Local Hour: Has Dan Ever Had Pizza?
43 min
•Feb 10, 20264 months agoSummary
The Dan Le Batard Show discusses college basketball matchups (Miami vs North Carolina), NBA tanking concerns with the Utah Jazz, the Miami Marlins' uniform revival, and various pop culture moments including Vegas trips and Hall of Fame voting controversies.
Insights
- NBA tanking has become so blatant that players are openly discussing it, signaling a need for league-wide enforcement mechanisms beyond current oversight
- Nostalgia-driven branding (Marlins teal uniforms) can create emotional connections but cannot substitute for competitive spending and player retention
- College basketball tournament seeding and rankings create artificial urgency that drives viewership and attendance independent of actual team quality
- Hall of Fame voting processes lack transparency and consistency, undermining the credibility of institutional honors across sports
Trends
Sports franchises leveraging historical uniforms and aesthetics to rebuild fan engagement without corresponding investment in roster qualityIncreased player transparency around tanking and losing strategies, challenging the unspoken code of silence in professional sportsEconomic pressure on Las Vegas hospitality sector (Mirage closure, Rio closure) affecting tourism and entertainment venue viabilityCollege basketball's reliance on crowd atmosphere and rivalry games as primary viewership drivers during tournament seasonHall of Fame voting becoming increasingly politicized with subjective criteria and lack of public accountability for voter decisions
Topics
NBA Tanking and Player IntegrityCollege Basketball Tournament SeedingSports Franchise Branding and Nostalgia MarketingHall of Fame Voting TransparencyLas Vegas Hospitality Industry DeclineMiami Heat Performance and Roster ManagementUniversity of Miami Basketball Tournament PreparationUtah Jazz Defensive PerformanceMiami Marlins Uniform StrategySports Stadium Atmosphere and Fan EngagementCourt Storming Incidents in College BasketballPlayer Injury Management in NBAVegas Tourism and Economic Trends
Companies
Frank's Red Hot
Sponsor promoting hot sauce product with multiple flavor varieties and versatile applications across food categories
Chime
Financial technology company offering fee-free banking with early paycheck access and cash back rewards
Miller Light
Beer brand positioned as casual social beverage for game-watching and social gatherings
DraftKings
Sports betting platform offering bonus bets and live betting functionality for March tournament events
Jägermeister
Liqueur brand emphasizing ice-cold serving temperature as essential to product consumption experience
Money Lion
Financial services company sponsoring the show's fine bucket segment for on-air penalties
People
Bryce Sensabaugh
Utah Jazz player criticized for not performing adequately despite team's defensive struggles and tanking behavior
Bam Adebayo
Miami Heat player who publicly stated team needs to 'find a way to win' against losing opponents, acknowledging tanking
Bill Belichick
NFL coach whose Hall of Fame induction has been delayed despite being widely considered greatest coach of all time
Robert Kraft
New England Patriots owner whose Hall of Fame eligibility has been questioned despite 14+ years on ballot
Don Henley
Eagles musician mentioned as suggesting current tour may be final opportunity to see the band perform
Caleb Wilson
North Carolina basketball player described as one of best players in country ahead of game vs Miami
David Samson
Former Marlins executive who built current stadium in Little Havana as modern facility
Dave Portnoy
Pizza reviewer credited with popularizing the term 'undercarriage' to describe pizza bottom quality
Luke Kuechly
NFL player whose Hall of Fame induction occurred faster than Bill Belichick's, raising credibility questions
Andrew Jones
Football Hall of Fame candidate that Greg Cody voted for in hypothetical voting quiz
Quotes
"They're the only team in the league, the only one. You could point to and say they're doing this. They're in the fourth quarter when they have a lead. They sit their best guy."
Host discussing Utah Jazz tanking behavior•Mid-episode NBA discussion
"I would love to go back to Pro Player Stadium. That just brings me back to my high school years."
Cody discussing Marlins nostalgia•Marlins uniform segment
"Miami supports winners. If you're the Marlins, the teal uniforms are nice. They're going to please a lot of kids who go to the game maybe."
Host on Marlins branding strategy•Marlins discussion
"It's a joke. It's a dog and pony show. He's obviously the greatest coach of all time. It doesn't really matter."
