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This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast.

How long do you guys sleep on average, at night? Guys get 8 hours.

They record a good six to seven.

Never. I get like three, maybe.

Mmm, four or 510.

You get 10 hours.

I am a sleep whatever you want to bed. 08:00 I usually go to bed well, when I work here, I don't get 8 hours of sleep. Also, I found I'm funnier when I've slept less, so I think it works better for me. But when I'm not here. Yeah, I get, like, 10 hours of sleep. I go to bed, like, 1030.

And you wake up at. At, like eight in the morning?

Yeah, actually, I could sleep 14 hours a night. Like, not a problem.

Really?

Yeah. When I was a kid, it was an issue. Like, I could sleep all the time.

Do you have, like, blackout curtains or just. It doesn't matter. Lights, sounds. Nothing matters.

Um, sound. Well, I have an. I have a horrible neighbor who plays call of duty all the time, so that's tough because it sounds like there are gunshots going off in my apartment all the time. I feel like I'm living on the front lines, but when he's quiet, then, yeah, I can sleep. Like, I don't have blackout curtains, but I don't have windows in my room. But even before then, like, I have always been able to sleep for, like, an extraordinarily long time. One time when I was a kid, I fell off my bed and I hit my head on the nightstand, and I busted my head open. Am I sleeping? I didn't wake up.

Oh, my God.

I know. I woke up covered in blood. It was quite terrible.

Oh, my God.

I know.

With a concussion, I'm sure. Yeah.

Well, it hasn't affected me, I hope.

I was under the impression that, like, legally, in order for it to be called a bedroom, it has to have a closet and it has to have windows.

Mine is a junior bedroom, I think is like the technical name for it. And it costs so much money. Thank you, Miami.

Oh, my God. Chris, how, how long do you sleep at night?

It depends, obviously. But, uh, I try to get six. I like if I'm asleep by midnight, up, up around six.

That's.

I try to do earlier than that. I try to be two and usually late in the week. Like most of the week, it's that by Thursday I usually catches up with me and I go to bed earlier cause I'm tired, but generally 6 hours.

I don't know how you do it.

Tony, what do you do?

I try to get in bed by like eleven. I've been trying to be better about it by like ten. 3011 try to be in bed and then wake up at 637.

You know what I'm realizing? No wonder y'all don't be having all these basketball takes. I be wanting y'all to have. Cause I be staying up to watch the Kings in the game like every night. Like, I stay up to watch every late game. So that's probably contributing to why I.

Don'T go to space. West coast living buddy.

Also, my wife doesn't want to watch King's sons, so it's a problem for me.

Oh, yeah, you're mad.

I forgot about that.

My sister.

Thank you.

I'm like, Jeremy, I get like four to 5 hours a night and not like, because like I got stuff to do. Whatever. I'm just, I don't sleep like I wake up even if I have nothing going on, if I go to sleep early. So I've had, earlier this week, I went to sleep at ten. I was just tired from a long day. I woke up at 230 in the morning. And then I just, well, I'm up now. So I just stayed up pretty much. It's, I don't.

I got a concept for you.

I'm in shock.

Go back to sleep.

I can't.

I got a concept, marijuana.

And I wouldn't wake up again and I'd be just in bed all day long. But I bring all this up because apparently Sidney Sweeney has me and Jeremy beat. She's got juju beat, she's got everybody beat. She sleeps 2 hours a night.

I take a two hour nap like every day. So I don't know, that's, that is just absolutely batshit crazy. Dakota johnson has the better answer. She came out and she was like, I sleep 14 hours a night and that's my girl.

She gets me 2 hours a night.

She also doesn't drink coffee.

She said, I don't drink coffee either, so I understand.

Neither do I.

But 2 hours a night, shout out to cam and mace.

Big cap.

Big cap. Big cap. There's absolutely no way she sleeps 2 hours a night and doesn't take any naps. And then.

And then cosmo Kramer.

Or.

Or maybe she was just an avid skier.

Wow. That is reckless. Hit it.

Hold on. Yep, it's buffering.

Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless. Here is something we like to call reckless speculation.

Be careful.

You're good.

If sidney sweeney only sleeps 2 hours a night, doesn't drink coffee, and doesn't take naps, she might be peekaboo street out here. Wow.

