Transcript of Would The Warriors Be Better Off Trading Steph Curry? | Hour 3

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Happens to me once a month where I'm surprised, oh hey, we're on YouTube TV, check that out! Hey, that's Dan, that's our show, that's Dan, look at us! Yeah, NBC Sports has a channel on YouTube TV and we're on it.

Yeah, you'd wonder though, how can they possibly be that many places that are credible when they've got someone on their show who thinks a human being can throw 112 miles an hour.

I mean, again, that came across my desk and son, I'll take— you know what, ball off, ball off me. Like, it was my fault. I need to make sure that I, I vet the people that bring me stuff to my desk, Dan. So I'm going to bring you up a still image of what came across my desk here, and it said, you know, 111.9 miles per hour, Jacob Mrazorowski with the fastest pitch in MLB history, with shocked faces.

And I'm like, holy shit, wow.

Again, quickly came across my desk. I looked at it. I was like, I gotta bring it to Dan.

Your desk is stupid!

And I need to vet, you know, people that are bringing stuff to my desk because, yeah, apparently the pitch was 102 miles an hour, not 112.

Well, the thing about him though that is something that could permit perhaps someone for thinking that he throws 10 miles an hour faster than he does is the fact that the first 7 people who faced him yesterday struck out. Because when that dude throws a breaking ball, it's completely unfair. Like, that guy shouldn't be— put it on the poll at Le Batard Show: should it be illegal for Jacob Miserowski to throw an off-speed pitch?

He should have to pitch it from second base to double the amount of— yeah, it's unfair.

I took them to win the World Series just because if you're facing that guy at least 2 times in a playoff series, how do you—

what do you do?

I mean, they're good, and they're the most athletic team in baseball without him, so like, they're pretty good with him. Obviously, I think they still have the best record in baseball, although the Dodgers probably have the best run difference. Differential, but they are exceptional and they can absolutely beat the Dodgers in a 7-game series.

Somebody throwing 112 miles an hour would have let, you know, ESPN Sports— there would have been some sort of break into it. That's another thing I should have probably noticed when I didn't see that, uh, on ESPN.

I was like, yeah, maybe we were talking about LeBron James also in terms of corrections. Charles Barkley said that if he wins 2 in Philadelphia, he will pass Michael Jordan, and Charles Barkley will be willing to say that he's the greatest basketball player he's, he's ever seen.

I mean, it'd be pretty enormous. You would not only Michael Jordan in titles, he would be leaving in his 40s having won a 5th and a 6th title, but it would also mean that he's appeared in double the amount of Finals that Michael Jordan did. And as strange as it may sound to you, it's the truth. If LeBron finishes his career with 2 more titles, he's 6-6 in his career in the Finals. 6-6 in the Finals is better than 6-0. It is. I mean, it's, it's 12 conference championships compared to 6. Like, would you rather win a conference championship or lose it? Okay, well, LeBron did twice as many as Michael Jordan. Like, 6-6 would be better than 6-0.

It is a crazy thing that you're saying, and no one would agree with it, but it's true. Well, put it on the poll. No one would— no one would agree.

He'd find some allies.

You think—

you think Nick Wright would be there?

What's better, winning 12 conference championships or 6?

I put it on the poll at Le Batard Show. Is it better to go 6-6 in the Finals than to go 6-0 in the Finals. I'm just going to put it out there. I don't think anyone is going— I understand exactly what you're saying. I have no confusion about what it is that you're trying to argue.

If you're not agreeing with me, you might be confused.

I don't know if I agree with you. You're going to wear 12 Eastern Conference Championship rings or you're going to wear 6 rings of titles.

No, but if you're in the Conference Championship, is it better to win this series or to lose it?

It's all how you frame it. Is it better to be in the NBA Finals 12 times as opposed to 6? That's how you frame it to win it.

If you want to frame it to win it on how it is that you do what we're doing, you start the conversation right now about where is Steph Curry's next team.

I know Jeremy has started that conversation. He's already on to Steph Curry for the Heat.

Yeah, he's moved off the Marlins now that they've lost 12 in a row and now he's over here.

Jeremy literally cannot show his face after the last few days. He's not showing his face. He said, I am not coming in for the rest of the week.

It's hard to win 2 weeks worth of— to lose 2 weeks worth of baseball games like that.

