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This is the Don Levittar Show with this Tootspotcast.

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, 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 Joel and Bede is going to play in a seven game series, all seven

games.

But you have Boston Detroit, the Knicks, and the Cavs, 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 Knicks, and I don't think anybody trusts the Cavs.

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 whose 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 sports.

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 got 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 it was really hard and reveling in that it

didn't have to be just him.

And here at this agent in his career, Lesso, the expectations are 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 is kind of a low stakes deal for

James Harden.

He may actually flourish in this type of scenario.

I'm not a hard and 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 at the Clippers last night.

So to me, like 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 in the

playoffs, Jalen Tyson, get him.

Hey, Donovan Mitchell, you move over there.

Hey, Dennis Hruder, MVP of Germany right now.

Hey, why don't you give it a shot like they have very minimal weaknesses on that roster

as constructed.

So I believe in them.

What did I shoot it?

And the acquisition tracer was made to kind of combat the issues that the Nix had been

given them.

I know we don't have a, we don't have a huge sample of Harden matching up against the

Nix, 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 like Black History Month, Jared Allen and how elite he's been.

And I think he raises the ceiling for Evan Mowley as well.

But like this team outside of maybe Keon Ellis is like pretty damn soft.

Like I just want to 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 Nix took out the calves and the calves had all

sorts of frontline problems with the Nix, Jared Allen did not play.

Because 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's and Mitchell are creating.

And even though he's not reputed to be this real tough hard knows player, the way that Harden

gets buckets with his big frame, that's toughness on basketball.

Yeah.

And on the basketball court and honestly, defensively, I look up in some fourth quarters, it was

one gave me four blocks.

He's a big dude and against the likes of Jalen 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 Jalen Brown went back to Milwaukee and with Milwaukee

having onto Tacumpo 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 Nicarbockers in the playoffs for

the toughness.

Yeah.

Don't let the revisionist 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 Mizzoula and the coaching staff.

The ball is popping around, moving, spacing.

Everything looks really good, regardless of getting rid of Christaz Porzinga's getting

rid of Jew holiday, et cetera, et cetera.

But that's what I'm saying.

What I think is like 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 their plan

right now.

I think that there's going to be an acclimation 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 them 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 draft King Sportsbook, the odds on favorites to win

these.

You guys are underestimating how good this team has been.

It's them and OKC top five offense, top five defense, scoring margin, like you guys to

trust James Harden and Cleveland as the thing that could 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 right now.

I think they could.

Yeah.

You got OKC with injuries.

I think that's the biggest question mark.

So if OKC 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 OKC getting knocked out a little bit early.

You see all of the different things that have been going on with Jalen Williams, Isaiah

Hartenstein, Alex Krusso, they've been, and obviously, Shay Gilder's Alexander missed

a bunch of time too.

So say they get knocked out by Denver, Denver maybe gets knocked out by Minnesota, depending

on how the standings in the table fall, but I could see absolutely Boston coming in

and playing a spurs team or a Denver team with a, with a creaky Aaron Gordon hamstring.

And they can mess around and, 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 going to 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 Dan's conviction, he has always been bullish on the Boston Celtics.

I heard this for a full season.

And then they lost to the next.

You take that tier of four teams over there, and I think it's anybody's ballgame at this

point.

Right.

And remember, all James Harten has to do is be better than a turf toe, Darius Garland

in the playoffs, and tied to Damn Jerome, like bruh, 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

2000 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 Harten now, but bringing back

Tatum, that's bad.

They lost to the argument you guys are going to loss to a worse Nick's 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 Nick's, you're trying, you trust the Nick's at

your own risk.

You go ahead and trust the Nick's.

If you want to do that, I'm looking at 80 NBA seasons, I'm looking at 2000 teams and

O K C and Boston are two of them.

I think there have been like three all time who win this way on the road by not small margins.

They just went to Milwaukee and went by 30, yes, the key word Milwaukee.

But remember they, they, they're a jump shooting team and when they go cold, those jump shots

go cold in the playoffs, they keep shooting them.

