Transcript of Dan Experienced The Purest Form of Panic | Hour 2

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You hear all the time in sports some form of, is it time to panic? Is it not time to panic? Is it time to press the panic button? Is it not time to press the panic button? This weekend I felt genuine panic. Genuine panic in a way that I had not experienced in a really long time. And it made me think in sports of the idea of, is there a right time to panic? It's always terrible to panic, correct? Like, there's, there's never— is there, is there ever a good time to panic?

Yeah, I think there's times that panic meets a moment. You want to be Joe Cool, but I, you know, I think there's— what, you think poise?

I just think there are degrees, and panic is the worst of them. And if you're making emotional decisions while panicked, like, nobody wants to be panicked, and you don't want to be making decisions while panicked. You're not clear-eyed and stuff. But I was this weekend genuinely panicked, and I will tell you the story. And the panic, the panic has me sprinting in the streets for, I'm going to say, a nonstop 7 minutes.

What does it make, Rybak?

Of— why would that cause me panic? Why would that—

why would—

you're making a fat joke there.

They do sell out.

Why would the— why would the— why would the— because they sell out? Because the McRib sells out, you think, is the reason that I'm panicked? Cheap joke.

It's limited time, man.

Beneath you. I live in a very small building and a very, very old building, okay? It's— the building I live in is more than 100 years old. And I did not think that there was a circumstance, because I have an elevator that only opens in my foyer if I'm the one using the fob to get the elevator to come to my foyer.

Sounds like a private elevator.

I did not— it's sort of private, right? I would say it's sort of private because it rarely opens, but sometimes there There are some people somehow, and I'm not really sure how this happens. I'm gonna say—

You've sent countless emails.

It's, uh, no, nobody answers the emails because it's an old building that's poorly taken care of.

100-year-old building, exactly. Yeah, you've sent countless emails, you've had zero of them returned.

There are often people in the foyer delivering packages or just randomly drunk people because, uh, the building I'm in has a lot of Airbnb. It's basically a hotel. Very few people live there. Many people are coming through. But I simply did not think, because of all the fobs, all the sensors that it requires to get in and out the various levels, I did not believe there was a way— and I'm going to show you guys this video— for my dog to get out of the entirety of my building. Okay, I did not think it was possible for my dog to escape my building because there are so many doors and locks and fobs everywhere. But let's play this video and you guys will see a video that was horrifying to me, and I'm going to tell you how it is that this happened. Look at the little puppy! That's a good dog! Because you see that my dog, without a collar by the way, my dog, which I don't think can get away here, has now taken an elevator by himself.

He didn't even push a button.

There are no buttons.

Where's his fob?

That's correct. The elevator shouldn't move. It shouldn't go anywhere, but somebody on a floor—

Who's this?

That's right, that is Jesus.

Jay Wheeler? Memph Bleek?

A random person gets on with my dog, and I will tell you that my dog was unusually friendly in that circumstance. And now this person— now keep in mind, that's the lobby, so he still shouldn't be able to get out. There's still doors and stuff that, that, that—

that guy did not seem to care at all about it.

At all! That person is responsible for my dog escaping!

No, you're responsible for your dog escaping.

But for the audio audience, so the dog's in there alone, another guy walks in, and then they go down to the lobby, and you'd think if a guy was like, oh, there's a loose dog here, let me— and the dog— and the guy just lets the dog walk out of the elevator.

You ever see Little Rascals? Sometimes dogs just do their own thing. I could see this guy wandering into— I'm sure he's like, wow, this is a little weird.

You got to at least be flagging security if you're this guy, like, hey, there's a dog here, I don't— this isn't me, I don't know where this dog goes.

This is the dog's thing. The dog takes the elevator, knows exactly where to go.

It is a rich dog move to just like go down solo.

I'm gonna explain to you guys what happened here, as you guys are very comfortable blaming me for this. Here are the circumstances that resulted in this happening. As I'm getting home, my wife is in a total panic because a sprinkler system has busted and our house is filling with brown water. So she is running around with buckets and garbage cans because A pipe has burst and now there is brown water.

The worst type of water.

Running into the house.

100-year-old building.

