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Boy, look at this skeleton crew we got here today. Greg, where's your son?

Uh, his daughter, my granddaughter, woke up with a bad fever and had to stay home from school, so we're minding the business.

Let's give her some cowbell.

Some what?

Boy, just started the show with an airball.

Oh boy.

Having a fever sucks. Like, I, I had a cold this past weekend and I don't know, it's, it's, it's probably at my age. Once you get to a certain age, the cold, cold will hit you. You know, like the cold kind of sucks. And then you're, you're reminded what it feels like when you have like a real fever, like 102. Like Mike, when's the last time you had a fever of 103? Do you remember what that feels like? It feels like you're gonna die.

No, it did. But I had the sniffles a couple weeks ago and again, the sniffles colds would have killed Jeremy. It was a bad strain. Yeah, yeah, very tough, man.

Yeah, I, I, I, I had a cold this weekend. It's like I'm, I'm, I mean, I couldn't get out of bed.

Yeah, it can be debilitating. And, and my granddaughter is one of these girls, kids who loves school, loves school, loves her new teacher. It's the third day of school or whatever, she, you know, so it's legit. She's, she's got a big fever.

Oh, that's what we got going on right now, right? Because the traffic was bastard this morning on the way here. So we have— we have all the schools are back in session, right?

Yeah, well, Broward is. I don't know about Dade.

Starts tomorrow.

Tomorrow on a Thursday?

Yeah, that's weird.

I would hate that.

What's that about, a Thursday? My kids' school starts on a Tuesday. They don't go back for another couple weeks. It starts on a Tuesday. What happened to just starting school on Monday? Seriously, it's the beginning of the week.

And why can't you all start together? Hey, counties, get together.

Yeah.

Ridiculum.

Well, that settles why Chris isn't here.

Uh, what— okay, so Chris, I know, was supposed to be here. He's not here. Certainly a valid excuse. Is there ever any consideration to the wife staying home? Like, is it always Chris stays home?

I would imagine that she's got some reason. Sometimes she works from home, I think, a couple of days a week.

Gotcha.

There must have been some reason why she couldn't. I don't know.

All right. Uh, Tony, he's supposed to be here today. Where is Tony?

He called out months ago for this date.

What does that even mean?

He's been making preparations.

Yeah, I don't know what that means.

Mysterious.

What does that mean, making prep? Well, let me think about it for a sec. It says August 12th. Uh, that date doesn't ring any bells.

Months ago, he's like, August 12th, and you won't, you won't see me.

Wow.

Okay, you got, you gotta give me more, man. What is, what does that mean?

Well, because we lose gravity for You know, what, 12 seconds? 7 seconds?

What do you lose gravity at?

Zero gravity. NASA made all the preparations. What?

Tens of thousands of people are gonna die.

Yeah, everybody's just gonna start floating up. I knew I was gonna be okay 'cause I'd be here, so I'd only float up to there, but Tony didn't wanna take the chance.

Is this a real— is this a known thing? Yeah. 'Cause I'm not gonna say— see, I stopped myself from saying, "Is this a real thing?" 'Cause that would make me a stupid person.

No, it's a very real thing.

Is this a known thing?

Yes, to both.

Okay. What—

real to several people.

So what are you saying here? There are people for months now. This is one of those deals where NASA knows about it. NASA knows.

NASA knows.

Have they done the things to make sure that we don't just float up into space?

I don't know how you can. And I also don't know how they've timed it out to exactly like 7 seconds. But the good news is this is going to do a lot for climate change because this is going to be almost an extinction-level event.

Well, those crooks over at NASA, they want you to believe it's not gonna happen because they control what's happening and they say that it won't actually happen, but we all know why they don't want us to really know what's going on.

Okay, what time is this supposed to take place?

World time zone?

Of course.

10:33.

Ten-thir— alright, so while we're on the air, there are people who believe we might start floating for a few seconds.

Yeah, Tony's one of them, but he's— I FaceTimed with him, he's totally strapped down. Yeah, he just finished strapping down all the furniture, so he's— he'll be fine. He's like, I bought a one-story house for this moment.

Was this part of the plot in Interstellar? They had a gravity issue, right? Wasn't this part— I mean, I know for the most part Interstellar, it's, it's the farming. Like, they, they could— they They couldn't farm anymore, the planet is dying, but there's also a gravity issue, right?

