The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Greg Knows At Least One Movie | Hour 1

Episode Date: May 13, 2026

"It's been a minute since I read The Bible." The crew was left dumbfounded by the storytelling on last night's game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and San Antonio Spurs, with Victor Wembanyama portrayed as a conquering hero after not being suspended for what Dan called 'one of the dirtiest plays in playoff history.' Does anybody root for Goliath? If the rock hits him in the chest, do you think Goliath is going down? Did you know Rutgers offers underwater basketweaving? Does Daniel Day-Lewis need to pick a name? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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celebrated as a story of redemption. So weird. And the amazing return on the story arc of a guy who did something profoundly dirty during an NBA playoff game and probably

wouldn't have been playing last night if he had done that and been just about anybody else in the world. We're already starting a story that we're going to get really tired of five years from now if you allow the seven foot three guy to derail okayc and swing his elbows and be the positive story because he's French and a little different like that was super weird last night to see him celebrated as a conquering hero because he's got 16 points in the first six minutes because he's bigger than everyone

else and he's growing both physically and as a player and this is going to destroy the league soon you could have knocked him out for a game and at least treated the return as if it was controversial, not, wow, this is heroic. The guy who's taller than everyone else is going to be better than everyone else. If you didn't know the full context of what took place and you just turned on the game in the first quarter last night, you would have thought this was a conquering hero returning to the floor. I thought the way the broadcast treated last night was so strange as if he was the one who

was done wrong and now he's back and this is such an incredible story. This performance he's putting together. And the fact of the matter is he did something unbelievably dirty and probably cost his team game four. But this is the Wemby propaganda that I've been reeling against. Everything that he does is perfect. Everything he does is better than everybody else. He was really good in that first quarter. He was great.

Okay. He was great in the first quarter. He had 60 and the 18 points. That's not the point. The point is they were cheering him like if he had just come back for like Ricky Pearson, I got shot and came back. It's true. It's true.

A heroic return by Wembe. I'm surprised the narrative. Part of the narrative wasn't, thank God. He didn't hurt his elbow. on that guy's jaw. You know, it was over the top, but expected. All right, you say expected, but I wanted to take this a step further with these conversations. I told you guys the other day, they showed Adam Silver on the screen on one of these streaming services, and they started talking immediately about what a fantastic job he's done. Jeff Van Gundy's no longer on the broadcast,

at least in part, because he doesn't speak glowingly enough about the league. You can rest assure that the streamers are going to speak well of the product they've just gotten into bed with. So I ask you, do you care if this is compromised? I'm not saying it was last night, but if you're into storytelling, I'd like the whole story. I've said this before. I don't want just the pieces of it that are sanitized and packaged for me. And you have to make sure these are partners. These ESPN ended up in a whole lot of uncomfortable positions with leagues as partners because

they were aspiring to journalism. These other entities are not. These other entities don't care about that. And you don't have to care about that. And the public at large is shown they don't care about that. So I'll ask you again, when Wembe gets framed as something that is framed exactly the league, the way the league wants it framed,

are you suspicious? Do you wonder at all if everything is bought and what's getting diluted there is a version of the truth? Because that was asinine last night. That's one of the dirtiest plays in the history of the play. playoffs and he's returning to the league like, we really need you now, big guy. Somebody's going to knock off this boring droning thing in OKC. You here for something new?

We'll change the MVP just to make it something new. We'll give out awards that are diluted just because we want something new. Are you guys good if I tell you, I'm not accusing the league of this. I don't think there are any meanings on this. I do know that these corporate partnerships compromise the partners. Like that is something that you have to be willing to navigate and ESPN didn't have to get into the journalism business and did and the leagues didn't like it.

