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Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. I am happy Amin is here today because I'm in a bit of crisis. I mean, I am not a weak person. I had never before in the last, I don't know, 50 years, I'd never before thought of myself as a weak person.

as a strong person because I'd never had my strength tested in any meaningful way but over the last few years I've realized that I'm not a weak person okay so when I come in here today

And things don't work technically like they haven't worked all week technically. And we can't get out a TUA interview that's I don't know if it's newsworthy, but it was certainly interesting at the very least because things can't happen fast enough around here. I probably don't need to explain to you as someone who also worked at ESPN that there are certain creature comfort luxuries that I miss because self-employment is

is hard and I'm coming in here today and I know that I'm beginning the show today with our YouTube audience all sorts of piss because there's no live show because they've gotten very used to you give us two hours of rocket fuel straight six minutes of breaks no one else does that this is what we're used to we expect that when you give us one it wasn't enough you used to give us three and a half hours at ESPN why do we only get one now two occasionally what's wrong with videos so I come in here today

in a super good mood about doing the show. And as soon as I get here, I'm on my knees because I know the audience isn't getting what they want. And what I also expect as the founder of a company, because I know who those people are. I know how loyal they are and they deserve our best show. And I can't give it to them.

Because our video shit doesn't work and because all this shit costs a lot of money and I'm worried every weekend that something's gonna blow off the bay and make all the equipment ruined and then how do I pay for everything? So like that's where I am all the time. And so today I'd like to get back and I'd like to apologize first

to the people who are so loyal that they tailgate before the YouTube comes on because they're still around wanting every little fix of what it is that this company does because they ride with us in a way, I mean, that I believe, if First Take moved somewhere else,

It wouldn't have the loyalty of audience that moves with them the way that this one did because those people know that we care about giving them what they expect every day and they've been yelling at me and us for three and a half years because it hasn't been what they want it to be. So I'd like today to feel like it used to feel back when we did this show with no cameras around and was a happier time for me generally working.

Before all the success and the fame got to our heads, let's just take it back to the underground. This is like Rocky III, Dan. I don't know if you remember. When Rocky loses to Clubber Lang. Mr. T. And he's broke. Well, he's Clubber Lang. He's not Mr. T. That would be weird. He'll always be Mr. T to me.

He got that job only because he was Mr. T, not because he was Clubber Lang. He's broken and he's depressed. And Apollo's like, see, because you're living in this big house and you've got all these maids and butlers and stuff, you've got to take it back. And he goes back to the old gym where Apollo used to train in L.A. And all the other fighters are looking at him like, oh, there goes Rock or whatever. And then Apollo's got to teach him how to dance and all that stuff. And they're running on the beach. And they build it all back up. Or like Rocky IV after Apollo dies. No, not Rocky IV.

No, Rocky IV. Spoiler alert. When Rocky has to go train, he trains in Russia. Does he train in a super high-tech gym with an LED screen? No. It's like Siberia or something. In the snow, yeah. Picking up logs. Carrying logs. Yeah. So yes, let's get back to our roots right now. And so right around the ring here, gather around the ring, can we get Jessica to

do walking lunges with a log on her shoulders in the other room. We have the ability to do that. Oh, Jessica doesn't seem like she's bothered by that. Now, let me give you a little bit of a perk. At the end of it, you get to just yell up to the heavens, DRAGON!

Feels like a good two-for-one exercise while I'm at work opportunity. So I'm definitely intrigued, but I don't think I wore the correct pants for it. Okay, well, and we don't have video, though, so it would only be the people in that room. Do we need to clear out the room so that you can do it in more privacy? It sort of loses all of its luster if we don't have video. I'm not the kind of person that I need people to see me work out, as long as they see the results. Like, that's all that matters.

Theater of the mind, Dan. We can imagine her working out, climbing a mountain in the snow with a log on her back. All right, I want you guys to imagine that going on around the studio. Yes, it's a big log, a big giant log. You don't know Rocky IV, right? I've never seen any Rockies, actually. Any Rockies? No, but my friend

Dad was obsessed with Rocky when I was growing up. So he had like a Rocky tattoo. He used to talk about Rocky all the time. So I was like, oh, Rocky. I know Rocky, but I've never seen Rocky. I just knew about it because he would talk about it so much. You knew Rocky from the tattoo on a man's arm? Yes.

On his bicep. I never do this, but listeners, the first person to put Jessica's face on Rocky's body, moving the log, you're getting an instant retweet and a follow. Oh, wow. Ooh, and a follow. The follow is the big currency. And the follow. Retweet is anything, but follow, that's currency. Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show. What's the real currency? The instant retweet or the follow?

