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[15] It's hard to say that a waddle feels like a storm, but Stugats waddle stormed through the room there, and when he got to make up, he said, those kids don't know how to take.
[16] I don't know what he overheard that made him dismiss the room, but who wasn't taking correctly for you as the arguments broke out all around with Amin al -Hasson is in town.
[17] Well, someone was saying, my stick the landing on the vault take during the Olympics was a terrible take.
[18] And I said, it got a reaction from you.
[19] And that's all I'm looking for.
[20] It's a bad take, but it's a good take.
[21] It's a bad, good take.
[22] You can't be afraid to give a take.
[23] That's all.
[24] Yeah.
[25] The hallmark of a good take isn't whether it is accurate or smart.
[26] It's whether it got a reaction.
[27] And that's what Stugat's got.
[28] got a reaction.
[29] I did.
[30] That was a good take.
[31] It was a bad take, but you're saying that there's a spot in the middle, Stugatz, between the good take and the bad take, and it's the bad good take, which is, if you have an opinion that gets you called a fool, I've told you this before, Colin Cowherton knows there's money and wrong.
[32] Some people will take wrong as the lane, and Stugats is saying if currency today is just attention, if all that matters is, did you say a thing that got attention, you see how the takemaster evolved in old age, he's just going to keep pushing it further and further into the places that no one else is willing to take.
[33] Dan, let me give you an example of the opposite to give you the contrast.
[34] A good bad take.
[35] Like, LeBron is one of the best players to have ever played basketball.
[36] Duh.
[37] Like, it's accurate, but it's a bad take.
[38] It does nothing for me. It does nothing for me. Nothing.
[39] Right.
[40] As opposed to, LeBron, not even one of the 50 greatest players to ever play the game.
[41] Now, now you're talking.
[42] What?
[43] Okay, but what is the difference between a bad good take and just a bad, bad take?
[44] Because you can say anything to get attention.
[45] There are any number of ridiculous things you can say to get attention.
[46] I don't know where this line is.
[47] This is the line that Stugats dances on, like a gold medal gymnast.
[48] A bad good take is I know it's a bad take as it's coming out of my mouth.
[49] but it gets people talking.
[50] I don't agree with what it is I'm saying, but it gets the people to talk.
[51] Wait a minute.
[52] That doesn't make any sense.
[53] What do you mean you don't agree with what it is you're saying?
[54] Wait a minute.
[55] That is...
[56] It makes all the sense.
[57] I don't like the words that are coming out of my mouth.
[58] I agree with them, Dan.
[59] Let me rephrase this.
[60] Yes, I know.
[61] I agree with the take.
[62] It just...
[63] I'm not saying it for any other reason than to get people talking.
[64] That's all.
[65] I don't really care.
[66] This is what I think.
[67] Take the landing.
[68] Stick the landing.
[69] You don't.
[70] You don't.
[71] This is what I believe happens.
[72] Stugats gets out there and he does the equivalent of licking his finger and holding it to the wind.
[73] Tell me where it is that started, Chris, please, as an action, the licking of the finger and holding it to the wind.
[74] Where it started?
[75] Yeah, I want to know, like, where in origins.
[76] Yeah, the origins of why it is that that was something that started.
[77] Prehistoric time?
[78] I mean, I think like the first man probably did that because it's like, Like, oh, which way is the wind going?
[79] Yeah, but the licking of the finger seems...
[80] Yeah, so you could feel like the...
[81] Are we really doing this?
[82] Like, you don't know, like, when you lick your finger, the precipitation on your finger, you have a different level of sensation of things like that.
[83] So when you do that, you can feel the wind better.
[84] That didn't start, like, in the 80s.
[85] Like, that...
[86] We have an expert.
[87] Started in the Netherlands, apparently.
[88] In the past, when the Dutch wanted to know the direction the wind was blowing, they would lick their index finger and raise them.
[89] Hmm.
[90] The Dutch, I don't believe that.
[91] You tell me the Romans were like, which way is the wind going?
[92] I don't know.
[93] If only there were a system that we had.
[94] We created aqueducts, but we don't know how to lick our finger and do this.
[95] Put it on the poll, Juju, at Levitard Show.
[96] Did the Dutch invent licking your finger to see which way the wind is blowing?
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[101] been telling the audience for a while to keep an eye on how your favorite media members, the ones who have dominated the last generation, how they age.
[102] And the way that Stugats is aging is super interesting because he just said to you, and this is absolutely not true, as with many things that come out of his mouth, Stugat does not make things up that he doesn't actually Stu Gatz, later in life, what I have noticed as the climate has changed all around us, what he does is he starts the take and then there's a version of horror that emerges from the shipping container.
[103] And then from within that, he decides whether to hit the gas or hit the brakes, depending on what it is that he's talking about.
[104] But he's absolutely looking for the response.
[105] And so when everyone jumps on him with Simone Biles, he's absolutely thinking.
[106] thinking, yeah, she needs to not hop when she lands on the dismount.
[107] That is not something he made up.
[108] That's something he felt when it happened.
[109] Yeah, yeah.
