Transcript of Jason Benetti's Top 5 TV Theme Songs | Hour 2

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Our friend Jason Bonetti will join us, I'm sure, from some random hotel room somewhere in America, as he always does. But before we do that, I saw that he kind of got a shout out on Last Week Tonight. They didn't name him by name. They just enjoyed his coverage of a squirrel running on the field, and they They said they mocked him a little bit by saying that he sounded like he was broadcasting The Odyssey because he gave it a lot of importance. We'll get his thoughts on that in a second. But first, can I hear that McAfee producer excited by just the ripping of Fauci?

Yeah.

Can you compare that to Howard Dean and the sound he made that ended his presidential career?

Yeah.

Let's put those side by side again.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's the president if he does the first one.

Yeah, you are so right about that, Jeremy.

It's crazy. That ended political careers back then.

It's—

he had shame about that.

It's not just, hey man, you don't get to run for president. It's get the fuck away from us forever. I don't know what happened to Howard Dean. Like, get out, out, out, ever.

Yeah.

Uh, Jason Bonetti joins us from, as I mentioned, the aforementioned hotel room, uh, that is his life, the backdrop of the entirety of his life. Uh, Jason, look, smiling an awful lot for a guy who just lost the and had baseball ruined, and soon we'll have a sport that's totally locked out. Jason, welcome. Welcome to the show.

I'm smiling because I like the idea that even if I'm at a restaurant, I'm at a hotel. And even if I'm at the supermarket, I'm at a hotel. The idea that the hotel follows me everywhere, even if I'm driving, is really funny.

Let's play for Jason the sound of him doing the broadcast of a squirrel running on the field and somehow evading 70 grounds crew members.

The chase for the squirrel The squirrel is on, and the squirrel is in the corner, and the squirrel is still eluding an entire horde of grounds crew members. And the squirrel's free once again. Hemmed in. No, I won't be hemmed in. I have freedom on my mind. Trying to go between the legs, and eventually he gets away again. And hops through the towel. And hops through another towel. The force field is activated. Towels can't stop him, or maybe they can. Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to thank the grounds crew. Let's give them a round of applause. The Detroit Tigers grounds crew, thank you. That's Bill Miller, the crew chief.

He just got on his mic to thank the grounds crew and got booed.

It took 67 of them to catch one squirrel.

Uh, Bonetti, what are your thoughts on how well you called that and how that seems to have imprinted all of America.

So multiple things. I think it would have landed even better had I just started listing states like Howard Dean, states that the squirrel was going to conquer. I think that— I think that would have kept me in the populace nowadays. No, I— the other cool part of it is like in a little mini sentimental— the clip that you heard of laughing at Bill Miller, the umpire, getting booed was Kevin Brown and Ben McDonald from the Orioles broadcast., and Kevin and I actually did 4 years of AAA baseball in the same booth. So we were doing all of those years of minor league baseball as a plan, as a long con to get ready for Squirrel Gate. And there was literally a gate. So it is a gate. There was a gate that the squirrel wouldn't run through at Comerica Park. I, you know, like you're just messing around and then suddenly, you know, I'm getting, I get back from the game Sunday night in LA, and I look at social media and I have a bunch of tweets involving John Oliver. And you know, I said to myself, well, that's interesting that, and went back and watched it.

Like, I think he's really funny. And I thought it was hilarious that he was mocking me.

Yeah, I thought it was disrespectful. I don't think that he knows about your greatness and doesn't care about your greatness. And I thought he just, he really reduced you to just a commenter who was taking sports too seriously.

Yeah, he thinks that you're just some guy that's so focused on your job that you couldn't even call a squirrel without having some fun. He thinks you're a nerd. He thinks you don't find joy in anything if it's not work-related. He's mocking you, and you're gonna sit here and give him compliments like, "Oh, it was so flattering." No! No, Bonetti, you need to go on the offensive. You need to go at John Oliver on your next broadcast. Let's see how he feels.

Right on. How about, how about we ask if John Oliver wants to stage a debate about how joyful sports should be, and then John Oliver can take the counterposition of sports should have no joy. That was not my takeaway, but I think it would be a funny bit if John Oliver took up the position that things should have no joy.

