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Stugatz Podcast. Hey, Greg, if you hear it and you realize we have you dead to right, don't stop talking and cut yourself short to make it look like you're onto it. Just keep at that point succumb to the bit and just.

Power through. But when you hear the horn- Just power through. -we're off the.

Air, right? No. What? We fade your mic down.

Just keep- The audience hears the horn.

If you get caught, just keep going with your point.

I know, but school me here. If you get caught by that horn.

Don't try to reverse engineer it.

It's.

All over the clock.

No, what I'm asking is this.

Just fucking eat it and keep pushing because it's way.

Funnier that way. I know, look at here.

It's both- Me explaining in the show.

When I hear the.

Horn and.

The horn ends, is the show still on?

No. We're in charge of when we're on. This is not like radio. Okay.

You were galloping.

It's hard to stop. Don't stop your stride.

Usually when the horn hits the commercial start.

The point is, I'm galloping across the finish line. Had the horn waited two more seconds, it would have been a regal finish. But it would also have been a regal. But it also would.

Have interrupted you. You're also reverse engineering this two more seconds.

You had more. -you weren't. Yes, you were not going to finish it with a gymnastics dismanting two seconds.

One of the few gags we've been doing recently that's actually fun, you're on audio. So don't rob the audio audience of that joke.

My ankle hurt like Tyree Keel. I was about to land like Kari Strug. It was going to be a perfect landing. I was going to dismant like crazy. The numbers were going to go up 9.8. 10 for me.

That's.

How close it came.

Thank you. You want to try again?

Yeah. You'll get more chances. We are now 11 minutes and 17 seconds from the ending of this segment.

Counting it down.

See if you can remember that. Do you have a back in my day.

To day? Oh, not today. It's the holidays day. Exactly. And you know what? I was going to have one next week.

You've been fairly.

Useless today. I was going to have one next week, but there's a rumor about a turkey off happening next week. What? That's what I hear. Between Roy, me and myself.

A turk off between.

Roy- What's the rumor?

-and you. Where are we doing this?

I believe it's going to be in this very studio. I'm going to be lighting a propane tank right where I sit.

No, don't.

Do that. Right indoors. The ulcer going up like flames.

Like flames or inflames?

No, don't specify. The video might get pulled by YouTube. Exactly. It sounds threatening. But why... Contextually, we're fine. You have a week.

To do it back in my day, though. Why would that stop you?

You mean next week? Yeah. There's a lot going onAll it is.

There's a whole method to his.

Turk and off. Yeah, there's a lot going on. It's not just the actual lighting of the propane and the dipping of the bird. There's a whole preamble.

There is pump and circumsence.

Yeah, there is.

And a lot more than that. Before you turn you off to a turk.

Correct.

Jeremy Poo, I am going to get to your top five. Oh, yeah. Your top five payments in baseball, strange payments in baseball.

Jeremy Poo? Is that a nickname?

That's right. -that's like -Doing it.

But before I do that, Mike Ryan has some words for Yanis Antetukumpu.

That loser. Now look, I know that we shouldn't be calling people names, so this is a matter of opinion. He displays the behavior of a loser, and you guys keep feeding this monster. You did it when you started putting sappy music behind his postgame about these are just failures, just steps towards success. Okay, well, he had another opportunity in the tournament, a semifinal. However you rate it, it still has some value, and it's still something that matters, especially to some of his teammates. Bobby Portis, who was reported, chewed out his entire team, and then someone, presumably Damian Lillard, fed it all to the media, and we found out a word-for-word transcript of what Bobby Portis said to his teammates because defensively, they were a disaster against Indiana. Understand, Indiana makes a lot of teams look that way, but this was a very good Milwaukee Bucks team, especially defensively. They have lost that. They've lost some pieces, and they gained a Damian Lillard who is as a point of attack defender, not at his peak. Not that he was ever great at that. Damian Lillard, in our minds, stuck around Portland, even though he didn't do much winning, got to a Western Conference final, we all still trust him and we think that guy's a killer because of what he does famously in the clutch.

