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[18] I am happy Amin is here today because I'm in a bit of crisis.
[19] I mean, I am not a weak person.
[20] I had never before, in the last, I don't know, 50 years, I'd never before thought of myself as a strong person because I'd never had my strength tested in any meaningful way.
[21] But over the last few years, I've realized that I'm not a weak person, okay?
[22] So when I come in here today and things don't work technically, like they haven't worked all week technically.
[23] And we can't get out a Tua interview that's, I don't know if it's newsworthy, but it was certainly interesting at the very least because things can't happen fast enough around here.
[24] I probably don't need to explain to you as someone who also worked at ESPN that there are certain creature comfort luxuries that I miss because self -employment is hard.
[25] and I'm coming in here today and I know that I'm beginning the show today with our YouTube audience all sorts of piss because there's no live show because they've gotten very used to you give us two hours of rocket fuel straight six minutes of breaks no one else does that this is what we're used to we expect that when you give us one it wasn't enough you used to give us three and a half hours at ESPN why do we only get one now two occasionally what's wrong with videos so I come in here today in a super good mood about doing the show and as soon as I get here I'm on my knees because I know the audience isn't getting what they want and what I also expect is the founder of a company because I know who those people are.
[26] I know how loyal they are and they deserve our best show and I can't give it to them because our video shit doesn't work and because all this shit costs a lot of money and I'm worried every weekend that something's going to blow off the bay and make all the equipment ruined and then how do I pay for everything.
[27] So like that's where I am all the time and so today I'd like to get back and I'd like to apologize first to the people who are so loyal that they tailgate before the YouTube comes on because they're still around wanting every little fix of what it is that this company does because they ride with us in a way, I mean, that I believe, if first take moved somewhere else, it wouldn't have the loyalty of audience that moves with them the way that this one did because those people know that we care about giving them what they expect every day.
[28] And they've been yelling at me and us for three and a half years because it hasn't been what this.
[29] They want it to be.
[30] So I'd like today to feel like it used to feel back when we did this show with no cameras around and was a happier time for me generally working.
[31] Before all the success and the fame got to our heads.
[32] Let's just take it back to the underground.
[33] This is like Rocky 3, Dan.
[34] I don't know if you remember when Rocky loses to Clubber Lang.
[35] Mr. T. And he's broke.
[36] Well, he's Clubber Lange.
[37] He's not Mr. T. That'll be weird.
[38] He'll always be Mr. T to me. He got that job only because he was Mr. T. Not because he was clubberlang.
[39] He's broken and he's depressed.
[40] And Apollo's like, see, because you're living in this big house and you've got all these maids and butlers and stuff.
[41] You've got to take it back.
[42] And he goes back to the old gym where Apollo used to train in L .A. And all the other fighters are looking at him like, oh, there goes rock or whatever.
[43] And then Apollo's got to teach him how to dance and all that stuff.
[44] And they're running on the beach.
[45] And they build it all back up.
[46] Or like Rocky 4 after Apollo dies.
[47] No, not Rocky 4.
[48] Oh, spoiler alert.
[49] When Rockie 4.
[50] Rocky has to go trade, and he trades in Russia.
[51] Does he trade in a super high -tech gym with an LED screen?
[52] No. It's like Siberia or something.
[53] In the snow, yeah, picking up logs.
[54] Carrying logs.
[55] So, yes, let's get back to our roots right now.
[56] And so right around the ring here, gather around the ring.
[57] Can we get Jessica to do walking lunges with a log on her shoulders in the other room?
[58] We have the ability to do that.
[59] Oh, Jessica doesn't seem like she's bothered by that.
[60] Jessica, now let me, let me give you a little bit.
[61] bit of a perk.
[62] At the end of it, you get to just yell up to the heavens.
[63] Dragon!
[64] It feels like a good, like, two -for -one exercise while I'm at work opportunity.
[65] So I'm definitely intrigued, but I don't think I wore the correct pants for it.
[66] Okay, well, and we don't have video, though, so it would only be the people in that room.
[67] Do we need to clear out the room so that you can do it in more privacy?
[68] It sort of loses all of its luster if we don't have video.
[69] I'm not the kind of person that I need people to see me work out, as long as they see the results.
[70] Like, that's all that matters.
[71] Theater of the mind, Dan.
[72] We can imagine her working out, climbing a mountain in the snow with a log on her back.
[73] All right.
[74] I want you guys to imagine that going on around the studio.
[75] Yes, it's pig log, big giant log.
[76] You don't know Rocky for, right?
[77] I've never seen any Rockies, actually.
[78] Any Rockies?
[79] No, but my friend's dad was obsessed with Rocky when I was growing up.
[80] So he had like a Rocky tattoo.
[81] He used to talk about Rocky all the time.
[82] So I was like, oh, Rocky, I know Rocky, but I've never seen Rocky.
[83] I just knew about it because he would talk about it so much.
[84] new Rocky from the tattoo on a man's on his bicep weird I never do this but listeners the first person to put Jessica's face on Rocky's body moving the log you're getting an instant retweet on the follow oh wow an instant retweet the follow is the big currency and the follow retweet is anything but follow that's currency put it on the poll please juju at Levitard show what's the real currency the instant retweet or the follow what's a like just child's play Likes me nothing these days.
