This is the Danleba Part Show with the Stugat Spotcast.
Almost for the entirety of my life. Basketball has been the most predictable of the sports because it has a measurement system that doesn't allow for as many random results in a seven game series. But I think now, more than ever,
because of the combination of the three pointer and everyone during the regular season, doing everything they can just to be maximum healthy by the time the playoffs get here.
“I think you have the possibility of more randomness”
in professional basketball than you have had at any point in my lifetime. When I'm looking at the Eastern Conference, we should fix that, maybe swallow. When I'm looking at the Eastern Conference,
I see four teams that have a legitimate chance. I don't know what to do with Philadelphia because I don't know if Joelle and Beat is gonna play in a seven game series all seven games. But you have Boston Detroit, the Nixon, the Caves,
and only one of those teams is trusted, and Jason Tatum is now returning to that team. I don't think anybody trusts Detroit, I don't think anybody trusts the Nixon, I don't think anybody trusts the Caves,
and James Harden, while I like that as an addition, I think I can make the argument that right now in sports more than anyone else, James Harden represents the guy you trust the least anywhere in the playoffs,
any sport, give me who's second place right now
when I say to you, who's got the reputation of a playoff choker. So you've got Cleveland coming after Boston, which is already won the championship and has Jason Tatum returning,
and the big move is we've got Harden now. The least trusted postseason player, there is anywhere in sport. It's not to the level of Harden,
“but I think Lamar Jackson's kind of in that territory.”
- That is a good one, that is a good one. We've gotten into this conversation a little bit last week, which is, you know, you can maybe make a case when he was in Philadelphia, I know he had the bad elimination game,
but I was really Harden reveling in that, it didn't have to be just him. And here at this age, and in his career, less so. The expectations, or you're one of the worst playoff performers of all time when you consider your reputation
entering it, this is kind of, and when you consider the market, this kind of a low stakes deal for James Harden, he may actually flourish in this type of scenario. - I'm not a Harden guy, obviously,
I don't want to count on him in the playoffs, but to me, this was a grand slam trade for the Cavaliers, and mainly because they got him for nothing, like the guy that they traded for,
I understand he's younger, Garland never plays,
he's hardly played this year, he was in street clothes all of last year's postseason, watching the Pacers roll through his team, he finally made his debut with the Clippers last night. So to me, they added Harden for nothing,
that's a massive positive. - Right, and their roster is constructed in such a way that, hey, if you do have that slump into playoffs, Jalen Tyson, get 'em. Hey, don't have a Mitchell, you move over there.
Hey, Dennis Hudder, in the Pea of Germany right now. Hey, why don't you give 'em a shot? Like, they have very minimal weaknesses on that roster as constructed sloppily, even a more that I should.
- And the acquisition tracer was made to kind of combat the issues that the Nixon had been given them. I know we don't know, we don't have a huge sample of Harden matching up against the Nixon X, but so far, so good.
- Yeah, I like Harden as a playmaker, and I like the way that he's elevated Jared Allen. I know that we're all in on Black History Month, Jared Allen, and how elite he's been.
“And I think he raises a ceiling for Evan Moby as well,”
but this team, outside of maybe key on Ellis, is pretty damn soft. Like, I just wanna know what happens when we punch the calves in the mouth, and we'll see what happens.
- Did Jared Allen, one of the times that the Nixon took out the calves and the calves had all sorts of frontline problems with the Nixon, Jared Allen did not play. Since Harden got there, every time I look up
in the first quarter, Jared Allen has six for seven,
and I assume that it's just dunks, that he's just getting alley hoops off of dunks that Harden and Mitchell are creating. - And even though he's not reputed to be this real tough, Hardenose player, the way that Harden gets buckets
with his big frame, that's toughness on the basketball court. And honestly, defensively, I look up in some fourth quarters, it was one game he had four blocks, he's a big dude, and against the likes of J.L. and Brunson on a switch, like he can use his size.
