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Hour 1: Bad Friend, Worse Person, Great Fan (feat. David Samson)
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Folks, I'm getting hungry. And you know my favorite part of any meal, snack, or game day app?
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That's right, the goat.
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Or should I say the greatest of.
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All time, Frank's Red Hot. It's got the perfect blend of flavor.
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And heat that elevates all foods from.
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Wings to Buffalo chicken dip to even ice cream. That's right, I said ice cream. And with a roster of flavors from.
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OG to sweet chili, you can put that on everything. So make every dish the greatest and eat the goat.
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All right, listen up.
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Nacho chips.
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Quiet down. Crispy potatoes.
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A
This is the moment Velveeta's been preparing you for, and you're not about to crack under pressure. Today's the day to go all in on the drip. Velveeta's heat and eat Queso is the MVP of any game day spread.
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So stick by them and you'll be golden. Now get out there and make delicious history.
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No tailgate party is complete without velvet. This is the Dan Levator show with the ST Podcast.
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C
I am delighted to see David Sampson. He is now clean shaven. He will explain that in moments. I suppose nothing personal is the name of the podcast. Zazzle. You were asking during the shadow show. A not unreasonable question. It's a very exciting time in. In Miami and David is still doing shows. And you've been confused how David is still how and why. I guess David is still doing shows.
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D
Always like talking to David. I like David a lot, love hearing him talk about movies, TV and all that stuff. And by the way, I think David's got some good movie and TV stuff today to share with us. But I am genuinely, I guess, I don't know, astonished that you're able to do the show because, like, I get the whole idea that, hey, it's two hours, you know, it takes my mind off the worst thing ever. And I could do something that I enjoy. But I know how much work you put into preparing for the show. And it's not just, hey, I'm showing up for two hours, like, you're still full on working, man. And I guess, like, I guess I commend you for it.
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Thank you, Zaz. It's two separate issues that you're bringing up. One is that I want to show my. My children that. That we. I have to work and we not. Not about the money, but about going on and doing work. And. And there's an expression, the show must go on. And it's the hardest thing to think about until you actually have to do it. And so I've really been trying, but there's been moments, and you guys have been great, so thank you. Last week, I was supposed to be on with you guys, and I was afraid to get behind a microphone because my brain wasn't working right, my mouth wasn't working right, and I didn't want to embarrass the show or embarrass the audience. And so there's days when I cannot do it. And Meadowlark and Dan, thank you, all of you. You guys have been truly supportive of everything. And, you know, we have a lot to go over today. I appreciate the opportunity, but, Zaz, no, none of, none of this is easy, nor would I wish it on anybody.
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C
Well, without getting to any of the specifics, because I do want to talk about plenty of subject matter that you've been very good on lately on nothing personal, but how to navigate. I asked the group here and you how to navigate people caring about you, thinking perhaps that you should take a leave to take care of yourself and your family and sort of mothering you that way. Am I stating something unpleasant when I say you and I haven't talked about any of this stuff, but all of us are concerned for you because it's too much, David. It's an overwhelming amount. You're a man who built a stadium. You're a man who ran seven continents in seven days, seven marathons. You're a very willful man. But what you're presently doing emotionally is too much.
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A
It's, it is, it's too much for anybody, Dan. And so I, I, I need you guys. And I appreciate just being on a show and trying to do it, but, yes, I have. Things have been going on in my head just differently now. I got into an argument with my daughter's doctors last week because I was tired of sitting in waiting rooms. And I, and I don't have a bad temper. I don't raise my voice ever. I'm much more just condescending and dry and how I get upset and manifest upsetness. But I lost it in the middle of a, a waiting room with, with other patients. And I'm finding the lack of control to be incredibly difficult for me to handle. And the lack of ability to make my daughter better is crushing. It's been four months. It was four months this week that when she got sick. And I can't do anything about it other than the ridiculousness that I do with insurance and with getting her treatment and care and all the other stuff, and dealing with family and trying to help my two other who are suffering so tremendously. But I, I, my capacity ran out and it manifested in a, a discharge of emotion and vitriol and bile in the middle of a examining room as my daughter was crying because she hadn't eaten and we'd been waiting around for so many hours. And I'm not proud of it. On the other hand, the frustration that I'm trying to work through, and it's not content, as Pablo would say, but it is me trying to work through everything, is that accepting the reality of the situation turns out to be the hardest part. Understanding what you can't control and what can't get better, that turns out to be the hardest part. When you're looking at someone whose life is forever changed and cut short, you're thinking to yourself, what, what do I do differently? So I'm examining everything, which is something I never did with you, Dan. I never did on the air, I never did off the air. I was very sure footed in everything I would do, very cocky. And now it's just all gone. It's literally all gone. And that's been a tough one, Dan.