Giannis does not have that, despite having an NBA Finals MVP to his name. Having one of the great, improbable performances after hyper-extending his knee in a final set. None of us really paid all that much attention to. He still got it to his name. But he also lost in the first round as an immense favorite to the Miami Heat in embarrassing fashion. I know he got hurt in one of those games. Dude was on the floor for three of the four losses. So in-season tournament, season of expectation, they bring in Damian Lillard. You say, Hey, Milwaukee is probably missing that little killer instinct there. They bring in a killer in Damian Lillard. Surely, we're going to see a different Giannis. After Yanis gets eliminated, he tweets out this, Sometimes the dice just don't roll your way. Is his brand being a huge favorite and losing all the time and spinning it into IDC? What is this?

No, it's I-S-T.

I don't care. What is this monster that we've enabled? This is not... I mean, I'm a child of the '90s, Dan. I saw Michael Jordan. If Michael Jordan saw that attitude, I saw Kobe Bryant with Mamba mentality. This is what we're rolling out there as an unstoppable force. Sometimes that's the way the cookie crumbles. It's perspective. His perspective should be, I need to find a way to stop losing as an immense favorite and stop giving off that I'm totally okay with it. Because I think the math has changed for Giannis. Now it's time that we're judging you against the all-time greats. You just got knocked out in the first round by a fledgling Miami Heat team that made an improbable run, propelled by an immense upset that I think was probably the biggest upset in the history of that sport. Your first crack at a trophy. You get knocked out by OB-TOP and it's all, Shucks. Show me something. We had the steps to success with the failure already. Then we're just going to be like, Oh, man, I don't care. You just got chewed out by Bobby Portis, and your first instinct from that is to go tweet a dice emoji?

What are you doing?

What'd be the guy? What he's doing is in the game you're criticizing him for he was 37 points, 10 rebounds on 13 of 19 shooting.

Okay, be an alpha defender. Be better. I know that's great. That's a great stat line. Hard to ask for more? No, ask for more. Stop losing. Stop being okay with losing. How about this? This is the first thing. We'll tackle the losing in June. Stop being okay with it, please. I know that there's a whole shift in attitude and how... I mean, it got very popular. Dude sold a lot of merchandise because of that one clip in the postgame where a bunch of people that maybe didn't mesh with Kobe, Mamba mentality, and Michael Jordan were like, Yay, hooray. A lot of people that probably didn't know the price of that series were like, Yeah, cool. All right. No, just stop being okay with it because it's not okay for a top dog in that sport to be like that when it comes to losing. It's just not. It may be cute on a bumper sticker. It may get you a lot of casual fans that might follow you on IG. But that's loser behavior, man.

Mike, I think Giannis is like a river, and rivers know this. There is no hurry. We shall get there someday.

Are you.

Quoting- That's Winnie to Pooh, yeah.

-poo there? No, I meant are you quoting shit there? Go to the penalty box. Get out.

Of here.

Jeremy Pooh. But I feel like what has happened to sports? Because I see you looking at me and it looks like I'm doing a thing. And sports media has become perverse in that this is the hot take. Stop being okay with losing. We're like, Come on. We were all there. This would have been the entire show 10 years from now. Now it's just like, Yeah, no, cool. Great role model for my kids. No, a winner. Be a winner.

You want him ripping the team on social?

No, I don't want him ripping the team on social. I don't want him being okay with losing on social. I don't want him on social. I want him doingI want them doing what Damian Lillard did, leaking out. I want him doing what Bobby Portis did. Why is Bobby Portis lighting the fire under your asses in that locker room? Why isn't it, Giannis? You're just not that guy? Okay, well, I'm going towhen history reflects back on you, I'm going to know you're not that guy. And it's going to change my opinion of you. Because when you do have success like you did in the NBA Finals, it's not going to stick with me as much because you're not building a narrative for me as this serial winner, this great mentality, this sportsman, Damian Lillard is going to get that attached to him if he wins. You're not.

Man, for the love of.

God, be less okay with losing.

You wanted to hurt, Giannis the way it hurts Bobby Portis. The reason it doesn't, because I think Bobby Portis cares too much, okay? I think he needs to relax, actually. Mike, it's regular-season game 18. That's why Giannis doesn't care about it. I know you love the in-season tournament. That's not just that. I know you think it's different, and I understand what it is you're saying. But to Giannis, that is 18th game of 82 this season.

