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You are listening to the Dan Levitan Show in partnership with the DraftKings Sports App, now live in all 50 states. I'm a little under the weather. I'm recovering from— I don't want to say I'm recovering from vacation. I mean, that's stupid to say, recovering from vacation, but I did a lot of traveling over the last week plus. I was on an airplane. I went to Minneapolis last weekend. And then went straight— I was in one of those situations, get this, I mean, it was crunch time for me where if there's any kind of delays on my flight coming home, 'cause I went to SummerSlam, if there's any kind of delay coming back from Minneapolis last weekend, I'm going to miss my cruise. I'm landing at Miami International Airport and if everything's on time, I have 90 minutes from when I'm supposed to land to get to Port of Miami where I'm meeting my wife, okay? Me and my son are meeting my wife.

No checked bags.

Right, so we gave them all to my wife. We can't check bags. And matter of fact, I didn't even bring my car to the airport, which I always like bringing my car. I'm a very big park the car at the airport guy, 'cause I like, first of all, I always like being in control. I don't know if you know that about me. I'm a big in control kind of guy, all right? I always like having my car parked at the airport. I don't like Uber. I'm not— and you know what, we're gonna get to that in a second. I'm down on Uber in general, alright? I don't like Uber, but I had to Uber from the airport so I don't have to get my car from the garage and I don't have to park at the port.

Sure.

So everything had to be really on time, otherwise my wife is literally going on a cruise by herself. Wow. Okay? So I was in a time crunch. We made it, okay? Everything worked out great because I know you're very down on first flight out.

Yeah, I just like—

First flight out, I'm on time.

But you're still dealing with all that. A lot of people responded, oh, you don't understand, the flight never gets delayed. I'm like, cool, what about the 8 billion assholes I gotta deal with just to get to my flight? That's what I'm talking about.

I'm glad that you clarified your point. Your point was, no, I see what everybody else sees in the early flight and, you know, what it might do to your schedule.

You can deal with delays, but it Your issue is the rookie travelers that are on that flight everywhere, and not just on the flight, in the airport, at the security, at the— trying to get a bottle of water, everything is just like, where do I go? I'm like, no, just get out of my way, get out of my way, let me do this. And so that's my thing. And by the way, like I said, that flight specifically, especially if you're coming to or from Miami or Arizona, two warm climate places, a sea of wheelchairs. A sea of wheelchairs, man. Wheelchairs as far as the eye can tell. You gotta deal with all that.

I don't understand. I don't want to come off sounding insensitive here. I'm preface—

just emotional.

I'm prefacing, all right? I don't want to come off sounding insensitive, all right?

It's gonna be a struggle for you today.

No, no, I'm— if I could be honest with you, today's the first day in a few days I'm feeling okay. I am.

No, it's fine.

Yeah, last 2 days I was in bed, man. Like, I I had to cancel on ESPN yesterday. I hate calling.

You canceled on a shift?

Yeah, I had to. Well, that shows how sick I was, dog.

Let me tell you something, I could be Tom Hanks in Philadelphia. I'm not canceling on a shift. Are they paying?

Yeah, they're paying.

Is that your go-to, Tom Hanks in Philadelphia? Yeah, that's the highest level.

My go-to is Kevin Spacey in Outbreak.

Oh, that's a good one. But Kevin Spacey, that's a, it's a touchy one.

Yeah, my go-to is canceled.

Yeah, I still got— I still got my guy.

Okay, so you're saying if you have AIDS, you're still working?

I didn't say that. I said I'm Tom Hanks in Philadelphia.

He's got AIDS.

Level 6.

All right, he has his own issues.

But like, I, I couldn't talk yesterday, and if I can't talk, I literally can't do my job.

It does present some difficulties and some obstacles.

It's not like, oh, why don't you fight through it? I can't talk, okay? So I can't do my job then.

You're not extra worried when you get sick from a cruise?

No, hold on, hold on.

Yeah, he's— I started putting things together. He might be in a petri dish over there.

I mean, Jesus, it's a bird cage.

No, it was just a cold, all right? It was a bad cold. And then that was, that was the point of the origin of the story, was it's airplane to airplane to cruise for the whole week, and like, I, I, I couldn't fight it off, all right? So I was really— I don't really sick, but I, I had a really bad cold this weekend. This is the first day that I'm feeling okay. I'm just moving a little bit slow, so you may have to deal with me in that regard. But like I was saying, okay, uh, got the first flight out.

