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This is the Don Levittar show with this to got spot cast Greg Cody has fled the premises

with an upset stomach.

He is no longer here.

He is gone.

We will have Ron McGill tomorrow.

We will play that sound of Greg Cody and ask him what kind of animal he thinks Greg Cody's

stomach sound was making tomorrow.

You'll have to wait for that.

You don't have to wait anymore for Juju Gotti.

He has pulled his hamstring.

He is still in the penalty box, still leaking confidence, but he has his top five list

ready before we get to Jessica here on top five NFL people.

He does not trust.

Is there O-L-I here, Juju, or is it just the top five?

Yes, sir.

Bob, there is an O-L-I.

My brother and yours, Jared Gough, I don't like it.

What have you done for me ever, zero super wins.

Yeah, that's true.

Do we know why the Yessirie has a bob at the end of it as opposed to a Steve or a Pete

or one?

Okay.

Thank you.

Number five, Juju.

Number five.

Wow, Trevor Lawrence, get off my plane, I'm lost right now.

Yeah.

It's a good list, so far.

Number four.

Number four, Justin Herbert, brother, that way.

I feel bad for Justin Herbert, I believe he's a good deal better than these other quarterbacks

we're talking about.

Number three.

Number three.

Oh.

C.J.

Stroud.

It's a good list, quarterback, heavy.

Number two.

Oh, wow, that's a bet they full smell of a bathroom.

You're waving your hand in front of your face, it needs light salt.

Number two.

Number two.

Oh, and I hate to do this, my brother, who with the whole of black America, we love you.

You can do no wrong to us, but Lamar Jackson.

You can do no wrong, except that's a lot of the hump.

Yeah.

What hump is that?

What is the hump?

Nancy championship, right?

That hump.

He's like, right there.

I can't.

No, I know which hump you're referring to.

I'm just sort of wondering about getting stuck on the wrong side of the hump.

Number one.

And number one, the reason my sciatica, my blood pressure, and my cholesterol is way too

high.

Josh Allen.

Wow, don't trust him.

You don't want it.

Josh Allen, MVP of the league, Lamar Jackson, those are two MVP's, all quarterbacks on

your list.

Yeah, I love him.

Just don't trust him.

All right.

Get back in here, Juju.

Limp back in here.

We're all waiting for Stephen A Smith's reaction to Zion Williamson, but they're going to get

to it.

By the way, I found the Yesary Bob, it's just an emphatic way of saying yes.

There is no reason why Bob is attached to it other than just rhythm and emphasis.

It's also like no way Jose and easy peasy lemon squeezy.

No, those, no, those rhyme, Bob doesn't.

Yesary Bob.

Yeah, I don't know.

No, no.

It says for rhythm and emphasis, Dan.

Okay.

Thank you.

It's syllable count.

It's melodic.

So Jessica is here and Zaz, did you have any opinions on the NBC Retro broadcast last

night?

I'm going to be perfectly honest with you, Dan.

Oh, he didn't watch it.

I didn't watch it.

All right.

All right.

I know yesterday I said I was going to watch it, but sometimes I'd say you said you

were excited.

You said you were all excited to watch it and then what were the highlights, Jessica?

Welcome.

Thank you for being with us.

Catch us up because I didn't watch it either.

Can I be perfectly honest?

Oh, no.

The highlight was the score bug.

It's the score bug so good.

Like the rest of it wasn't a particularly great game.

I turned it off around halftime, but the highlight was the score bug.

It was simple.

It was the old school NBC NBA score bug.

No timeouts on it, very little information on the score bug, but it was big.

It was colorful and it was perfect.

That was the highlight.

Hurts it.

It was a 40 point loss by the, by the side of my group chat was excited about the blowout

being like, all right.

Now Bob Possess can cook.

He can just give hot takes left and right.

Really?

I, so I, I heard the opposite.

I was watching it with Lehman and he's like the last thing you want right now is a blow

out.

It's just going to be story time for the last two quarters of this game and it was the

11 p.m. game when you're going 11 p.m.

Suns Kings that peacock cannot be happy about what on the schedule at 11 p.m.

Just you're always complaining about the late games and 11 p.m.

Suns Kings game.

There's no way you made it that far.