That's all it is. He's already won a title, Mike. The Bucks have serious defensive problems when you compare their numbers now to what they used to be. This was a team that was a hard-nosed, defensive team. They have a cheat code. Giannis is an incredible player. He's the most gifted defender physically that we maybe have ever seen.

Can you tell me the origins of hard-nosed? Is that a boxer's punch? Why is someone hard-nosed? What does it mean to be hard-nosed? I know what it means, but what are the origins? You are our words expert, Greg. Do you know where hard-nosed originates from?

I would have guessed it's boxing-related. It makes sense.

Why aren't you there cheering me on? Okay, here's the thing. Why aren't you going, raw, raw, get his ass.

We've changed. Okay, first of all, I find it refreshing that not every athlete has to have the macho speak when it comes to we have to win. I'm sorry, I like the alternative opinion. You would. I like the rational perspective on that. The other thing is this. Libb. I'm hearing a lot of outrage, considering the Bucks have the third best record in the NBA. It's a quarter into the season, and the odds say that Yanis still has a great chance to win his second NBA title.

Perhaps you're okay with a participation.

Trophy as well? No, I'm not. I'm okay with a guy who's one of the best players in the league with a great chance to win his second championship. Although I do love the Zagaki. Believe me, I.

Love that. He does need to win a second. I'll go there.

With you.

He needs to start winning more than just the one that he won. If he wants to be an all-time generational player, Yanis needs to walk away from his career with five or six titles.

I don't know about that. I mean, call me old school. I just want to know my guys' care.

He just lost the championship last week, and he doesn't seem to care.

End-season tournament, please. You know what the banner should be for the in-season tournament? A napkin. A little thing the size of a napkin. They should put it. The Lakers won 17 real NBA championships. It should be a napkin hanging in the corner of.

The arena. How are you.

More.

Impassioned? How are you more impassioned against the winner.

Than the loser? No, but, Mike, he's right because you know what the Lakers and LeBron are going to do? They're going to make that banner bigger than all the.

Other.

Banners.

It's ridiculous. They shouldn't even allow a banner for that tournament. It's hard.

To see though, right? It's a made-up event. If it's a napkin, people won't be able to see it.

That's my point.

Put it on the pole, please, at Levitard show. Should should the Lakers in-season banner be a cocktail napkin? It should.

One that I've used.

It has the ring from your-What did.

You use it for?

It blew my nose when I.

Didn't want to do that. Wow, really? So it's not here. Can we get a cocktail napkin from outside so I can see Greg Cody give me what it is that that would look like? Because I was thinking that perhaps a cocktail napkin that you had used as a coaster. It's particularly disrespectful to have blown your nose into the Lakers Championship banner.

If you win the in-season.

Turnaround-this is Anu.

And I'm on the board. This is a pro to.

Leviton show.

With the Stugas.

Gambled on by draft kins.

He's coachable. That should be the main perfect.

You're.

Coachable.

There you go. You made me so happy just now. Hang it.

In-season championship ends.

Don't live a tard. That's how it's going to end. The mailing it in the end of the retirement, Chris, go get me this. It's just going to be him coming out and hitting the one or two notes of that thing, and you know it, and then just giving us finger guns and leaving.

Baby.

You should listen to the great Cody show podcast because that's all we do for 55 minutes a week is just say catch phrases. We even make songs about them. You Know It is a song for Crying out loud. That's great. Hopefully, that's a Suie nominee for a best song. And you know it, baby. And you know it.

Stugaz.

And you.

Know.

It, baby. And you know it. And you.

Know it, baby.

And you know it. And youknow it. Baby and you.

Know it.

This is the Dan.

Levator show.

With the Stugats. I'm surrounded by losers. I'm surrounded by losers. I'm surrounded by losers. I mean, come here. Get in front of a microphone. I'm surrounded by losers and I need your help. Are you on air now? Yeah, we're on air. I need your help with this because I keep asking. I asked to the two youngest people. I'm like, You're with me, right? He's got to care a little bit more. And then I got a soliloquy. I'm just like, I can't even listen to this anymore. I told him just straight up, Shut up. Stop talking to me, losers. Ameen, am I right? Should Yanis change at least the public perception of his mentality?