He's actually helping them. - Last night was a bad basketball night, but maybe you noticed that Boston, without J.L. and Brown went back to Milwaukee and with Milwaukee having onto to Cumpo back,
Beat him by 30.
I don't know why anybody would pick anyone other than Boston
with Jason Tatum returning. The last time I saw Jason Tatum not be hurt and playing for the Celtics regularly, didn't they win 65 games that season? - They did, but they also were embarrassed
by the New York Nicarbalkers in the playoffs for their toughness. - Yeah, don't let the revisionists history tell you that they were the one that had Tatum not gotten hurt because they were on their way out. - Yeah, I think the thing if you look at this version
of the Celtics, it's just a master class from Joe Mizule and the coaching staff. The ball is popping around moving, spacing, everything looks really good, regardless of getting rid of,
Christa Spursingus, getting rid of Joe Holiday, et cetera, et cetera.
“- But that's why I'm saying what I think”
is the most obvious thing.
Yes, the ball movement, the Chris ball movement,
like you insert Jason Tatum into this and I know he's of the system, he knows it, but he plays a different game than the plan right now. So I do think that there's going to be an acclamation period and I don't like that this is being positioned as a hot take.
I think it's the most obvious thing in the world that it might take him 10 games to figure the reintroduction of Tatum out into the lineup. - Probably with the news that Tatum is likely returning this week, the Celtics are now
according to Traftain Sportsbook, the odds on favorites to win these. - You guys are underestimating how good this team has been. It's them and okay, see top five offense, top five defense scoring margin.
Like you guys, to trust James Harden and Cleveland as the thing that can knock out something that's been that formidable, you guys are really hating on the Celtics in a way that's not empirically accurate. - I trust Boston to reach the finals,
but nobody thinks they're going to win in a west weighted league. - I think they could, you got okay see with injuries.
“I think that's the biggest question mark.”
So if okay see, ends up, I don't know, facing an Aaron Gordon healthy Denver team and maybe you've got injury issues with that team, they're very thin as well. I could see okay see getting knocked out a little bit early.
You see all of the different things that I've been going on with Jalen Williams, Isaiah Hartinstein, Alex Cruso, they've been, and obviously, shade geologist Alexander missed a bunch of time too.
So say they get knocked out by Denver. Denver maybe gets knocked out by Minnesota. I mean, depending on how the standings and the table fall, but I could see absolutely Boston coming in and playing a spurs team or a Denver team
with a creaky Aaron Gordon hamstring, and they could mess around and win the whole thing in a year that was supposed to be a gap year.
We never know how the west is going to shake out,
especially how deep they are. - I don't think we know how these is gonna shake out. Right now we're in the stretch of NBA history that it is the most unpredictable. Look at the recent champions
and while I understand dance conviction, he has always been bullish on the Boston Celtics. I heard this four or four season and then they lost to the next. You take that tier of four teams over there
“and I think it's anybody's ball game at this point.”
- Right, and remember, all James Harton has to do is be better than a turf-toed Darious Garland in the playoffs and tied to damn Jerome. Like, bro, I think he can handle that. - So what you guys are doing though
that ignores all of the math of all of basketball. 80 seasons, 2,000 teams. There have been like three that win the way Boston does on the road by margins this large. And you guys are arguing.
As you argue, oh, they got James Harton now. Oh, but bringing back Tatum, that's bad. - They lost it. - The argument you guys are being lost to a worse next team than or in any of the clubs
that we're talking about right now. - Tatum got hurt. I'm not disagreeing with you that the next, you trust the next that you're on risk. You go ahead and trust the next.
If you wanna do that, I'm looking at 80 NBA seasons. I'm looking at 2,000 teams. And okay, seeing Boston are two of them. I think there've been like three all time
who win this way on the road by not small margins. They just went to Milwaukee and won by 30. - Yeah, the key where it Milwaukee. But remember, they, they're a jumpshooting team. And when they go cold, those jumpshots go cold
in the playoffs, they keep shooting them. That's their kryptonite. It's not that we know how good they are, but they won't drive the ball to the hole when it matters. - I would also decide when it comes to Boston.