Host on Hall of Fame voting credibility•Hall of Fame voting segment
Full Transcript
Folks, I'm getting hungry and you know my favorite part of any meal snack or game day app? That's right. The goat or should I say the greatest of all time? Frank's Red Hot! It's got the perfect blend of flavor and heat that elevates all foods from wings to buffalo chicken dip to even ice cream. That's right I said ice cream and with a roster of flavors from OG to sweet chili you can put that s*** on everything. So make every dish the greatest and eat the goat. I don't know what's about to happen today Dan but what I do know is Chris is walking around in the room over there before the show starts to talk about what a big fraud I am and I don't know what that's about. Who's he telling who's he telling that to? He's like oh that's a big fraud big fraud. Tony Bologna I believe I said as well. Wow. What are you talking about? Whoa which is worse put it on the pole at Levitard show big fraud or phony baloney. You know you got something to say when you say it. Well I guess save it. I know I guess now we're here. Just mumbling phony. I heard there were cuck two out there somewhere. No I heard it. Dan weeks ago months ago at this point Zazlow made fun of me for going to Vegas to see the backstreet boys. That's right. He went to backstreet boys and took his wife all the way to Vegas for backstreet boys. Remember when he says he's going to Vegas this weekend? You know he's going tomorrow night. You know he's doing there? No. New kids on the block. What? Phony baloney. He has a friend on the band. Yeah but it's the same thing. You can't make it. You can't make it. It is the same thing. It is the same thing. It's the worst part. That's the same thing. You know what Jeremy's got this right actually not surprisingly. He knows the nuance between the boy bands and of course I do. And he's right. You're going to a rip off version of that. Are you going to the right? Yeah right. New kids were first. They were first but worse. Don't sell them short. There's a possibility here that he hits up his friend and new kids for tickets to BSB at the sphere too. No. I'm definitely not going to see Backstreet Boys at the sphere. I don't believe you. Everybody knows I cannot go to the sphere because I have vertigo and I would get very sick there in the show. So I cannot go to the sphere. All right. So don't even worry. Everybody knows that. Everyone knows. Everybody knows. The sphere is dangerous for you. Yeah. Because the visuals and the spinning. Can you put me there? Like what happens? You walk in and you're like, well I mean I would just be in the middle of the show and I'd probably start puke. Like it'd be bad. Do the person that those warnings on the, you know, on Netflix or the streamers where they say strobing lights and where I'm like epilepsy. Well, I'm just hearing that. I mean, I've never known who I don't know anybody who those warnings are for. I don't know anybody when they put this as smoking and also strobe lights that make people dizzy. I've never met anyone. It's for people that epilepsy. Yeah. Different things. Epa-lapsee and vertigo. Yeah, that's why they're called different things. Thank you. But you're saying that the sphere and the strobing lights are affecting your vertigo. I'm not making a big leap there. No, because it'll be motion sickness. See, this is scaring me because I'm going to the sphere for the first time the following weekend, like whatever the 20th or 21st, whenever that is. And I've never been before. My wife has been before, but I've never been. And now you're scaring me a little bit. Who you want to see? Whoever's playing the next weekend. You don't even know. I think it's the Eagles, but I'm not sure. She told me. Don Henley said this might be the last year that you can see the Eagles. Oh, please. That's why we're doing it. But my friend is in new kids on the block. I'm going to see my friend perform. Who are you friends with? Yeah, yeah, Tony Baloney. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I don't want. He doesn't remember who he's going to see. Wild. I think it's the Eagles. There can't be many people going to the sphere in a couple of weeks who don't know who they're going to. I like the idea that he's on the plane for the six hour flight. And they're like, what are you going to do in Vegas? I don't know. At some point, I'll come up on the flight. You know, a couple of cocktails in. I'll ask her who we see. And by the way, Eagles, yeah, that's what I thought. But it could be somebody else. I agreed to it. So it must be somebody I want to see. I hope it's battery. No, it's not. It's not a boy band. It's an old man band. We had the, we had the, we had the clothes when he said boy band. Oh, okay. This is the Don Lebertar show with this two-gots podcast. Bryce, Sense of law. Mike Beaumonti's got to go about better than this. Like that's his bad, that is as bad a loss as I've ever seen them have last night. I'm not even kidding. Even though they were only a five and a half point favorite in that game. That bam out of bio quote, that coming out of that mouth when that team's not good enough and he's the guy you need to beat Utah at home when Utah's trying to lose. You guys saw the bam out of bio quote, right? I mean, I, I just, I've never seen that come out of a heat mouth. Before where he's saying we've got to find a way to win against the teams that are, I guess you can say trying to lose Utah bench. It's, it's players in the fourth quarter. They, they just lost this way at Orlando. And when Ethan Skolnik asks, you, you, you toss coach will whatever's name is when they ask him, hey, how tempted were you to put in marketing in the fourth quarter? Wasn't, wasn't going to had no intention. Jazz accused people yesterday of point shaving and said they should be put in prison because of what Utah is doing. They tried to do it and the heat wouldn't allow them to murder themselves. Maybe look like a