So I come in and there is an alarm going off and my wife is panicked and my first instinct is the dog. It's going to bother the dog's ears. The dog's hiding somewhere in the house. Where's the dog? Where's the dog?

Dan's playing hide and seek in the house and the dog's in the lobby.

The dog? No, no, wait till I tell you what happens here. No, no, no, the dog's not in the lobby.

Wait, how did— the dog surely is in the lobby.

I did not think—

how many security breaches are there?

I did not think that there was a way for this dog to get out of this building. Otherwise, the dog would be wearing its collar with its telephone number, its address, and everything else. I did not think that this— that what happened was possible, which is Val is— Valerie's distracted and the alarm has spooked the dog because the alarm will not stop going off. I think the dog is hiding in a closet, trying to hide from the sound somewhere. Can't find the dog. Now, I don't know how long the dog's been gone for because I asked Valerie. I'm like, Valerie, where's— where is Early? And she's like, what do you mean he's not here? And I'm like, what do you mean he's not here? Where is Early? How— so now I'm running up and down the stairs.

On first situation, Early's late.

Early's lost. If the dog's name was found, it would be, uh, who's on first? Where's found?

Well, who shot John?

You could argue early was late for dinner.

I don't blame the guy.

I do.

I don't blame the guy.

I do.

Well, the guy doesn't say— like, if he's rec— if he's someone that lives there all the time and he recognizes the dog, that, that would help. But from what best I can tell, you mentioned that there's a lot of Airbnbs. This dude's just passing through.

Yeah, but what do you guys do if you get on to an elevator with a dog?

I'm Probably feeling it out. Your dog was wagging its tail. So then I'd probably ask, hey, this is kind of strange. And I feel it out because that could be a mean-looking dog. You never know.

It's not like the dog wandered on while he was there, because then you know where the dog is coming from. He entered the elevator. This dog could be on any floor according to this guy. So I'm with— I think it was a smart move.

I don't know anything about this dog.

I'd write it down and I would just tell security. I would be like, hey, security, I don't know who this dog is.

Surely security would notice when the dog comes out of the elevator.

You guys are reacting in a way that I would not react. If I got on an elevator and there was a dog there, I would not simply walk out of the building with the dog. That dog can't get out of the lobby unless it's following that guy right out the door into the street. That door— the front door does not open and the dog does not have an ability to get out unless that guy let him out. That guy, I—

He doesn't just use a fob? How did he get in the elevator?

That's a good question. I don't know why the elevator opened on our floor. I'm still confused by everything that happened there. That includes my dog being in the foyer because everything was in such a panic that the doors were open to my house because Valerie was waiting for people to get there with buckets and garbage cans and everything else.

To you and Valerie's credit, you guys seem to have trained this dog. It's like this dog was not panicked at all. It wasn't like some dogs you would be like, where's my owner?

I don't know.

Like, your dog was just wagging his tail when this guy walked in, just, just moseyed out of the elevator like not a care in the world.

I could see this, this gentleman that wandered into the elevator just minding his business, thinking that, "I guess this is a thing in this building." Rich building. "There's the elevator dog. He seems pretty happy with it. Seems like he has a better idea of where he's going than I do." Wait, Chris, you're making this up.

You think a lot of rich buildings have a lot of stray dogs wandering around?

No, it's called like, it's a rich elevator dog.

This is not a rich building and it's not a rich elevator.

It's also not a stray dog.

It is a rich dog.

It's not a stray dog. The last thing I'm thinking, I was like, wow, this, this dog came from the street. That's not something I'm thinking. I'm thinking like, oh, this might be the building dog.

Yeah.

If it is the building dog, I believe it has to stay in the building. And if it is the building dog and you're in a tourist area, once you've let this dog out, as this dog was let out, this dog is running into and around traffic, like all around traffic. This is not a neighborhood. This is a touristy area.

This is classic Disney dog movie behavior. This is how— if you've ever watched Homeward Bound, that's how they got anywhere. Like, they just look happy and they find someone that's holding a door ajar. Like, this is how they get anywhere.

It is wild how little this guy reacts to the dog at all. Like, you'd think there'd be at least a pet— like, oh, there's a dog in here. He just— he acknowledges the dog, keeps texting, and then just walks out the elevator like he didn't even see the dog.