Let me counter that with I believe just today Wednesday, Stanford, women's basketball

is playing a 9 a.m. Pacific game in the ACC women's basketball tournament.

I believe I have that right.

I guess that's the opposite.

I do love the, the 11 a.m. conference tournament game.

The 11 p.m. game, I might as well not even exist.

I didn't even know that it happened.

It doesn't even count.

So for all the talk we had yesterday of the NBC retro broadcast is Jessica, the only

one who actually stayed with it.

Did any of you watch that or was Jessica by herself there?

It says, well, you're a big giant fraud.

I just say things is what it is sometimes.

Sometimes.

Okay.

I mean, but you're a journalist.

You're sitting here braiding Greg Cody because you're being more of a journalist.

What I miss was a 40 point game.

I had to watch that.

I mean, you were, you were saying how excited you were about the retro broadcast.

And you know what?

I watched a lot of NBA on NBC back in the 90s.

I get it.

It's like it's good.

And you kind of get it.

Yeah.

They did, like, they did some nice like teases coming into breaks and stuff like that.

They showed, you know, old footage and highlights.

Did they show Michael Jordan?

They showed Michael Jordan.

They showed Michael Jordan.

He didn't have to go lefty there, by the way.

Yeah.

No one even raised them.

They showed lots of Michael Jordan.

But yeah.

I mean, it was, it was fun.

It was a fun idea.

It feels like if I were to make a more macro commentary on it, it seems like NBC is their

whole angle of getting the NBA back is like, we love basketball.

And it kind of feels like all their broadcasts are like, hey, guys, we love basketball.

And sometimes other networks, you know, feel the love quite as much.

So I think they've been doing a good job of that this season.

100% says like, unfortunately, I called the broadcast to, when Wimby's playing, I got

to watch.

But I kind of enjoy the new broadcast.

I check, Charles Broccoli, Kenny, uh, what's my brother name, Ernie legends, but I do enjoy

watching the new stuff better because it's filled with love, not hate and Taylor Rooks.

Yeah.

Steve Nash breaking it down in front of Taylor Rooks.

I was like, where was this?

You want two of your piece back to back, you didn't do, did a dance shit and see you dance

one time.

Saw him do the worm.

Uh, put it on the pole, uh, I can do that, uh, at Levitard show, can you say, and the

legend, what's his name at Levitard show, uh, Jessica, uh, the St. Louis Cardinals are

doing something here that speaks to you.

I, I would imagine you are a food connoisseur.

I dare say, or do you, do you classify as a foodie?

I think you can be a foodie.

In that I love food, yes, I am a foodie, and I love to eat.

In the St. Louis Cardinals said, we're going to do bottomless food.

If you buy this $29 wristband at Cardinals games this year, but the catches, Dan, the

food that is included is kind of your typical ballpark fare, where it's like you get a hot

dog and popcorn and ice cream, that sort of thing.

No alcohol, though, which probably is for the best.

We've all, you know, heard the horror stories of, of dollar beer night or whatever,

nickel beer night, um, but it's like the food, unless you can like sneak it to your friends,

it doesn't seem like this is really that good of a deal.

Now that being said, I know like a hot dog costs fortune at a baseball game these days,

but it's like $29 and you're just getting the basics.

I don't know if I'm sold on this.

So you can eat though as many hot dogs as you want $29 are, they're not, they're not

policing whether or not you're going back to your seat and sharing it with your friends.

I guess if you're someone like, I don't know, we've recently done some food challenges

on mystery crate, not my favorite mystery crate content, but Chris's adamant on eating

McDonald's burbers into the microphone loudly every week.

Um, I guess if you're someone that does need like two or three hot dogs to feel full,

then yeah, because then you can get a hot dog and you can get a sweet treat afterwards.

But if you're like me, I only need one hot dog.

I don't need, you know, seven in a game, but you can get three items at a time and go

back to, you know, the stand, concession standard.

That sounds pretty good.

Yes, I don't know how you can make that sound bad, unless you're saying it's just the

crud, it's the worst, the bottom of the barrel food.

It's just a bunch of popcorn you're filling up on.

Right.

Like my, I guess my real beef is with ballpark nachos.

If I'm being honest, anytime I see someone like, Oh, ballpark nachos, no, get that away

from me.

It always seems like it's a good idea and it never is.

