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I really am going to campaign for Lucy to go to a Columbia soccer match at some point. Just go to the league. I think that's a great addition of off-roading. When I came in... Maybe she doesn't want to go, though. You guys have scared me from going. You should be scared. It was...

It seems terrifying. And I don't do well in stressful situations. I get tummy aches when I'm anxious, so I'm not going to be able to do anything. Or vents. Yeah, and I thought that was just like a Disney Channel thing. I never thought people actually climbed at vents. I thought it was like a quicksand type of deal where it's just something you see on Disney. You've never watched Die Hard? I've seen Die Hard. I don't like Die Hard because I'm really queasy with blood and the scene where he has to walk on the glass. Barefoot. I can't do it.

I see those people climbing through a vent to get into a sporting event, and I feel sad for them. Get a life. What are you doing? I don't know how journalism works in reporting, but I have a source, a text, that somebody affiliated with that stadium, that that doesn't lead anywhere. And inside there, they talk to an AC guy that works at the stadium, and they're like...

There's probably people inside an empty wall. Where those people are climbing right now leads nowhere. Yeah, so hopefully they turned around and realized that. There were a bunch of people that were... I saw a media member, a credentialed media member got tackled by police.

I know people that had credentials to this event and weren't able to actually access their credentials because of everything that went down. So thankfully you weren't at this one, Lucy, but I wanted to talk to you about it with all your experience. But then I stumbled upon your purse and I thought this was like a really cool purse for those that don't have the video accompaniment. There is a the handle is a ruby red phone like Dorothy's shoes, but it's an old school phone.

handset for her phone and I was like wow what a really cool thing that you picked up thrifting because I know you go thrifting but that's not an old school purse no it is not so most of you know it was my birthday last week thank you and I always give myself something nice for my birthday

and I saw a TikTok of this and I was so easily influenced and I needed it. It's Betsy Johnson. Betsy Johnson makes like a bunch of weird quirky stuff. She's a very famous designer. And so I saw this and I was like, I need this purse phone bag. And so the coolest part about this purse phone is that it works. So Chris Cody is going to call me and I'm going to pick up on my purse phone.

So you can direct all your calls to your purse phone? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you need to call me, I'll just pick up. Okay, so Chris is calling me. Look, you can see this ringing. I don't know if you can hear the sound, but I'm going to pick it up. Hello? Oh, yeah. It's a purse phone. Hey, what's up, Lucy? How's it going? That's amazing. What are you doing today? Do you realize if James Bond did this in the 1960s, we'd all be like, get out of town. Yeah.

Get out of town. This is super cool. All right, I'll talk to you later. Okay, I'll talk to you later. Wait, I can hang up. I can hang up. You don't hang up. She's just got the satisfying, can it click? Yeah. Yeah, so I have this little button here that will answer my calls and then hang up my calls and it has these little buttons here that will adjust the volume and I just put it and I click it back into my punches. But you can't slam it down. No, I can't slam it down, which sucks, and I wish that the little turn buttons worked on it, but I can't direct any calls out of it. It's

bluetooth connected to my actual phone do you have any actual life experience with hanging up a landline yeah like like in anger feeling it's oh dude it's an underrated feeling or a pay phone have you ever used a pay phone i've never used a pay phone oh either that's how you would get picked up from the youth fair yeah what youth fair the dade county youth fair yeah you would call you would either beep your your your ride yeah

um sometimes you'd beep a crush like eight zero zero you're saying pager right right yeah not to be a bummer but when my parents got divorced my divorce gift was a cell phone and so i had a cell phone at a really young age which i my first cell phone my homemade lava lamp exploded on it and then my second cell phone i lost in toys r us because that's how young i was

And so I've had like a bunch of cell phones and I've had like the cool like flip to hang up cell phone, which I miss that a lot. And then I had a landline before my parents got divorced. So that's just another thing I lost. So, but now I have my purse phone, which I'm not going to give my number out. So no one called me, but my friends can call me. It needs a satisfying, like, well, it has,

- It's not a button. - No, the button doesn't do it. You gotta slam a phone down. - No, it's super satisfying to me. - If you watch Dante's Peak, Pierce Brosnan picks up a phone and he's like, "Put the town on alert." And he slams it and it's like way more effective. - You can practice on my purse phone if you want, but please be gentle with it. - We have to put the town on alert. - Oh, and for the audio listeners, my bag is super cute. It has cherries on it and the phone is bedazzled. - Really?