This isn't the same Celtic team that's been competing for championships the last couple of season. - You say that, it's not true holiday and it's not porous ingest, but it is a team.
You cannot argue that what you've seen from them right now without Tatum doesn't impress you because I remember the way they got eliminated last year. I'm like, are you guys sure that if they lose Tatum, they don't just become as good as the Pacers,
they don't just fall with, if Jalen Brown, you talk about that 10 game transition. If I give them 10 more games to run it all through Jalen Brown, I don't think they lose, I don't think they lose like that to the nicks or in the end.
I think that I think that what they have less
has shown you this season.
You're giving Mazula the credit. I'm looking at a top five offensive and defensive rating from a bunch of spare parts that they've put together that are better than we thought they were because we're sitting here talking about Tatum
and Jalen Brown all the time as if Derek White isn't off in their best player. And the me as Cater was discarded by Sacramento and he's been freaking awesome. I mean, you're just looking at a coaching staff
“that I think in the East is the best in the business.”
They're very, they're very awesome, but just let's not sleep on Detroit's toughness. Let's not sleep on whenever the lights are brightest in New York, what they do. So as good as the Celtics, I'm a Celtic guy.
I just see my team and I know they're in the fish. - Over the last 15 games, the nicks or the best defense in the league. I don't know what kind of samples you guys like to use with this stuff.
And I think it's tricky because the samples
during the regular season don't matter 'cause everyone is just trying to get to the postseason healthy. Everyone is sort of tapping the brakes during the season so that I really do think that if basketball, if this thing you're talking about with the threes
and how the Celtics take them, this season should be predictable. Jacentate, I'm should come back and the way OKC and Boston play, when they're healthy, it should easily be Boston and OKC
because you don't often get top five offensive and defensive ratings. But I think the thing that throws everything into up evil is what Juju's talking about. If everyone's taking 53s and on one of the days, they only make nine of them,
you're gonna get what James Harden's Houston team had against Golden State when they lost a game seven at home because they couldn't make any other 44 trees. I think Jalen Brown has proved though that he can put his head down and get to the rack.
I'm still very worried about, if I'm rooting for the next picking on, Carl and the Italians, and picking on Jalen Brunson and just putting them in hell and targeting them defensively like we saw teams do against Luca,
like you have two really bad defenders on this team. You also have Carl and the Italians taking the least amount of shots in his career, at least amount of minutes
“and I think that's a big problem as well.”
Yeah, like top defensive rating in the last 15 games, but what were they to start the season? This is a very roller co-street team. I also just don't trust Mike Brown, like I don't trust him at all.
- That's a big one. And in this stretch of 15 games, yeah, I've been impressive, but the calves, Rossi construction gave him problems. - Trusting Mazula though, she's sick. - Well, you are too, and like I hear,
I like their team better when they lost the next and yes, the ball movement, like I said, they run it through Jalen Brown who can stop them. There is one guy, he's on their team. The Cole's coming from inside the house.
That's a guy that can mucky everything up. Did I say mucky? I'll leave. - I was a boy leave, remember they blew 20 point leads. - Minor penalty two minutes for leaking confidence.
(upbeat music) - Wow. - I was right at the threshold of too much basketball. (upbeat music) - The wrong word, too.
“I know that you felt, wow, you felt (laughs)”
I didn't watch Carl Anthony town. I saw, I saw Carl Anthony town. I saw that when Benjamin Yamaha had one of the worst statistical games of his life with Carl Anthony town's, bothering him, I'm asking with a question mark
'cause I didn't see the game. Did, was Carl Anthony town's doing something to when Benjamin Yamaha that made him look like that when they played against the next? - Absolutely not.