I don't want the ballpark nachos.

They're like the worst version of nachos that exist and these are just your basic nachos.

So I'm not going to eat those.

The peanuts, like I don't, okay, and it's not a deal that you're giving me peanuts as

part of this.

What your bread and butter here is the hot dogs.

So like if you're going to eat a lot of hot dogs, it's a, it's a decent deal.

But if you're not like, I don't know, it's not, not doing it for me.

You get some nuggets too.

You get fries.

You've got a bratwurst.

Like some sort of breadsticks.

I don't know what those were.

Nuggets and fries, I think, is enough on $29.

That sounds like a pretty good deal.

Put it on the pole, please at Levittar show.

Worst of the nachos, ballpark nachos or gas station nachos.

Do you have another nominee on Worst of the ballpark worse?

Movie theater, gas station nachos are better.

We're not talking about suit.

Don't even get me started on sushi.

Movie theater nachos.

That's a pretty better than ballpark.

It's the same, no, but it's the same, it's the same, isn't it?

Aren't, isn't that a source?

Yes.

No, you're right though, it's a circular one.

Ballpark's by far the worst.

It's the yellow, that's true too.

The, the yellow corn rounds with the yellow cheese.

And then sometimes they'll be like, here's 13 jalapenos that I doesn't do it for me.

I know that's sad salsa sometimes.

Yeah, sad salsa.

Yeah, very sad.

Uh, Jessica, did you, uh-oh.

Uh-oh.

Whether the media department is social media department, this is directed at y'all.

First of all, get your facts straight.

One and a half points with the Salem State, it was actually less than that.

I cracked my kneecap in half.

I never plagued.

Okay?

But I got to ask a ball scholarship that paid for my education.

I'll go back to that later.

When we sit up there, we talk about these old videos and they try to troll me.

You know, I mean, you didn't see me hanging with straight shooter.

I mean, delete the, delete the shooter himself.

Did you see, did you, did you show what I was doing when I shot the basketball?

Then you go, just bring up an air ball, a bunch of air balls, by the way,

that I shot with James Hardin years ago in a shirt and tie instead of pointing out.

We know all the jump shots that I've made in recent memory.

We forget, we can forget that as well because you know what?

I'm 58 years old and I'm not trying to play, but I know what I can do and I know what I've done.

Here's the thing that really, really annoys me about the pelicans.

We heightened our level of sensitivity because I pointed out something about

the star on your team and the franchise.

And you want to use that as an opportunity to get at me.

Very, very bad mistake on your part because as a franchise, you don't have the credentials.

You just don't.

But before I even get into that, let me say this and I want to say this because it's

very, very important to the American people that you're watching.

You left out a couple of other things.

You saw me boxing with a rotate a cuff over a decade ago.

I looked like trash.

You saw me throwing out the first pitch.

That was a choke job on my part.

Definitely a choke job, all right?

You also show that video.

Did you notice that nothing's been deleted?

You could scratch, you could scrape that stuff off of Google and stuff like that.

Do you notice that no effort has been made?

Because I own what I do and I own what I can't do and I own what I don't do.

And that's the difference between me and y'all.

You left something out and you know what you left out?

You left out the fact that I was in the fourth grade and I got left back because I had

a first grade reader level.

And here I am on national television, after graduating from an HBCU, going up against

Hall of Fame as all the time who played professional sports, elite journalist in this business

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Jessica, we've been talking about, actually, I've set some of this out on not saying that

I actually believe that whether you agree with Luke Cornette and Al Horford or not, what

they're doing is brave.

Like putting your face and name on, nah, I'm not with this.

I don't like this for the kids.

It does show courage.

What are your thoughts on the Atlanta Hawks and Magic City night?

I have a lot of thoughts.

First of all, once you say stick to solitaire, Steven A. Smith has lost because I truly do

not think he will ever come back from that.

That was such a terrible look.

But I agree with you, Dan, that I like hearing players' opinions on things and also Luke

Cornette, old school blog, posted this on Medium.

Like it makes me miss the days of when we had real twitter.com where athletes, like Kevin

Durant would go on while he still does apparently and say, you know, these opinions constantly

and you'd really feel like, oh, I'm getting an unfiltered opinion from an athlete here.