Now, can you see who's calling you when the call comes in? No. That was another one of the charms of having a landline. Right. You had no idea what you were getting. I mean. I would answer it as like a six-year-old boy and they would always say, hello, ma'am. I'm like, what's your problem? Wow.

I lived with my grandparents at the turn of the century, which seems like a really dated way to do that. But I was in high school. This is when the PS2 came out. And they actually had a rotary phone, which made calling for PS2s a mission because everything was press 2 for electronics. Press 2.

I don't have a touchstone phone. So like, I'm literally like going to nothing's happening because I don't actually type anything out on the rotary phone. So that's how old I am.

But now I'm really excited to get home and at 4 o'clock play a video game like you wouldn't believe. Speaking of 4 o'clock, the boys, me and Taylor streaming. Wow, the second it drops? The second it drops, as you can see on screen, the boys are going to be ready. 4 o'clock, biggest game on the planet. Why are you doing this? I would not want to be on the internet the first time. I need to be by myself.

Experiencing this. I hear you, but we're doing this for the masses that don't. Maybe you're at work. Maybe you don't have the opportunity to go out and get it. We're doing it for them. So everybody in the chat, everybody who's listening, go check us out, 4 o'clock, all the usual places. What a sacrifice. You're so brave. Have you also told your wife this day is coming and that you're going to be a worse version of yourself? She knows. And obviously she's pregnant, and we're expecting, and it's coming to the momentum is, hey, look,

This is what I'm going to be doing. I just want you to know. Newborn baby. Not for long, Toby. Newborn baby, though. Five months, six months. Low key, that's a great time to get into gaming because your social life is ruined anyway. That's what I'm saying. So you're just kind of leaning into it by doing that. But my wife and I, we both scheduled a lot of activities for this week. I'm going to a concert tomorrow night. Not today.

Too jacked about that now. Going on a boat on the weekend. Kind of already regretting that. Get some rest, man. Twisters is coming out.

I'm doing twisters. Are you pumped for twisters? I'm down. Are you renting out the theater? Yeah, you want to come with? Here's what I'm doing. You know my experience with the last Mission Impossible movie. I got a 4DX seat, and I didn't know what that meant. And so my wife and I, we order a bottle of wine. I'm trying to pour it as Ethan is motorcycling or running. So now the challenge is I'm going to wear all white to twisters and drink a bottle of wine.

and see what the damage is at the end of it. Because, yeah, I'm doing 4DX now. Glenn Powell is a superstar. Superstar. He is having a moment. That dude is such a movie star. So charismatic. Dude, anybody... Like, we're going to look back at that cast of Top Gun Maverick. Miles Teller had a huge gallery at the ACC. He did. That is going to king make so many people. Not only did Dom Cruise save cinema with Top Gun Maverick, but he also...

entered in a whole new generation of Hollywood movie stars because we hadn't had those tentpole movie stars. And now Glenn Powell is going to breathe new life into the Twisters franchise. I'm really excited about this. Early reviews are good. I like Glenn Powell a lot. I saw his last movie too, which was like a direct-to-stream movie.

Is that the Hitman one? Yeah. Oh, it's great. Yeah, it was really good. I love that movie. Yeah, I'm a big Glenn Powell guy. Danny Ramirez is also in Top Gun Maverick. He's a local guy. I think he went to Coral Park. Big Canes fan. Friend of mine. His career is blowing the F up. He's in the trailer for the new Captain America movie. He's doing a movie with Joaquin Phoenix. I'm telling you. So Tom Cruise is making careers. Tom Cruise saved cinema. Mm-hmm.

He should be thanked. I agree with you. I know he's weird and it comes with a lot of baggage and stuff, but that dude is undeniably a movie star and he saved cinema and he should get a special Oscar for doing so. I really like Glenn Powell and I like that he keeps bringing his dog everywhere with him. Very cute little dog. But my thing with Glenn Powell is I'm getting a little nervous that we might be overdoing it because it feels like he's in every movie lately. And I like him. I think he's really good and charismatic and fun, but I feel like he's too

more big movies in the upcoming future to turn into Chris Pratt, where we're like, hey, we just have a little too much of you in one short period of time. So I think Glenn Powell should just chill out for a little bit. I heard he's moving back to Texas. I know he's a big college football fan, so he's probably playing the game. So just, Glenn, take a little break. Keep posting the dog content.