[110] And so when you guys react by jumping on his neck, what ends up happening there is, no, I'm going to press the gas because I know it doesn't matter whether or not I have an opinion that she hopped a little bit.
[111] I don't care which Simone Biles people I make angry because the shipping container is now sour and now he goes to the controversial place.
[112] He speeds up to the controversial place where.
[113] where the dangerous takes are.
[114] Amin came in here.
[115] You tell me if this is a bad, good take.
[116] Amin flew in here today, upset.
[117] Because yesterday, Stugat spewed so much shrapnel in so many different directions that none of us even noticed that he had said that if there were a bronze medal game in football for the number one draft pick, it would get better ratings than the Super Bowl.
[118] To be clear, he said some years.
[119] Yes.
[120] Depending on who the prospect is.
[121] It depends on the prospect, like Caleb, and it depends on the Super Bowl matchup.
[122] Of course.
[123] No. No, it doesn't.
[124] The Super Bowl will always draw more.
[125] Always.
[126] It doesn't matter if, here's the best part about football.
[127] I can't even name two teams that I'm like, oh, nobody cares about those two teams.
[128] To play the Super Bowl.
[129] I can name one.
[130] Jacksonville versus what?
[131] Jacksonville No one ever cares about Jacksonville, Carolina.
[132] Do you think that would be a Super Bowl no one would care about?
[133] That's not true, Dan.
[134] Their fans are super loud these days.
[135] They're very into it.
[136] I would not say Jackson.
[137] I would Said it 10 years ago, I won't say it now.
[138] Okay, and I'm going to remain totally stubborn in that take.
[139] And when Jacksonville does something that matters, you guys inform me of it.
[140] I might change it.
[141] You get a Carolina Jacksonville Super Bowl.
[142] I mean, you think.
[143] What's the prospect?
[144] Caleb Williams.
[145] You think the Caleb Williams Bowl would draw more than Jacksonville versus Carolina for the Super Bowl?
[146] Yes.
[147] So, God, you know, I love supporting you in all of your endeavors.
[148] Wow.
[149] But I cannot follow you down this path.
[150] Wow.
[151] I mean, that seems crazy, but I need to know whether your assessment, is that a bad good take?
[152] Because I think that what he's saying is insane.
[153] And I don't think it's a good take that's bad.
[154] I think it's a bad take that's bad.
[155] Well, thank you.
[156] I think it's an excellent bad take because it got me. I told everybody, this is a new phone.
[157] The phone that I had when I was listening to yesterday, I shot it.
[158] I just unloaded with a gatling gun and just shredded it to pieces.
[159] Not that he said it.
[160] I won't lie.
[161] You know what?
[162] Stugats, it's an excellent bad tape because of this.
[163] It's not because you said it that made me mad.
[164] What made me mad was that nobody even flinched.
[165] You guys just kept talking about whatever the conversation was.
[166] Like, whoa, did you hear what this man just said?
[167] I was so happy in the moment, I must tell you, yeah.
[168] I mean, you're right.
[169] And this is how I age, okay?
[170] Playing whack -a -mole with him for 20 years, I've slowed down.
[171] I can't clean up everything.
[172] I'm going to miss a few, and it's going to be some obvious.
[173] obvious ones and it's going to feel wrong to you because I missed it.
[174] It's my job to correct him.
[175] They don't care about correcting him.
[176] They just, they just, you know, they're, to the audio audience, he just waved the dismissive hand at the entire shipment container.
[177] Like, Ray, I don't care.
[178] I mean, what are you correcting me on?
[179] It's my opinion.
[180] I'm just giving an opinion.
[181] But, St. It's an asinine opinion.
[182] There is nothing that football can create real or imagined that would be bigger than the Super Bowl.
[183] I just gave you something.
[184] I'll tell you how it would be better if Mahomes had to play in that game then maybe that game would outrate the Super Bowl but then it's not just the dominion of Stugats the same ridiculous things that nobody pushes back on yesterday you waxed poetically you mused how you could not imagine a scenario where America would gather around a television to watch sports in today's day and age and you guys said oh my God these Olympics have been different and I said Dan NBC paid 8 billion dollars that wasn't just on a whim you got everyone was like these Olympics were different you know why they were different because the ones before them were a year off and in Tokyo and and were suppressed suppressed by COVID suppressed by the time zone difference but if you go back to the Olympics before that 2016 we were absolutely doing this we remember doing Ryan lockty getting arrested and making up a story about how he got robbed by you know gunmen in the kind of favelas or whatever there were so many incredible stories from those Olympics and we were all doing exactly what we're doing right now there's nothing this show was not absolutely right we didn't talk about Ryan Locti every day you're mentioning one thing about Ryan Lockty here and we did not spend the time talking about Michael Phelps that we did about Simone Biles we absolutely did not not this show we didn't talk about Michael Phelps we did no we did not no man I was here what are you talking about I mean yes we talked about Michael Phelps, but this show did not obsess with the Olympics.
[185] It absolutely did not.
[186] There's nothing.
[187] There is literally zero content, specific content that anyone can remember from that time period done by this show because we did nothing memorable during that time period.
[188] Kevin Durant and Draymond Green and Kyrie Irving.