Yeah, landed at MIA. Yeah, did you do the thing where you told your kid, as soon as it lands, we got to take like 7 big steps up the aisle?

I never do that. Okay, I, I, I honestly believe if everyone behaved the way that I do in public, everything would function so much better in this world. I really do believe that if everyone behaved the way I do, the world would be a better place.

Now I'm imagining all of us wearing a wrestling t-shirt and a hat backwards. Yeah, just walking around and talking like this.

I am a very courteous person. I'm very courteous. I'm very self-aware.

Curtis Jackson.

And I would never get up on the plane and A) I would never stand up in the aisle and B) what, we're gonna move up a few rows?

What the eff for? I don't know. What for? I see the other people do this, I don't do this, but—

And there are people and they're standing on top of me and then it's like you got your backpack in my face and I will make the comments like, "Oh yeah, this guy's—" I make comments about— we live in a society! You do stick? I do. I make comments about these people. I do. Because I, I, I dare you to say something.

Are you one of those people that like when we're boarding, you know how there's some people like crowding the lane even though their numbers are called and you're like, we're all getting there at the same time?

No, no, no, no, no, I don't do that because you, you do want to get on the plane as early as possible because space— yeah, because then they, they tell you you got to check your bags and it's like, that's a pain in the ass.

But if you're group 7 and they just started boarding the Sea of wheelchairs. Sit your ass down.

Group 3 is a myth. No, yeah, there is no Group 3.

They jump right to— they jump right past it.

They're like, when I— whenever I have 4 and they get to 2, I'm like, all right, let's stand up. Yeah, there's— there is no group.

They don't— they don't give it that. They go right to 4. Yep. Zazz, you a clapper?

No, I'm just making sure.

No, that's courteous.

The pilot did his job. It's literally his job.

You don't think he likes a little pat on the back?

You think he could hear me with that door shut? Yeah, man.

No way. Everyone does it. If we have arousing applause, the whole plane, come on guys. No. She's like, "Wow, what's that noise?" They appreciate it.

Did a great job landing it. Look, if we crashed, I wouldn't boo. So if we get there— You should though.

We should normalize. If you crash, boo, boo!

Boo! You suck! This guy sucks!

Come on, man. It's your job.

Speaking of this Uber, I mean— Uber, I don't like traveling in Uber because I get nauseous sitting in the back seat. What?

Yeah. You can sit in the front.

No, no, that's weird, man. I get nauseous sitting in the back seat, so I don't like Uber in general. It's a part about traveling during football season. I travel with ESPN, and obviously I take plenty of Uber when I get to the airports. Like, I really hate that part of traveling. Uber stinks. And but, but Uber is a necessary evil.

This Uber Eats though, hold on now, let me tell you something. Uber, I'm good with it, right?

Uber, it is good.

Uber, like, it, it, for the most part, you know, there was a time where Lyft was so much cheaper. Those days are long gone where Lyft now is like the premium one. Uber, I have Uber One through my credit card, so I get upgrades and stuff. I like Uber. A little $15 credit every month. I like Uber.

Okay, Uber, we'll do it. Uber's fine.

Uber's fine. Uber Eats. Uber Eats.

Liars. Uber Eats has gone— Liars. Downhill.

Let me ask you something, Uber Eats. Where is the czar of Uber Eats? President of Uber Eats? Chairman of Uber Eats? If you give me a category of restaurant that says under 30 minutes And so I pick what is, oh, 15 to 20.

Do you— will you stray away from one that's over 30 minutes and/or will you stray away from the ones that have a charge?

Yes, I'm looking for the free delivery.

Yeah. For sure. Yeah.

And then it depends on how hungry I am and what kind of food I'm looking for. Like if I'm looking for something good, then I'll say, you know what, I'll take the L on, you know, longer. So when I go to LA, there's a barbecue place that I like to order from, soul food place. It takes a little longer, but it's like, I know it's good food, so I'll do the longer. But sometimes I'm just like, Wingstop, give me some Wingstop. Wingstop is a regular chain fast food place. Nothing special about it. I see the distance. It's not that far. I see the time, 15 to 20 minutes. I'm like, all right, let's do it. 45 minutes later, I'm waiting on my Wingstop. Why'd you say 15 to 20 minutes?

You're staring at the map, right? Yeah.

Why'd you— why'd you just lie to me, Uber Eats?

The most annoying thing is when your driver takes a little detour. You ever have that thing happen where you're messaging them like, why are you—

Yeah, you're going off track here. Where are you?

I see your path.

Where are you going? That message to them never is successful.