I'm legitimately stunned that my dog behaved that way with him because my dog does not do well with others like this.

You're lucky because he could gotten your ass sued.

That's correct. That, that to me, when, when I saw the elevator moving, first of all, right, because the dog's not pressing the elevator, otherwise it— I should just be able to press the door, it opens, and my dog comes back to me because there's not that much traffic in the building, especially this time of year. It's just a quieter time of year, and I'm one of the few people that's in the entirety of the building. The idea that this human being allowed this to happen with the dog.

You're talking about yourself.

See, I don't think we know, because I think if that guy exits the elevator and calls attention to security of like, hey, there's a dog here, like, then I feel like that's all he really— I'm with you. If that guy just exits the elevator and leaves and doesn't mention the dog to anybody, that's a jerk move by this guy.

If I'm assigning blame, number 1 goes to Dan, number 2 goes to dog. Bad dog, don't scare daddy like that.

You stay with your owner.

Number 3 Whoever's working the lobby of your building, you have to have security there.

I can't be on the top of your list. Valerie might be at the top of your list. I'm getting home and the dog's gone. Like, how's that my fault?

Valerie deserves way more blame than Memph Bleek. Memph Bleek did nothing wrong. He was kind enough and he's just op— he's just doing Memph Bleek.

Your sentence is too long. You can't say he did nothing wrong. He did nothing and that was wrong. He didn't say anything. Security?

Where's security in all of this?

He had to have let the dog out. Hold on. This is about to get worse, okay? Because you guys still don't have the me running around for 7 minutes dressed like this, full sprint.

Oh, that's a, that's a sheer panic.

Quite the visual.

Full sprint because the dog doesn't have a collar, the dog's never been out, the dog's not finding his way home, and the dog is around streets where there are cars and has no experience being off a leash in anything other than a park. And I don't know how long he's been gone. So as I'm running full sprint down the street. I'm asking the people who are running restaurants and everyone else, have you seen a— have you seen a black dog?

Look crazy.

Of course. And, and I'm dressed in like pants. I'm dressed— I'm— I am dressed in a way that doesn't look like that thing. You had pants on exercising. It does. They're— everyone else out there who's running is exercising. I'm running past them fully clothed, fully clothed, faster than Kirk Cousins.

I'd like to see a video though, like me scurrying for a sausage. All right, so there is no—

not that fast.

So we've established that the dog gets out, presumably follows follows this gentleman out the front door. You don't have security stationed there? Because that's like the last line of defense.

And if you're the only person in the building, the security guard would be like, hey, I know that.

Hey, that's Dan Snow. Hey, that's Hurley.

The reason security's not stationed there is because we've got brown water flooding into our apartment and they've been coming up and down up the stairs, evidently.

What kind of water?

This happened like— have you ever seen Baby's Day Out? This is kind of like Baby's Day Out.

What a bowl of cereal that guy makes.

Dan Levitar. Put a finger in there, but if you tell anyone, I'll deny it. Mike Ryan. Don't just stare at it, eat it. This is the Dan Levitar Show. I can't remember the last time that I was this panicked because I knew, as is the case with abductions inside of 24 hours, like, I've got just a few minutes to figure out where it is this dog is.

Of dog abductions in 24 hours?

You have that data?

Or is that human? I'm just picturing human abductions.

Early, early 24 hours.

What are you talking about? Dane's applying cold case rules to this caper.

You gotta find, uh, lost people, abducted people, lost dogs, abducted dogs, uh, pets.

It's the second Joe Mantegna reference here in 20 seconds. Baby's Day Out. And what's that missing person show that he was on?

You gotta find them pretty quickly, and I don't know how long the dog has been gone because I don't know how long my wife has been dealing with the fact that the sprinkler system has busted open, and I just don't know what kind of time I have, uh, and I don't have the dog, uh, chipped. Maybe I should have had the dog chipped, but I have a collar for the dog that would allow anyone to call me.

But it doesn't have it on.

It doesn't have it on.

Another failing. Yes, the LeBittard house. You're pointing a lot of fingers, and yeah, this is unfortunate, and the leaky pipes ultimately— all right, building first because of the leaky pipes and the security that left their post. You shouldn't do that. Then Valerie and Dan LeBittard. Then dog, bad dog. Yeah, then menth blee.