[189] Speaking of memories, you also said on Monday, and I didn't check you for this, that Kevin Durant and the USA squad might remember that game against Belgium for the rest of their lives, but you won't.
[190] And dare I say, if I catch your ass at 90 and I'm on your bed at the end of the hospital, like, Dan, remember when the USA beat the Joker in them?
[191] You could be like, yeah, what?
[192] You know what?
[193] I'd be an odd time to ask.
[194] I'm saying, I'm proving my points.
[195] Loved ones all around them.
[196] Hold on, I want to paint this picture out.
[197] Dan's there.
[198] There's like, you know, Valerie's there holding his hand.
[199] We're all there.
[200] We're crying.
[201] I'm old and gray.
[202] I've lost all my hair.
[203] And Jujo walks up.
[204] And Jujo looks exactly the same because Juju doesn't age.
[205] He says, hey, Dan, remember that Serbia game?
[206] And then Dan's eyes widened, like the welling of a tear.
[207] And we thought, oh, we thought he was non -communicative.
[208] He's reacting.
[209] And then he looks at Juju's just, no. Sounds like a wonderful ending, honestly.
[210] I hope that all of that happens.
[211] I hope that I last till that long.
[212] But what I'm going to say to you then is, no, I don't, Juju.
[213] I don't remember what, tell me what happened in that game.
[214] I'm an old man. And you told me 40 years ago, that this would be the case, but I don't remember anything about the end of that game because I did not experience the bronze medal game that way.
[215] I'd just be there for the will.
[216] And fiddling with the machines to make sure that...
[217] Make it go quicker, yeah.
[218] Do you have, like, as soon as he dies, the will is just read out loud to, like, everyone in the hospital room?
[219] Crack it open.
[220] You got it lined up.
[221] Dan's the opening act.
[222] The headliner is the way.
[223] will reading.
[224] Am I alone on this amongst all of you when I say that I don't believe that the, I don't believe that the Serbia game will even be as memorable as the one that was played after that.
[225] Like, you can't tell me that, like, okay, but you, so you guys are saying, now, now you're going to make it two games for all time.
[226] We're just played during the Paris Olympics by a team that was an overwhelming favorite.
[227] I might pair them together.
[228] Like, I might just remember this Olympics and those two games because the other ones weren't all that memorable.
[229] And so when you look back at it and you say like, oh man, they had to beat Yokic and Wembe.
[230] Because ultimately, Wembe will be remembered that way.
[231] And so in 10, 15 years from now, it'll be like, oh, my God, how did they go through those two players in those close games?
[232] Because they had 12 of them.
[233] But it'll be even more memorable at, oh, at the end of their careers, LeBron and Stefan and Duran taking down the MVP and the future best player ever.
[234] We'll remember it even more 20 years from now.
[235] Jeremy's right.
[236] We absolutely will make Wembe way better than what he actually was.
[237] In the same way, they say, how did LeBron and Duane Way to Mello lose an Olympic gold?
[238] How they win bronze?
[239] Because they were seven years old when they played in that thing.
[240] Well, how could they possibly beat a 20 -year -old Wemby with a team with so many stars that Jason Tatum couldn't get on the floor?
[241] Jason Tatum, I saw, was 0 for 16 on jumpers during the Olympics.
[242] A little bit of a cold search.
[243] Put it on the poll, please, Juju.
[244] Is Jason Tatum being 0 for 16 in the Olympics on jumpers semantics?
[245] Yes or no?
[246] The women's gold medal game, you guys saw the number, the rating that did it, 9 .30 in the morning on a Sunday, starts at 7 million and gets up close to 11 million, by the end some people were objecting to my assessment that that women's team does anyone in this room object to the assessment that that women's team to me was the for me was the equivalent of the 92 men's team for women the first giant team of stars that everyone is overwhelmed by and paying attention to wasn't the 96 a women's team they started a league because of that one definitely 96 was like the moment for that team.
[247] But I think this was a like a really exciting game because you're never like going to get the chance to play the home country's team on their home court the morning after, or the evening after they just lost in heartbreaking fashion to the NBA stars.
[248] Like there was so much energy in that building from from all the accounts of all the reporters and fans that were there that I've heard talk about it that like that was a really unique kind of like mashing of all these different emotions.
[249] And so, I mean, that game was great.
[250] I thought, I mean, I was super nervous watching it because I really wanted the U .S. to win, but it was super excited.
[251] I'm never going to forget that game.
[252] There, beat that.
[253] The reason that I make the assessment that I do on it is I'm not making it about the team as much as I'm making it about the interest.
[254] There has been no time in my lifetime that a women's Olympic basketball team would get 11 million people for a game on a Sunday morning because everybody deeply cares about the result and is also watching because they know it's a loaded team and they're more familiar with the players than they've ever been.
[255] There's a stardom on the team that wasn't associated with players who were less known in 96 just because fewer people knew to pay attention and were ignorant about what they were watching.
[256] I do think there were more people that watched the Tokyo women's gold medal game though because it was on during prime time.
[257] I think it was a 1030 Eastern start.
[258] So I would disagree with you there.