[85] You can't even see who's liking what.
[86] It's just like, I'll throw this like away.
[87] What is the most valuable thing on social media other than followers?
[88] Like, what's second place?
[89] Oh, no, the most valuable thing, well, I don't know.
[90] The follow is necessary, but the most valuable thing is when you have someone of high esteem, like saying, hey, you guys should check out my guy so and so.
[91] Like that, the cosine, that's number one.
[92] CoSign is massive.
[93] Because the follow is only one time, right?
[94] And then it's like, oh, okay, it's done.
[95] but the cosine kind of brings you back.
[96] I feel like it's the same as any other place.
[97] The best thing is like that meaningful compliment from a person on the internet.
[98] Like, hey, I really like this.
[99] You know, when you type out a response or a quote tweet that's nice and complimentary, it's just like getting a compliment in person.
[100] But that's so syrupy.
[101] The person has to be wildly famous giving you that compliment.
[102] No, I mean, I love when people give me compliments, even if they're not wildly famous.
[103] I don't discriminate against compliments.
[104] You like it better, though.
[105] You can love the compliments, but we're talking about the value hierarchy of things on social media.
[106] You can't tell me just a compliment is worth as much as a celebrity's compliment on social media.
[107] Look, Jessica, I'm with you in that I really appreciate.
[108] I do a lot of little inside jokes every time I'm on this show, specifically so that one person can say, man, that was a great joke.
[109] And that definitely makes me happy.
[110] It gives me enjoyment, fulfillment.
[111] but currency -wise, yeah, I need a cosign from a blue check.
[112] I mean, you guys...
[113] A real blue check, not one of those ones you pay for.
[114] A blue check that's so real that it's not there anymore.
[115] Yeah.
[116] Is anyone with Jessica on this?
[117] Like she's saying the syrupy thing, Ju -ju, you can run syrupy on us.
[118] Are you with her on just a compliment that moves you from person X who gets you is more meaningful than The Rock giving you that same compliment?
[119] Oh, no. Anybody giving me the compliment?
[120] it means a lot to me. Like, a lot of the listeners, they say so much fantastic things in my DMs to try to balance off the hate I get in my DMs, and I appreciate everybody just as valuable if Cameron told me or somebody.
[121] But that comment from a random person doesn't slap as much as Field Yates doing it.
[122] That's not true.
[123] Okay, here's an example.
[124] So, shameless plug for my F1 podcast with Spencer Hall, DNF.
[125] This week, F1's on a break for three weeks, so we watched the movie Cars.
[126] So we talked about cars on the podcast, and I did an F -1 minute about the plot of cars.
[127] Wasn't a minute.
[128] It was about a minute and a half, you're right, but it's okay.
[129] Spencer did not try to cut me off because he was not keeping time.
[130] Anyways, so I described Paul Newman as a salad dressing mogul, and it was buried in my F -1 -minute.
[131] And someone responded, salad -dressing mogul was the perfect description with a gift from cars.
[132] And to me, that lit me up all night.
[133] I was beaming because someone heard that one tiny little joke.
[134] I'm telling you, Jessica, I've said this before.
[135] I don't think Dan believes me, or if he does, he believes my sincerity.
[136] I don't think he believes that it's real.
[137] But the one person getting the hidden joke is so much more satisfying than everybody in the room and all the internet saying, ha, ha, ha, ha, so funny.
[138] I swear to God, because it's just like, oh, they found it.
[139] You know what?
[140] I feel like Anthony Hopkins in Westworld.
[141] It's like, oh, they got to the center of my maze.
[142] The thing you guys are doing, though, I know what you're, I understand.
[143] I feel seen and the warmth of that, but the place this conversation started is, what do the masses think is the greatest currency that goes at the top of?
[144] This is what I want to happen on social media.
[145] And if I give both of you the choice, hey, someone complimented you on cars or your inside joke, or the rock complimented you on something that wasn't that close to seeing you entirely.
[146] Which would you prefer as a retweet?
[147] You're going to tell me that you want the Serapy authenticity instead of, because I don't think you'd be addicted to social media and the wanting of extra audience if you valued those two things the same.
[148] The Rock doesn't do it for me. Does it do for you, Jiu?
[149] Not at all.
[150] I feel like, for real, for real, as I've gotten to be around, a lot of personalities that be behind in front of the cameras, I realize that a lot of these folks be fake as hell, and a lot of these folks be lame as hell.
[151] Not the rock, though.
[152] I mean, not the rock.
[153] I'm not saying nobody.
[154] But a lot of the folks, they're not as sincere.
[155] And so when you touch the heart of somebody who has a job, a kid, and a wife, and they just randomly sending you words, like, bro, that means more to me. I want to add an extra thing there because we were talking about retweets, you're talking about follows and all that stuff.
[156] I think going viral off a tweet is even more supersedes all of those things.
[157] No, it doesn't.
[158] Yes, it does.
[159] Hey, hey, trust me, going viral.
[160] Okay, well, that was viral decontextualization.