What's a like? Just child's play. Likes mean nothing these days. You can't even see who's liking what. It's just like, I'll throw this like away. What is the most valuable thing on social media other than followers? Like what's second place? Oh, no, the most valuable thing. Well, I don't know. The follow is necessary, but the most valuable thing is when you have someone of high esteem.

like saying, hey, you guys should check out my guy so-and-so. Like that, the cosign, that's number one. Cosign is massive. Because the follow's only one time, right? And then it's like, oh, okay, it's done. But the cosign...

kind of brings you back. I feel like it's the same as any other place. The best thing is the meaningful compliment from a person on the internet. Like, hey, I really like this. You know, when you type out a response or a quote tweet that's nice and complimentary, it's just like getting a compliment in person. But that's so syrupy. The person has to be wildly famous giving you that compliment. No, I mean, I love when

people give me compliments even if they're not wildly famous. I don't discriminate against compliments. You like it better, though. You can love the compliments, but we're talking about the value hierarchy of things on social media. You can't tell me just a compliment is worth as much as a celebrity's compliment on social media. Look, Jessica, I'm with you in that I really appreciate... I do a lot of little inside jokes every time I'm on this show, but

specifically so that one person can say, man, that was a great joke. And that definitely makes me happy. It gives me enjoyment and fulfillment. But currency-wise, yeah, I need a cosign from a blue check. A real blue check, not one of those ones you pay for. A blue check that's so real that it's not there anymore. Yeah.

Is anyone with Jessica on this? Like she's saying the syrupy thing. Juju, you can run syrupy on us. Are you with her on just a compliment that moves you from person X who gets you is more meaningful than The Rock giving you that same compliment? Oh, wow.

Oh, nah. Anybody giving me the compliment, it means a lot to me. A lot of the listeners, they say so much fantastic things in my DMs to try to balance off the hate I get in my DMs. And I appreciate everybody just as valuable if Cameron told me or somebody. But that comment from a random person doesn't slap as much as Field Yates doing it.

That's not true. Okay, here's an example. So shameless plug for my F1 podcast with Spencer Hall, DNF. This week, F1's on a break for three weeks, so we watched the movie Cars. So we talked about Cars on the podcast, and I did an F1 minute about the plot of Cars. Wasn't a minute. It was about a minute and a half, you're right, but it's okay. Spencer did not try to cut me off because he was not keeping time, and I...

Anyways, so I described Paul Newman as a salad dressing mogul and it was buried in my F1 Minute and someone responded, salad dressing mogul was the perfect description with a gif from Cars. And to me, that lit me up all night. I was beaming because someone heard that one tiny little joke complimented me. I'm telling you, Jessica, I've said this before. I don't think Dan believes me or if he does, he believes my sincerity. I don't think he believes that it's real, but

The one person getting the hidden joke is so much more satisfying than everybody in the room and all the internet saying, ha, ha, ha, ha, so funny. I swear to God. Because it's just like, oh, they found it. You know what I feel like? Anthony Hopkins in Westworld. It's like, oh, they got to the center of my maze.

The thing you guys are doing, though, I know what you're I understand. I feel seen and the warmth of that. But the place this conversation started is what do the masses think is the greatest currency that goes at the top of this is what I want to happen on social media. And if I give both of you the choice, hey, someone complimented you on cars or your inside joke.

Or The Rock complimented you on something that wasn't that close to seeing you entirely? Which would you prefer as a retweet? You're going to tell me that you want the CRB authenticity instead of because I don't think you'd be addicted to social media and the wanting of extra audience if you valued those two things the same.

The Rock doesn't do it for me. Does it do it for you, Juju? Not at all. I feel like, for real, for real, as I've gotten to be around a lot of personalities that be behind in front of the cameras, I realized that a lot of these folks be fake as hell. And a lot of these folks be lame as hell. Not The Rock, though.

I mean, not The Rock, I'm not saying nobody. - Not The Rock. - But a lot of these folks, they're not as sincere and so when you touch the heart of somebody who has a job, a kid, and a wife, and they just randomly sending you words, like bro, that means more to me. - I wanna add an extra thing there 'cause we were talking about retweets, we were talking about follows and all that stuff. I think going viral off a tweet,

is even more, supersedes all of those things. No, it doesn't. Yes, it does. Hey, trust me, going viral. That was viral decontextualization. That's a different story. You need to call a lawyer for that, by the way. And it wasn't your tweet. It was Miles' tweet. Exactly. If you make a tweet that all of a sudden

millions of people see because it goes viral and it's like, that's my joke up there for everybody to see that. I would have told the group chat, but now the entire world saw it. Chris Cody, can you find for me, please, we haven't done this since, the hierarchy of anger, I guess, that was the steps of us climbing at the Cleveland Linder, brouhaha, fracas, you know,

