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This is the Dan Leviton Show.

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With the Stugartz Podcast. Dan says goodbye, sweet Clevelander.

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I should tell the audience that we've got a bit of an emotional week, I would say, here this week as we are leaving this studio. It's been an eventful two years where the show has struggled and groaned under the weight of trying to build a business. And we're going to move into new studios. Everything is moving after, I think, it's close to 10 years here. And we're going to remember some of the things from the Clevelander because as expensive as the property value has gotten around here, the neighborhood has really deteriorated. There has been a- So.

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Is my health.

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There's been a lot of- But that's your fault. -shootings here recently and assassinations, plural. And we need to get out of here. And next.

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Week- And that move is brought to you by Miller Light. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.

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Next week is going to be a little bit difficult because we're going to be in the change. And these are not your problems, they are our problems. But we ask for yet more patience after two years of trying to build this thing. We're excited about getting into new studios, and we will remember the Clevelander throughout the rest of the week here. Because one of the great memories I have, Stugart, it really is one of my favorites as I've gotten late in life and have learned to appreciate some of this nonsense that we get to do every day, is the weekend before we were going to go on ESPN radio and start with whatever it is we were doing with them, they were going to make this studio look like all the other studios, which is just blue paneling behind us that would be nondescript. My brother and I spent the entire weekend here putting all of this stuff up. The reason that it's one of my favorite memories is because I remember the screaming phone calls on Monday when no one had been informed that that's what we would look like, and they didn't want us to look like that.

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Or no one had given them a heads up, I should say. It's not that they didn't want us to look like that. It's that they were going for homogenized at the beginning, and we put up all these tiles that we're at some point here going to just auction off because they've been here for 10 years representing us as we make a move to become a bigger business. We've got... Mike, do you know how many employees we have now? I don't know how many employees we have now.

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I walked in to today's pre-production meeting, and I was a little stunned at how many people were in that room considering it's just jarring seeing how we've started. There was a lot of people here when we were doing HQ. It was even tighter back then in many respects because we had the equipment. But I think the stark contrast is from the pandemic days when ESPN would only allow you and me in these studios and people were zooming in. Maybe I'll have fonder memories when we get out of here and I'll look back on some of the stuff that we did here and created here fondly. But I cannot wait to get out of this God-forsaken building. All thanks to Miller Light. Just 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. Winner of three world beer cups. They don't just give those.

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Things away. You have said that this place is haunted. You have come in hot from L. A, talking way too much about sponsorships and deals. We are moving. This is a growing business. Part that you left out was the answer to my question. How many employees do we have?

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I don't know. A lot. Yeah, I don't know, because there's a difference between full-time employees and part time employees. But in terms of people that are here, it seems like 87.

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It's not here, but it's not just here. It's a lot of people. It's much, much more than what's on air as we try to get up a video.

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You would think the show would be a lot better.

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You really would.

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But it's only gotten worse.

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Well, the solution to everything is hire more people, and then all that happens is more problems.

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That's what I've noticed. Again, the deterioration of everybody's.

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Health is- That's part of what's happening. -hanging over this show. So do you have a top five nostalgic, syrupy memories instead of hauntingings? Let's do some top five list to celebrate our time here, 8-10 years, so Stugaz can be nostalgic, so that Roy can.

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Be nostalgic. It's been 8-10 years for everybody else. It's been 20-30 for Stue.

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Yeah, it has. All this space, by the way.

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Billy can get emotional here. Teach the young ones. I don't want to leave.

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What? That's so not true. That's so not true.

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Billy said that to me. I was having the heater in the garage.

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He was talking to Cooogs upstairs in the garage. I was walking down.

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Who's Coogs? Coogs.

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I am more worried about them finding a body underneath your desk than I am in Mel Rees.

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I have a plastic container. I have to take all this stuff today, I was told.

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Good luck with that. That's why you don't want to leave because you got.

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To clean up. I like it here. The downtown floods, I don't know if we're supposed to say we're going to downtown, but it floods there. Anytime it rains, I'm going to have to get a boat or a kayak to get from my car.

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Is it Joe the Habitow sock puppet still over there?

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No, I think you could take one of the dancers that took that.

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To be clear, we have a day in a time of great hope, and you're already fearing change. You're already-.

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It's not fear, it's I'm comfortable here. This place is fine to me.

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Billy's Fear is brought to you by Miller Light. His 3.2 car for 12 ounces.