Is there? I don't remember that part. I remember him like, uh—

There was a gravity equation, that's the whole movie! Michael Caine's trying to solve this gravity equation that the daughter, spoiler alert, spends the rest of her life trying to figure out so they can leave the planet.

Really? And that's why they couldn't grow food, because of the gravity?

No, one led to the other. The gravity situation leads to them trying to leave Earth. Have you ever seen Interstellar, Greg?

I have not.

That's a great girl dad movie. Um, I thought Gravity was the one with Sandra Bullock.

Yeah, and George Clooney. How did we leave out— what was it, like 2 weeks ago we did a list, right?

Yeah, of movies where celebrities—

where, where big stars die, shockingly die early in the movie, right? You know, how did we leave Gravity out? George Clooney dies in the very beginning.

Spoiler.

Was it at the very, very beginning?

Eh, pretty early in the movie he dies.

That's my kind of movie role. You get all that money because you're George Clooney and you only have to act for, what, 2 scenes and then you're done. Take the rest of the movie off.

Because it wasn't as shocking as Steven Seagal dying in Executive Decision.

That's a rough way to die, right?

That was another summer of leguasamo.

Like, George Clooney died in that movie by drifting off into space. Just into the nothing. That's a rough way to die.

His voice was still there throughout the movie though. That's right, that's why I didn't feel that way, because he was in her ear.

Ah, so he didn't really get the rest of the movie off then, Greg.

Okay, yeah, all right, I misunderstood.

It's kind of like leading her.

Yeah.

All right, so 10:33, 10:33, 10:33, we're gonna start floating up to the ceiling and cars on the street are gonna start floating up. It's gonna be pretty bad. So if you're listening to this right now, strap yourself in.

Okay, can we double-check that? Because I had never heard of any of this stuff. Double-check this?

Yeah.

No. I Googled loss of gravity, and the first thing that comes up is a story in the Bergen Record, which is a North Jersey newspaper. This says it's 9:33 AM Eastern time.

Yeah, we've had conflicting reports, so we'll know at 9:33 if it's actually going to be 10:33. Are you worried about this? At your age, you hitting that ceiling is gonna be tough.

Yeah, but—

and also we don't know what's gonna— because what goes up must come down.

No, but I'm gonna go like this. I'm gonna anchor myself down.

Yeah, but then your back legs are gonna start floating up.

No, that's not the right way. You would have to be under, under the table.

Oh, yeah, go under the table.

He's got his hands over the table.

That doesn't help.

The table's gonna start floating.

Yeah, the table's not anchored. Okay, but even if it were, like, this isn't stopping himself.

No, this is anchored down here.

All right, well, now you found your safe spot.

So we're looking at that high. I think I'm all right. I could, I could survive that drop. I think I'm gonna be—

I think so too, but it's got to be pretty scary. Yeah, but also I'm a little excited about it. I've always wanted to do one of those planes that, you know, that the anti-gravity planes, how they filmed Apollo 13.

That's what I was just gonna bring up. Didn't they film those scenes in Apollo 13 with real anti-gravity? That's, that's what, like Spielberg, I think he was the first director.

That was Ron Howard.

And Ron Howard was the first director to do that, right? Where they actually use real no gravity, where it only lasts for not very long to film the movie.

And some of those scenes were long. Those guys were lost in space for a while.

Can I give a revelation?

Uh-oh.

I've never seen Apollo 13.

Never seen Apollo 13?

I know what happens. Whatever, right?

No, but it's about the drama around it.

Yeah, I never saw it. Whatever.

Gary Sinise, what a contribution.

Oh, yes, yes.

I mean, Sinise and Hanks, they should have done more stuff together.

Summer of Sinise.

So, all right, we're keeping an eye out for, uh, is there a name for this day, this doomsday scenario? Have, uh, have the, the nudniks named it? You know, what we're doing here with no gravity?

I've never heard that term before.

Oh, maybe I'm—

I don't even want to say it out loud. It feels risqué.

Okay. One of the terms I see here is Project Anchor.

Project Anchor.

Yeah, I think that's what Tony was calling it.

Good name.

But he'll be back tomorrow because he's taking all the precautions. Everybody else watching at home, if you haven't, maybe you're not going to be here tomorrow.

Can we just entertain this for a second? Can you imagine, Greg, you're outside and all of a sudden 10:33 rolls around and just people start floating up into the air?