Whatever it is the hierarchy was, we created an order for this. I would like a hierarchy, an order of best things that can happen to you on social media. Not best things that can happen to you. I guess things that have the most value because I don't think we're going to get agreement here. And I want to get a formal before the end of the show today. I'd like to have a formal ranking of whatever those things.

things are. I wanted to ask the group here, we don't have a baseball fan, a huge baseball fan among us, but

Aaron Judge hit his 300th home run last night faster than anyone has gotten two home runs. And I'd just be curious, I mean, as we have numbed entirely to the numbers in baseball, they don't really mean anything anymore. And as in my lifetime, I've seen baseball go from the national pastime.

Where people would go in top hats and suits to the game, and it was more important than football. Yeah, it was top hats. It was hats. It wasn't top hats. They wore baseball caps. It was like a Bear Bryant hat. They were formal hats. T-Pain hats. They were formal hats. We've gone from that to...

Otani's a star, but does America care about him? Trout is exceptional at baseball, but nobody knows who he is. And now there's someone wearing the most historic uniform in sports who's a physical giant who does the thing that the steroid jade brought us, which is guys strike out now in that league more than once every five times. Like throughout the league, one out of five plays is a strikeout because everybody's swinging for the fences and he's the biggest, the baddest, the furthest.

They walked Soto last night to get to him. And Soto's been great. Soto in the last... Soto is six for his last 11 with six home runs and four walks. And so they're like, Soto, you can walk. But Soto had an amazing season. Judge is having a better one.

And they walked him, and on 3-0 pitch, Judge hits a bomb against a team that's won 29 games. Hadn't hit a bomb off of a 3-0 pitch since 2021, Dano. That's correct. He's only done it now three times. That's amazing baseball information from Amin. Look how strong he is on baseball. That is correct. You know why? It's his jersey. It gives me super baseball powers. No one can see it.

because our video doesn't work. - Can you describe it to us? - I thought it said the churros on the front, but apparently it doesn't. - I thought it was a Kenny Powers joke jersey that he was wearing from the Mexican league that said churros. - The one guy got the joke, there you go! And Dan's a celebrity, so that takes it even a higher level. You know what, Dan? You were right.

You win the currency battle. My compliments are better than a compliment from Chris Cody, even if Chris Cody's compliment is better than my compliment? Because Dan... Whether Steve Martin also needed a compliment. I said it two seconds before. He did say it. Oh, man. But did you say the Mexican League part? That's the part that Dan hit on. And that's what this is. This is an authentic Kenny Powers charros, not churros, charros jersey.

It means horseman, right? He had churros on the mind. I met a dog named Churro the other day. Big fan of the show. What's his favorite part? Tony's top five? It's Willow, actually. Loves when Willow's on. She'll be here tomorrow. Jessica, do you watch Eastbound and Down? I did like forever ago. And I honestly, I barely remember it. My attention span. It's not my attention span. It's like my long-term memory. It's not there.

It just hasn't been there in a long time. Like memento. Yeah, kind of. Short-term memory, pretty good. If I read something, I'll remember it exactly for a few hours, and then poof, it's gone. Well, will that happen even on the things that you think are special content creation? Because I would think that you're rejecting Eastbound and Down if that's how you experience it. Because I remember Eastbound and Down being sort of pioneering so much stuff. I mean...

HBO, when they got into sports, they started with Arliss and it was wildly successful. And then what ended up happening is Eastbound and Down might be the best sports thing outside of Brian Gumbel's show that HBO has ever done. Do you know a year Eastbound and Down came out?

2011? 2009. I mean, that's a long time to remember jokes from things. For me. I mean, admittedly, I did a rewatch, so I'm fresh on it. I'm super fresh. You can't forget Ashley Schaefer, though. That lives forever. Let the board watch. Isn't it crazy that an outtake is the most memorable? That's the most viral from that show, no? Absolutely. That's the most memorable part of that show. My wife Donna.

