The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The AFC South Group Chat (feat. Spero Dedes)

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

"They DO need a PAT." The Jeff Brohm XFL highlight package leads us to the show's favorite play-by-play broadcaster, the AFC South's own Spero Dedes, who once saw Tony at a Fort Lauderdale Hotel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Dan is really weird. Spiro is here and Tony and Mike are very excited about. that but just before we get to him and I'm sure maybe Sparrow hasn't seen this I'd be curious if he has but when Mike mentioned Jeff Brom every single time anyone mentions him all I think of with Jeff Rom is not grizzled football

coach who returns to Louisville heroically it's XFL quarterback who played like two minutes after getting his neck just totally cranked and then gave one of the all-time interviews in the history of the XFL Orlando Rager led by quarterback Jeff

Brom 70 Orlando Rage led by quarterback Jeff Brom. No, I'm sorry. That's the wrong video. We'll get that in a second. Oh, here it is. Here it is. No, he's coming off to the sidelines.

No, this is a highlight package, which I'm appreciating. Yeah, let's rock a host. You know what a sicko I am about spring football is I saw what was in cue? I'm like, that's not it. No, that's not concussed Jeff Brom saying, let's ride. That's not it. The Orlando Ridge were so good that first season until Jeff Brom got hurt. And then the L.A. Extreme came in and Tommy Maddox ends up getting back into the NFL as a result.

Man, and they had the sickest jersey. Look at those Jersey. Look those Orlando Rage jerseys. He's in a gurney on the field. This video is pretty great. Because he was laid on inside. Yeah. Fitz McMilliams is. Good shit. For a guy to take a hit like that and then come back on the sideline and the cheers team on, that really was touching. You know, I'm getting goosebumps. Not thinking about it. Me too.

Yeah, man. He was on. There he is. Hold on. This is it. Taking that hit just six days ago. Well, let me answer that question by asking you two questions. One, is this or is this not the XFL?

Yes, it is. Two, do I not currently have a pulse? Yes, I do. Let's play football. Come on. Hell yeah, Jeff, bro. Come on, Dan. I'm taking the plus 13 and a half.

I'm sorry to say this. God, and that was before champion was back to being champion, too, those jerseys. Oh, Spiro, you know what we're talking about, right? Ah, it brings back memories. I miss the XFL. How you guys doing? Thank you for your maiden voyage with our show, Speedo. It looks like a movie.

It's an unbelievable injury. Like, his face was sideways, and he was concussed in a way that, but no, this was not healthy. Where's his chin strap? He's got a pulse. He played six days later. Sparrow. Tony, Mike, explain to the audience and Despiro why it is that you love him. Like, love him more than you guys love most announcers.

This has been percolating for close to a decade. I think about seven years ago, I noticed that you got a lot of AFC South assignments. You've become basically the unofficial voice of the AFC South. And while those games may not scream at you at the start of the schedule when the kickoffs begin at 1 o'clock, you're always a prominent fixture during the witching hour because this division is so competitive. And let me just say, when you say Moe Allie Cox, it's goosebumps. I don't know what it is specifically about Mo Alley Cox being in the back of that ends on when Spiro Dides is on the call.

But it's magic, man. It's like he is your signature player. When I close my eyes and I think of an AFC South game, the soundtrack of it is Spiro Dede's saying, down moali cox yeah no question we just wanted to shout that at you like it's it's what i associate you with it's just that one four-syllable beautiful name i guess our question is uh do you agree moali cox i do mike thank you i just want to formally thank you for for your support and your love over the years and um uh and know that we do have one fan around the country who appreciates what we do in the afcc south we actually have a text group chat with my my partner archelet

Adam Archiletta and Addii and my producers. The title of it is AFC South Crew. Hell, yeah. All right. Is our group chat. I accept your invite. Yes. You will be getting an invite as soon as this interview is finished.