[259] I think Brianna Stewart and Asia Wilson and Diana Tarazi and Brittany Griner, they were pretty big stars three years ago in that game.
[260] And I think that shows via how many people watched that game.
[261] Were there bigger numbers for that game in Tokyo during prime time?
[262] I think it was very similar, but maybe slightly more.
[263] And I think that attributes to the time change too because 6 .30 a .m. on the West Coast for a gold medal match on Sunday, like a lot of people are not going to be able to get up for that.
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[277] I don't like Smatty either.
[278] Stugats.
[279] Women stay home in the kitchen where they belong.
[280] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
[281] Getting back to what it is that Stugats was saying about trying to whack these takes that are bad, good takes.
[282] Do you have any of those today?
[283] Do you have anything that you've sharpened up today?
[284] Or is today a slower day for you?
[285] You can't throw fastballs all the time.
[286] You need days of rest.
[287] I don't force these things.
[288] Dan.
[289] They just have to come to me. I will let you know.
[290] I'm marinating on a few, and I will get back to you ASAP on this.
[291] Okay.
[292] Does Amin have any?
[293] Maybe Steph and LeBron.
[294] Like, do you have anything related?
[295] It doesn't have to be basketball, I suppose.
[296] Do you have a bad, good take or a good bad take?
[297] I think I have a good, good take, but maybe I'm just being biased.
[298] Well, because, you know, we did this on oddball, and we posted it, and then the reaction, I was kind of staggered that I don't think people really listen to what I'm.
[299] I was talking about.
[300] I said, like, look, we've had NBA players since 1992 playing the Olympics, and great players have played together.
[301] Grant Hill and Shaq played together.
[302] And, you know, obviously Kevin Garnett and Gary Payton played together in 2000 and so on and so forth.
[303] Obviously, 2008 is the most famous one because we got the actual joining of LeBron and Wade and Bosch because of that.
[304] But I've never felt in my life in any of those Olympics, the idea, walking away, like, no, no, these two people need to be on the same team together for basketball, for the sake of beautiful basketball, and it's LeBron and Steph.
[305] I never thought it could ever look this good.
[306] I was just like, a lot of people said it online.
[307] It was like, it's like, Draymond Supercharge.
[308] I'm like, no, it's like Draymond if freaking Galactus came down and gave him superpowers and called him one of his heralds.
[309] There's no way in hell that you can tell me there's ever been a more perfect match of two great players than LeBron and Steph.
[310] It was amazing, and I said, I realized right then and there, any sort of petty kind of biases that we might have.
[311] Oh, I hate the Lakers.
[312] They should never play together.
[313] Or like, oh, the Warriors get too much.
[314] It doesn't matter.
[315] Oh, LeBron always plays in a stack.
[316] Who cares?
[317] I'm not even talking about playing on a stacked roster.
[318] I don't care.
[319] The rest of the roster is Stugats and Fronnie and Brony and Chris Cody, right?
[320] I'm saying that LeBron and Steph, yeah.
[321] What would our record be?
[322] 62 and 20?
[323] Me and Ronnie, Stu Gotson, Stefan Lombron.
[324] That's a starting five.
[325] Well, y 'all last to be 0 and 70.
[326] Hell not.
[327] We have LeBron and Steph, man. Hey, Judeo, welcome to the good bad take.
[328] Yeah, 62 wins.
[329] That's what they'd win.
[330] Put it on the poll, please, Juju.
[331] Better combo together for beautiful basketball.
[332] Shaq and Kobe or Curry and LeBron?
[333] I left here yesterday thinking something that I regret not saying.
[334] Jordan and Pippin?
[335] Way better.
[336] How about that?
[337] Way better.
[338] Not just better.
[339] Way better.
[340] You've got Curry and LeBron being way better?
[341] I've got 40 -year -old LeBron and however old Curry is 37 or whatever, better than Jordan Pippen.
[342] Boy, do I have a proposal for you, Ami.
[343] That is a good bad take.
[344] Brut it up on our board yesterday.
[345] After just a couple of years on their contracts, LeBron James and Steph Curry, both free agents.
[346] Guess who has a ton of cap space in those seasons?
[347] You're Miami Heat.
[348] What's the matter, Dan?
[349] Just, Jeremy.
[350] Stefan Marbury said yesterday, because he doesn't like LeBron, that Michael Jordan, you shouldn't put LeBron James in the same breath with Michael Jordan.
[351] My man. And can I get to what I'm saying, or you want to say what you have before I can get to my man. That's it.
[352] He knew what I was going to give him there.
[353] what I'm saying.
[354] No, but I did the right thing there.
[355] Don't get that to me. I mean, I'm trying to set something out here.
[356] I just, just really great.
[357] You're not.
[358] You're not.
[359] I'm not.
[360] Just say real quick.
[361] So according to Stapal Marbury, I got to go, Michael Jordan, LeBron James.
[362] Yeah, I was setting that up.
[363] You could have given me the chance to set that up.
[364] The flow.
[365] I mean, you know.
[366] Good job.
[367] Minor penalty, two minutes, asshole.
[368] Yes, you're the asshole because you come flying in here.