He was just missing shots, and they were on a 11 game win streak. - Sunday afternoon, he did a early game from San Antonio, that's like 10 a.m. there, they were destined to lose that game. You know about that time difference? - You know about that West to East?
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Don Lebatard. What do we get here? I got a magnum condom. We won't get that out. That's shocking.
It's huge. Two guts. Here's a picture of Christopher when he was like three years old. Right next to the condom? Yeah.
He's got a reminder. Never forget. This is the Don Lebatard Show with his two guts. The time difference between San Antonio and New York, or the other general.
Okay, yeah, I don't know. Back to me there. I was just doing, see, my pet don't-- I don't actually know what that is. And now we're difference between San Antonio.
I was wondering, the central time zone always gives me some
problems. Don Lebatard. Mountain, I never understood. I don't even think that's a real thing. That's the tricky one.
Put it on the pole at Lebatard Show, trickier time zone, mountain, or central.
“Like it's about an only of them on a mountain, right?”
Right. I was thought to be weird to live right where the demarcation line is. It's 3 p.m. here, but if you're walking across the street, it has to be the case.
I can go to lunch and hour earlier. Like, in my one time, and my neighbor is a different time. That's crazy. All over the country. That has to be the case.
I know, right? It's like that in Columbus, Georgia. It's like a short drive to Alabama. So the time changes like right now is crazy. I mean, Alabama shouldn't be a different time.
I don't think Alabama feels like it's from a different time. We have parts in Florida that are in the different times out. What parts are those? Pesticola.
Yeah, when I start, I've made the drive to like golf shores, Alabama. And I get into central time around Panama City. The Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody with an update on catch phrases and also a conversation that will not surprise you.
“I believe ground zero on our looks like game is former Utah coach Jerry Sloan looks”
like he washes his hair with a bar of soap.
I believe that was the very first of the looks like it might have been that or of
Laude D. Vach looks like he plays smoking a cigarette. Yes. It's one or the other. I don't remember what started it. But I learned from the most recent episode of the Greg Cody show featuring Greg
Cody with that he doesn't want anything in the shower with him to clean himself other than a bar of soap. In my hand. Now, you, you are exactly we spent way too much time on it on the episode for those of you who are new to the Greg Cody hygiene experience.
He often takes a bath, shampooing his hair in the pool after around a golf. In the swimming pool, yes, due to you, that is the correct way to react to that. It is foul beyond reason. I wouldn't say often, but certainly occasionally. You keep a bottle of shampoo outside.
When I'm about to do it, yeah, I know. He brings it outside. I'm going to do it with shampoo. shampoo. I'm going to say something.
You go to the shower to get the shower. Right. I'll take it to the shower. He wants to permanently. I don't know.
No, no, I don't. He bypasses the correct place to shower in favor of the place with chlorine in his hair. We've all done that. No, this is not true. Put it on the pole at Levitar show.
“Have you ever used shampoo in the swimming pool on your hair?”
I don't believe we've all done that. I tell you what, the swimming pool gets the shampoo out of your hair a lot quicker than the shower does. I go dunk, whip my head back and we're done. It's great.
It's fantastic. It's neither great nor fancy. And the chlorine takes care of all the bubbles. They all disappear. What?
No harm, no foul. It is both harmful and foul. No. It's both nutty. It is.
It is. Everyone listening this is like that's not that you're not clean after that you're covered in chlorine. chlorine is a cleansing product for bath tile, for not for your hair.
We ended up talking about the full shower experience and we ended up in the N...
Regions in which my dad said he goes straight bar a soap.
He forms the over time, the bar takes a different shape, he said it. Look, I'm anti-spunge, I'm anti-luva. What's left? Massconx. No.
I use my hand. I'm not a professional. I don't believe it. I was credit carding. I usually like soap up the wrist and go credit card.