It is funny that to watch, Chris Myers went to my high school, and the highest he will get in broadcasting is who I get some of these games over here, because Jacksonville is where I have to go every once in a while. You're expecting him. For some reason, you guys were thought. You were going to hear him on the Raiders the other day. We thought it was going to be Colts Raiders, which is when I closed my eyes, I hear Spiro Dita's Colts Raiders 425 in the afternoon window,

and I'm like, all of a sudden I'm locked into that game. Basically, Spiro, you should have investment properties in Indianapolis. They must all know you. We do. Our arch and I do check real estate trends in Indianapolis in Jacksonville at the start of every season. We've spent so many times, so many weekends there, and so many days there. It's gotten almost comical at this point. But I will say seeing the cults go now to this higher level,

it's almost like seeing one of your children grow up to do like wonderful and amazing things. So we are enjoying seeing some of these successes of our babies go on and do great things in the world. Look, the Colts might be too good. I don't want them to get Nansen Romo assignments here. This is not good. You got to ride the horse at Brungia. There is an official voice of the AFC South here. And now we have a team that appears to be AFC Championship caliber.

Spiro needs to be on these calls Get Nance out of here Yeah, I don't know if Nance and Romo on a Colts game sounds right There's something off with that I think I'm gonna lobby my bosses I gotta hear him say Mo Ali Cox I've never heard him say it

But it just won't hit the same way Spiro It is a great It is a great name to say Just punch it It's like phonetically It's just one of those nice names You just enjoy it coming off your tongue

Spiro Spiro Spiro Spiro Because games we love Colts versus Jaguars This is the highlight of my broadcast career fellows Thank you very much

Thank you for making me feel good Well you, but as someone who's as good as you actually are though You do hear the music and what it is you do And as they make fun of you on Moe Alley Cox It is a music Whoa whoa whoa whoa no make fun. I thought they were giving me a compliment. What are you doing, Dan? What are you doing?

Spiro, pay him no mind. He's a shit, sir. We are Team Spiro here. Dan just doesn't understand. He's more of a, yeah, he doesn't get it. He doesn't get our connection. Daniel Jones, everyone in the league, when you hear them talking about him the way they are presently talking about him and presently talking about Indianapolis as best team in the league when we don't know who's good in the league, it's confusing to you?

I think it's like wonderfully confusing, you know? I mean, this is a guy who got beat up as much as he did in New York with the New York press and the fan base out there. And it's just kind of cool to see him have a moment like this in the NFL. Because look, say what you want about Daniel Jones and his shortcomings and some of the stuff that happened with the Giants. The guy works hard. You know, he stays out of trouble. And I think he's a like teammate in his locker in his locker room. So I think to see someone, you know, have a moment in time like this is kind of cool to see. And, you know, who knows if it lasts. Obviously, it's going to get tougher as the year goes on. But I think when you have a running game and a player like Jonathan Taylor, Dan, in your offensive backfield and some of the other guys that they have around him, you know, who knows? You know, it's just, it's one of those wacky years. And you guys were just talking about it.

I mean, there's no, there's no dominant, unbeatable team. And maybe this is a year that a team like the Colts can get into the playoffs. and win a postseason game and see what kind of crazy things might happen. Spiro, we know it was the whole story a few weeks ago with Tom Brady and the production meetings and coaches. Are they going to give information? Do you ever feel like the coaches are not being completely forthcoming with you? I do.

I think some guys are guarded, Jonathan, and I think that comes across, obviously. There's some coaches that are open books and that will answer any question you have in some of those settings. And it is a different setting. I mean, we're in their facility. We're in usually like a little meeting room, a conference room. And it's very casual. It's very informal.

But as you guys know, there's some guys that are very guarded and measured in what they say. And one thing I always found interesting, it's the older coaches that have been doing it a long time that seem to be looser and more kind of open to answering our questions. and it's the young guys, usually, not all the time, but it's the new guys. You know, the guys have been doing it only a couple of years that are a little bit more measured. And that's one thing that I've always found interesting. The whole thing with Tom Brady,