Mike, I can't be blamed if the dog has escaped before I've gotten home.

All right, you're not to blame. You want Valerie to get the full blame here.

Well, I don't want Valerie at the top of the list either, but Valerie's closer to the top of the list than I am.

Yeah, yes, I agree. How'd you find the dog?

Give us the happy ending.

So I'm sprinting all over the place.

Early!

Yes, that's correct.

Black dog!

Black dog! Black dog! Yelling early, that's not a name, but also breathless.

You see a black dog?

24 hours, you have to find somebody.

Have you ever watched Criminal Minds? You know the history.

On the phone with your assistant. I need help.

You know the history of abductions.

You got a real baby stay out situation.

Leave me alone for the first 24 hours.

Verne Troyer was a stunt double instead of the baby. Then he wasn't actually a baby.

Too soon. I'm sprinting all over the place. Big Ripper's back. In a full-on panic, whereupon I find my dog in the kitchen of a restaurant eating potatoes. I'm crossing traffic, he's crossed the street.

Like entire potatoes?

No, he's being fed potatoes by somebody who's called animal services because there's been a strange dog there for a few minutes, and our dog was about to be sent— I mean, I guess we probably would— could have found him through animal services if we called immediately and said, has anyone turned in a black black dog in this area. But now what's happened to punish, uh, both me and reward the dog is that's what the dog thinks is available when he goes outside that he did not know was available before that.

Rich dog.

So now the potatoes— the dog doesn't eat like that.

They don't have carbs in this house.

The dog found riches outside. The dog eats gourmet meat, but only gourmet meat, some blueberries and some carrots. He's never had potatoes. I wanted to lay on the kitchen floor and be fed potatoes there breathlessly. I want— the dog was laying down and they were just dropping potatoes on the floor.

The dog—

picture scalloped potatoes.

The dog's never allowed to eat like that. When's the last time you guys have felt full-blown panic? Like, give me, give me the situation. I don't think it's something that most people experience very often, so I assume you're going to remember the last times that you have felt anything like feels like full-blown panic, because the last time I felt like— what's funny about the story I'm about to tell you is this is the last time I'd felt panic like this. This is a great half sentence— was when I was in China with Michael Jordan because I was in a market. ESPN the magazine had sent me to a tour with Michael Jordan where I was going to 6 places in 7 days with him, and one of them was China. And at the end of my trip, right before I was supposed to catch my flight, I realized that all of my notes from the trip, I had lost them somewhere. I had turned over the hotel room. And so everything that ESPN had just paid for at the beginning of me, like, trying to prove myself at ESPN, I had lost all of my notes to the entirety of the trip and now had to go back to a market in China where no one spoke English in order to try and find where all of my notes were because I had misplaced the entirety of my notes.

And so it would have been the last time that I felt a full-blown just panic where I need— before my flight, I need to find something. And so I'm so elevated that I have a hard time, you know, with clarity and thinking straight because you don't want to make any decisions while in panic.

Careful with those markets in China. Well, we know it didn't start there, so— Continue on, play on.

Any panic from you guys? Do you guys have it? Can you even remember?

Marcel Reid's marching down the field. Yeah, but you know who gave his life for us? Oh, Motore. He died for us.

Anytime you're calling for a video we don't have ready.

I'm looking at preview. Yeah, it's a different sport.

So you guys can't even remember the last times you felt the kind of panic we're talking about?

No, no, no.

Like real panic, not nonsense panic.

I haven't lost a dog or a child. I'm usually responsible.

Yeah, within the last 6 months, I was driving down to Miami and was in rush hour traffic and felt the turn in your stomach of like, oh, I'm going to have diarrhea and I'm 30 minutes away. I'm nowhere near an exit. And the panic of just like, you got to hold this in and you got to not have that happen in the car is a real panic that I have felt in the last 6 months. It was— I was sweating.

That's a good one. And if you make me think about it, I have also felt similar panics, as has everyone listening to this. I imagine that is a panic that anyone can relate to.

Also at the disco.

