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Episode Date: December 29, 2025

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You're finally starting to get it. Drink responsibly. Yeagermeister liqueur, 35% alcohol by volume, imported by mass Yeagermeister U.S., White Plains, New York. This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast. Wow. Guys, I did a very Miami thing yesterday. I went to the Miami Pro League. How was that?

It was good. Michael Beasley played. The goat. Yep. Josh Minot from the Timberwolves was there. My man, what's? Book Knight from formerly the Charlotte Hornets and Yukon. James Book Knight. It's very difficult name to figure out how to pronounce.

It's B-O-U-K, right? Yeah. And you're like, is it Booneit? Yeah. Is it Booneight? Is the K-Silent? Boonite would be great. Boonite, man.

His career would have been better if his name was Boonite. But that's how Michael Beasley play, and it's like... Real Hooper's always new, right? But it's the entire Michael Beasley experience. It's like part of it is like, geez, this guy's so talented. And also, how did your team lose by 20? It's like the... Does it happen in that league, too?

Dry Ciddle and McDavid played in a beer league and lost like 6-1. Oh, man. But he probably had a bunch of nice moves. I don't know what the... I still don't, like, I think playing in a pro-am inherently, like an open pro-am. There's no benefit to being an NBA player doing that. What about former NBA players?

Because Michael Beasley, I mean, this sort of stretch he's going through, he is more popular now amongst the kids than he's ever been in his life. Like, I have a 17-year-old nephew that talks to me about Michael Beasley all the time. I was like, Miami Heat fans didn't talk about Michael Beasley this much when he was the number two pick. It's funny because I think the courage, generation in the current atmosphere is most not only forgiving and accepting but enthusiastic about these kind of

renegade outlaws that operate outside the mainstream systems like you watch the NBA now I watch these guys play one-on-one on Twitter on you know Instagram that's and what cracks me up is like all these guys Beasley mostly making all these moves hitting crazy like fade away mid-range shots that only like one percent of NBA players are allowed to take.

So, like, the rest of the NBA, not doing this, Michael Beasley out here doing this in his bag, and everybody's like, this is amazing. I love this basketball. Bring that back to the NBA. Michael Beasley is the most wrong I've ever been about anything in sports. You thought he was a short thing. You and I had a conflict on this one.

I thought he was, like, I thought the Miami Heat were going to be his team. And this is a team that already had Dwayne Wade on it. I thought it was going to be his team. I was all in. Oh, man. Like, I saw watch him in college and the heat. They had the worst record that year, but the heat did not win the lottery, so they dropped to number two.

And I was like, good. Now they're going to get Michael Beasley. Because the Bulls are to take this Derek Rose who got hot in the tournament, you know. Good. I'm glad we had the number two picks. I remember watching, before I ever saw him playing college, I watched same nephew, by the way, I'm about to mention. I watched Derek Rose high school footage, and I said,

you know, this guy's going to be the number one pick in the draft. And then every time I watched a Michael Beasley game, I got super unlucky because that dude was in foul trouble in two minutes. And I was like, oh, not going to see Michael Beasley put up numbers. He was so good in school. He was so, I, it's the most wrong I have ever been about anything in sports. High school mixtape era of YouTube was such a beautiful time in my, like, sophomore, junior, senior years are like 080910 where we were watching John Wall and his high school mixtape. And I was like, this guy is incredible. And then he would hit the doggie after and it was like, yes.

Yeah, dude, this is it. This guy is great. Who are you most wrong on on your favorite team? So many people I've been wrong about. Chad Henny, though, comes to mind. I thought he was going to be like the same. Chad. Michigan?

Yeah, he just had that big arm. Man, he's stiff. I would say for me it would probably be Tyreek Evans. Oh, yeah. He was nice. You'd be wrong if they won a Roy? Yes, because, like, that was the maximum. There had been some weak, Michael Carter Williams.

Michael Carter Williams is another one. Who I liked, by the way. I like Michael Carter Williams, man. He was like, he's always like, it doesn't matter. He's six, six, six, and he's a point card, and it just... Triple-double against the heat opening night. I've, like, had these judgments on a million players for other people's teams because I've been on TV this whole time. So what was the Josh Rosen?

It was a quarterback. The Rosen one was very much like... UCLA. Dan Marino. For the Miami Heat, I don't know if I thought he'd be great, but I thought Justice Winslow would be something. We were all super excited when he dropped. the 10. Amen.

Because Danny Aange wanted to trade every pick for to move up for Justice Winslow. You know what else dropped to number 10? Devin Bucker. I thought you were going to say Karam Butler. Was Devin Bucke at St. Beth? Yeah.