We've covered some of this before on two Americas, like wash, wash, cloth. You can't go hand there. You can't go hand there. I'm with Greg. That's how you know what's working.
Well, Chris Cody, I don't know if you guys saw what he was pantomiming with his hand, but he said it on the show that he performed the soap over time. It starts as a normal bar and it forms. Well, of course, for weeks. The sharp edges are rounded and then it becomes easier and easier to soap up your hand.
“You cut your hand, you force a little air pocket in there, that's how you know”
the soap gets everywhere.
I mean, nothing gets there like the hand.
I'll tell you that. How does it scrub you with visual without any nobs? I just know what I know. I mean, you know, I don't want to go into great deep. How does it get in there without any fingers?
Well, the hand, the fingers are in your door, man. Oh, thank you. Greg, how many times do you think you're going to say today? I know what I know and have it be something that no one else knows. Okay.
I'm providing exclusive information. What do your catchphrases this week on the Greg company? I think it's 33 and 34. We're on 34 and 33 in that order. We go from I to low.
Started at 50. We'll go all the way to one. All right. Let's do them all here from 50 to 33. Shall we?
Number 50. I am full of them. Vurn Fuller. 49. Where's my click?
Click. 48. Yeah. Butter ring up. 47.
Come on. 46. Scraping. 45.
“I'm busy here in the one arm paper hanger.”
44. Georgia. Georgia. 43.
I'm the kind of guy that.
42. Ball on the jack. That's what you're doing in the shower. 41. Hey, hey, with the monkeys, baby.
40. Thank you, Billy. 39. I love them like a pet. 38.
Who made it a salad? You asked for it. Who did make it? I forgot about that one. So I just need to be clear on that one.
Is that an old Italian waiter? Like what? Who's saying who made it a salad? Who? What?
What is saying that? When I say it. I picture myself as Chef Boy R.D., but he says it a lot when someone's not even making a salad. Right.
If a salad is in proximity, it's appropriate. Who made it a salad? When you say Chef Boy R.D., I saw another good looks like for a Zazlo. I don't know whether it would make the tournament or how highly ranked it would be. But Zazlo looks like someone who when he makes a mistake says, "Oh, spaghetti."
That is a tournament team. I can confirm. And we can announce we are bringing back looks like tournament. Zazlo, Zazlo's got a few so far out of work down on his luck mine. Zazlo's got a few.
37. We're rolling now, huh? 36. Yeah, brain beaten me. You stole that from former University of Miami and Miami Dolphins offensive coordinator
Gary Stevens. Did you? Ah, but I made it my own. That's stolen. That's not even your catchphrase.
A lot of these. Originate from other people. Yeah. Look, there's a certain Mr. Parmalade that's going to pop up during the proceedings. I'm sure it's taken.
It's possible. So there are two Gary Stevens in your top 50. There are two you've stolen. He doesn't know yet. I don't know yet.
I can't reveal it. 35. Literally can't reveal it. Let's go. States.
I killed a club during the celebration. Thank you. I appreciate you shouting it out like that. 34. Driver at comfort is paramount.
Any road trip the Cody's go on?
“Dad, can you turn the air down to driver comfort is paramount?”
Indeed, it is. So after where's my click click later in the trip? Right. So many of these are things that appear on long car rides. Yeah.
Many, but some of them stay tuned for the traveling goats. You would think that this was clumped in with me maximum, but that would cover you when you're dead.
They are related.
Me maximums in the hotel room when you want to leave the TV on, no, for longer than
he wants.
“If you're doing etymology deep dive into this list, the etymology is that that driver”
comfort is paramount and me maximum are in the same neighborhood, parking in the same garage as damage I could say. So Mike, I appreciate that you just fell out of screen because I'm assuming you are enjoying the same way I do. When you go to the depths of Greg Cody's narcissism and ask him questions about the things
that he cares about, which are precious for you, like his catchphrases, you saw how-- It's a sincerity. Yes. You saw how he was like, they're related. And this is important.
