Hey, very good.

That's very good.

Would you, would you ever, if you were single—

okay, so we're doing uncomfortable questions now. I didn't realize.

Okay, if we're— if you were single, so put yourself in a single place. Hottest woman, but she's MAGA. Do you hit or no? No, you don't. Rookie.

No. Do we believe— Tough question.

She's right.

Is it? Yeah, of course. No, no.

It's like that episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, right? Where Larry's having the best sex of his life, but with someone— with a woman who hates Jews.

Oh, yeah, I remember that. He managed. He did.

Don Lebatard. You have some hot takes today, Joe Chestnuts of Fire. He calls Connor McDavid overrated before the show. What the hell was that, Greg?

Yeah, no, I love it. Stugatz. Roy, let me explain it to you. And not that you need to, you know more about hockey than I do.

And this is coming from a guy that's watched Connor play 6 times.

Right. If that. Um. This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stugatz.

I don't like this game. I'm more uncomfortable than Jackson Dart will ever be made by the New York media.

I heard you don't want it bad.

The well's not dry.

That's in Levitar land. If the well was dry, you'd be like, ah, maybe she just likes his, his tone. I can change her.

A fresh bowl of fruit or $22 in quarters?

I can change her. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm still laughing. What was the question?

A bowl of fresh fruit Or $22 in quarters? It's $22 in quarters. That's annoying. I'll take a stupid bowl of fruit.

Why? Why is that an uncomfortable one?

22. Someone go get Dan $22 of quarters from— bring home today.

That'd be annoying. Ridiculous. Annoying. 88 quarters. That's—

she just called me out of touch. I'm saying $22 of value is $22.

Now you're trying to do the thing and seem like a regular person.

Yeah, we're out on that. You have a matte black convertible.

You can't win.

Okay, well, that's a game I can play because I've been playing it for years. I'm right and I'm wrong because of the way that I say it.

Also, where's Stugatz? Is he ever coming back?

That's a great question.

It is a good question. Surprise nobody's wondered that.

We saw a lot of that yesterday when you were telling the New York media that.

Is his name ever coming off the show?

I hope not. Uh, that one's kind of up to him. So no, I'll answer all your questions here. Go ahead, have at it. Like, this is— so you guys tell me here, because, uh, this makes me uncomfortable, obviously, but I'm comfortable in telling you that I love that dude and I'm always going to be indebted to him. And I hope that he sits in that chair again because I've told him many, many times I want him to to make money from Metal Ark for as long as it exists. So, but that's up to him whether or not he comes back. He's got, he's got a job here, like, so, and, and he built his thing, and we were going to do these things together. And so I hope he comes back. I'd like to have him back.

See, he knows that. That's a better answer than Jackson Dart would give if we pinned him down. Take that, YouTube chat!

But, you know, you can ask all the questions that you want there.

Like, this is basically it.

No, but this has been— no, but it's been crushing to me. Imagine how much I must value that relationship. Relationship when you guys know how transparent I am and you guys know that I care about him and that I want him here. Uh, imagine how hard it must be for me to protect the relationship with him and keeping his name on the show, um, in service of wanting him back so the audience can have what it wants because I want it too. You tell me, like, you tell me what I'm supposed to do there.

No, I think you're handling it exactly how—

No, but what are the details you guys would like? Because I don't know how to make it any clearer to him or you guys that I would love to have him here. But I'm not telling the audience something when I value my transparency, when it's important to me, when the relationship with the audience— you know that I'm grateful for it. How must— how must I value that relationship to not speak my mind? Like, how much?

Yeah, but the audience doesn't want to hear that. Like, they, they want answers.

Honestly, what you just did is like, that's fine. Like, they just wanted to hear that, I think.

Uh, yeah, I'm trying to protect the relationship because I want him on the show just like you guys want him on the show. Like, me three, we love you, big bro.

Like, no matter what, Billy, everybody who done left, bro, we got the biggest hearts and love for y'all no matter where y'all are. Y'all don't gotta wear our same jersey to be Love by us. We love you with the other jersey on.

But what more would you like to know? Because no, I don't— no, I, I don't mind answering these questions because it's been killing me to not be able to speak honestly to our audience for a while. Like, it's been killing me. It hurts. It hurts. This is— I want his name on this show forever. I have worked in protection of that.

He knows this. Why do you think the energy is not the same on the other side?

Uh, business is hard, and we were, we were and are in business together still, and he's building his own thing, and he wanted to do that, and we helped him do that, and we wanted it to commingle with this, and it did for a while, and then it didn't.

What, um, how would you describe your relationship with Stugatz? I love him.

I'll always love him. I'm wildly grateful for him as a teammate and co-host and partner.

What about like, um, what? No, like Tea Partier.

Go ahead. No, that doesn't quite answer the question though. Is the relationship strained? Have you talked to him lately? I mean, if we're getting honest and asking real questions, I think a lot of people would want to know that.