The number of times, Greg, that they'd get a call from Manfred about me, from LeBron about me, that where ESPN is getting the call and there has to be someone there to protect you. When the partnerships are involved and the partnership is the overarching thing, there has to be somebody there to protect. the voices that are willing to be honest, but if the public doesn't want it, if the streamers don't want it, if the league doesn't want it, you get what you get last night, which is these playoffs have been bad, the games are not close, nothing has been good, that's a star,

we can't suspend him, rules are different for him, and also, let's keep this story going exactly the way it goes, even though that's one of the dirtiest plays in postseason history. Yeah, it is, and that's why he got ejected. there is debate on on how grievous that was considering it didn't cause grievous injury i don't think it was a grievous foul but so if it had if if nazreid had fallen down unconscious for the same action then you would think that and we discussed that yesterday that's exactly right but i'm saying it's not the action that you're criticizing it's that he got lucky with the result because it was dirty enough to knock a man out yes or no um yes or no it was dirty enough to knock a man out maybe

I can't answer that. In the right place, absolutely. I mean, that guy with just the way that the body, you've seen him stretch during yoga, right? And you've seen how kickers and pitchers their strength comes from their legs. That guy swinging the slingshot of his elbow when it's coming from his feet, yes, that can knock anybody out.

If he got him between the eyes, he'd have been dead. You know that's what happens when you hit someone between the eyes. You always have to be careful when you're in a fight because you don't want to hit someone between the eyes. If you hit him right between the eyes, they can die. And that's murder, Greg. Could have hit him between the eyes.

He would have killed him. I've never heard that before. All between the eyes? Everybody knows. That's how they did Goliath. Everybody. That's exactly where David was shooting with that little slingshot. And the rock, that's how he got him.

If the rock hits him like in the chest, you think Goliath is going down? Absolutely not. Not a chance. He hit him between the eyes dead. I thought that was biblical hyperbole. No. No. That was biblical truth.

Actuality. Thank you, Zaz. Actuality. Put it on the poll at Lebutto. show, did you know that if you hit someone square between the eyes, you could kill them? Dead murder. I did not know. I'm learning that now. That's not something I've heard before. You ever been hit between the eyes? I guess not. Clearly not, Tony. I don't believe that. I'd rather be hit between the eyes than in the eye. Don't poke me in the eye. If you want to start a fight,

poke me in the eye. You didn't know this, correct? He's claiming something as a fact. Roy, do you have any Do you have any information on this? He's claiming something as a fact that I don't know to be a fact. And I've got to tell everybody in the audience, okay? This is the most confused I've ever been in terms of what are facts and what are not facts. One out of four Americans in recent polling think these assassination attempts are on the president of the United States are made up. AI and general social internet rot is making it so that it is very hard to discern what is true and what is not true. what is fact here?

Well, he's right about David hitting the Glythe. That's not the part I'm asking about. No? That's biblical that's written out. It's written out. It's called precedent, Dan. It's on record. Also, not hyperbole. It was actual. It happened. Okay, here's the reality. Slingshots are not real accurate. Okay, particularly if you're from any distance.

I used to be a slingshot user. As a kid, slingshots actually were pretty popular in the 60s with Ute. And I used to do the slingshot thing. they're not real accurate. It's like I would liken it to dart throwing. You get a bullseye every once in a while, but you can sling 10 shots without getting... Greg, you're talking about the Y that has the little pullback string on it?

Yeah. Oh, it was one of these. No, it was one of those. David had one where he went over his shoulder and then threw it out. The second one, the first one wasn't invented yet. David was using the more primitive version. Dan, he killed lions and bears in the pasture. Did you know that?

What was it? Just a rock at the end of something like a cloth? Yeah, less reliable than a sniper with it. Roy, that does not. Whatever happened to Dave? That doesn't ask you a question. I apologize. I need the information of whether or not Zaslow has it correct when he says that everyone knows

that if you hit someone square between the eyes, you can kill them. And he's advising fighters, even if you have a chance to win a fight, don't win the fight that way because then you're going to end up with attempted murder. I don't know if any of what he's saying there is true. Whatever happened to Dave, he gets a lot of credit for slaying Goliath, but what did he go on to do with his life? Became King of Israel. God's no favorite son, wrote the Psalms. Did a lot of stuff.

Again, if you open the Bible, you'd read it. Other than that. He had some success. Yeah, the whole thing with Bashiba. Basheba was a mark, yeah. It's been a minute since I've read the Bible. Isn't there a giant movie called David that is either just coming out or has come out? Excellent show on Amazon that is, you know, through the life of David, the King Saul and everything, very, very well done.