The program that he does, he's been extended through 2027, which was no guarantee given the condition of that merger and the state of America more seriously and taking sports more joyously or less joyously in Detroit, more joyously in Los Angeles. Your thoughts, all of your thoughts on everything that just happened, which to me was a super unique thing across sports. It is very rare that all the people in sports gather together and just look at a transaction and say, that's unfair.

Yeah. I mean, I like— I don't know. It's a hard one. It's a very layered one. So this might be a little bit of a long answer. You know, I don't know what the offers were that came in. I know from talking to Dodger people that those are good quality prospects. Like, I don't think it is— I think there are, there are good pieces in the deal. Where my mind goes is the global perspective. And I don't disagree with Tarek Skubal's take yesterday at all. I think Tarek's a really smart guy and an awesome competitor. We've talked about him on the show and how much I like narrating his games. You know, Tariq said any team in Major League Baseball could have traded for me, and that is true. Like, there, there is, there is quite a bit of prospect hoarding in our sport, and I totally understand why. You're playing on thinner margins if you're other teams. But any team could have ponied up and said, we want to counterbalance the Dodgers not wanting us to have him. I think part of why the Dodgers went to go get Tariq Scubal is because they didn't want to face him.

That's not the only reason to make the transaction, but I do think that's a big part of it. And I do agree with Tarek that any team could have gone and traded for Tarek Skubal. And the other thing that he said that really does dovetail with my worldview is like, he wants to be the best. He wants to be on the best team. He's going to fit in perfectly because that's what drives him. And so I, you know, I don't have as much sympathy for other teams because they could have overpaid. You know, in, in draft periods, we always talk about— you always hear a GM say, yeah, it might have been a reach, but we had the guy that we wanted to get. I think the trade deadline has very similar sensibility. If there's a guy you really want to get for now and go win a title and eat for free in your city for a long, long time and have those reunions where everybody celebrates, you kind of have to go for it.

I thought that Milwaukee should have tried, uh, because I believe Milwaukee can beat them in a 7-game series. And I don't know why, if you're Milwaukee, you wouldn't aggressively get in on that. Who was the team that should have done it the most, according to you, to keep him away from the Dodgers?

Dan, I agree with you. I think, I think the, the most intriguing, just as a baseball viewer— I, I'm going to let other teams general manage their teams— but as a baseball viewer, if you're going to get Brewers-Dodgers and you're going to call the Dodgers a villain, as some people have over the course of the week because they've built up this storehouse If you're going to have Brewers-Dodgers, Mizz and Schubel versus Yamamoto and take your pick of the guys who are injured or whoever they would put in the 2 spot at that time because of injury, like that is awesome theater. So for the sport and for the Brewers too, right? A team that hasn't had that pedigree of championships in any way. Don't you want to go for it at some point? I mean, I think there are a lot of people in general manager and president jobs across Major League Baseball that are, that are looking at the long game more than the short game. At some point, you have to win a title to make a legacy. We get one shot on earth to make a legacy. Mine is coming on this show and talking about DUI tests, but other people get other shots to make legacies in their life.

And I just, I don't know that general managers and presidents value that broad thing, that idea, as much as maybe they could or they have in the past.

Did you get mad at the— excuse me, Greg— at the Tony Romo DUI arrest because of how detailed and difficult it was? We tried it here and Chris failed it and he was sober yesterday morning.

You guys tried the test?

Oh, we just didn't understand the instructions. Like, she was confusing and we were confused and there was the right foot and You got to lift it up and stare at it. 6 inches above the ground, parallel. And it hadn't even started yet. And it made me think of you.

I just had a panic attack. There are instructions?

When— when—

guys, when— when— when I heard about that test the first time, none of it was something I could do. So now that there are specific instructions, that is somehow more alarming.

Jason, the Miami Marlins made 3 or 4 trades yesterday, all of them pretty minor, in my opinion. Would you say it's accurate accurate that they traded ground beef for ham?