[369] You're, you come flying in here.
[370] You You sit in the seat and I'm trying to set something up and you're like, no, I've got something better even though I don't need to hear even what you're doing to tell you I've got something better than whatever you've got.
[371] He was looking around for the asshole, as if it was he.
[372] He was saying, I'm the asshole and he's looking like I should leave, yes, like I should leave.
[373] And I wanted to know first, where does that expression come from?
[374] because I do feel like it is totally reasonable to say that LeBron belongs in the same breath as Michael Jordan.
[375] Oh, geez.
[376] I mean, we waited around for that.
[377] In the same, in the same breath, I want to understand that the Dutch invent that when they were holding a finger up to the sky after they had licked their finger, because it seems like it'd be pretty easy.
[378] I don't know how long your breath lasts while speaking, but it would be pretty easy to give LeBron the respect that at the end of whatever that trailing breath is, it's okay to put him in the conversation with LeBron James.
[379] So you can't take a breath when you're doing it.
[380] I mean, technically, you're not allowed to.
[381] If you're going to put him in the same breath, you cannot breathe while you're giving the take.
[382] I like this.
[383] Or you can't take a second breath while talking.
[384] I don't know how many names you think you can list on a single breath before taking another breath.
[385] How many do you think if because...
[386] It used to be a lot more for me. Yes, your lung capacity does diminish some with age.
[387] But the point that I was going to make about Kevin Durant that I forgot to make on the way we were talking yesterday about his general happiness and how it seems like he's been fighting the Internet for 15 years.
[388] Can you imagine, from this perspective, being Kevin Durant?
[389] You're trying to be the best all the time, and you're a clearly unprecedented basketball player for any age.
[390] But you happen to live in the time of LeBron and Curry, so you're always the bronze medalist, and you're only the bronze medalist because you teamed up with Curry.
[391] Then you get to the Olympics, and we remember that first half when you went eight for eight, but what do we remember?
[392] Oh, third place again.
[393] on his own team all the time and the internet's always there to remind you what the real difference is they think between being number one and being number three.
[394] And we will make all sorts of arguments.
[395] And if you're internet addicted and you think you know, you know basketball and you're great at basketball, you're obviously great at basketball, you're like, 15 years, I've got to spend all this time fighting with all time grates of my generation, two of whom will be remembered for all time because they have no precedent.
[396] And I'm always, finishing third except that one year where I joined Steph and I needed his help to do what I did.
[397] That'd be pretty frustrating if I was a person who was fighting the internet all the time and getting caught up in the stupidity of people, you know, splitting hairs on sports arguments.
[398] I think what's frustrating, first of all, I'll take third best basketball player in the world.
[399] Secondly, I think what's frustrating to basketball fans is you can obviously see the talent of Kevin Durant.
[400] We see it all the time.
[401] And when you see it, you say to yourself, That guy didn't need to join that team.
[402] That guy could have beat that team.
[403] And he chose not to, Dan.
[404] But Stugat, you make that point all the time.
[405] And what I'm telling you is...
[406] That's a good, good take.
[407] What I'm telling you, though, is in retrospect, I'm guessing that part of Kevin Durant's greatest frustrations is, what, Stugat?
[408] I did the thing you guys were telling me for 10 years I needed to do.
[409] I needed to win.
[410] And then I give you the thing that you want.
[411] wanted and you tell me on the back end after I've won, nah, you didn't do it the way I wanted you to do it.
[412] Sometimes it's where you win, how you win with who you win, and he made a bad decision.
[413] I'm sorry.
[414] I mean, championships are different.
[415] Winning a championship with Golden State would not have meant as much to Kevin Durant's legacy as winning just one in Oklahoma City.
[416] My larger point is I would understand if I were him why it is he has a scowl all the time fighting with people like you over, oh, I tried to do it your way, but it wasn't the right way.
[417] Because if he was, no, it's not your way, but he was trying to please people by just winning.
[418] That was the only indictment on his resume.
[419] The reason we weren't putting him with LeBron and Curry is because he couldn't beat LeBron and Curry.
[420] Like, that's the reason we weren't putting him in that company reputational.
[421] And if you're fighting the Internet all the time and the Internet's always there for you to bother you about how you're not quite good enough, I do understand how somebody would arrive at a place where he's just pissed off or bothered or less happy than he could be, less joyful than he could be.
[422] Are you basing that joy off of the slide picture?
[423] Because I'm with you there.
[424] That was not a we.
[425] That was not, he was not happy to be sad.
[426] But he did seem very happy after that game to get to the fight.
[427] Like that seemed as happy as we've ever seen him.
[428] Right.
[429] I don't think he's joyous at all.
[430] He just put out a mixtape and it would sound good to me. I know a couple of his friends in real life.
[431] Like, he's a fun guy, in my opinion.
[432] and he just ain't going to let you talk to him in a kind of way.
[433] Like me. Put it on the poll.
[434] I think he is publicly, what are we putting on the poll?
[435] Is Juju like Kevin Durant?
[436] Let's not put that on the open.
[437] Is Kevin Durant like Jujo?
[438] Is Kevin Durant like Jujoo?