I stand corrected. I didn't give Dave enough credit. It's an odd way to flout your ignorance, though, to go after a figure in the Bible, knowing nothing, and saying what did he ever do after? What are the most important figures of the Bible? With no facts whatsoever behind just and, and also correctly underestimating the group enough to assume that no one's going to know anything. or call you on it. I didn't know we had biblical scholars in the building here. I don't think that takes a biblical scholar.

I think it does. David is the greatest underdog in league history. That right there would be J.J. Berreya knocking off Wembenyama. I want to get back to the story because the giant guy never gets to be beloved. I've told you guys before that Shaquille O'Neal famously would do magazine covers when he was doing magazine covers. they would do poorly, even though people thought he was popular because nobody roots for Goliath. Everybody's rooting for David. Wemba Nama is clearly Goliath.

Paul Pierce is saying already, that's the best basketball player there's ever been. Paul Pierce is already saying that he does all of the little things. That's the best player we've ever seen play basketball because he can do everything and it's unfair. It's legitimately unfair. How big he is. and generally speaking, people don't root for that. The reason the guys in the NBA who are talked about is the best ever are never Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It's always the wing guys.

And it's because we enjoy the humanity of it. It seems more normal. It's still not normal. I've told you guys the story sitting courtside with Valerie. And she's watching. She's watching. And she's like, who's the little guy out there, the little quick guy? How tall is he?

And I'm like, that's Tyler Hero. He's taller than I am. And she courtside and she can't tell how big he actually is because these people are giant human beings. Kobe, Michael Jordan, these people were immortal because it seemed like they could be bigger and better than height. That height didn't matter. But Wembeiyama is now here to save the league. He's here to save the league from OKC. He's here to save the league from all of our beloved popular guys are now.

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Everybody, this is the quickest it goes. Yeah. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. Yes, Dan, as expected. A severe hit between the eyes can cause death. A significant impact to this area can result in catastrophic trauma, including skull fractures, brain damage, a ruptured globe. That leads to fatal complications. The proximity of the eyes to the brain makes this area highly vulnerable, particularly with penetrating trauma or intense, blunt force.

Greg, why are you laughing? Who refers to it as a globe? What are you referring to as a globe? I'm not referring to anything. I'm reading something that doctors put down. What's a globe? Is that another word for skull? Call it a skull.

That's what you're laughing at? Yeah, why are you calling it a globe? A snow globe. I mean, what's a, globe is never referred to the head. I'm diverting attention for myself because I'm on the wrong end of the shot between the eyes. I'm not comfortable with how much the video. team is enjoying using AI. I'm not comfortable in general. That's good though. You got to admit.

Ethically, how much AI is distorting things. I don't feel like I'm good with our general lack of ethics and overall laziness in using AI, which is coming to destroy the world as a toy. What's the right ethics to use AI then? To put, well, to get things right. We do. No, well, no, AI does not get things right. What has been happening lately? Look, I don't mean to sermonize, okay? but the amount of misinformation out there that is making everyone in the world be confused about what's true and what's not true is only going to get worse. And there is a breathtaking amount of look this up and get the wrong information.

Like it's not that the search engines have been contaminated and everything you're looking up to find out what's fact and what's not fact is harder to find what's true than it was five years ago. this feels purposeful and it feels dangerous. I know we like our toys here, but there's a lack of ethics involved in. We're going to all regret this, and I don't know how many years. Dan, I think the confusing part, though, is if you're dealing with a cyclops, and you hit the cyclops between the eyes, that area between the eyes with the cyclops is actually their eye.

So can it cause death by hitting someone between the eyes that is actually their eyes? You've got to be careful. You might actually have an out if you're dealing with a cyclops, Greg. I don't think a cyclops is real or has ever been real. Is a cyclops not a fictional creature? A cyclops has never been a real thing. They're extinct. I don't think it was ever a real thing.

I think it was. So the cyclops was a one-eyed human being? One-eyed, what? What kind of animal was a cyclone? A one-eyed people-leater. Purple people-leater. Oh, you almost had it. I know.

Damn it. He's fading. Wasn't Goliath a cyclops? No. He was a fan. Nephilim, different story. We've been doing this show for 80 minutes. He's got a stamina issue.