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C
So nothing Personal is the name of the podcast and we will get to the content of the day and of the moment, but honest to God, wherever it is that grief resides or people healing or trying to heal stuff is.
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Where you'll find Dan.
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Mike, by the way, not to be undone. Mike has been unbelievable in the last four months, but silent in the last three weeks.
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Yeah, I'm sorry.
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They're more important things, David.
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The Hurricanes.
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The Hurricanes are in the championship. David.
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Like, I don't begrudge Mike that, and I love you, Mike, but let me just say, like, this Hurricane's run selfishly. I'm so excited for Monday night to be done. Yeah, I can't be that because I want you to win and have it, but it means that you'll again be willing and able to reach out.
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Yeah, no, I'll wear it. I'm a bad friend and a worse person.
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C
Good fan, though.
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Great fan.
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Good fan.
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You're a very good fan and you're good at business. You're good at what you do. But talk about disappearing. Dan. Holy crap.
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Have you heard about Mike's new business? Mike, tell Samson about the new business. Business that you built it. That you built.
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Hey, Kane's insight. Go ahead and like and subscribe. Official Keynes insight on YouTube business is Abu Men.
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A
I. I just followed Kane's insight on Twitter because during the first part of the program today, you had promoted it and I had not been aware of the YouTube channel or of the Twitter account. And now I'm a follower and subscriber of both. I love the work you do, but working in an extra phone call, I.
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Mean, yeah, I'll get around to being a human being after Monday's game, I promise I'll be back. And I'm sorry, you know, just spread a little thin here. What do you want for me, man, you're spread thin.
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D
David, as someone who understands the business of all this stuff, like, have you seen how obscene the ticket prices are for this game?
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Yeah, but so what? I don't. I get into an argument with people about this all the time. The ticket prices reflect what people are willing to pay. And I believe my 20,000 tickets went to Indiana, 20,000 went to. To Miami, which leaves about 25,000 for various other things, but their sponsors to deal with. It's always the same way. And people complain about Taylor Swift and about Springsteen, and they stand up and say, we're going to keep tickets at a reasonable price for our friends. It's horse hockey. If you can't afford the game, watch it. And that's fine. You get an experience with watching with people or watch it on your own. But of course, they're going to charge as much as they can, as they should.
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C
Where are you, David? On Rich Paul, doing some of what he's doing as an agent that you don't generally see, but he's also got an unprecedented client. And I don't. Is it an unprecedented business, David, to be this kind of affiliated and aligned with somebody who's your sports adjacent, but your business is tied to the legendary, the legend of our time?
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Yeah. Unprecedented client. I don't know what you mean by that. In what way Is he unprecedented?
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LeBron James, yes. LeBron James is the biggest thing that there's been in American sports for 20 years.
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He has a type of power we've never seen an athlete have since Malachi.
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Tony.
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Yeah. So I think the power of LeBron James, you're watching it fade right now, as it should and as it will, and that's very normal to have happen. He's not anymore the face of the NBA. He's certainly not the best player in the NBA. He's not even the top 10 anymore. And not to take away from the run he had, which was outstanding, but the run's coming to an end. But when you talk about an agent having power, what. What LeBron is more well known for than anything else to me, is player empowerment. And that is what Happens when agents also become empowered. But we've seen that in baseball with Scott Boris from the beginning of my career, 25 years ago. So I don't find any of this so outrageous. What I do believe is that we'll sit here five years from now, and the type of power that you think exists with those two men will not exist that way.
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How do you imagine the Lakers management hears Rich Paul on his podcast with Max Kellerman trading away their players who he doesn't even represent?