[439] No, my confidence is already shattered and I don't need more help.
[440] How about was that a we?
[441] Because it was not a we.
[442] I'm telling you.
[443] The arms are saying we!
[444] The arms for sure are saying we.
[445] That's indisputable.
[446] But Jessica, if we can do a little bit more of a clue, close up on Kevin Durant's face.
[447] If we have the capacity to do that.
[448] Only of you close up on his arms, too.
[449] The arms are absolutely saying we, and it is wonderful to think of that's how Kevin Durant rides a slide, but it is the most joyful Kevin Durant photo we've ever seen, and he looks like his face does not look happy.
[450] He may have just gotten some water in his eyes, and he had to close his eyes for a second.
[451] A photo is just a snapshot in time.
[452] We can't really know definitively if he was saying we, but we just.
[453] do know that he put his arms up as if to say we.
[454] Do you think Steph Curry says we when he's going down a slide?
[455] Imagine Steph going down a slide.
[456] He would not have a bitter face.
[457] Wee.
[458] So is LeBron.
[459] They're all saying we.
[460] Yeah, LeBron's a weir.
[461] Kevin.
[462] LeBron.
[463] Steph.
[464] They're all weirs.
[465] Who's going down headfirst, you think?
[466] On the team.
[467] Halliburton.
[468] Yeah.
[469] He didn't have to do anything.
[470] He's all refreshed.
[471] Drew Holiday, Mike, go down head first.
[472] I loved Tyree's Halliburton's tweet, by the way.
[473] What a great, when you are in the group project and you don't have to do anything and you get an A. Love that.
[474] I can't believe that Stugats hasn't objected to the news I'm about to deliver to him.
[475] I am surprised he hasn't heard about it because I don't think that he has.
[476] Hoops hype has now said for the first time ever that LeBron James ranks ahead of Michael Jordan on its list of weirdly the 78 greatest basketball players of all time.
[477] Had they come to that number, it's weird.
[478] It's a good, bad take.
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[494] Don Lebertard.
[495] Your history with him suggests three years of heaters.
[496] Three years of heaters.
[497] But this Stugats, my partner, enlivened by a sports team.
[498] We're having sex, baby.
[499] And Joe Maurer, yes.
[500] Like, this is the best version of him.
[501] What?
[502] What?
[503] Stugats.
[504] No, you are.
[505] Yeah.
[506] It feels good.
[507] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
[508] Did anyone in the room have a, huh, when you found out that the commanders have Martavius Bryant?
[509] I definitely didn't know that.
[510] Hadn't played in six years.
[511] That's a long way.
[512] That's a long time to be outside of football.
[513] and talk about somebody who looked apart, Stugats.
[514] I thought that guy physically, I thought, I know that name, not because of anything he did in the league, but because, oh, that guy's going to be great, right?
[515] Look at him.
[516] How could he not be?
[517] And so he's great enough because this takes a special kind of athleticism to not play for six years and just end up being on a team.
[518] He played in the XFL, by the way, just to be fair.
[519] He was a great receiver over there, but I still feel what you're saying.
[520] Fair enough.
[521] I did not know, though, that Martavius Bryant was back in the league.
[522] That was not something that had come across my radar.
[523] I wanted to ask you guys something because I read something yesterday that had to feel like a big deal for GQ magazine.
[524] And I don't assume that GQ magazine feels like a big deal very much these days.
[525] I don't know that anybody in magazines feels like they're a big deal these days.
[526] but they got George Clooney and Brad Pitt together in France, put them on the cover, interviewed them, and it was an interesting interview of two movie stars late in life who care less what people think than they ever had.
[527] And it made me think, right, because the demo on this is old, but it made me wonder whether these two guys are whatever it was that Clark Gable was supposed to be in a different time.
[528] Are people picking up that magazine and being interested because the dinosaur movie stars, Tom Cruise, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, they're not going to be around very much longer as giant movie stars.
[529] No, I'm not killing them.
[530] I think in general, the movie star of that age, unless he morphs into an action star, doesn't get a long sustained run after this.
[531] I feel like Tom Cruise is just getting started.
[532] I mean, put it on the poll at Levitard show.
[533] Is Tom Cruise just getting started?
[534] But it felt to me like I was reading something from a different time.
[535] Do I have that wrong?
[536] The rest of you, would you be interested?
[537] Would you pick up?
[538] I guess what I'm asking you is, does George Clooney and Brad Pitt on the cover have the star power so that you would either make sure to search out a link or, and this is the greatest compliment you can give in a publishing age that is dying?
[539] buy a magazine.
[540] Does that make you buy a magazine in 2024?
[541] Dan, the only way I can crystallize the argument for you is to say, okay, what's the opposite?
[542] If it was Timothy Shalamee and Tom Holland, do you think people are like, oh, we've got to read that one?
[543] I swear.
[544] Yeah, I just said that back here.
[545] I don't care.
[546] George Clutie, Brad Pitt, whatever.
[547] Give me a little Timothy Shalame?
[548] All right, man, I'm in.
[549] Do you think Timothy Salome is an interesting person?
[550] I actually do because he's just.