I am always a proponent of people caring and acting like they care. I didn't like it when Yokech did that stuff like, Oh, we do have to go to Perrid. I don't like any of that. I'm too cool for this stuff. So if your point is he should act like he cares about losing, then I'm with you there. If your point is he's a loser, I can't get with that woman.

Fair enough. I'm not going.

To go- Stugart's.

Had the pivot, though. Two-for-two.

Well, it was the pivot because Mike had us, I think, until Dan gave us the stat line, to which I told Mike during the break here, you have to come back at Dan with score less than 37 and cry. That's it. That's all Mike wants.

Go 11 for 27 with 22 points, but just be devastated. Just be devastated. Be Bobby Portis.

Just to be clear on what the behavior is allowed to be, you're saying score less, cry more, be my homes on Sunday.

Yes. Oh, no. Well, he embarrassed himself. He cared, though.

He.

Cared.

Yeah, but he embarrassed himself.

But he's apologizing. He was being a baby. We didn't do enough about how embarrassing of a look that was for Patrick, my home.

Wait a minute. So both are embarrassing, caring too little and caring too much. You have a governor that's Matt Ryan's endorsed. He was being a child.

No, he wants the referees to bend the rules for the Chiefs in a great play. Get the hell out of here.

You've been a child. You've lived a charmed life. You're going to act like that at the first moment of adversity. Oh, I.

Don't get to lose two in a row. First moment. What about last week? When it was a clear pass interference call and they.

Didn't call. Last week, yeah. You know how we took last week and tried like… Yeah.

Another little bit of a hole. Then this week is like, Enough with this.

Shit.

Dude. Yeah, it was just ridiculous.

I would love….

Can I- Throwing his helmet? They're acting like a child.

I want to hear this, too. I want to hear the fake my homes argue with each other since they're actually on opposite sides of this. I would like to hear positive because Chris Cody is… I've never seen him so passionate about a game that didn't involve the Dolphins. I would like the Mohomeses to argue.

Ticky-tack. I don't know.

Ticky-tack call, man. And the results helped the Dolphins. It's like Alex Jones's look.

Mine's at Orgeron. You can't.

Take that away from Travis Kielsey.

Coach, oh. One of the great players of all time. You got Fast Switch, Energy Drink player of the week, one time, Cedarius, Tony. You can't.

Do that to him. These refs are fucking us left.

Right.

Go taga. Wait a minute.

This is all confounding. We will work on it a little bit.

Too much twang in both of theirs. Mohomes actually enunciates really well. It's just he has that other sound that's happening.

Too much Alex Jones, man.

Sorry. Too much Swamp Monster. Welcome back to Twitter. Thank you. Free speech. I wanted to get your thoughts here on something that's happening now because we're talking about where the takes need to go in the future, the evolution of the takes, because the media climate is going to keep getting more and more competitive, and more and more young people addicted to social media are not going to necessarily understand why Stephen A. Smith, professional man who is an adult in his 50s, is now taking the lane that is stronger than anyone else and is more attacking than anyone else on body shaming, Zion Williamson. And I am getting that I am very woke, again, as often happens to me, simply for Stugart, because I do need to preface this with something. Yes, of course, obviously, a professional athlete should be in professional shape. Yes, obviously. I am simply pointing out to you that if someone has some eating problems, and this could just be a lack of discipline, and perhaps Iain Williamson doesn't care enough and just loves beignets, it could be that they're delicious. I don't blame him for loving beignets. Yeah, they are. In fact, that's a bad city for somebody with some eating issues because New Orleans, you could do some real damage there, eating and drinking.

But I don't know what's going on inside of Zion Williamson. I would go the next step of saying sometimes heavy players can be in the right amount of shape for them. They don't all have to be four % body fat. He's an overwhelming physical specimen who is stronger than most people at whatever his size, light or fat. But I wanted to ask you just what you made, because I know you, too, say, get in shape, get in shape. What did you make of how strongly Stephen A. Smith is enjoying the mocking of Zion Williamson because he's getting a lot of applause for it?