Yeah. Well, yeah, they're going after 10, though, but I dropped to take a victory lap there on Justice. I feel like you were about to be like, I saw. I kind of like, I was like, he's all right. And I remember there was a Dwayne Wade comparisons. I'm like, he's not Dwayne Wade.

There was? In college? Oh, at Duke. I was like, this guy. I said, he'll be a, a decent NBA role player. You know, the main drawback with him or the main, like, physical trait that didn't work out? That he wasn't good?

Little hands. Not big hands. Couldn't really. I'm with Zazz. I think it's because he wasn't good. It's a big drawback when you're not good. If you're trying to put together a great NBA career, pre-rec, can we call it a pre-rec? You can't be not good.

Right. You got to be good. You got to be good. That's the starting point. Is he good? Okay. Moving forward. So justice was not good.

no justice was not served you were not good nice so wait I'm not I want to think about football players because I think this happens a lot in football

oh yeah I thought I thought Ron Dane was gonna be just like a monster I have a memory of Dan thinking Mike Glennon was going to be really good with that neck almost career very good athlete

oh I got it I know mine football of all time you could not tell me when I was in college that Peter Wark was not going to be the next He was him.

I seen it with my own eyes, man. He had a decent career. That dude was Jesus. No. He had a decent career. He didn't have a decent career. Not, not. No.

What he was in college is one of the best college football players we've ever seen. No, no, comparative, of course. But he had a decent career. I like it was a bust. What was it, the wide out from Ohio State? Tech Inn. Ted Gin Jr. That was another one.

And his family. There's one Bruin right now. There's another Ginn? No, there's another Ohio State Buckeye wide receiver that I thought was going to incredible, and he looks like he's headed to bus town. What's his name? Maserati Marv. Yeah. What's his full name? I'm not familiar.

No, you don't know. Maserati Marv. He may be Mazda Marv when it's all said and done. What's it say on the back of his jersey? You think he's going to be a bust? Disappointing for a season? He's put on a lot of weight. He's put on a lot of muscle. There's videos of him getting absolutely clamped by his seventh rounder right now. Wow. The guy's nickname is Maserati Marv and he's slow. How did that happen? I think there's an issue though, Mike. He's a Mazda now. He wears all black cleats.

makes them look a little slower. With the highlighter cleats, you look like a little slower. I think the cornerback sticking on his back makes him look slow probably. What makes him look slow is that he's slow. Yeah, common theme here. I don't understand how he was nicknamed Maserati Marv. It's a terrible nickname, by it. No, it was a great nickname, especially when it's said by Gus Johnson and exciting voices.

Peter Warwick never had a thousand-yard season, so I think I got to probably pull back on me. He had a disagree in my defense. I think he had an injury in my defense. Like he had an early injury and it was like misdiagnosed. I mean, his first four years in the league, he only missed two games. Also, he played for the Bengals. That's not his fault.

I mean, you can have a solid career as a pro. Like, Reggie Bush ended up having a solid career, had a good start, weird middle, cool end, but still disappointing. Let's do baseball now. Baseball guys. What was the guy from the nationals? Strasbourg. Strasbourg. No, they went a World Series.

He was good. And he was really good when they won a World Series. went healthy. That's not a bustle. He was very hyped, though. They made it seem like he was a first ballot hall of fame. He won a World Series. Yeah, no, he did win a World Series. Congratulations.

He also, like, crippled the franchise with his contract. For the Marlins, Billy. Jeremy Hermita. There is. That's the one answer. It's the only acceptable answer for the Marlins. Remember, they wouldn't trade Jeremy Hermita for Manny Ramirez. That's when I realized, and this is no offense to this guy, because I didn't read him that much.

But Keith Law. Shut of Keith Law. on Jeremy Hermita. I was it Hermita or Stanton? I believe it was Stanton that was Bainit about. Hermita was a big prospect, but not as big as Stans. Maybe I'm thinking of a different trade. You might be right that the Marlins did not want to include Stanton the Ramirez trade,

which obviously was the right move. But there was a year with Hermita too, where they were unwilling to part with him. No, no, no doubt. There were several offers on the table for Hermita, but I think Stanton was one of the sticking points. But I think we asked Samson, we'll ask him later yesterday. There was a moment. There was a moment where Samson kind of refuted that they could still have done the deal without Stanton, I think.

There was one where I knew the guy was going to be not good. Yeah, I was going to have the opposite. The opposite game. I knew Hashim the beat was going to be garbage. Oh, my God. Really? I knew it. I've never told you the story.