Chris, I'm going to tell you something. You know what's more frustrating than a driver going off path? When the driver isn't a driver.

The bicycle. Yeah, bicycle.

A bicycle.

Sometimes they'll be listed as a bicycle just because I think the insurance is maybe like cheaper or something, because they will sometimes show up in a car when they're listed as a bicycle.

Newsflash: can't tell me it's 15 to 20 minutes if you're on a bicycle. You cannot. Legally, you cannot say that to me. Bicycle, 15 minutes. You're gonna make it in 15 minutes. What do we take, the freeway?

The worst, the worst part of this, Uber Eats. I ordered Uber Eats late night in the hotel for my son in Minneapolis last week. It's supposed to come in like 30 minutes. It's been an hour at this point, but there's no way to contact anyone. That's the trick. There's no customer service phone number anymore. That's the scam. You can't speak to anyone. And I'm staring at this map, and it says that buddy picked up my food 30 minutes ago! Eh, what's going on now? And here's the worst part. I'm the type of guy where I hate the whole— and this isn't just Uber Eats, this can be any other delivery place too— where they'll ask for, "Would you like to leave a tip?" Why do I want to leave a tip before the food gets to me? What if the food takes 24 hours to get to me? Yeah, I don't want to tip that guy. It took a whole day for the food to get to me. I was hungry yesterday. Yeah, why would I tip you for the food that was a day late? But you put the tip beforehand and then the food comes, you know, an hour later, whatever it is.

I go back onto the Uber Eats, I want to take back the tip, but they don't let me. It's only the options to add more tip. Yeah. No, I don't want to add more tip. I want to take away the tip. This Uber Eats has gone downhill. Dan Levitar. I mean, Trotten Madonna out there. I don't know what the hell she was doing. And then what's this, this, this boy band, KPS, KBS, what's their name? I have no idea who that is. There's BTS. Jonathan Sasslow. Isn't this the big— this is the biggest band in the world.

That's right.

Get out of here. That's bigger than Pearl Jam. This is the Dan Levitar Show. That is—

that's weird when you think about how many service items, like you're going to eat places even without delivery, going in person, where you have to pay up front and they ask you to tip up front. I'm like, wait a second, that's not how tips work. It's crazy. That's not how tips work. Like, don't get me started on the 3 options. The lowest option is 25%. What are we doing here? What's the highest one? It's like 30. 25, 28, 30. I'm like, what are you talking about? 30% tip ahead of time? I'm supposed to— or is it a bribe? Are you just bribing me? I saw this video and I might have fallen for the internet. If I have, I'm sorry. I'm getting older. But I, like many people, I want to believe that a guy goes to Shake Shack and uses the— that doesn't even go through a cashier— uses the automated thing at Shake Shack. And it's like, you know, $5.99 for this, $6.99, da da da da da. And at the end it says, would you like to leave a tip? And he says no. And it says, one moment, recalculating. It changed the prices.

How? It like, it recalculated and the prices were higher for the individual items because he refused to tip. Dog, what are we doing here, man? What are we doing? You know what, I hate to say this, and you know, you guys feel free to tar and feather me for saying this, I think Europe might have it right. I think Europe might have it right.

It was interesting when I went to Europe for the first time, my family, what, it was like, it was like 8, 9 months ago we went, and I, I was shocked with the, the anti-tipping culture there. It was a pleasure. If I'm being honest.

Like, hey, because it's not just— put on the poll, by the way, Juju—

is not tipping a pleasure?

Because it's not just you don't have to do it, you don't have to do the math. It's also there is no kind of like— they're not expecting it. Exactly. So here, for instance, here's no awkwardness here in Miami, which is a great tourist spot. We got a lot of international travelers. As a result, a lot of the—

oh, people probably get screwed here in the service industry then, right?

No, because they have— it's automatic gratuity. A lot of places down here, and like, that wouldn't happen in, let's say Kansas City, they wouldn't have—

I like automatic gratuity.

I do too, but you know what they do? Then they say, would you like that 2%? No! 5%?

I'm like, we just went through this!

No, no, no. So, but so there, so even when you— so I, I've done the thing where I underline like where it says auto gratuity just to let them know I saw it. I'm not just not tipping because I'm cheap. I saw that you guys already added it, but there's still kind of like this expectation like, oh man, you couldn't really scrounge together a couple extra bucks for old me? And I'm just like, I feel bad, you know, I'm, I'm If there's no autogratuity, I'm a good tipper. But it's all good too. But if it's an autogratuity, I'm like, you automatically, you made that decision for me. Guess what? Maybe I would have spent 35%. You don't know. You'll never know.