Well, I don't— this is like when somebody hands me the phone at a game and says, hey, my grandma always says the phrase blank, right? And then I go, yeah, I don't think that's what happens. I think I'm settling a fantasy football bet. And so like, I have said a number of your phrases willingly and with a thrill in my heart. However, meat comparisons seem thorny just on the surface. Just sayin'.

That's fair.

Well, let's continue the conversation with him the way that we were having it, because if I were to ask Jason Bonetti what is the meat that would be most untradeable for him, where I can't counter with another meat and get him to trade me that particular meat, what is the meat that you're saying is the best of the meats to have in your ownership that's on— that is absolutely on your no trade list.

So can it be meat that is procured and prepared a certain way? Like, are we just talking like straight up chicken, beef, pork, or can it be like chicken à la king, chicken Kiev? Like, is it a preparation deal or is it just the specific meat product?

Buddy, it's your world, man. Whatever you want.

Now, unless you choose sardines, and frankly, chicken shouldn't be allowed either. They keep making these meats when I'm thinking more of the red meats. I'm thinking I'm not thinking birds and fish. I'm thinking cattle.

Dan's on his own on that.

And pigs.

Yeah. So I would say a really great— I would say a really great fillet, like a really well-prepared steak. One of those steaks you go, oh, all steaks are the same. And then you bite into it and you're like, man, that is just better than the average steak. To make a steak better than the average steak, I think, is actually a craft. So that's That's what I would say. My, you know, I haven't thought a lot about this, but I think I'm gonna, and then next time I'll have a dissertation.

Elite meat.

Dan Levitar.

This is the quickest it goes. Hey, this is the quickest it goes.

Greg Cody. Everybody, this is the quickest it goes. Yeah. This is the Dan Levitar Show.

The idea that the filet is your number 1 overall pick offends me.

What?

What? The filet?

What am I— what?

Okay, all right, then we're gonna go, uh, we're gonna go chicken parm. Is that better? Is that better for the rank and file?

Talking here, I'm more of a veal guy.

Chicken parmily.

Don't—

you're not gonna go to Buffalo with chicken parmily.

Yeah, Jack, I'm talking about, uh, do not change your answer because of peer pressure. Bonetti, what's the matter with you? How did you get pushed off the filet mignon?

I'm just throwing chum in the water. And can chum in the water be my answer?

That's a great answer. Now, now you're back on track.

Back to sardines again. And I'm not having those as part of this meat discussion. I'm just not doing it. Do you believe, Jason, that owners or many owners, a majority of owners, were secretly happy that that Scooble deal happened because they want a lockout?

I don't think owners are ever secretly happy. I think owners like to talk more than they let on, is how I would put it. I mean, I think I— well, I have no idea what's going to happen with this whole thing. And I think regardless of what happens this Major League Baseball season, people are going to yoke it to the labor discussions anyway. So I, I mean, I think there are different sets of owners who are more committed to use the deadline to bolster their teams. That is 1,000% true. And, you know, I wish it wasn't personally for people in cities where, you know, they're, they're playable for the postseason in like 50% or better terms and they, they don't really go for it. But, you know, again, people are going to, people are going to run their own teams their own way.

For Scoble, ESPN ranked the prospects the Dodgers gave up as the 5th and 8th best prospects. Is there a reason that no other team had a better offer than that beyond you saying that all the teams are now prospect hoarding?

Well, I mean, I— it's a hard one. It is a really hard one because when you're not privy to those conversations, you don't really hear about what the other offers are. And I also think there's— every team values certain prospects higher and lower than others. Every team has models. Like, you see the AAV come out on, on the Red Sox-Orleans trade and the modeling on the millions that those are worth. Everybody's models are going to be different. So I, I've seen enough of this. I saw some of it with the White Sox on trades that allegedly were wins or losses, and it flipped later on in careers. It's just so hard and like almost impossible to evaluate in the moment. The other thing is the people in the league want Dodger prospects. The Dodgers will tell you that. Other people will tell you that with other teams. And, you know, getting the 5th and 8th Dodger crossing somebody else's 1 and 2 certain times.

This is a yes or no question. You were made sad by Scooble being traded.

I—

sad, sad is hard. Sad by him being traded? No. Sad that I don't get to watch him every 5 days because I love watching people who are highly competitive and the best at what they I do, absolutely yes.