Let's do a movie to see if we could confound him. All right, here's our next movie line. The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about bike club. Okay, I mean, this is too obvious. I think there was a movie called Fight Club. Did you play the one that was obvious, even though I told you not to do that? No, we have easier. My answer is Fight Club.

You don't have easier than that. can you have easier than that? All he's going to do is listen to the clip. There is one easier. There's two. There is. There is. You want that one now?

How can that not be the easiest one? I'm telling you with the Greg Cody doesn't know movies, that has worked many a time. What do you mean? What do you mean? In the question. Three times? Three times. You put the movie in the title?

Three times because he would have missed it the first time. But when Brad Pitt's repeating himself. Who knew what was Brad Pitt? I didn't. It's another guy without a distinctive voice. I want a question from It's a Wonderful Life or The Wizard of Oz. Then I'm going to nail it. Brad Pitt has a distinctive voice.

No, I don't think so. I imitate it. Do your best Brad Pitt. The first rule of fight club is, you do not talk about bike club. That was good, Dan. You asked me to impersonate it and I did. Yeah, okay. Well, that was right on.

You asked me to do it, and I did, and I showed you one of my hidden talent. We're having fun, though. I can't believe that you can't make it that easy. Do you have another one? Keep the easy ones coming. No, this doesn't work. The game doesn't work as well if he gets them right because you make them too easy. Leave the gun.

Take the canoly. Leave the gun. Take the canoli? Greg. No. Is that what he said? Yes, that's what he said. Okay.

Leave the gun. Take the canoly. Goodfellows. Unbelievable. You're close. You are close. Maybe the only one that's more famous than that in terms of mafia movies. Casino Royale.

Oh, my God. That's a Bond movie, but you're close. Same genre, almost. Yeah, close. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Is the James Bond franchise Mafia movies. I have no more guesses. Wait, so I want to stay here for a second.

The biggest most famous movie ever made involving the mafia is? Oh, the Godfather. Yes. But which one? There's like nine of them. Well, that's from the first one. Okay. There's three of them.

I think that's the most famous line from the first one. I don't think so. I saw the Godfather, and that's not a remarkable line to me. I don't think you saw it. I did. I don't think you did. I saw the Godfather. Yeah, Marlon Brando.

Brandon doing his thing? Yeah. I saw it. Give me a... The second one was better. That one had Robert De Niro in it. Damn right, it did. Al Pacino.

Now that's an hand. No, but as Cody likes to call... As Cody likes to call... He must be confused. Like, wait, wait, it's the same guy. Interchangeable. They are interchangeable and everybody knows it. You know?

But the polls came back yesterday saying that everyone didn't know. It was a close vote. It wasn't that close. I think it was 57%. Get Juju on the line. He'll verify. Give me one more movie line. I don't know how we're going to do better than that.

I didn't know how we'd do better than yesterday when he had Al Pacino in both Raging Bowl and Bull Durham. A blind Al Pacino. That's a good correction. All right. Here's our next line. Roads. But we're going. We don't need roads.

Roads. Roads? R-O-A-D-S? Yes, as it's street. Where we're going, we don't need them. But we're going, we don't need roads. Okay, it screams Western. How the West was one.

Oh, part three was. Part three was a Western. You got the Taekondaroga wagons rolling over rough terrain. You don't need roads. No. Now I'm closing my eyes and picturing someone on a horse saying, Roads, but we're going, we don't need roads. How the West was one.

Wrong. You said that one already. I did? Yeah. Is that the only one? Western, you know? Yeah. Really?

That's Blazing Saddles. I mean, that is a Western. That didn't sound like a comedy. Good movie. How is it that you've gone the entirety of your life sort of this oblivious to just general pop culture things? If I feel like movies are very high on the list on sort of fast forwarding any kinds of friendship connections just for easy conversation.