sucker last night. I got cocked. Funny. No, no, no. Yes. I admit it. So we'll get to the funny, baloney controversy here because Zazlow is going to see a boyband in Vegas. I don't know if you guys have seen like Vegas is really hurting. I shouldn't surprise people given what's going on in the economy, but the Mirage closed, Rio is about to close. A bunch of places are about to close because Vegas is really hurting and about to give it a boost. Zaz and Cody are headed the next couple of weeks to give it a boost. Zaz to see new kids on the block and Cody to see old men on the block. And he's not sure though. He thinks it's the Eagles, but he's not totally positive. Yeah, whoever's playing that weekend, I'm seeing. I have here. I know. Cody, I'm doing a little bit of Dan Lebitard finds out here. I have a video that you don't know that we have. And I want an explanation for what it is that happened here in this video during your Super Bowl party. We are about to miss kickoff. How do you get it over there? Greg Coat. Greg touched the remote and now we're going to miss kickoff. I was panicking. Another crisis solved. Another crisis solved. Nobody will make it out there. No, the catchphrase comes. Another crisis solved. I want to wipe that camera. The little plug for the countdown. He's like, will that be on Greg Coat? He's catchphrase. And mix in a water. Why does that living room look jaundiced? That living room looks like out of 1970s Jacksonville. Is it the pain on the wall? It's not. Why is it a bad shot? What happened? First of all, what happened? Because you said, look at my wife panicking. As you're standing nearby doing nothing, all you've done is harm and then took credit and turned and swung and did a promo. The best television I've seen since Tony Marvel, the Jason Garrett turning to a camera with one gleaming tooth and smiling at a camera. I'm telling you, this is seconds before kickoff. And he touches the remote. And all of a sudden, we can't get it off the screen. My mom, my brother, I have to come running in. Well, I normally don't touch a remote. Right. And you did it right before half time. The only reason I did it was the volume thing. We had it like 99 or 100. It was like blurring. And I was about to make an announcement to hold the commercial's sacra sanct and shut up when the commercial's come on. That did nothing because I didn't hear a single commercial here. That's a good announcement, though. It's important. Yeah, it isn't important. He did it during a commercial, by the way, that announcement. You know, you got to do it sometime. Zaz, why are you looking at Cody this way? I just, I don't know. Why don't you know how to use the equipment in your home? My wife always handles the wand. The wand. Yeah. Whoa, that's a TV. That's a T-shirt. Valentine's Day is coming up. We have a resident love expert, Greg Cody. And we have an assortment of questions for him. My wife always handles the wand. Suits you, Dizaz? That's on you, by the way. And it's it is. It is. You're a phony baloney. It's been proven. I don't know why I'm a phony baloney. Tony, would you like to explain to him how it is and why it is that he's a phony baloney? You made fun of Chris for doing something. Right. Now, you're going to do the same thing, but older and worse, making you a phony baloney. Oh, okay. I'm going to the original. I'm going to the OG new kids on the block, all right? There would not even be a backstreet boys or in sync for that matter if there wasn't a new kids on the block. So let's make sure we get that straight, all right? And number two and more importantly, one of the guys in the group is my friend. I'm going to speak friend perform. Friend. Oh, yeah. By the way, huge fan of this show watches every day. Friendly watches every day. No, if he watches every day and he sees Zaz on the show, they'll become friends inside of that. No, we are friends of in France, Robert. Like 10 plus years. Sure. Is he going to bring you on stage? No, no, but we'll be sitting right next to him. Can anybody do his birthday party? Uh, not a friend. I don't think so. Is that the rule? How are you guys doing? He's, he's only birthday party. He's a new girl. He's no longer a new kid. I thought there was a new kid on the block. I'm just saying, he must have had a 50th recently, a 40th. So, but is that the way you're doing friendship? Did they? I have a 50th birthday party. You're not my friend. Like, right? I put it on the poll at Levitard show. If you're, if you're not invited to that guy's 50-year-old birthday party, are you his friend? Go ahead. I would answer yes to that. So, I want to get to this, this heat story because, uh, and there, there is, I believe, a tournament team in town. The University of Miami plays a giant game, the biggest of the year tonight at home against North Carolina. North Carolina is a big letdown spot for North Carolina. This is exactly where you want to play them, where they just want to buzzer-beater against Duke and they've had two court stormings and now they're going, they're going on the Harris themselves. They embarrass themselves with two court stormings. Yeah. Violence ensued. Caleb Wilson is a problem. I don't believe the Miami Hurricanes have a player as good as he is. That's no slight on the Miami Hurricanes. He's one of the best players in the country and that's a giant game. The student section is going to be full tonight. They're honoring the UM football team as well. So it'll be the best crowd of the season as well. The best, the best crowd these players have ever played in front of. Correct? Like, best home team. Yeah, it's a whole new team, it's a whole new team, whole new staff. There isn't a holdover from last year. So yeah, definitely, and it's at a, finally, a convenient time. These game times have been weird. You know, putting Cal and Stanford in the ACC is really muck things up. What time is tonight? Tonight's 7 o'clock tip. Yeah, it's better than the 9 o'clock week night tip