and then come back so that we don't get too sick of you. So lighten up on the Powell is what you're saying. Yeah. Do a hit on college game day. I don't know, but for some actors, that doesn't, you know, we had a lot of Tom Cruise early on and that didn't seem to impact his career. He was fine. No, he came out totally normal by it. Hollywood didn't make Tom Cruise weird at all. I'm just saying we didn't get tired of Tom Cruise. But you didn't have social media like doing what is happening right now with Glenn Powell. Tom,

If you go on TikTok or you go on Twitter right now, like he is everywhere doing everything, doing TikTok dances, doing press tours where they're linking him to every single actress that he's in a movie with and doing the relationship baiting. But he's just the most charismatic person that exists right now. And you don't want to you want to like enjoy that charisma as opposed to overdoing it. I get what Lucy said. I think I can make a solid argument that Top Gun Maverick is one of the most important movies ever.

Agreed. Not just because it was awesome. It was a great movie. It was the middle of the pandemic. It was the first time I went out to do anything during the pandemic. We needed that to work so bad. I don't think you have things like Borbenheimer that happen afterwards. I went to the movies for Tenet, and it was...

not an event. We needed something to bring us back, but also, we're talking about Tom Cruise as if we've never gotten sick of him. Tom Cruise needed Top Gun Maverick 2. He really stuck his neck out for that. He needed that bad. Remember, the going clear thing kind of ruined Tom Cruise. It certainly canceled in terms of

A lot of people left the Church of Scientology. A lot of people distanced themselves from it. Tom Cruise needed that. He needed the movie, the role. And also, we got SARS. We ushered in a whole new generation of movie SARS. That is one of, low-key, the most important movies ever made.

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You know your role you play well? I know my role. This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stugats. Speaking of creepy crews, did you see them at Wimbledon yesterday?

No, I- Center court right behind Kate Middleton. It was fantastic. So my flight got delayed leaving. Tahoe is so beautiful and I feel like they go out of their way to make it really impossible to get there. Oh, it's hard, man. It's really difficult. My wife and I, we had made a commitment to start our dynasty at the University of Nevada, hashtag Battle Born.

And then our flight got canceled at the airport, and we ceased being able to see ourselves there. You can negative recruit this place. It's not easy to get to. My flight got canceled, and it forced me to miss the Wimbledon men's final, which seemed like a dream matchup. Did the match deliver at all? It's something that I wanted to dedicate all the time in the world for, and I couldn't. I was on a plane. It did not deliver. Alcarez is so good, and I'm not certain—

I don't know how many people, especially within our crew, love tennis. I know you and I love tennis. We talk about tennis all the time.

Alcaraz, what he is doing is historical. He is 21 years old. He just won the French. He won on the grass courts of Wimbledon. Four or five guys in the history of tennis have won those two tournaments in the same year. He's got the U.S. Open coming up. He's likely going to win that. The most impressive thing about Alcaraz yesterday, Mike, was that he took care of Djokovic and he did so in three sets. And the

That doesn't happen. The third set, the Joker, he was pushing him. He was pushing him. He was pushing him. In fact, he had three match points. Alcaraz did. He lost that game. Then it went to a tiebreaker, and Alcaraz somehow got past that mentally and was able to finish it off. But to see that guy beat the Joker in three consecutive sets on his court

That is his court. It's the surface he likes the most. And to have a guy now who has four majors at the age of 21, he's on path to be the greatest tennis player we've ever seen. Spain had a day yesterday. Yeah, Spain had a day, no doubt. And they're also just going to boss tennis now. It seems like that's their thing. So it's really unfortunate that Djokovic is dealing with these injuries now because he was still, prior to this recent injury,

he was still as good as he ever was. Correct. And so you could have that measuring stick for Alcaraz, but he's probably got to go on a bit of a Federer-like run in that, remember at the very beginning of Federer's run, Nadal wasn't on board yet. Murray was still finding his footing. Like the top guy. And Djokovic wasn't there yet. Djokovic wasn't really, like he was really young. Like he was going up against the likes of Andy Roddick and there was a huge gulf between...