Okay, so the 2009 draft, right? I loved him as a process. He was trashed. He was trashed. Without Hashim to beat. The 2009 draft, right? I'm working for Phoenix. We have a deal in principle with the Golden State Warriors to have their pick, which is seven.

Steph Curry is a guy that we have on our board. That's like number one on our board. And every permutation we do is like, there's no way he falls to seven. There's no way he falls to seven. Minnesota has two picks. They need a point guard. There's no way he falls to seven. Minnesota, we're five, six, I think, right?

Yeah, five, six. Even, like, there's no way he falls to seven unless something crazy happens. And Blake Griffin goes one, and everyone thought that was going to happen. And then number two was Memphis, and we thought Tyreek Evans, who played in that building as a collegiate player, that was when the Grizzlies couldn't sell a ticket, but then the Memphis Tigers were sold out every night. And this guy fits the way they want, everything they want marketing-wise.

And he's good. And he's good. And like, it's what they need basketball-wise. Clearly Evans is going to. And then simultaneously we're having a conversation, our pick was like in the second round, I think was in the mid or to late 40s. And we're like, if the beat falls to us, do you take them?

Meaning the second round. That's how, like, we knew this guy's not an NBA player. That's crazy. It was literally to the point where it was like, I mean, I guess at that point you just take them just to take a flyer on it. So you think Memphis was the only team that had like a first round grade on him? Yes. Or a lottery grade for sure.

Wow. For sure. Lottery. Nobody else. But I don't remember it being a shock when they took him. It was a massive shock. Tyreek haven't sold out every night in their building. Oh, okay, no, you're saying it's a shock that that team took him at two.

But, like, I'm saying that if they didn't take him at two, wouldn't he have still went, like, top five? No. No chance. The other guys were James Hardin and Ricky Rubio. Johnny Flynn. Well, Johnny Flynn. Well, Ruby and Flynn were five six. Donnie Flynn was a name.

Like, the thing about Johnny Flynn, this is the revisionist history I got to correct. If they had taken Johnny Flynn and someone else good, I don't think anyone would have batted or not. It was that they took Flynn and Rubio. Wasn't that when they had like the former sports writer was running their team? Yeah, David Kahn, Rath of Kahn. What does Zinn give you?

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Everything else. wearing clean underwear every day? Well, that's just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth? Obviously smart, but not a rule. Never pee-pee on an electric fence. Okay, maybe there are two rules. But the one that is 100% that I insist on completely,

Yeagermeister must be drank ice cold. Or don't drink it at all. Damn, that's cold. Exactly. You're finally starting to get it. Drink responsibly. Yeagermeister liqueur 35% alcohol by volume imported by mass Yeagermeister U.S. White Plains, New York.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where he is Pooka. Pooka Nakuua. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Could you imagine if Steph Curry was picked number two and Lionel Hollins was his first coach

and they were the grind Grizzlies with Steph Curry wasting away? Wow, Hashim Thabit. Do you want to guess? Okay, so he went number two overall. You want to guess how many games in his career he was a starter? Less than 100.

Less than 20. 20. Oh, there it is. I had a boy. Good job. Number two overall pick, 20 starts in his career. He was a statue. But we knew it like in the moment.

Like it was, this wasn't like, wow, who could have thought? But Tony, the game I want to play isn't that. It was like, I knew he was going to be bad. He turned out to be bad. I knew he's going to be bad, and then he turned out to be really good. Because I have a lot of those. I got a lot of Michael Red. I was like, get out of here.

I was like, this dude, he's not going to be an NBA player. What a lefty shot. He killed it. Speaking of lefties, I did not think James Hardin would be very good. I saw him twice in person at Arizona State, and I was like, what is this guy's game? I don't understand it. I saw him a lot at Arizona State. I was there all the time, and I was the most down in the office.

He played here at the AAA, back when it was the AAA. I watched him win a game, and I was like, I don't know if he was the third player on his team. Well, here's the crazy thing. A guy died in front of me when I saw him lose. Oh, that was that game? Yeah. They were doing CPR, and like his left shoe. flew off. He died. Norris Coles Cleveland State.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. And they had a power forward that I think tried to his hand at the NFL. Yes. He was a like you play tight end or whatever. Yeah. I thought shoes just fly off like in car acts like when you get hit by a car. Sometimes you have a heart attack, man. Really? You know a lot of times when you're joking about that. I didn't know that that's a thing. Not times when you're in public spaces like that and they are doing compressions. A lot of time they're just doing it for show. So people think the person's still alive, a lot of times really? Really. No way. No way.