I think it was maybe much ado about nothing. The one thing I will say that maybe I could understand how some teams would have an issue with that is that he's now a partial owner, obviously, of the Raiders, and he's gaining access to guys who are potential free. agents who may be coming on the market and that that could give him maybe a little bit of an unfair advantage because it gives him a chance to maybe build a relationship with one of these guys and so that that was one thing that was brought up that that made sense but all the other

stuff i thought was was maybe probably blown out of proportion a little bit when you say though that the younger guys are more careful i would assume that's because um they as the young people treat it even more as if it's an information business and they don't want you to know anything and the old guys are just more comfortable doing it old school, that the young people think all information is important information so that why would they give you any of it? Yeah, I think that's a good point, Dan. I think the other thing is, you know, they don't know who they can trust yet. And I don't think that they've done this long enough to know that, you know, we're not the local media. Like, we're not the local beat writer who maybe is looking to

find that gotcha moment that I'm going to go write something negative. We know that if we betray confidences, if a head coach tells us something about a player and we use that on the air, we're going to see this team probably two weeks down the road, four or five weeks down the road. And if it's an AFC South team, as you guys know, I'm going to see them probably very often. So if I betray that confidence, they're not going to maybe even want to see me again. So that's something that I think some of the younger coaches don't understand, but eventually it's explained to them that, hey, you know, the CBS

crew that's in here to do the game, this is not the local beat writer. So I think most of them get it. And I think when that happens, it makes for just a really nice free-flown conversation where we can get all kinds of good, juicy tidbits on the team. Sparrow, as the official, unofficial voice of the AFC

South, tell us how good Cam Ward is going to be based on what you've seen. What's his ceiling in the NFL? It's a great question. You know, he has these moments, as you guys have seen, where, you know, he just shows this crazy potential where he's running all over the place and he makes these throws that, you know, shows you the kind of arm talent that he has. But now, you know, like we've seen guys with so many

of these first round high draft pick quarterbacks, he's going to have to go through the trauma of a coaching change and everything that comes along with that because the NFL professional football is so different than all of these other sports. A coaching change, it's not like it is in the NBA where, you know, a new guy comes in and, you know, everything pretty much stays. the same. In football, everything changes. I mean, it's a new regime. It's a whole new playbook. He's got an entire offseason of preparing to play in a Brian Callahan-led offense. Now he's going to have to completely turn the page. Who knows what they do in the offseason? You know, I don't think anyone thinks Mike McCoy is going to be the long-term coach there. And so how does he handle that?

You know, from everything we saw, we had them, I think it was week two or three. They said that he process is really fast. He is very bright. He's got a high IQ. That lends me to think that he will eventually be okay. But, you know, I just think that they need to make, I mean, these decisions that they've got coming up in the offseason are going to be vital and will go a long way in determining what kind of player he becomes. Because I'll say this. The other interesting thing is we travel, we go into all these different NFL buildings. You can very quickly, after just spending an hour, a couple hours there, seeing how they run their practices, seeing what the, the, the, the infrastructure is around these young quarterbacks, it becomes very quickly evident why

certain teams have success and why other teams don't have success. And I think Tennessee is at a crossroads right now. They've got to make some big decisions coming up. Don Lebertard. Greg, how's your birthday going so far? I invented it. It's going fantastic. My wife and I are staying home tonight. We're watching the debate on TV. We're going to do something special for dinner. It's a nice day for me so far. Stugats. That sounds like a not a super nice night.

The debate. Old people love that shit. Yeah. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Old people do love that shit. And I'm old now. I can't deny it anymore.

This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Spiro, correct me if I'm wrong and chat GPT is wrong. But I remember this about you. You went to Fordham, and I think you went to Fordham. and I think he went to school at the same time Tony Reilly did. You guys called games together? Yep. That's a lot of Mediterranean energy on one broadcast.

Was Tony always like that? Tony was, he was probably crazier when we were at Fordham. He was a little wilder back in those days. But yeah, yeah, he was, Tony was a year ahead of me, so we did a lot of Fordham games together. A lot of traveling up to like Ole and New York to do St. Bonaventure Fordham games and these wacky long bus rides. So it was great fun, man.

And just to see him, I mean, never in my wildest dreams that I think that I, we all knew Tony was, was very talented, obviously, but he wanted to do games. You know, he wanted to be a play-by-play announcer. So to see him, like, go eventually become, you know, like stat boy. We're like, holy crap. Tony's on ESPN. He's working with with Kornheiser and Wilbon. That was incredible. And then to go to the next level and to have this, you know, crazy long-running show, man. It's just amazing to see. And he's just, he's one of the sweetheart guys, just as you guys know, it's just incredible. So I hope he's doing well. And I can't wait to see what he does. You shouldn't be on this Cleveland Miami game, right? It feels wrong. Even though he does do a lot of AFC East games also. I one time saw Spiro at an unnamed resort over in Fort Lauderd. I'm not going to say which one it was. But I saw him at the coffee shop, went up to him and my brother, said, Hey, Spiro, big fan of yours.