Wow. A reckless accusation.

Speculation. Speculating.

Are you speculating or accusing?

She might be a speculation. She is is an accusation. She might be Peekaboo street.

Fantastic name, though. Peekaboo street is one of the top five names ever. Salute. Assist.

We need to have her as a guest on the show.

You know what? I agree.

I love you. Peekaboo street.

Oh, I thought you meant Sidney Sweeney.

I love Sidney Sweeney, too. I love all of them.

I believe her life is very, very fun. So it's like, why would I go to sleep? Look at my minshis.

I like that Amine said all of them. Like, just all women. I just love.

I love all of them.

I do love everybody, man. He's a lovable guy.

Like Larry David. No one watches curb, though. The problem is, I do.

I just haven't caught up on this.

I'm sorry.

Are you up to date juju?

Hell, yeah.

Okay, so one of the things that happens is Larry, this is not really a big spoiler. It's a very c level story. But Larry has some cheese. He doesn't want to have it in his car all day to stinking up the car. So. Yes, Jeff and Susie, can I leave it in your fridge? I'll pick it up later or tomorrow. So he comes back tomorrow. They've eaten the cheese. And Susie's response is, possession is nine tenths of the law. So, you know, it's in my fridge. I eat it. What are you.

I don't know if that holds up in court.

Speaker two.

Spoiler alert.

Sorry, it's not that much of a spoiler. Not that much of a spoiler. Cause that. That was in the. In the, like, preview trailer for the next episode last week. So not a spoiler at all.

Speaking of spoilers, Caitlyn cart. They almost got spoiled the other night by West Virginia. Now we got my sister in the building finally to give more elaborative details on the experience. Oh, talk about it.

Lucy Rodean, Iowa correspondent.

Love it.

It's so good. How did he do it? I can just get down there sometimes. Can you? Can you get down there sometimes? Okay.

Yes. I was at the game. I was at both of Iowa's first round games. I wasn't. My favorite game I've ever watched. Yeah, I didn't love it.

Exciting, though, right? Like nail biters are more exciting than. Yeah.

Not when all my happiness and joy is staked on this one team.

No, I think it's better, dude.

Oh, you want.

I would've rather won by 100.

You want your favorite team that just have blowouts all the way through?

Yes, I would love that. That would be really awesome for me. Iowa actually struggled a lot in the first game, too, which people really didn't talk about. Holy cross. Really? Like, it was tough for Iowa in the first half.

More like unholy crossing. My.

Thank you.

Our teams doing more than they did in the regular season during the tournament in terms of doubling and stuff.

Not necessarily. The way to beat Iowa isn't to double Caitlin Clark. Like, you can double Caitlin Clark and she's going to score. The way to beat Iowa is forced Caitlin Clark to score all the points. Iowa has a better record when Caitlin scores less points in the supporting cast, scores more. I believe Iowa has a losing record when she scored over 40 or 50 points, because if you isolate Caitlin, she can score 50 points a game, but she can't score 100, she can't score 90. And that's no, you know, shot to her. And so you really saw West Virginia come out and they just. Iowa struggles with the press and West Virginia was pressing the entire game. Press Virginia, press Virginia. Exactly. And so it was wild to see such a low scoring game for Iowa under, I think it was like around 60 points. It was tough. It stressed me out quite a bit. But I will say one of the coolest things ever is rose. And I kept her phone on like a little decibel tracker the entire time.

Oh, yeah.

It got up to, I believe, 115 decibels in the arena, 110 with booze at one point. And I thought that was very special.

What do you make of all the hatred online going towards the team, which is saying the referees are responsible, the calls aren't on both sides. They did have a lot of questionable calls, but what do you make of that?

I would say that one, people get mad at me. I didn't call the game so don't. I don't know what you want me to do. That was not my job. I would say that the refs definitely were in Iowa's favor. I'm not saying they were cheating or anything, but what I was shot 30 free throws. West Virginia shot five. I will also say West Virginia plays a style of defense that is more aggressive. You are going to get more calls against you. Like, that's just how that works. And if you saw the first half, West Virginia, they were kind of getting away with it. That's just not always going to last. And so there was a crazy free throw discrepancy. And Iowa did get, I think, a little assistance for the refs. But for the most part, I feel like the calls were decently fair because West Virginia plays very aggressive and that is how they held Iowa to scoring so few points. Like, it's, it's tough. But like, the thing that made me mad, nobody was talking about middle Tennessee state, LSU, which had the exact same issue. And our coach isn't getting any article written about her in the Washington Post.