A light blue hue. In my plums. You don't remember, Jessica, what it is that we're talking about? It's Will Ferrell, and he is standing in the middle between Kenny Powers and Craig Robinson. Craig Robinson and all the bloopers cannot keep it together because Will Ferrell is exceptional just riffing, and so people break around him all the time. But he looks like Ric Flair.

and they're in a car dealership.

and they're going to face each other. They're going to have a single pitch against each other, I guess. Kenny Powers is going to come out of retirement. I don't know any of the details. I just remember their face-to-face. But I haven't seen it in 10 years, and you know my memory's going because things like our video doesn't work, and I've been made crazy for five years. But this I remember down to the detail because nobody could keep it together because of how good Will Ferrell was at riffing, looking like a car dealer...

dressed as Ric Flair. - Yes. - And he then starts talking to them about his wife Donna.

and how it is that their son watches them have sex. And it's clear that he's just inventing it all as he goes. That all of it is just Will Ferrell, like the depths of Will Ferrell's mind. I wish video that we could play that right now. It would be a good thing to play. Well, I mean, because we're not live. You can splice that in, guys. All right, go ahead and splice that in later and put it in the show. Because, yeah, I remember...

I wonder all the time if things like that are going to hold up. And I'm going to maintain that that show, you could put it on right now and you are going to laugh if you like sports. Brockmire, the first three seasons of Brockmire are the same way. You know what the funny thing about it, the difference between Brockmire and Eastbound and Down, is that Hank Azaria is a big sports fan. He knows his stuff. What he is doing, he is doing things that...

As a sports fan, he absorbed as a child growing up listening to these radio play-by-play guys. By all accounts, Danny McBride is not a sports guy, does not know anything about sports. No, McKay told me it took them 12 months to teach him how to physically throw a baseball. He doesn't know or care about sports at all. Doesn't know or care about sports of any sort. But he nailed the bravado of the washed-up athlete.

So perfectly. So perfectly. And he does, every season is like a different stage. There's season one is he's trying to make the comeback and at the end he thinks he's making the comeback and it turns out that Adam Scott, spoiler alert, is just on drugs and has lied to him. Season two he lives in shame in Mexico where this jersey comes from. Season three he comes back to play minor leagues in the U.S. And then season four he gets called up to the majors and

and quits before he even throws a pitch. And then he becomes, ironically, a TV show host, a sports kind of sports show thing. And Dan, when that season came out, I was still working for the Phoenix Suns at the time. And I remember, you know, as Kenny becomes more and more confident,

When someone's going along, he would go, Kenny's cutting in. He'd do little scissor hands. And then he would just interrupt and he becomes the star of the show. And I remember watching, I swear to God, saying, oh, man, one day I want to do that. And I'm like, when are you ever going to be on TV, you idiot? And literally did not remember it again until this year when I watched that scene again. I was like, oh, that's right. But now I have the power to go, Amin's cutting in. Oh, man.

Oh, man, what a great gambit. You have not gotten Juju and Tony and Jessica invested in a show that I think, if our audience doesn't already know it and love it, will. Our audience would specifically love that show, would you not? Because Kenny Powers, again, 12 months it took him.

to learn how to look like he was a pitcher the way Kevin Costner in all his movies looks like he can actually play baseball. Not just throw a baseball. It doesn't take someone 12 months to lob a baseball, but to look like a pitcher, I didn't even understand how that could possibly take 12. How unathletic are you if it takes you 12 months to learn how to look like you have a minor league or major league pitching motion? It can't be, I don't know. I mean, that's

specifically feels very difficult unless it's a motion that you grew up knowing a little bit. But this does harken back to the age-old debate about actors in movies. Is it better to get a good actor to play an athlete or to get a good athlete to try to become an actor? And man, it really depends. I watched Challengers a few months ago and Zendaya, she did a good job but there were some scenes where I was like, come on. And they had a body double who did a lot of the tennis scenes and stuff like that but...

Still, if you watch a lot of sports, you know the difference. Yeah, look, I think the most important thing is nobody watches sports movies to watch sports.

So what was the show that was on? Oh, it was Clipped. I was like, look, no one's here to watch how the Clippers beat the Warriors in the first round. They're here to watch the Donald Sterling stuff. They're here to watch... 100%. And I was watching Challengers for the sex stuff, which there was not really any of, shockingly. There was no sex. I mean, you see the trailer and you're like, oh, they're going to do it. This isn't a sex thriller? Dude, ugh.

Not sexy enough, but still really liked the movie. Still really liked the movie. I remember Leonardo DiCaprio playing basketball when he was young in some movie. I can't remember. Yeah, so bad. Basketball Diaries. Yes, Basketball Diaries. So the funny thing is, he's actually an avid pickup basketball player. He plays like one of those L.A. leagues. Yeah, but probably because everybody mocked him at that youthful age and how bad he was looking at basketball. The best one I've seen is...

I don't know the name of the baseball movie, but John C. Reilly as a catcher trying to catch a foul ball while running toward the dugout looked like someone who didn't know how to run. He ran the way you might imagine that John C. Reilly runs. That's the thing that stands out to me is something that couldn't have looked less like someone knew how to be an athlete. Poor love of the game. Good movie. Good movie.