Top 5 television theme songs of all time, go.

So number 1 for me, just off the top of my head, is the Mary Tyler Moore theme song.

Nice.

Because it's so aspirational and she somehow freezes her hat in midair. Dick Van Dyke Show because it's catchy. All in the Family because I don't know how they got Gene Stapleton and Carol O'Connor to sing it together, but it's phenomenal.

Oh, hold on, hold on just a second. Just hold on just a second.

And you knew what you were doing.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Phenomenal. Did you purchase studio recording time to do that? Was the wrecking crew behind you for that? Got good producers for it.

Yeah.

You just got a live rendition. That wasn't even something he was throwing to audio. He did that live for you. He summoned Edith from All in the Family live. I learned that he had that in his repertoire a week ago. It's as shocked as I've ever That's real.

That happened live just now. I thought that was on tape.

Well, guess, guess who sang it to you? Why don't you look around the room here and tell us who sang that to you? Could you see the people in here?

I can sort of, but I don't know who's saying it. I don't guess.

Guess, you coward. Guess.

I don't want to guess. I have more theme songs to list. Go ahead.

Smart. It was the black guy.

Soap is 4 off the top of my head because it was catchy. And then Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego is 5.

5th.

Oh, because you have to love us. You have to love a show that decided to score their entire show with an a cappella group. You talk about things that couldn't happen nowadays, like Howard Dean obviously would be president after that rampage. But the, you know, you could, you couldn't have an a cappella group on a geography show anymore.

Do you understand why everyone seems so mad about what just happened? Because I don't have a comp for what just happened with Scooble, and I'm mad at the Brewers for not going for for it the way they did with CeCe Sabathia?

Do I understand why people are mad? People are mad at who, though? Like, mad at others? I, I, if I'm fans of other teams, I would say, why didn't we go do that? Like, you're, you're not going to spend the money in free agency if you're 26 of the other teams to go get Tariq Scubal. All of the discussions that I had with baseball insider types who were looking for the most intriguing avenue that wasn't the Dodgers was teams that wouldn't spend money in free agency by their track record and then go ahead and do it for 2 months. The Brewers had the history with the CC Sabathia trade, one of the biggest trades of the deadline ever. I thought Tampa Bay had the prospects to do it, and obviously in a weakened, diluted American League, you could very easily have seen them go and do it. I, you know, and I, I don't think the AL West teams are powerhouse enough to go and had done that. I did think one of the intriguing ones would have been the White Sox.

I can't believe how good the White Sox are. They were so historically bad last year. I don't understand— and you're an ex-White Sox guy— I don't get how baseball is so puzzling that Toronto and Seattle are no good anymore and Chicago and the White Sox are. I mean, it's a weak American League, but still, they were so bad last year, Jason. Historically bad.

Yeah, I think part of it, honestly, and this is just a hypothesis, but I think part of it is you you have fewer veteran guys in the league. There's a lot more churn at the bottom of rosters. And so you have less institutional knowledge on some of the better teams. I also think that things get stale faster nowadays. Like, that's why we see managers flip faster and head coaches in college basketball and other sports flip faster. I just think things get stale faster. We always talk about shorter attention spans in, like, the media environment. I think that happens in clubhouses too. I think things get stale quicker. And so you get more churn and more flipping of leagues than you used to. That's just a hypothesis.

Good seeing you, Jason. Always nice to see you. Thank you for the time. I just want to replay for you as punctuation a sound you actually made on this show.

Well, I don't. And yeah, so you ever see Jim Breuer do Goat Boy on Saturday Night Live? That is, that is somehow a nephew of that.

I think. Can you just play that sound again for me, Roy? And I want you guys to all imagine if I just took a finger that Jason Bonetti was not expecting and put it in a surprise place on Jason Bonetti. Is this what it would sound like?

Well, I don't— Yeah. If, if I were starting the debate that we were going to sanction with me and John Oliver and you poked me in the ribs, that's exactly how it would sound. I'm formulating a thought and then somehow you're prodding me. I don't, it's inappropriate. I don't.