Talk about it. Talk about it.

Sis, I got a question. I got a question. How do you guys feel about in the women's tournament, the it first two rounds are home court advantage.

I love it.

I love it so much. And I saw people getting mad because they're like, you know, it's such an advantage for Iowa, which like, that's kind of the point. Iowa had an amazing regular season. You should be rewarded for having a good season. And so, like with the men's side, I know they're not at home court, but you see that they try to put like, like Unc played in Charlotte. Like they're doing that on purpose, you earn that advantage. Iowa earned that advantage. South Carolina earned that advantage. And you're going to see it in the college football playoff where the first round is going to be held at the higher seat. Like, we want upset, you earn it.

But we want.

That's the reason, I think.

But we got upsets. Duke beat Ohio State, Colorado beat Kansas State. Like there you see less upsets in the women's game in general, but you're still getting those upsets and you're getting those atmospheres. Like the alternative is, okay, you have Iowa and, you know, West Virginia, go play Des Moines and. Yeah, in Des Moines, or even worse, like you, sometimes it doesn't work out and they're in, you know, Spokane, Washington. And now instead of having a sold out game where you're reaching decibels in the hundreds. You have, you know, at 75, 50%, full crowd. Like, it's just, you earned home court advantage. I love it.

Right?

And I'm pretty sure West Virginia's coach, when they got off the bus, they told him, look, we going in here to Caitlin Clark's final game in Iowa, it's not going to be pretty. Sometimes we going to be five on seven with these referees, but we're going to have to persevere. And to their credit, bro, that's a.

Great coach's speech right there, by the way, five on seven is class.

What happened to the third ref? The third reference? Cool.

Yeah, he cool. He's cool, but he's neutral, right? But, yeah, but for them to show that perseverance much, hats off to West Virginia to going into that atmosphere and.

Actually performing that well, they were so good and like, like the press works well against Lisa Bluder, it works well against Iowa. They, they planned appropriately. I do think the West Virginia coach made a mistake by singling out Caitlin Clark before the game, giving some big speech to boosters of how we're going to send her packing. Know who you're messing with, man. Caitlin's going to take all that very personally.

And when it was close in the first half, I. Please don't hate me, Lucy.

I already do.

I jumped on West Virginia plus nine and a half. Cause I'm just like, it felt like it was going to be a close game with the way that second quarter went. So I'm like nine and a half. And of course, Iowa comes out, third quarter, goes on a run, and late in the game they won by ten. And I'm telling you, those free throws late in the game, like Caitlin, you could have missed one of those free throws. That's all I needed, bro.

Speaking of fire under Caitlin, Geno tried to light some fire under Caitlyn this week by saying Paige is the best player in the, in the, in the country. Check the numbers. What do you feel about that?

I'm so sick and tired of the, the debate of people being like Paige is. If Paige hadn't gotten hurt, she was supposed to be what Caitlin was. Paige is a very good player. Caitlin is a very good player. I don't understand why we have to pretend that they both can't be great players. They're both great players. Like, I don't know what we're doing.

Comparison is what. Juju, the thief of joy give you some of that?

Lucy Rodine, Iowa correspondent.

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This is the Dan Levatar show with these two gods.

All right, so earlier in the show, we had the march sadness bracket the region for songs. This next region.

We got club sounds here, and it's. There's some intense battles going on here.

Is it as. As poorly seated?

Yes.

Is it okay, well, that's debatable.

Is it absolutely as poorly seated?

All right, let's start here with a two seed. We have Dabbo Sweeney. It was a very popular sound this, this year. A caller complaining about Clemson and Dabbo was just not having it.

Dollars to go, four and four. And it's not just this year. It's been just a refusal to accept.

Let me tell you something strong last.

Year, and you're part of the problem, to be honest with you, because that is part of the problem. People like you would be. All you do is the appreciation. The expectation is greater than the appreciation. Absolutely. I'm 63 years old, and there ain't one thing in my life that I ever failed at.