You'll never know. You never know. You got something. That's what you wanted. Could have been more. You'll never know. Everyone says they're a good tipper.

I've never met someone. They're like, I'm a bad tipper.

No, I think there's people who admit that they're not good tippers. I think you're wrong about that.

It's weird, man. I was watching Reservoir Dogs this morning.

And hold on, you've had enough time this morning to watch Reservoir Dogs?

Wake up early, man. I wake up early and then I can't go to sleep and I'm like, let me throw this on. So I had Reservoir Dogs on and the opening scene of Reservoir Dogs is Steve Buscemi talking about why he doesn't tip. And I remember the funniest thing is I remember watching that movie in college and then that movie, that scene, that was everyone's great opening scene. How cool was the stuck in the middle of you scene? Everyone's like, oh wait, oh, how cool was them walking in slow motion? Not a meme. I mean, walked away. Why do we tip, huh? I shouldn't have to tip.

Why do I gotta be Mr.

Pig? But also like that, the whole idea of like, oh, these, these poor, uh, waitresses, whatever, you know, this is done. I was like, well, they couldn't get another job. Like everything Steve Buscemi was saying, I was like, oh my God, he told him to learn to type.

He did say this tip is for the birds.

I was like, he's such a genius. Why do— it's a racket. I was— man, I won't lie, in college I was, I was cheap in college though. I was the cheapest dude The cheapest dude in college.

Yeah, when you're in high school and you're going out to the restaurant, you barely have enough money for the food. I mean, I definitely stiffed the waiters a million times.

Zazz, in college, I was cheap by college student levels, right? So we would go to the supermarket, and you know, what's a typical broke college student meal that you would get from a supermarket? Ramen. Ramen, there you go. They would grab the Top Ramen. I said, well, hold on, hold on now. The Kroger brand one is 17 cents less. What are we doing here? Moneybags. And like, I once— so this is how old I am. It's a payphone story. But payphones famously were $0.25 for the longest time. Yeah, right. Then they jacked it up to what? No, $0.35 became $0.35. So $0.25 was cool. I got a quarter, I popped the quarter. Everyone's got a quarter, but it's like $0.35. Now I got to search for extra change. So I had— I swear to God, it's a true story. I had $0.50 and so I got to make the call. And like, so make the call. I'm like, I'm not blowing. They're not going to give me change. I have to find change for this quarter. I literally went vendor to vendor at the mall asking for change for a quarter.

For a quarter. That's why— that's trash. I know that's trash.

I know, man. I was in college. I was in college. I got it too.

Same guy with a prepaid phone scam too. Oh, you were hustling, bro.

I was hustling, man. Prepaid phone scam. You know about those prepaid phone cards? No, I don't think so, man. You get the phone card, it's prepaid or whatever, preloaded. But like, I was in this kind of like, I don't know, it was a pyramid scheme. So I paid for the cards. Ponzi scheme of some sort. Yeah, I paid for the cards and now I have to sell them. But they were more expensive than you get just going to the corner store. So no one wanted to buy. So I had all these phone cards on me.

So how'd you offload them?

I didn't, man. I just had to, well, I had a lot of long distance.

You still got some?

I had long distance calls that I had to make. So I just used those. Oh man, what a time, college.

Chris, have you been keeping up with Dolphins training camp? I feel like this year, as opposed to past years, is the least hyped Miami Dolphins season I can remember. I see nothing coming out of training camp, and I don't know, maybe it's— I, yes, I was away this past week, but I bought that internet package on the cruise, so I was keeping in touch with things that were happening. So I'm aware, but I feel like there is not a whole lot coming out of Dolphins training camp. Are you keeping up?

I'm keeping up, and I'm with you. There's nothing— not a lot to be excited about. But Halfley is kinda trying to— the big story, we talked about it last week, he's trying to just be— not be Mike McDaniel.

Right, that's what I've noticed. I don't know if it's on purpose. It sounds like the way you're setting it up there is you think he's purposely trying to do that. And by the way, I also think this is going on at the University of Florida too, with Sumrall not wanting to be Billy Napier. Like, he's the exact opposite. I'm tough. Oh yeah, he's tough when Billy Napier was like very calm and relaxed. And Jeff Haffley is no-nonsense, Mr. Business, where we're not playing music at practice anymore.