If you do not know what to talk about with somebody. on a first date at an awkward cocktail party, I feel like movies are very high on the list of just easy fluency that a number of people have with the same language. Yeah, the problem is I don't need that kind of a crutch when it comes to small talk. First of all, I don't do small talk really as a habit,

but when I do, for example, I was having a conversation before the show began about the comparative art form of knitting and crochet That's something I'd much rather discuss than, you know, some line from a movie. Well, thank you for doing that because the reason you were discussing that and we were discussing that is because Steve Sarkeesian did something, okay, he went old school with this. And I really don't feel that Steve Sarkeesian, with his particular resume, should be lecturing anybody on how to do anything. But he was perfectly comfortable saying of Mississippi, they don't actually go to school. school there, we go to school at Texas, they can get away with basket weaving. And the reference

struck me as straight out of the 1950s. It was something an old person would say. And furthermore, basket weaving doesn't seem easy to me. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Does basket weaving seem easy to you? Because this is something you've heard since the 1970s. What's an easy throwaway class? basket weaving. But I don't believe that is a class, or has it ever been a class? Like, why is basket weaving the cliche of choice here when he says this of Mississippi? I don't know the origin of that, but it's the opposite of easy. Last time my wife and I were in Key West at the Sunset Pier, we bought a basket that we saw weaved.

It was made out of Palm Franz. very supple. Nothing to do with what he has. Very supple and dark green. But as it ages, it gets more brittle. Did you listen to anything that I asked you, or do you want to go on a meandering route

on your own, just a little Greg Cody adventure with your own thoughts? I saw a basket that was weave once. And therefore, I have a first-end respect for the art form. So when people say, like in basket weaving to something easy, it couldn't be further from the truth. I dare anybody out there to go weave a basket today out of any material you like, and you'll find it's not that easy. You know, anybody knows the interlocking weave of a basket,

but how do you tether it all together? You know, that's the key. The term is called underwater basket weaving to show the easiness of the class that you'd be taking as an elective underwater basket weaving. So I'm going to see what universities offer that. So wait a minute. I guess it's just because. Because that doesn't actually exist is the joke then, right?

Because there's not such a thing as underwater basket weaving. The joke then becomes that the classes they give are not a class that are not a thing that anyone has to take. We'll call it underwater basket weaving, but it's not something that exists, or is it because we actually weave baskets underwater now? Why wouldn't that make it more difficult? I just don't understand what the reference is, why the reference started. and I'd like to know why Steve Sarkesian is using it. I would enjoy having some factual information. It is the tongue-in-cheek elective.

If you're going to take something in school, it's going to be underwater basket weaving. A couple of good notes here. UC San Diego offers a weekend workshop through its rec class department. And Rutgers University has occasionally offered it through scuba and aquatic departments. So you can do underwater basket weaving at Rutgers via the scuba school. What is underwater? They give you the basket and you weave it underwater.

Why is it easy? Why would that be easy? Why would putting a basket in the water and then weaving it be an easy thing? And how the hell did it become the cliche that Sark is going to when he's making fun of Mississippi not going to school? Like I don't, I had not heard the phrase basket weaving since I was in college. I hadn't heard anyone use it. Don Lebertard. A woman who was out swimming with her friends has believed.

to have been swallowed whole by a 13-foot shark without any of her friends noticing. That's the weirdest part about that story. You're swimming with friends. You're having a good time. And then all of a sudden, people are looking around going, where's Shelley? Like, nobody screamed? Every friend group has a Shelley, though, that if they go missing because a shark ate them whole, you wouldn't notice. Classic Shelley.

Exactly right. Stugats. She went quietly, apparently. If I'm swallowed hole by a shark, you're going to know it. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. I just don't understand why are we busted on Ole Miss. Ole Miss has never had any success in football until this last year. They're like the poorest state in our entire country.

Why are we taking shots at Ole Miss? Ole Miss is like Sark never had any success at football. Keeps getting pretty good jobs. Perfectly fine as the bully punching down on Mississippi talking about their education. It's weird. You got the best quarterback in the country. You got a draft class in tech. You've got the best job in the country.

You've got the best job in the country. And I don't think you should have it. Yeah. I mean, it's rare on the resume to have a guy who's drinking on the job at one job before, like where he ends in a scandal because he's just drinking at work, allegedly. And he pops up real quick through the Nick Sabin rehab. Yeah, he went to that Sabin rehab program. And you get the best job in the country.