This begs the question, what do you think would be the easiest sport to learn if you were an actor who had never played any sports before? Kevin Costner looked like a good golfer in that one movie. He looks like a guy who golfs. You think he grew up not golfing? Golf is the one also, this is just for anyone, whether you're an actor or not, if you don't get that muscle memory when you're young, it's like learning another language. It's like, how am I supposed to do this? This is impossible. Yeah.

I remember one scene in The Professional where a bunch of police officers are running into the house. This isn't exactly the same, but the police officers clearly were

- Thespians who learned on Broadway how to act. - Learn how to run? - No, the whole thing of coming into a place with your gun near your face, you have to do that in a way that's aggressive and confident, and all of them were just sort of, yeah, jolly bobbing in to get the professional, and I'm like,

You have to do better in casting than this. Your police officers have to, they have to be giving off aggression as actors. They cannot look like they're in a happy bounce house dancing in a Broadway play. Have all actors just become too attractive? Like I've heard people say, I mean, this is a good question for you because you're the big movie guy. Like I've heard people say this where like we don't have any actors anymore that look like they could be

Like, just regular people. All of our actors now look so polished, and they just all look like actors. So you're saying we don't have any John C. Reillys anymore, basically. I mean, we've got the occasional Jonah Hill and Buscemi and stuff. No, but those guys are all... That's not the generation she's talking about. She's talking about all new... New actors. That you're not allowed to... Who is the young person now? Because I don't think of Jonah Hill as old. I know, but I mean, that's...

I mean, Jonah Hill was a child star. So what age are you talking about here? Under 30? You're saying we're not making any non-beautiful under 30 actors anymore? I'm not sure what I'm saying, Dan. I guess I'm saying that... There's a guy with the eyebrows. Everybody knows him. The guy with the eyebrows. He's not an incredibly good looking guy. The one where he was with... The guy with the eyebrows? The guy with the eyebrows. What movie is he in? He's in... Remember he gets his dick bit by the spider?

In what movie? Dan knows what I'm talking about. I don't, I'm afraid, but you're alone here. Now you're going to look it up because those are, look, Tony. Dick bit by a spider eyebrow guy. Tony, those are all good cues, but I will tell you what happened to Tony there as he pointed. Dan knows what I'm talking about. He realizes that he interrupted the show to get in there with something that none of us had any idea what he was talking about. He gave us two good identifiers.

The first one weaker than the second, admittedly. Guy with the eyebrows, not as helpful as he would have liked it to be. But when you say, Spider, bite your dick. We are the Millers.

That kid. Oh, yeah. I forgot the name of the movie, guys. My bad. But you know that guy. He doesn't look like an actor. He looks like a guy. Yeah, he does. But I don't know if he's... What else is he in? I just don't remember. It doesn't matter. Mick Lovin would like a word. Mick Lovin is just old. We're not making Steve Buscemi's anymore. I guess that's my point. No, yeah, you're right. Everyone's super hot now. All right.

That is, that would be a good point if throughout the history of movies we'd only made one Steve Buscemi because he must be a great actor to have climbed. Him and Giamatti, the two of them, had some degree of difficulty and if you look like them as a woman, you're not allowed in Hollywood.

They don't allow you in Hollywood. Can I offer Tom Holland, who I know is in incredible shape, but face-wise just looks like a regular boy next door, doesn't he? Well, I want to get back to what it is that I was talking about yesterday when it came to Brad Pitt and George Clooney being on the cover of GQ magazine.

And I wonder, as I asked the group, is that the last kind of that movie star? Because now Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds, they're in that. And Jake,

Gyllenhaal, he's... Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal, excuse me. I always get that one wrong. They're in that second tier, but now she's talking about like the Chalamets of the world. She's talking about the George Clooney, Brad Pitt dinosaur age of 60-year-olds who are beautiful men and old-timey movie stars. You're telling me that the 25-year-old now...

will never be that? Cannot be that? That what those two human beings are representing a time because those two guys and Denzel are the three, correct? They are the three men who get to be the Tom Cruise's had an up and down. He had an up and down period, but the movie stars of the time, are those the three guys?

Because I was reading, I felt like I was transported into another time reading GQ magazine about Brad Pitt and George Clooney because I remember back when they were coming through stardom and Brad Pitt marries Angelina Jolie. I remember a Matt Damon article where Matt Damon was talking about him, George Clooney, and Brad Pitt walking through Italy. And they're like, you think we're famous, me and Clooney.