McDaniel used to have a guy with a jersey on, that's the guy picking the playlist. Right. The guy in the orange jersey is the playlist picker for the day.

Right, there's no bullshit like "Player of the Day," you know, we're not doing 7-on-7 drills. He's trying to be opposite Mike McDaniel.

So this is, we have sound of Haffley at the end of a practice here giving a little pep talk, but I want you to pay attention here. You know, at the end they call on a player to break down the huddle. Let's see and notice what he calls this player. Let's see what he says here at the end.

But we got to jumpstart fast. You guys all understand what I'm saying? That's a hell of a day. Like, hell of a day. Appreciate the work, how tough this team's becoming. Let's watch the film and be more detailed. Pat, Paul, you got him.

All right. We got better today.

That's a group, and that's going to build for this season.

We got a chance to get some special ones.

Keep on building.

Let's keep on attacking and competing each day. Let's go, family, on 3. 1, 2, 3.

Family. Now Pat Paul there got to break down the huddle and says that he's expecting something special this season. Okay, Pat Paul.

That's his name though, right? Pat Paul?

Well, it's Patrick Paul. He's abbreviating it. Pat Paul. But I just call him Paul. Yeah. If I'm being honest. What was his last name?

I didn't hear the Pat the first time. Yeah, yeah. I feel like you set up thinking he's just gonna call him Paul.

I thought he was setting up two different people. I thought it was Pat Paul, break us down here.

I would have thought it was him. Hey, someone pat Paul, let him know he's got to come talk.

Hey, Pat Paul.

Pat Paul, could you pat Paul?

Hey, Pat Paul. Hey, Pat Paul.

Oh yeah, all right. We told you Monday— Tuesday you'll get a good Chris. Tuesday, Chris, you'll get a good—

he thought that he was asking Paul, yeah, to break down the huddle, but he actually said his full name.

Let's highlight though how he said they're expecting something special, but Chris tries to cover it up, but that he, he's calling him Pat instead of Patrick.

Which for all we know, everyone calls him that.

He's going to be so good tomorrow. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are my days. Yeah. And then bowling happens and he falls off. Yeah. Falls off all the way to Tuesday morning. Tuesday, you'll get a good Chris Cody. You're saying you can chart this? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You can tell he had a weekend. All right. So Monday, a little slow out the blocks. Tuesday, prime Chris Cody. Wednesday, we're ramping up, but you better take advantage because then bowling happens.

Pat Paul. That's odd. I mean, maybe for all we know everybody calls him that.

That's his name. I mean, did you do the, uh, the, the bottom row bargain cereals in college? No, the ones that didn't come in boxes. I'm talking about bags that you would put in a plastic bag.

You know about those Happy O's?

Yeah, the Bobo cereal. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Colossal Crunch, not Captain. Cocoa Gnarlies.

What was that? Chipmates, the, uh, The cookies, Chipmates, and it had like a boat captain on it.

Were you allowed to have any cereal you wanted growing up?

No, no, my folks were strict. It was Corn Flakes, it was Rice Krispies, it was plain yellow box cereals. All the like sugary ones that was like crazy and stuff, like didn't have any of that. Did you get Wheaties? No, not really a Wheaties guy. None of us were.

I remember the cultural cachet of being on a Wheaties box.

Wheaties box. That was such a big deal. That was the like, yo, how do you know you've reached That's the pinnacle. Wheaties. Wheaties. I'm on the Wheaties.

Is there anything like that today? Madden cover? Was Madden cover?

Madden? Yeah. Who's on the COVID of video games that has cultural cachet? Yeah. Jeremy Cachet. Does it have cultural cachet? Because who was on the last one? Do you remember? It does. Like people get excited, especially for like the college football.

I mean, I think the gamers know who was on the last one.

It's cool as hell watching Malachi Tony throw up the U like on the COVID of that. On the loading screen.

Wemby's going to be on the COVID of the next 2K and I was a big deal. Well, you could get the Caitlin Clark version. That's the one with Caitlin Clark on that.

I wasn't— I— what— we weren't allowed to have any cereals that had chocolate. No Cocoa Puffs, no Cocoa Krispies, uh, no— what was it, the Cookie Crisp? No Count Chocula. Nah, no Count Chocula. Nope. Couldn't have chocolate for breakfast.

But like, you could do Froot Loops and Boo Berries and all that?

Sugar was okay. No chocolate. No chocolate.

You know what's weird? I just thought about— so my parents were very big on no sugars, like none of the sugared cereals. My kids get Cinnamon Toast Crunch all the time. I'm like, where was this when I was growing up?