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We ignore. We. We've had this. We've had agents who try to dictate who you're going to sign, who you're going to trade. They've got an unhappy player or. Or they've got a player on another team. They're trying to get out of a situation into a different situation. The amount of time a front office spends thinking about what agents say or do is so tiny that it doesn't even register on the timescale. I heard Tom earlier in the show talking about a vision board and playing in front of stadiums and NBA arenas. The vision board for a front office and for a president of a team. It's not agent related ever.
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But did you not spend, like, I feel like you probably spent time when you were president of the Marlins with what Scott Boris was saying or doing?
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No. No. It's only in media that I love doing that. And it's such a big content fountain with what a buffoon he is. The only thing we did with Scott Boris is one of my favorite things I ever did in baseball is every time we negotiated with him, we do it on speakerphone and we would leave the room and just let him talk.
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No.
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And we had our assignments assistant tell us when there was a pause and we come back in the room, but we would leave and go to my office, which was next door to the GM's office, do other stuff, and then come back because it didn't matter what he was saying, and we certainly didn't care and it certainly didn't move the ball. It was just a matter of when our owner would give in to what Scott wanted. That was the only thing we were waiting for. But, yeah, this type of things with agents, they have an outsized view often of what their role is, and it only manifests itself with people like a Boris or people like a Rich. Paul, go back and look at an Asian.
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Let me. Let me just stop you for a second. You're feuding with Boris is well chronicled, but I just. I want to ask the group because he Dismisses Boris as a buffoon again and again. And I know that that's been your viewpoint, and you've been articulating it very well for many years with a lot of details that would bring people to your side, but I don't think Boris national reputation is of a buffoon, even though you're shouting it from the mountaintops. I believe you're one of the few who would say. But you're also more informed as to why that's so. Zaslow, your general opinion of Scott Boris.
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Is someone who's difficult to work with, most likely.
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Okay. Which is what an agent's job is to be, but also wildly successful and not a buffoon.
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Yeah, right.
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Not.
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Not a buffoon. Someone who's very, very tough and gets what he wants.
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So he doesn't ever get what he wants. He gets given what he wants, and there's a very big difference there.
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It's semantics. It's semantics.
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No, no, it's not semantics. It's like blaming. I would never blame a player or an agent for a bad contract. I don't blame Boris, ever for the contracts that he gets for his players that are outrageous and don't work out because owners approve them every single time an owner has to do it. And that's always been the mechanism. That's why you have such an issue with power and with. With the power dynamic of what it is to be an owner or a rich white billionaire. The fact is, it's that way because they do have the power. They are solely in charge of where their money goes. Agents are merely a vessel trying to get credit. Now, some of them are great guys and actually do have the best interest of their players in mind, but those guys are more. The. More the few, not the many. And just what Boris does, he just lies way too much to his players. That's the part that bothers me. And fans have this view. And again, we're talking about rich Paul and LeBron James. What is it that you think the Lakers front office did when they heard the podcast? Oh, we never thought of doing that trade.
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Oh, they're mad. They're mad. The Laker front office, it's being reported, is mad at an employee that's at the center of their team and needs to not be messy. Like, they're. They're not happy that this is happening.
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How. How is that a report?
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Yes, it's been reported that Lakers management doesn't like that this is happening. Why would they.
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And when you also think it's reasonable, David, for the player who's not represented by Rich Paul, in this case, Austin Reaves. To kind of now, now. I mean, is he going to confront LeBron? Probably not. But he's probably thinking to himself, man, I wish LeBron's agent wasn't trading me.
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You think that Reaves and LeBron would not have discussed inside a clubhouse, this sort of story? Of course they do. We would talk inside the clubhouse. The best place for these conversations is the food room, where you've got four to five different areas where people are eating and you've got people walking in between them. And there's TVs on in the background, a very little volume.
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Eating area.
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Best. Say it again.
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Eating areas.
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It's needing.
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What.
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What do you. Yes.
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Sorry.
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D
Smear off.
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Wow, you're on the money with smear.
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Smear off.
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Chris.
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C
Fair enough.
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Dan Levatar, Taytas Stugats, Taytas.
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This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.