You should have seen what happened to Brad Pitt the moment that he married Angelina Jolie. Me and Clooney can walk in Italy and walk in different directions and everyone chases after Brad Pitt. And that's where Brad Pitt sort of surpassed George Clooney as America's movie star. And now Clooney's a political activist. He's gotten into directing. He hasn't made those kinds of movies in a while. And who's coming for their thrones? Like who's going to replace them? So to answer the question, yeah, like you have to give it time. I think of,

DiCaprio, we mentioned earlier. Early in his career, people are like, oh man, he's just a pretty boy or whatever. But then you start getting into those roles that are like, oh no, he's serious about this. He's a great actor. And I think Chalamet, right now I look at him, he's like a vapid young pretty boy. I saw Dune. I saw Dune 2. I wasn't blown away by his performance. But

Those are the movies that it's like, okay, he gets more roles and then he gets to choose which one of these roles are meaningful roles that allow him to stretch his acting ability. And 10 years from now, 15 years from now, maybe we're talking about him the same way we talk about these guys. But we won't be. His generation will be. Because they grew up on. Because we'll be dead. Because they grew up on his movies. Why do you guys keep.

killing me the last couple of days. No, we. I said we. I know, but you. You did say we. Dan, I can't. My example was something specific to what you said. You said you will not remember something for the rest of your life, and the rest of your life probably ends at that day. I had to bring it up. Sorry. I think my point is that, like you were saying with the police officers that don't look like real police officers, it's because they're all, like all the extras, they're all super good looking. Like we just don't have...

Everyone's too good looking now. - I bought Freddie Prinze Jr. as a crafty lefty in Summer Catch. - Hold on. Let me tell you something. Freddie Prinze Jr., another real athlete. Like, that's the difference, right? Like, they're the guys that grew up playing sports, and then they're the guys that are like, "You have to teach me how to look like I play this sport." And Freddie Prinze Jr. is in the former. No, Dan, we're gonna remember Timothee Chalamet. It's just, are we also gonna remember Hak Tua next to him, like, 20 years from now? He's gotta contend with those.

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Don Lebertard! Again, started on the Breakfast Flan. Oh man, I've been singing a song to myself all morning long. Breakfast Flan. Stugatz! Have you never heard the Breakfast Flan song? No, hit me with it. Okay. I wish I had some Breakfast Flan. Breakfast Flan. Where can I find a breakfast like that?

This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugats. You're doing this differently than I am, Amin, and I think it might be because you're 10 years younger. I'm not going to remember Chalamet. I'm not. No, I'm telling you now that Chalamet will be remembered by his generation and the ones around it, but not mine, not me.

the way I remember Pitt and Clooney. This is why I'm telling you that this felt like an article I was reading about the last of a dying breed of movie star, because they mean that to me, and Chalamet will mean that to me.

To a younger generation. And Pitt and Clooney won't mean that to the younger generation who will not think of Pitt and Clooney as anybody other than, you know, whatever it was that the movie stars of the 50s were. But the movie stars of the 50s were people like the salad dressing mogul Paul Newman. Clark Gable, your buddy. Clark Gable, who's always existed only as a joke. For me, Judy, yesterday you were saying that Chris didn't know who Clark Gable was. And I always just thought, it's like, isn't that...

who Jamie Foxx calls people Dark Gable. Like, that's a joke right there. But yeah, but we remember all these actors. Bela Lugosi, we talked about this week, right? Like, we remember these people, Dan. It may not mean the same. You're right. Like, someone who grew up where Jimmy Cagney was like the greatest actor of their generation. Yeah, I'm not talking about remembering them. I'm talking about them being the seminal movie star for a time. If I tell you, you got to name one, you name one. You can only name one.

For my generation, I'm watching two of them on a cover that are making the top five of the argument for me. So you're saying your goat is basically what you're saying. Your generation's acting goat. In the same way that Stugatz will never release or relinquish Michael Jordan as the goat, doesn't matter what anyone does, there might be a seven-year-old right now who's going to grow up to be better than all of them, right? Stugatz will be like, nope, not better than Jordan. You're saying when we bring actors to you...

Any new actor, you go, nope, not like Brad Pitt. Pick one, Dan. Who is it? One. There's one goat. I can only pick one. One of them made Batman and Robin, so...

Yeah, but, man, I want to go Denzel there. And Will Smith is in there, too. Will Smith has to be in there. You said Tom Cruise had ups and downs. I would argue Tom Cruise has had a more consistent career than probably any of those guys that you named. Hi, everybody. Al Pacino, Robert De Niro. We're talking about your generation, Dan? Yes. And there have to be men, I'm assuming. Yes. Tom Hanks, I mean. Miller Street.