And that just happens less and less now and we don't have blogs anymore.

And I wish we did.

I miss the blog era.

But my thing, Dan, is like, I feel like maybe you guys talked about this yesterday.

But I read the announcement on the Magic City promotion and what it actually entailed.

And it was like, none of it involved any sort of dancers or entertainers coming to the

game.

It's the wings.

It's the wings.

It's the wings.

Lemon Pepper wings.

Yeah.

And like a podcast.

And obviously, like, there's a connection with the Hawks owner and the Docu series.

I'm sure you guys talked about that and TI is going to perform.

So I don't really see how it's not family-friendly.

It feels like the Hawks are actually like going out of their way to sanitize what Magic City

is and feels like that's probably pretty intentional.

And I think coming at it from the angle of like protecting women or, you know, like this

is a profession that no one chooses, which was kind of implicated in the post feels a

little not really fully understanding like the autonomy of the people that maybe work

there.

But then I also read that, you know, Magic City been accused of mistreatment of people

that work there too.

So I think that's part of the conversation as well.

So I think if you wanted to come from that angle, you know, fair enough.

But it just doesn't seem like the wings in the TI performance are necessarily like not,

you know, going to keep it from being family-friendly.

The part that I find weird about this and we do this with other topics as well.

You know, I've seen some of the reaction to Luke Cornett's post where it's like, oh,

now you're speaking up about this.

Well, how about the way that this happens and this happens?

Why haven't you sent anything about this or this or this?

Like, why do we have to fight all these other fights in order to have an issue with this

thing that's right in front of us here?

Like, I'm seeing a lot of that from Luke Cornett.

Why didn't you speak up about this?

Well, I won't talk about this.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I've worked in 24 years to play off series victories.

Just as many as you have nicknames, you've never been to a conference finals in the

franchise as history.

That means you've never been to an NBA finals in the franchise history.

True.

In 24 years, only five teams have never been to an NBA finals.

The clippers, the temple wolves, the hornets, the grizzlies, and you.

In that same span, conference finals, only the hornets and you have never been to a conference

finals.

But you got the time to get this out of here real quick.

Jessica, you were saying, oh, it's so close.

I was saying, I see sort of both sides of that argument, Zaz, because on the one hand,

it's impossible for every person to take a stand against everything that they see as an

issue in the world.

And that doesn't mean you shouldn't be allowed to have an opinion when something's impacting

the league that you play for.

On the other hand, like, if this is your cause and you do believe in like, you know, fighting

exploitation of women and all these other things, then it is interesting that I don't know

if he's spoken up on those things in the past.

I'm not an expert on Luke Cornett's POV, but it does seem like maybe it would have come

up before because he doesn't even play on the hocks or the magic.

So it is sort of feels like it's coming out of left field.

But I kind of get kind of get both sides of that, but I do think it's pertaining to

the NBA.

So he's allowed to have an opinion.

I just don't necessarily agree with it, but I guess I could kind of see where he's

coming from.

I'm playing both sides.

I'm not.

I actually disagree with him because I think the promo feels put on a pull the last couple

of years, last eight years, you're better to play off twice.

You've been bounced out in the first round each time, but you got an, you got an attitude

with me and you want to troll me, feel free because I'm going to remind you again, I'm

58, I look pretty good.

I feel even better and I can shoot, but I don't get paid to do that.

I get paid to do this.

Steven A Smith commentate on ESPN, Steven A Smith radio host on Sirius XM, not just with

a sports show, but a political show.

Steven A Smith own and my own YouTube channel.

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I don't need the resume.

Jessica, what are the best of the wings?

I don't feel like we got enough out of this topic yesterday because I didn't see the

poll question updated on garlic parmesan.

I love me on wings.

I am.

Oh, that was a real spot for you.

You're wrong.

Yes.

Me on.

What is the best of the wings, Jessica?

A classic spicy buffalo wing.

I mean, can you go wrong with that and dipped in extra sauce, might I add?

What sauce?

You're going blue cheese or you're going ranch?

What are you doing there?

I was actually implying dipping it in extra buffalo sauce, but I'm a big blue cheese person.

I love blue cheese.

Love blue cheese.

I could drink it.

I could drink a cup of it.

Woo!

Put it on the poll at Labatar Show.