I wasn't thinking of the ribs.

Well, I don't.

Lower. Oh yeah.

Well, neither was I when I decided on a nice filet. Well, I don't.

That sounds a little bit like Lou Dobbs trying to and failing to say the name of a Mexican city that had an X in it on the teleprompter.

Guadalajara. Was he going for Oaxaca?

Yes, yes, it was not— I don't think it was Guadalajara. I think it was Oaxaca.

Play those two together. Sorry, Dan, you— I don't want to do your job, but play those two back to back, please. Well, I don't— Guadalajara. Yeah, that's too similar. That's not good.

Uh, see you later, Jason. Nice seeing you. Always good.

Great pleasure.

It sounded like great pleasure. It did. That's what— that's what it sounded like to me.

A friend forever.

I love that, you know. Yeah, let's have a good time. Let's have a good time. Well, we're just here to have a good time.

I'm so afraid of the day we burn this bridge. It's gonna happen. He can't be our friend forever.

Dan's gonna ask him to do something.

Yeah, Dan already put a finger in his butt.

I didn't say that.

Hey, you already inside.

I said it wasn't the ribs.

He was a pro.

There's all sorts of body parts.

Before I go, can we You cannot play Operation with me.

Those tweezers do two things. One, it's just, it's inappropriate. Two, it's the game that I was worst at as a kid. The motor skills are not good on this guy to go ahead and get like the heart and the rib cage and the tweezers and all that. I'm getting PTSD on this thing. I don't like it.

Request denied.

Well, I don't—

Thank you, Jason. Good seeing you. I'm sorry about your—

Tigers. Dan Levitar.

I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public.

Great Cody.

Don't do it.

This is the Dan Levitar Show.

Can you guys tell me, because Amin's got to be delighting in this, and I imagine Greg is as well, this is really blown up in the face of Johnny and Fonz Infante. Infantino, excuse me. I got his name wrong.

I don't—

Did you make him Omar Infante? Yeah. Infantino going from, I'm going to sell 20% of the World Cup and get rich, to now it would appear, is he going to lose his job? Like, is he begging to keep his job?

It is one of the great, almost instant comeuppance in the history of the world, certainly in the history of sports. That this guy, like, 2 weeks ago, Mike, was riding on this crazy high of the most profitable World Cup ever. He sold out everything and he's pushing the limits of his power, like, how far can we take this? And devises this plan to sell it all basically to private equity, which is basically the Kushner family and the Trumps by proxy. And for him to make this massive payday as the commissioner of this thing. And then one by one, and Mike, we're in the same group chat where we're like, I don't think anyone's— I think he's gonna do it because no one's strong enough to stand up and actually call him out on the bullshit. And yet it happened. The unbelievable happened. The voices all spoke up of the people, and the people went through the federations, and the federations through the continental federations. And all of a sudden it's like this guy who was at the top, the pinnacle of sports and political power is now in a place where he's like, hey, can I meet with Marco Rubio so he can tell everyone that I'm actually a good guy?

And Marco Rubio's like, we ain't meeting.

That was denied. Yeah, there was a report out there that he was turning to the Trump administration, specifically Marco Rubio, to help save his bacon. But that— I think a lot of people are realizing there's a whole big world here, and invoking this administration and having this administration as part part of the private equity group. That's not a point four in the rest of the world. That's a, it's a quick way to lose friends and allies. And I think there is a world, and I do think eventually we'll get there, right? I do think eventually, because $40 million to say yes, $10 million if you say no, that's a strong offer. And you're building, you're, you're building value out of nowhere.

Oh, but this is an all-time bag fumble.

It wasn't— it was because it was an all-time heat check. Check because he was doing crazy corrupt things already with tickets. Like, there was great investigative reporting. He would— one of the famous ways to secure votes is promise World Cups. Another thing is, as it was discovered, federations were getting tickets. You're not supposed to sell those tickets, but FIFA created the secondary market. And you know, if you're Gibraltar and you get 8 tickets to the World Cup final, that's a lot of dough for people that work for Gibraltar. And he was going to do the same thing with $40 million cash if you say— if you said yes. I do think that there is a world where this will happen. I think we're eventually going to get there. But he did it so where it needed to be a scalpel, he took a chainsaw to it and he hitched his train to people that are somehow less popular than he is globally. And the rest of FIFA just showed him who's boss.