[551] just a Jewish kid from New York who's a theater kid who somehow became cool.
[552] And I don't know how to do that because I'm not cool.
[553] Well, you're not from New York.
[554] You are cool.
[555] Don't do that.
[556] You're cool, brother.
[557] Also, I know who Clark Gable is, but I think Chris was asking around the room, who is that, brother?
[558] I'm talking about movie stars from a different time.
[559] Speaking of which, give me the stat of the day here.
[560] I want more stats of the day and I want more people looking up stuff like this because if you thought Clark Gable was old.
[561] Wait till you see what I drop on you now.
[562] Start of the day, start of the day, and this year start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, and this year, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, and this year start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, and this year start of the day.
[563] I found this out yesterday, don't ask me how.
[564] Bella Lagosi, The original Dracula was buried in his Dracula In his Dracula cape The original movie Bella Lagosie, the original movie Dracula At the start of movies Bella Lagosie was born in 1882 That's right Five wives That's right, five wives Two of them named Alona A terrible, a terrible drug problem That's a back Alcohol problem.
[565] Rest in Power King.
[566] What are the chances?
[567] Hold on.
[568] That's like, wasn't there a curvy enthusiasm episode where Leon was going to Japan with this girl he's dating?
[569] And he was trying to find someone with the same name.
[570] Because they broke up, yeah.
[571] Does that what Bella Lugosi did?
[572] This is like Stugat's being buried in his Travis Matthews hat and hoodie when he dies.
[573] Put it on the poll, Juju.
[574] If you were the original Dracula, would you want to be buried in Dracula's cape?
[575] I feel like I would.
[576] Did you have the teeth in, too?
[577] Bluh.
[578] Well, I also feel like you would in the event that you can come back to life and then have to be seen as presentable in public like a vampire.
[579] No, be able to turn into a bat easier.
[580] I wanted to ask you guys about something that happened yesterday here that I was surprised at the intensity of people who were simply saying, that person is lying to you.
[581] That is a lie.
[582] the lebitard show likes to just talk to people who spew bullshit and it wasn't nate silver oh even though many of you had a problem with me silver it wasn't stu gosh yeah a whole lot of people thought that charles barclay was full of shit saying that he could have had an offer at minimum a hundred million dollars more than what he's being paid 10 years 220 million by tn t and i'm like that's not surprising to me at all like i would think that NBC or amazon might double his salary if they were trying to get a name like that, trying to get into sports.
[583] And I was just surprised by the sheer number of people.
[584] Now, so Charles comes out, think about this.
[585] Think about what's happening here.
[586] Charles says all the syrupy stories about there are so many people in this family of employees.
[587] We've all worked together for a long time.
[588] And I heard so many heartbreaking sob stories about mortgages and children that one day in the middle of the night on a network that wasn't.
[589] appropriate for him to do it, he just retires.
[590] He says, I'm retiring because he's so fed up.
[591] And then he comes on yesterday, and he says, in the bidding for his services, NBC, Amazon, ESPN, he would have never gone to ESPN.
[592] NBC and Amazon fighting for the rights to Charles Barkley, he says that the offers were at least $100 million better minimum.
[593] And he did it, at least in part, because he wanted to go back and be with those people, all of whom had a contract for another year, they all have a contract for another year, so that they would have, you know, some security for their future, and he wouldn't have to hear more of those conversations.
[594] And so many people not only called him a bullshit liar, they said, why didn't you just take the $100 million and create a fund for those 200 employees so that you can pay them?
[595] And I just was mystified by an act of generosity spoken by Charles Parkley, not volunteered in answer to a question because he answers all questions that people's immediate reaction.
[596] So many of them would be he's lying.
[597] That's bullshit.
[598] He also turned down to live people as well, right?
[599] And that was a big bag.
[600] So I believe him.
[601] I don't know how many people knew before he said it out loud that he was making upwards of $20 million a year on this current deal that was not signed like this year, right?
[602] So I for people like, oh, no way, like, did you know he was making that much already?
[603] That's the part I think people are missing is that, yeah, this dude is the highest paid man in sports TV, maybe all of television that's not like scripted TV, right?
[604] So the idea that he turned down that money, like, I don't even flinch, of course I believe him.
[605] Oh, but I'm more interested in the examination of the other thing.
[606] What is happening there?
[607] What is happening?
[608] I know social media is an angry place.
[609] I know that we are less trustful in general of any information.
[610] But what is happening that would create what I thought was a surprising reaction, which is, oh, that's a nice story.
[611] That's a nice thing to do.
[612] Bullshit liar.
[613] I don't really have an answer.
[614] All I know is that Lewis came in afterwards and started talking to me about his mortgage.
[615] I mean, it was uncomfortable.
[616] I sent them to you, by the way.
[617] I mean, I think, Dan, people are struggling with this.
[618] Right now, people are just struggling financially.
[619] So to hear a guy who's already making a lot of money say on the radio, hey, or on a podcast, say, hey, I turned down offers that were for at least $100 million more, which I believe, by the way, I do think that media outlets would pay Charles Barkley pretty much whatever Barclay wants if he was willing to leave Turner Sports.
[620] He's not.