Did you drink blue cheese and also better of the chicken wing dressings, ranch or blue

cheese?

What are you making faces about?

Absolutely.

Blue cheese kind of gross.

Funky, blue cheese.

It's like mold.

It's so good.

Yeah.

Put it on the poll at Labatar Show is blue cheese like mold at Labatar Show.

The answer for the best wing flavor is lemon pepper and I stand on that forever.

Yeah, I mean, it's pretty good.

It's delicious.

There's not a lot of question about that.

What did you think, Jessica, of Bill Self?

Mike Ryan loves to make Fonda as the ground zero of Mike Ryan's reporting on people who

do false things with their appearance.

Bill Self's hair is something that Mike Ryan has pointed out a number of times as not

being real.

What did you think of what happened to him the other day after he was ejected?

There's another game that I turned off because it wasn't that good, but he got ejected.

The Arizona State ops people hit him with the smoke machine as he was walking into the

tunnel.

And it was awesome.

I wish they had pyrotechnics to match.

I'm imagining that it did it blow back at all his fake hair.

Like what happened?

What was happening visually?

I'm not alleging, I'm not alleging fake hair, but it was a great visual because he was

sort of dejectively walking off and then you just see all the smoke machines go off

at once.

That's why we love college sports.

Oh, Jesus, you guys have been an American nightmare to basketball fans all over the place

because y'all don't seem to know what to hell y'all doing.

At least until Joe Dumas got there and give me a gift of love to Willie Green to who

I thought did a decent job for a few years.

At the end of the day, trolling on social media, that's all you've got.

Keep it going.

Keep it going.

Throw more stuff out there about me for all I can.

Don't worry.

I won't seek revenge.

I'll just do what I'm doing right now.

Telling the truth and spewing a reality about your organization.

And the only thing worse than your basketball has been your social media department.

Trying to get clicks, but at what price?

You wanted my attention.

You got it.

I got more.

I'm just not going to waste our viewers time by talking about a franchise struggling to

be relevant again.

Joe Dumas is in house.

Did he just call himself the American dream before referring to them as the American nightmare?

That's right.

But also protecting his relationship with Joe Dumas.

Multiple times.

Right.

Said he was from Hollis Queens, too.

You missed that part.

He said he's not going to seek revenge on the Pelicans.

What would seeking revenge look like?

You don't want to know.

Get the sound of him threatening Kevin Durant.

Get the sound that we have of that commercial trailer that we played when Stephen A. Smith

became full on movie villain.

I'm going to feud with people just to be clear.

He's not going to go after the Pelicans too much, even though he just did it for 10 minutes

and waited an hour into the broadcast in order to do it to make sure that everybody was

around when he did it.

Go ahead and play the sound of the movie trailer of when we all discovered that Stephen A. Smith

was going full movie villain.

I sit here today incredibly offended by the personal attack that this made has put against

me.

In a world with hot takes, his takes might be the hottest.

Kevin Durant is the one that's lying.

Kevin Durant is in too deep.

You know, I made a mistake.

With a man you don't want to make an enemy out of.

The slim Reaper versus the suit with 400 buttons.

I don't want to hear from you and nobody else should eat the McDonald's All American.

Am I human?

Do you look at me that way?

Versus McDonald's commercial.

Had I had to come on the air that next day, I can promise you it would have been

very bad.

Stephen A. Smith.

Forget the numbers, you don't need them.

Look at his eyes.

Versus Kevin Durant and them boys.

You're the real MVP.

You won't want to be on his journey hit list.

You don't want to make an enemy out of me and I'm looking right into the camera and I'm

going to see it again.

You do not want to make an enemy out of me.

I'm not having it.

He's writing your fate and he's up against a deadline.

Jessica, when I was watching what happened with the U.S. men's hockey team, I was startled

at how quickly they gave up their goodwill and I was startled how we went from do you believe

in miracles to, oh, we're going to play three on three at the end and then Cash Patel

is going to be in the locker room afterward.

They went on SNL, both the men and women's team had representatives on SNL.

Did you see any of that?

Dan, I stayed up late on Saturday to watch SNL live because I'm a heat of rivalry fan.

Also, by the way, Stanford Miami, Stanford's up to at halftime, Dan and the ACC women's

basketball tournament.