It was really just building up to that last clip of him just being just the most dismissive name you could ever say about somebody. So that is going up against 15 seed Michigan coach crying on the field when Jim Harbaugh was not there.

Want to thank the lord. Want to thank Coach Harbaugh. Love you, man. Love the shit out of you, man. This is for you. But this university, the president, our ad, we got the best players, best university, best alumni in the country. Love you guys.

These guys right here.

These guys right here, man. These guys did it. These guys did it, man.

Juju, correct me if I'm wrong. That's reminiscent, right? Can't hardly wait. It's all about the memories, man.

Those are crocodile tears coming out of that brother face.

Preston. Preston Myers.

Let me remind you, March sadness is presented by get your guide. Discover over 100,000 unforgettable travel experiences in the US and around the world at get your guide.com. We keep it moving here in the club region. Steven a. Smith went on an epic rant about Jason Whitlock. We're not going to play the entire thing.

This is a one seed, right?

This is a three seed. And this is just his dismount. And it's one of the best clips of the year, easily, you fat piece of shit.

And that wasn't a top two seed.

And that is competing with Todd Bowles just really not making much sense.

Looking forward towards Detroit, the weather has been a factor in some of the playoff games, even for the most prepared teams. Today it's 13 in Detroit, which doesn't compare to some of the temperatures in. Talk to any special plans to acclimate the team, to not only endure, but perform in those kind of frigid temperatures should you face them in Detroit.

You do know we play indoors, right? They got a dome.

Oh.

No, nothing playing or indoors.

He was making fun of the report. I said, todd Bowles, I my head spinning in here.

I'm sorry.

We're talking a little lot.

It's okay, it's okay. It's drinking out of a fire hose, right? That's what Dan says.

Hmm.

Let's go in next.

Wow.

Let's go next to five versus twelve.

Adventurous things.

The five seed. This is a great, a great clip of Paul McCartney complaining about foreigner not being in the hall of Fame.

Foreigner not in the hall of Fame.

What the, it's the, that's the best clip we have.

Five seed fraud, by the way, McCartney. Good.

After all these years, though, man, why.

Is he a fraud?

He's a fraud, man. He was talking shit about Phil Collins back in the day. I didn't like it. So that was the day I, back.

When Lawrence Olivier was alive.

Watch yourself. You don't want thin eyes there, buddy.

Who's the twelve is mayor of New York? Eric Adams. Just stepping in it, mister mayor.

We've come to the end of what was a very eventful 2023.

Right?

So when you look at the totality of the year, if you had to describe it, and it's tough to do in one word, what would that word be? And tell me, why New York?

This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our trade center to a person who's celebrating a new business that's open. This is a very, very complicated city. And that's why it's the greatest city on the globe. 512 upset rears its head again because, boys, Eric Adams, if he don't move on to the next round, I'm going to question these listeners for sure.

All right, eight nine matchup. We have Lucy with one of her most epic quotes of the year.

I would say I was getting bitches left and right.

That might be the favorite to come out. The whole.

God, it's so good.

I was, guess what. One of them texted me back this week and asked if I could hang out. I'm busy, though. Sorry, Lexie.

And that is competing with a nine seed. It's a clip of me talking about my wife, and I'm worried that she might be cheating on me. Can I be vulnerable for a second? Billy shared, and he was vulnerable there, so I want to be. I want to be vulnerable. Um, if you find out your spouse or significant other is playing wordle with somebody that you were unaware there is it. Is catching your wife in a wordle game the same as catching your wife at lunch?

How can you play wordle with someone else?

Don't you play wordle with someone?

No.

Is it words with words?

Yeah.

No.

You should be the game where you send words.

You have generally trouble with words.

Is it words with friends with benefits? Yeah. You should be wrong.

It is a dude.

Oh, yeah. Okay.

Be concerned.

Like. Like, what's the line? Where's the line? I'm like, what's going on?

Well, you're saying. But this is what you're saying.

All right. Yeah.

Lucy's gonna beat me there. Lucy's gonna beat me there.

Feeling real good.

Yeah. Yeah. You know what?

Did I tell you about the seeding, or did I tell you about the seating beforehand?

I told you, Tony, you might be on to something.

Something's not right with this tournament.