He works so hard. Hard to get us to talk about them, and now we finally are for all the wrong reasons.

Well, they were the best team. It's— look, it is—

nah, they weren't.

The World Cup was going on. No one was paying attention.

They completely undid everything they did.

It is distinctly Marlins, okay, to be hot at the worst time, which is during the World Cup. They were the best team in baseball by record, and no one knows it for a month. They undid all of it in 2 weeks. Because they have done nothing but go to the ballpark for 2 weeks and leave losers.

I know all about how good the Red Sox have been lately because the World Cup's over.

Steph Curry's next team, is he the next free agent? He's the next one we're going to do this around. This, this happened a little bit suddenly to me, okay, because the Warriors, it wasn't that long ago that their management was being quoted as saying, uh, we're light years ahead of everybody when they got Kevin Durant. And the offseason was brutal enough that I think it's fair if the conversation in the Bay Area is, hey, when you're going to get Steph some help, you guys going to get Steph some help? What are you guys doing with Steph? Like Steph, Steph is not— Steph is not going to be a player in the national conversation this year because everyone that's watching that team knows it is not good enough to get past OKC and San Antonio. So I do believe the conversation will start at some point. Is Steph intending to end his career? Fear there because they've got a lot of people that they have to get. When you look at— Klay Thompson's probably going to be a member of the Miami Heat. Uh, forgiveness please for those of you who climbed on me because I said Klay Thompson has bounced around the league the last couple of years.

He's just been bad in Dallas. It just felt like he's been bad in a lot of different places, but it was just Dallas because it was a traveling road show. Dallas would go to other cities, and I just saw it bouncing around the league. His shots were also bouncing around the league. Like, it was the worst season of his career. But Draymond is old. Klay is old, Kevin Durant is old, and Steph Curry is old. And now Steph Curry stands alone at what used to be a champion that has fallen out of the playoffs in that conference. I think it's fair to question, hey, how'd you go from light-years ahead to light-years behind?

I think they're going to stink. I think they're going to stink this year.

And if they stink, then certainly around the trade deadline, that's going to be a conversation. Unless he comes out during training camp and says, I'm fully committed to ending my career here.

—my guess is he is fully committed to ending his career there. The reality is the Warriors should trade him, alright? Like, it's a very similar spot that Giannis was in in Milwaukee where what's actually best for both the player and the team is to trade Giannis. You're not gonna—you're past the point of being able to win with him because you've traded away all your assets. The Warriors—it would expedite in a hurry that next phase after Steph Curry's done. If they were to trade Steph Curry, you would still get a lot for Steph Curry if you traded him this year. So I believe Curry will absolutely want to stay in Golden State. Golden State should consider at some point trading Steph Curry.

If you're light-years ahead of everybody, as you have claimed, you absolutely trade him because I don't believe that you still have the window open on getting him the things that he would need to compete this year. But let's bring in somebody who knows more than us on these subjects, former front office insider Amin Elhassan. Let's bring him in to talk about the idea of what kind of haul does Steph Curry get right now, because I want to make the argument that Steph Curry is worth more to other teams than he is to Golden State. But the sentimental value of having that kind of star, the announcement your organization makes to its customers, getting rid of that guy, that one hurts in a way that's unusual. That one hurts more than most players leaving most teams, given that he's the scrappy underdog, the small guy, the best shooter in the history of the league. I mean, what are your thoughts on what it is that we're presently discussing, that the next free— the next freedom that's going to be sought by a major star player in that league that's going to be coveted and create a lot of talk is Steph Curry?

Yeah, so the Warriors in Chase Center, Dan, have these suites, they're called bunker suites, in which you're You're not even outside, you're underneath the bleachers inside this personal place where you have a personal chef, a sommelier, and a big jumbo screen that could play 9 different games or 1 different game. And the trick is with these bunker suites is that they actually do have a set of seats out in the lower bowl if you want to go back, pop up and watch the game. But they're kind of like in the, like 7, 8 rows off the floor, not like your typical luxury suite. These seats have cameras over them so that when you're in the bunker, if you want— you want to say, I want to watch the game, but I don't want to watch the TV broadcast, I want to watch what the game would look like from my seats if I was sitting in those seats— they hit a button and that wall of screens in that bunker turns into the actual view, meaning you can see both baskets. There's no camera pan. It's like you're sitting out there. They don't do that for D'Angelo Russell and, uh, you know, uh, what's his name, uh, uh, Bobby Portis to be running up and down the floor.