Like what?

What would your reaction even be?

I'd be like, wow, that's cool.

Look at that.

Woo!

And then they all start falling down to Earth with a thud.

Right.

And I'm like, oh my God.

That's why NASA is letting it happen, Greg, because the world is overpopulated.

Yeah.

And look, toothpaste is out of the tube when it comes to climate change. So this is how we fix everything.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. So find a little catering cart to hide in.

And it's 12 seconds. 12 seconds, is that right? 12 seconds of no gravity.

7 seconds, but I imagine that's going to feel like an eternity.

Be a long 7 seconds.

It would be like— that'd be thrilling.

All right, looking forward to it.

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!

So I wanna, I wanna, so I've been thinking about this for a few days. The NBA schedule started to leak. Yes, there's leakage, right? The full schedule is gonna come out tomorrow. By the way, I saw, you know, they released the Christmas Day games and the opening— Merry Christmas! And the opening night games yesterday. And I do wanna mention real quick, on Christmas you have the, well, opening night, I'm sorry, opening night you have Sixers at Knicks is one of the opening night games. So you got the banner-raising ceremony. You also have LeBron, first game as a Sixer, and it's at Madison Square Garden. Greg, do you want to take a guess what the price is right now to get in secondary ticket market for not just the Knicks home opener banner-raising ceremony, first time in 53 years, but it is also LeBron James' Sixers debut? The get-in price on the secondary market at MSG, you believe, is what?

Uh, over $1,000.

$2,100.

Wow.

What are we doing with tickets these days?

I know.

What are we doing?

But if you're going to splurge, if you're going to say, I'm going to treat myself to this game, why wouldn't it be the banner raising plus LeBron in a, in a Sixers uniform? You can boo LeBron, you can cheer your team. It's just a perfect scenario.

And remember, this is coming off of the last game played at MSG. Of course, it's the Finals. The get-in price was like $9,100. You know, like What are we doing with tickets? Anyway, so some games were leaked out, and, and I've been wanting to bring this up for a couple days now in regards to the Miami Heat. The Miami Heat have 2 open roster spots right now, and they have a little bit of money to spend, okay? And there are some guys out there who—

how much money?

I think they have like $9 million, maybe something like that, you know? Like, shoot, $9 million used to be able to get a great player.

That's a little amount though.

I mean, $9 million, I guess it's not that much anymore, but there's still some guys available, like, but like, is James Harden gonna play in the NBA this year? Not that I want James Harden, but he's, he's not signed, right? It's really weird. So there's still some players who are available. DeMar DeRozan, a name that is always, uh, attached to the Heat. The Heat wants, he wants them, but the Heat are always only willing to give the veteran minimum to DeMar DeRozan. It's really strange. But the prevailing thought is the Heat haven't gone out and signed a guy like DeMar DeRozan because they're seemingly waiting on what's gonna happen with Klay Thompson. Klay Thompson plays the Mavericks. He makes like $15 million a year, something like that, maybe even more, I'm not even sure. And the Heat obviously cannot afford that. They're hoping, I suppose, that he's gonna get bought out, that he's not gonna wanna play in Dallas anymore. So the Heat are waiting, alright? They're waiting for that to maybe happen. We're holding up our next move because of Klay Thompson? Like, 2026 version of Klay Thompson, 37-year-old Klay Thompson? Like, that's holding up everything that they might want to do right now.

Like, like, really? Klay Thompson's the guy?

I don't understand this part because it's weird to me. It would impact the money that you offer to DeMar DeRozan, but he's scheduled to make $17 million this season. Klay's gonna be fine.

It's an expiring contract, right, um, for Klay Thompson. So I don't know, he gets a minimum, if it puts them in a position to maybe sign him to a multi-year deal. If you want to put on your tinfoil hat, there's another aging superstar who's still really productive, who might play well off of Bam Adebayo and Giannis Antetokounmpo, that plays point guard, uh, that's pretty friendly and has played some games with Klay Thompson before.

He's talking about Steph Curry, right?

Position yourself for next year. Um, no, I, I don't know that that's the position that they're in. I think the reality is, is, is, look, Klay Thompson, even last year, even the last 2 years in Dallas, shot 39% and 38% from 3. Like, that's, that's the— when you're looking at the market right now and you're looking for a veteran player who can shoot at that type of level, that is your best option. Is he still a lockdown defender? Absolutely not. Like, he's not the same guy that he was in the prime of his career.