So I'm going to head to that when I finish this up.

The winner of that plays Notre Dame, of course.

So I thought that the SNL monologue handled that whole thing very well where they made the

Hughes brothers the butt of the joke, but obviously they were in on it and both teams

have talked about how much they hung out and got along and we're part of each other's

gold medal winning journeys at the Olympics.

So it felt nice to see Megan Keller and Hillary Knight up there poking fun at them with Conner's

story, of course, who was hosting SNL.

And the thing that I think made me laugh the most happened after the fact, which I saw

on TikTok, Dan, which was Jack Hughes walking out of the backstage, apparently at SNL,

where all these fans are waiting to see, I think Conner's story, I'm assuming, and possibly

Hudson Williams, who's also there, the other star of heated rivalry.

And Jack Hughes walks out and everyone starts cheering and then they kind of just go quiet

because they realize it's not who they were waiting for.

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It's just like, they're famous, they're sports famous, they're hockey famous, and then

there's like television star famous.

And these people were there for the television star famous guy and it was very, very funny

to hear that.

He's like, oh, hello.

Oh, not me.

Not for me.

Yeah, it was very sad, sad to hear.

No hockey fans there.

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Sure.

If I may say for a second, Miami, they were stimulating the snap count the entire game.

And they were clapping at the line of scrimmage.

And the only thing I want to see clapping are them cheeks on Mrs. Met in my face, my

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All right.

So that's one thing.

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There are a bunch of cheaters, Dan.

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Once you mentioned that St. Louis food story, it made me think of the last time I covered

a baseball game in St. Louis during the summer where the turf gets so hot that it gets

up to about 110 or 115 degrees.

And what I remember, and it sounds like I'm telling the stories of when people traveled

by train in old timey baseball games to get from place to place, I'm not making this

up.

The way that you cooled off while writing your story on deadline was to go to the freezer

and get ahead of lettuce and put it on your head like they had, they had that as something

I sound like something out of the 1920s.

It was so.

Hold on.

Yes.

So you're in the press box.

The old bush light stadium wherever it used to be called, right?

Whatever.

No, you tell me.

So you're there.

Yeah.

You're there with a bunch of other sweaty guys.

Yes.

And you're there typing on a typewriter?

Yes.

Well, a computer.

A computer.

Yes.

But one of the original computers.

Okay.

So a massive computer.

You're there.

Yes.

And you're doing with two fingers.

There's no way you know how to type like a novel.

No, I know.

It's one of the few things I actually learned in high school.

I can type like a hundred words a minute.

Good for you.

My dad, my dad pecs.

He's been pecking his whole life.

Dan is playing the piano on that thing.

Okay.

And he's like, all right, it's really hot.

What I'm going to do is there's a fridge back there that is stocked with lettuce.

I'm not doing this as a creative person cooling myself off.

This is there for writers to put heads of lettuce on there and have towels.

I can't be.

What do you mean?

It's not true.

Like that's what they're there for.

You think?

I don't even stay on.

Wait a minute.

You think I'm at a typewriter by myself with a head of lettuce on?

No.

It's a bunch of writers had this on their head.

It was something that I'm not making it up.

I'm no one.

I don't believe you.

Why would I?

I'm not creative.

I'm not creative enough to be there.

Who is there?

How have it there?

What year is this, Dan?

It would have been 1993.

Okay.

You know what I'm going to get you one of them heads of lettuce and put on your head.

So you have a full head of lettuce and your balancing go on your head.

No, it's not a full head.

It's a half a head that would fit like a helmet over your head.

It's not a full head of lettuce.

I know you don't believe me.

Go ahead and look up on the internet.

Just Google, St. Louis, Facebook, head of lettuce, cool off.

Just look it up.

I understand that you guys don't believe me.

I'm not creative enough to make it up.

But Trista, did that sound like a bad deal to you?

Because if you put peanuts, chicken nuggets, nachos, hot dogs, soda, and you make it bottomless,

you make it, I can have all I want for $29.

There are very few bargains and kettle chips, kettle chips as well, ice cream as well.

That's a bargain.

Bay Bruth put a single leaf of lettuce on his head underneath his wool helmet to cool

off.

That helps you.

That's half a high heat.

You guys think that that's not a bargain?