Fed and the rest of the field. I don't think it's quite that because guys like Medvedev and Sinner are going to push him, but he's pretty clearly better than them than

And we'll see what that means for tennis because I think there's a really special time that we're coming out of in men's tennis where... I'll lump Murray in there, too, because when Murray was healthy and he won Wimbledon... Murray was great, yes. His run was a little bit shorter, and his run actually just officially came to an end. But you had Wawrinka... Like, you had a bunch of guys operating in...

In that generation, Stan, Andy, Nadal, Federer, Djokovic, five guys that if they were born just in a different time would probably be considered the greatest men's tennis player ever because they just would have dominated the field. Right. They would have padded their stats so much. Now it's just Alcaraz. He has no one pushing him. It feels like the only guy pushing him is Djokovic. He's getting older. He's coming off the injury. Sinner is there, and there's a lot of – look, is it –

American tennis is really good. We've got a couple of guys that can possibly push him. And you know, you've seen the Marty Fish documentary on Netflix. These tennis pros, they become consumed with taking down the top guy. I don't think one guy is going to run it, but I do think Carlos is going to have the run of it for a few majors. Tennis is funny in that you always think, OK, the superstars are done, there's no one around the corner. But there's always someone around the corner.

I didn't know Algaraz was going to be this. I didn't know he existed three years ago. And there's a couple of guys that can maybe rebound. Like, Vovrenko was a guy that, oh, he can actually be a lead. I didn't really see that. Djokovic also started his career like, OK, is this guy going to be a bump in the road for these guys? Or is he actually going to have a say? And you had those questions about him.

I think I have questions about the surrounding field around Atkadas right now. I could see them getting there. Tsitsipas, is he a guy that can turn it around because he has all the tools? Can he actually find that promise? I don't know. Jeremy, did you find the Roger Federer run before those guys got online? It's crazy, right? It's a crazy run because he won his first Wimbledon in 2003, and then he won...

Three grand slams in 2004, two grand slams in 2005, three grand slams in 2006, and two grand slams in 2007. That's crazy. Like the mid-2000s, I think he lost to Del Potro, who was another guy that might have been all-time great if he didn't get super hurt. But it wasn't... It's like what Jordan brought.

play. There were just a lot of guys who weren't going to win titles because Jordan was there. We've all kind of convinced ourselves that that was what that generation was. It was just those three guys just ripping each other's heads off trying to get there. And no, Federer had a pretty sustained run and it took several years of those guys running into that wall before they could finally topple him. But this was interesting yesterday, and you'll appreciate this because you know this happened. With Federer towards the end,

He was working so hard and he was getting older, getting older, getting older and still putting in the same amount of work, if not more, because he had to compensate for the fact that he was getting older. Then he realized, what am I doing all this for? I get to the finals. I can't beat the Joker. I can't beat Nadal in France and I can't beat the Joker anywhere else. I'm out of here. I'm done.

And I seem to sense that with Djokovic yesterday. It doesn't matter what I do, how hard I train. I'm going to get to the finals and play this guy, and I'm not going to beat him. He's a younger version of me. Yeah, so when Nadal burst on the scene, I know Nadal was always good on clay, and he was given Federer fits on clay at the French, right? At Roland Garros? Yeah, it was 2005, 6, 7, and 8.

It was Nadal in the French, and then 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and then 17, 18, 19, 20, and 22. Like, the moment everything changed, though... That's crazy. You're laughing at it. It's ridiculous. The moment everything changed, though, was when Nadal beat Federer at Wimbledon. And that was 2008. Because now he could do it at another... That was 2008. He also beat him in 2010. For my money, the greatest men's tennis match of all time. The 2008 final between Federer and Nadal. That was...

Unbelievable. I could re-watch that match. You're including the Isner match at Wimbledon, first round? It took three days? They changed the rules because of that match. Because of Isner. No, there's a lot of great, like, there's a lot of scrappy, there's a lot of D-Gen favorites. Like, Isner's a long-time D-Gen favorite. Gail Monfils is another guy that you'd go to war with. Is this the longest any sports show in the history of sports radio or podcasting has talked tennis?

I think Roddick has a podcast called Served Up. I'm not even certain he talks tennis. I don't know. I'm just asking. Putting it out there. I'm enjoying the conversation. Dame comes back tomorrow. It should be noted. Get the tennis in now. We had two months of Sugatsu's tennis takes and we had to get out there. I mean, Alcaraz, man.