They do that because people pay a ton of money to see Steph Curry. There is so much money that's being made by the Warriors by just having this dude there that any conversation about, oh, they should trade him, you're out of your mind. There's no way they're trading him, not until he says, get me the hell out of here, I hate it here. But that's the only time.

But Mike, my question, just like Zazz, uh, the value is now. They'd get a haul for him. They— I mean, they would get a haul for him. And I know that, again, that organization has been a nowhere franchise before he got there. So I understand. I'm not— I am not confused about what you're saying his value is. I'm just telling you his value drops elsewhere from now going forward. Like, if you're an organization who's interested in making your franchise better, now is the time to do this.

Dan, what I'm telling you is you're telling me his value basketball-wise, that sounds real sportsy. And I'm telling you that billionaires love money more than anything else. The guy brings in money even as his basketball value may become zero, maybe this year or close to it. He makes so much money for them, they're going to ride it till the wheels fall off.

So I mean, when we get the report then over the weekend, I think it was Tim Kawakami out there at San Francisco Chronicle that says Joe Lacob is focusing on what the roster is going to look like post Steph Curry. Well, that's not true then.

No, you can do that without trying to trade Steph Curry.

No, but I'm saying if, if you are actually focused on what the roster is going to look like post Steph Curry, right, like this, this would be the way to go about that.

Uh, Zazz, are you focused on your financial wherewithal beyond this year? Not really. Beyond 2026, you're not? Okay, is anyone— okay, this is called the yes and, guys. Can someone— I have a 401k. Okay, thank you.

I'm worried about retirement and all right, my future finances.

I'm sorry. Yes, but Mike, you're focused on your future.

Yes, sir.

Mike, are you, are you actively trying to sell your house right now? Because the value is great. No. Okay, guys, this isn't hard. It's a business. I know you guys are like team sports. It's a business. That's me. And if the basketball is, is not outweighing the money, then no one is going to make a move unless the basketball says we have to make a move. And what that means is Steph Curry walks into Joe Lacob's office and Mike Dunleavy's office and says, guys, I can't do this anymore. Now that might be coming soon. We all know Steve Kerr came this close to not coming back, and I don't think Steph Curry has a great desire to play for someone not named Steve Kerr. But having said that, until that happens, they hold on because every last dollar matters.

But what if it's a Father of the Bride 2 situation where Eugene Levy tries to pay you double what it's worth? Yeah, I'm not looking to sell my house, but if someone comes over and tries to offer me triple for the house, I start considering.

What does that look like in basketball terms for a 38-year-old who's due to make $63 million?

Man, that guy can play till he's 60. There's no bones on the house.

That's, that's $63 million. That's a 1-year deal, right? He's like, you can't extend him. He's not extension eligible. And by the way, there's no promise that if I overpay to get Steph Curry that he's going to want to stay. That's— I mean, there's risks involved with this that kind of mitigate how good of a package they could get in return.

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Oh, come on. Yeah, I would be.

Aggressive description. I mean, what is it?

What is that?

I'm just saying. No, that's just saying what? That's me.

Daniel Day-Lewis on something. I see that photo of Daniel Day-Lewis looking like Lincoln before he's about to start filming Lincoln, and you know what I do, Amin? Mike Ryan! I jerk off all over myself. That's what I do. Lincoln, who you outed the other day. Don't make this a rejoin.

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It is time for Amin to share his game notes.

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Who is that?

The last time I heard an allegation that far-fetched and illogical, we ended up electing the guy 4 years later. That is not me. On second thought, carry on. That seems to be working pretty well. WNBA All-Star Weekend in Chicago was a blast. Thursday night I went to the Together party, and at the end of the night I went to McDonald's that looked like an Apple store. I decided then and there, I've had enough excitement for one day. There it goes, that's a McDonald's. I've had enough excitement for one weekend. I flew home, that was it. Thursday night was all I could take. Ross Shafitz, son of Portland Trail Blazers co-owner Richard Shafitz, retweeted a post about the possibility of St. Louis landing an NBA franchise. In the post, they had a picture of what I presume to be the venue that would house said NBA franchise. It's called Shafitz Arena. That's not great.

That's not a great name.