That's their crypt.

It's not that we know how good they are, but they won't drive the ball to the hole when

it matters.

You feel me?

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

seats.

You say that it's not true holiday and it's not porzingus, 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, I remember they, 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 to,

I don't think they lose like that to, to the Knicks or Indiana.

I think that, I, I think that what they have less has shown you this season.

You're giving Missoula 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, clearly better than we thought they were because we're sitting

here talking about Tatum and Jalen Brown all the time as if Derek White is an often their

best player.

And to me as Cata 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 inefficient.

Over the last 15 games, the Knicks are 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 because

everyone is just trying to get to the postseason healthy.

Everyone is sort of like tapping the brakes during the season so that I, 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.

Jason Tatum 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 tough 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

going to 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 of their 44 threes.

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 Knicks picking on Carl and the towns

and picking on Jalen Brunson and just putting them in hell and 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 Anthony Towns taking the least amount of shots in his career, 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 rollercoastery 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 Cavs Rosser construction

gave him problems.

Trusting Missoula though, she's she's well, you are too and like I hear I like their

team better when they lost to the Knicks.

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 calls 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, four leaking confidence.

Wow.

I was right at the threshold with too much basketball.

The wrong word too.

I know that you felt.

Wow.

You.

You.

I didn't watch Carl Anthony Town.

I saw I saw Carl Anthony Towns.

I saw that Wembenyama had one of the worst statistical games of his life with Carl Anthony

Towns bothering him.

I'm asking with a question mark because I didn't see the game.

Didn't was Carl Anthony Towns doing something to Wembenyama that made him look like that

when they played against the Knicks?

Absolutely not.

He was just missing shots.

And they were on an 11 game win streak.

Sunday afternoon.

He did a early game from San Antonio.

That's like 10 a.m.

There.

They were just in the lose that game.

You know about that time difference?

You know about that west to east?

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That's shocking, it's you.

Stugats.

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 this too, got time difference between San Antonio, New York or the

orange general.

Okay, yeah, I don't know fact, take me there, I was just doing, I don't actually know what

that is in an hour difference between San Antonio, I was the central time zone always gives

me some problems.

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 mountain only if I'm on a mountain

and how does that work?

I was thought to be weird to live right where the demarcation line is, like it's 3 p.m.

here, but if you walk across the street, that has to be the case, I can go to lunch an

hour earlier.

Like, am I one time and my neighbor is a different time?

That's crazy, all over the country.

That has to be the case, right?

It's like that in the 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, like I don't think, Alabama feels like

it's from a different time zone.

We have parts in Florida that are in the different times out.

What parts are those?

I think that's a cool one.

Yeah, when I start, I've made the drive to like Goldshore's Alabama and I get into

central time around Panama City.

The Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody has an update on catchphrases 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 Vlady

Devatch looks like he plays smoking a cigarette.

Yes.

It's one of the other.

I don't remember what started it, but I learn from the most recent episode of the Greg

Cody show featuring Greg Cody that he doesn't want anything in the shower with him to clean

himself other than a bar of soap.

In my hand.

But now you you know exactly we spent way too much time on it on this 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

point.

Yes, Juju.

That is the correct way to react to that.

It is foul beyond reason.

I wouldn't say often, but certainly occasionally.

Do you keep a bottle of shampoo outside?

When I'm about to do it, yeah, no, he brings it outside.

I put a bottle of shampoo, shampoo, I'm going to say, you go to the shower to get the

cell.

Yes.

Right.

Take it to the bath.

I was asking if you leave one permanently.

Oh, 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 poll at Levitard 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 fantastic.

And the chlorine takes care of all the bubbles.

They all disappear.

What?

No harm, no foul.

Nobody knows.

No, it's harmful and foul.

No, it's both.

It's not either.

It is.

Everyone listening to this is like, that's not that you're not clean after that.

You're covered in chlorine.

That's not.

Chlorine is a cleansing product.

Yeah.

For bath tile.

For not not for your hair.

So we ended up talking about the full shower experience and we ended up in the nether

regions in which my dad said he goes straight bar soap and he like forms over time.