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The College Football Playoff 47 Brand and Pit bull have announced a Merchandise collaboration. Guys, this Malachi Tony candle is strong. Prayer's already answered. I just paid $67 for a shirt that says Miami loves teachers.
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Dolly.
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David, are you.
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My screen Dan is so small. I thought that was Jesus on that candle.
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It's baby Jesus.
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Oh, it is.
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Well, but Baby Jesus is the nickname for Malachi Toning.
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Or as Greg Cody was actually Jesus.
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No, as Greg Cody, you thought that Malachi Tony looked like actually Jesus. No, he just performs as baby Jesus. You thought that that was Jesus, not Baby Jesus for the Miami hurricane.
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Oh, now I see it. But you have to understand that, A, I don't have my glasses on. B, I'm on a screen remotely, so I didn't see any color. Although, who knows? Jesus may have been black, but I thought that was actually Jesus Jesus.
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He was malarkey.
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I believe that that is outright racism, I think.
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But no, David doesn't see color.
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Well, it might just be his vision. The funny part about that is it just might be that his eyesight is going because he's going crazy.
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Two of the shirts have already sold out.
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It's a good bell. Eat that. It's a good candle. Those. Those lordy candles are. Where did you get that?
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I want to give all the glory to God.
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David, there's a lot of entertainment news, and I don't know where to start on anything. From the great business stuff you're doing on Sporting Class with Pablo Torre, where you've been talking about how much television is going to change, what's going to happen when the oscars go to YouTube. Do people really understand what's about to happen in the splintering of television? There's a lot of ground to cover between here and the silliness of the Golden Globe. So go ahead. The floor is yours.
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Well, let me just start by saying, look at what we're doing now in the podcast. And a lot of attention came when several podcasts started going over to Netflix. Because now the view of a podcast is no longer that it is audio only with a smattering of maybe a little video. The reality is, is that we're in a world where this is a TV show that you are doing. It's a TV show that people both watch and they listen to. And our job is to get to people wherever it is that they eng with content. And that means being on Netflix. That means having been on YouTube. That means being on DraftKings Network. It means being available wherever podcasts are. And that's something that has evolved super quickly. And what these new deals are mean. Think about the Academy Awards. We always viewed that as broadcast television. It's on a network. Well, they just cut a deal. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. The Oscars are going to be on YouTube and people are saying on YouTube. How can that be? Well, guess what? YouTube is just a channel now. It's another channel that we have where we watch stuff that has the freedom where you're not stuck with Greg Cody Hardouts, you're not stuck that you have to be done by 11 o' clock or 11:20pm and then your late local news is late. Those days are over. And so the job for us as content creators is to get to the most people we can, wherever it is they are. Because it's not like it was when Howard Stern went to Sirius xm where you're expecting a huge influx of subscribers because you're following someone to a platform. And it happened early on with some podcasters. What it is actually is we're doing deals now, sometimes exclusive, some notes where we are trying four eyeballs. And the Oscars did the same thing. So it really doesn't matter. Other than NFL football, it really doesn't matter where you are or what your actual ratings are. It matters what your total audience can be. And one of the best ways to do it is through YouTube. And so I'm fascinated that the Academy Awards decided to do it and you are going to see that happen. John Skipper said it himself, the super bowl could eventually even be a pay per view event. And that is real and it's happening way, way quicker than any executive thought.
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C
How quick? The super bowl on pay per view by blanket, the fastest.
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The super bowl on a streaming network within 10 years is almost a guarantee. Part of the new media deals with the NFL, there will be an opportunity for Amazon or Netflix to have a Super bowl that's a guarantee. When you say pay per view, that means can you pay just for that event. And while you could argue that that has been a like ufc, it's going away from pay per view. By joining Paramount, I would tell you that the concept of buying a service for an event and then canceling Billy style, that's the new definition of pay per view. So I'm going to say within the next 10 years, you will see a Super bowl that is quote unquote, pay per view, Golden Globes, I, I hope you're all watching the movies. They're not incredibly popular and I don't know why. One battle after another and Hamnet and there's movies that are Fully emotional and really smart movies. Marty supreme has gotten a lot of attention, both negative and positive. The movie I want to review I watched only because of Mike Ryan and Amy Madigan was going to win Best Supporting Actress, but got upset. But she is going to get nominated for an Oscar. And those nominations come out a week from today. They'll be out when we do our show next week if I'm invited back. And it's just a great year for really, really great movies. The one I'm championing the most is called Sentimental Value.