[161] That's a different story.
[162] You need to call a lawyer for that, by the way.
[163] And it wasn't your tweet.
[164] It was Miles's tweet.
[165] Exactly.
[166] If you make a tweet that all of a sudden, millions of people see because it goes viral, and it's like, that's my joke up there for everybody to see that.
[167] I would have told the group chat, but now the entire world saw it.
[168] Chris Cody, can you find for me, please?
[169] We haven't done this since, the hierarchy of anger, I guess, that was the steps of us climbing at the Clevelander, brouhaha, fracas, you know, gagasong, whatever it is, the hierarchy was we created an order for this.
[170] I would like a hierarchy, an order of best things that can happen to you on social media, or not best things that can happen to you.
[171] I guess things that have the most value, because I don't think we're going to get agreement here, and I want to get a formal, before the end of the show today, I'd like to have a formal ranking of whatever those things are.
[172] I wanted to ask the group here, we don't have a baseball fan, a huge baseball fan among us.
[173] But Aaron Judge hit his 300th home run last night faster than anyone has gotten to home runs.
[174] And I'd just be curious, I mean, as we have numbed entirely to the numbers in baseball, they don't really mean anything anymore.
[175] And as in my lifetime, I've seen baseball go from the national pastime, where people would go in top hats and suits to the game, and it was more important than football.
[176] Yeah, it was top hats.
[177] It was a top hat.
[178] They wore baseball caps.
[179] It was like a Bear Bryant hat.
[180] They were formal hats.
[181] They were formal hats.
[182] We've gone from that to Otani's a star, but does America care about him?
[183] Trout is exceptional at baseball, but nobody knows who he is.
[184] And now there's someone wearing the most historic.
[185] historic uniform in sports, who's a physical giant, who does the thing that the steroid brought us, which is guys strike out now in that league more than once every five times.
[186] Like throughout the league, one out of five places to strikeout because everybody's swinging for the fences.
[187] And he's the biggest, the baddest, the furthest.
[188] They walked Soto last night to get to him.
[189] And Soto's been great.
[190] Soto is six for his last 11 with six home runs and four walks.
[191] And so they're like, Soto, you can walk.
[192] But Soto has an amazing season.
[193] Judge is having a better one.
[194] And they walked him, and on 3 -0 pitch, Judge hits a bomb against a team that's won 29 games.
[195] Hadn't hit a bomb off of a 3 -0 pitch since 2021, Dano.
[196] That's correct.
[197] He's only done it now three times.
[198] That's amazing baseball information from Amin.
[199] Look how strong he is on baseball.
[200] That is correct.
[201] You know why?
[202] It's this jersey.
[203] It gives me super baseball powers.
[204] No one can see it because our video doesn't work.
[205] Can you describe it to us?
[206] I thought it said the two.
[207] churros on the front, but apparently it doesn't.
[208] I thought it was a Kenny Power's joke jersey that he was wearing from the Mexican League that said churros.
[209] The one guy got the joke.
[210] There you go.
[211] And Dan's a celebrity, so that takes it even a higher level.
[212] You know what, Dan?
[213] You were right.
[214] You win the currency battle.
[215] My compliments are better than a compliment from Chris Cody, even if Chris Cody's compliment is better than my compliment?
[216] Because Dan...
[217] Well, if Steve Martin is also needed a compliment.
[218] I said it two seconds before.
[219] He did say it.
[220] Oh, man. But did you say the Mexican League part?
[221] That's the part that Dan hit on.
[222] And that's what this is.
[223] This is a authentic Kenny Powers Charos, not Charros, Charros, Jersey.
[224] It means horsemen, right?
[225] I had Churros on the mind.
[226] I met a dog named Churro the other day.
[227] Big fan of the show.
[228] What's his favorite part?
[229] Tony's Top Five?
[230] It's Willow, actually.
[231] Loves when Willow's on.
[232] She'll be here tomorrow.
[233] Jessica, do you watch Eastbound and Down?
[234] I did, like, forever ago.
[235] and I honestly, I barely remember it.
[236] My attention span, it's not my attention span.
[237] It's like my long -term memory.
[238] It's not there.
[239] It just hasn't been there in a long time.
[240] Like memento.
[241] Yeah, kind of.
[242] Short -term memory, pretty good.
[243] If I read something, I'll remember it like exactly for a few hours and then, whoof, poof, it's gone.
[244] Well, will that happen even on the things that you think are special content creation?
[245] Because I would think that you're rejecting eastbound and down if that's how you experience it.
[246] because I remember Eastbound and Down being sort of pioneering so much stuff has, I mean, HBO, when they got into sports, they started with Arliss and it was wildly successful.
[247] And then what ended up happening is Eastbound and Down might be the best sports thing outside of Brian Gumbled show that HBO has ever done.
[248] Do you know a year Eastbound and Down came out?
[249] 2011?
[250] 2009.
[251] I mean, that's a long time to like remember jokes from things.
[252] For me. I mean, admittedly, I did a rewashed.
[253] So I'm fresh on it.
[254] I'm super fresh.
[255] You can't forget Ashley Schaefer, though.
[256] That lives forever.