What do we do with Tom Hanks? Like that's this generation. Boy, your ass is old as hell. Meryl Streep. What? She's still acting, isn't she? Roy, where'd you come from? Claire's first day of school was today. She's now in first grade. That's why the traffic sucked today. Yes. Traffic's the worst. Not because of you dropping off Claire because of school's back? Well, but wait a minute. I thought Greg Cody and Stugatz came in here breathless, uh,

On Tuesday, because they were saying that was school traffic, that the beginning of the week was the first day of school. Broward started Monday. Miami-Dade started today. Roy, so hold on a second. So Princess Claire...

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What? I want to examine this for a second. I'm learning that the joy of your life, the only thing that makes you smile like that. I am. You took her to school, first day of school, but not first day of school of any kind, correct? Correct.

Correct. This is the first day of first grade. But kindergarten was last year. Yeah. Okay, so I thought today was the first day of any kind of school. Were you emotional last year when you did this? Kind of, yes. Yes, kind of. Junior Roy just, goodbye, Claire. Right. No. He shook her hand. No, it was a big hug. He told her to get out. I was told to get out, yes.

A formal handshake you gave her on the way to school? Roy doesn't get teary-eyed emotional when he drops his daughter off for school the first day, does he? First day of all time? Did you walk her in? Yeah, we walked her in. We walked her in and the teacher wasn't there, so we stood there for about 35 minutes. She was stuck in the traffic, guys. It was terrible this morning. I'm going to tell you all right now, because you guys are all fairly new on the child thing.

I mean, six years is kind of not fairly new. It's still fairly new compared to me. You guys are walking them in and saying, like, I love you. Have a great day. And I'm like, get out of the car. I don't want to see you for eight hours. That's quickly. Dan, let me tell you something. Parents all over this country wait with bated breath for the first day of school just so like, oh, my God.

I don't have to hear those noises for at least a strong six or seven hours. I get to leave and be stress-free, relatively speaking. Early in the journey, you're like, is she going to be okay? I'm worried.

Give it a couple of years. She's going to be like, yeah, let's school start again. But the other thing about this is you have multiple children. I do have multiple too. Yeah. So it multiplies. I've heard a lot of contention amongst parents with school starting earlier and earlier in the summer every year. A lot of parents are like, hey, we don't want school to start until after Labor Day because like we want to

we want to go on trips like we want to do stuff in august like this is ridiculous this is too early and in in broward school started on like what was it like august 12th this year i mean that's like the whole month august that's crazy jessica are you ready to have your mind blown my kids i don't know last day of school was the friday before memorial day i said i didn't know their first day of school july 24th in phoenix arizona what when it was a hundred bajillion degrees

Recess? Ha! Sit your ass in this classroom and just wait for it to end. There's this whole thing where it's like, instead of having a long summer break like we have when we were growing up,

They now sprinkle everything out. So fall break is two weeks. Spring break is two weeks. Winter break is like three and a half weeks. So I would rather they have summer August, like you said, because I'm real busy in June and July doing NBA stuff. I want August to be able to go on trips. Having said that,

I don't want them starting school like after Labor Day because then I'm going crazy. I'm like, get them the hell out of my house.

I'm going to get back to this escalating tensions list here, just to remind people what it is that we were talking about. And Roy, I'm going to include you here to find out which of these social media things you value the most as we try to put together our social media list of escalating values. So here's the chart of escalating tensions. The weakest of the tensions, you know, the...

I think this started because of an on-field baseball brawl, and we were talking about how those aren't actually brawls. Chicanery is the weakest. Yeah. Hijinks, malarkey, skullduggery, shenanigans, they're all very weak. Right there. You stop right there at shenanigans. All of these, not only are they weak, they're lighthearted.

They're like, ah, they're just horsing around. They shouldn't even be on the list, honestly. Then there's a line, and then next comes... This is where the violence escalates. The lowest of the strongest violences...

is tiff a tiff a tiff right after shenanigans because all of the other stuff there's no real harm but a tiff yeah it's like oh a little bit of an annoyance there then a spat a quarrel tomfoolery that seems like it should have been elsewhere yes yes skirmish poor list skirmish fracas hullabaloo ballyhoo dust up brouhaha armageddon okay that seems there are a lot after armageddon

So... Big jump there. Brujaha to Armageddon. Is this in order? I would say... Well, I thought it was in order, but I'm not trusting anybody in video, anybody in production today. I'm not trusting anybody. Dan, really quickly, I'd like to say Dust Up is where it's actual, full-on fighting because there's dust flying up as they're arguing it. Well, I've never viewed this list as as flawed as it clearly is because we escalate very quickly. What's after Armageddon? Well...