He said, thanks, man, gave me a thumbs up and then kept on. Super lucky. You remember that? Really? Do you remember that, Spiro? If I say the name of the resort, you're going to know. Wait, in Fort Lauderdale? Fort Lauderdale a couple years ago.

Say it. We don't want anyone to know where he stayed 15. years again. So we were there for a Dolphins game. You were there for a Dolphins Patriots game. You're there with the whole crew. Was this the diplomat? It was. Is that a boy? Don't say it. Pothin' Bar. We aren't going to know where Tony was. 10 years ago.

No, it's not 10 years ago. It was two years ago, but I'm protecting Spiro, not me. This is part of the problem. It's not a secret. It's the CBS Hotel. That's where all the crews are. Anytime Spiro's in town cover the Dolphins, he's out of the debate. This is why they can't center the big games. The security risk. Well, you call it. I do. I do. I do have a security deal. detail. It's a lot of autograph seekers. You calling Dolphins

Browns. I'm sure you're going to do a great job with it, but this is the problem with the Colts being too good, man. This is not my AFC South Boys. By the way, what was a group chat like? I feel like a fish out of water. What was a group chat like when Callahan got fired? Was it popping? Was it buzzing? God, I came with you guys. You know,

honestly, we were a little sad. I mean, we like Brian. Brian's a good dude. I mean, he's been great with us. He was actually one of the few young coaches that would give us great stuff in our meetings and, you know, just for whatever reason, just didn't work out. So a little sad, to be honest with you, to see Brian go. I think he's a good guy. He's a really, obviously really good offensive mind. And I don't think there's any doubt he'll probably be an OC somewhere next year. But you know, you don't want to see a guy

loses his job like that, especially the good guys. And Brian, Brian's definitely one of the good ones. Mike, you didn't get what you wanted because he's just saying he gave us information in the meetings and that's why he lost. The other guys weren't giving him information. He's got relationships with him, although I can assume that you like Liam Cohen. He speaks like He's a breath of fresh air when it comes to media availability. Spiro, you are famously Greek. We can tell us by your name. So I would like to run like a culinary king of the mountain with you

because I'm part of a big Greek family. So I would like to know what Spiro Didis thinks by process of elimination is the top Greek dish. Will you indulge me here? Yeah. Wait, you're Greek? No, I'm aired into it. Big Greek family. Okay, gotcha.

All right, we begin with dessert. Lucamates versus Baclavá. Baclavat. All right, so Baclava versus Pactecio. Well, that one's a dessert. I know, I know. We're playing King of the Mountain, though, Spiro. That's the rules.

Play the game. Come on. Bastitio. Pastitio versus... You know how he pronounces it, too? Pastitio versus Yiro. Uh, uh, uh, uh, pastichio. Bastizio versus Suvlaki.

See, it just depends what the quality is, you know? I would say probably, I'll go Suvlaki. Suvlaki versus Musaka. Suvlaki. I'm not a Musaka guy. Suvlaki versus Saginaaki, which is just cheese. Oh, we love that. Who I love Saginaiki.

A good Saginaiki is very, very good. I'm going to stick with Suvlaki, though. Suvlaki versus Spanakopata. Spanacopita. Wow. That's the champion. And look at this beefcake from Hofstra right here. It's Riali.

Look at these two guys. And Riali was the one who, What did I say? Jesus Christ. That's got to be the worst haircut ever in the history of broadcasting. I'm sorry I made it. No, my haircut. No, you're her hair's killing it, man.

Ah, man. You've been doing this for a long time. I look like Polly D. from Jersey Shore, my goodness. It was so, it was as a Mediterranean man myself. It was really cool seeing you get your start really early. Yeah, I'm Mediterranean. I got that olive skin. You know about that olive skin, Zaz?