that we had against Stanford. That point card's very good, by the way. So they lose that Cal. The day I said they were a tournament team, they lost as an 11 and a half point favorite. BPC haven't played a whole lot of good teams. Mike's still questioning whether they're a tournament team and Joe Lunardi is saying they're a tency. They're one of the, they've got the kind of record you want to have, but now begins the difficult part of the schedule. And when you're going to test yourself against the boozers or cam boozer, I guess, because his brother's not playing as much. Yeah, he's not that good. Yeah, but cam is amazing. Yes, cam is amazing. Yeah, if Miami wins this game, they are pretty entrenched unless they fall off like this, this last four or the season. But this is a tough, there's a tough 10 days they've got. This is the toughest stretch of their schedule with opponents and everyone else. And if they're going to be a tournament team, it will reveal itself right now. True Henderson's coming back tonight. Great defender. This is the type of team that you don't want to face when you have the emotional highs, the court storming against your biggest rival in Duke. You hop on a plane a couple days later and you play a tough as nails defensive team. The type of team that Jay Lucas has built down here is not fun to play on any night, especially when you're kind of feeling yourself. So a big festive crowd is what it is that's being expected tonight there. It would be the opposite of what I imagine was at that heat game last night because can you guys tell me how many road wins Utah has? I know Sacramento had three, Washington had five and these teams just can't win on the road. These truly terrible teams can't win on the road. And the circumstances that you had last night is Utah, the stat from a mean is amazing. Okay. They're not worst defense in league history. Topped two years ago by them having the worst defense in league history. Topped this year by this being the worst defensive team in the league. Last night was their seventh road one. They sit their starters. They sit their starters in the fourth quarter. Their coach is not trying to win. Like they're actively there. They are. I Sacramento, Washington are trying. Like they're trying to win. Utah's not trying to win. They're the only team in the league, the only one. You could point to and say they're doing this. They're in the fourth quarter when they have a lead. They sit their best guy. Yeah, that was obvious tanking. Now, bam didn't use the word tanking. He said trying to lose same thing. Wouldn't trust me about that is that that's usually unspoken among players. Players very rarely say tanking out loud. That's a media thing. But coaches and players hardly said that's an Adam Silver problem though because when you do what they did in the fourth quarter. They'll fix it. It's so blatant. So blatant. They'll fix it. They're so in needle. Would you rather be Utah or Miami? It's amazing. That's starting five. I mean, if they're fully healthy, the jazz starting five is incredible. Next year they got so many picks. You see Utah had a vision and they stuck to it. Yep, lose for a decade. And now they're well positioned. Cannot imagine. The current NBA champion. How did they get good by being terrible for a really long time? He held still so much fun with that. What happened after I don't even know how you show your face around here. Given what we've seen out of Miami. Jack shit over there. Super bad way to talk about it. In the Philippines. In C's, bro. The Super Bowl meant we didn't even have to talk about the Miami Heat Blown a 20 point lead against Boston. Well, here's the thing though. They've lost. They've blown 32 double digit leads since the last, you know, since last season. And it's the most in the sport. Is there any reporting being done about Norman Powell and the personal issues? Because while I respect all of this. He had a child. No, he came back though and then he got hurt. He's had he's had back tightness for a couple of weeks here. He needs the all star break. He hurt his hand. I wouldn't be shocked if he also missed Wednesday's game. He might play because they'd like to end the first half on a good note. But he was out yesterday because it's the second I'd have back to back three out of the four last nights. All right. So Norm Powell is out. Tyler hero is out. Heroes out. 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Don Lebatard is there back in my day there is actually. Are you not going to tell anyone to say you guys back in guys. It's a Tuesday. Two guts here's your guy break Cody with back in my day. I'm not. A filtering. No. Yeah. We're back. That is for this one. This is the down Lebatard show with this two guys. The reason that says we'll not get any traction on wanting to dip jail everyone in the Utah organization for point shaving is because the players they do play are trying to win. Bryce sense of law is trying to win. Do you or do you not have to do better for Mike the amante. He's gone from Luall dang to Bryce sense of law. That's just that's not that's not the way for him to retire. No. Luall dang is perfect. You don't get any better than that. Luall dang. You know like John conchar. I told Barry Jackson that they felt like they had a team that could mix some noise in the playoffs. fart noise. Everybody thought so the first month of the season they were like the darling and the little Jeremy was excited. Four points a game. You know the Marlonstein Chris paddock to a one year four million dollar deal. Wow. Yes. He's basically their cow control of this year. He's there to eat up innings. He'll compete for a rotation. Man, you're a Braxton Garrett and Max Meyer both back. You're having patronizing. I mean, after that heat game last night. They come in here wearing the old school Marlon's hats. Look at me. I put on a Miami heat jacket. That's right. I mean, the Marlins it's peas and seas today and they have the