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E
Okay, cool. But the one that you're gonna review is Zazzlo.
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D
Weapons. What a movie, David.
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I never would have watched it without Mike suggesting that I watch.
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Didn't you want to know how that. What were the kids doing? How'd they go missing?
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That's ex. Exactly right? That's exactly well put.
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Here's. Here's my review of Weapons. It is not a horror film. It is a film where. It is a character study in what it is to have influence over people's thoughts and people's actions. And the character that Amy Madigan plays is a. Her name is Gladys, and she is some sort of otherworldly.
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She's a witch.
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Wait, she's what?
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She's a witch.
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I didn't. I don't remember that from the movie. She's a witch.
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I mean, she displayed the. The characteristics that of a witch.
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She was able to. So it's funny, I had her as some sort of alien. Not as a witch, an alien. I had her as the ability to do mind control over people and to turn them into. Through some sort of action of putting something in. Wait, we can do spoilers by. By putting a stick.
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David. Through a spell.
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That's your class.
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Or witches. Come on, David.
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Class.
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An alien dog.
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An alien. David. How do you watch this many movies and confuse a witch with an alien and not know what a spell is?
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I did not have it. So you're saying the kids at 2:17am were put under a spell? They were down in the basement because. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Now you're crossing a spoiler.
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Spoilers. You can't give all those spoilers on weapons. I'm the. You got to believe all of that. Sorry, YouTube. And I'm the worst Weapons.
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Been out for.
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Wait a minute. You get weapons? You just got on streams released months ago.
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David.
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David cannot be.
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David. Not everybody watches a movie a day, for many days, for many years. Not everybody does that. And I'm guilty of this. So you just. We will bleep all of that. The point being that you missed you. You have a grave misunderstanding.
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Stunning.
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That's a stunning revelation by you.
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You think aliens do spells?
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That you thought the aliens were doing a spell and you had it being more beyond supernatural, beyond the which you had it being extraterrestrial.
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100%. I am. I'm processing this live as we're doing this. I can't imagine that I'm not. So that's not a fine because there are four people who have emergency bypass and it's. It's my family. And that's it. It so sorry.
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C
Fun times over. We can't.
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I'm not paying the fine.
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C
That's fine. I'm not. Nobody's finding you.
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D
Take it easy, man.
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C
Quit popping off. You don't quit losing control everywhere, like manage your temper. Nobody find you. Nobody finds you. And you're already thinking we're going to aggressively come after you because you're getting calls.
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D
You're popping off Who?
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B
Pop.
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C
You are. You did pop off. He did pop off. Look, did you. Did he not?
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A
Yeah, I just said I'm not paying a fine, but I want to go back to weapons for one quick second. Are you telling me that everyone knows that Gladys was a witch?
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D
That's definitely not saying she's an alien. Not.
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C
Not. Not everyone. Right. That's that. The distinction he's making is that however you feel about the end of weapons, you can have your theories. Not many of them are going to be aliens. We're handling all of that.
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A
So maybe I'm confusing it with begonia, but I don't think I am. I just watched it and that was definitely my take. And by the way, Mike, what normally I would do if it weren't for the hurricanes. All I wanted to do was call you after I finished weapons, but I knew that I couldn't because you would look at the phone and feel obligated to respond because of what I'm going through. And I knew you didn't have the time or the bandwidth to do it.
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E
Well, thank you.
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A
That is.
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E
That was mighty big of you.
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C
It's good in these times, David, for you to give so much to. Mike.
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E
Yes, thank you for looking out for me. As you know, I'm going through a lot.
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C
Nothing.
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A
A lot.
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Nothing personal. He's got to defend me all over the streets of Miami. Hear me.
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Stugats.
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Go Peefy.
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This is the Dunn Levatar show with the stugats.