He's pacing to be the greatest player of all time. I love tennis. I never thought I would see someone better than Federer, Nadal, Djokovic. This guy's better. I'm not there yet. He's really great. Now, he made the people, you know, they had the champions dinner last night, and he made these people, you know, all the people attending, wait around until 10 p.m. to eat dinner on a Sunday night.

That is rude. They do their dinner on the back end of the tournament. I know the Masters do theirs like the front end before the tournament starts, the previous day. I like that. They have a dance. It's like a ball and you have dinner, but he was watching England and Spain, so he made everyone wait around until 10. They're rude. By the way, I'm not going if that's the deal. I'll eat at 7 and you show up and I'm not there. Too bad. Stu, you got to start putting pressure on Alcaraz immediately, though, because you look at this run for Federer. You look at the run Nadal had.

at the French Open, and you need to see, all right, how many Grand Slams can you win early before that next challenge shows up for you? He hasn't won in Australia yet. Do it down under. You've got to figure it out. Start issuing challenges. Are you going to challenge Marty Fish to do it against Steph Curry? I mean, listen, Marty, the reason this meant so much to Marty is the year he won it, there were no fans there. And I've been giving him a hard time saying, do it in front of the fans. Yeah.

Is that his only second win? That's only his second win, yeah. So last year he had the incident where he was leading on 18. Horseshit. So do it in front of the fans, and then the fans went out of their way to actively sabotage his championship last year. Correct. And they did. They cost him a championship. Steph Curry won it, did not come back. He won it to his credit. He won it with an eagle on 18. And a hole-in-one earlier in the round. Tim Brown had a hole-in-one yesterday. Yeah, he got a boat. But he lives in Dallas. Ha ha ha!

You just get the check, right? They're like, you can take the boat or we'll just cut you. I guess there's a lake somewhere in suburban Fort Worth. So Marty's upset because last year it was in front of the fans and he should have won, but some guy yelled whatever he yelled during his backswing. Yesterday he did win in front of the fans, but he won without Steph Curry being there.

So do it when Steph is there. I think people that don't watch this tournament are just thinking, oh, a bunch of celebrities playing golf. Who cares? Marty's Saturday golf. It's unbelievable. His putting on Saturday is an all-time golfing achievement. Agreed.

I don't know the exact numbers, but it felt like over six putts of over 25 feet. It was right up there, I'm telling you, with Nicholas back nine at Gus in 1986, the putting. Did you see when the fan chirped him? So a fan, like Marty goes up to the green to putt,

for birdie and the fan goes hey marty hope you three putt which is like number one who the f has a problem with marty fishing cares that much about like to say that oddly specific chirp yeah someone who has money on someone other than marty well that's what happened dude that's what happened the year before the dude that that heckled marty on the backswing he was caught and they and he said i'm sorry i thought we were having fun out here i have a bet on steph curry

So, like, there is elements that you can gamble on this thing. Right. So the dude starts talking shit to Marty, starts chirping him, and Marty is like, what is this guy's deal? We're all here trying to have fun. Marty buries Marty.

A 42-foot putt and goes right at the guy. Talk your stuff now and whatnot. That fan got escorted, by the way. It's a pretty boss move. Hell out of here. Dude, to nail a 42-foot bird? So at the players' meeting, they went out of their way to say, if fans are talking while you're playing, while you're swinging, point them out and we'll take them out.

So you weren't at the players meeting. I stuck my way in. And I knew that rule going in. Was Jerry Rice at the players meeting because something went a little viral with Jerry? What is happening with Jerry Rice? Well, escort them out, not take them out. Jerry got in. Dude, it was an ugly video that got posted. TMZ Sports had it. Jerry was making the walk from 17, which is a party hole, to 18. Such a harmless chirp.

That he got. The opposite of him. The Martin thing was at least very specific. This is just like, hey, the Chiefs have good receivers. No, it wasn't a chirp. It was a credentialed media guy. Now, granted. But it was kind of chirpy. It was like. Well, you could see. I could see where he would be bothered by the question because jerks.