And the timing of it was just spectacularly bad. He had some goodwill kill from a financially successful World Cup that the world seemed to love, for the most part. But then, global soccer was already predisposed to hate the fact that he was in bed with Trump, that Infantino, and therefore FIFA and Trump, were like kissing cousins, including the Balogun red card suspension lift. And now they're making a plan that's going to to benefit Kushner. And as Amin said, by extension, Trump. It was just ugly from the beginning. It was, it was Infantino versus the world and the world won. Global soccer stood up as one. The Europe Federation is heroic for threatening a boycott. Other—

Except for Czechia. Yeah, that was down for it. Yeah. Qatar offered support. There were plenty of people that had this support, but now it's the tide is going in a direction where you have to distance yourself.

Well, I love the idea that like this thing has been thwarted and everyone rejoices and like, yeah, UEFA's like, yeah, we did it. Yeah, we won.

We won.

Don't— right.

This isn't going away the same way that Super League constructs didn't entirely go away. And I still think that the great mistake of Super League was they did the blunt force thing that John Infantino just tried to replicate. And any time you invoke American ideals and private equity to the global game, that's not going to go well, especially with personalities attached to this private equity firm that were attached to it. But I do think this thing is going to happen in some sort of form or fashion where they create a media company that handles their media rights and everyone gets more money because they just found— they just stumbled upon something that has billions of dollars worth of, uh, of value and they don't actually see that much power.

Isn't it crazy if they had— if he had just done it run-of-the-mill corruption, this absolutely gone through.

To do.

But it was just like Mike said, such a forceful level of corruption with the most corrupt of them all, right? Like, I'm not only going to do this corruption, I'm going to do it forcefully, and I'm going to do it with Mr. Corruption over here. Like, we're gonna do like a, like a Batman and Robin of just corruption. That's levels and levels. Mike put it best, it was a heat check. It's like, I wonder if I can make this shot from half court lefty.

The, the vanity involved in this The FIFA presidents always seem to get this crazy ego attached, but Gianni Infantino would force himself into marketing campaigns. They would come out with like lineup tiles and Gianni Infantino would be there crossing his arms. You'd make sure that Gianni Infantino was always pictured in every match. They'd show, they'd show the FIFA president. He became the main character. He started feeling himself. Himself in ways that when you even compare to Sepp Blatter were beyond the pale.

To be fair, Mike, the president of FIFA is one of the legitimate most powerful men in the world, or women if a woman ever gets to be one.

Ah!

Right? So it's like there's a part of me where like it's not hubris. The guy really is very powerful. But Icarus, there is a level where you can't fly too close to that sun, and he did.

And the level is I'm going to do this backroom dealing with this current administration and UEFA almost has like a moral obligation to defend the sanctity of the game. But also, we cannot Americanize this to this extent.

The irony, of course, is that private equity is already doing this in the EPL across Europe. Like, it's happening already. It's just like, not this one. We're not going to do this.

But Mike just said backroom, and it wasn't backroom. That's part of the problem. And Mike just said it's going to happen. Not for Infantino. It's not like that.

Nope.

Like that. It may happen in some form, however shadowy it has to be, but it's not going to happen for the guy that was trying to make it happen. Someone else is going to capitalize on that idea. He's not going to get to because the shame arrives at his doorstep in a way that made everybody find it repugnant. Like, you just don't get that kind of consensus. We knew before any of this started, we all— we were all talking about while you were doing a show called Morally Abhorrent that FIFA is the most corrupt organization in the history of sports. And this is the most corrupt administration in the history of American government. Those two things combining to make it not a backdoor deal, a front door deal that everyone objected to, makes it like you got to go back into the shadows and try to pull that off. You're not going to pull it off in front of everybody's faces.

Well, you said it best, Dan. You're not going to pull it off. It might be pulled off, maybe not even that long from now, but it won't be you. It is the instant comeuppance of Gianni Infantino. And I have in front of me here, it list of the top 5 comeuppances in sports history.