[621] He's going to stay there.
[622] But I think people just don't want to hear that right now because they're struggling to make ends meet.
[623] They're struggling on a daily basis.
[624] And they don't want to hear a guy who's hurry making that much money.
[625] Say, hey, I turned down over $100 million and I did it because I care about these people.
[626] They don't want to hear it.
[627] The Internet is always going to amplify the most like extreme Stugatsian takes, too, by the way.
[628] They love a take.
[629] So you're going to see the unfiltered, like, angriest replies.
[630] But I do think, like, since, I don't know, as long as I've been alive, people have been very cynical of wealthy people saying that they've done anything altruistically.
[631] So I think that that may just be what it is.
[632] As they should.
[633] But also, Dan, to her point, he could have said, I took the $100 million and I created a fund to pay for the employees.
[634] And someone would have said, just $100 million?
[635] Right.
[636] Prove it.
[637] There's always another step.
[638] as much as each getting.
[639] Brett, they hated Jesus, man. Come on, of course they're going to hate on Chuck.
[640] I think it's probably a combination of both of those things.
[641] Just a jet, yes, I mean, your timing's a little, your timing's a little off today.
[642] This happens sometimes when you're off for a little bit.
[643] Your timing's a little off.
[644] Dude, because you just steamroll past what he said.
[645] They hated Jesus.
[646] Of course, they go, hey, Chuck.
[647] And all I can think of is, what kind of crucifix would they have to build to hold up Charles Barkley?
[648] That shit got to be.
[649] corrugated steel, reinforced with adamantium.
[650] He's lost weight.
[651] What an unnecessary shot we're taking right here.
[652] Oh, man. The joke I could make could be so much more.
[653] Yeah, but he didn't make it.
[654] Oh, no, but I'm not going to make it.
[655] Oh, the joke he could make.
[656] That's good.
[657] I'm going to tell you all in the break.
[658] But we stopped Dan dead in his track.
[659] Oh, my God.
[660] Like Jesus.
[661] Or Jesus.
[662] We stopped Dan dead in his tracks because we had to stop.
[663] What I steamrolled was Juju saying they hated Jesus.
[664] Of course, they're going to hate Chuck.
[665] A good point.
[666] Jesus has been used that way as an analogy wherever there's hate since Jesus.
[667] So we could have steamrolled past it.
[668] We would have been okay.
[669] It's the comparison.
[670] See, what you're not understanding is there's a disparity between what we traditionally think of Jesus Christ and his build versus that of Charles Brock.
[671] See, Jesus is usually depicted as a fairly skinny man with great abs, by the way, I might add.
[672] Yes, yes.
[673] He has the V. Put it on the poll.
[674] Did Jesus have the DeAngelo?
[675] Chris is obsessed with this day.
[676] Chris is obsessed with this day.
[677] Let me explain to everybody here what happened to Chris today.
[678] out to Dolphins Camp yet.
[679] Oh, man. Who put me in the middle?
[680] What a day.
[681] Hold on.
[682] Hold on.
[683] What a day.
[684] Hold on.
[685] You guys are over -eager today, man. You want to get in there before I set up anything for the audience.
[686] Excited.
[687] So we go out to Dolphins Camp yesterday, and Chris Cody is sitting between Stugats and extraordinarily fit people on a sofa.
[688] and he's talking at his shirt and people helpful staff is coming over and moving his shirt around and he comes in today and he asks Danny he comes I heard this when I walked in hey Danny did it look like I have boobs is the question that I heard him ask like how fat did I look yesterday really I'm not a middle guy on a couch I'm an end guy right and they were like get in the middle and I was like okay fine and like the whole time I'm like having to sit with my arms like straight and a couple times Jesse our makeup person came over and like pulled my shirt out from and I was just like she obviously is seeing something she doesn't like in the camera like that she wouldn't come over here if it all looked good and I'm just like I just hate all of this I got Jalen Phillips sitting next to me he's just like impossible look good wait your shirt was getting stuck in your underboob yeah like at one point she came up and like pulled my shirt out at my stomach area it was outside it was hot Little sweat patches?
[689] I don't know.
[690] Chris, I had the same concerns.
[691] There was one point where, you know, we spoke to some dolphin players.
[692] One of them was two up.
[693] There was a good three or four minutes where you and I didn't talk.
[694] I was sucking my stomach in the entire time.
[695] And then he turned to us.
[696] He said, are you guys going to say anything?
[697] And I let it out.
[698] There's no way that's going to come out looking flattering for me and Chris.
[699] It couldn't even see you past me. They had to, like, move.
[700] I know.
[701] It was awkward.
[702] Yeah.
[703] I'm sorry about that.
[704] Chris.
[705] Danny says I didn't look that fat, though, so we'll see.
[706] Stay tuned.
[707] But knowing your angles is important.
[708] That's why I always sit in this chair, and I never sit in Stugats's chair.
[709] The worst chair.
[710] Terrible camera angle.
[711] The worst.
[712] Dan's chair is pretty bad, too.
[713] The lighting just glare so hard right there.
[714] I don't like sitting in your chair.
[715] Also because it's kind of sunken for some reason.
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