Jerry Rice, Niners legend. But also if you were in the players meeting, like I was the night before, you would have learned no questions while the guys are walking down a fairway. Well, he wasn't walking down the fairway. No questions while they're playing golf. It looked like that little middle area between like 17. That's where, if you want a selfie, if you want an autograph, that's where you post up. Now there's not typically media, their credentialed media. They're asking you questions as you make that walk. But that is the fun walk of Edgewood. Like,

Like that's where, that's where you have your fun. And a dude with a credential went up to Jerry Rice as he's making the, the walk. And this isn't even like a tournament day. This is Thursday. This is the loose day. And he says, Hey Jerry, what do you think? How do you think the, the Niners receivers stack up against Kansas city? Now,

That could be loaded. Even if the world, even with the Super Bowl, it's just a harmless question. It's a harmless question. It's coming from a credentialed media member. Jerry snaps. And he's like, I will F you up right now. Like,

The temperature of the room changed immediately. He acted like he got disrespected. He's like, that was disrespectful. He misunderstood the question. No, he says, I will F you up. Meet me. You say when. Like, the guy got hauled away. He was a credentialed meeting member. Like, he went back the next day. It was just an ugly scene. But Jerry, and then I see him. He's all happy on Sunday. He's playing in the tournament. But there was another story there where I heard a guy...

I overheard this conversation, telling security that Jerry Rice was rude to him, that he asked him to sign an autograph, and Jerry Rice snapped back, hey, you're a memorabilia guy. You're going to sell this thing for a lot more money. I get that. I get that. If Jerry recognizes, like, you're a memorabilia dealer and you're just trying to get one over, you're not actually a fan, I can get that one. Yeah, but the guy wasn't. It was versus kid. Like, you're there. Sign the stuff. Oh, what? He was lying about it? Well, then I can't get behind that.

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My feet have been moving. It's not because I'm hosting, but I'm playing with stuff on the table. I've done this before. It's because College Football 25 comes out today. Oh, wow. And I've been waiting a decade for this moment. And, you know, as luck would have it, I got a schedule full of Zooms. It's just like, I'm at

At the final turn, I'm down the stretch. It's a bad day for you? And it's just like, I got so much stuff to do. I wasn't expecting to sit in this chair today. They're just trying to make this final day as long as possible. But I have the early access. So at 4 o'clock, I will not be watching you and Taylor. I will be building a dynasty for the ages.

on my own time at home. - Totally understandable. - But you, on our YouTube page, are gonna be kind of unboxing this game and experiencing it all in real time with Taylor? - Absolutely, what we're gonna do is we're obviously gonna play the game, but we're gonna take you through all the different settings, we're gonna go through all the Road to Glories and Dynasty modes and all the stuff that you can see in the game. - You're gonna do all of that? - We're gonna look through it. - You're gonna go through the settings.

The sliders are a big deal. What time is that at? This guy doesn't get it. Chris, you've been kind of... This guy's got a PS1 being like, oh yeah, I don't play those games. I did just ask Taylor out there. I was like, what are you guys on the PS3? What are you guys cooking with? Apparently they're on the 5. Yeah, it's hard to get. I think I have the 4 actually. Wow. I'm not sure. I have a PS. You think? I got a PS. I'm not sure which one. You've kind of not been...

on board with the talks about college football. So you're just not a gamer at all? I like college football. I like the old college football game. No, you don't. No, you don't. Because if you liked it, you would be on fire right now. That's funny. You guys talk this shit, I bet you I'd beat y'all up.

Beat you all. Okay. Cool. Is that a threat? Good, tough talk. How do you do it? I would beat you by four, Tony. Okay. Yeah. Well, spread more than a field goal. Well, spread would be plus three and a half for me. Are you in with us for Tony tonight? Yeah, I'll be there. Tony show part two. Yeah. Well, yeah, because Tony tonight is kind of confusing. It is. We got a couple things in the oven. Tony tonight, different story. That's where I go around Miami and do stuff during the day. All right. So tell me what else we have. Tony show part two, The Return.

We have the Tony show that happened a couple of months ago. It's like the Truman show. It's like the Truman show, but this one is different. This one is back to the future because we're doing a couple things different. And it's Tony. Well, yeah, of course. But as you can see, Wednesday, July 17th, starting at 7 o'clock, PM, the Tony show, too, with a bunch of your favorite guests around here. Maybe Chris. Wow, Louis made the title. Like, Louis' name up on the thing. Yeah, he's Doc Brown in the photo. Clearly standing on a box. Really good graphics.

I wanted to tell Angel to leave the box that he was standing on, but I didn't relay the message as quickly as I should have. But yeah, Tony Show Part 2, Wednesday, 7 o'clock. We're going to have a lot of fun. We're going to be playing PS2 games, which is why we're going back to the future. We're going to be going through all the settings. Again, you don't get it. Do I get to play Chris in this thing? What time is that at? The settings or the game?