Whoa, I love this.

Very exciting.

But, but I, I do want to correct something. There— what this was reported on, and some people in soccer and some federations, he clued some in, he had some allies. There were some people in the news, in the know, that knew this was coming. But that was also part of the blunt force mistake that Johnny Infantino made. People were finding out about about this as if it was progressed all the way to the finish line. And by the way, you have 2 weeks to take this $40 million or $10 million take-it-or-leave-it deal. He just went about it entirely the wrong way.

That part was crazy, right? That trying to rush it through. Uh, Jeremy, can you please get me, before we get to this top 5 list of comeuppances, uh, the, uh, beyond the pale? I don't know where that expression comes from, even though I hear it all the time.

I've always wondered that one.

I've always wondered spelling.

And, uh, and also saved the bacon. I don't know why the bacon is being saved.

All right, so here we go. Save your bacon. You might think it's like, oh, bacon the food. It's not. They used to refer to bacon as skin. So human skin was referred to as bacon. It was slang for the human body. So when you were saving one's bacon, you were literally saving them from danger and saving their physical skin. It evolved over time. Bacon became a hot food commodity, and the story goes on.

@LebatardShow, did you know that human skin was once known as bacon?

And then you have to go further with, with pale. Obviously pale derives from the Latin palus, meaning wooden stake. It also gives us in term impale, right, or palisade, which is a fence made from pales, P-A-L-E. So the origin of Beyond Pale is pretty much an open-and-shut case. In Ireland, English colonizers barricaded themselves from what they believed to be an uncivilized native population. There was lawlessness, and it lay outside the pale.

It's great that you knew all of that off of the top of your head. Uh, I mean, are you ready to do top 5 here?

I'm ready. O-L-I, dancing, watch out for the Lions, who then go on to go winless that season.

Make some noise in the playoffs is what I said, and then they became the first winless team in NFL history.

November.

Yeah.

Oh, oh, I thought that was Greg. I thought it was Greg Live. Look at that.

I thought it was too. OLI.

Me saying that the Bucks were done for, they wouldn't win a game, and they ended up not losing a game for the rest of the finals, and then I had to go be in the, in the dunk tank.

Yeah.

Number 5. 5th, LeBron James in 2010 saying not 6, not 7, not 8, not 9, all that stuff, and then losing to JJ Barea.

Yeah.

Number 4, Ryan Braun blaming the FedEx guy for a positive test and then turning out, yeah, he actually took it and did it.

Yeah.

The Hebrewer.

Hey.

Number 3, Donald Sterling questioning why everyone's making a big deal Matt Johnson, he has AIDS.

Yeah.

Number 2, Lance Armstrong destroying the careers of multiple people.

Yeah.

After that, he was cheating the whole time.

Yeah.

And the number 1 comeuppance in sports history, what's happening to Johnny Infantino right now.

Yeah. How do you miscalculate things that poorly? Is that lack of self-awareness? Is it just ego?

Dude, everything was going right for for him. All the corrupt moves were working out. He was exclusively in rooms that were pumping him up, and he was wearing the, the, the red hat at the, the Board of Peace meetings as if he had a high-ranking government position. I can see where the hubris got to that certain point, but it's funny, now they've ditched him. He's no longer of service to them. This administration hopefully will come and go, and he's turning to them to save them. They don't have the cash to save you. No one's going to save you. The people that could save you, you alienated in Europe.

Becky Hammond, you're not sure this administration is going to come and go? You don't— you're not—

you know, no, that's why I said hopefully.

You can't— you can't—

I mean, you don't build golf courses if you're planning on leaving in 2 years.

You cannot be certain that this is going to end.

You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm sick of? That dude that pretends to be a medical expert that tells me it's going to happen any day now.

Oh, yeah.

This is bona fides.

He lost it.

Yeah, you lost it. 4 months came and went. He had it 8 months ago.

Lost it.

I've got a couple of football stories, American football stories that I want to get to, but I just want more sounds played of Jason Bonetti being tickled in spots where he wasn't expecting it and is delighted by the surprise.

Well, I don't—