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I don't see the new studio today. Maybe that'll change things.

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You don't want to move?

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You don't want to move? I don't think I get a vote on this. I think it's happening whether I want to or not.

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Yeah, we're a little further along. But I am excited for everybody to experience the new building. I've gone over there a couple of times, and I was honestly moved to tears the first time just because there's so much space. So much space to do this. Moved to tears. I was, yeah, because it feels like- Were you wearing a hard hat? No, we're beyond that. But not to get too into it. And I'm sure there's plenty of time for nostalgia and stuff like that. But I've been through a lot, man. It's been hard. We've been through a couple of different companies and a bunch of different incarnations of this show. I've had really good memories here, and I've had some professional lows that I would just like to remove myself from. I feel like all those emotions every time I come into this building, which is good and bad. And I'm just really excited for a new mile marker for the company. It feels like actual growth because we're going to do this in a much nicer place. And I'm excited for that.

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All that space in the new building also sponsored by Miller Light.

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Killing it.

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We will get to the top five. Good contribution so far, Greg. Why did you see that?

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Why did you say that?

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I didn't. Itried very much. When he starts to.

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Drink- The guy is bleeding.

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Leave him alone. He is bleeding..

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But Billy thinks he looks great. You look great though.

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Yeah, exactly. It looks.

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Like he's had work done. Thank you, Billy.

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I don't think Billy was being sarcastic.

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I wasn't. I mean, you have a nice haircut, clean shaving, got a pep in your step today?

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I have been.

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I should probably just tell the audience because I remember promising, Stugart, and I've lied here, and I try not to lie to the audience or anybody. Same. That I would show the audience what the last two years have been like while we were doing it. We've just had to conceal some of it because it's been hard and messy, and you've probably felt it in the strain of the show. The show had to change and be different. We thought a lot of people were going to jump with us, and a meme came, and it was a meme. Then we looked and it was still a meme, and it's a meme. It's a meme, and reinforcements are now coming ever so slowly, heroic Pablo Tori running- What's he doing?

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I don't know.

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Just.

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Helping me.

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We got to talk to you. Jesus Christ. I was planting something. Did he get the memo of the unlimited PTO that everybody takes around here?

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Oh, yeah. Yes. Where is he? That was in retrospect, as a company policy. It's delightful. I like it spiritually, but it hurts. Yeah, it hurts the unlimited personal time. We are terrible.

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But it's.

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A good policy. You got to.

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Admit, it's a good policy. Well, the policy is we never know who's going.

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To be here. I can never. I can never. He's a surprise in that sense. I can answer the questions on where's Pablo, but there's a lot that goes into this move. If you haven't been able to tell already, Dan will be making excuses on the front end for the dipping quality, and he's very worried about this move. Pablo is not here in part because we're all worried about how Dan will take this move. There's a lot of stuff that we're throwing to Dan. We're changing the formatting of the show. We're changing where the show is produced from. I think just throwing Pablo and, Hey, here's another body, complicates things a little bit.

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We're going to use Pablo into the rotation. Nobody wants to hear the excuses. I am making excuses for whatever the content is next week when we're between studios.

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Dan's excuses are brought to you by Miller, light.

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Excellent.

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What is your top five list about? Have you assembled the top five list? I'd like to do this a little syrup if we can, because it is. It's an emotional week for me and for us, Stugart.

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We have an emotional week next week and the week after that, too.

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They're all emotional at this point. They're all emotional at this point.

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It's a very sensitive ecosystem, and I'm very worried about changing the ecosystem around Dan. Well, this.

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Has been a comfortable place for us. I, unlike... I shouldn't say unlike, like Billy, I am risk-averse and uncomfortable with some change. I get comfortable in places, but this place has become physically uncomfortable.

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But Billy hasn't seen the new studios yet. You have. I was fortunate enough to stop by last week to go check them out. They're beautiful. I felt better about us moving. You've seen that.

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I'll tell you why, though. I will tell you why, and this is way inside, but Conan O'Brien learned it. Conan O'Brien, when he changed networks and it was a big deal and he became an important person, they walk him into his new studio, and it's a beautiful auditorium, beautiful, like the most expensive thing he could ever dreamed. And he walks in, he says, Oh, no. Not because of the pressure, because they used to do an intimate thing in an intimate place in an intimate way in a way that connected with the audience intimately. And no, you put it in a ballroom, in an auditorium, as opposed to a place I was here on the weekend with my brother, putting up the signage myself. It becomes a different thing.