Here's the thing, so like I talked about this a lot yesterday on my podcast in regards to Zazzle Show 2.0, in regards to Norman Powell and the back and forth he had with Bobby Portis where Yeah, even if there was a 1% chance of the Heat getting LeBron James, it was worth not even making an offer to Norman Powell because they want to hold on to that money to maybe be able to sign LeBron James. Even if there's a 1% chance, it was worth losing out on Norman Powell, and that's literally what ended up happening. In this scenario here, it's worth losing out on a guy like DeMar DeRozan who the Heat really could use. I know doesn't shoot threes, but we've seen in Giannis's career, Chris Middleton was the guy creating shots late in games. Like, the Heat need a guy who can do that. They don't have Tyler Herro anymore. They don't have Norman Powell anymore. They need a guy who can create and make difficult shots late in games.

His numbers in the clutch are really good.

DeMar DeRozan is still a good player, so it's worth losing out on that guy because you're hoping that— and it's not that you're hoping to sign Klay Thompson, you're hoping that Dallas cuts Klay Thompson and then Klay Thompson signs with you.

Yeah, I mean, he's 36 years old, you want him for a bargain, but you need perimeter shooting. And like Jeremy said, I'm looking at the numbers right here, his 38% threes last year was a career low, but not by much. He's still what they need. On the perimeter. I, I can see why they're prioritizing him over DeRozan, but the idea that they would get one or the other is, is a good thing. Like, they need one or the other for different reasons.

I think it's also the potential of maybe landing both and needing to work out the money on both of them. I believe they have right around $10 million to spend, and figuring out what you need to do from there— I think part of this is also whether or not—

you tell me there's a world where $10 million is getting you Klay Thompson and DeMar DeRozan.

Yeah, didn't we just talk about minimum contracts for both of them? Like, that's part of it.

DeMar DeRozan has shown no inclination over the years to take this minimum deal that the Heat seemingly dangle in front of him every season.

He always calls the bluff. He's like, all right, I'll see you on the plane.

Well, then why would you be offering your $10 million? Because it's— if you're in that position, right? And I'm just trying to think of the way that they're viewing this. If it's Klay Thompson plus someone else, whether that's Bradley Beal, whether that's any other player, right? So if you're looking at it and you're going, oh, maybe Bradley Beal and Klay Thompson versus landing just DeMar DeRozan, maybe the Heat's calculation is the difference between those things is you're adding a guy and we're just like the oldest team ever. Yeah, you're building a veteran team. Like, that's what the Heat have done before. They put together sort of ragtag.

Yeah, but they didn't— yeah, but it wasn't— it wasn't a veteran team of guys who were so past their prime.

I mean, fair enough, but I think like when you look at where Gary Payton was supposed to be— one guy, one guy, I understand, but Klay Thompson is just one guy. Like Bradley Beal is still pretty young. DeMar DeRozan— like Bradley Beal broke down. Bradley Beal has not been the same player the last couple of years that he was before. But if you're looking at the combination of the two, you're looking to add shooting. Both of those are better shooters purely than DeMar DeRozan, who's right above 30, I think 32% last season as a 3-point shooter. I mean, mid-range, not a great creator himself individually. But if you're looking to complement what your core is, I can understand why Klay would be priority number one and those guys are the next options. None of these are like superstars that you're adding. So let me ask you, every piece—

all right, sauce here, Mike. You could have DeMar DeRozan, right now, you miss out on Klay Thompson, or you don't get DeMar DeRozan and it's 50/50 Klay Thompson. Which would you take?

DeMar DeRozan right now. I think DeMar DeRozan is the superior player.

Greg, you could have DeMar DeRozan right now, definitely not Klay Thompson, or miss out on DeMar DeRozan, 50/50 Klay Thompson.

Well, why is it 50/50 though?

Well, because you don't know if Dallas is even going to release him.

Because that's a hypothetical.

You're hoping, you're waiting.

Okay, alright, uh, yeah, I would probably go with DeRozan, but he's 37. I mean, they are going to be the oldest team in the league at this point, but Riley has always loved old players. Bradley Beal is another guy they've rumored to be interested in for like 5 years and, and still interested in him. I think the whole lesson here is that with Giannis, you got a 2 or 3 year window realistically, right, of his prime. If you don't think you have a championship team in the next couple of years, it ain't going to happen.