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C
Nothing personal is the name of the podcast. Thank you, David. We have. Oh, Tony is popping in here. Hold on a second. Can we get the word for this? Tony's about to have? While filling his mouth with takes, Tony's about to eat the breaded meat that we have that is famous. The. The breaded ham that is. You don't say it very well in Spanish. Do you want to take a crack at how you say the word?
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A
Is it a croquetta coretta?
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C
No, you said.
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E
Croqueta. It's just a trademark, Dan. Toss. Don't worry about it. Tony, what up?
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F
What's up, Mike? I hope you didn't write my name down from the earlier segment. I didn't mean it like that. Okay.
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E
All right, you're off the list.
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C
How many? Oh, it's pastel. What do you have there? Patilitos, Empanadas. What do you have?
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F
We gotta. Yeah, we. Yeah, we got a plethora of things. Dan, we've got croquetas here which are interesting.
- [33:17]
C
Hold on. Can you. Can you do me a favor, Tony? Can you hold up each of these things and see if David can say what they are?
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F
So I've got this right here. These are patalito. I'm not going to say which ones, but can he guess what. What they are?
- [33:30]
C
Well, I don't think you would have even gotten pastelitos, right.
- [33:34]
A
It looks like a pano chocolat on the left and some sort of.
- [33:39]
F
No, wrong.
- [33:40]
A
Kakaki on the right. The thing I get at a Greek restaurant, which I can't remember. A cornucopia pie or something.
- [33:48]
C
Do you know what pastelitos are, David? Have you ever heard of pastelitos? All right, Tony, Assume no, ignorance assumes him nothing but ignorance and that he learned nothing while living in South Florida.
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F
Yeah, I mean, again, it's hard to. It's hard to learn in South Florida about Cuban things when you live in Broward. It's difficult.
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B
Relax.
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F
But it's okay.
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E
We talking about a spiny.
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F
It really is.
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A
Yes.
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F
Yeah, that. Yeah, exactly what he's talking about.
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B
Cocky.
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F
So, Dave, just. Dave, just so you know. So to the right here, the square one is patalito de guayaba, which is guava, and then the one to the left is guava and cheese.
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A
The good stuff.
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C
That's the best.
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F
Tell the difference because that's the best one.
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B
Yeah, one.
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F
Yep, exactly. So, Dan, for the take, I'm gonna do both croqueta and.
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C
Oh, you're gonna try and put it all in your mouth while doing the entirety of the take. Okay. I'm looking forward to this, David, by. Thank you. Nothing Personal is the name of the podcast. Check it out. He continues to do not solo because Coca helps him a great deal, but they are running a gorilla outfit over there where they're doing two hours of really strong content as often as they can. Nothing Personal is the name of the podcast. Go ahead, Tony. What is the take? Are we in the afc? Are we the nfc? Are we going macro?
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F
We're going macro. Dan, can I get some music? Can I get some. Some nice NFL music or something like something juice behind me? Because I'm absolutely cranked right now.
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C
Okay.
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F
I had so many shots of Cuban cop.
- [35:15]
C
All right, well, hold on. All right, I'm ready to go. Okay. Yes, I understand. It would have been good to tell Chris that before he started shouting F words into the sky, because you're telling him right now live to hurry up and get you better music than what he had. He had just the Latin stuff ready for you.
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F
Sure, yeah. No, the thing is, I can't talk to Chris. The only way I can talk to him is over the air. So here we are. And I'm sorry for listening. One and a half speed. But we are. Are cranked right now. How you doing? Good to see you out there. All right, Dan, so we're gonna do a big macro point. And the way they have the croquetas here are not cylindrical in shape. They're more pear shaped, which I thought was very interesting.
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C
Oh, wait a minute. I don't think that's a. Wait a minute. Hold on. Let Me see what you've got there. The croquette. Wait a minute, Tony.
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A
It's like a chicken wing.
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C
Wait a minute, Tony.
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F
I know, I know.
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C
Wait a minute. That's what they gave. That is a chance.
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E
Chicken wing.
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C
I agree, Tony. Tony, wait a minute. This didn't just happen. Tony. This did not just happen on live television.
- [36:12]
E
Hold on.
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C
Let's whisper.
- [36:13]
F
Hold on.
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B
I agree.
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C
Hold on.