Do you guys not think that this is something?

We have a video here of Perry Hill putting lettuce in his helmet before you guys thought I

was making up.

Thank you guys for finding.

Look at that.

Our video department is getting faster and better.

Sam said it's told us he's an odd cat, though, Perry Hill.

At defending my honor, that's fine.

You go ahead and backtrack right now.

That was 12 years.

You called me a liar.

You called me a liar.

And to do with writers.

The video, the video team immediately called, if they showed me Dave Hyde putting lettuce

on his head, then that's a victory for you.

This is the first base coach.

This is how it was done, Chris.

Dan.

I was wrong.

I'm sorry.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This is what's happening in America today with all of leadership.

It's attack attack attack.

Never apologize.

Attack attack attack.

Never apologize.

We just showed you video proof and what did you say?

Perry Hill is a weirdo.

You turned your attack from...

You said writers were doing anything.

You showed me your first base coach doing it.

I mean...

And it was one leaf and not a half a head like a helmet.

No, that's an art.

That's a feather in my cap.

No, it's not a feather of lettuce.

Who's a half a lettuce head?

No.

No, no.

Listen to me.

This guy's making lettuce wraps.

The guy's...

It's delightful.

I'm wrapping lettuce.

A half a head of lettuce.

I wish I had a photograph.

I wish I had lettuce wraps.

It's a good deal, right?

It's a good deal.

$29 for all that.

You take your family there.

No good deal.

What would classify these days?

I was just mentioning earlier this week.

I had a latte that cost me $9 in Los Angeles.

I had a blowpop that cost $2.29.

$29 for that food, Zez.

Though I've seen how you hit our free food here.

That's a bargain.

That's unquestionably a baseball bargain.

Yeah, but it's also diarrhea, man.

Like, to make it worth $29, all of that food...

Where is the diarrhea coming from?

You're ass.

It's like, would you rather have that all you can eat

or 13 blowpops?

Three lattes.

That's three lattes.

That's three cups of beans

or you can have nachos, the kettle chips.

Like, I'm made of cream.

Don't sleep on the kettle chips either.

The kettle chips are good.

Especially with that little pro player stadium.

I used to love those kettle chips back in the day.

Bring me back.

No, it gets to you.

Tenders and fries, Dan, it's like 15 bucks a month's work.

Ice cream.

Just the tenders and fries makes that.

If it's unlimited tenders and fries, look, I...

I think one person will get full though

and not be able to crush this as much as you think.

I think if you're doing like a smart person wood

and tag teaming this with multiple people,

yeah, you can do some real damage here.

Look, a stop-o is not coming for you to decide

and figure out whether you're sharing it

with your cohorts or not.

There's gotta be one super serious worker there

that's like keeping an eye on people.

Like, hey, I saw that guy give someone

the chicken nuggets away.

Don't give that guy any more food.

That's not so glizzy as he is.

You were just here last inning, sir.

You couldn't have eaten all that that fast.

A report from 2012,

umpires no longer forced to wear cabbage leaves

under hats.

So they were forced to then.

I can't believe you attacked Perry Hill

for no good reason after the video department.

More attack on you.

The tenders and fries, though,

that I have seen on the beach, okay,

because this is smart.

The people who are drunk on the beach,

raising canes is just basically giving you

ready tenders and fries to get the hangover off of you,

to get those carbs in your system.

That place is diarrhea.

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Where's that coming from?

That place is diarrhea is going to end the sponsorship

if we have.

Crazy.

I was angling for that.

Some people, some people like diarrhea.

Clear's the system out.

Isn't put it on the poll at Levitar Show.

Do some people like diarrhea

because it clears the system out.

Jason's not loving his.

He just told me in his ear,

well, what do you imagine your father

going to the bathroom after that much coffee

and his stomach making those noises?

Like, do you imagine that your father, Chris,

is having a bathroom experience

that's any kind of stable?

No.

Stephen A Smith, what he just did,

and I missed all of that.

I absolutely am glad that that has made an appearance

on our show again,

the breaking into programming

to just listen to Stephen A Smith,

get indignant for 10 minutes.

Just, he's 58 and he did 11 minutes on that.

But, and that's prepared and he's working on it

and he's like, let me think about how to do this

and he's also thanking the Pelicans,

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