Thank you for listening. They're related, totally. No, I'm making it. Sometimes you throw me. Number 33.
Dummy Up. Man, I love this countdown. I have like tickets waiting to see if they're going to cash like top 25. Thank you. I'm a big, uh, Bernie Parmelai guy, I'm a big rubber tree plant guy.
Okay, they're all in the mix. So Dummy Up is your best one of all those. Dummy Up, we were kind of debating on what it is.
To me, Dummy Up has always been like, hey, pay attention here.
I've used that in this room. If like, people are talking back here and Dan's like, hey, going down, they're Dummy Up. It's more of like, hey, get ready here.
“But of all those phrases, Dummy Up is clearly--”
No, that's your-- the major-- the-- the-- the-- the-- "Greaches mistake that Zazlo's making is thinking these are in any order whatsoever." Like, I know that the-- the miracle, but the-- I've got on to that. It's just when he--
I don't know where he-- every week he's like, "Hey, I've got another one." I just added it. That's not how time-- that he's going to get to number one. And they're going to be like, seven, that we want to hear,
that aren't going to be in stuff. That's 50. The quality's going to grow. Once a week, you're texting me that you added a new one to the list. Let's make her comfort his paramount.
So you're telling me, when this list is done, you may get to number one, which, for all intents and purposes, on a top 50, number one is the best. Should be.
But you're telling me, we can get to number one,
and you'll look back in like, number 20 something's actually your best. I don't think that's going to happen. No, because-- You're not sure, though. It was again the list is in serity for me.
You know what? There's a little serendipity involved here.
“I mean, it's not an exact science, catch phrases.”
But it's not-- It's not respecting the way every other numerical list throughout time has worked. You are not-- You're top 50 basketball players of all time.
That is just throwing a good one at 32. You just gave a 17, all of which are better than the one that you're saying is the best numeric-- Like, there's a lot of different scenarios. We'll see how it plays out.
I mean, like any top 50 list. You've got Carl Malone ranked higher than I do. You've got dummy up, ranked lower than-- I like dummy up. But we know that Malone is going to be somewhere--
Not on the list, not on the list. Carl Malone does not make the list. Top 50? There is one list. We cannot put--
Yeah, and it is. Yeah. Let's talk about that. And when she's-- Wait, wait, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
We're on this here. We are a country at four. She brought us here. We weren't talking about that with Carl Malone. He doesn't even know who we're talking about with Carl Malone.
I don't even know what list this is. I'm the random name of a good player who's maybe not that good. And can't be in your schools. I don't know. He doesn't know anything about that.
I don't. He doesn't trust me. I believe him. I'll show you during the break. It's wild.
And then I'll show you this Jimmy Kimmel thing. But what I wanted to tell you, you didn't like the whole world. The master by Dark Lab, Top 3, soft indie internet. It's a master's real name.
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Like this. Call your money. Now you can trust us. You can do it. Every day.
On the other. And I. And on your home. You can do it. If it's on the other side.
And if you can do it, you can do it. And if it's on the other side, it's on the other side. Because with credit, it's just like that. Or you can do it on your credit. Also my credit is just online.
And I live a TARD, quiet man, I'm married man. I don't cheat on my wife, despite that gratuitous line in back and night. Oh, two guts. I wish you were here in my wife. I really miss her.
No, I don't. That's the thing about being married. You're not allowed to say, I don't miss my wife. I've been gone two days. I've been gone long enough to miss my wife.
I'm sorry. I call her. I'm just setting you with her for 30 seconds.
You know, what am I?
All right. I will see you all right. And then, you know, I'm going to see her in two days. I was jumping Charlie. Good.
“This is the Dane Lebathar Show with this two guts.”
When we mentioned tickets, I thought of you because of how desperately you want to go see mentality and aren't going to be able to do it. I'm risking my health potentially to go see Metallica because the sphere is where it is that they're playing. You say that that bothers you're vertigo.