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F
I agree. Because when they brought me. When they brought me la croquetica, I said. And. And she was like, see? And I was like. And she said, no, no, these are croquetas. So what I did is I took a bite of one, and it is a croqueta. I don't like the shape, but I'm not gonna complain. I'm here and there's establishment. The coffee has been very good, as you can see. Lo patalito. I don't know, but I'm gonna try the croquette and see what the deal is. I'm gonna do this for you, Dan. I normally wouldn't eat this. I normally wouldn't eat this, but I'm gonna do it for you.
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A
Okay?
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C
Okay, Tony, I don't mean to. I really don't. This is live, and we like to celebrate our Miami establishments, but I have a legitimate controversy in front of us right now, and I don't think croqueta can be shaped. Shaped that way and still be a croqueta. I may have it wrong. You guys have been accusing me on show of not being Cuban. You said, my dad yesterday, and this was fair, he forgot about Fidel and Elian. So I like my father, we've been living in a bubble for a while here, separated from our community. I believe that. That as a croqueta is. Is blasphemous to any generation of Cuban. Just the shape of it. Do I have it wrong?
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F
I am a Hun. No, no. Are 100% right.
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C
This.
- [37:23]
F
When. When they. When they dropped this off, I was. I was appalled and disgusted. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna. I'm not, you know, I'm not gonna mince words here. Like the mince meat in this grog. I'm not gonna mince words. I wasn't happy when they dropped this off.
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C
It doesn't mean that it can't be tasty, though, right? It doesn't mean that this.
- [37:39]
F
Okay, sure, sure.
- [37:40]
C
Okay, so let's go ahead and do this.
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F
Okay, here's the thing.
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C
Yes.
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F
Really quick. Really quick. So. So on that point, when you make Them. This shape. Shape, right. It makes it difficult for the consistency to be the same because as you. As you make it, it gets more cocina on the top and less cosinao on the bottom because of the weight distribution of the croqueta, which is why you have the cylindrical shape where it cooks evenly, thoroughly.
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C
Tony, fry them. Tony. This strikes me. Look, I do not. I do not mean to do this to an establishment of high order here in Miami with a reputation that has been earned as a maker of good foods. I don't mean to do this live. However, you are in receipt of what I believe to be an amateur croqueta that is not going to be able to overcome its deficiencies because it looks the way it was cooked and that's not the way to cook it.
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F
Which is why, if you want. That's why I didn't want to look. You know, it is what it is.
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C
We're here now.
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F
That's why I have a patalito ready to go. If we want to use this in. In. In. Instead of the croquetas.
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C
Are you uncomfortable? Are you uncomfortable about what?
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E
Feels like we're bogged down here.
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D
Very comfortable.
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E
Yeah. Let's just. Let's just do.
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B
We should probably also give Edan James the telestrator.
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F
Do what now?
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C
Do what?
- [39:05]
E
Come on.
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F
All right. I'm gonna. I'm gonna sacrifice. I'm gonna sacrifice. I'm gonna do it. Okay. I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna do.
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C
You've mentioned that. Yes.
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F
Which again we don't. We don't know if it's a go getta. So here we go. Dan, you ready?
- [39:17]
C
Yeah.
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E
In your mouth.
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C
Give it and give us the take.
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B
Okay.
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A
Down the hatch.
- [39:26]
C
Yeah. The whole thing. You gotta. You gotta give. Yeah.
- [39:30]
F
The. The Texans have a really good super bowl wins defense where Palmers are not neutral tolerance. I don't think they could be as good as they originally shot like 30. Kirk can do the same thing. The guy's putting them in the other side. Let's go. So I had them as a darkest to win the super bowl, but I don't think that's the case.
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E
Have we done everything in Miami?
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F
Well, we have one.
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E
Miami feels like we're running out of stuff.
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F
The best thing to do is look at the coaching nostrils between the Rams and the Bear. I think they might be the best two closest left in the NFL.
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E
I think that's it.
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F
This is tough, Dan.
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C
Tony, that was excellent. You have really starred this week. Okay. You have done good journalism this week. You are a one man only. Indeed, buddy. You are. Good job, Tony. And we're still just.
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B
Tomorrow from campus. We're still just.