The chest compressions are freaking out a dead body. The compressions are freaking me out. I'm not freaked out watching chest compression. So paramedics go to acting school? If you've got somebody dead, there's a bunch of people around you. You don't want people thinking, oh, my, that person's already dead. You want to keep the compression. Nothing calms me like chest compressions. Nothing calms you like the idea, oh, this person still could live.

He's got a chance. When I walk by and see chest compressions, I'm like, hmm. So when they put like an oxygen mask and put them on the gurney? I don't know all that. I'm just saying the part with the chest compressions, you want to make it look like there's at least some chance that this person's still alive. Not happening every time. Everybody leaves the area. Like, if it's at a sporting event, it's like, we've got to keep doing chest compressions.

All right, guys, go ahead now. He's fine. I promise. Imagine catching a guy. It's like, he's clearly faking. He's not even good. I was at a parade in Chicago, a pride parade several years ago. And there was a gentleman behind us.

It was a big crowd. Heat stroke and, like, an older age, whatever. And they were giving him compressions. And AJ looked back and he studied the guy for a bit. And like, they stopped for a second. And then they kept going. And he's like, oh, that guy's dead. They're just doing that so people don't freak out.

That's kind of like an American. gangster. Remember, he gets trapped up in the trap and he shoot the guy, and they have to prop him up and then put the thing on him. He's like, no, he's good, he's alive. He's clearly dead. Because if everyone outside knows this guy... It's over. It's over. Now, it might not be just for the people around. It might be just say, hey, we have to

potentially do everything possible because we never know what could happen. But, from what I was told, a lot of it is for the crowd. Billy, you don't seem to be sold. It just seems like this information and this nugget is based on AJ thinks this happened once. No, no, no. He was a medic. He did it. He trained. He was told.

that that was the case. Look at Izzy DeVulch's sources immediately. It started with, well, I know people were professionals. AJ, it's AJ. It's a person I'm with. So who else? Who else did you guys think was going to be that guy? Ryan Leaf?

We have any Ryan Leaf takers here? No? T. Martin? Anyone had T. Martin on the board? No. I hope for T. Martin. You did? I had hope.

I mean, maybe you just entered the league in the wrong era. Yeah. I mean, I would say most recently, if we're talking with the NFL, and he's still a free agent right now, I believe. Wouldn't you have thought Jadavian Clownie was going to be like the best defense event ever? He's like, he's okay. Definitely had the high-dice for it. Had a nice career though.

He's in like in the Reggie Bush class of didn't quite match the hype, but had a really nice career. There are a lot of those guys. If we want to do locally too, you know, for dolphins, I mean, I almost gave up my dolphin fandom when they passed on Brady Quinn. I was way wrong on Brady Quinn. Yeah. Way wrong on Brady Quinn. I was so pissed when the Browns and New York. passed on him and took Joe Thomas, and then I had to run to Miami-Dade College to graduate,

and I wouldn't have gone normally, but George W. Bush was the active president at the time, and he was speaking at my graduation. At Miami-Dade College? Yeah, crazy. An active president? How the hell did they land that one? So I couldn't, I couldn't bring my cell phone, so I wasn't able to follow the draft, and I just figured, ah, the dolphins are going to get Brady Quinn, the Browns missed out on it.

And then, to my surprise, when I turned on my phone, I thought we were definitely going to make a Super Bowl, we got Brady Quinn. I literally shouted at my television when the dolphins drafted Ted Gim because we're all counting down the picks. Oh my God, Brady Quinn is dropping. Brady Quinn is dropping. And when they drafted Ted Ginn, I literally shout out, I'm done with this team. I've got to put those thumbs this way.

I don't know if I'm just doing this with Duke guys, but there was a guy I watched play in person at Cameron, and he had one dunk where I swear the entire ball was over the box, over the square and the backboard. Corey McGettie Oh, but come on, hold on now. Corey had a good career, man. Right, but I thought he might have been one of the greatest to ever do it

just based on one game. That's how crazy athletic that was. Gerald Henderson, Jr., that's who I thought you were going on. Crazy athletic, thought he was going to be better than he was. You know what's funny? He and Kobe Bryant had the same thing, which is because their head is sloped backward.

The hairline, like, you can get away, You don't notice how big the forehead is. Same thing with Stephen A. Stephen A's hairline is... With him, you notice. I mean, just the shape of his head, though. It kind of disguises it more than what it would look like for a regular person. You know, playing the opposite game of the opposite game that we were playing.