[257] Let the board watch.
[258] Isn't it crazy that an out take is the most memorable?
[259] That's the most viral from that show, no?
[260] Absolutely.
[261] Absolutely.
[262] That's the most memorable part of that show.
[263] My wife, Donna.
[264] A light blue is you.
[265] In my plums.
[266] You don't remember, Jessica, what it is that we're talking about.
[267] It's Will Farrell.
[268] and he is standing in the middle between Kenny Powers and Craig Robinson and Craig Robinson and all the bloopers cannot keep it together because Will Ferrell is exceptional just riffing and so people break around him all the time but he looks like Rick Flair and they're in a car dealership and they're going to face each other they're going to have a single pitch against each other I guess Kenny Powers is going to come out of retirement I don't know any of the details I'm like, I just remember their face -to -face.
[269] But I haven't seen it in 10 years and you know my memory's going because things like our video doesn't work and I've been made crazy for five years.
[270] But this I remember down to the detail because nobody could keep it together because of how good Will Ferrell was at Riffing looking like a car dealer dressed as Rick Flair.
[271] Yes.
[272] And he then starts talking to them about his wife Donna and how it is that their son watches them have sex and it's and it's clear that he's just inventing it all as he goes that all of it is just will fair like the depths of will feral's mind i wish video that we could play that right now would be a good thing well i mean because we're not live you can splice that in guys all right go ahead and splice that in later and uh and put it in the show because uh yeah i remember i i wonder all the time if things like that are going to hold up.
[273] And I'm going to maintain that show you could put it on right now and you are going to laugh if you like sports.
[274] Brock Meyer, the first three seasons of Brock Meyer are the same way.
[275] You know what the funny thing about it, the difference in Brock Meyer and Eastbound and Down is that Hank Azaria is a big sports fan.
[276] He knows his stuff.
[277] What he is doing, he is doing things that as a sports fan he absorbed as a child growing up listening to these radio play by play guys.
[278] by all accounts Danny McBride is not a sports guy does not know anything about sports so no McKay told me it took them 12 months to teach him how to physically throw a baseball he doesn't know or care about sports he doesn't know or care about sports of any sort but he nailed like this the bravado of the washed up athlete so perfectly so perfectly and he does every season is like a different stage there's season one is he's trying to make the comeback and at the end he thinks he's made to come back and it turns out the Adam Scott, spoiler alert, is just on drugs and has lied to him.
[279] Season two, he lives in shame in Mexico, where this jersey comes from.
[280] Season three comes back to play minor leagues in the U .S. And then season four, he gets called up to the majors and quits before he even throws a pitch and then he becomes, ironically, a TV show host, a sports kind of sports show thing.
[281] And Dan, when that season came out, I was still working for the Phoenix Suns at the time.
[282] And I remember, you know, as Kenny becomes more and more confident, when someone's going along, he would go, Kenny's cutting in and do little scissor hands.
[283] And then he would just interrupt and he becomes the star of the show.
[284] And I remember watching, I swear to God, saying, oh, man, one day I want to do that.
[285] Then I'm like, when are you ever going to be on TV, you idiot?
[286] and literally did not remember it again until this year when I watched that scene again.
[287] I was like, oh, that's right.
[288] But now I have the power to go, Amin's cutting in.
[289] Oh, man, what a great gambit.
[290] You have not gotten Juju and Tony and Jessica invested in a show that I think if our audience doesn't already know it and love it will.
[291] Our audience would specifically love that show, would you not?
[292] Because Kenny Powers, again, 12 months it took him, to learn how to look like he was a pitcher the way Kevin Costner in all his movies looks like he can actually play baseball, not just throw a baseball.
[293] It doesn't take someone 12 months to lob a baseball, but to look like a pitcher.
[294] I didn't even understand how that could possibly take.
[295] How on athletic are you if it takes you 12 months to learn how to look like you have a minor league or major league pitching motion?
[296] It can't be, I don't know, I mean that that specifically feels.
[297] very difficult unless it's a motion that you grew up like knowing a little bit but this does harken back to the age old debate about actors and movies is it better to get a good actor to play an athlete or to get a good athlete to try to become an actor and man it really depends I watched challengers a few months ago and Zendaya she did a good job but there were some scenes where I was like come on this is and they had a body double who did like a lot of the tennis scenes and stuff like that but still like you just if you watch a lot of sports like Like, you know the difference.
[298] Yeah, look, I think the most important thing is nobody watches sports movies to watch sports.
[299] So what was the show that was on?
[300] Oh, it was clipped.
[301] I was like, look, no one's here to watch how the Clippers beat the Warriors in the first round.
[302] They're here to watch the Donald Sterling stuff.
[303] They're here to watch.
[304] 100%.
[305] And I was watching challengers for the sex stuff, which there was not really any of shockingly.
[306] There's no set.
[307] I mean, you see the trailer and you're like, oh, there's a. They're going to do it.
[308] This isn't a sex thriller?
[309] Dude, not sexy enough, but still really liked the damn thing.
[310] Still really liked the movie.
[311] Do I remember Leonardo DiCaprio playing basketball when he was young in some movie?