I'm sure there's no relation. They gone. Kyle Kuzma tweeting critically about New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani is like Mike Ryan's weird alien dog Giving a dissertation on molecular biology.

Why you keep going after Mike Ryan's beautiful dog Roma?

It's not beautiful. I told you guys. Yeah, look, I've seen some good-looking dogs. Lenny, Lenny Kimes, good-looking dog. Looks like he's dumb as a box of rocks. But he's a good-looking dog.

Mike, you let him talk like this?

I've met it known. I'm not a fan of this bit.

While we're on the topic of dogs, why would a dog be a meat shield? Like, are we not gonna ask questions because a dog might get upset? Oh no, they asked about the infidelity. Oh, the dog doesn't speak English, guys. You can ask away. It's not like bringing a child. You can ask whatever you want. I'll give Kuz $100 if he can point out New York City on a map without using AI.

Of course, it is funny if I tell you somebody's headed into the political sphere with a lot of opinions, it's Kyle Kuzma. That's a funny name to give you. Like, if I chose all of the names in all of sports and told you, hey, you know who's down on Mondani? Uh, Kyle Kuzma.

I think there's something weird going on with Kuzma's Twitter. What do you mean by that? I— maybe he's like putting topics through ChatGPT or something. I don't know. I don't see something weird going on. Okay. Right. Yes. Okay. All right.

Can we bring up— can we throw the tweet up back for a second? I know that's hard to go backwards, but like, look at the, the, like, the language. Yeah. Yeah. A mayor playing president. A founder playing car. A content creator playing one-on-one. Think he's a pro. A 25-year-old. Nobody building, everyone audition. That's like, that's ChatGPT saying, what's up y'all, I'm here. Yeah, this dude, man. That's why I said point it out on a map without using AI. They point to Russia, probably. Johnny Infantino accusing unnamed critics of planting seeds of hate. Was this before or after he didn't stick up for the Somali ref who wasn't admitted to country. I'm just checking what seeds of hate look like for Johnny Infantino. Cinephobe, episode 318, Rambo 3. Oh, I've never seen Rambo. Starring Sylvester Stallone and Richard Crenna. A movie where Rambo teaches the mujahideen of Afghanistan how to make IEDs and use guerrilla warfare to defeat a stronger imperialist armed force. I shit you not, the movie ends with a dedication to the, quote, gallant people of Afghanistan, unquote. It also stars Kurtwood Smith, aka the dad from That '70s Show, aka the bad guy from RoboCop.

He's so bad in RoboCop.

What's the famous line from RoboCop, Zazz? His famous line. Oh, I'm gonna feel so stupid.

I don't remember though.

Not a movie guy. Bitches out!

Oh, that's right, that's right.

No, no, it was leave, not out. Leave.

I leave. My bad. Ah, I stand corrected.

Look at that. Cinephobe, where do you podcast? Roy, the real movie guy, it would appear. Quote correctly. Get your words right. They're valuable.

They played the quote on Cinephobe.

You would think you would remember. Yeah, I haven't listened to the episode yet. That's why I set it up for you guys. There you go. Let's all go listen to the episode together. Dijonay Carrington. Woke up and chose to be Nino Brown in the courtroom at the end of New Jack City. She named names. There they are. Not to be outdone, her ex, Nelissa Smith, went live on Twitch with the saxophone from Boyz n the Hood playing. Just like that. Make no mistake, '90s movie references are back. I love it when the— I love when the kids have a appreciation for the classics, you know. LeBron James going to Philly, but allegedly will not be living in Philly. Allegedly he will live in New York City and commute the roughly 2-hour drive to practices and games.

You think he'll drive himself?

Which is about half as long as his daily commute in LA was. Oh, traffic humor. Dan, this is your chance to let him know our traffic is way worse than either of those places.

No, it's not worse than, uh, Los Angeles. Kobe used to take a helicopter to, uh— no, I'm, I'm not making a joke there. I'm saying Kobe used to be to avoid the traffic.

I'm not making a tasteless joke. But yeah, we, we know how that went. We don't like it. Just saying that we don't like it.

However LeBron gets from New York to Philadelphia, I imagine it's the way that Philip Rivers was traveling about 2 hours by bus every day. It wasn't like a Greyhound bus. Public transportation? It wasn't. It was— he would travel in a— just a retrofitted RV that was very comfortable. I don't know how LeBron is— look, 2-hour commute every day is a long-ass commute, and I can't assume that LeBron's going to be doing that by car.