I would sign DeRozan and call it a day. I would sign DeRozan and count on being a team that's going to get high-quality shots and is going to be great defensively.

Yes, I, I guess we've prioritized Klay because it allows us to be more flexible. Klay's going to get $17 million. He gets a veteran's minimum. All the remaining money goes to DeMar DeRozan.

You mean if they wind up—

Yeah, like you get DeRozan, you switch the priority. You prioritize DeRozan and then you figure out what's going to happen with the buyout. Because Klay's not going to need a lot of money. And that's the way that I would go about it. But it's just been very curious. I thought that you would see a bunch of dominoes falling after LeBron finally landed on a team.

Me too.

And that hasn't been the case.

Down, Levitar!

I do agree with Greg that—

Why are you talking so slow?

The Dolphins need to win this opener!

It's because you can hear yourself. It's kind of awkward.

What do you mean?

Greg, do you have a back in my day?

A what?

Greg Cody.

I stand behind Greg for not doing Back in My Days anymore. You all have him singing songs and doing so many ancillary things that is ridiculous and you know it.

Talk faster.

Why are you talking so slow?

I'm talking at my normal speed. This is, uh, yeah, my wife loves this deep sexy voice, I'll tell you that.

There you go.

How would you talk to her with it?

Yeah, baby!

This is the Dan Levatar Show.

Jeremy, I'm gonna give you an opportunity to shine here. The Marlins, the last couple games, the pitching last night. Skeens, he stinks now. Uh, Marlins, they win last night 2-nothing. Roy, let's get to a stat of the day.

Start of the day!

Would you like—

Aaahh...

A Yuri Perez stat or an este Yuri Ruiz stat?

I think I'd rather a Yuri Perez stat.

All right.

Yeah.

Yuri Perez since May 22nd. The only National League starter with a lower ERA is Jacob Mizerowski.

Look at that.

Woo!

He's younger than Jacob Mizerowski and outdueled them when they pitched against each other.

It's pretty good.

He has been lights out.

Out.

He, like Sandy— so Sandy got off to a really great start with the 20 straight scoreless innings to start the year.

He had like the one bad month.

And then was dreadful and has been great ever since. Yuri Perez, same deal. He got hurt. He came back. He has been lights out. And to me—

I only saw Skeens highlights.

Yeah, well, he's sick now, right?

He's—

man, Skeens has struggled this year.

The velocity is way down.

That's the concern.

That's a huge concern.

Year by year, month by month. His velocity ticks down.

He's—

maybe he does go break up with him.

When he first came into the league, he was averaging like 98.5 miles an hour on his fastball. Now he's sitting right around 96.5 miles an hour on the fastball. You could argue that that's a guy who's learning to pitch at the major league level and trying to kind of save bullets. The Pirates season is, is not going the direction that Dave Dameshek said it would a couple of weeks ago. But at the same time, like this is a great concern after last night. He's taken out after 65 pitches. It was 5 innings, 65 pitches, and that was after allowing a home run and then pretty clearly hitting on purpose. Asturi Ruiz.

So Yuri should be more of a story. I know before the season you were like, you should put a few shekels on him to win the Cy Young.

Jeff Passan said that.

And he got off to a pretty rough start.

Yep.

But that was bad advice because he's not going to win the Cy Young.

No, but his stuff has played from the beginning, when he consistently finds a plate, he's got pretty electric stuff. It's been control.

A 6-foot-7, 23-year-old, like, he's just still kind of finding himself on the mound. He came up so young. He came up at 20 and then had Tommy John surgery. So we sometimes forget that this guy is as young as he is. He's younger than Skeens. He's younger than Mizorowski. He's younger than Roki Sasaki. Like, he's one of the youngest starting pitchers in baseball. And yet again, over his last 10, 12 starts, he's been as good as anybody. Last night he was dominant against Pittsburgh. And to watch him and Sandy as your one-two punch, like, remember, Max Meyer is presently not pitching. We still don't really know if he's going to come back this season or not. But whether it comes to, to, to any team in baseball, like, I know the Dodgers just acquired Schubel and everything that he is, but I look at if, if, if the Marlins can find a way to get that last wildcard spot. And right now they're sitting 2.5 back after—

2.5 back of the final 2 wildcards. Wildcard spot. Yeah.