Usually it's a little bit harder than that. Going back to the underwater basketball being situation, tying a little bit of a tied to Vietnam era, it was actually talked about as a snap course which taken by students to maintain draft deferment and has since evolved to represent any useless, overly specialized degree or class.

I want to give you a stat from ESPN when we talk about Wemby and returning as a conquering hero and how close he is because he's really close to ruining the league for a while. this series that has Anthony Edwards in it, Wembe Nyama has more blocks than the Timberwolves have made field goals when he contests their shot. I told you first seven games of the playoffs, he had 35 blocks.

There's an extraterrestrial playing basketball who's going to get better at basketball and celebrate it while you can because this is going to become less fun when he's reaching from the free throw line and just dunking on everybody in the league because of how dominant he is. I don't think this is going to feel quite like Shaq,

who had a dominance advantage that felt similar because I've told you before, Shaq underachieved by only winning four. Great as he was, and great as winning four is, because four is hard, he underachieved, given what his dominance level was.

Not only that, they had 50 shots in the paint last night. They scored 68 points in the paint, which is an insane number for a game five. When you're coming back to your home court, you're trying to get things going, it was insane. But the cool thing is about Wembe,

when he's running a pick and roll with Darren Fox, he gets to a point where you just throw it up as high as you can and literally nobody else can get it. When he spins off and runs to the hoop, it's the easiest play in sports. Throw it up to him, he catches and he dunks it. He's a good player. It's not quite Clint Capella.

Back when we were changing all of basketball with positionless players, this is more authentically what generally wins in the NBA. It ain't from the perimeter. It's the efficiency of I can dunk, I can dunk, I can get closer than anybody else. I'm taller than everyone else. There's no one to block my shot. The other big story from basketball yesterday, I'm just curious how you guys feel about this. Daryl Morey was cited as a bit of a pioneer. He did do something that gets forgotten that I think will become the greatest part of his legacy,

but I will ask you guys how it is that you'll remember Darrell Moore, because I don't think he gets another job. I don't think he's allowed, not that job, not the job that has the power to pick all of the players. But the greatest thing that he did with Mike DeAntoony, Mike D'Antoony said to James Harden, upon meeting him, you're going to be somebody who takes 15 threes a game and you're going to have 15 assists a game. And James Hardin's quote was, Coach B. Tripping, because he didn't believe that he would be that player. That was all Darry seeing the market inefficiency of threes, threes, threes, threes, threes.

I'm going to pick up the pace and I'm going to play threes. But the sport catches up to you. So the legacy of Darry as he's fired by the Sixers and the process, is an enduring failure for all time. Joel Embed, best he's ever done, is the worst that LeBron's ever done. The best Joe L.M.B. is ever done is the worst that LeBron ever does. Getting swept in the second round of the playoffs this year by LeBron. That's as bad as it gets. It's about as good as everything gets with Joel Embed. He's their best player. They've got him locked in for three years. What's the Daryl Morey legacy? traded for James Harden. That's his legacy. That made his entire career. Traded for James Hardin.

Hardin became a superstar with Houston. They were never quite good enough. I mean, Mori made a bunch of moves pairing guys with him. Chris Paul, Dwight Howard. They were never able to get over the hump. And his entire career has been made from trading for James Hardin. I think his career is going to be, he thought he was the smartest guy in the room when he was at one point.

And I think at Houston, when he was in Houston, he struck gold and he thought it was going to be an avalanche of gold. And then he realized it was a couple of specks of gold with James Harden, then tried to recreate that, and then tried to consistently be the smartest guy in the room because he had gotten success at one point. And now he looks back and he's like, man,

I made a lot of really stupid moves. For me, his legacy has ended badly, failed in Philadelphia. That's the end of it. I don't, that's not what I associate with him. I associate the Houston stuff with him and also failed in Philadelphia where everyone failed. You guys are saying, traded for James Harden, helped make James Harden an MVP, helped improve the legacy of James Harden. Here's James Harden, though, telling you what he thinks at a Chinese basketball camp about Daryl Morey.

Darry Mori is a liar and I will never be a part of the organization in his apartment. Let me say that again. Darry is a liar and I will never be a part of the organization that he's a part of the world. Couldn't hear you the first time. Thank you for repeating it.