You don't know about that. You don't know about that. us. But Spiro has been doing this for a really long time. His voice has been associated with the NFL, and he's still a very young man. It was crazy that you got your break so soon. That doesn't happen like that. Yeah, no, I was very lucky. Very lucky. I had the good fortune. One of my college professors at Fordham worked in PR in New York City. And so when he heard my tape at the local Fordham radio station called FUV, which a lot of the, you know, a lot of the pro guys have come out, like Mike Breen and Bob Papa, Michael Kay, all those guys. And so when he heard my tape, he said that, you know,

he knew a lot of people in the business and he thought he could help me. And he actually got my gig doing the XFL. So that was like my first foray into the pro ranks. And everything started from there. It was a wild, crazy ride. Sparrow, when you're doing the tournament and you're doing what, three, four games in a row, I mean, it's got to be so hard, right? Crazy.

Yeah, the first day of the tournament is probably the most taxing experience that you could have doing this. because you know it's it's not only the amount of games but it's also the fact that like you want to this is like the big moment for these players and these teams so you want to you know you're studying you're preparing like around the clock leading up to that first day of the tournament so you've got like the mental stress of like wanting to do these guys justice and to give them their proper due and so it's it's unlike any any event any any assignment that any of us get any of us that are fortunate enough to do the tournament and uh it's it's great And now to add to the craziness, my partner, Jim Spinnarkal and I, the last couple of years,

have done both nights of the first four in Dayton. And then we, so it's the multiple games Tuesday, two games Wednesday, get on a plane, go to our first round site, and then four more games on Thursday. So it's pretty bananas. And I just got to get sleep, man, that week before the tournament, because you know you're going to be catching like an hour or two if you're lucky. Last question before we let you go here. In terms of the runs that you've been associated with, whether it's multiple Laker championships or Linsanity, like, what do you regard as the highlight of what it is that you've been around where you're getting the most goosebumps because you get, you're like, you can't believe that you've arrived in a place.

I don't even know how old you would have been during Linsanity, right? Yeah, man, Linsanity got that, you know, 2012, so I was probably 30, maybe 35, 36. That Dan was crazy just as like this little brief sustained run. But I think when I'm at the end of my career and I'm thinking about like the big moments, it's probably going to be the run with the Lakers. And just because- I thought it was a touchdown, a Moe Allie Cox in the back of the head. That's number three.

That's number three. But like to just to be, to experience the NBA finals at that young age was wild. But then for it to be Lakers Celtics, you know, the ultimate rivalry in, in the history of the NBA, and to experience it twice, to experience, like, what the fans were like, throwing rocks at our bus, getting in and out of the arena, shaking the buses we were coming out after they had beaten us in 2008, all of that stuff, man.

It was just incredible, just like to be behind the curtain when they eventually won it and to, like, be at the championship. Because, you know, you see these teams celebrating championships in the locker room as a kid. Then all of a sudden, you're in that locker room, and then you're at the postgame celebration, where, you know, everything just is just incredible. So to experience all that stuff with Kobe and Phil Jackson and all those guys was quite something.

Now, typically, Dan likes to pretend this is a piano bar, but you're not on a Colts game this week. So I have a request. Can you give us a faux-Alle Cox? Just for your boys, one last time here in the back row that I love the unofficial voice of the AFC South, can you call us a faux-A-Cox touchdown in the back of the end zone? You ready? I don't know. Oh, my God, he's going to do it for us.

It's going to be a third and 10, Indianapolis, down six. He's always there. With 27 seconds left. Daniel Jones from the gun takes the snap, drops back, rolls right. He's got a guy. Back corner to the end zone. Fires, and it's caught. Moe, Alley, Cucks.

And the Indianapolis Colts in front are going to win it on a last second toss. It's a tie game. And again, it's Mo, Allie. Cox. Well, they need the PAT. Yeah, yeah. They got a kick for this member. Oh, no. They do need a P.A. He blew the call.

Why he's doing Brown's games? You guys are sticklers, man. That's why I'm the A.F.C. Salon. I blew it. The next time the real thing happens, put a little extra on it, your boys will be listening. I will. I will. Thank you, Sparrow. I appreciate the time. Thanks, guys.

Thank you. Steu-O-Skiro. Def got this, though. Because games we love. Colts versus Jaguars. Don Lebatard. You can't talk about double-digit national titles when every single call of you winning the national title.

