Hour 1: Ordering One Krispy Kreme Donut
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That's right. It's time for Against the Spread. And it is brought to you by DraftKrings. Stay tuned because you'll hear about what DraftKrings has to offer throughout the show. DraftKrings, the crown is yours. Lucy, kick us off with Against the Spread.

Tonight, some WNBA action. The Mystics are at the Aces. I almost said Vases. That's not what they're called. The Mystics are really, really bad, so I know it's a giant spread, but I'm taking the Aces minus 16 and a half. Back to back? Yeah, back to back, but the Mystics are really, really bad, and the Aces are playing their best basketball of the season. So I'm taking the Aces minus 16 and a half, not the Vases, against the spread. Can't go wrong.

Jessica or Tony, who's next? I'll go. Lucy, I know you only picked that game because you didn't want to have to say Mercury out loud. And that's who I'm taking tonight to cover the five-point spread against the Wings. Wangs. Even though they've also played several games back-to-back. But that's besides the point. Fina's Mercury.

Can Lucy not say Mercury? Tony. I can't say a lot of things. Can you say Arnold Palmer? Arnold Palmer. I have to say it like that, though, and it makes me sound super rude. Can you say Real World Road Rules Challenge pretty fast? What? Real World Road Rules Challenge. I definitely can't say it fast. You really can't, probably.

All right, we're going to the MLB. We've got the Miami Marlins and the Boston Red Sox. I think they're doing fireworks tonight at the stadium. And you know what the Marlins are when they do fireworks? What are they? Loud. I don't know exactly, but very good. I'm going to take the Miami Marlins plus one and a half on the run line. Against the spread. Here's Lucy trying to say Arnold Palmer. I can say Mercury and Arnold Palmer now. It's not good. All right, Billy. It's not good. Over to you. Music. All right.

No pomo. It's with a heavy heart that I'm gonna have to make this choice. The Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Who's even in it anymore? Great question. Bunch of hacks. A bunch of hacks. Well, it's a bunch of people that we don't know. I'm not gonna call them hacks. But Joey Chestnut is not in it, which means for the first time in a long time, we're gonna have a new winner. The favorite...

is Jeffrey Esper. Now, last year, Jeffrey Esper finished in second place with 49 hot dogs. The year before, he finished in second place with 47 and a half hot dogs. A one and a half hot dog jump.

from year to year. In third place in 2022, we had James Webb with 41 hot dogs. And last year he had 47 hot dogs, a six hot dog jump. Finally, the type of research Dan wants for these segments. As we mentioned, and I believe that Esper had 50 hot dogs in 2021, but I'm kind of speed checking here, so I'm not sure. So it seems like he's gone up and down, fluctuated. James Webb, while not the favorite...

is a plus 145 and I'm gonna take James Webb with an upset win in the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Money, money, money, money. Against us, bro. You guys think Kobayashi feels like I retired too early?

Well, he got banned. He's got a payday. He got banned too? Yeah, because he signed with a competitive eating company beforehand, and then he was up to shenanigans. So he signed with a competitor, and then they banned him from doing it, and then he would go and crash the hot dog eating contest, and then he'd get arrested, and they'd take him out. It was a whole thing. Arrested? Yeah, so then there was questions. Is Joey Chestnut going to do...

Yeah, I don't know. So then Joey Chestnut, is he going to pull off something? Nope. Joey Chestnut will be in a hot dog eating contest tomorrow as well. On Netflix, though. No, not. No, no. That's, I think, Labor Day. Tomorrow, he's going to be in a hot dog eating contest, I think, at Fort Bragg with Soldiers. Is that when the troops...

Is that the vegan dog? No, that's the Netflix one. The vegan dog is the Netflix one. I'm so confused about all of this Joey Chestnut stuff, but I do feel like I'm going to be more interested in the hot dog eating contest than ever, knowing that we'll have a new winner crowned. I gotta tell you. It's a different segment. I gotta tell you. I haven't watched a hot dog eating contest several times. Segway. Not really. We're still talking about hot dogs. There's a reason why Joey Chestnut wins.

Beyond just the talent. Beyond the talent. His technique. I see some of these other clowns that are trying to eat the whole hot dog. There's a guy putting ketchup and mustard on it. What are we doing? You shouldn't be able to dunk in water. Why not? I think it should be old-fashioned. Eat the hot dog.