A couple of stories here that I want to get to in sports that I don't know if people know that Chris Bosh says he nearly passed away in January. He says, I had an episode. I almost dropped dead pretty much and came back to life. I'm not joking. I had another pulmonary embolism. It was in January this past year. I was in the hospital for a week. But take your medicine. So I'm taking my medicine every day, taking care of myself every day, and watching it. I mean, no symptoms came either. So yeah, you got to deal with it for the rest of your life. I thought I was past it. I'm not. So I'm just making sure I stay on top of my regimen.

So he stopped taking his meds. That's what it sounds like.

Yeah, I got, got lax, as I imagine is pretty easy to do if you've, you know, had a scare and time has gone by and you don't think you're a week away from the blood clots, uh, that can kill you, uh, it's still, uh, jarring to me to know that, um, LeBron's still playing. And I don't know how you think Chris Bosh's game would have aged, but I'm guessing that Chris Bosh would have, if not for this injury, had the ability to evolve with the sport the way that some of the better shooters in the league as big men have evolved in the sport. And he basically, I'm gonna say, lost 10 years of his career while also fighting for his life, because I think he could have played into his late 30s just stretching the floor and, and being out there at least as long as Dwyane Wade was till, till the end. Uh, like, so it's, uh, still surprising to me to have someone like Chris Bosh, uh, be that kind of mortal, that kind of vulnerable because of, you know, he was one of the highest forms of evolution that you saw in that sport with the ability to play a game that people his size usually are not able to play.

Not only that, Dan, remember he got hurt with a core muscle injury and then all of a sudden came back in that Boston series shooting threes. So even in progression from series to series, it was like, boom, he's shooting threes now.

We're like, whoa, holy Chris Bosh, during that last championship run against Boston, bailed them out at home when they were totally scared by making threes that we didn't want him taking a season before that. Like, the whole sport sort of shifted right there with a couple of corner threes that if he misses, uh, Miami loses to Boston and the blueprint gets broken up as a failure if he doesn't make those threes. Like, famously in a Game 7 against San Antonio, he scored 0 points but secured a big rebound. But that blueprint breaks apart in the most fragile of ways if Chris Bosh comes back and doesn't merely have the ability to make corner threes that weren't a part of his game before that playoffs.

No, the Game 7 against Boston, he had 19 points and they were all huge because he was kind of struggling up until that point. That Game 7 was sneaky hard. Everybody remembers the LeBron James Game 6 because you want to talk about sheer panic, I had panic that entire day. I still haven't shit right. I'm not right. It's been 15 years. It's been, yes, it's been like 10 years and I'm still not right from the week that was.

Dan Levitar! Mike Ryan's in there and he's the one with a baby. He's the one who's got to like worry about what the future is. And Mike Ryan bet on DraftKings because Mike Ryan bet on us. This is the bet you're afraid of doubling down on? Putting up a billboard in Edmonton? Mike Ryan!

I care more about Matthew Tkachuk than I do my daughter.

This is the Dan Levitar Show! A couple of soccer stories that I want to get to. Pochettino has agreed on a new contract to be the head coach of the men's national team through 2030. Whittingham and others are saying it's the, it's the right Decision given the commitment shown here by everyone involved. Any objections? Are you hearing any criticism nationally about this?

It's a pretty good job to have if you're Pochettino too. He's getting paid a ton of money, but I'm sure he has language in his contract that should he want to and should another club be interested. Remember, there were reports out there that he was meeting with AC Milan just before for the World Cup, that if a club comes a-knockin', he may go back to the club game. But right now those offers aren't there. So it's an easy decision for him and quite frankly, a pretty easy decision for U.S. Men's Soccer too.

The bigger soccer story, and we talked about this briefly last week, and I thought the mainstream media did a really poor job of covering it given what it is that the story was. But the idea that Infantino and the Trump family were basically working in plain sight to sell a portion of the World Cup World Cup for profit in a way that was unseemly triggered such backlash. And it wasn't media backlash. It was not— not in the States, it wasn't. I should— when I say mainstream media, I should say States, because this was a big inter— it was a giant international story. The offense that the rest of the world took to— what do you mean Trump's family is going to be buying a portion of, uh, the World Cup? They shamed the unshameable. Infantino has had to walk it all back. I'm sure they'll try to do all sorts of sh— in the shadows, but at least publicly they're not going to get away with selling the World Cup to the Trump family or Trump associates. Infantino evidently is not actually immune to shame. He's not immune to pressure. It stands. What we learned with that Super League is something that now stands, which is European soccer fans have real power.