Sounds like this. Oh, there's, there's Stubby Jacker running down the island. That's not true. Yeah. And there's a World War II veteran pitching it to another one. white guy and he avoids another white guy. Oh my God, Notre Dame, the fighting Irish have done it again for the eighth time

all they're paying white people. Stugats. Chubby Chekker. I'm sorry. He's black. He's black and I was really going to what he was a white name Chubby Chekker.

I think I'm like, I'm sorry, man. I'm improv in here. It was a pretty cool rib. He spells it differently. He spells it differently. All right, his name is Chubby. Maybe you didn't hear me correctly. His name is Chubby Chewettas.

There's an S at the end. I feel like that should be the largest of fun. It sounds like a college football name. This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stucats. Jeremy has been cooking in the other room. He badly wants to talk baseball. I like this version of J.T. He's been warming up the entire game.

game, trying to get in the game. We have not allowed him in the game. So, Jeremy, go ahead and give me whatever thoughts you have on last night's baseball games. You know, pitch clock and in other places, you have a very confined space here to talk baseball. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Dan. He was spectacular. And what he taught everyone once again is that throwing strikes is really all you need to do is a pitcher. Mixed quadrants, up down, left, right, stay in the zone, give the team opportunity to hit and great things happened. He was dominant after Blake Snow was technically better than night before. Complete game three hits. It was insane. Dodgers are unbelievable, Dan. Yeah, that's part of the problem. Greg is now officially in the mode where the only thing that

he's interested in in baseball, I'm guessing, would be will the Dodgers lose? Why are you, what's happening? Did you get bored by Spiro? Like, what are you laying? You see, you just pulled the mic lower. He's creeping lower and lower. His leg is killing him, guys. He has it up. You need an ice pack? No, it really gets me. Yeah, my leg is hurting very much. Roy? Roy's asking if you want an ice pack.

That'd be great, actually, if you got one. No, no, I thought Sparrow was great. Dodgers against Mariners is my ideal World Series, as long as you can guarantee me a Mariners win. Nobody outside of L.A. wants to see the Dodgers win again. Nobody, except in Canada, wants to see the Toronto Blue Jays win. Milwaukee is a popular Cinderella-type team. But nothing like Seattle with the dumper, big dumper.

You've got to have – we're our Mariners nation right now. Okay, we are – that is America's team, the Mariners. They have to beat the Dodgers because right now the World Series matchup is foregone. Four gone? You can't do that in baseball. You can't do that. It's not like the Dodger – you can't do that in baseball. Yeah, you can.

Roy, that's kind of half-ass. You can't just give them a – You've got to put a towel around that. At least. I mean, Roy, but you've got to put it on his knee, though. I didn't think anybody heard me. That was good analysis, Greg. Thank you.

Mark my words. If it's not a Dodgers, I almost said, Cedar. Mariners World Series, I will walk from here to Seattle. But only if I get my knee. Only if I get my knee. How long? Mariners are like minus 650. Craig.

Craig. All right, it's a bet. And if not, Dan has to do. Right. No, if not Dan has to buy you a white Camaro. A white Corvette. Right. It was right there for you.

Where are we on that? Where are we on the white Corvette? You got to get me a Vin. I'll do it. Vin Scully. That kind of in. Thank you. Man, I'm beaming from Spiro.

Dude, he's so good. That was a thrill. I can't believe you saw him years ago. In person, man. At the diplomat and you didn't tell me. Me and my brother were there and we're like, dude, I think that's Spiro Did he's. And then he turned around and we were like,

around and we were like, oh my God, it's. Oh, my God, it's Spiro. We were like, we kind of give him a thumbs up. Spiro, big fan. He's like, thanks, boys. We should have him on again and have Realli on. That'd be nice. A little class reunion. For Hofstra. For Hofstra, as Dan like to put it. You're on one today. Yeah, yeah. My fault. The thing that I wanted to ask Zaz, okay, because I've been asking Chris Cody for a couple of hours now to get me the sound of Billy Ripping Europe. It's a Suey Award winner. And I wanted to get to some of Zaz stories from Europe because I cannot think of anyone in our world more ill-equipped to appreciate the finer points in Europe. And we've got two Codies around here and a Billy, then Zaz.