I think that's more player safety, right? Yeah. That hot dog is getting lodged right here. The bread, too. Without any bar. I feel like, personally, I'm not in watching shape for the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. I've had heartburn slash acid reflux the last few days. I'm a tummy ache survivor. I'm here at work. Tummy ache city. Congratulations. Tummy ache city. And I just feel like I'm not ready to watch men and women regurgitate hot dogs on TV. I got to say, you know,

Having, like I said, with all the hot dog talk, I talked about this with Fuentes a few months ago. You guys know about the 999 challenge, right? I do, but tell Izzy. Nine hot dogs, nine beers, and nine innings at a baseball game. I think I can absolutely crush it. Who's pitching?

That's a good question. Because if it's an ace, it's pretty short innings. Dude, that seventh, eighth, and ninth inning are going to be the worst experience of your life. I think the beer is the hardest part. Imagine being six...

of each through like if you're if you're doing the inning thing like i'm gonna try to do one of each an inning it's the bottom of the six you just finished six hot dogs i don't think you pace yourself on this you gotta you gotta come out quick yeah you gotta get out to an early yeah and then because if you do like one and then like i'm done for the inning like no no no you're never gonna catch up your body the more you eat quickly the more you can eat if you eat a little bit wait a little eat a little bit then you can't eat that much

I'm looking up this Jeffrey Esper, by the way, the person that I did not pick to win the hot dog eating contest, and it may have been a mistake. Jeffrey Esper, I'm on his official Major League Eating profile. He's 49 years old. Prime of his career. The other guy's 35, which is also why I was thinking big jumps in hot dogs. He's a wily vet. I feel like maybe we go. But this Jeffrey Esper has a world record, I guess, for eating 9.75 pounds of Spam in eight minutes. Wow.

281 buffalo chicken wings in 12 minutes. Wow. That's a lot of wings. He has... Buffalo wings, too. 83 slices of pizza in 10 minutes. I've done that. 23.75 pounds of strawberry shortcake in 8 minutes. 23 pounds of strawberry shortcake in 8 minutes. That's diabolical.

Do you get to take a bathroom break? Is it okay to take a bathroom break during the nine-inning challenge? Yeah, only number one. Yeah, no, you can go to the bathroom. As long as you don't vomit, right? The idea is that in nine innings, you have to have nine beers and nine hot dogs. I think I have a formula that we can make this happen. What you do is you double up on the dogs. Three pre-rolls.

No, sometimes if you're like a little stone, you start thinking about what you're doing. It's like, am I really stuffing nine of these things in my face? I'm not hungry anymore. I'm out of here. No, I don't think... Man, can you...

I don't think you can do beer. Can you do the beer first? Knock the beer out of the way? I don't think that helps. I think you've got to do it the other way around, right? Beer first? You'll be burping the whole time? You'll be too bloated? You also need a base, Izzy. You're not going to be burping? No, but the hot dog gives you the base. The bread and the dog gives you the base. No, the base is Pepsi and AC, guys. That's the base. That's what I think. I think you go three or four hot dogs first inning. I think you've got a shotgun.

You can't eat four hot dogs in one inning. Yeah, you can. Oh, my God. What? I'll do it right now. Not half an inning. I'll do it right now. Go get me four hot dogs. Ethan, go get four hot dogs. And cook them. Cooked hot dogs. Don't get me raw ones and don't get me pork ones. Chicago dogs? Do you want to eat a little tomato, a little sport pepper? And a big bucket of water, please. Why not?

I'm not going to eat them fast. No, I'm not a speed eater, but I'll eat four hot dogs right here. I'll eat four hot dogs in one segment. But for your safety, you should just dip them in water first. Get them to me right now. Go to Nathan's. I'll get them right now. I believe that he can have four. Four hot dogs? It's not...

It's not four hot dogs. Chris, I go home. That's an appetizer for my boy. Dude, I go home. I want a snack. I make hot dogs. My mom's like, what are you doing? I'm like, I just want a snack. Everyone in here could just crush four hot dogs. Four hot dogs in that home? In one segment. Absolutely. In 12 and a half minutes? Yes. In one inning, he said. He said in one segment. I could do it in one segment. In 12 minutes, you're going to eat four hot dogs? Four hot dogs. I'm not saying I couldn't physically do it, but I'm going to feel like shit after three. Yeah, well, that's the thing. I like hot dogs. Make mine carrot dogs, please. Carrot dogs?