Yeah, we were big Cinnamon Toast Crunch house. It's a great cereal. Great cereal.

I love— you know what I love doing? Mixing cereals.

Are you coming up with the top 5 cereals?

No, no, good. But I like mixing them. I like mixing cereals too.

You like mixing cereals? Yeah. What'd you mix? Oh, it's a delight. Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops.

I don't like that combo. You would discover— I like Lucky Charms with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. The GOAT is Golden Grahams, Cinnamon Toast Crunch for me. But occasionally growing up, there's this meme going around. It's a bullpen day when it's somebody opens their fridge and it's just standalone. There's one Miller Lite and there's one IPA and there's, you know, one malt beverage and you have to just kind of have a bullpen day. When you're the kid equivalent to that is a bullpen cereal. I only got enough for this much in this bowl, but I, you know, I need enough for breakfast.

To get it up to the minimum line on the bowl.

So you'd have like a bullpen day on cereal, but then you realize this kind of slaps. Yeah, you're like in the lab creating new concoctions.

Yeah, I— it shouldn't surprise you I'm not a mixed cereal kind of guy because I've told you this before, and we're coming up on it again in a couple months with Thanksgiving. I, I don't, I don't mix the food on Thanksgiving. Like, I don't have any of the food touching each other. I don't— when I, when I eat the food, like, there's not a little bit of this on the spoon and also a little bit of this on the spoon. Like, I, I eat one thing, and then when I get done with that, I move on to the next thing and the next thing and the next thing. So I don't mix the foods. So I'm not into mixing cereals. That's not my style.

I just never— I've never considered it. It's never even come across my mind. Should I buy one? Treat yourself. I got—

afford you this. This is what I have.

I have Raisin Bran, and then have Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I don't think those will mix.

My parents also didn't like the mix because then both cereals run out at the same time instead of like, all right, we're going to use this cereal until this cereal is done, then we're going to use that cereal until that cereal is done. You mix them and all of a sudden the cereal's all gone in 2 weeks and you're like, what happened?

Same deal. We used to have one cereal. I got 2 in my house now cuz I don't eat the Cinnamon Toast Crunch cuz it's way too much sugar. It's crazy. I like the Raisin Bran.

Raisin Bran— sell the dust now. Just the Cinnamon Toast Crunch dust. They sell the Dust.

Yeah, get the hell out of here, man.

It's great. I love Cinnamon Toast Crunch. What do you put that on?

Whatever.

Pancakes, snorts it. French toast. French toast.

I don't like that. Okay, I don't like it.

Some people put it in their milk because they're like, I don't want to have Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but I like the milk that comes with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Oh, would you—

I mean, would you drink the milk when you're done with your cereal?

Yeah, you had to.

No, no, you don't have to. What?

It was like a nice refreshing beverage at the end of it.

Nah, I think it's kind of gross.

You don't eat it dry? Eat the cereal dry?

Yeah. What am I, a psycho?

Well, you just said you're dumping the milk.

Okay, but I need the milk to make this cereal, uh, you know, moist.

What if you have the travel pack in your car?

No, that's disgusting.

I don't trust an adult that has dry cereal. Dry cereal? Dry cereal every single day. That's okay. Not every single day, but I've seen you— I've seen you forego a burger to have Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I've seen it. Yeah. Can't have a dry cereal.

And you eat it with a spoon? No. Don't say it to me like that. Like I'm the crazy one. Stupid. No, no, no. You don't get to do that.

It's stupid if you're using a spoon eating dry cereal. Yes.

Use your hands. You're eating it like trail mix, basically. Yeah.

Like how Tom Cruise eats popcorn.

Oh my God. I'm not throwing it.

How does Tom Cruise eat popcorn? Oh, you've never seen this?

Video team, this is a— I know where we're going.

You've never seen this?

I don't think so.

It's not a movie, guys. We got to get that payoff.

How does Tom Cruise eat popcorn?

Violently. Violently. Aggressively. Violently.

Is it a new movie? Is it called Diglor?

Shush, I'm glad you said it. Mike? It's Digger.

Tom, we gotta change that name.

Over my dead body. Okay, Tom Cruise, he definitely fought for it.

There must have been so many meetings.

There was absolutely a meeting. Guys, guys, loving the movie. Don't look. Great script. Great script, they love the idea, love the action. They're not crazy about the name though, guys. Why?

I could see Tom Cruise going, why?