All right, we're moving on here. And this is a one seed, the one seed in the club region, and it is a member of our show's grandma.

I'm seeing the arrangement that Jessica's grandmother got in queue here that we're about to play, and it is a really nice looking arrangement, and I have my regrets.

Okay, but let's play for the audience. Jessica, does this need any other setup? Because I'm telling you, in reading the transcript, I was just made so happy. How does this woman sound? Please tell me she's got a thick, thick accent, and she sounds extra old.

She sounds like she's from Chicago and she grew up in little Italy.

Let me hear this.

I got the Jessica. Holy shit. I got the most gorgeous roses. I don't think I ever got that many roses in my whole life. Certainly not from your lovely grandfather. God. May his soul rest in peace. Thank you. Oh, my God. They are beautiful. I'm flabbergasted. I mean, holy shit. I don't know what it's for, but I love you for thank you. You made my day. I mean, they are gorgeous.

Holy shit. I mean, that's a good one. Seed.

I mean, that's.

Oh, come on.

That's.

That run on sentence that ends with.

Certainly from your lovely grandfather, God rest his soul.

I mean, come on. It's like a four seed.

Yeah, it's definitely. Like.

It's hosting. It's hosting a game.

It's hosting for sure.

Flowers that always.

Well, yeah. Hell, yeah.

16 seed is. Who is competing with that? And that is David Sampson with just a quick, short little clip that we all enjoyed very much. Go peepee.

A 16 seed. 16 seed. Go peepee.

Let me. Let me do it again. Let me. For the people in the back. That's Saint Peters.

Yeah, we can hear.

That's go pee pee. That's the movie I'm doing for Citipope. Stop. Yes. That's St. Peter's 16 seed. I'm predicting go peepee. Go peepee. That was one of the greatest quotes of the year. We're making that a 16 seed.

What the hell is Cinephile?

All right, we got a fourth seed now. And this is another one from Jessica. This is not her grandma this time, but some of Jessica's best work in the club this year was misogynistic bane.

I don't like smutty either.

Women stay home in the kitchen where they belong.

And that is competing with the time that I threatened to kill Santa. I threatened to kill Santa.

Whoa.

Kill, like, murder needed to be done.

Like, it's not bad enough that. That she has to witness Santa dead in a pool of his own blood.

You pee in this bed, it's one more time. Well, it's my bed.

She now has to imagine her father in jail for murder. How'd your wife take that? Famously for murdering Santa.

That's right, bruh.

I predict this misogynistic bane will win. Go all the way.

Making a deep run. I think I agree with that.

Win the region. The.

The national championship.

The national championship.

I don't know. Over. Nice hat, asshole. You're crazy.

Oh, it's in the same region as that.

Oh. But it's gonna eventually get.

Never mind. I feel like. Nice hat, asshole. And misogynistic Bane will be the championship.

Okay, so you're saying they're gonna win the region?

Unless they're in the same side of the bracket. Then they can't. But it'll be the final four.

Yep.

Semantics.

Our final matchup of the day in the march Matt art in the March sadness tournament, which is presented by get your guide. Discover over 100,000 unforgettable travel experiences in the US and around the world@getyourguide.com. Guy that got stuck in the vase, he is the 7th seat.

God damn it.

My sweater off.

Cause I didn't do.

Damn.

He is.

You got it, Connor.

You got it.

You too.

All right. It's a guy stuck in a vase.

The most underrated part about that is that salt and pepper shoop is played in the background.

That's all I heard was, shoop.

Shoop, baby, shoop.

So the guy stuck in the vase is competing against.

Hold on, hold on. That's a seven seed.

That is a seven seed.

This seeds. I'll tell you why it is.

Competing against a ten seed. Charles Barkley. One of my favorite clips, him trying to say Sergey Bobrovsky.

And I'm going to just tell you something. Sergei Babakov. The segoli for the Panthers.

Sergey Babovkov.

Oh, man.

So that is our March sadness update for the day. Make sure to go to our social channels and vote for all these winners. If you're not happy with the seatings, you can control who moves on. So go to our socials and vote.

Juju's got misogynistic bane in the championship. Yes, I do. It's gonna final, maybe.

Nice hat, asshole.

Nice hat, asshole. Misogynistic bane.