I wasLook, I was flabbergasted. I was taken aback. I was appalled. I was disgusted. What Steven A did was unacceptable because he stole my goddamn bit. I've been doing that for three years. For three years, I've been on that corner. All of a sudden, Steven A Smith wants to just parachute down and make his Zions fat jokes. No, you got to get in line, buddy. I've been doing Zion puns for so long. Me and Zach Harper on NBA radio talking about, Zion's teammates are eat one more, and Zion, eating them on his diet. Hey, man, you're not just going to come here and say, 'Oh, he has a belly, and think that you've won the day, Steven A. Smith, no, sir.

Lucy, what are your thoughts on what's happening here?

I.

Don't love it. It makes me wildly uncomfortable. I hate how much this show makes fun of each other's bodies.

I hate that so much.

I don't know. I think it's definitely a generational thing as well, like you brought up earlier, the Gen Z is a little more attuned to that. You never know what's going on with someone's health. You never know what's going on with someone's life. I don't like any body shaming stuff because it makes me feel yucky. And then it opens up the gate for people to body shame each other. It's just not.

Fun for me. It's a great point, Four Eyes.

I couldn't agree with Lucy Moore. Look, I cover a team that is notorious for players needing to be in shape, right? In the Miami Heat. But there's not actual body shaming that happens from there. They keep that under wraps. Publicly. Right, publicly at least. But there's a difference, right? There's a difference between publicly body shaming your players and where Stephen A is getting all of this information from as he goes public on he wants to eat the table. It's just taking all of this way too far on a 23-year-old guy who clearly struggles with his weight. One day when his playing career is over, he's probably going to balloon up in size because you know the way that playing basketball keeps these guys in shape. To think that we're sitting here essentially with a guy who's already been cyberbullied for a whole bunch of other things, continuing to pile on.

For.

No seeming reason. I mean, he had 36 points last night, shooting like 80 % from the field. His play doesn't warrant this type of criticism. If it was actually impacting his ability to be a dominant player, then fine, maybe.

But Steven A. But Steven A. Clearly thinks if he's in better shape, his play would be even better.

Yeah, and if Yana had tried harder, he'd win the. -steven A doesn't say that.

-what the hell? -he goes, He's fat.

Yeah, well, that's what he did. I thought Zion had a perfectly reasonable rebuttal to what Steven A said. He said, If it's coming from a place of love, if it's coming from someone who cares about me, then I'm okay with it. If it's coming from someone who really doesn't know me, there's nothing I could do about it.

That's exactly right. I hear everything you guys are saying. Also, Jonas Valen too much.

Let.

Me ask all of.

You this- You can't laugh as a Gecky. That one's tough.

Question. Keep working on it. Yeah, work on that. Keep working also, please. Turtle. The Patrick my homes need to get better and stronger and not become Alex Jones and Ed Orshrom. Let's work on that.

I don't know anything you say, man.

I would like to admit some vulnerabilities here and perhaps cast some light on a little bit of what is happening here in the culture wars that make everyone fight about some of this stuff and dismiss me and Lucy and Jeremy is soft and sensitive and get out of here, Gen Z. You don't get to decide.

We've and I love how you're putting yourself in that group. You're mopping yourself.

This entire.

Show's existence is.

Making bad trade. Because I'll tell you why. Because I'm the only one who was aggregated for supporting Zion Williamson as sounding soft when we were talking about this yesterday, and I was the only one aggregated as the liberal who can't toughen up enough because it's all about participation trophies. And why can't Stephen A. Smith just laugh at Zion Williamson? Wait, but let me go through this for a second for you so that I can explain to you what is happening to me in the Culture Wars, because I'm supposedly as free as I've ever been. And I, too, am a little afraid of some of this stuff because I, too, can be out of touch in a number of places. I can call instead of unhoused, I could say homeless. The other day, instead of disabled, I said handicapped. I made an embarrassment of myself the other day, talking about Dwight Howard in a way that shames me still and keeps me up at night. And because I'm in this space of feeling a little out of touch and not wanting when I've been confident all my life about these things, being woke enough, I feel sensitive about being told.

And what rises up in me is a defensiveness that is hard to push down because I don't want to be told by others what I can say. And because I'm afraid of that, I lose the funny in a mistake like this I made that when I was trying not that long ago, and it's uproarious as a mistake, it is a comedy writer's dream as a mistake that I made, and we made no fun of it because I'm too scared around some of this stuff that you can make a mistake that ends your career. And it's especially a lack of confidence if you're out of touch and that mistake can cost everybody their jobs here. The mistake I made in talking about someone sitting criss-cross, applesauce, is I said, Indian style. And then I got scared and backed off and I corrected it to Native American style. I actually did that.