That is such a vibe, though, choosing to do that in China where the audience isn't responding to it because it has to be translated. War Morey also had some things to say about China. You remember, he got a little bit of trouble a few years ago. Yes.

I want to play the sound here, Chris, if you would, of Darry with us. We can now empty this file. He came on with us and he talked about a play that he wrote called Small Ball and there was sex involved in basketball players. Do we want to have sex with giants or know it's between four and six? How to bring the parts into compliance. I just cannot grasp the mechanics.

Was he singing? He was trying to. He was sort of. I think we kind of made him do it if I remember. He wrote it on a page and we just asked him, can you recite some of the lines? And he decided to go into song because it was a musical. It wasn't just a play. Do we want to have sex with giants or no, it's between four and six,

how to bring the parts into compliance. I just cannot grasp the mechanics. Yeah, see, he lost some confidence there at the end because he realized he was singing poorly. He had compliance and science there, and then he went mechanics. Yeah, he wasn't going to get a lot of opportunities to do that. He realized by the end of it that he had blown the one that he got on a play that he wrote. He is a bit of a, there's a creative in there. And the job that he had only allowed so much creativity.

More so what my parents would call an inventor, which is what they called me. Did they? An inventor. An inventor? An inventor? Wait, like Thomas Edison? Yeah, but more poorly. More things I would make to fatidiane.

Just to be, how would you say fatidiat in English, Dan? Holed. Hold it. Hold it, Lord. Yeah, somebody on Instigian. All right, it's time for our next movie line. I drink your milkshake. No shot.

I drink it up. Don't bully me, Daniel. No shot. See, this is just unfair because the other things, the other lines you read, I've heard of at least. You know, I can't think of one offhand, but the other ones you read, I don't. you read I had heard of. This one, I have zero clue. Do you want to try and recite again the

Fight Club line? Do you want to give that a shot? Just the line, on the one that you got, do you want to give a shot at the pop culture line that is referenced in Fight Club? No, it's like three sentences that all had Fight Club in them. You know, there's a guy pimping

for his own club, I guess. I don't know. You don't know what this movie is? Do you know who the actor is? Do you have any idea who these actors? Let me hear the voice again. I drink your milkshake. No, I don't know who that actor is. It's Daniel Day Lewis. Do you know anything that he's been in?

Can you name a Daniel Day Lewis movie? I know Dan Lewis has a great reputation. No one refers to him as Dan Lewis. He does have, he's... Dan Lewis. He's one of those guys who like really gets him. into the role. Yes, he's a method actor. Yeah, method actor. You know, so I guess

a lot of people respect that. You like that? Not so much. You're an actor. You're faking it. You're pretending. You don't want you to immerse in the role. You know, the key, don't gain 50 pounds for the role. Be thin and make me believe you're a fat guy. That's what acting is. Anyway, I don't

know the name of that movie, nor do I have an educated guess. Put it on the poll. Be thin and make me think you're a fat guy. what acting is yes or no just all one word I don't think that's what acting is but that one's too tough there will be blood is oh it's not that tough but it's obscure compared to the last one I wanted to get tougher yeah well that that was the name of it okay oh you didn't even know when he said there will be blood that that's a movie why is there a hyphen in his in his day Lewis thing what's that all about

Dan Dan Dan day Lewis though it's day Lewis pick a name anyway Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Daniel Day Lewis, pick a name. Yes or no? Not big on hyphenated names. Give me another movie, please, with our terrible, terrible public domain game show music. All right.

Here's the next movie line. I love black people. I love black people! Who's your motherfucker Jerry? You, my motherfucker! What are you going to do, Jerry? Okay. My clue is the word Jerry.

Um, uh, he hasn't gotten any yet. No, he got Fight Club. I got Fight Club. He got Fight Club because we gave him the name of the movie three times in the quote. To be fair, about this one. No, what do you mean, to be fair? This one's pretty obvious, Greg, especially. Greg, it's sports, Greg.

Oh, it is? It's sports. Let's play it again for him. I love black people. Who's your motherfucker, Jerry? You, my motherfucker, What you're going to do, Jerry? Oh, show me the money.

Is that the name of the movie? Show me the money? No.