They have more power than baseball fans in this country who don't want that Scooble trade trade going through. European soccer fans, when they get pissed off, leaders start backpedaling because they know that that customer base is passionate enough to withhold its dollars and it's not to be trifled with.

The only thing close to it that we have in the United States isn't consumer protections. It's not even forms of government. It's SEC message boards and boosters that can stop Greg Sciano from getting hired. Yeah, this is not surprising. What was surprising was it was an all-time heat check. Check from Infantino. But here's what I think is going to end up happening. I think Infantino is going to lose his job because of this. And I think it was so brazen in the Kushner aspect of it. You, you, you add a dash of Trump to this and, excuse me, it makes it even way, way, way more unpopular. But make no mistake about it, it's not the— this isn't dead and buried. This is not dead and buried for FIFA. I think part of this, if I were to read into some of the initial statements from CONCACAF and all that, was like, well, we don't like how this went down because there wasn't a bid process. We don't like how this— like, okay, this is value. We like $40 million. That's a hell of a payout. We can do some form of this, but we don't like Johnny Infantino running the show and negotiating this whole thing in a back room.

And I do think it's not the first time they're going to deal with private equity. It's not the first time that they're going to have to, um, come out with strong statements publicly. I think the greatest offense that Johnny Infantino had was not looping everybody in.

Can I request from you guys all of sports names, all of sports history at your disposal? Give me a name that gives off mafia corruption more than Johnny Infantino. Just in the— take all of the names you've ever heard in sports, and I go all in with the name Johnny Infantino is the guy in charge of this. Do think he's a mafioso who's corrupt. Just— that's his name. His name is Johnny Infantino.

So just Italians?

Nope, this particular one with Johnny on the front end, because I don't know a lot of Johnny.

Yeah, what about Vinnie? But it's not Johnny, it's Johnny. What about— what about Vinnie?

Vinnie's pretty good. Any Vinnie— I don't think Vinnie Testaverde is as good as Johnny Infantino in terms of a corrupt mafioso.

But Vinnie Pascuntino, it is a good one.

When Seb Bladder like, this guy's brazen. Is that bladder knot though?

Vince Ferragamo? Yeah, not as good, not as good as Johnny.

But Ferragamo's strong.

Ferragamo's pretty strong. Mike mentioned, uh, message boards and college football fans. I don't think— maybe they're, maybe they're second place, but it's not a particularly close second to the power of the European soccer fan.

No, I think American sports fans should take more of that attitude. They should take more of that attitude certainly with the ticketing industry down here. They should do more. They should, they should really threaten people with their dollar. They should really test their voices. We're just so broken by the system over here.

The thing that I wanted to bring up though, that is in front of the outraged Reddit board SEC college football fan, is the Save College Sports Act that is presently in front of everybody because you have a great deal of power and money and you've got, obviously with where it is that the rules are and aren't here, you've got a lot of ability to corrupt this, where you have all of this power and money but not a lot of leadership, not even corrupt leadership, just an absence of leadership that you need around this power and money so that you don't have Notre Dame sneaking in here to create a system that isn't quite saving college sports.

No, it's saving the Big Ten, SEC, and Notre Dame because it was written by the Big Ten, SEC, and Notre Dame. So they benefit the most from it. And yeah, you mentioned Notre Dame. I don't think most people are aware how influential Notre Dame was to this entire process. Notre Dame put in quite the poison pill to protect their interests and hurt other teams. Are you guys aware of this? No. So that part of the Save College Sports Act bill caps conferences at 19 teams. The Big Ten presently has 18. The ACC, I think, has 17. I think there's 16 in the SEC. All right. That's okay. If these other power programs from other conferences come available, that, that seems like 5 spots or thereabouts. Here's the poison pill. In order to join a new conference, you need to act independently for 5 years. That wasn't put in there for UConn. There you're going to have this open market and, and, and conference realignment with one spot in the Big Ten. And only one team realistically with the opportunity to move to that conference and get that money and benefit from the rules that the Big Ten is writing for the rest of college football.