I think, Lucy, I get bitches left and right is a tough, tough opponent.

It's a tough opponent, dare I say? I'm just. I'm predicting how he hasn't talked to.

Anybody, by the way.

Yeah, I haven't talked to anybody. Or do I, do I not.

No.

Anything, brother.

But I just know the post. I got my finger on the post of the Lebatar crowd.

Yo, I think you know misogynistic Bane was one of the great revelations of last year. New character. But for the next year, I want this character to continue to grow. Muslim, Mike. Muslim Greenie. Wait. Jail Muslim.

Enlightened greenie.

Prison Muslim greenie. I keep thinking of the dude in don't be a man of swine, my brother. Man. That might be one of the most fun things we've come up with in the last I don't know how many months the idea of greenie in prison for just an hour would convert to Islam.

That's how you know this thing is rigged. No me in this. Stop the count.

I was getting bitches left and right.

Don Lebatard photography is not as hard as it's made out to be. And now with computers, I mean, you can make anything look like anything. Dan, it's almost cheating. It's not fair.

If you push a button and it.

Takes a thousand pictures, you're gonna find a good one in the batch.

There were a lot of photographers there taking thousands of pictures. One got that photograph. Okay, good retort.

Stugots. Haven't you ever passed by photographers? I guarantee you, when that shot was taken, we didn't just hear. That's not what you heard. If you were by that camera, like, in my ear with that.

He does a good camera.

This is the Dan Levator show with the stugots.

One thing that I really regret not asking David Sampson about earlier is the full on assault the NFL is having on the NBA. For the third consecutive year, they're doing NFL Christmas this time. They can't even lie. So it was kind of near Sunday or Monday. It's a Wednesday this year. They're going doubleheader on Wednesday Christmas. And I'm just like, you know what? You got got NBA. You got punked out. My man said he want your fruit cup, and you had to come up off of it. And there is no squirrel master that's gonna save you.

Hey, I see your milkshake, I drink your milkshake.

Do we want NFL Christmas? That sounds like a dumb question, but.

Of course we do.

Here's my issue with NFL Christmas, right? You got the Christmas. You're there with the family. You're doing either a breakfast or a lunch or a dinner. You know, opening presents. You got little kids, they're opening present, people taking videos. Everybody loves it. But the problem is, I got to be locked into my NFL, right? So then I have to watch Raiders chiefs in a rainy game on Christmas while my nephews and nieces are open up presents. They're like, why can't you? And I'm like, well, I mean, juju gotti have Sunday Night live. I need to know what I'm talking about. My home's got sacked seven times. Max Crosby's beast. I wouldn't know that if I didn't watch.

I have you smoking for some reason in this move. Come on, come on.

The finest brandy.

What? What? Hurry, hurry, hurry. Time out.

The other news in the NFL this week, we got the hip drop tackle band. And for the life of me, I've watched 8 million clips. I still don't know what a hip drop tackle is. It looks like a tackle.

All I know is it's gonna make every game much more complicated and annoying.

That's all I know for sure. But like, it starts with, I watched the clips of the hip drop tackle and I said, okay, if they can't tackle like that, then how the hell.

Are they supposed to tackle a hat and a half?

That's a tackle. That's not a, like, that's not a, it's not like a horse collar or something that has a very signature look to it. It looks like a tackle.

Now, you could tell a hip drop tackle.

What's a.

So you're grabbing somebody by the waist and then you're using your momentum to almost like, bring them down. The problem is when you're, when you're turning them around like that, their legs get caught up. There's been like six tight ends that have had their legs completely destroyed by hip drop tackles.

And Jordan Travis.

And Jordan Travis, right.

Yeah.

So when you. It's the momentum. I think it's the momentum when. Come here, Jeremy.

There we go. Video audience we're getting.

He's running. Yeah, he's running. I'm catching him here.

There you go.

Turning him on a tackle.

So let me let my, don't, don't sit down yet, Jeremy. Cause we're going to take this a.

Step further and imagine also, Jeremy is not just Jeremy. It's like Nick tub or Derek Henry. So you have to do that.

So now, like Joey Bosa, now you can't do that anymore. How are you supposed to tackle someone that big running that fast?

Well, if he's running from, if I'm trying to catch him from behind.