What do you mean? I mean, it's just the name makes people uncomfortable. Why? Why? Well, it's just the way the letters are come together, it's very reminiscent of Diggs. Yeah, so we could say Diggs. How about Diggs as a name? Guy Diggs?

No, no, no, no. He digs? No, he's a digger.

Do you think they pitched it with an A?

How about Digger?

I can see Tom being like Why don't you say what you mean?

I mean, Tom, I, I, I just think you're making the person that volunteers this information be the racist. I, I just— yeah, it just sounds like another word that is kind of a little provocative. What word? I don't under—

I don't know what you're talking about.

I mean, I think we can all read between the lines, Tom, that that word sounds like another word.

Big bold letters on every poster.

You gotta do the Delroy Lindo. So why don't you just say it? Say the word. Say the word. Well, I can't say the word, but— Oh, go ahead, say the word!

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Dan Levatar. Analytics have/are ruining the game we're playing. AI hoops. That's his team.

His team's in the forefront of all that.

Dan's ass, don't steal my thunder.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Jonathan Sasslow. I get carried away. This is the Dan Levatar Show. I want to read you this tweet that I saw over the weekend. You know, college football, we're how many weeks away? Uh, end of August, right?

So we're what, 3 weeks? 3 more Saturdays.

Oh, that is beautiful. 3 weeks away from college football being in full swing. And I don't know if you've noticed, Amin, but the University of Miami, they don't have an athletic athletic director. It's pretty crazy. Uh, irrelevant, says Nick.

I don't know about that. For the football program, you think the football program is waiting for some nerd AD to check all of us? They're doing— I don't think it's—

I don't think it's irrelevant because this is such a transformative time.

Yeah, it feels like every week there's a new debate, you know, and we need to have a representative.

But don't you think— oh, you're talking about like the stuff that's happening in Congress and stuff? Yeah, I would always—

I would feel better. Okay. With you know, someone at the helm right now. And it's, it's different for every school. When Miami, I think, is a victim right now of kind of operating itself without an athletic director. I mean, Dan Radakovich was on his way to retirement, and Mario Cristobal definitely runs his program.

Yeah, like they can operate themselves without an AD, but all the stuff happening outside of the school, you need an athletic director.

No, no. Okay, that's my bad. Ball off me because I was thinking about in terms of programs, a machine. Now you got to get to the Like, it's back on track. But in terms of the bigger picture things of like, what's gonna happen, for example, in this Protect College Sports Act, which by the way did not get voted on. So now they gotta go into the recess. It's gonna stay until September before they vote on it. One of the things in there is a provision that if you leave, you have 180 days within the enactment of the act to leave your power conference in order to join another conference. Miami and Florida State are like, hell no, because that'll just let more teams slip out of the ACC.

Yeah, it was a poison pill written by Notre Dame, but I still think you have to pay your buyout. Sure. The politicians started, you know, stapling the trans stuff, and it was just a big like, pump under the table, alright, this will kill it a little bit.

Yeah. So I saw this tweet over the weekend from Chris Felica, you know, he's the bear. He's now on Fox, right? But he was College GameDay, he was like the main producer, right?

Yeah, he's on Big Noon. I know him from group chats.

Okay, so Chris Felica, I saw him on a— he was on my flight on one flight home last year from college football. He was sitting in first class. I wasn't— I wasn't that flight. I wanted to say something like, hey, I'm in one of the group chats you're in, you know. Which one are you in? Uh, I think he's in my hockey one.

He is. Yeah. There's no way hockey's as good as the tennis one. There's no chance. Tennis is the number one, right? That's the crown jewel group chat. Tennis has juice. That— tell me one that's better. You can't tell me.

The wrestling chat's good.

It's not as good as tennis. Tennis is the best. There's no chance it's as good as tennis. I like the hockey chat though.

Those are like my 3 favorites.

So Chris Felica, uh, he tweets this out, all right? Putting on my alum hat, and if that didn't let you know, he's a Miami alum. Okay. The future landscape of college sports is being decided and Miami does not have an AD. Joe E, that's Joe Echevarria, bleeds orange and green and has done a great job as president. Manny Khadri bleeds orange and green and is chairman of the board. Rudy F. bleeds orange and green and has become one of the biggest power brokers over there. Mario would probably die for UM and wanted to be nothing other than the head coach of his alma mater. Oh, Mario Cristobal. There's a very qualified AD candidate out there who fits the profile of bleeding orange and green that should be hired before the college football future landscape is determined. Is it Mike R? He's talking about Joe Favola, right? Jim Favola. I said Joe. Yeah, I'm just so sorry.