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Since you're a movie guy, there's a— I want to get into this with the entirety of the group here because I don't think that there's been this much talk around the movie, though amount of talk that there is around The Odyssey since Top Gun, since they redid Top Gun. But it is really unusual to have in the modern age where everything is fractured, everybody talking about one movie. In fact, outside of Top Gun and The Odyssey, I'm going to have a hard time having a third one in the last— Barbenheimer. Yeah, maybe. But it's not like this. I just— I still think the amount that people are talking about The Odyssey It is crazy to me. Have you seen it yet?

I mean, Dan, I am both Hollywood's greatest champion and greatest villain. I love movies. I watch a million movies. I will watch The Odyssey soon enough, but I don't go to theaters as often as I do anymore. I only take my kids to movies, but if it's a movie for me, I'll wait for it to come out on streaming, man. Like, I just— I don't see a point in paying $25 to take a nap. Which is basically what happens every time I go to the movies.

This is why I'm saying though that this is so unusual, what's presently happening around The Odyssey, because a lot of people, I believe, have been afflicted by the disease of just things being convenient. And so there are only 25 theaters that this is playing the way that Christopher Nolan would like you to see it. And so I imagine a lot of people are doing what it is that you're doing with The Odyssey. But Zazz here, I asked Zazz to wait and watch it a second time time with me and Tony, and we would build some content around me and Tony going to the movies on a date with Zazz. And Zazz couldn't wait. He had to go see it a second time. Simply could not wait. And your, your assessment now is what, after seeing it a second time?

Yeah, well, I had to take my father. My father had not seen it yet. I had to take my father. I saw it for a second time, brought my older son with me also. He's his second time seeing it too, and I liked it even more. I loved it. I loved it even more. The second time that I saw it. I was able to notice things that I didn't notice the first time. I was able to pay attention differently.

It's, it's an incredible movie. Yeah. Christopher Nolan makes incredible movies, like, except for Tenet. I still don't get that movie. But every other movie he makes, every other movie he makes is incredible. And so it's not shocking as a storytelling device. But there's two things for me. Number one is this whole like, oh, you have to see it in 70mm IMAX. No, you don't. You know, I went and saw Oppenheimer, 70mm. IMAX, a bunch of people in a boardroom and in a classroom. Basically, that's the whole movie, right? Oh my God, you cut up— I could have missed the part where like this airspace here between the top of his head and the top of the screen. Who cares? Who cares? Like, I get the gist of it. I get the gist of it. Because the most important, you know, I know you guys know this, when you watch a movie, when they make a movie, they put the most important things in the middle, not towards the periphery of the screen. You know why? Because if they did that, it'd be cut off. And then a lot of people like, I didn't get it.

And like, oh, you should have seen it. And said, no, this is all a hack and a scam. IMAX, I'm sure, is fun for some people. For me, it's just overkill. Having said that, I have a pretty big screen at home. That movie's gonna come out. How big? How big? Like 75 inches. That's pretty good. Down, Levitar! Analytics have slash are ruining the game. We're playing AI hoops.

That's his team. His team's in the forefront of all that. Don't steal my thunder. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Sorry, Jonathan Saslow, I get carried away. This is the Dan Levitard Show.

Put it on the poll, please, @LevitardShow. Is IMAX an overkill scam? And also put it on the poll, have you ever enjoyed a movie more the second time than the first time? Because I would think that to be a fairly unusual experience, to enjoy it more the second.

I think it's the first time it's ever happened to me. I can't think.

I'm— as you said it, I was trying to think of, has there ever been a movie? Because part of seeing a movie is the awe of wonder and discovery. So you're seeing it the second time, and even though this is a known story, maybe that's why this is that for you. It's a known story. I want to follow the journey of the story. Once you take that away from me, I'm not that— I'm not as interested in the secondary details. But, uh, do you guys have any examples of a movie that you have enjoyed more the second time than the first time? Because I was trying to think of one that I could do that with, and there isn't one. For example, Pulp Fiction, one of my favorite movies. I did not enjoy it more the second time than the first time. What? Because— no, because the first time I'm watching it, it's unlike anything I've seen. The second time, I've already seen it. Like, it's the first time, it's unlike anything I've seen. The second time, I just saw something like it.