Hold on. Malice at the Palace. I'm trying to do this in a way that respects the list. Brujaha escalates to Armageddon, and then Armageddon escalates to Agree to Disagree. Oh. And it makes me feel like this list was not given to me in the correct order. Checks out for me. Someone go check the stairs.

Oh, man. What do you think is going on on the second floor of the Clevelander right now? Drugs. Sex. Yeah. There are 10 sex on concrete sinks that were put in as concrete so that they wouldn't fall because people have sex on them. How are there 10 on this list after Armageddon? What are they?

Well, it's agree to disagree, gloves off, fisticuffs, kerfuffle, hubbub, hurly burly, slobber knocker, Donnybrook riot. Now there's war. This is not the right list. It's just not the right list. Bruce Willis. We didn't talk about him earlier. Speaking of Armageddon. Chris Cody, what is your list of social media hierarchy values? It's not my list. We're working on it as a group back here. Right now at the very top.

In terms of social media feeling rankings. Going viral for something good. Like that's the top of the food chain right now. By the way, we call that the Rex Chapman. Correct. Next we have compliment from a celebrity that's quote tweeted or reposted. And then below that compliment from a celebrity in a reply. And then below that cosign from a celebrity. Below that compliment from a random person reply.

Below that follow below that retweet below that like below that going viral for something bad I'm going to push back on a couple things number one I think the cosine from the celebrity is more important than a compliment because the cosine is like yo This is the guy right here and that Breeds a lot more follows and likes and views and everything else so that's second after going viral for something good for you. I

Like that's next after that. Because this is fluid. We can move stuff up and down. I would say cosine, yes.

Do we agree on that or is this just a meme? I think it obviously depends on the celebrity. There's certain people that they interact with your tweet, even if it's positive and you're like, uh-oh, I don't know about that. But Amin, when you put at the bottom of the list going viral for something bad, yes, that's terrible if it's actually shameful, but Amin likes it when he goes viral on one of his quote-unquote bad things. Dan, I'm glad you brought that up because yesterday something awful happened to me.

That should have gone viral, but this country's values are all out of whack. I know what you're talking about. I've got a note here from somebody who wrote in, as a middle school math teacher, Amin's consistently erroneous math in hour one yesterday had me horrified. I'm horrified. It was still not as bad as Tony's shower beers, but continue. No, no, no. It's way worse. It's way worse than anything. And I thought for sure, I was like, oh, I don't want to open my phone.

And I opened my phone and I looked at the mentions and there was nothing. I went on Reddit, there was nothing. I went everywhere. I went on Instagram. I went on threads. Nothing. And I said, you know why? Because this country's education system is failing us. It's failing us. It's failed us all. You guys care more about a jump shot than math.

I was embarrassed by and for Amin yesterday. He stopped the show in its tracks to do its cardinal sin. Like you did. You did to say, hey, I've got math I'm going to do. And then you got it wrong. And then you got it wrong twice. And you never actually got it right. We still don't know the correct answer. Pay the teachers.

Summer's the best time to run the way you want. Dial it up with new challenges and programs and bring your workouts with you to make the most of outside sunny days. Stugatz, guess what? What? You know what you can do with Peloton? What? Get the app, go outside, ride a bike. Well, I thought you ride Peloton inside. Well, you do. You can ride Peloton inside if it's a rainy day or if it's cloudy or you just don't want to get outside. Maybe it's too hot.

summertime, go outside. I record a lot from my office with you and you've noticed it's sitting there yet. It hasn't been used. Well, now's the time. Summer's the best time to start that push. Right. Can we do it together? Not on the same bike, but we could join a class together. I used to do that. We used to have Guillermo Tan. I'd invite people. We'd all take a class together. Okay. So I think you're starting to get concerned about my health and my age, Billy. I,

I sense that with you. We're beyond starting. Okay. Whatever road lies ahead, your training starts here with Peloton Tread and Tread Plus. It's not just a bike, a treadmill too. I'm going to go outside. I'm going to get in shape. I'm going to do it with Billy Gill. I want to be in your class. I want you to be my instructor. You know what? I won't be your instructor. You don't want to spend more time with me. No, I can schedule a class and we can ride together. I won't be the instructor of the class. We can have Camila could be our instructor. I like the Grateful Dead class. My daughter, she uses the Peloton. Mm-hmm.

She was on it once and an instructor who was playing Grateful Dead tunes. Let's do that. Okay. Why don't we go for a run outside? Guided run. Peloton. Me and you. That's something we can do together. Okay. Turn on the app. Me and you go outside. Enjoy the summer. Call yourself a runner with Peloton at onepeloton.com slash running. All right.

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