The bar takes a different shape.

He said it.

Anti-sponge.

I'm anti-elufa.

What's left?

Lashcloth?

No.

No, I use my hand.

I'm not a better visual.

I don't believe in a wash card.

I usually like soap up the wrist and go credit card.

Like what's happening here?

We covered some of this before on two America's like wash the wash cloth.

You can't go hand there.

You can't.

I'm with Greg.

It's got to make a sound.

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.

Over 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 without any nubs?

I just know what I know.

I mean, you know, I don't want to go into great detail.

How does it get in there without any fingers?

Well, the hand, the fingers are in the hand.

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 are your catch phrases this week on the Greg Cody show feature?

I think it's 33 and 34.

We're on 34 and 33 in that order.

We go from high 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 fuller than Vern Fuller.

49.

Where's my click, click?

48.

Hey, Butterfringer.

47.

46.

Grant.

45.

I'm busier than a 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 a monkeys, baby.

40.

Thank you, Billy.

39.

I love him like a pet.

38.

Who made it a salad?

39.

I love him like a pet.

38.

Who made it a salad?

You asked for it.

Who did make it?

I've forgotten about that one.

So I just need to be clear on that one.

Is that an old Italian waiter?

Who's saying who made it a salad?

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 that Zazlo looks like someone who, when he makes a mistake, says,

uh-oh, spaghetti-o.

That is a tournament team I can confirm.

And we can announce we are bringing back looks like tournaments.

Zazlo, Zazlo's got a few so far.

Yeah.

Out of work down on his, you know, luck, mine.

Like, Zazlo's got a few.

37.

We're rolling now, huh?

36.

Yeah, brain beaten me.

You stole that from former University of Miami, Miami Dolphins offensive coordinator Gary Stevens, didn't you?

Ah, but I made it my own.

That's stolen.

That's not even your catchphrase.

A lot of these originated from other people.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Look, there's a certain Mr. Parmaly that's going to pop up during the proceedings.

I'm sure we'll take it.

It's possible.

So there are two Gary Stevens in your top 50.

There are two you've stolen.

He doesn't know yet.

Yeah, I can't reveal it.

What?

35?

I literally can't reveal it.

Let's go.

States.

I killed it at the club during the celebration.

Thank you.

I appreciate you shouting it out like that.

34.

Driver comfort is paramount.

Any road trip the Cody's go on?

Dad, can you turn the air down?

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 roads.

Yeah, I don't know about many, but some of them stay tuned for the traveling goats.

You would think that this was clumped in with me maximum, that that would cover you when

you're there.

They are related.

Me maximums in the hotel room when you want to leave the TV on.

No.

For longer than he wants.

Yeah.

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 assume

that you're 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 it.

Yes.

They are related.

Totally.

I'm making it up.

Yeah.

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.

Sure.

Thank you.

I'm a big, Bernie Parmley 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 dummy up.

It's more of like, hey, get, get ready here.

But all those phrases, dummy up is clearly that's your, that's your one.

The major, the egregious mistake that Zazlow's making is thinking these are in any order

whatsoever.

I know that they're numerical, but each add on to that.

It's just when he, they are.

Every Ricky's like, hey, I thought of another one.

I just had it.

That's not how top 50 he's going to get to number one.

Is there going to be like seven that we want to hear that aren't going to be in the

top 50?

The quality is going to grow once a week.

You're texting me that you added a new one to the list.

List maker comfort is 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's a sincerity for me.

You know what, there's a little serendipity involved here.

I mean, it's not an exact science, you know, catch phrases, but it's also not, uh, it's

not respecting the way every other numerical list throughout time has worked.

You are not like top 50 basketball players of all time.

That is not just throwing a good one at 32.

You just gave us 17, all of which are better than the one that you're saying is the best

numeric.

Look, there's a lot of different scenarios.

We'll see how it plays out.

Yeah.

I mean, like any top 50 list, you know, you got Carmelone ranked higher than I do, you

know, you got, uh, dummy up rank lower than I like dummy up, it's, but we know that

Malone is going to be like somewhere, you know, not on the list, not on the list.