two uniforms coming back. That's why you wear the old school Marlon. If it's you know, they never wore those two uniforms. Never wore until uniforms in a game before only in spring training and batting practice. So these two uniforms, it's a debut. How about that? Well, wait a minute. No, that was what it was. No, never worn that jersey in a regular season game ever in the history of the franchise. Those uniforms are the ones that I thought they played with in 1993. Mandela effect. No, batting practice in spring training. Yeah, I think those spring training jerseys. Well, look at the crowds, the barons, it will show up to see those new uniforms. The crowds that will, they're going to fill that stadium because of the uniform gimmick. I got excited there because that dugout in that photo is clearly the old pro player stadium dugout. They clearly just recreated it, but I would love them to turn their current dugout because that old, that just brings me. I would love to go back to pro player stadium. They're doing good things with the brand here. Man, I missed that stadium. That just brings me back to my high school years. I know it was empty. Trust me. No, nobody says that. I'm telling you, but you bring back to my junior year old Samson got every game. David Samson built that stadium on Kaya Ocho as a modern new stadium. It stinks. It's a bad ballpark. I stuck in a 12 pack of long neck beers. Oh, Joe Robbie from Marlins game one time. Oh, yeah. I got caught the peanuts. The Cody's crew, the peanuts guy with the glasses on the public's power alley. I wore long cargo pants. So it had lots of pockets. And I put like several long necks in each pocket. I'm like, waddling into the stadium when I get my ticket. You know, don't want them to clank or break in my pockets. We made it to our seats. We made it to our seats with the 12 pack of beers. Take them all out. We're drinking. We're drinking by like the third inning. The usher comes down. Notice is we're drinking long necks. All right. It don't sell long necks as a criminal. That's a pretty amateur move. You are looking pretty good with the cargo pants like a and you got through because all of security is bored there because they got seven people coming through. So security's not paying attention. Well, we used to sit in a section where there was never an usher. You were about to save $100. All you had to do was be a less sloppy criminal. You can't drink a beer that's clearly not sold there. We're pounding long necks which they very obviously do not sell at the stadium. She comes and she confiscates it from me. Why wouldn't you just buy a couple of cops? And she's like, you know, is this it? Like, no, we got more. And then I reached under the seat and she's now walking up the stairs holding like six beers. Everyone's laughing. Let it waste a beer. What a ballpark. I left field scoreboard. I can't believe what you guys are saying right now out loud to an audience that's listening. I said it the very first game at that monstrosity in little Havana. It's a bad ballpark. It's never been good. It made me miss a football stadium without a roof at the side. Nobody liked that place because of the rain out so you'd have five hour games. It was so hot. You just go into the con course. So hot. But man, it felt like baseball. That was that's an nostalgia. That's what's missing. And I'm glad that they're bringing back the teal uniforms because there is zero connection to whatever team that ballpark houses. They have totally different uniforms. They don't let any players stick around long enough for you to actually grow attached to them. The only connection point that Marlon fans have to that team, they don't even have the same name. Would you be as beautiful? Is that even changing it back to Florida, Marlon? Yes. I'd be make them teal, make them the Florida, Marlon's. Let me get some kind of nostalgia connection to this team. And it does feel different when I see them wearing that. I'm like, yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I don't have any kind of connection to the new stuff. There is a reason why they have specifically Marlins on the front there and not Miami. And it is to tie it back to the nostalgia that you're used to of seeing Marlins. And that's been the name the whole way through whether it's Florida, Marlins, whether it's Miami, Marlins, they're the Marlins franchise and bringing back the teal. They are trying to sort of harken back to their history. They had the Marlins Legends Hall of Fame open last year. It's detrained in Beckett being at it. It's played about $2.3. It played about $2.3. And last year, remember, it was about 100 people in this. See, this is the problem with the Marlins though. They're using the past as a crutch. The dolphins do the same thing a little bit. Miami supports winners. If you're the Marlins, the teal uniforms are nice. They're going to please a lot of kids who go to go to the game maybe. No, it's pleasing our age. It's pleasing to people who might. Guys, I on the ball, okay, you let Jeremy do what you didn't want to let him do. He went to Marlins. Of course. He hypnotized you with the liberal uniform. I am the ball, okay? We can have Mark Light Sadie in this weekend. The summary, the Marlins use a crutch of the past instead of spending money now to create What did the Yankees do Greg? Did they sign anybody big? The Cains in Earl? or are they relying on a team that has a one away for a 29 tonight tonight is win the Cames win what point and a half favorite tonight against North Carolina and it's the crowd. I didn't understand what was happening with the points. But last night Utah and the heat right everything I just told you historically bad defensive team not trying not playing its starters late like that combination of things you ought to score 140 points on that team like that's what should happen and the points Brent kept dropping it was Utah underdog by seven six five and a half and I'm like what do they know