The guy who I thought was going to be great, Zavier Henry from Kansas. Oh, yeah. He ended up not being that guy. He was 18. He played the opposite game of the opposite game that we were playing the same game. The opposite of the game that we were playing. It's a double negative. The opposite of the game we're playing.

now is I thought he was going to be trash. He turned out to be really good. Yeah, the opposite of that. I thought he was going to be good. He ended up being trashed. Isn't Josh Allen the best example of that? Oh, everyone's shout on Josh. I mean, Mina's really smart of football. Everybody thought that Josh Allen was going to be overhyped. How much of that was... Separate of my take. He looks good in shorts. How much of that was because he played at a small school. Like, we didn't respect the resume. I think a lot of it was, we watched him too, because this was a guy that played an entire college football season at Wyoming with this guy could.

potentially be number one pick, Buzz. So as a Browns fan at the time, I was perennially locked in on those types of guys. Didn't know he could run. That's a big part of his game. And I didn't really hear people say, like, this guy is going to be the greatest goal-line threat maybe in the history of the game outside of Cam Newton. Dylan Hertz. I thought that shit was over for him.

What's two who took his shit? That's a good one. Hey, buddy. It was nice. You had a nice little run as a college game manager quarterback. back, but I thought it was over for him in the NFL up until he won a Super Bowl because it was just like, oh, they're exposing him. He can't really throw that much. He's got to run. Maybe they're offensive. Oh, just did it. Never mind.

It looked like a slow release. It'll just look like very... It's a handful of things. You know what's... Super Bowl champion. What's funny is playing this game with movies, and I have a bad feeling that I have a movie that I think is going to be good, but it's going to end up being actually awful. You better not say weapons. Naked gun.

Oh, man. It doesn't look great to me. Look, man, I'm looking at it And I'm like, it has all the makings Because here's the thing When it's not out yet It's not out This weekend.

Oh, this weekend is August That's right Oh shit man That's how calendars work But Liam Neeson Is like the perfect guy For this role man Because if you think of the original

Naked Gun right It was basically off the success Of Leslie Nielsen Wow, similar names In Airplane And before he did Airplane He was not a comedic actor He was a serious actor

He was like doing dramatic roles And that's why they cast him for that role in Airplane Was because they wanted like the most serious actor To just deliver these ridiculous Has Liam Neeson ever had a comedic role like this before? One time, there was a show called Life's Too Short It was on HBO as Ricky Jervais produced And I had Warwick Davis

Who's the guy that plays Wicked League I love that show. That show was amazing One of my favorite episodes is Liam Neeson comes Because there's a lot of cameos from Val Kilmer at all time performance Warwick Davis from Willow? Yeah, there's a great Val Kilmer episode

that if you watch one episode from that show that needs to be the one. So, no, no, the Liam Mason one is the way you need to watch. That was pretty good. Liam Neeson also did A-Team, which is like not a super serious movie. Yeah, but that's not a comedy. But it's still not this, right?

So in this show, Warg Davis plays himself and he's down on his luck, he's trying to get acting roles, but he's friends with Ricky Trevades. And he's always like, hey, can you guys do anything for me? And he's in their office all the time. And they're like, yo, you're bothering us. Liam Neeson drops by. And he's like, I want to make the transition

It's a comedy. And Ricky Jervais is like, It's not a badly amnesia. No, it's a great one. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You've gone to go over. No, no, no, no. So, like, Ricky and Stephen Merchant are like,

okay, so what do you want? Like, let's play a little improv. Like, I'm a shopkeeper, and you come into my store. And I'm like, okay, ring, ring. Like, hey, well, good morning, how can I help you? I've contracted the AIDS virus. And they're like, no, hold on. I think the improv, a little lighter.

but it keeps going back to that and he's dead serious deadpan every time he delivers and it's to I laugh so goddain I don't know if you guys know I'm a bachelor this week I'm gonna watch that one again Oh yeah life's too short That sounds really funny

I was dinner last night Dinner was great you know what I did You ate whatever you want Whatever I wanted Don Lebertard I've never stepped foot on that campus If you told me right now your life depends on it Go to Santa Fe University

And just just take a picture Stugats I would die I don't know where it is This is The Dan Lebatar show With the Stugats Well, okay

So, so night one Was the Steakhouse date night By itself At the bar Olds a girl Collared shirt That's right Yeah

Uh no No I've been told I was shamed When last year I was shamed In to the kind of steak that I eat, that I eat a feminine steak because I like filet mignon. And I

was shamed that filet is a feminine steak. Not a feminine steak. I've never heard that. You guys, I got to pause right. You guys were so good yesterday. You were trying really hard to get through that Christian Wilkins conversation. You were, you know, asking for my help. And I was like, no, they're doing all right. It means hanging in there. And then later in the show, Zaz called a steak feminine.