And you have the, the Diamondbacks and the Phillies, uh, as well as the Padres all tied right there. The Marlins play all of these teams. Like, you look at the Marlins schedule over the next month and a half as they close out the season, and they have late series. There's going to be a week on the West Coast where you have all those 9:40 start times on the East Coast where they're playing against the Diamondbacks and the Padres, and those games are likely going to decide their season. But when you can go into a 3-game wildcard series and your frontline starters are Sandy Alcantara and Yuri Perez, like, I feel like they can beat literally anyone. They've gone to LA and won a 3-game series already during the regular season. And to me, I, I look at if I can go anywhere except for Atlanta, because they can't seem to win in Atlanta ever, literally ever. They just cannot do it no matter how well they're playing. But if they can play anybody but Atlanta—

how many games back?

2 and a half back. 2 and a half back of 2 wildcard spots.

Yeah, they're, they're 2 of the like there's 3 teams right now tied for those final 2 spots. The Cubs are going to run away with the, with the top of the wild card. But remember, there are 3 wild cards right now. And when you can throw those particular guys against just about anybody, they're going to be able to compete. And Sandy, like Sandy is in the midst of another 20+ inning scoreless streak. The last 3 guys to do that are Sandy, Nathan Evaldi in a year where he started with like a 1.1 ERA. And Sandy, the year that he won the Cy Young. Those are the last 3. It's been him twice. And his changeup is really the big thing.

Greg, do you remember who the Marlins traded for Nathan Evaldi?

I do not.

Hanley Ramirez.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, they got Evaldi, like, at the very beginning of his career before he was, like, amazing.

Yeah.

He's, he's had a strange career, too, because he's had Tommy John multiple times. He was a World Series hero. Like, he's—

he was the centerpiece of the Hanley Ramirez trade.

Yeah.

And he just, he wasn't able to put it together.

When you watch all the guys who have ping-ponged back and forth through Hanley Ramirez and where that all started and who's ended up back on the team, I think that might be part of the path that ultimately led to Luis Urias. Like there's, there's a starting point, I believe, of Trevor Hoffman that, that leads to Luis Urias. It's a very strange— I'll go find it in a minute.

We did, we, we did yesterday Mount Rushmore of Marlins. And the fact that none of us mentioned Hanley Ramirez for it, which we shouldn't have, like he doesn't belong on it. But the crazy part is there was a part there with Hanley Ramirez and the Marlins where it was so obvious he was going to be one of the greatest Marlins ever.

He had a couple of incredible seasons with the Marlins. Like, if the category is who had the 2 or 3 best seasons in a row offensively, Handley comes into the discussion.

And then was it the year they moved into the new ballpark where he just kind of fell off, you know, and he wasn't Handley anymore?

Yeah, that was the, the grab everybody in the world, put them on the team, and then trade them as soon as you get your publicly financed stadium.

Yeah, that was fun. Uh, all right, so good, good stuff, Jeremy. Marlins, Marlins 2.5 back of, of 2 wildcard spots. Greg, the Miami Dolphins have a preseason game this Friday.

How about that?

They are playing the Washington Commanders.

Are you going?

I am not. It's in Washington. They are actually scrimmaging against the Commanders today, I believe. Ooh. Probably as we speak.

So the game is Friday at Northwest Stadium. Have you ever been there? I've been to Northwest Stadium. What a dump.

I have not. I don't believe I have.

I saw Army-Navy there a couple of seasons, a couple of years ago. Yeah, a terrible stadium.

It's in Landover, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Brutal. But anyway, Dolphins are there on Friday night, and I think this, this goes to what I've been thinking as well. We're 2 days away from a preseason Dolphins game, but just in general, Dolphins training camp's been going on for a couple weeks now, of course. I feel like the lack of buzz surrounding this year is nothing I've experienced in my lifetime. Been a Dolphins fan my entire life, of course, and I don't remember going into a season— I don't want to say low expect— at lowered expectations this year, although we could probably make that argument as well. But going into a season where there is less buzz, and it's especially interesting when we consider they went out there and signed a shiny new quarterback. Yeah, like you, you would think that there would be significant buzz then around the team, and I just, I'm not feeling it.