Carrot. But you don't like dogs? I don't eat meat. I'm having second guesses on James Webb. I've got to be honest with you. 70 glazed donuts in eight minutes isn't that impressive to me. 70? Yes, 70. 70? In eight minutes. No, 7-0, 7-0. I've seen Billy do a box of Krispy Kreme in five minutes. I had two this morning. My ex-husband had a professor, I guess an econ professor, who used that for, what's the theory? Diminished returns, right? So he had him stand in front of the class and eat donuts.

as many Krispy Kreme donuts as he could eat. And I think he got through like 11 in just that one setting and had never eaten a Krispy Kreme donut again for the rest of his life. Again, wow. I think the last Krispy Kreme donut I had, I was like, hmm. It felt like it sat in my stomach for a few days. It was gross. From one? Dude, three. They're so greasy. Moment of vulnerability. They're delicious. 100%.

not that impressed with the Krispy Kreme donut. Yeah, I had the saddest Krispy Kreme experience the other day, and this was to answer Billy's question. You asked me in the eating area earlier whether, when was the last time I had a donut. What's wrong with you? The eating area. Commissary. Sorry, commissary as well. And the answer was, just a few days ago, I went through, near me they have a Krispy Kreme drive-thru, and when I ordered a singular glazed donut, she responded with, they're not hot right now.

And I said it doesn't matter. It absolutely matters. I know. I ate it anyway. It matters so much. I cried a little bit that I ordered it anyway. I could have just come back later. What kind of monster orders one Krispy Kreme donut? Yeah, that's crazy. And a drive-thru. What are you doing, my guy? It's not hot. It's a guy that doesn't matter. Just give it to me. I'll take one, please. That'll be $1.12. Thank you. Have a good day. I have a sentence here that a lot of people are going to judge. You sick b****.

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I was at a Walmart the other day and like there's no Krispy Kreme by me, right? There's not just a ton of Krispy Kremes in my area. So like I will go to like a grocery store and I'll get like the pre-packaged like Krispy Kreme variety pack or whatever, right? But a lot of times those will sit there like a day or two, right? You wish. Like a week. I've found that at Walmart they have like a little Krispy Kreme.

Krispy Kreme donut section, like a little donut window. - Says delivered fresh daily. - That you go in there with the little tongs and you take out the donut and you serve yourself, right? - They're always filled. No one eats those things. - I do. So I went and I told my daughter 'cause she wanted a pink donut and I was like, okay, come with me to Walmart and we'll go get you a pink donut. I'll do the things that I have to get here, like some groceries or whatever and we'll get you a pink donut with sprinkles. That's what she wanted.

But you can't just get one Krispy Kreme donut because, as Chris pointed out, you're a crazy person if you do that. But the donuts there are priced per donut, right? So, like, you go, you take out the donut, you put it in the one donut sleeve, you scan the barcode, and they charge you $2.12 or whatever. Which is, like, a whole other story. Donuts should cost $2.

Two? Donuts should cost 50 cents. $2 a donut? Yes, that's what donuts cost now. That's the price of donuts in America. Got a little walk-around. They should cost like 54 cents maximum, a donut. That's a platform I think anyone would get elected on. The 54 cent donut. Go back to junior high, middle school days. You stole your donuts. You just, a quarter per donut. A quarter? Atta boy. What were you paying for gas? You know how much money people were making?

- Is he had like a wax mustache? - Yeah. - I would always buy donuts off of them.

So Krispy Kreme is actually from my hometown. Really? Yes, it is. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Birthplace of Krispy Kreme. So all of our school events were always catered by Krispy Kreme. Are you over them at this point? I am not over them, but there was a point where my town was top ten in obesity. Hold on. Krispy Kreme. Coincidence. I wonder if there's a correlation there. Cigarettes and donuts. Cigarettes, donuts, and I think also Texas Pete hot sauce. Okay.

Well, anyways, so the point is this. If you go to like a Publix, you buy the prepackaged things, you pay like $10 or something for six or like $9 for six, right? Which is crazy because, again, 54 cents maximum is what a donut should cost in this country. You max them.

Then I go to Walmart and they have a little box of six. So I'm like, I'm going to get this box of six. It's going to be cheaper. So I put in the six. I go to scan it. $12. They still charge me $2 per donut. They just had a convenient box. What do you mean impossible? It happened. I would take it back. I would leave it there. I would absolutely not buy it.

I'm not leaving things at the register. I can't do it. I used to work in retail. I can't just leave things unaccounted for. For $12 donuts? If I see something that I've, even like if I go to like a fitting room, and let me tell you something. When I worked in retail, go-backs, my favorite activity.

When the store was closed, I'd just go and I'd just take things back because you just get a bag full of clothes and you're just talking to people the whole time, putting it back, you straighten out the hangers. You take your time. You know what time you're going to leave. You're like, I'm going to have this take as long as I need it to take. I like this. This is like an end of the shift activity is what you're saying? Yeah, go back. So I was a cashier. Well, I wore many hats at Victoria's Secret, but I sometimes was a stock boy. I then was a cashier.