Whoa.

I'm doing a classic shoelace tackle.

Right.

I gotta go low. How's your uncle?

Well, no, that's, that's in the pile. So I'm going low, trying to wrap up his feet.

Right.

Or I'm going high and trying to sit down on him. Like lean down on. Unless he's a quarterback. Then you can't go too low or too high. You gotta go right in the middle shoulder.

Hey, Billy. Yeah.

The shoulder drop tackle seems just as dangerous.

Receiver. Yeah, it is.

Saying like that, that's not a great option.

I'm not happy with the rule. I'm just saying, like, isn't the drop tackle when you just like, basically like, throw all your body weight. Like, you just, like, lose possession. Like, your soul leaves your body and you just fall straight to the ground. And that's how you injure them. You just are. Like, bring them down with you.

Isn't that how you tackle? I mean, I'm missing something.

No, no, Tony. It's the turn that's the issue. All right, Tony, stand still.

I'll show you Billy, who's been here all the whole time, by the way.

He can actually injure me here. So I'm. You know what, Jeremy, hold on. Jeremy, you do demonstrate. Yeah, Jeremy's got you demonstrated. They don't pay me enough to do that. Look at me. I look at. I look at my men in the eyes when I tackle them. Look at me.

But it's not what's happening.

You're not gonna lead with your head. I'm showing a proper tackle. Proper tackle. Don't worry. No, this will go well. Yeah. Don't lead with your head, right. You don't want to be with the crown.

No, that's bad.

Put your arms.

He's about to tackle him.

You gotta go through.

Oh, whoa.

Like that.

Go, Bird.

Low man wins like that and Jeremy's dead.

But it was a legal tackle.

Very legal, very above board.

They actually would have thrown a flag on that, so. No, they wouldn't have. I didn't even put my body weight. You can't drop him like that. Why? I didn't want to hurt him, so I didn't follow Drew.

He didn't follow through it. I just went, yeah, you're not in hail, but if you can't do that.

What can we do?

That's my point.

Kick the ball off anymore, because here's.

The thing that works, Jeremy. That works face to face. But again, the company in a situation.

Where you're running behind me hurts.

I mean, you're trying to chase him down. You're trying to chase someone down. Like, just wrapping around them isn't going to be enough, just jumping on them. If they're going forward, they can boost and go forward. The only way to stop someone running away from you at some point is. Yeah. Is to do.

Is the hip drop, bringing them back.

Now, you guys said. You guys said a bunch of guys got hurt recently, over the last 25 years, how many people got hurt off of that specific tackle?

Probably a lot that we haven't thought of.

One person got hurt off a tackle today?

Millions almost, I think.

But it's the same conversation you have about the horse collar tackle. How many people got hurt in the horse collar last probably a ton.

The horse collar seems like an avoidable type of tackle, though. Listen, I'm dead serious. If you can't tackle someone like that, I don't know how you stop a guy running away. I just don't.

Especially Derrick Henry is hard.

Swiping at the feet is like, the only way. Henry purposefully didn't sign until the rule was outlawed, so that that way he get more money because everybody realized he.

Would be really good.

I'm listening.

Yeah. Football luminati coming soon. How do we feel about the NFL lifting off of XFL rules?

Smart.

What rules are you? What rules? I used to tell the kickoff.

The new kickoff. The new kickoff.

What are the new kickoff rules?

Oh, I'm glad that you asked me, Juju. The new kickoff rule is now that there's a kind of a receiving zone. And so now instead of the players starting all the way back and running 100 miles an hour and then crashing into each other, they're all kind of bunched into a smaller zone. So that eliminates kind of the speed of these collisions. When they happen, they're more close quarters to begin with.

Want a demonstration, Jeremy?

Yeah.

Absolutely not. No, you just stand right in front of them. You're good.

Mark it, Jeremy. No, it's not for player safety. Whatever advancements need to be made, I feel like I'm with it. I think they should start playing in those big, puffy practice helmets. They're so adorable, number one. And also, they. Why not? If y'all practicing them, it seems illogical.

I feel like they're just really uncomfortable. Right? Cause it's so much more on top of you.

You know what else could be having uncomfortable concussion syndrome. That's very uncomfortable.

CTE.

True Cte.

I have that now.