I've never been more proud of you. That's an amazing mistake.

It's a joke for modern family. It's unbelievable. Sorry, that.

Offensive line.

-chortle.

-jaleel, Oak-of-Fork.

-chortle again.

-don't live a tard.

-so here's the chant. Are you ready? I'm speaking to the rest of the country. You say who? We say hoot.

Stugats. You say who?

We say hoot. You say who? -maron. -we say hoot.

This is the Don't live a game show with the Stugats. The other.

Day I saw Rob Lo is hosting a game show. Now, I think it's The Floor. I didn't do you way to have a wall. We're just hitting all the parts of the house. Yeah, he had a queue.

The wall was LeBron.

Lebron had a wall that was hosted by Chris, the walking guy.

Trump had one.

Of those, too.

I was thinking and I was like, Man, I should have seen that coming. Rob Lo hosting a game show. Because it fits. It all makes sense.

It's the last phase of your career, I feel like.

Right, almost career death. And you know how heathens. We've never done this, what I'm about to say. There's things out there called Death Pools where you guess a group of friends, which celebrity is going to die next? If I may.

Steve Harvey became, and I love where you're going with this, but it is not the death sentence to your career that you.

Think it is. It's a.

Launching pad.

Look what.

It did to Steve Harvey.

Look.

What it did to Drew Carey. All right, whether or not it's a death for a career or not. Dan Patrick wakes up every morning with regret that he didn't take that job, whether he'll tell you or not.

What did it do to Drew Carey? He's a.

Household name. He makes like 10-plus million dollars a year. I don't mean he was a household name before he was on the show. No, not anymore. No.

Nobody's Alan Ludden except the original, I'll tell you that.

So what I want to do, I want to get out in front. I don't want what happened to me with Rob Lo to happen to you guys. I want you guys all to now. I want to go around. We can almost do this. If we want, we could do this like a draft, and we see who's right at the end. I think I have a couple of good nominations for celebrities that will be game show hosts. I think we should go around and then we can check back in a year and see if any of us were right.

This is fun.

I want to be a game show host when I grow up. Oh, me too. I think Jeremy would be great at it.

I would do that.

Wait, I think you. Well, I don't know. I wanted to do it too. You didn't.

Think I'd be great at it?

I do think Jeremy would be better.

I have long wanted to be a game show host. I think that that's my final form. I think all of these puns and.

Terrible jokes.

That I've been making, it's just leading to me being a game show host. I want to host something like a Cupcake Wars, some baking show where I can just make puns and smile and laugh. I don't think I would be great at a lot of things. I think I would be great at hosting a game show. I don't know what camera I'm supposed to look into, if that's it. Any network out there, if you need a game show host, I am willing and available.

Game show hosts have to be likable, Jeremy. That's their whole deal.

All right, so let's do this. Let's start the draft. It's so much.

Like the ball. Hey, Ludden.

It's on.

The.

Preview screen. It's on the preview screen, Greg. Can you throw up a photo of Alan? Alan Ludden died in 1981.

Age 63. I love that guy. He was the original game show host in.

My mind. All right, so we're going to do a draft. The goal here is for everyone to end up with two people that they draft. I will go first. We're doing a draft? We're drafting people that we think are going to be game show host.

Why do you get.

To go first? Because I have one and I was just going to... I'll let someone else.

Can go first. I don't want to go first. -no, it's okay, but two each.

You're saying. I'd just say we could do 10, but that would take a while. I don't like that just we're accepting that I wouldn't be a good game show host. I just think Jeremy seems like he'd be great at it.

I think we could play off each other really well. I could be the overly zealous.

I've got you undercutting the entire game. -oh, you've never seen me in a suit. I've got you like, Do you guys really care about this prize? Touche. All right, here we go.

First pick. Hold on a second. Lucy was trying to say something, and all of you are yammering so much that she has no spaces to say it.