No, the second time you're picking up on all the nuances, all the things that I missed the first time. That's, that's the beauty of seeing a movie the second time, Dan. It's like, wait a second, I've seen this before. I don't remember that guy coming in or that guy saying this or that person in the background. I'll give you another great example. Back to the Future 2, watched it and I was like, oh my gosh. Then I went back and watched Back to the Future 1 to find out all the parts they got from Back to the Future 2, how many of them were reshoots and how many were just using the archive footage. And I was blown away. I go, I didn't notice the attention to detail. Look, if you love cinema, not everyone does, I get it. But if you love cinema, you find great, great satisfaction out of rewatching movies, especially the ones with twists. Usual Suspects, the second time I watched it, oh my God, I was like, how could I have missed it? Right there, he's clearly lying.

Yeah, so The Sixth Sense is like that, Memento is like that. The ones with twists might be that, but The Odyssey is not that.

Sixth Sense, no, because again, as I famously said, as soon as I saw the— I was like, oh, he's dead. No one else is talking to him but the kid. Like, that one I saw immediately and it ruined the whole movie for me. So watching it over wouldn't do that for me at all. But Memento, yeah, I rewatched Memento recently and it's a great movie. It's so well made and there's little details and nuances in particular Joey Pants' performance. It's like, oh yeah, there it is, he's doing it right there. And I didn't realize it at the time because at the time you're just trying to get your bearings.

Dan, I went and watched The Odyssey yesterday. Did you understand it? I understood the entire thing. Now I figured out why you want to go see it twice. Good movie. I enjoyed it. Sat front row, sat front row because that's all they had. Everything— no, at the, at the movie theater over by me and Mike's, the front row is actually better because it's like an entire bed and you can lean back the whole way. So I was looking at it basically from underneath like this. I'd be asleep 10 minutes in.

That's not a good seat, the front row.

No, you guys don't get it. You guys don't get it. It's a couch, it's a bed that you get to lay on, and they sit—

Tony, what? I'm knocked out before the previews are over in that situation. What are you talking about?

You're looking up, you're like, oh, it's comfortable. His giant nose, you're looking up his giant nose, that's not a good— put it on the poll at @LevitarShow. Is the front row ever a good seat in the movie theater? You gotta put it with a bed.

Quotation, with a bed.

You're moving your head left and right. No, I'm looking, I'm right in the middle, I'm right in the middle looking at him laying down, it's great, it looks incredible. You don't know what you're talking about.

I watched it with like 6 old Cuban ladies that were to the right of me. One ended up being in my seat. Thing is, as you go and you get the beds, you gotta make sure you get 2 of them because then you'll be sitting next to a random person.

I don't understand, what movie theater has beds? What are these beds you're talking about?

Do you mean just the reclining chairs that all theaters have at this point?

No, you guys don't get it. You guys don't get it. The one by me and Mike's house is— they just renovated it. It's perfectly, beautifully amazing.

Your desk is stupid.

I'll show you a picture of it.

I mean, thank you for being on with us. We will talk to you next week, sir.

Yeah, one last quick thing about, uh, Tony Romo. I didn't get a chance to put in the weekend observations, the OWI. I, like Zazz, had to Google what's OWI. That's operating while intoxicated. And the first thing I thought of was I didn't know he was a doctor. You have him surgery? He's like, oh, let me get—

that's hilarious.

I like that.

I like that too. I sat out. I've got the Loser Game Show sign right in front of me, but I don't have either the Kawhi laugh or the Hakeem Nicks laugh. I would have given him one of those because I pictured Tony Romo with the surgical drugs. Gloves, but also incredibly drunk.

Uh, thank you, Amin. And it's like, no, man, I'm getting my tonsils removed. Like, oh my bad.

Uh, why are there 3 of them? See you later. Uh, Tony, let's get to your thoughts on The Odyssey. The movie was great, Dan.

It was, it was a very fun movie from top to bottom. It felt epic. It felt big, as the story, uh, is supposed to. You understood it? Understood the whole thing. Love the, uh, the going back home and the journey. And sometimes you don't want to go back home because because the memory of home is almost better than you actually going back. I had a huge pop when, uh, when I don't know what his name is in the movie, but Robert Pattinson said, "Get these beggars out of here!" Pop!

I was like, "Ah!" Antinous.

Antinous, whatever. You've seen it 7 times.