It's Notre Dame. So yeah, Miami doesn't like it and it's got real traction in the Senate. Probably going to die out in the House because they'll run out of time. I mean, the hate for the NCAA and college rules seems to be bipartisan, but it's got real momentum. Them with the Senate. I think it puts a lot of teams in a difficult position, not just Miami, because there is a hard cap that will be instituted with no wean-off period, and that leaves about 30 programs well over the cap with no real solution attached to this. If it was written by the Big Ten and SEC and Notre Dame, bet your ass it benefits those conferences and that program him the most and doesn't actually benefit the labor all that much because they are trying to put forth the CBA that is not actually bargained collectively. The players do not have a representative in the room. When Donald Trump invited all those power brokers from college football for his little conference, they asked the question, why isn't there a player rep here? Oh, there, there's an agent. There, there's an agent here. This This, like everything else, will be fought.

And like everything else, the NCAA will lose. But this is the single biggest threat to the labor and to the other programs that are not lucky enough to be in the Big Ten and SEC or Notre Dame that we've had thus far.

Timofey Mozgov, the Russian mob.

That's pretty good. Put it on the poll at Lebatard Show. More corrupt mafioso. Johnny Infantino. Just by name. Johnny Infantino or Timothy Moskov. When you bet your ass, Mike, is that the most valuable thing that a human body can bet? Because do we need to change that expression? When you're betting your ass, I feel like that's a— it's a major bet to bet your ass, but it's not the most valuable of the body parts, is it?

You can bet your bottom dollar.

You're betting your bottom or your bottom dollar. It's still your ass though. Like the betting of the ass, it— I don't understand that. I do understand that expression, but it's not the most valuable of of the body parts, right? Like if I said, you bet your penis, men would react to that. Is it— is it—

I'd rather bet my ass.

It's a smaller bet, correct? A larger bet, but a smaller bet.

More surface area.

My heart?

No, you want to keep the heart.

That's why I don't want to bet.

That's important.

It's just one of the things when Dan asks us the origin of, it's some sort of donkey.

It might be. Let's look that up. And in the interim, Chris Cody has dried his fingers long enough. He has consumed enough sausage here. Here that he wishes to debut a new game. Are you guys ready for a new, uh, Chris Cody exclusive game?

Dan, I've been wanting to play this for a while. Michael Wilbon is one of my favorites, so I want to start a new game around here. It's Guess Michael Wilbon's Opinion About This. Now, the first installment today, I will give you the topic and then we will play the open here. We are going to guess what Michael Wilbon thinks—

hold on a second, don't tell us what it's about.

Play the open before you tell us what it's Time to play a new game. It's sweeping the nation. It's called Guess What Michael Wilbon's Response Will Be to This.

What'd he say?

Shocking opinions. Unexpected answer.

You know about those Those answers.

Shocking revelation.

You know about those revelations.

I can't believe he said that.

What'd he say?

Today.

That needs to be longer.

Yeah, today.

By about 5 more minutes.

We are hearing what he has to say about the Savannah Bananas.

Tony, I'm not— I'm not acknowledging that banana stuff.

I'm not.

They can sell out Wrigley Field from now until the cows come home.

I'm not down with that.

You'd be the only one. Look up cows come home. All right. I love this segment.

We need to leave a little more space, though, there for us to guess on the subject.

Michael Wilbon, not surprising you at all.

Shocking opinion.

It could have been anything because he said the bananas, so we don't know what that meant. I love it. Unexpected answer.

Yeah. But it's not at all.

It was always expected.

It's the money.

Stay tuned.

But he doesn't surprise you at all with his opinion. And he blames other people, and he's like an old man yelling at Cloud.

But there needed to be more of a pause. There needs to be more. We need to set up the subject matter for the audience and then together not be shocked at all. We don't have to take all of the sting out of it immediately by having him object the same way he always does to mascots.

Shocking opinions.

He's got no time for nonsense. He works in the industry of fun and games, but Wilbon is against mascots and people having fun at games.

So till the cows come home is because of the slow plot back to the milking shed. And if you look for the origin of you bet your ass, it comes from bottom dollar, changed to bottom, changed to ass. There's also bet your bippy, as we know from one David Sampson, also Yoshinobu Yamamoto for the Yakuza Unexpected answer.