I have that sound for you and I will play it in a second. I want to update you, DL, that it would take approximately 60 days to walk from Miami to Seattle. And just to be clear, that's the end of my bullpen outing. That was the full extent. I want more music. Did you want to give us more baseball. I'll trade you, I'll trade you a baseball 30 seconds for every bit of music you make that Billy deems worthy. Well, that's never going to happen. I like that. That's a guarantee. Yeah, 58 days. Yep. Not 60. It'll be racewalking like an Olympian. You are one. I know, thank you. I know that racewalk thing. I can do that. Yeah. I think he's already forgot his Olympian joke.

No, I get it. Your, your, uh. Olympian in. I'm a limp, Ian. Yeah. Greg, why would you make the bet that if this happens? If the Toronto Blue Jays, who have been very good all season at offense, win four out of five games, that you will be walking across the country on your bad knee to Seattle. That's an asinine thing for you to say. Or the Brewers, because I think he said it's going to be the Dodgers and the Mariners or he has to walk.

So two different things could best this up. Yeah, no, no, they won't. That's my assuredness, my confidence. that it's going to be in L.A. Seattle World Series. You know, it's in the stars. It's done. Okay? Bet it? Bank it? Bank it. Mark your words. Book it. Bet it. Forget it. That's right. Go ahead and play the sound please of Billy Ripping Europe so I could get Zaz's thoughts on Europe.

Europe sucks. I don't know if you're aware of this. Like we keep saying like, well, in Europe, this would have. Europe is terrible, which is why all of us left Europe. That's why everybody's here in America because everyone decided, you know what? Europe is terrible. Like the English decided, the Spaniards decided, the Italians decided, every single person came together at one point in time and said, you know what, we may not disagree on a lot of things, but we can all agree. Europe sucks. Let's just jump on this boat and see where it takes us because we can't be here anymore because Europe, again, terrible. No air conditioning.

Everything is old, horrible. All they do is try to seal American culture and then tell you all of their old crap is so great. Europe, terrible. And it takes forever to get there, forever to get there. If I'm boarding a plane for eight hours, Europe better not be where I'm landing. I'll tell you, you're pretty spot on there, Billy. All right. Now, I'm wearing this beret right now that I got from Paris.

I got it right on the streets there a couple days ago because, you know, it looks good at me, Dan. But besides that, Europe, what's going on there that's not going on in Cooper City? Let me tell you a couple things that I noticed there. Number one, in order to watch any sports. And I don't understand. They only do soccer there apparently, like NBA, NFL, NHL, they're missing out on all the good things, all right? Their time zone sucks. It's not a good time zone.

Getting there is terrible. But here's the thing. In order to just watch anything, because I did watch a little bit of football last weekend, Dan, I had to get a VPN. You know what a VPN is? I don't. That's like the thing you put on your phone and it hides your location. So you could watch, you could stream whatever you want sports. you know, like you normally do on your phone.

How is that even legal? I don't know. Come at me, bro. What I did may have been illegal, but I had to order a VPN so I could watch the sports there. You don't have to order it. It's already built in your phone, by the way. I feel like T.C. knows about VP.

All right, like I said, come at me, bro. I'm not scared, all right? Do what you got to do to watch sports while you're there. And here's the thing. All these tours, man. Fuck. Multiple. Billy.

Multiple. What? You said the F word. No, no, no. He goes, fuck. No, I did it. It sounded like... No, it didn't.

All these tours, multiple five-hour tour. I was going to say five, that's what happened there. Multiple five-hour tours. Five-hour tours. That's that's terrible, Jay-Z. Five-hour tours. You look, you got lost on one of those. And the walking, it's too much walking.

There's steps everywhere. What's with all the steps going up steps and down steps? Whatever happened to just flat land. Europe hates the cripples. And, you know how the floor, like the concrete? great it is, it's uneven, you know? Cobblestone. Can we put, cobblers? Nobody was ever

walking on the street. You know what I'd love right now? Some cobblestone. How about asphalt? Where'd that go? Who cares? Who cares? Can I ask you, Zine? Have they ever heard of Benjamin Franklin? Because he invented electricity, as I understand it. And they have their own outlets over there. How about you respect the guy that invented electricity, Benjamin Franklin?

Right, I got to go buy all these different kinds of outlets. and because we went to London and to Paris, I got to get a London type of outlet and then a Paris type of outlet. What are we doing here? Give me one outlet that works everyone. My God. You know about that chunnel?