what who knows what here about Utah's size advantage wasn't Utah also on a back to back didn't they just do this the previous night in Orlando Saturday night Saturday night and the heat were on a back to back and they had no Norman Powell or Pella Larson which meant they started Davie on Mitchell alongside Simone Fontecchio. I mean they played the wizards my ring gardener that was an AU team and Bama to buy I told my son to lay the six and a half my fault the Cains are a one and a half point dog not an one and a half life dog that yeah that's a that's basically pick him let's go let's go Cames the Cames are more desperate haven't they lost like three out of five I mean they're they're struggling to make the the big tournament they have not no wait a minute they're not they're not struggling there aren't they 90 what are they 19 five I guess like back to the FSU loss this is their worst stretch it's weird yeah they lost two out of five yeah they'll go up to Syracuse win that game and struggle against Cal. Carmelo's kid doesn't play defense either no the Stanford game was a random rock fight they're they're not playing in these games the way that you would think a a ten-seat would play much like the heat their best form was at the start of the season when this game tonight for the Cains though and like yeah all that conversation go away huge for your season huge for your program while you announce yourself right because people they got some recruits in they they were before losing that FSU they got ranked did they not did they not right there no like Brandon Marshall was right there just right they were right there but they weren't quite ranked that that was a crime because when they were like I think 15 yeah like like point shaving like Utah needs to be in prison for a crime at one point that Cames were like 15 and two there only two losses were to top ten teams and yet they weren't ranked I thought they should have been ranked then now they wouldn't be ranked now because they're on a little bit of a skid yeah but you know compared to compared to college football like the rankings obviously in season means something in college football it really doesn't mean anything college basketball like like just just keep winning games oh but no what it does sort of mean though is when your name is in there and then you win a game like tonight's right tonight's is the one everyone's going to be watching North Carolina brings that with them North Carolina coming off of hey so John Shire again Duke's lying Duke there was no staffer punched in the court storm this is the second time Duke claims that their people are punched and and injured during stuff and there's never any video even though everyone every kid in the in Cameron Indoor has a or actually it's not Cameron Indoor and every kid has a a camera and there's no video of this yeah the story changed too we stopped being punched in the face then we got trampled there's no video of a trampling either are we still waiting for video of Kyle Philipowski getting hit as well beginning to think he played break his leg didn't they say he heard his leg or something that they that the court storming injured his leg yeah yeah there was actually like at least video of that one beginning to think Duke exaggerates when they lose these games to North Carolina also John Shire beta attention attention rail travelers platform paces we know gaysers and are rest negotiators have you heard the big rail fair for ease is here rail fairs have been frozen across England until March 2027 on standard class tickets including off-peak anytime and season tickets for more information visit national rail dot co dot UK slash fairs for ease season season exclusions apply done lebertard I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public stugats don't do it this is the done lebertard show with this two gods while we're talking college basketball can we talk about Syracuse basketball player Donnie Freeman uncrusting and uncrustable this is just monster behavior you should it doesn't have a crutch and he's peeling the crust off and it's just I needed I need an explanation because that little crust part of the uncrustable falls advertising if you're not okay you need an explanation well do you understand people who pulled the crust off their off their pizza yeah but yes but there's a crust to be pulled here there is no crust to be then you're seeing a crust will hold yes the whole thing is a very little crust no I know I actually liked the little pinched part of the uncrustable it's like my favorite part of the uncrustable and you're choosing to take the delightful part of the uncrustable and just turn it into a PB and J hold on a second Dan you know people who I know people who don't eat the crust on pizza you know people who pull off the crust on the top the top of the crust that they don't like to think the breadie crust that doesn't have the cheese on it not the entirety of the crust right but they they they they pull it off and then they just like yes hold the other part and eat the other part that's barbaric no you you've never seen a pizza box filled with crust because people do that they eat it after right they they don't hold pizza and they leave and then you leave the crust a good piece of pizza I'm getting up on us this is our experience put it on the pole at Levitard show uh do you trust people or how should I phrase this because you're saying people don't do it and I'm saying I do know people who do not eat the top end of crust of pizza no that's how you said though that's how they rip it off before they eat the regular yeah that's crazy behavior you have serial killer fronts yeah I've never seen that in my life you're telling me there are people who have a slice of pizza and before they take a bite they rip off the crust yes guys this again what do you mean you're saying no but you're talking about the piece of the pizza that doesn't have cheese they don't want just bread