But I'd like to do go-backs sometimes if I liked the people that I worked with because I could just kind of pace myself and I could go in and talk to them and then the manager would be like, really, really, where are you on the walkie-talkie? And I'm like, doing go-backs. And they're like, you've been doing go-backs for an hour and a half. We want to go home. And I'm like, well...

Panties aren't going to put themselves away. I'm the worst with that at grocery stores. If I have something in my cart and I decide that I don't need that anymore, that is going wherever I'm at. This banana, this is going aisle seven. Chris, we know. You're a human nightmare.

shit back at the grocery store. Oh, like you guys are walking all the way back. If I try things on at a store and they're like, did it not fit? I'm like, I'll say yes and then I'll go put it back anyways. I'm like, yeah, no, it was great. I think I'm going to take it and I put it back. But then you're depriving someone of the best time of the entire day. Yeah, but I see, I took inventory. I don't want to say that I'm, you know, judging the people, but I see them like, this is a person that doesn't want to be here later today putting things back. I'm going to give them a night off. So you're judging a book by its cover. Exactly right. But in a positive way, a good way.

What were we talking about? Hot dogs? No, we were talking about the WNBA All-Star game. Oh, yeah. The teams have been announced. The top two vote-getters are, just tells me, rookies.

Do we know? No, the top two vote getters were Caitlin Clark and Aaliyah Boston, I think was the second. Oh, teammates. And then Asia Wilson. The thing that was confusing, so like I tried to vote for, or I think I did vote for an all-star team. I just pick all Notre Dame players. That's like the only thing I do. I'm like Skylar Diggins 10 times. Didn't vote enough because she didn't make it. But you could vote for players that were already on Team USA, right?

even though they were already going to be at All-Star because it's Team USA versus the WNBA All-Stars. So that's very confusing because I assume that people voted for like or didn't vote for people that made the Team USA team because they already knew they were going to be there. I don't understand how any of that works. This is a little confusing. Yes. Why wouldn't they just take off those names from the ballot? I don't

I don't know. I don't know if there's like a financial incentive to being like a top voter. I don't know how any of that works. But if there is, I would complain about, wait, there's a financial incentive. Everyone already knows I'm going to be there. So what if all the people who would have voted for me otherwise won't vote for me?

I'd have a problem with that. I don't understand how the voting isn't even the end-all be-all. There's like 50% of it is the fan vote and then other people decide. Yeah, media and players. But Kaylin Clark received the most votes. She received like 700,000 votes. And that's a win for the WNBA that she did not make the Olympic team because now she gets to headline the All-Star Game, which is more eyes. And headline the All-Star Game playing against the Olympic team. So you get the rare snub that gets to do something about it directly.

I honestly think the biggest selling point isn't even that. It's the fact that Caitlyn and Angel are now going to be playing for the same team. And that's never happened before, even in the AAU circuit or USA Basketball back when they were, you know, teenagers. It's going to be something that people care probably way too much about in a bad way. Do you think they're going to do the thing where, like, we've got to show the world that we don't have any problems with one another? And so they're going to be over the top, like, oh, good one, and joking around and stuff?

She only passed her to Angel four times. Definitely. I feel like they kind of do go out of their ways to be like, we don't hate each other. Like this whole rivalry is a media construct, which I feel like a lot of rivalries are because I remember like when I was growing up and I thought like, oh man, like Notre Dame, this is just an example personally, like Notre Dame football players, they really hate like those

USC players. And then I went to college and was friends with a bunch of football players. And they were like, yeah, it's a big rivalry. But if we're cool with them, it's fine. Can I check in on... That's just a thing that I think all fans kind of like.

Some rivalries, some rivals I think do hate each other, like truly, but for the most part it's like, no, you respect the other team and you just want to beat them. I wish Juju were here for this too because I heard him say yesterday that he watches every WNBA game, which I do not believe. I believe it. And NBA game. And NBA game. Can we check in on how we think the game is being talked about right now? Because something happened to me yesterday while I was watching. It kind of made me switch the channel because Kelsey Mitchell fouled Kelsey Plum and then the announcer just said,

that those are two of the greatest scorers the game has ever seen, or in the history of the game. - In the history of Kelsey's. - And then they kept talking about it and then said, well, they were in this place until Kaitlin passed them last year. And I was like, oh, you're talking college basketball.