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C
We're still just getting started. We're building up to this live stream on Monday. Thank you, Tony. Excellent work. We'll see if La Casa de Los Trukos is open later. We'll send you over there. You know, I'm obsessed. Thank you. Good talking to you. That's excellent work by him. How we have not talked very much professional football because you know, we've been consumed with the local professional team.
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D
Harbaugh Giants.
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C
Yeah. So. So that happen quick. Not surprising. And I guess everybody would just say that's probably pretty smart on both sides. Young quarterback. That's the best of all those stinky jobs. They're stinky jobs. And unless you have a quarterback, they're stinky jobs. And Mike Tomlin's out.
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D
Baltimore job's a good one.
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C
The Baltimore job is a good one historically. But I do worry that you burn through an MVP body like that and all of a sudden you take away his running skill and you get a limited. A more limited quarterback that doesn't get to the playoffs or maybe gets hurt even as Derrick Henry is still miraculously. I don't even understand that. Do any of you understand that? How is that possible physically in that sport for Derrick Henry to be had at a bargain price? Derrick Henry to be well exceeding his value at every turn. We yell at him when he has three fumbles. But Derrick Henry deserving to be in these playoffs. How is that possible? Anyone have any physical explanation listening to this For Derrick Henry's existence as a human being? Being someone who claim through. Came through the SEC with that many carries. And then Baltimore still a good job. Zaslow says because Derek Henry's back there.
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E
Zaslow says a lot of stuff and sometimes not well. Hit it.
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D
Shit. You want to know how that. What were the kids doing? That's definitely edited. There's no way.
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B
Not at all.
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D
Not even a little bit. I tolerate. I tolerate the playing of the clips. When. When you're having a go at me, fine. But not when you. Not when you're doctoring.
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C
That is not.
- [42:31]
E
You're trying to say. I got to find out why those kids are leaving the house. Right?
- [42:34]
C
That's what. Tell us what you were trying to say, Zazlow. No one's doctored this. Hold on, Chris. Don't play it again. Zazzle. This is unbelievable.
- [42:42]
D
You gotta find out why the kids Went missing. You want to know how that. What were the kids doing? You got the point.
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C
I don't think. What is the. You tell me what the point of this is.
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D
You're telling me you heard that and you didn't know what I was asking? Didn't you want to know how that. What were the kids doing?
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C
That is not edited.
- [43:03]
E
Yeah, I actually knew what you were trying to say because it's a saying. And the fact that you tripped over one of your catchphrases is kind of nuts.
- [43:12]
C
Zaslo, how is it that you birth this pathetic Ric Flair?
- [43:17]
D
You want to know how that. What were the kids doing?
- [43:20]
C
What?
- [43:21]
D
What did I call David in the beginning?
- [43:23]
E
I don't know, dude. What's next?
- [43:27]
D
You want to know how that. What are the kids doing?
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C
What is. Tell me what.
- [43:33]
E
Explain it again. I didn't catch it.
- [43:35]
D
You want to know what were the kids doing?
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B
Yeah, maybe it was supposed to be.
- [43:40]
C
Shouldn't put it in the Zaz translator and you tell us to take us through. This is a good place for the telestrator.
- [43:49]
E
It sounds like me doing fake him.
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D
Shouldn't you want to know how that.
- [43:57]
C
Break it down.
- [43:58]
D
The first part is definitely I. For some reason I said shitty. All right, you want to know shitty? You want shitty? Pause.
- [44:06]
C
Wait, so we're starting in professional broadcaster.
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D
Yeah.
- [44:10]
C
Okay, can we.
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A
Shitty.
- [44:11]
C
What's the context that everyone needs to know if you're picking up the show here, David.
- [44:16]
D
David was about to review the movie Weapons and he did not want to watch it other than Mike Ryan putting him onto it. Jenny, you want to know how that. What were the kids doing? So I'm saying there, David, didn't you want to know what the kids were doing? Didn't you want to know how that. What were the kids doing?
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C
See.
- [44:50]
D
As much as you killed him.
- [44:51]
E
Visually, it's been a bad week for you. Audibly.
- [44:56]
D
The packers winner. The bear lose. Bears lose, man. Shitty. You want to know how that. What were the kids doing?
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E
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