Yeah, I'm so sorry. He's talking about Jim Favola. He's talking about Jim Favola, who is linked and has been a part of this process. But I think The Athletic reported that 3 candidates, 4 candidates were flying in and there's some progress.

Is Jim one of them or we don't know?

I have not confirmed Jim. I have confirmed like one of the names that I know. That's coming in. And I know like some people that are no longer in the search. I know Jim is a candidate for—

Can you confirm that Michael Yormark is no longer in the search?

That's dead. That's what I'm talking about.

That's dead to never return.

I think Chris brought up a lot of good points in that this thing got turned around because we got people in places— school president, VP, Manny Cadre, Mario Cristobal— that love the program and know what the standard was beforehand, and I think that that means a lot. And I think most Canes fans that know about Jim and what Joe has described feel like Jim should be the guy.

You know why I called Jim Favola there Joe Favola?

Because his brother Joe Favola, man.

No, because I mix— Crazy Joe Favola. I mix him up with Crazy Joe DiVola.

Oh yeah. That's why. Dressed like a clown.

I was thinking of Crazy Joe DiVola.

Waiting for Jerry outside. Outside the opera. Yeah.

I— this is— it's taking longer to do this than it is to elect a pope. This is not how searches should go. It's crazy. And every day you're picking up something new that you wish you had somebody in the room, especially given how Joe Echevarria, an actual Joe, has described what he wants out of the AD, a dealmaker, someone that can bring in revenue. Well, college football is starting in 3 weeks. We've already like shrunk that ramp that this person can come in and kick ass. And you have things like your ACC commissioner saying, I've talked to all the athletic directors and we all agree there's an— there should be an expanded playoff. Well, Mario Cristobal is speaking just a day earlier saying, no, I like the, the playoff as it, as it is. So who's this AD that the commissioner is speaking for?

There's got to be an acting AD, right? There's no acting person.

The people that are acting as a collective. Is it the president? Is it the school president, Rudy Fernandez? And Rudy Fernandez from the Blazers? No, not that Rudy Fernandez. Fernandez, I believe, from the Bush administration. Oh.

Okay, it would be embarrassing to still not have an AD if the athletics program seemingly was not in the best shape it's been in, in, I don't know, like my lifetime. You know, like, it's, it's in a— yeah, I don't mean the football, I mean overall the athletics program.

So this is where they kind of lose me. I get the bravado, I get the confidence. Look, we've been making these great hires, but every single one of these hires has been a sloppy process. Remember when we hired Mario Cristobal? That was a layup, right? He wanted to be here. Perfect guy, right guy, right time. Remember the national storyline around that? It's like, how could you do this to Manny Diaz? We got him sitting in the Zazz chair just watching all this stuff go down. How do you—

that's right.

We've, we've made him a victim. Even the Jay Lucas stuff that got messy with his situation at Duke. The JD hire wasn't great. The, the college, the women's college basketball hire was bad. We lost a lot of time there. We lost a lot of recruits. So their process isn't great. And I think there is an arrogance on this search thinking like, we got it, we run this thing, we don't need an AD because look what we had before. That's an arrogance that shouldn't apply because you were literally about to make the worst hire ever. You were like, you, you were going to make the single worst hire ever. So where is this confidence coming from?

Where did the derailment on that happen? Was it really just the grassroots of everyone said, what are you doing?

Yeah, well, the derailment was his reputation coming to light.

No, I know that, but But clearly his reputation was out there and they went forward with this process and then places like— They didn't know! Like, well—

No, they were warned. I certainly warned them that you're going to have a really toxic reaction to this.

But then once it got out, it was exactly that toxic reaction. Yeah. Clearly underestimated that.

They clearly did.

Thank God. I mean, thank God it got out. Yeah.

I mean, I don't know if you've been following like the Vinícius thing. Thank you, Zach. I don't know if you've been following the Vinícius thing. I know Vinícius from Brazil, he had like a whole flirtation with Arsenal and he ended up renegotiating with Real Madrid, which if you follow soccer enough, that seemed like the logical endpoint. But the entire time you had Arsenal fans being gassed up by Michael Yormark posts because Michael Yormark is taking the opportunity to make it about himself because he's his rep from Roc Nation. And so like you watch that all play out and you're like, God, this is a reason exactly why he would have been a terrible fit. Oh my God, Mario would have hated him.

I thought they were just excited because like, hey, this could happen. This asshole was doing the whole time.

I want to take back the tip.