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Keep in mind, this place will also be intimate. There's a difference between intimate and crammed like a sardine can.

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Correct. This place has become physically uncomfortable and people are dying in the building and outside it. We have to move. Billy, we have to move.

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All right, so here's my top five for today. It's brought to you by friends over at Miller Light who are sponsoring this entire move. It's the top five guest that we ever had in studio here at the Clevelander.

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In studio guests.

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This is going to be nostalgic here.

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This will also afford you guys the opportunity to chime in with some of your favorites. I imagine I've missed one along the years. We'll begin with the outside looking in.

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Where they from? I'm here for highly questionable. Here, are we limiting it to the show, Our Show?

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I'm limiting it to Our Show. I still have Ice Cube in there on my outside looking in. The problem is most of that was with highly questionable, and I don't have a lot of frame of reference for that outside of one of the Kings of West Coast rap, just wandering through a very tight hall and being really embarrassed about how we'd entertain said, King of.

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West Coast rap. I was embarrassed by the hospital couch that had been sent for $50 by ESPN to represent our green room. That was a.

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Nice couch.

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It was a nice couch.

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No, you've got to.

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Be shitting me. That couch was a punishment.

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You've got to be shitting me, Billy. You did not like that couch.

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It wasn't a bad couch. It was.

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A nice couch. It was a really bad couch.

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It's not his purpose.

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Billy, it.

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Was a terrible couch. It was uncomfortable. It was the couch in a hospital room where they don't want you to spend the night in that hospital room.

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It was harder than the floor.

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It was from Hia Lea $50 is what they sent us for a green room.

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It's a good price for that couch.

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No, no.

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Also.

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O-l-i, Michael Irvine.

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That's O-L-I?

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That's a good see-maker.

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What a great day.

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I was wild. Do you have any.

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Sound from that? Oh, my God. No, there's nothing that I'm I would stand by airing right now. There was the revelation that he got, quote, Lewinsky in his Hall of Fame jacket. It was just, man, he was on one.

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Yes, he was.

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Yes. And then Sue Gotts bailed on you guys for dinner. I did.

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That was one of the… Yes, that's what happened. So Stugat's land, Michael Irvine is a guest. He has come here having consumed, whatever it is, was consumed on South Beach. And then I was having dinner with Michael Irvine and his brother and paying for everybody in a dinner Stugat's was supposed to be at. Stugat's was going to dinner with them. He did not.

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I did. Yeah, thank.

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You for that. Now, Dan sounded reckless, but I will implore the audience to just check this interview out and you can draw your own conclusions.

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I just said consuming South Florida. That's all I said. That was wild.

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That.

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Experience- That's outside looking in. That's hard to believe.

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Yeah, and also final OLI. There was a moment during the Super Bowl down here where Aaron, Donald and Rick Flair were in studio together. And that was just really fun.

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Mike, that's outside looking in?

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Yes. Well, this will give you the opportunity to K-Pup for years, but now we're in the true top five. Number five, Dan awkwardly hugging Josh Norman.

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I.

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Don't have a lot of moments I like more than us rummaging through the hotel security cam to get... Having talked about how awkward the hug was, but not having televised it in real time, having to go through security to get security footage that then revealed in an investigation that I had indeed hugged him in a way that was more awkward than even we'd explained was.

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Pretty good. We covered the shit out of those Carolina Panther teams, and we had very good ratings in North Carolina.

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Because of it. We were the number one show.

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Yeah, we had a really good relationship with Josh Norman, but just no real chemistry physically when it came to bro hugging.

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One of the great regrets of watching sports in my lifetime is seeing Josh Norman churn through the machine and go from someone who was interesting and fun and free to the interview I did with him a year ago, where he was broken by the system and trying to get on a practice squad. And it's like he would say, Nothing. Nothing. It hurt my soul seeing how the machine... I remember saying to him when we talked to him the first time, Don't change. Please don't change. And then the machine got him. Yeah.

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Number four, Jorge Mossfidal. One of the greatest and studio hits of our show's history. He was so playful. He ate so much. It was crazy to see him.

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His.

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Dad ate a lot. Yeah, but he went outside across the street and put on a martial arts display with Sue Gotts. It really started a wonderful on-air relationship between Monsfidal and this show and Sue Gotts. We got behind a fighter that reached the pinnacle. I mean, I know he won a fake belt, but the BMF belt was here in the building. We saw that, too. That was the time.