That's an entirely different discussion to me than professional basketball, at least on the men's side. And so the idea that this is like the WNBA feels like the way a lot of people talk about it. And I think this goes back to the GOAT discussion because we never talk about GOATs when they're graduating college, right? It feels like the WNBA is like an extension of the NCAA for some people because they just know more about the NCAA and they're just getting to the WNBA. I'm confused by it.

I think that maybe I heard the same thing. I've seen different comparisons where they're taking into account people's college careers, like into the pros, and giving it a lot of weight, which I think is kind of trying to help maybe some of the new fans that are just now starting to watch because they were fans of the college game. I think maybe that's where some of the bleed over is coming because you're right. I think if I ever watched an NBA game and they were saying these are the best –

in the history of the game, and they were the best scorers in men's college basketball. I probably don't even know who those people are, honestly. I looked up yesterday the top 13 scorers in men's NCAA history. Number one, Pete Maravich. There's a couple names on there that are recognizable. Oscar Robertson, Hersey Hawkins. By the way, I only know Pistol Pete's on that list because Caitlin Clark recently broke his record, and people got into arguments about the three-point line. The one current player on that list

Doug McDermott. If anybody would have said Creighton. No, I mean, he's from Iowa. He's from Ames.

If anybody would have said in his rookie year or in his second year, one of the greatest scorers in the history of the game without specifying college, people would have gone nuts. Like, what are you talking about? He just got to the league. We don't know if he can score with these people. And it's the same thing with WNBA rookies or young players. We don't know if they can score with these women yet. Give it some time. And so it feels like it's just more of the conflating stuff that I find confusing. And I just think it's unfair to this is probably why some of the vets are upset. It's like, wait a second.

I'm actually one of the greatest scorers in the history of the game because I got a 10-year professional career behind me.

I saw they were comparing Kaitlyn Clark and Asia Wilson's stats. So on the one hand, you have Kaitlyn Clark, who's by far, I think, the best passer on the Fever by far and is shooting long threes in every game. But Asia Wilson's averaging 26 points per game and I think 11 rebounds or something like that. And Kaitlyn's averaging, I think, 16 points per game and maybe six or seven assists and maybe three rebounds. I'm not sure. Five rebounds. So thank you, Lucy. So...

I think it's like a little unfair to even like set them up because you're comparing like a rookie who's very, very good. Not not saying that she's not great, obviously. But Asia Wilson is on another planet like she's having an insane season. She might break the record for the highest points average of any player in NBA history this year. And this isn't a knock on any one person, one announcer, one analyst. I just feel like it's kind of all kind of happening that way. It's just kind of lumped in together, except when I hear, you know, certain conversations like some here on the show.

- Ooh. - Are we doing a good job? - Yeah, I mean, look, you, Juju, I mean, you guys know what you're talking about. It is what it is, it's obvious. And not to say that the announcers that are calling the game don't know what they're talking about. It's just about how we're talking about the game, how we're introducing it to new people, perhaps.

shouldn't we, if they already know the young players who are bringing their eyes there, then tell them about the other people who have already been here and say, hey, these are also great players who have done these amazing things. And maybe we get that balance that we're looking for. I do think it's probably to like maybe give like a little bit of credit to the people calling the games. It probably is hard because they want to make sure that the people tuning in for the first time get what they're coming for, which is like Caitlin Clark and like the fever and like the things that they're like.

The Fever have obviously become very popular this season. Aaliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell also received a ton of All-Star votes. They were All-Stars last year, and Aaliyah Boston was Rookie of the Year. But the amount of people voting on the All-Star game quadrupled, I think, since last year. Who was the player that... Sorry to interrupt. Who was the player that Kaitlyn dropped? She missed the shot.

But she dropped somebody? I think it was Rebecca Allen on the Mercury. I'm not sure. It was on Sunday, right? I got the chills when I heard that call. And it was my guy, Mark Jones, saying he dropped her like a diss track. And I was like, ah, thank you. Thank you, WNBA, for giving me that moment. Because if she would have made the shot, it would have been an all-timer. Gotta hit the J. People would have gotten.

People would have gone insane. But I do think the announcers are trying to strike the balance. We know there's new fans here that want to hear about Caitlin Clark and all of the things that comes along with that. But at the same time, yeah, the Fever are not one of the best teams in the league. They are playing a lot better, but the Aces are still far and away much better than the Fever and have much better overall talent and are just playing at a different level right now. Back in my day, Tony, what they used to call it, million-dollar move?