Thank you, Dan. I was talking to Billy and Jeremy about this earlier. Billy would be a great dating show host. If it were a trashy dating show, Billy would be a great host for that. Trashy? Yeah, there's shows called F Boy Island or stuff like that. I love F Boy Island. Yeah, you would be a great host for that.

With the first pick in the next celebrity game show host draft, I select Ty Burrell, the dad for Modern Family. That's a.

Good one.

Yeah, that is a good one.

Approaching.

The final phase. I'm glad you said who he was.

Who's next? I didn't know him by name. Unless it's the Alan Ludden wheelhouse of Greg Cody. I'm not kidding you. I walked to the bathroom and Greg Cody was boring the hell out of Koogs talking about crooners.

Yes. Oh, yeah, Tony Bennett, Melthormey.

What an era. The second pick is Lucy. Lucy, you're on the clock.

He might already host a game show. I don't know, but I feel like Grunk will be a game.

Show host. Okay, well, good answer.

We're just doing a combination of likable.

I'm sorry. How did you and Kug stumble into that conversation?

I was singing, coming out of the bathroom as I want to do. He mentioned enjoying my world premiere Christmas Carol, which debut on the Greg Cody Show podcast, and the DLS was kind enough to play it. We were talking about crooning and that whole era. It was just a nice conversation. He's a beautiful guy. He's a good guy. Kugler. Kugler the Kegler.

He's great. That's a bowling joke. With the third pick is Roy Bellamy.

Kate McKinnon.

Strong Roy. That's good. I like that. All right, with the fourth pick is Dan.

I need more time.

Thanks, Mike. Greg Cody with the.

Fourth pick. With the fourth pick, David Samson.

That's terrible. Could not be worse.

Could not be worse. I mean, he was on a game show. You have to be likable.

David Samson is erudite. He's well-spoken, extremely succinct. He would be a beautiful game show host.

With the fifth pick.

-terrible. That's a terrible.

That's a terrible. Stugots with the fifth pick.

Payton Manning.

I.

Believe.

He already was.

Really? I believe he hosted some college battle show that was on ABC.

He's done the Country Music Awards twice. I know that. So he's hosting. Not a game show. No, for me, that's clear that. So that's a good one. Billy, sixth pick. Well, I have one that you're not going to say… Oh, well, actually, he got the Wheel of Fortune hosting job, so Ryan Seacrest.

I mean, that's terrible. He's done a million shows.

No, he's not done game shows.

He hasn't?

No.

He's one of the most famous people that I associate with the doing of television.

Yeah, not game shows.

Regis Philby is first. Dan Patrick's a good selection. Who would be? This one's tough. There's a degree of difficulty involved in being a sports media member and being through the roof on likability. So Barclay is likable, but the mechanics of game-show-ness would allude to Barclay.

It'd be funny. Dan, you're looking for that. It's me.

You mentioned that already, yes.

I will be your game-show host.

You are the RG3 of this topic, and that you think you're the answer to everyone's- I am the answer. -game show and quarterbacking work.

How about Carlton? Did he host a game show?

Yeah, he's presently hosting Dancing with the Stars. He's been in the final.

Phase for like 30 years. That's a talent show. That's a talent show.

He hosted America's Funniest Home videos.

That's not a game show either.

I don't understand.

Do you guys know what game-show is? Jeremy, your first pick. Competition. I think you would be a good game show host. He would. In our world, Juju would be the best, I think.

I would like to create a game show that Juju was doing. I want to do a.

Third in line for Game Shows. This was my idea.

Don't give away the idea, Dan. You hear something and likes to run with it. That's why we get the two of my homes things. Just go with it sometimes.

Jeremy, who are you taking?

The first two thoughts that I had both have already hosted game shows in Joey, Fatone, and Josh, Dumell. Just give me the pic. And Joey Fatone and Josh Dumell. I'm going to take Frankie Munez.

Solid. Mike, first pic?

Jim Parsons. A Big Bang Theory.

You took Dan Patrick, right?

Well, I think Dan Patrick would be exceptional at it and is exceptional on television. I do want to go back to the idea who is this most likable sports media member?

Matt.

Mcafee. No, it's polarizing. Scott Van Pelt. It's polarizing. Yeah, Van Pelt is popular.

Yeah, it'd be good.