[312] I can't remember.
[313] Yeah, so bad.
[314] Basketball Diaries.
[315] Yes, basketball diaries.
[316] So the funny thing is, he's actually an avid pickup basketball player.
[317] He plays like one of those L .A. leagues and stuff.
[318] Yeah, but probably because everybody mocked him at that youth.
[319] A lot of travels in that game.
[320] And how bad he was looking at basketball.
[321] The best one I've seen is, I don't know the name of the baseball movie, but John C. Riley as a catcher trying to catch a foul ball while running toward the dugout looked like someone who didn't know how to run.
[322] He ran the way you might imagine that John C. Riley runs.
[323] That's the thing that stands out to me is something that couldn't have looked less like someone knew how to be an athlete.
[324] of the game.
[325] Good movie.
[326] This begs the question.
[327] What do you think would be the easiest sport to learn if you're an actor who had never played any sports before?
[328] Kevin Costner looked like a good golfer in that one movie.
[329] I can't think of it at the moment.
[330] He looks like a guy who golfs.
[331] You think he grew up not golfing?
[332] Like he probably golf is the one also like this is just from like for anyone, whether you're an actor or not.
[333] Like if you don't get that muscle memory when you're young, it's like learning another language.
[334] It's like, how am I supposed to do this?
[335] This is impossible.
[336] I remember one scene.
[337] in the professional where a bunch of police officers are running into the house.
[338] This isn't exactly the same.
[339] But the police officers clearly were thespians who learned on Broadway how to act.
[340] No, the whole thing of coming into a place with your gun near your face.
[341] You have to do that in a way that's aggressive and confident and all of them were just sort of, yeah, jolly bobbing in to get the professional.
[342] And I'm like, that you have to do better in casting than this.
[343] Your police officers have to be giving off aggression as actors.
[344] They cannot look like they're in a happy bounce house dancing in a Broadway play.
[345] Have all actors just become too attractive?
[346] Like I've heard people say, I mean, this is a question for you because you're the big movie guy.
[347] Like I've heard people say this where like we don't have any actors anymore that look like they could be like just regular people.
[348] All of our actors now look so polished and they just all look like actors.
[349] Well, so you're saying we don't have any John C. Reilly's anymore, basically.
[350] Or, I mean, we've got the occasional Jonah Hill and Bouchemey and stuff.
[351] No, but those guys are all, that's not the generation she's talking about.
[352] She's talking about all new actors.
[353] That you're not allowed to, you're not, who is the young person now?
[354] Because Jonah, I don't think of Jonah Hill is old.
[355] I know, but I mean, that's, I mean, Jonah Hill was a child star.
[356] So if, what age are you talking about here?
[357] Under 30, you're saying we're not making any non -beautiful under 30 actors anymore?
[358] I'm not sure what I'm saying, Dan.
[359] I guess I'm saying that there's a guy with the eyebrows.
[360] Everybody knows him.
[361] The guy with the eyebrows.
[362] He's not an incredibly good -looking guy.
[363] The one where he was with...
[364] The guy with the eyebrows?
[365] What movie is in?
[366] He's in, remember he gets his dick bit by the spider?
[367] In what movie?
[368] We are...
[369] Dan knows what I'm talking about.
[370] I don't.
[371] I'm afraid, but you're alone here.
[372] Now you're going to look at it.
[373] it up because those are, look, Tony, Dick bit by a spider eyebrow guy.
[374] Tony, those are all good cues, but I will tell you what happened to Tony there as he pointed, Dan knows what I'm talking about.
[375] He realizes that he interrupted the show to get in there with something that none of us had any idea what he was talking about.
[376] He gave us two good identifiers.
[377] The first one weaker than the second, admittedly, guy with the eyebrows, not as helpful as he would have liked it to be.
[378] But when you say, spider, bite your dick.
[379] We are the millers.
[380] That kid.
[381] I forgot the name of the movie, guys, my bad.
[382] But you know that guy, and he doesn't look like an actor, he looks like a guy.
[383] Yeah, he does, but I don't know if he's, what else is he in?
[384] I just don't know from the movie.
[385] Mick Lovin would like a word.
[386] We're not making Steve Bouchemies anymore.
[387] I guess that's my point.
[388] Everyone's super hot now.
[389] That is, that would be a good point if throughout the history of movies we'd only made one Steve Bouchemmy because his, he must be.
[390] We only needed one, Dan.
[391] That's correct.
[392] He must be a great actor to have climbed.
[393] Him and Giamatti, the two of them, had some degree of difficulty.
[394] And if you look like them as a woman, you're not allowed in Hollywood.
[395] They don't allow you in Hollywood.
[396] Can I offer Tom Holland, who I know is an incredible shape, but face -wise just looks like a regular boy next door, doesn't he?
[397] Well, I want to get back to what it is that I was talking about yesterday when it came to Brad Pitt and George Clooney being, on the cover of GQ magazine and I wonder as I asked the group is that the last kind of that movie star because now Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds they're in that and Jake Gillenhall he's Gillenhall excuse me I always get that one wrong they're in that second tier but now she's talking about like the Chalamays of the world she's talking the the George Clooney Brad Pitt dinosaur age of 60 year olds who are beautiful men and old -timey movie stars you're telling me that the 25 year old now will never be that cannot be that oh that what those two human beings are representing a time because those two guys and Denzel are the three correct they are the three men who get to be Tom Cruise's had an up and down.