Ten cent shot. Ten cent finish. That's how we used to do things back in my day. I think there's also a pressure probably coming from their networks and their employers where it's kind of like how we always see First Take talking about the Cowboys. It's because there are ratings that follow it. They're probably saying, hey, you need to talk about Caitlyn. We need to have Caitlyn segments in SportsCenter and they need to be kind of the focus of the halftime show. I'm sure it's coming from them. I don't have a problem with that. Just specify. Just say college.

Just say greatest college scores ever and now transferring that into the NBA. And also, to be clear, when you're the announcer calling the game, like in a studio show, yes, we have a limited number of topics. And what we talk about is what's on the screen.

I'm calling the game. Caitlin Clark's in the game. I don't have to talk about her. If I just keep people like, oh, you can hear Caitlin Clark. She's right there. See her? Right there. Run up. Yep. Now she's running back. I could talk about whatever. So the idea that even the commentary has to be in this weird kind of prism is sort of silly and ridiculous. Also, I looked up the top scores in women's college basketball history. Ten of the 13 have played like in the last 15 years. And three of them were on the court last night?

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Don Levitard. You were that kind of sad this morning, taking the barrage of anger from Stugatz because you hadn't booked him enough interviews. The only reason I keep bringing this up is because you are throwing a big party on Thursday. You're doing it, and I want people to support what you're doing because Stugatz has not made this easy. Stugatz. Ah.

Well, you know, I, well, yeah, you know. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugats. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day.

Stat of the Day is presented by Miller Lite. Wow! According to Taylor, according to Elias Sports Bureau, Wyatt Langford is the first rookie in MLB history to record a cycle, Grand Slam, and Inside the Park home run in a season.

Wow, give me those again. He did. A cycle, Grand Slam, and inside the park home run in a season. He's got wheels. Who does he play for? Milwaukee. Milwaukee? Cleveland. Milwaukee. Ah, the Tampa Bay Rays. Rangers. Oh, close. There you go, Billy. Close. Good job, guys. That's baseball talk. That's out of the day. Inside the ballpark home run. He gets it. Brought to you by Miller Lite. Yes. Presented. Great taste, less filling. It's Miller time.

Do you think brands don't like it if you use old slogans? Is there a problem? It's Miller time is still. It's always Miller time, baby. It's always Miller time. Especially on July 4th. Good to know. Fourth of July. Is it Fourth of July or July 4th? The fourth. It's both. Do you guys do anything for Fourth of July? Like with your families, do you go somewhere for fireworks with your kids? A little staycation, Fort Lauderdale Beach for me. I got to tell you, Jess.

Not into it? They don't grow out of it. It's like, okay, we get it. It's fireworks. It's always been sort of a backup, background holiday for me. I think I'll go to the Cody family celebration on the beach more than my family will do anything. I am actually going to Orlando with my family this time, but it just happens to be around. A background holiday. It's weird that you just said I don't usually hang out with my family when you're going to hang out with your family. Yeah, like the first time in probably 10 years that I've hung out with them. Izzy, July 4th is the greatest holiday on our calendar. What?

Bar none. Easily. Okay, so I would think that you could relate to this. Here in July in South Florida is the worst possible time to be here. It's not that bad. Everyone freaks out about this heat, all right? It's not just the heat, but the weather. You can't predict it. It could be raining during the fireworks. It could be raining all day, or it's just going to be steaming hot. I'd rather just be out of town doing something random. That's life. Sometimes it's going to rain. Sometimes you're not going to be able to see the fireworks. But you know what, America? Yeah.

is always ready for you. I do love the 4th of July, but I am kind of just like neutral on fireworks. I don't think of them positively. I don't dislike them. I am just like a flat line. A lot of places are doing the drone show now, Chris. How do you feel about the drone show? Look, I've never seen one in person, but I've seen the videos and they remind me of Spider-Man Far From Home.

And I'm like, you know what? This is pretty cool that we're in the future. We could do things like that with drones. So we found out the other day that there's a drone show in Miami. And we were like, oh, that'll be good. It won't freak out our dog. Is it this show? No. And then we...

And then we realized that our dog is actually afraid of drones because one time my boyfriend's dad flew a drone near my dog and she lost her fucking mind. She went crazy. So we're definitely going to be hunkering down tomorrow. Okay, let's play this out. The biggest payoffs...

for holidays okay christmas by far the biggest payoff for me right i'm getting actual gifts things that i like i enjoy getting gifts but payoff versus payout stress exactly the stress of oh we have to get another gift here and we're late and we got to do something else you got a plan for 17 people i gotta be at this house at 2 p.m. is that the holiday itself or is that preparing for the holiday because it's all it's all encompassing it's all encompassing hold on okay are

you guys are more gift receivers and gift givers. I know I'm a gift giver. I was just doing that for the show, but I, of course, payoff wise, I love it more than any other holiday.