You know what's. What's funny is, and this is. This is my ignorance, so y'all gotta bear with me. When I heard the NFL has new kickoff roles and they're taking them from the XFL, I swear to God, I thought it was. Remember the first XFL where they put the ball the best kick off and they had to run, and the first guy to get to the ball, that's who got the.

Like, dodgeball?

Yeah, like dodgeball rules. That's what I thought. And I was like, holy shit, that would be awesome. I'm locked in now. Here we are.

That's what gets you back into football.

XFL rules. Absolutely. Next up, jerseys where I could have my nickname on them. He hate me.

One of the best jerseys out there ever.

One of the best jerseys ever. I defy. Oh, speaking of Jersey talk, I have a question. So, yesterday, on my way to heat warriors, I see a guy wearing a wade jersey. But it's not any Wade jersey. It's a heat culture Wade jersey. Well, clearly, Dwayne Wade did not play when they had the heat culture jersey.

Dangerous game. I mean, people don't like it when you bring that up.

Well, I just want to say, like this, this jersey is rather new. But Dwyane Wade wasn't here for this. He was somewhere else. Right. So my question is, is there any other player for any other franchise in sports where you will see the new design for that old player? So, yep, Udonis has them.

Probably a ton of, like, legends, right?

Penny Hardaway.

I have never seen a penny Hardaway modern Orlando jersey.

Matter of fact, Shaq.

I'll say, shaquille, you've seen a Shaq modern.

They got a whole bunch of Shaq knockoffs and modern.

I've seen Marino. I've seen Dan Marino. Like it with the new logo?

Really?

Sure.

Wow.

I don't think this is. I think this is pretty common.

I've never seen it pretty comps. Okay, okay, okay. Let me take it another level. How many of those legends own another team not affiliated with the franchise anymore?

Why'd you just throw your pen?

How dare you say Dwayne Wade's not.

Affiliated with fastest and fastest on the right to label?

I can't think of any other owners or people affiliated with jerseys. I'm not sure the logistics of this at all.

Well, I'll give you the logistics. Grant Hill is a current part owner of the Hawks. I don't see current Grant Hill Pistons jerseys. I do see the modern motor city. You see the motor city with Hill on the back. That's what I'm talking. I'm not just talking about Jersey.

I'm pretty sure if you go to Detroit, into that arena, you can find you a motor seal to Hill jersey.

Well, I'm gonna tell you right now, first of all, not going to Detroit. It's not gonna happen, so quit asking. Maybe in the summertime, yeah, but not. Not now, not in season. Even though Monty Williams probably upset about it. Monty Williams. Lots of complaining about the Knicks this year. Lots of complaining about the Knicks this year. Let's throw that out there.

Speaking of in season, do you think the Lakers with this in season tournament trophy, is it going to matter at all next year? Like, because the Lakers had such a decline after winning that, do you think the same fervor and the same vigor is going to be the curse.

It's now. It's becoming the curse of the in season tournament.

Right.

Because they won it, and now they're.

Falling off because they're looking good. They look good last night against the Bucks. So.

Well, everybody who played in the in season tournament in Vegas, other than Pelicans. Pelicans have done better. But like, the Bucks kind of struggled. The Pacers, they struggled. The Lakers clearly have struggled. The Pelicans who got blown out, the only ones that actually doing well. So the in season tournament, bad for basketball. On the next Dan Levitta show.

But since we have 50 seconds left. Okay, I think that we should. I mean, Halliburton was one of the stars of the in season tournament, and the low management situation has gotten without being eligible for the awards and playing a certain amount of games. I feel like he hurt himself by trying to be eligible for some of these awards, and I think that that has kind of hurt the Pacers chances moving forward.

Absolutely. Same thing with Joel Embiid, who literally hurt himself trying to do that. But, guys, I've had such a fun time.

I also hurt myself. I think there's concrete underneath this carpet. I'm excited for Tony Brackett's coming up in the game.

We do have a postgame with Tony. Brackets who's which percent?

96 percentile of all brackets.

I'm so proud of you. Hey, you know what? You and me.

Wow.

Are you.

What? Were you my real Dan? Never. My real Dan never plays catch with me.

Hey, look, I'm your stepdan, but I'm the dan that stepped in.

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