Carmelone does not make the list top 50, there is, there is one list.

He cannot put, yeah, and it is, yeah, let's talk about that when she's, we are a country

of war.

We are a country of war.

She brought us here.

We weren't talking about that with Carmelone next to you.

He doesn't even know what we're talking about with Carmelone.

I don't even know what list this is.

He is the random name of a good player who's maybe not that good.

I don't know.

And can't be in your schools.

I don't know.

He doesn't know anything about that.

I don't.

That's interesting.

I believe him.

He doesn't know.

I'll show you during the break.

It's wild.

And then I'll show you this Jimmy Kimmel thing.

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Don Lebertard.

Quiet, man.

Yes.

You know, I'm married, man.

I don't cheat on my wife despite that gratuitous line in back and back.

You're out.

Stugats.

I wish you were here, my wife.

I really miss her.

No, I don't.

That's the thing about being married.

You know, you're not allowed to say, I don't miss my wife.

I've been gone two days.

I haven't been gone long enough to miss my wife.

I'm sorry.

I call her.

You missed it.

I said you two miss her.

30 seconds.

You know, what am I saying?

Hello.

All right.

We'll see you.

All right.

And then, you know, I'm going to see her in two days.

I was jumping Charlie.

Good.

άλλos.

I want you to go and get to two guys.

Saskia, when we mentioned tickets, I thought of you because of how desperately you want to

go see Metallica.

Yeah.

And aren't going to be able to go.

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 your vertigo.

I assume it will.

Yeah.

But you're, you're, are you going to be able to get tickets?

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's 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 bad.

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, all right, they're my enemy.

But anyway, I didn't go to Sphere because I, 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 Zazlow men, we go see Metallica at Sphere.

That's probably going to be 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 with the boys.

You pick and choose what we want to spend our money on, and you're cheating on Pearl

Jam is what you're doing.

Okay.

No, I'm like, I'm allowed to see other concerts.

No, no, you're not.

All right.

I don't know what logic you're using, but I, I, I, I, I sign online to ticket master yesterday.

He had no time for it.

Yeah.

I sign online to ticket 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 weight is for high demand shows on ticket

master, you, you go in like a queue, you know, you join the waiting room.

You go on a 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 3000.

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 is saying are in front

of me in line?

Uh, 305,306.

305,000 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 eight shows.

This is for one specific show, 700,000 tickets.

610,000, but okay.

Yes.

Yes.

Whatever.

350 he was doing.

Consumer protections are overrated.

300,000 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 I coming from the guy that gets lied to about how much tickets cost from his wife.

Well, but she, she always buys good seats.

Many of those blitzed cucumbers.

Dan, what is that 305,000 people are in front of me?

That's a legendary band playing a venue that everybody would want to watch a legendary

band.

Most of those things are not human.

That's how this works these days.

That too.

Those are all bots.

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 made us 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 marker 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 acts that would seemingly pay it off.

There's a whole internet theory but we should say it's all hearsay.

Alligations and rumors 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 a ton of 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 moment whatever the line of credit is.

I heard Dana White tell one of these drunk gambling stories where the guy you know 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.

And now there is precedent for this the Baselurman Elvis movie kind of covered this a little

bit.

Now it wasn't Elvis's personal gambling bet but it was the kernels and it was a lot.

It was like I researched it would be up to 146 million dollars today they estimate what

the kernels gambling debts were that Elvis was stuck in a bad residency deal 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 Otani.

I don't think we still have the details on that but that's somebody that's gambling

went away quick it did it did go away it moves at a very fast pace I I'm still trying

to get over you know did you even say thank you you know the world has left us behind

keep moving.

Otani though that it did this 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 in some sort of defon 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 Torrey 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 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 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 or see you 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 when 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 and so my producer Matt our whole staff we do this also at the expense

of our personal lives and so on 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 sack award

he could have said no it's 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 for my catchphrase countdown

that's a sui's Chris 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 they have to end this out

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