they want that's right but Dan like you're like 99% of what people do is you have a slice you're holding the crust right you eat the crust they pizza up until the crust then you just you need it to hold the slice most people just don't eat the crust I haven't seen a lot of people before the place to rip it off that underground this is this is ridiculous and so then they're just holding with the cheese and the sauce and their fingers only crazy people serial killers yeah I need the crust last switching gears what do you mean Danny Hamlin I'm asking you to make that my voice and don't try and sneak in your things in my subconscious your topics I don't want to talk about Danny Hamlin anymore it makes me sad got them off the crust thing at Levitard show do you trust people who do not eat what is that called because the whole thing is the crust right is it not the whole have you ever have you had pizza in your life all right I'm on their side what is the base what is this is stubborn even for you what is the base of the pizza called the undercarriage oh the undercarriage nobody calls no you need a good undercarriage when you look at a pie that's not the undercarriage that's not also the crust it technically no undercarriage in popularized that's what a pizza bottom but nobody calls it the law it has been Dave Portino is popularized the term undercarriage Dave Portino is popularized the term yes yes say what you want about a me see are you trying to deny Dave Portino is monopoly over pizza reviews are you trying to deny him that I look you can deny him plenty he's on the pizza game I'm not denying that one bite I am denying that he's popular every put on the pole at Levitard show has Dave Portino made you call the bottom half of a pizza the undercarriage just put it up that way because you guys are saying he's popularized it I didn't know that it was called the undercarriage I don't know what to call it I've ever had pizza before I can't believe you know people or at least you're claiming to know people who rip off the crust of why would I be asking myself have I ever had pizza before I'm confused and speaking your normal voice and stop speaking in that one as my inner monologue I need you to stay in character if you're going to attack my vulnerabilities from in there stop being yourself and stay in character holding the cheese and the tomato sauce with their fingers it's impossible almost to rip off the crust you almost have to cut it with scissors or use a knife because the crisis the crust is attached to the rest of the pie the rest of the time he called under the pizza crust just a rough look speak into the mic speak into the mic Roy is asking you to speak into the mic right here the mic sir are you guys worried I don't know if you're made sad obviously Vegas is something that is almost always exciting as you're taking off for Vegas and then there's great regret on your flight home especially if it's a red eye but I did not know until recently that the Mirage one of the giants out there is done the Rio is smaller off the strip done like there are problems in Vegas now because it's being in effect it obviously by a lack of disposable income in the economy in in ways that are startling and you guys are headed there you're headed there for romantic weekend this is you funny baloney this this is you being romantic taking your wife of how many years oh boy quicker than that oh no oh no why can I think about my second oh my god I'm not allowed to think of it for a second this year will be 19 I can't think about it just some quick math to save an abute oh my god why why does everything have to be a tip my tongue did you just say the tip of my tongue so about a tongue I like that character better that that character needs to speak more the other one needs to speak glass how do you know the parlors and seldom the tip of your tongue is what you were saying yeah you don't have to have everything on the tip of your tongue but this is your meant to do a romantic weekend that's what you're aspiring to do we're going to Valentine's new kids on the block my wife's never been to Vegas so I'll be very exciting uh Cody want to quiz you what is as saying here how do you know the parlors and seldom how do you know the parlors and seldom the end is where you got right how do you know the parlors and seldom that's what it sounds like the end of that is so much clearer than the beginning of that I don't have more time I got the heart part my I don't know how you got the boy right that's not desirable how do you know the parlors and seldom this is good attack I heard seldom uh this was in reference yesterday to Jordan Hudson uh bill bell chicks girlfriend wearing the shirt that she wore to North Carolina Duke that makes fun of Bob Kraft and the name of the salon that he was caught sex trafficking and so it wouldn't be the parlor seldom mean them it would be how do you know the parlor doesn't sell them how do you know the parlor doesn't sell them yeah nothing now that you say it I can hear how do you was the hardest part for us all right so finally I'm gonna surprise all you guys Cody most of all right now because uh we were making fun of uh how do you not remember bill polian whether you voted for bill bellicic check or not and I was making the argument well in your eighties that's something that you can be forgetful about and then we did a failed quiz with Greg Cody where he voted for his Hall of Famers and he's had trouble with his memory just today right because he didn't remember that he's going to see the Eagles in Vegas his wife told him but he doesn't remember who he's seeing so Greg Cody you're scared of what I'm about to do right now right who did you vote for the Hall of Fame two weeks ago when we did that quiz with you here do you remember who you voted for because you voted for four people and that laughter suggests that he's cornered yeah I'm soling right now um do you remember which sport you voted on well I'm a