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Yeah, that's when he came back. We parlayed that into the way in that Madison Square Garden me and you.

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That was a really fun chapter in our show's history. I look back on.

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It fondly. Don't just get past that, though. Stugas was on a stage barefoot with the rock, introducing Mossfidal at the height of USC for the belt everyone wanted, as opposed to all the other belts in that sport.

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That was at the theater at Madison Square Garden. It was great. It's one of the highlights of my career. What made it even better was there was a dead show right next door afterwards.

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Wow. Oh, my God. That's why I got a micro.

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What a night.

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That's how I got to pick it up. What a nights. It should go. Number three.

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The relationship, like many things during the pandemic, broken by the pandemic.

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Number three, Derek Dietrich.

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You've got two better than this.

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Yeah, we didn't actually book him. He was just downstairs. He was.

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Coming to.

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The pool. Partying at the pool. So a shirtless, Derek Dietrich popped into our studio and was just hanging back there. Great body. Yeah, that was a fun, organic moment. One of those only in South Beach type moments, Dan. Again, this list is brought to you by Miller Light.

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The part that you're leaving out is that I had said on a very popular local radio show in Miami that Darren Dietrich was not a Major Leagueer, that the Marlins were employing somebody who was not a Major Leagueer. When he came by here, he was no longer a Marlin. He was a Cincinnati Red, and he had hit 17 home runs that month. Seventeen that month. It was like a record. He was coming in off that. I think that's why he was here.

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Shirtless.

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Shirtless. I don't think it was the pool. I don't think it was the party by the beach. I think it's because he hit 17 home runs.

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So far, not much pushbacks on these. So I feel good about this top five list. Number two, the late, great Bob Sagget.

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Oh, yeah.

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Fantastic appearance on our show. He was doing Stugatz reservations, but as Bob Sagget, he was super playful. He told great stories on the air, and he was face-signing with Stugatz's family. He became a good friend of the show, and maybe he's getting bumped up a little bit because of his tragic passing. But Bob Sagget, I will remember that fondly because he was so nice to everybody. It was just really cool to have Danny Taylor here in the building.

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Put it on the pole, please, JuJu. Was Bob Sagget bumped up a couple of spots because of his untimely passing?

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Rest in power. Yep. Our thoughts and prayers, presented by Miller Light.

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Number one, our move is presented by Miller Light. Greg Cody's Slur is presented by Miller Light. What?

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If you followed, and you know it.

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Yeah.

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And.

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You.

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Know it. And if you followed this show over the course of 18 years, you know that Dan's favorite show of all time is Breaking Bad. And for the- You're welcome. The majority of our- This is the best. This is.

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Such a good story.

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The majority of our shows.

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History- It deserves to be number one.

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Majority of our shows... I still can't believe this happened. Majority of our show's history was spent making interview requests for Bryan Cranson and it never worked out because Bryan Cranson was a huge star and always super busy. I'm not really exactly sure what happened. We had a request.

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We had a request. What do you mean you don't know what happened?

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We happened. We had a request in, and this was when Allison was booking guest and she's on top of everything. But I guess a message back to us that we were approved for an interview never got to us in time, and the message that Dan and stew would not be in studio never got out in time. We were completely dark on ESP and television. We were just audio only. We had fill-ins. The studio was very dark. I mean, because we had no idea where the lights were. It was George Cedano, Izzy Goodieriz, and members of the shipping container. We get a knock on the door saying, I have Brian Cranson and Benjamin Bratt here. My reaction was, What? What? We, on the fly, had to fit Brian Cranson and Benjamin Bratt into that studio with George Cedano and Izy Goodiears at the time that there was no one in any industry that Dan wanted to speak to more, and he missed the golden opportunity to interview the dream candidate in Bryan Cranston. He also missed staring at Benjamin Brett's gorgeous skin. Really good looking guy. Billy, you took the newspaper that Bryan Cranston was reading.

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Imagine having to explain all of this to Bryan Cranston, by the way. We look like such an amateur operation.

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Well, they stayed sitting in an SUV for 20 minutes because we were a Fusion at the time, and we didn't have enough microphone set up. We had to go and crawl under the desk for Fusion to take a microphone, but the chord was about 200 feet long and it had zip ties tying it to the bottom of various portions of the desk. Then it went under the stage. We had to cut all of that, take out a 200-foot long chord, and then spool it together and plug it in. It looked like there's a giant extension cord just wrapped around where Greg Cody was sitting for.