Okay? Probably second place to me, Thanksgiving. Love Thanksgiving. Love the food. I'd put Thanksgiving second too. Third place? You don't go to two houses, do you? Probably Valentine's Day. Yeah. For payoffs. Chris, you're doing in-laws and your parents for every holiday? Well, the major like eating one, like Thanksgiving and Christmas have lessened for me as I've like gotten the family thing going because it's just like we got to go here and then we got to go here and it's just...

Fourth of July is like, we're all going to the beach and let's get fucking drunk. Oh, God, nothing like it. And on that note, I want to cycle back to, is he having Valentine's Day in his top three? That was a stretch. Sucker's holiday. He's saying good payoff. It's all about the payoff. I get what he's saying.

It's like these people don't like chocolate. And then probably put birthday after that. It's not a holiday. Everybody has one. It's a personal holiday. But yeah, I just don't think the payoff of the fireworks is enough. But it's not about the fireworks. You get fireworks on other holidays too. Get over the fireworks. So what is it? It's about a beach day with friends. It's about the grill, man. The pool. It's all about the grill.

Exactly. The grill. The Miller Lite. A cold Miller Lite. Exactly right. What do vegans grill normally? Great taste, less filling, 96 calories. Whatever they grill. I don't know. Watermelon or whatever. I want a Miller Lite right now just thinking about it. You want me to get you one? Let's go get a Miller Lite. When you're out on the boat and you got the Miller Lite with a little sweat dripping down the can. Yo, Tony.

Fist me, Tony. Come on now, dude. You're a boat guy. I'm shocked that you're not like... I can go on the boat on the 1st of July, the 2nd of July, the 3rd of July. Yeah, but nothing's like the 4th, though. But the 4th is when all the assholes are out, so I don't blame you for that. It's Miami. The assholes are out all the time. Good point. Touche. It's more ways than one. What? Oh.

Anal bleaching. But yeah, I think my excitement for 4th of July directly correlates to my access to a grill. And since I moved to Miami, I've had almost no access to a grill. So I've just not had the best 4th of July. Don't they have grills here at the house? Let's grill. Let's go up to the deck and grill right now. Get the middle lights. We ran out. Oh,

We ran out? Yeah. Can I tell you guys an idea for a bit that I had that I discussed this with Louis? Well, we can talk about this on air because none of the main participants are going to be here. Okay, good. So here's my idea. And tell me, guys, what you think about this. Because sometimes I just have ideas, right? Yeah.

So it's it's for Greg Cody on a Tuesday. I love it already And what I was thinking is because Miller lights a sponsor. He's a Miller light man I was thinking of bringing one of those little personal coolers and Having it here under my desk and I was gonna have it filled with ice-cold Miller lights and every time Greg made what I deemed a good point I was gonna reward him with a Miller lies about Greg. You know what great point. I

Why don't you enjoy an ice cold Miller Lite? And then we do like the Miller Lite read and just keep giving him Miller Lites throughout the show. Do you have to drink them? Yeah, of course. He gets to drink them. He gets to drink them. But Billy, what you're supposed to do is when he makes a good point, he says, you know what, Greg? You...

Hold up to the mic. You earned this one. An ice cold one. Yeah. You got to do that because that sound. And by the way, the sound from a Miller Lite can. Better than all. It's a different sound. It's like there's acoustic panels in the can somehow. Also, oddly, I feel like it's easier to chug than any other beer. Oh, it is. Responsibly, of course. Responsibly. If Miller Lite. If you make a good point. If opening a Miller Lite were a holiday, where would that rank? It'd be July 4th. Yeah, man. What are we talking about?

V-Day, baby. Every day feels like a holiday when I have a Miller Lite. I'll tell you that right now. I won't be watching fireworks tomorrow. Can I tell you another idea that I had? I have two more ideas to run past you guys. Is this the one I'm thinking you're talking about? This is wedding week. Here's wedding week. We mentioned on the air that people sometimes from time to time will send us wedding invitations. Yes.

Chris Weddingham, by the way, he was welcoming that. I think that was where it all started. Chris Weddingham? Chris Weddingham, yeah. He was like, invite me to your weddings. I want to dance at a wedding. Yeah. Well, we see now he dances at hockey games. Instruct me how to Douglas. Ha ha ha!