Uh, we have exchanged texts back and forth in the last couple of weeks trying to connect.

Valuable. Is it? Yeah, I hope so.

A tea party or maybe—

yeah, honestly, this is what the audience wanted. I'm seeing it in the chat right now.

Like, no, that's, that's fine, but you have to understand, I don't know if what's— if it's what Stugatz wants, and I'm living in service of the protection of somebody I care about, somebody whose career I care about, somebody whose family I care about. Like Like, so yeah, I know they want answers. Do you not think it kills me to not give them all the answers they would like? But I'm trying. I don't want to say anything bad about a person that I care about. I don't want him to say anything bad about me. We're trying to build two things together, and at the moment we're sponsored by competing entities, and so that makes it a little difficult to do business. Like, it just makes it a little difficult. That's all. Maybe he just voted for Trump one time.

Would you, would you hit just one time? The first Trump, never again Trump.

So for all my gasbagging, this all started, these guys will tell you, with me wishing that Trump would win the Republican primary because I wanted the zoo and the carnival of the circus, the circus of the content. Like I practically endorsed that dude the first time through just because I wanted him to make a mess. And I didn't think there was any chance that he would win.

Didn't turn out as funny as you thought it would.

No, not quite. Well, joke's on me. Isn't that funny? That is funny. I can't even say anything about Jackson Dart now. That is funny though. It is funny. 10 years later, we're here. It's hysterical.

He came on this show and said you were very smart.

Love the show. Love the show.

Got a great show. Best ever. Anything else?

I will sit here for 4 minutes for your uncomfortable Stugatz questions. I think Mike Ryan's probably gonna be mad.

Libertarian?

I mean, they're all easy.

I mean, Tony's gonna— the answer is yes for all of them. Tony's a yes for everyone.

Yes, man. But so you guys, I saw you guys arguing before the show about whether or not Justin Herbert is a cuck.

He is.

What are we doing there? Zazz, what do you think?

I don't know anything about cucks. Don't ask me.

Harbaugh cucked him as well. He said, oh, you need— you guys need a ride to the airport? So where—

what is this concert that Madison Beer was at? Because I saw this video where she's being coddled, I'd say, on stage. Justin Herbert's girlfriend. Roy, keep up with the times, dude.

Keep up with the— okay, fine, whatever. Great name. It is a good name though. Yeah, should be my last name, Greg Beer.

You wouldn't have made it to 50.

Madison Beer.

The, the jury rests. No, the jury wouldn't rest. The defense rests.

And you're off the stand.

Yeah, good chemistry between a father and son there.

What were you saying, Greg? Um, that she was discovered by Justin Bieber, right? When she was 13 years old, Justin Bieber promoted one of her songs And that gave her the entree into stardom. And now, whatever, 10 years later, she's hooking up with another Justin. How do you know this? I'm told, you know, my sources. Why are the rest of—

why is Greg Cody downloading you guys on something in pop culture and all of you are mystified by what he's talking about?

This appears to be true.

I'm Mr. Pop Culture.

Discovered a 12-year-old Madison Beer, right, when he tweeted her cover of Etta James's At Last. Exactly. Great. You know that song, At Last? Good song.

It is. She's a legend. Good song. Um, no, I'm, uh, my granddaughter calls me pop culture. I mean, you know, I'm, I'm just, I know everything about everything going on.

Do we have the video of Madison Beer's—

I thought we had Justin Herbert video that we were going to. Isn't that where we started? I, I thought that the argument between you was, uh, related to whether or not Justin Herbert was a cuck. Yes. But we didn't provide any video proof to anybody about what we were talking about because I don't think people know what you were talking about.

This is her right here. She's on stage and Justin Herbert is essentially watching this and coddling— it's putting it nicely— coddling. Don't talk sensual.

What did you— did you say that breathily?

Coddly? Cuddling? Or coddling?

Coddlingus. Whoa, that—

okay, this is the opposite of what you guys are talking about. I see a confident man and letting his girl do her dreams, live her life. She know everybody on stage is paid to be there.

Not a cuck. They said it was a play on. I don't think it's a play on at all, like at all. And, and Tony says it's a play on because there's a little bit of a zesty energy to him. I think those are the guys you have to worry about the most.

I'm sure Josh Allen feels the same way about his wife when she's doing sex scenes in a movie.

Yeah, when she got— she spit in Michael B. Jordan's mouth. Sheesh. You know about that spit, Dan?

Chris Cody just did this and was saying take the show, and the reason I'm not taking the show is because Tony had a lot of stuff to say about this earlier and all of a sudden has a lot less to say while calling everyone else a cock. Fuck. Excuse me?

She's a performer, and what do those dancers do? She pays them to perform. You got a guy doing that? I mean, it's a play on for me. She— Trista said it. You want me to say exactly what Trista said? She already said it. Is my tone okay?

Fine.