I think there's a little bit of under— what I would call underlying buzz. It's the first time since 2006, I think, that They've started the season with a new head coach, a new GM, and a new starting quarterback. So there's a sense of starting over, of rebuilding.

Ooh, can I guess it? 2006. Would it be then— would it be— are we talking Saban? Gus Ferrot? But who would be the GM?

Or was that Pennington? Was that Chad Pennington's one year?

Ireland was the Parcells guy. Didn't they just give Saban complete—

No, but there had to have been a general manager, though.

I think Saban was the coach-GM. Huh.

Anyway.

At any rate, I think what you're talking about is 4.5 wins over-under, second-lowest Super Bowl odds behind Arizona.

Um, Rick Spielman.

Spielman, there you go.

But he wasn't new, so that couldn't have been the year that Greg's referencing.

Randy Mueller?

It could be Mueller.

We're talking about 2006.

Yeah. Yeah.

It was the second season under general manager Randy Mueller.

Okay. Well, I'm talking to— maybe I've got the— I'm off by one year. There was a year around '06 or '07 when they had a new head coach, a new GM, and a new starting quarterback for the— and this is the first time since. The problem is they have no Cam Cameron, Trent Green, Dennis Hickey.

Well, this was the year they got Dante Culpepper and almost signed Drew Brees and didn't do that.

But that wouldn't have been new because Saban's second year, right?

Yeah. I think so.

Interesting.

Should we go to 2005? I think we should get more bogged down in it.

Yeah, I think we should too. They have no star power. Here's an example. D'Von Achane, top 10 fantasy draft pick in most estimations. Their next highest fantasy guy is Malik Willis at number 150, which if you're into fantasy football, that's like, wow, he's not even—

So for fantasy rankings, D'Von Achane, obviously a top pick. Yeah, but the next guy is the quarterback at 150-ish.

Yeah, they have no wide receiver who's like that. They're, they're starting tight end is not a guy anybody's—

so then essentially the Dolphins have one startable fantasy football player. One, you wouldn't be starting Malik Willis?

No. Wow. No, definitely. If you're starting Malik Willis, you must be in a 30-team fantasy league.

Wow, that's rough. Yeah, but like, I even, I don't feel like I don't hear from fans— and I don't think I'm detached— I don't hear from fans about going to training camp and the excitement around the building and watching training camp. And it's a new coach, a new quarterback. You would think that there would be some of that, and I don't feel any of it.

I think fans are torn. I think Dolphin fans don't know what to think this year. They acknowledge it's a rebuilding year and that, quote unquote, we're probably gonna suck, we're gonna be lousy. But yet, are they cheering for the team, or are they cheering for a terrible season and a number 1 overall draft pick and the quarterback who's the future, which Malik Willis may or may not be? That's the thing about Malik Willis. They spent for him like they spent for nobody else in the offseason. And to a lot of people, he was the prized quarterback this offseason, and they got him. We don't know whether he's good or not. You know, he started like 6 NFL games. He ended his college career at Liberty. People are— been trying to decide.

Why do you say it like that? Was that a little tongue twister?

The Liberty Flames, not considered a top-tier college football program. That's all. Nothing against you, Liberty. Miss Liberty. But we don't know yet.

They're throwing a C.J. Daniels out there.

Malik Willis may be good, may be great, but we don't know it yet.

Alright, so this Friday, get excited.

Yeah.

Alright, potentially one minute.

We're a minute away from this gravity situation changing.

Well, according to that one— according to that one paper in New Jersey.

Right.

Yeah, they got it wrong.

I'm ready.

Or maybe right. We'll find out. About 40 seconds.

I'm not taking any chances.

Yeah, let's do a countdown.

What do you have? You have one arm strapped down there.

Yeah, I still gotta mic myself and I got my feet strapped down.

Oh, your feet are too. I was gonna say, it'd be amazing if just you got your arm on the desk and your feet are dangling up in the air. That'd be quite the scene.

I didn't really think this one through. I gotta cross over, but—

All right, we're like 20 seconds away. This feels like, uh, Y2K all over again.

I mean, we all know it's 10:33.

Yeah, remember that countdown? Y2K.

So this is a false alarm. 9:33.

Well, we just can't— you can't be too sure.

Yeah.

Jeremy, do you know what Y2K was?

Yeah, recently when someone was, was re-explaining to me that it was happening, I really— I couldn't believe how stupid everybody was.

Amazing. It's amazing.