baseball Hall of Fame voter um I don't I would remember whether or not I voted for a specific player which is why when you asked somebody did you vote for the bill check or not who would you vote for who'd you vote for ask me if I voted for a specific player that's the issue here you can't get a one of them because Tony Dungee was asked if he voted for bellicic and he refused to answer if you asked me whether I voted for Jack Flackman for the Hall of Fame I'll tell you whether or not I did uh Greg I will take a quiz Greg your your trapped right you can't you cannot remember a see you voted two weeks ago for four people we did a big show of it publicly it was it was actually about um it was just before Christmas it was probably seven or eight weeks ago that I actually voted no but I'm not asking you who you voted on your actual ballot I'm asking you for who you voted on in that quiz we had you take two weeks ago you don't remember either of them wait a minute you don't remember either of them you don't remember who you voted for for the actual Hall of Fame and you don't also remember in the queer player I'll tell you if I voted for not how this line up for Greg Greg do you know I will guarantee my answer Greg do you remember playing this game with us two weeks ago I voted for Andrew Jones yes in December you voted for Andrew Jones we had you take a hypothetical test that wasn't actually an accurate with football Greg it was a football Hall of Fame it wasn't a baseball Hall of Fame you do not even remember that we had you vote for the football okay that thing um oh my god this is unbelievable you ripped Bill Polian you said Bill Polian I was like anyone years old that's tough to remember stuff Bill Polian was asked did you vote for whoever bill and check so you think you think you didn't know you think you'd get it right if I gave you guys give me please because I don't remember but please give me who the names were that we put in front of him because he only selected four of them and I'm gonna ask him right now I'll ask okay okay Larry Fitzgerald drew breeze um those were the two obvious ones and then there were two borderline guys I I don't think I voted for Adam Vinnet Jerry even though he made the hall and um I did not vote for Roger Craig and he made the hall um I'm not actually even sure you're doing this correctly we'll get we'll get an accurate appraisal of this in a second are any of you put it on the pole please do you're at Levitard show do you live in a sane world when Luke Keekley gets in faster than Bill Bella check embarrassing what's going on behind the scenes with this stuff this is so dumb there there there's so many like puppet strings being pulled and no one wants to come out and say like no I'm the I'm the person behind this I those are head Mike those are too bona fide a hall of famous craft has been on the ballot for like 14 years I don't know how much better of an owner you have to be in that sport what marks success the what your teams value is and how many championships you've won he's been in the conversation my entire adult life I don't understand how he's not a Hall of Fame owner if an owner can make the hall of fame it looks like Robert Kraft and head coach forget it it's a greatest head coach of our lives Mike to be honest is making me not even care about the Hall of Fame anymore it's a joke it's a dog and pony show it's like oh is he gonna get in no okay whatever it doesn't really matter like he's obviously the greatest coach of all time it doesn't really I don't really care about what's this what's with this like I didn't vote for him because I thought he was gonna get in vote for the people that deserve to go in don't be like that other persons got it this is the most it makes the entire thing look like a joke Greg I have the full list of names that were available to you to vote for hold on to that for a second Tony you a dog and pony show you have referenced a great many times there's been a lot of them I still don't have an answer for when the dog and pony show went out of business because I don't think that that's a business it hasn't gone on a business clearly with y'all honest and with this Hall of Fame thing a lot of dog and pony shows all over the place there has to be an extinction date on the dog and pony show because I don't there no more than no traveling there no traveling circuses anymore the we will get to that list in a second I have in front of me the four people that you voted for but I'd like you Jeremy tell me privately so that I can quiz him on this because I'd like to play this game with him to see if he can actually remember who it is already said to who you did say two of them but you can't remember the other two and I want to see if I can get you with any of the others that like I don't know why you would be this confident like I don't know why you would lean in your chair that way as if you've got this well you didn't even remember the sport we were talking about you didn't remember the quiz you didn't remember much of anything not about remembering it's about what I thought we were talking about baseball um breeze breeze and Fitzgerald were the two automatic picks the others were controversial I didn't I don't think I voted for Luke Keekley to be honest with me all right forgive me here because I'm delayed in this Zazlow you owe $50 okay and money lion has brought back the fine bucket our thanks to money lion banking lending investment uh help yourself to money lion because they are now sponsoring the fine bucket and Zazlow got hit with the biggest fine that there is $50 because he killed David Baker the retired uh hall of fame inductor all right who wanders the earth no not RIP he's still alive he's not dead he doesn't even know who he was she get credit for knowing who he is this is a master class from us I do know who he is I I do know who David Baker is and you owe $50 because you killed 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