And I was like, oh. I didn't call it feminine. I was told it. It's not the manliest of cuts. It's not the manliest of cuts. It's not the manliest of I've never even hurt that. I'm not saying, bone and ribby. You know what I mean? Like, your steaks have dicks? Yeah, yeah, a bone and ribby.

Yeah. It's actually, like the bone is not like. You like to work harder to eat your steak. Okay, you do that. You're a manlyer. A tomahawk? A tomahawk? That's a manly steak.

Of course. That's it. Come on, buddy, what am I? Don't slice. Do I work in a kitchen? Am I a butcher? Of course they got a pre-slice for me. Thank you.

No, but the fillet. So, since I went by my, okay. The fillet is infeminent. It's just flavorless. It's not a good cut of steak. It's not a good cut of steak. I don't like lean. Like if you go to a place that is known for steak, you don't order the filet.

You realize that my point is that feminine is not an insult, right? No, I know it's not an insult. And again, I wasn't the one who was told this. Even for steak, yes. So anyway. You're saying the filet shouldn't be like, how dare you? I'm saying the filet is the best freaking part of the cow. That's what I don't like to kill in the first place.

It melts in your mouth. It's heaven delicious. You can make it. I'm a New York strip, ribby kind of made. I don't need a dude with those type of abs. Tell me what type of steak is good. All right, what about me? I don't want all this fat.

Get the fat out of it. That's the best. That's the best. The most flavorful bar. You guys like chewing a lot? Yes. Yes. That's what the flavor is.

I hate that fat. You know what? You take your abs and you take your steak takes. The good fat melts in your mouth. You don't have to chew it. I'm with you, Chris. So, ever since I was told. that I order a

less than masculine kind of steak. Same thing. You're doing the same thing. There's no fat on a filet, so there's no good fat, like Chris is saying. It's completely lean. There's no fat to create the flavor. Plenty of fat. Do you just cook your steak with no seasoning whatsoever? You don't put any herbs on you or anything like that?

Salt. Okay. You butter your steak. I'm getting Primo steak, buddy. That's fine. You get the... You got the salt. Get the right steak. The time and garlic. You get the right steak. All right, so, I haven't ordered a filet mignon since. like Sarah Palin was on the on the table. Well, I haven't ordered a steak at a restaurant a long time because I can make it

at home just as well most of the time. So I'm not trying to pay five times as much. It's just not that good. It's not that, culinarily speaking. I'm not that impressed by a good steak. I don't make the wine, no. Cocktails better at your house?

Oh, yeah. Come on. What do you order? No. Hey, can I get a water? A cocktail does not slap. A cocktail at a nice bar is better than a cocktail. You haven't had my espresso martini.

What are you talking about? It is. What are you talking about? Take this nice. cocktail over to my couch like no give me a nice setting a nice music like what are you guys talking about bartenders hate making espresso martinis they they that's what tik tells me that's why chilis chileys has had a comeback in part because of social and the matzzi sticks but also famously their head of mixology never wanted to make espresso martini

because it takes so much time to make it's an annoying order you look at a bartender a lot a lot of times I'll roll their eyes, which is poor form, but it takes a long time to do it. And then a salesperson just sold them on the idea is, here's your mixer. It's a canned espresso martini. And it's like their highest selling drink outside of them. Wait, so they say, espresso martini coming right up. And then like, oh, I did it. And it's been huge for their business.

They roll their eyes the hardest when you ask, not for an espresso martini, when you ask first, do you have actual espresso? And I'm like, oh, come on. They hate that. My dad's the worst. He'll be like, what kind of beer do you have? And then he's just going to order a Miller light. But he just, he wants to hear. That sounds lovely.

I'll have the Miller life. What beers do you have? It's just like, Dad, you're going to get the Miller light. My pet peeve at bars is the pre-mixed cocktail. When it's like, hey, old-fashioned cool. And then they go to like a, I'm like, no, man. Y' got to make that thing in front of me, man. I'm not getting that thing out of a barrel.

If I hear, like, oh, it's smoky, it will come in a thing and we'll just get bringing a drink. Oh, I love the smoking. It's such a stupid fashion. They're like, they're going to lift the thing in a circle and in the bay, man. They do that bar at the Panther games now, that cool bar they have there. And I get that, I get that smoking. It tastes good.

I did that. I got old-fashioned with Charles Brockwood in the finals. And the place that they did it, yeah, hold on. I got you. They take an orange peel and then they light it on fire. Yeah. And I was like, what is going on here? Carcinogens, baby.

Apparently. Orange peels, very flammable, and it does something to the drink that makes it an amazing. For like the first two minutes. We're easily impressed. Of course we are. We're the easiest people in the world. Does it make any difference, Israel, if the person who told me that I order a feminine steak was, in fact, a female? Oh.