So the idea for wedding week is I wanted to solicit wedding invitations and then for a week I was going to find coordinated weddings that I could just travel the country showing up unannounced to people's weddings that they announced. Like Don Madden? Invited us to. Yeah, like just have like a bus or whatever and take me to weddings across the country.

I found one, and I hate to break the news to Mesa and Greg here. I'm not going to be able to attend your wedding in Portugal because it's the day before NFL kickoff, and I think I'm going to be at the game for that. I'm not sure yet. But it is a Wednesday wedding, which does help. It is a Wednesday wedding, which would have been great for wedding week. So if you're out there, you have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday weddings.

We would love if you could coordinate it for a week so we can kind of just go on this wedding week situation. Send us your invites here over at the office. I don't know the address. You can figure it out. Google.com. You know what's funny, Billy? I was just thinking if you had a Tuesday wedding, would you have going up on a Tuesday?

On the band list or on the playlist? Band list. Band? It's on a Tuesday. Who is this guy? This is not my Israel Gutierrez. You are not, yeah. Gutierrez, this is not him. You're not a fun wedding person. That's what I'm finding out. Is it a good dancing song? Yeah, man. It doesn't matter if it's good or not. It's a great drunk song. Squad going up. Everyone, see. That's for the after party. You got to play. The reception? Yeah. No, the after the reception. After the reception. Yeah. After the party is the after party. Hey, so-

Prim Seripipat and my buddy Ben, who I call Ben Seripipat, when they got married, they had a wedding and all the older people were there. And then at some point, the DJ started playing the explicit version. I was like, oh. And I realized, oh, it's just us. And then after that, we went to a club. And Gojo was with us until like 5 or 6 in the morning. He had 7 a.m. radio.

Was that with Stu Gatz on Sunday? He's a legend. He missed the show because he was at a wedding. Was it that one? Yes, that was the one. That was the one he no-showed? Yes. By the way, when we were talking about the hot dog eating contest, I think Gojo called one of the hot dog eating contests. I think he did a COVID year when there was no crowd. Yeah, 2020. And it was just him and one other broadcaster in like

a closed building where they did the hot dog eating contest. We were so desperate for sports because most of the sports hadn't really restarted yet. I remember just being like, oh my god, there's an event today. I'm going to watch this. I'm so excited for 4th of July. It was back when we were clamoring for the Valero.

South Korean baseball. Like three of you nodded. I don't think you guys even get that reference, do you? Yeah. Clams with Valero. She's being a good teammate. Valero. The gas station. Everybody knows. The Valero. We'll always have the Valero. You want my other idea? Yes, please. Joe Trillionaire. Oh, wait a second. Billy, we have a minute left in this segment. I don't think you can do Joe Trillionaire justice in 60 seconds. Okay. Never mind, then I won't tell you.

There was a challenge, actually. Okay, so let's say you're a person with a net worth of $100.5 billion. Is the .5 important here? It's $500 million. Yes, it is. Very important. Because in this show, Joe Trillionaire, you get someone who has $100 billion and then $500 million, and you see if they're willing to gamble the $100 million on 10 to 1 odd to be the world's first trillionaire.

Explain the math because we're American. 60 seconds really wasn't enough time. We, in a mean, had this conversation privately and it had a bunch of different channels that we could have gone down. 60 minutes, 60 seconds. You know what we could do? Let's tease it for the next segment. Let's not. This died on Vine. That's a bad idea. Joe Trillian is dead. Forget it, TV execs. It's not happening. Well, if there's anything you've learned in this segment, just remember, America is always ready for you. Am I right, Tony? Thank you.

Howdy listeners, it's Mike Ryan and I've told you for quite a while about GameTime, my number one destination for the secondary ticket marketplace. No one does it like GameTime. There are often times where I'm using GameTime and I'm like, man, this experience cannot get any better. And then boom, GameTime now has a new feature called GameTime Picks that makes getting tickets to see your favorite teams play even easier. GameTime filters out the fluff to only show you the incredible deals on great seats for your team so you don't have to waste time searching through thousands of tickets.

Go ahead and try it out for yourself. Pick an upcoming game on the app, browse through it on GameTime Picks, and you want to talk about great deals. GameTime always brings it, whether it's their all-in pricing, seat views, the lowest price guarantee, or their ticket coverage. They make this experience so easy. And for my money, it's the best ticket marketplace app out there.

Take the guesswork out of buying tickets with GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account, and use code DAN for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Again, create an account. Redeem code DAN for $20 off. Download GameTime today. Last-minute tickets. Lowest price. Guaranteed.