I assume it will. Yeah. But you're, you're, are you going to be able to get tickets because I don't think you're going to be able to get tickets. Oh, no.
I mean, look, you can always get tickets.
There's no such thing as sold out for anything anymore. It's just a matter of how much you want to play. So pay. You can always get tickets. But yesterday, so Metallica is doing a residency at Sphere in October.
I was just in Vegas. I refused to go see anything at Sphere because I suffer from vertigo. And I, you know what, for people who don't know what vertigo is, I'm not going to sit here and say that I wouldn't wish vertigo on my worst enemy.
“I don't understand people say that they wouldn't wish something on their worst enemy.”
I would definitely want my worst enemy to have something terrible happen to them. So I'm not going to say I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I would wish it on my worst enemy. But just trust me when I tell you vertigo's back. So sincerity for me.
Also, my mom has vertigo.
So I definitely understand.
It's awful, awful, but I'm not going to say I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I probably would, there are my enemy, but anyway, I didn't go to Sphere because I suffer from vertigo. But Metallica is doing a residency in October at Sphere. I'm like, you know what, maybe I take my boys, the Zazlo men, we go see Metallica.
Sphere. That's probably going pretty awesome. Sounds expensive. Yeah, yeah. You know, I thought unrivaled was too rich for your blood, but Metallica, there's no
no expensive ticket that's too expensive for you. We pick the boys. You pick and choose what we want to spend our money. Man, sustained. You're cheating on Pearl Jam is what you're doing.
Okay, no one, like, I'm allowed to see other costs. No, no, you're not. All right. I don't know what logic you're using, but I sign online to tick a master yesterday. Yesterday.
He had no time for it. I sign online to tick a master yesterday. It's the pre-sale yesterday. I laugh in the face of your pre-sales. I get all the pre-sale codes.
And so I sign on yesterday, you know, at the waiters for high demand shows on tick a master, you're going like a queue, you know, you're joining the waiting room. You're going to queue, and it'll tell you how many people are ahead of you, and the number will slowly dwindle down, and then you get into the room where you could pick your tickets. I did it a few weeks ago.
I was like 3,000. Well, give this, okay. I entered the queue yesterday for the Metallica pre-sale. Dan, you will see I posted this on Twitter. There were a few people ahead of me in the queue.
Would you like to tell the audio audience how many people the queue was saying are in front of me in line? 305,306.
“We 100 and 5,000 people, which you have to assume, some of these people, if not all of them.”
I'm going to try and purchase two tickets. So 700, now this isn't for like any of the H shows. This is for one specific show, 700,000 tickets. 610,000, but, okay, yes, whatever 350 he's doing. Consumer protections are overrated.
600,000 tickets are going to be purchased before I have an opportunity here to snag a pair of nosebleeds. There's a way to skip that line. It's called the aftermarket, just reach into your wallet, pull out some big bills. Problem solved.
Well, yeah, that's what it's going to come down to. So, yeah, more money usually solves problems. So it's coming from the guy that gets lied to about how much tickets cost from his wife.
Well, but she always buys good seats.
He also splits two clips. Dan, what is that? 305,000 people in front of you? That's a legendary band playing a venue that everybody would want to watch a legendary band.
And most of those things are not human. That's how this works these days. That too. Those are all bots. Well, you mentioned the residency in Las Vegas and it ties to a conversation we were having
yesterday about Floyd Mayweather going broke and how it is that you could possibly go broke when you're making that much money and maybe think about Bruno Mars and his residency where can you guys look up some of the details that are being reported where it seems like Bruno Mars has such a large gambling issue that he performs to giant crowds and makes a lot of money and then immediately loses it because he's gambling so much
because he's staying in Vegas and he's gambling in a way that's going through the money that he's making in his residency. There have been some allegations of Mark there have and they've been denied, but they've been denied conveniently by one of the establishments that would hold some of that. And also hold the rights to his live accent would seemingly pay it off.