No, no, it just means that she was improperly taught. Patriarchy. That's what happened. So I've been very affected by that label. And the first night, so I ordered. I don't want to get caught on it. Number one, night one was a steak night. Yeah, I ordered a rab.

Night two was pizza night. Yes, whatever kind of pizza I wanted. I got meatballs on that shit. Nobody could tell me different. All right. Night three. Last night, I got Thai food. Wow.

That's right. What did you get? I got some chicken fried rice. Okay. And I also got honey chicken. And I got egg rolls too. I didn't eat it all, but it's like, hey, this is all for me. And now we got leftovers.

And no, you cannot have an egg oil because I ordered it all for me. That sounds like Chinese food. All right, whatever, man. Like, you know, I ordered it from a little pad Thai. A little patty. Oh, Pat Zio is very good. Tom Kagai, a nice little curry. You get the fat noodles or the thin ones for Patiou?

Oh, I get the fat ones, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the move. Drunken noodles. But that's not what I got last night. I got donuts. I got fried chicken, chicken fried rice, excuse me. Chicken fried rice, I got the egg rolls. All right, and I got honey chicken.

That shit was good. Dude, you got Chinese food. You got Chinese food. You got Chinese food. You got Chinese food. And I ordered it, guess when I ordered it? Right when I got home. Because dinner's whenever I wanted to be.

Dinner tonight was 4 p.m. All right, there you have it. Well, I got home from doing ESPN at like 4 p.m. And I went dinner immediately. Yeah, why not? What am I waiting for? Had to go a snack later, though, right? No, it was pretty good.

You were good? I can't, that's why I don't like going too early because I don't want to come back and eat more later. I was okay, though. I have self-control. 4 p.m. is lunch to me. You look at me. You say that guy's got self-control.

He does. When did you go to bed? When did I go to bed? Yeah. I don't know, like 11-ish. Yeah. Seven hours. Hungry.

I was all right. I'm watching shows, you know. I don't have to worry about what anybody else wants to watch. No, I'm watching my shows. What were your shows? Well, I just started Boardwalk Empire. You know that? Great show.

That's a great show. There's a couple series. I guess that's a weird show to jerk off to, though. Zaz, what's Miami Live? Oh, okay. So, Billy maybe can help me with this because you're watching the Marlins every single night. I'm not watching the Marlins every single night.

Matter of fact, I'm hardly watching the Marlins. And last night, I took like a small break from watching Boardwalk Empire, and I put on the Marlins game on the big TV in the Zazel Mansion family room. So I could hear the broadcasters. And they mentioned last night that they're building a Miami live outside Lone Depot Park early 26, you know, to be ready for world baseball class. Like L.A. Live? Yes. Got it. And I thought, you know, because you have all those, you have the buildings surrounding and they're all empty.

I mean, what do you say? There's a urologist in one of the, you know? Yeah, and there's a subway or there used to be, I don't know. Yeah, and there's nothing else. And so it sounds to me like, oh, like they're actually going to do something. That sounds like a fantastic idea. Like, Billy, was this something that people know about? It was the first time I heard about it last night.

I mean, they've mentioned it. I was talking to Jeremy, who, you know, is Marlon's insider slash internet pay by the club to kind of probably. And he was, yeah, like, I think that they're building like an outdoor, like, thing that you can go and there'll be restaurants, the bars. It sounds like a great idea. Yeah, well, if people go. Well, to start it though, for the World Baseball Classic, people

go to it. Yeah, no, I mean, I guess the thing with that, right, is you want people there that aren't at the Marlins game. But also before the game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm saying, like, for it to thrive, you need people to just, it needs to become a destination that people kind of, I think it's similar

to like, like where we did a watch party for a Dolphins game this year outside of dolphin mall. It's called like Vivo. And it's a bunch of restaurants and like a PBR and live music and stuff like that. I think that's the general idea for Miami Live. That is actually like a scaled down version. The one in Dallas is all inspiring first take has been out there. The one in Philly is really good. Locally, there was a team, the Florida Panthers are playing the Winter Classic out there. And they were behind the scenes very upset with the Marlins because they hid the fact that there would be this active construction site during the Winter Classic

from them. son of it. I went to, Marlin's game, was it last week, and I was shocked by every new stadium in America. Right, this is the last time we talked about. Yeah, it has like something around it because, like Billy said, it's not even for people who are, oh, a drink before we walk into the game. It's people who aren't even going to the game, just hanging out. Whether it's Deer District, remember when we were out there in Milwaukee and Tony? Like, it's just bar after bar, just facing the arena. Yeah, there's a Wendy's across from Lone Depot Park.