So we're playing a bunch of retro games, and we actually get to clap back at Chris. He's going to be playing games with us, too? He's going to be there playing. Whoever wants the noise, it'll be brought. We've got everything from Madden 07, NCAA Football 2006, which I think is what we're going to start on right there. We've got MVP Baseball. We've got NBA Live 2003. We've got MVP Baseball. All of the retro games. MVP, John Dowd, get out of here.

All the retro games we have in our arsenal for the Tony show. Plus, we're going to be doing a best ball draft for the NFL season coming up with DraftKings, which is going to be very exciting. I'm excited about the best ball draft, but we're going to have the video game results kind of dictate where we're drafting. I think so. It's only right.

Now in the settings, are we going to have it where the clock goes really fast in between plays? It's a non-thing to go over. That's not how it works. You know what he's doing? He's not one of the cool kids. And he's trying to make us feel bad about it by seizing on the settings. You're not experiencing today the way that Tony and I are experiencing today. He doesn't understand the road to glory and what that means and how we can look through it. Let's all go around and say our favorite setting. Mike, you first.

But the road to glory has nothing to do with the settings, is what Chris is saying. Taylor and Tony are going to walk us through. We're going to walk through the settings. There's a lot of different things. You can disguise coverages now in NCAA Football 2025 where you couldn't back in the day where you could show a cover two but actually be in a cover one man. Wow. There's a lot of different things that we can go through. Oh, a deke play. I know how to show you my deke plays. You think I'm showing you the real play? No, no. It's a deke play.

Personnel subs. I love the personnel groupings. Heisman, to answer your question. Sliders on. If we're looking at depth charts, now I'm in. Because I love a good depth chart. That's part of the whole tour. I don't care how low his rating is, my fastest receiver is going to be in the slot. Shouldn't have said that. Just gave away some of the goods.

I like to put a corner at outside linebacker. Oh, dude. You could do that? That was my move. And the Madden with Vic on the cover, he was unstoppable, right? So what I would do is if you sorted your team by speed –

You'd have a lot of dime corners and a lot of fifth and sixth guys in your secondary. They're speed demons, but they're not seeing the field. So replace your outside linebacker and have them essentially spy on Mike Vick, and that was the way to do it. If you ever really wanted to get crazy, and depending on the guy that you were playing, if he was a one-trick pony and he was running with Vick the entire time, put Cham Bailey at outside linebacker, and I would

spy on Mike Vick and that was the only way you want to get one all over what's this cornerback you have a 99 speed but a 32 return rating well you're still a returner yeah oh always speed would dictate everything I can make up the other 80% I can't teach 99 overall speed

See, I know the game. It's the issue that we're going to have coming up for the Tony Show Part 2 is the guys that want to play as Michael Vick or Vince Young in the NCAA football game where all they're going to do is run. Banned. That guy sucks. We've got to ban Vick. I think it's Mike Malley, by the way. Mike Malley's that guy because he played me with Texas the other day. I ended up beating him. Yes. Not All-Star.

So you're unboxing. How long is tonight's broadcast? You just said that you're going to go through a lot of things. Today's show, who knows how long it's going to be. You're just in the menus. We're just in the menus. We're just looking around. All the new settings. Thank you, Chris. We're going to be playing games. We're going to be just unboxing. I just want to look at uniform combination. I'm telling you, we're going to do the music. I want to hear the music. It might be three hours long. We don't know. Should we turn Home Field Advantage on or off? It's always on, baby.

I don't even know if that's a setting. It is a setting, which is why we're talking about it. But why would you turn it off? Neutral fields? No, we can't do neutral fields. You've got to go home field advantage. Plus, you hit the bumpers, and then the crowd gets pumped up, and then we can go through the toughest places to play, 1 through 25. That's always exciting. Is it going to be jersey numbers or last names? Lucy, how did you feel about the rankings list for the toughest places to play? It wasn't accurate because Texas A&M was –

number one and they lose at home all the time. Like all the time you lose at home to app state. That's no shade to app state. They're a great team. You should stop scheduling them. But once you do that, you are no longer the toughest place to play. There's this dude that works for ESPN stats or used to, he came out and he was like, when I was at ESPN, I was trying to actually quantify a home field advantage in college football is one singular structure, more difficult than,