There's a whole internet theory, but we should say it's all hearsay allegatio...
But if you can find, for me, whatever would be the most credible of those because I now
“do a word association with Bruno Mars and it's a strange word association for me to do,”
but the reason that I'm doing it is because if indeed you have a gambling problem, a residency in Las Vegas where you're being paid, it's not a money to do something and then you can just go to the casino and run through it because you're allowed to call a pit boss over and say, hey, extend me a moon. Whatever the line of credit is, I heard Dana White tell one of these drunk gambling stories
where the casino floor is calling him and telling him that he lost $300 or $400,000 more than he thought he lost the night before because he had so much to drink that he doesn't remember. Now there is precedent for this, the Bazlerman Elvis movie kind of covered this a little bit.
Well, this is personal gambling debt, but it was a kernels and it was a lot.
It was like a research did, it would be up to $146 million today.
They estimate what the kernels gambling debts were that Elvis was stuck in a bad residency and see the old essentially paying off the debt for his manager. I thought of that with, I thought of that sort of in reverse with whatever it is that happened with Otony. I don't think we still have the details on that, but that's somebody that's gambling.
That went away quick. It did go away. It moves at a very fast pace.
“I'm still trying to get over, did you even say thank you?”
The world has left us behind. Keeps moving.
Otony, though, it could have been the biggest gambling scandal ever and instead we're sniffing
around Terry Rosier. And John Tay Porter has reappeared somewhere. Is he playing in Seattle and some sort of strange basketball league? John Tay Porter has made a return engagement. I should tell all of you, by the way, to check out what it is that Pablo Tory has been
doing recently where he continues to be way out in front of everybody, on the details on anything related to a number of things, but also that gambling story where he's just got a lot of sources and I assume that people with the FBI or investigators are checking with Pablo on things because he's got so many sources on this that he continues to reveal more and more information and I told you, he's going to be at the Sloan Conference this
week doing something with David Samson and Amino Hassan.
“And I would assume that he's got something special planned for the people of Sloan because”
that right there is Pablo in his maximum element that I cannot imagine. He did something with Roy Wood Jr here this week live and he's doing some live stuff. And Pablo, it's Sloan with Samson and Amino, my guess is that he's going to surprise people with whatever it is that he makes. And that's the kind of crowd that Pablo is an absolute rock star for.
Were you there when our CPU for Walk the Halls? That was a moment in time. I got a text the other day from people in Pablo's world telling me that he had won an award. I'm like, what award is that? I don't know that award.
I still don't know that award, but here is Pablo accepting yet another podcasting award. And Dan Levittard asked me if I wanted to start a podcast and I said, that feels like a thing a person of my age and demographic should do. I said that I wanted to start a newsroom and that is kind of what the answer to that very kind question and introduction in summary is I do it with people who really care about
journalism, even if sports feels like the cheese you melt on the broccoli of journalism. So my producer Matt, our whole staff, we do this also at the expense of our personal lives. And so I'm that note, happy sixth birthday to my daughter, Violet. And thank you to the Academy. You know, Sean Penn wasn't there to pick up his sag award.
He could have said no, this is my... What are the ambies? Thank you to the Academy, was a line. Do we know what the ambies are? I don't know what they are.
Can you guys give me just some... They're their Oscars. Yeah, I can't believe I haven't won yet from my catchphrase count down. That's the sweetest crunch. Dummy up.
Dummy up. Number 33. Yeah. In no particular order. But here's a surprise for you if you listen to my podcast.
We had my brother Uncle Dick on the phone to talk about whether he had ever heard me say Dummy up, and it reminded him of something I used to say when I was like six or eight years old, which is not on the list, but is now a parenthetical adjunct to Dummy up on the official
List.
So that's a little... A little uninteresting thing that you should end this out.