There's a Pinecress Bakery now, though. Even that Wendy's is always empty. You'd think that would have a line before games It's an old construction Wendy's The only thing that it's missing is that Greenhouse remember those Those were great That was yeah

You like to say you take your tray You sit out there Yeah it's like I'm eating alfresco Oh man Oh you know what I feel like all these newer fast food buildings They've lost their soul man They're charm

They don't do play area Do new McDonald's have like the play area? Dude new McDonald's don't even have cashiers anymore Yeah Have you seen this, it's just a window. Just a window, you pick up your order and that's it. Like, you've got an order on the touchscreen. You think you're trying to save time because there's a long line and a drive-thru?

Nope. It's a walk-through now and there's people in line for the stupid screen. There is that random Burger King by Brickle City Center that's like, we're just going to hold on to this oil estate until you give us an offer. We simply cannot refuse. With the Burger King, the sandwichery, the pizza place, like that whole strip mall. A cigar bar, I think is. Come here and sign up for Burger King Kids Club with that dude that looks like Cyclops.

We still have the same crowns. The thing, though, with those is, like, eventually they just build around you. And it's like, well, now, what are they going to do with this? Like, you just have this little plot of land and they build, like, sky rises around you. And, like, they can't, like, connect their own building and build up 50 stories. That's that Burger King right now. Become undeniable. That's what that's what Burger King's plan is.

It's like the guy that had the house that's in between the lows in the gate was just like, I'm not going to sell. And we're like, perfect. I'm just going to build around you and choke you out to you die. That was an Instagram favorite, right? He keeps coming around around. this guy refused to sell and it's like, go show. Have you seen it? Have you been in, like in front of it? Okay, so we went the other day for, I don't remember what we were there for, but we walked in, and I was like, huh, so this is it.

I was like, this is kind of sad. The guy's like in the front yard, like, just looking around, there's no sun at like 3 p.m. All the sun is gone. He's just sitting there on a lawn chair. I was like, yeah. What's the store? What's the store right next door? No, it's an entire hotel.

Dude, they created like an entire world around him. Totally transform the area, too. Sick. It looks like Vegas. Construction is weird to me because you were saying how like this live Miami, they didn't tell Miami Live. Miami Live, that they didn't tell the Panthers that this construction is going to be going on.

And they want it by the World Baseball Classic, which is like in March or something, right? I was a game not too long ago. I didn't notice active construction. If you want some massive thing built like a soccer stadium, that can go up in like five minutes apparently next to an airport because that thing looks like it's almost done. I think there's a lot of pre-fab when it comes to the live venues because they all look the exact same way. Well, so, like, that's going to go up quick too, and that's going to be done by March. Like, if I want something done in my house, I didn't wait like six years for that

shit to get done. Like, how is it that, like, a little addition or something? Or, like, I want to put a terrace in my house. And that's going to take me a year and a half to get approved and done. Wait a minute. But you can put up this entire building. That's, oh my God. We got it on the screen right now. Could we throw it on the screen. That's the house that Tony's talking about Chris you've never seen this before I think I've seen it on Instagram but I've never seen this angle of it it comes up on my Instagram like every like six months like houses that'll blow your mind and it's like this one they built the lows around it you're like oh cool and then you see the story and you're like oh not that cool so the front of the

hotel is to the right right in front of that house right so where the car is parked is actually the back side of the house the front side of the house is where the hotel is so you have like people checking in you have cars you have ballet you have a thousand things going on on that street You can't even park your car in the front of your house. And so are they out a place where if they hated it and wanted to sell it to the developer? Would the developer even still give them anything for it? How much did they offer? I don't know, but I would troll this guy and have a four-sacid on my law the entire time.

Never actually sell it. I mean, have you seen the one where it's like in Asia somewhere, I think, and they built a highway around someone's house? Because I thought you were talking about. The one person that decided, you know what? I'm not going to do this. And like, well, this highway's going here, whether you like it or not, buddy. It's, first of all, yes, it's part of the same Instagram thing that keeps going viral every six months. Like, houses, that'll blow your mind.

Number two, that was the premise for the movie The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, right? They were building an intergalactic highway and Earth was in the way. It's the premise for the movie, Up. Yeah. Up? Yeah, developer on the other house. Mr. Fredrickson, he won't sell. Up, overrated movie.

How about, Eminent domains, a real son of a gun. For up? No, just general. like hey we need some power lines here get the hell out shit like especially if you're if you're black eminent domain is like it's a real son of a gun like Barclay Center there's a shit ton of people had to move

and build that thing sad sad that's how we're ending this segment sadness