[398] He had an up and down period but the movie stars of the time are those the three guys?
[399] Because I was reading, I felt like I was transported into another time reading GQ magazine about Brad Pitt and George Clooney because I remember back when they were coming through stardom and Brad Pitt marries Angelina Jolie.
[400] I remember a Matt Damon article where Matt Damon was talking about him, George Clooney, Brad Pitt walking through Italy and they're like, you think we're famous, me and Clooney, you should have seen what happened to Brad Pitt the moment that he married Angelina Jolie.
[401] Me and Clooney can walk in Italy and walk in different directions and everyone chases after Brad Pitt and that's where Brad Pitt sort of surpassed George Clooney as America's movie star and now Clooney's a political activist, he's gotten into directing he hasn't made those kinds of movies in a while and who's coming for their thrones?
[402] Like who's going to replace them?
[403] So to answer the question.
[404] Yeah, like, you have to give it time.
[405] I think of DiCaprio, we mentioned earlier.
[406] Early in his career, people are like, oh, man, he's just a pretty boy or whatever.
[407] But then, like, you start getting into those roles.
[408] They're like, oh, no, he's serious about this.
[409] He's a great actor.
[410] And I think Salome, right now, I look at him, he's like a vapid young pretty boy, right?
[411] I saw Dune.
[412] I saw Dune, too.
[413] I wasn't blown away by his performance.
[414] But those are the movies that it's like, okay, he gets more roles.
[415] And then he gets to choose which one of these roles are meaningful roles that allow him to stretch his acting ability.
[416] And 10 years from now, 15 years from now, maybe we're talking about him the same way we talk about these guys.
[417] But we won't be, his generation will be, because they grew up on...
[418] Because they grew up on his movies.
[419] Why you guys keep killing me the last couple of days?
[420] I said we.
[421] I know, but you just say we.
[422] Dan, I don't know.
[423] My example was something specific to what you said.
[424] You said you will not remember something for the rest of your life.
[425] And your rest of your life probably ends at that day.
[426] I had to bring it up.
[427] Sorry.
[428] I think my point is that, like, the, like you were saying with the police officers that don't look like real police officers, it's because they're all, like, all the extras, they're all super good looking.
[429] Like, we just don't have, everyone's too good looking now.
[430] I bought Freddie Prince Jr. as a crafty lefty and Summer Catch.
[431] Hold on.
[432] Let me tell you something.
[433] Freddie Prince Jr., another real athlete.
[434] Like, that's the difference, right?
[435] Like, they're the guys that grew up playing sports, and then they're the guys are like, you have to teach me how to look like I play this sport.
[436] Freddie Prince, Jr. is in the former.
[437] No, Dan, we're going to remember Timothy Shalame.
[438] It's just, are we also going to remember Hock Tua next to him, like 20 years from now?
[439] He's got to contend with those.
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[465] You getting started on the breakfast flan?
[466] Oh, man. I've been singing a song to myself all morning long.
[467] Breakfast flan.
[468] Do you know, no, no, no. Stugats.
[469] Have you never heard the breakfast flound song?
[470] No, hit me with it.
[471] Okay.
[472] I wish I had some breakfast flaunt.
[473] Breakfast flound.
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[475] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugat.
[476] You're doing this differently than I am, I mean, and I think it might be because you're 10 years younger.
[477] I'm not going to remember Chalemay.
[478] I'm not.
[479] No, I'm telling you.
[480] that Salome will be remembered by his generation and the ones around it, but not mine, not me, the way I remember Pitt and Clooney.
[481] This is why I'm telling you that this felt like an article I was reading about the last of a dying breed of movie star, because they mean that to me, and Salome will mean that to a younger generation, and Pitt and Clooney won't mean that to the younger generation, who will not think of a Pitt and Clooney as anybody other than, you know, whatever it was that the movie stars of the 50s were.
[482] But the movie stars of the 50s were people like the salad dressing mogul Paul Newman.
[483] Clark Gable, your buddy.
[484] Clark Gable, who's always existed only as a joke.
[485] For me, Juju, yesterday's you were saying that Chris didn't know who Clark Gable was.
[486] And I always just thought, it's like, isn't that who Jamie Fox calls people Dark Gable?
[487] Like, that's the joke right there.
[488] But yeah, but we remember all these actors.
[489] Bella Legosi, we talked about this week, right?
[490] Like, we remember these people, Dan.
[491] It may not mean the same.
[492] You're right.
[493] Like, someone who grew up where Jimmy Cagney was, like, the greatest actor of their generation.
[494] Yeah, I'm not talking about remembering them.
[495] I'm talking about them being the seminal movie star for a time.
[496] If I tell you, you got to name one, you name one.
[497] You can only name one.
[498] For my generation, I'm watching two of them on a cover that are making the top five of the argument for me. So you're saying your goat is basically what you're saying.