No, man, I never heard of that. Channel? The hell is that? The food? What is a chunnel? It sounded like you said the F word says. I definitely did not. FCC issue.

He said chunnel. The telephone number, if you want to do boldest take with us, is 305-486, Gats. 305-486-4-6-89 oh the plane ride I heard about this so listen to this we'll get to boldest take in a second uh Zazlo on the plane gets creeped out filled with anxiety by the movie Paul Rudd with Tim Robinson friendship makes uh Zazlo so uncomfortable it's just total it's it's comedy and Tim Robinson is doing he's got the new show on max the chair company where like he's the hottest thing as the world's most awkward comedian i never seen any of his

stuff yet yeah oh really no no like i knew what i was getting into but i had never seen any of his stuff yeah he's doing comedy differently than everyone else is doing it but in this particular movie why did it freak you out on the plane so i'm like okay i'm gonna watch this movie friendship you know i have like 40 hours to kill on this plane so i put on the movie and i got to tell you from like a minute in i didn't know if i was going to be able to watch the whole movie like i it gave me I'm with you. I had anxiety right from the gecko. Now, I will tell you, I enjoyed the movie.

I liked it a lot. But the entire movie, I had very, very bad. I get secondhand embarrassment really easily. Even if it's not something that's real in front me, if I'm watching a TV show or a movie, like, I want to run and hide. I don't know. I have a hard time handling it. And this movie was like peak for me. I had Adjada the entire movie.

So it gave you anxiety a little bit. A lot of anxiety watching this movie. Well, I have a top five. Anxiety Inducing Films OLLI Whiplash That movie is Can I ask you something about whiplash?

Is the teacher played by J.K. Simmons? Is he a good teacher or is he a bad teacher? He is? He's a bad teacher. He got the best out of his student. He hit the guy! He hit him. Teacher is supposed to get the best out of your student? But really abusively. He got it out of him like the reason... That's not my tempo.

I feel like I'm listening to Big Dog talk about Jonathan Gannon. He hit him. Oh, Al-I. Just on that movie, I thought the whole reason for the anxiety is because they were, basically, G.K.K. Simmons was going for maximum abusive. That's why it made you anxious. He was one of those single-tier c. K. Simmons, voice of the yellow peanut M&M. That is right, Greg. Good job, Craig. Oh, lie.

That was a three-fax Jack on the Greg Cody show recently. Thank you. Really? Oh, a lie. Don't breathe. Do you know what this movie is about? It's a horror movie. I haven't seen it.

It's about, you know. Not breathing? Don't breathe around him. He can hear you. He's got really good hearing. And also, mine inseminate you. Creepy.

Last OILI, the lighthouse. Well, that's Walt is a faux, right? That's an OLA. It's a Christmas rom-com. It's awful. It's awful. It's an awful movie? It'll crawl around in your skin.

No, it's a great movie, but only if you want to feel unpleasant. Like, you have to be craving. Who wants to feel unpleasant? Who wakes up and says, I want to feel unpleasant today. Dan, I've never seen the movie, but the synopsis is basically a pahousa lives in a lighthouse, right? No, it's a Christmas rom-com. Number five, buried.

That's a good one. That's a good one. That's a good movie. That one is great. A lot of Agena, yep. Number four, Requiem for a dream. I'll never watch that movie again. The heroin arm, please.

They should rename that film The Heroin Arm. They should. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. should Requiem for a dream be renamed the heroin arm? Number three, Bo is Afraid. That one was really good, too. This movie's about someone that suffers from anxiety, and it puts you in their shoes.

Number two, uncut gems. Yeah, that movie's just one big panic attack. It is. And number one, the coffee table. Still haven't seen the coffee table, still afraid of the coffee table. Let me hear the Boost Mobile hot take line of love. The Boost Mobile, Boldest Take.

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I always bought CVS for convenience store. Kim Skataboo and Jonathan Taylor should switch names. Patrick Mahomes is to Mario as Josh Naylor is to Wario. This is me or is anyone else uncomfortable drinking soda after you guys shamed everybody with a soda drinker's body. If I was trapped on an island with Pablo Torrey, I'd swim. This is my limited fake Dan Campbell. Man I like the Panthers observation

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