to play in if you're an opposing football team and what he basically came back with is if you got a good football team it's hard to play at that good football team there's venues that are probably bad right now because their football teams are down bad that once their team gets good can be electric and impossible look Miami Hurricanes fans get a ton of shit they had the

nation's longest win streak at the Orange Bowl. It was one of these places that you could never go in and play. But that works both ways because I'm guessing when Alabama was bad, Brian Denny Stadium was not one of the most feared places to play in the country. Nick Saban's Alabama lost at home to UL Monroe. That was year one of the Nick Saban experience. Then if you ask UL Monroe how it went for them afterwards visiting, they'd probably say pretty tough place to play. So it's all...

B.S. Good football teams have good barns, essentially. What's the kicking meter going to be? The kicking meter I've seen is very tough, by the way, because it's one of the ones that are like swishing this way, not the ones that you would go up that way. You disagree, Lucy, with that? Yeah, a little. And I'm going to use Iowa as an example where every year Iowa is the most just like eight and four team out there. And they always beat some team that is infinitely better than them at home when they're playing at night.

it's like a weird thing that's happened when i was a terrible team and they will beat ohio state by i will we saw this with 30 points yeah purdue is the same way if you're number two in the country and your night game at purdue you're losing i do think there are certain venues that have like in the certain circumstances where i'm like i know that that team is going to to win so i do think there is something with that like i would say overall like

there are places that are tougher to play and I think there's a lot of like validity to if you're a good team you know you're going to have a good crowd but I really do think there's something magical about certain venues and times of day and I don't know no I get what you're saying but I also think it's just Provo on a Saturday night Mike it's but it's a

Death Valley at night with a tiger going down the sidelines. First order of business is not scheduling that for my program. I am not going to Provo. I get you, but it's also like revisionist. There are times where I'm like, wow,

there is no team that can come into this stadium and match this energy. We're going to freaking dominate these guys. And then I'm headed to my car because it's 45-3 Florida State. And that place gets evacuated. If Mario Cristobal and his coaching staff for that game were in charge of the stadium operations yesterday, we would have had

no issue i've never seen so people like on message ready to go and file out in an organized manner than i did for that fsu game but then they're also like crazy energies where you're nervous no one thinks that notre dame headed into the turnover chain notre dame game the the one game that every electric there's a one game that miami hurricanes fans have over the last decade which is like oh can you imagine the electricity in that place no one thought we were going to win that game

No one thought we were going to win that game. And then afterwards, you leave, no one was beating us. It was incredible. No, I think there's something to it, though, in the specific architecture of the stadium, where Penn State is such a tough place to play, even though it has less capacity than Michigan, because you're so close to the field and it's so tall and it traps the sound. Same thing with Washington, where you have the overhang and it traps the sound. I genuinely think there are places that are tougher to play, not only because of the crowd, but because...

legitimately because of the architecture of the stadium. Like Oklahoma State, I was shocked. It's not a very large stadium, but it's really loud because it's built with brick, and so it traps the sound really nicely. So I definitely think that there are places that are just tougher to play, even if the team may not be as great. That's why I'm hopeful that if Miami ever has a good team, they could rekindle what was happening in 2017 where people from College Game Day said that's the second loudest place ever.

I've ever been to behind Death Valley at LSU. Yeah, I mean, our stadium constantly feels like and looks like it's going to break. And that's why it's called the Bounce House, because literally it is shaking as people are jumping up and down. Jeremy, I feel like there's a big Jeremy field advantage. It's legit. Like I went there to hand UCF its national championship trophy that we made. I was there. College game day was there, too.

I was really impressed with that game day atmosphere. It was crazy. I was really scared because I walked through the concourse as the guys were bouncing.

And that place was insane. When you're walking underneath and you're looking up and seeing the way that the structure is bouncing, they've told us that it's secure. They keep saying that it's fine, but I'm constantly worried that one day it's just all going to fall apart. They lost to West Virginia at home by 14 last year. West Virginia's back. Tony, we weren't good last year. They're winning the Big 12 this year. What are we thinking for weather? The stadium's only as good as your team. That's my point. I don't like when snow is happening in a warm weather city. You can't have warm snow here.

So we agree. Random. We agree. Tony show part two Wednesday.

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Hour 1: Let's Walk Through the Settings