[499] Your generation's acting goat.
[500] In the same way that Stugats will never release or relinquish Michael Jordan as the goat, doesn't matter what anyone does.
[501] There might be a seven -year -old right now who's going to grow up to be better than all of them, right?
[502] Sugatians are like, nope, not better than Jordan.
[503] You're saying when we bring actors to you, any new actor, you go back, nope, not like Brad Day.
[504] Who is it?
[505] Well.
[506] One, there's one goat.
[507] I can only pick one.
[508] One of them made Batman and Robin, so.
[509] Yeah, yeah, but man, I want to go Denzel there.
[510] Well, and Will Smith is in there, too.
[511] Will Smith has to be in there.
[512] I would say, you said Tom Cruise had ups and downs.
[513] I would argue Tom Cruise has had a more consistent career than probably any of those guys that you name.
[514] Hi, everybody.
[515] Al Pacino, Robert De Niro.
[516] We're talking about your generation, Dan?
[517] Yes.
[518] And there have to be men, I'm assuming.
[519] Yes, that's, yes.
[520] Tom Hanks.
[521] Melo Street.
[522] What do we do with Tom Hanks?
[523] Roy, act like that's this generation.
[524] Boy, your ass is old as hell.
[525] Meryl Street.
[526] What?
[527] She's still acting, is she?
[528] Roy, where'd you come from?
[529] Claire's first day of school was today.
[530] She's now in the first grade.
[531] That's why the traffic sucked today.
[532] Traffic's the word.
[533] Not because of you dropping off Claire because of school's back?
[534] Well, but wait a minute.
[535] I thought Greg Cody and Stugats came in here breathless on Tuesday because they were saying that was school traffic that the beginning of the week was the first day of school.
[536] Broward started Monday, Miami -Dade started today.
[537] Yeah.
[538] Roy, so hold on a second.
[539] So, Princess Claire, wait a minute.
[540] Wait a minute.
[541] What?
[542] Your, I want to examine this for a second.
[543] I'm learning that the joy of your life, the only thing that makes you smile like that.
[544] I am.
[545] You took her to school, first day of school, but not first day of school of any kind, correct?
[546] Correct.
[547] This is the first day of first grade.
[548] But kindergarten was last year.
[549] Yeah.
[550] Okay, so I thought today was the first day of any kind of school.
[551] Were you emotional last year when you did this?
[552] Kind of, yes.
[553] Sure and Roy just goodbye, Claire.
[554] No. He shook her hand.
[555] No, it was a big hug.
[556] He told her to get out.
[557] I was told to get out.
[558] A formal hand.
[559] handshake you gave her on the way to school?
[560] Roy doesn't get teary -eyed emotional when he drops his daughter off for school the first day, does he?
[561] First day of all time.
[562] Did you walk her in?
[563] Yeah, we walked her in.
[564] We walked her in and the teacher wasn't there, so we stood there for about...
[565] The teacher wasn't there.
[566] 35 minutes.
[567] She was stuck in the traffic, guys.
[568] It was terrible this morning.
[569] I'm going to tell you all right now, because you guys are all fairly new on the child adventure.
[570] I mean, six years is kind of not fairly new.
[571] It's still fairly new compared to me like you guys are walking them in and saying like I love you have a great day and I'm like get out of the car I don't want to see you for eight hours that's you quickly dan let me tell you something parents all over this country wait with bated breath for the first day of school just so like oh my god I don't have to hear those noises for at least a strong six or seven hours I get to leave and be stress -free, relatively speaking.
[572] Early in the journey, you're like, is she going to be okay?
[573] I'm worried.
[574] Give it a couple of years.
[575] She'll be like, yeah, go, go, get it.
[576] When school starts again, huh?
[577] Well, the other thing about this is you have multiple children.
[578] I do have multiples, yeah.
[579] Yeah, so.
[580] And multiplies.
[581] I've heard a lot of contention amongst parents with schools starting earlier and earlier in the summer every year.
[582] A lot of parents are like, Hey, we don't want school to start until after Labor Day because, like, we want to go on trips.
[583] Like, we want to do stuff in August.
[584] Like, this is ridiculous.
[585] This is too early.
[586] And in Broward, school started on, like, what?
[587] Was it like August 12th this year?
[588] I mean, that's, like, the whole month, August.
[589] That's crazy.
[590] Jessica, are you ready to have your mind blown?
[591] My kids, last day of school was the Friday before Memorial Day.
[592] I said I didn't know.
[593] Their first day of school, July 24th.
[594] In Phoenix, Arizona.
[595] What?
[596] when it was a hundred billion degrees.
[597] Recess?
[598] Ha!
[599] Sit your ass in this classroom and just wait for it to end.
[600] There's this whole thing where it's like, instead of having a long summer break like we have when we're growing up, they now sprinkle everything out.
[601] So fall break is two weeks.
[602] Spring break is two weeks.
[603] Winter break is like three and a half weeks.
[604] So I would rather they have summer August, like you said, because I'm real busy in June and July doing NBA stuff, I want August to be able to go on trips.
[605] Having said that, I don't want them starting school like after Labor Day because then I'm going crazy.