We made it.

I was— oh, there we go. 9:33.

We're good. Okay, so in an hour, like we were right.

Maybe in an hour from now.

That's stupid New Jersey paper.

So, uh, my grandfather was a huge Y2K prepper. Huge.

How did he prep for it?

I mean, all non-perishable items, like corned beef hash. I had corned beef hash for like 4 straight years.

Oh wow.

And because of all the food that he stocked up for Y2K.

A lot of Spam. A lot of Spam going on.

And he watched a lot of Fox News.

Everyone was just concerned. That computers couldn't all turn to zero?

That's right. Well, that they were going to turn to actual zero, and it was gonna set us back to the Stone Age.

'Cause the computers would have recognized, well, it's year zero, so we're just gonna just power down.

Oh, so it wasn't like a bomb going off?

No, no, no, no, no. It was like the—

Every time I learn about Y2K, I learn something new.

So like the computers only did the two digits for the year.

Right.

It didn't—

So everyone just thought we'd actually like time travel?

The computers, no, the computers would be like, let's—

We will lose all our money. Yeah, it's year zero, and there was nothing of this stuff.

Yeah, so the financial markets would collapse.

Kind of, kind of dumb. However, precautions were taken. Precautions were taken.

Did you believe in this?

How did I believe in it? I'm— dude, I believed in so many things because of my grandfather. You know, I was a bit of a weird kid.

I mean, this wasn't like a—

I thought the rapture was going to happen every night.

Yeah, and some people still do.

Well, today's like a big, like, rapture day. There's like a— because The people that aren't aware of what's gonna happen at 10:33, they're gonna be like, "I'm ascending into heaven, it's the rapture!" Oh, they're gonna be so disappointed a few seconds later. 7 seconds and— ah, bleh.

'Cause that would be exciting. If you have like a realization for a moment that this is the rapture and you're going to heaven, that'd be pretty freaking cool. But then in a few seconds you realize, "Oh no, now I'm falling back to the ground." Yeah, but there's like some people in prison like, "Ah, wow!

I really turned my life around!" Well, how high do you fly? Double homicide guy.

How high do you fly in 7 seconds?

Depends on your weight.

Yeah, and you can also do things to slow your progress in zero gravity. There's some people that say gravity is an illusion and all. I think I've heard Tony say something.

No, but Jeremy, people were legit. It wasn't where it was just buffoons were worried about it.

No, I understand that. That's why I'm saying you were all so dumb.

Again, they took precautions to make sure that the computers knew that it wasn't year zero, but—

It wasn't like you're only turning on, you know, the wackadoo shows.

I get it. And that's why I was saying everyone was stupid.

Everyone was covering it. This.

It was a real scare.

There was a good amount of fear around the millennium because like it— one of the things that actually, as someone that thought the rapture was going to happen every day, one of the things I was keeping an eye on was like, well, struck midnight in Australia, but as you know, USA is number one, right? So when they got to the Lord's time zone, that's when all the, you know, Armageddon, Y2K stuff would happen.

Oh, that's a great point. Did you guys just assume— like, were you still scared once it got to midnight last night.

I started feeling better at lunch.

You still concerned?

Once it got over like Israel, I'm like, all right, we're cooking now.

Of course.

I was, I was at, I think I've mentioned this before, for that weekend I was at Big Cypress Reservation for the entire weekend at a fish festival. So I'm out there with, and this is before cell phones and everything, so I'm out there with no communication with the real world. And so on the way back from fish, I didn't know what I was coming back to because it was— we're all coming back on January 1st, like, did Y2K happen? Like, what am I going back to? Didn't know. Came back, everything was fine.

Were you worried?

I mean, I don't think I was ever really worried, but like I said, it wasn't something that only the dope conspiracy theorists were into. It was something that everybody knew about and was on everybody's minds.

Right, it was headlining even evening news a bunch.

So it's curious.

I remember a lot of people making fun of it though.

Of course.

I mean, it was a conversation piece But for everybody who believed it, I think there were two people going, "Oh, come on, what are you guys talking about?" Yeah, probably. I mean, there's people in this country, thousands of people in this country to this day who have underground bunkers and who are storing all of these weapons and all of this food looking for the Armageddon day. I think we underestimate how many tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of crazy people live in this country. Absolute lunatics.

You think we're underselling that?

Yes.

All right.