He was a real coward. He was a real coward.

I'm not gonna spoil it, but certain things happen towards the end where, uh, where he doesn't do something that he probably should. Get the shield! End up getting—

you get the spear! Get those spears!

The sword.

Pick it up. Yeah. One, one part of the movie outside of get these beggars out of here that I think everybody popped in was when he plucks the bow at the end.

Oh, wow.

Dan, you know about stringing that bow? Wow. Oh, does he know how to string a bow?

That Odysseus. You, Zez, are so interested in this that I— it's not something I have seen before. You're now going to go see it a third time. You're going to go see it a third time. Probably.

I'm obsessed with this movie.

So the one thing that I saw that made me think of something, I was like, man, they were all in the ship, they're all doing their thing, and it's like, what part of history would me and the boys go back and have an excellent time at? So I came up with a top 5 things that of history that would be sick to do with the boys.

All right, wait, you think that The Odyssey is historically accurate?

No, it's not about historically accurate.

Okay, well, you said history.

People from that time did exactly that thing.

You think that war is something you'd like to do with the boys?

Didn't say war. We'll see if it makes the top 5.

War is not part of—

I like this idea though.

It's things from history, things from the past that the boys—

things from history like The Odyssey.

Sick. Like, so find a Cyclops.

Exactly. Things like—

okay, now Mike's onto it. Okay, okay. Yeah, no, that's all right.

We'll start in the OLI.

Rooted in history.

Being a part of the Apollo moon landing. Imagine the boys out on the moon, they're like, whoa.

Oh, look at this, dude!

We're on the moon!

You've opted for another thing from mythology. Yo, I'm floating! You imagine Chris like, "Chris, get over here! We gotta go!" I see what you're doing. Things that didn't actually happen.

The first safari expeditions in Africa. It's like, what the hell is that thing? Why is its neck so long?

What is that?

I'd want to do like the second or third one. I don't want to do the first one.

No, the first one is sick. You and the boys.

I don't want to do that. What's out there? Look, people! Steal that! I'm not down for that one.

That's your mind's in the gutter. Joining the California Gold Rush. Are we still on OILiST?

Just OILiST. So wait a minute. I think that you think some things that are sick to do with the boys aren't actually sick to do with the boys because here we are for months at a time and it's just you and me. Yeah. And we've got a pan and it's just prospecting. And it's just dirt. We're not finding any gold. Yeah. But when we do though, it's just Tony, my hands are dirty and I'm just getting sort of remnants of dust and crumble of rock.

Yeah, but then all of a sudden you land that gold and you're like, let's go!

So successfully doing the gold rush.

Joining the gold rush, yes. That's why I said gold rush and not gold sifting. Um, all right, number 5, we'll go quick. Riding with the first cowboys across the American West. Okay. You're out there with all the boys, you're in the campfire, you're cooking a little something. Look at those people, kill them!

Eat me! Mike's doing this the wrong way.

Okay, number 4, age of the samurai in feudal Japan.

You're nuts though! All of these things are terrible!

Oh, you guys are, you guys are weenies. What's Tom Cruise doing here? That's great.

Culturally appropriating.

Number 3, being at the birth of Greg Cody centuries ago. All of a sudden we're there like, "Lo rey mago!

Whoa, I can't believe we're here at this moment.

I've brought myrrh." The birth of Greg Cody, here's frankincense. Dan's got gold he sifted. Number 2, baby, exploring ancient Egypt before the tombs were looted. You get down there in the pyramids, that's like Indiana Jones.

I know those things.

That's what we're trying to figure out, that's why we're there. You built those. Number 1, sailing into the unknown looking for the New World. That's what made me think of The Odyssey, Dan. You're out there on the ship with the boys and it's like, it's raining, we gotta row this son of a bitch.

Look, let's go!

Ooh! Ooh!

Look! Marijuana! People! Let's kill them and steal them!

Oh, this guy's the worst. Tony, you've just described—

They're terrible adventures. Horrifying, harrowing—

You guys are weenie hut Jews.

The Greg Cody one would be cool.

That'd be cool. Before medicine? Before medicine! No electricity! You think hearing your grandmother scream before epidurals, giving birth to your dusty cobwebbed father, you believe— Your brain being me. You believe— Who won? The doctor grabbing your dad's head by the— with the forceps, you think that that would be charming? Before medicine.