[606] I'm like get them the hell out of my house.
[607] I'm going to get back to this escalating tensions list here.
[608] Just remind people what it is that we were talking about.
[609] And Roy, I'm going to include you here to find out which of these social media things you value the most as we try to put together our social media list of escalating values.
[610] So here's the chart of escalating tensions, the weakest of the tensions.
[611] You know, I think this started because of an on -field baseball brawl, and we were talking about how those aren't actually brawls.
[612] Chicanery is the weakest, hijinks, malarkey, skull -duggery, shenanigans.
[613] They're all very weak.
[614] Right there, you stop right there at shenanigans.
[615] that all of these not only a week they're lighthearted they're like ah they just horsing around they shouldn't even be on the list honest then there's a line and then next come this is where the violence escalates the lowest of the strongest violence is is tiff a tiff right after shenanigans because all of the other stuff there's no real harm but a tiff yeah it's like oh a little bit of an annoyance there then a spat a quarrel tomfoolery that seems like it should have been elsewhere Yes, skirmish, poor list, skirmish, fracas, hullabaloo, Ballyhoo, Dust Up, Bruhaha, Armageddon.
[616] Okay, that seems, there are a lot after Armageddon, so.
[617] Big jump there.
[618] Brouhaha to Armageddon.
[619] Is this an order?
[620] I would say.
[621] Well, I thought it was in order, but I'm not trusting anybody in video, anybody in production today.
[622] I'm not trusting anybody.
[623] Dan, really quickly, I'd like to say Dust Up is where it's actual full -on fighting, because there's dust flying up as they're arguing.
[624] Well, I've never viewed this list as as flawed as it clearly is because we escalate very quickly.
[625] What's after Armageddon?
[626] Well, hold on.
[627] Malice at the Palace.
[628] I'm trying to do this in a way that respects the list.
[629] Bruhaha escalates to Armageddon, and then Armageddon escalates to agree to disagree.
[630] And it makes me feel like this list was not given to me in the correct order.
[631] Checks out for me. Someone go check the stairs.
[632] Oh, man. What do you think is going on on the second floor of the Clevelander right now?
[633] Drugs.
[634] Sex, yeah.
[635] There are 10 sex on concrete sinks that were put in as concrete so that they wouldn't fall because people have sex on them.
[636] How are there 10 on this list after Armageddon?
[637] What are they?
[638] Well, it's agreed to disagree, gloves off, fisticuffs, kerfuffle, hubbub, hurley, burly, slobner, Donnybrook, riot.
[639] Now there's war.
[640] This is not the right list.
[641] It's just not the right list.
[642] Bruce Willis.
[643] We didn't talk about him earlier.
[644] Speaking of Armageddon.
[645] Chris Cody, what is your list of social media hierarchy values?
[646] It's not my list.
[647] We're working on it as a group back here.
[648] Right now at the very top in terms of social media feeling rankings.
[649] going viral for something good like that's that's the top of the food chain right now and then next we call that the Rex Chapman correct next we have compliment from a celebrity that's quote tweeted or reposted and then below that compliment from a celebrity in a reply and then below that co -sign from a celebrity below that compliment from a random person reply below that follow below that retweet below that like below that going viral for something bad I'm going to push back on a couple of things.
[650] Number one, I think the cosine from the celebrity is more important than a compliment.
[651] Because the cosine is like, yo, this is the guy right here.
[652] And that breeds a lot more follows and likes and views and everything else.
[653] So that's second after going viral for something good for you.
[654] Like, that's next after that.
[655] Because this is fluid.
[656] We can move stuff up and down.
[657] I would say cosine, yes.
[658] Do we agree on that?
[659] Or is this just a mean?
[660] I think it obviously depends on the celebrity.
[661] Like there's certain people that they interact with your tweet, even if it's positive and you're like, uh -oh, I don't know about that.
[662] Well, but Amin's when you put at the bottom of the list going viral for something bad, yes, that's terrible if it's actually shameful.
[663] But Amin likes it when he goes viral on one of his quote unquote bad things.
[664] Dan, I'm glad you brought that up because yesterday something awful happened to me that should have gone viral, but this country's values are all out of way.
[665] I know what you're talking about.
[666] I've got a note here from somebody who wrote in As a middle school math teacher A Means Consistently Erroneous Math in Hour 1 yesterday Had me horrified I'm horrified And it was still not as bad as Tony shower beers But continuing no no no it's way worse It's way worse than anything And I thought for sure I was like oh you don't want to open my phone And I opened my phone I looked at the mentions and there was nothing I went on Reddit there was nothing I went on Instagram I went on threads Nothing and I said you know why because this country's education system is failing us.
[667] Failing us.
[668] It's failed us all.
[669] You guys care more about a jump shot than math.
[670] I was embarrassed by and for a meme yesterday.
[671] He stopped the show in his tracks to do.
[672] It's Cardinal Sin like you did you did to say, hey, I've got math I'm going to do, and then you got it wrong.
[673] Wrong.
[674] And then you got it wrong twice.
[675] And you never actually got it right.
[676] We still don't know the correct answer.
[677] Pay the teachers.
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