Very likable. Oh, SVP, that's good.

Do the Hemsworth brothers, do they have anything for this?

They're too handsome. Just one. But after Miley dropped flowers, I was out on the other one. They're too tall.

All right, kicking off the second round here, I will take... You guys want to go snake or you want me to go? Snake? Let me go.

Jake Roberts, you think? Kenny Stabler? You think there'd be a good game show host?

I'm going with Michael Strayhan. Pliskin. What is he hosting? He hosted the 20,000 dollar pyramid or whatever.

He hosted one of the pyramids.

I'll pick.

Another pig. It's good. Tiki Barber would also be good on the game show that Michael Strayhan turned down.

All right, I'll replace Michael Strayhand with the red-headed guy from Modern Family.

All your pigs camp in Modern Family.

Did you just watch Modern Family? I just.

Think they would. One trick pony.

I have to admit, both those guys would crush it, though. Right.

Jesse Ferguson? Yes.

Who? Stone tree would be good, too. Actually, we get the whole cast together. He hosts a Lego show. All right, who had the second pick? Lucy. Oh, no, he doesn't host a Lego show. The Batman Lego guy hosts a Lego show that doesn't want to talk to Dan anymore. He hosts a show about Dominoes, I think. Riveting. I didn't greenlight it. Lucy, second pick.

Who you got? This is a... I don't know. Ryan Reynolds, if his career really goes downhill.

Bad pick.

He's.

So...

Everybody likes him.

Who.

Is your first pick?

Grunk.

I.

Didn't.

Have a second pick prepared. This was a lot of pressure all at once. I'm not.

Built for this. There are a lot of people outside. You're overwhelmed. You're still reeling from everything that happened in Army, Navy. You shot a gun for no reason.

I'm having sensory overload right now. We need to turn the lights off.

All right, go ahead and do that. Let's go ahead and turn the lights off to make Lucy slightly more comfortable here because we do need to improve. Just everything's moving a little fast. But Lucy, you are now in a room with lights off, but the light is only bathing you. Right now are the only one with light on your face.

Yeah, I'm just a girl and I cannot handle this.

Roy, third pick. Well, no, second pick.

Jim Geffigann.

Not.

Bad.

Who is next?

Danny McBride. Nice.

Danny DeVito.

Tommy DeVito. Oh, that's a good one. Danny Puddy. Wait, are.

You taking- I'm on a real Danny trip.

-he's taking all the Dannys.

Just not a name for it. Greg Cody, your next pick. Charlie Day.

We're writing The Bloodlines with Allen Ludden III.

Good.

Pick. Snoot Gots.

Nepotism. Snoop Dog.

Strong. Has he done.

One yet? I think he's done that one on TBS, the great talent show thing.

Jeremy. Daniel Radcliffe.

Okay. And Mike, bring it home.

At Helms.

Wait, Dan doesn't have a second. And Dan's second pick.

I'd like to stop for a second before I get to my.

Second pick. But it's going so well. This is making it seem brighter in here? Can we turn the lights back on? It's worse.

I just want for a second. I don't know whether, because things are indeed moving fast. Lucy's a little overwhelmed. She shot a gun. Six eyes. I am amused by how quickly things are moving around here so quickly that I don't know how many people noticed that when Danny DeVito was nominated, did you notice this to Gotz? Yes. Greg Cody in the middle of that, because things were moving fast, and this is about when he starts petering out, threw out a lame Tommy DeVito.

Just because it was the same- Same last name. -same last name. -wen in Rome, dad.

He'd be good, though. He's taking over New York. Went in Rome? Paul Rudd. I don't know who that is.

Paul Rudd. Paul Rudd's likable. I still don't have anyone telling me who is the most likable of the media members. I don't have any guy.

You got to.

Beat SVP. Svp? I mean, I told.

You, Dan.

Ernie Johnson? Oh, Ernie- Oh, Ernie Johnson.

Tim Kirton?

Ernie Johnson is pretty good.

I will- Clay Travis.

-i'll.

Close...

Shitstain. You go sit in the penalty box. What? Yeah, shitstain.

I renounce your.

Penalty box. I can't stay. Oh, you're what are you going to do? An insurrection?

Peaceful protest. Crisis actors.