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Some reason. But you all of a.

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Sudden got- And the lights.

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Were off. You got pulled into engineering and no one knew how to turn on the lights.

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No idea how to turn on the lights. It was all so surreal. This is Walter White is just.

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Waiting for us to figure this out. But this is... Look, man, if we go all the way back, Mike, if we go back to original Fusion when we did the interview with Lemmy to try to explain to people.

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Lemmy. I remember that.

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To try to explain to people what has been done in this studio. Keep in mind, if you've been with us for 10 years, I know that some of you have been with us for 18 years, so you've seen the growth and you remember all of these moments. We're going to start packaging some of them in our library and remembering them as we transition. We'll probably do some of that next week as we transition into the new studio. But John Skipper one time asked me over dinner, Hey, do you want to be on television with this? And I had never given it any thought. I just shrugged. It's all I did. And then they made a relationship with Fusion because I wasn't sure I wanted to do it. I wasn't sure I wanted cameras watching us that I like the intimacy of how we did it. And he wanted to do it. I didn't really want to do it. I didn't care about television. And so he made a deal with Fusion, one of the few Miami companies that could do such a thing. And Howard Stern's people, or one of Howard Stern's people who put him on television was trying to do it from Durrell through here with Billy, wrapping chords together so that Bryan Cranston could come in on the day that we weren't in.

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We made it work. Yeah, but can you imagine? It's probably one of the worst interview settings he's ever had, right?

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Settings wise, yes. The interview was actually stellar.

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Don't let me know.

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Don't let me know. Which is largely performative, but we need to.

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Establish at least some reasonable doubt here.

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I'm trying to get in. Hold on. I'm so tired. He's too.

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Much at the top.

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Everyone with his please more than you do.

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Stugatz. I always like leaving the hand on the eye. I hate the chicken. Because he's so vulnerable. I just unfairly fade down the chicken. He doesn't leave him by himself.

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This is the Dan Levator show with.

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The Stugats. Stugats is.

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Clevelander.

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Garage.

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Top five. Top five. Things you will miss, won't miss about the Cleveland, The garage.

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What's the list? The top five things I'm going to miss about the Clevelander garage.

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Number.

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Five. Wondering if someone sat in my car while we were recording because the seat settings have changed. It's happened.

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That actually happened to me. Thank you. Yeah, I've caught people in my car before. Yes, I did. In seventh Street, not this one, but the one three blocks away, I stumbled upon a woman in my car as her friends were playing Lookout while she was just sifting through my stuff. I was just like.

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Hey.

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What's up?

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You guys got to use that lock button.

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I was doing it from far away just to scare them away, make them scatter.

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Here's my theory. You can still open the door if I'm close enough with my key, but you can't start the car.

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I feel like- You have to be literally within arm length of the car. Listen- If somebody can't get into your car.

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If you're walking- That's how quick people move in this garage. I'm getting out and someone else is getting in, and I don't know this because there's a cloud of smoke in front of me.

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Like Indiana Jones. Yeah.

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Pro tip, you.

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Leave your doors unlocked.

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So if you're going to steal.

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Something, go ahead, get whatever you want, brother. Just don't break my windows. Oh, wow. Well, I don't remember the details. This is an upgrade for Stugatz because when the original Miami Arena was built, Stugatz went to his car and there were people smoking crack in the front seat of his car. Multiple people smoking crack. I don't know if they broke your window or not to get in, though.

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They did. They broke my window. They were smoking crack. I saw them from a distance. I called the cops. The cops came and did what they had to do, and I was on my way with a broken window.

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An upgrade. The Clevelander garage from the starts in sports, in Miami sports, he upgrades to simply people invading his car when he doesn't want them there.

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Well, wondering. I'm just wondering because the settings changed slightly. It's like they're trying to get them back to where they originally were, but I can tell.

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Number four. The blood. You're going to miss the blood?

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I'm going to miss the blood. I don't know what to tell you. Gives it some charm.

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And it's a mystery. Yeah. Like, what happened here? I always do that when I find a pair of underwear or a single shoe or sock in the garage. What happened here? What's the story? I bet you there's a good story that involves this person leaving their underwear here. Number three.

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The used condoms.

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That's probably where the underwears, the underwear got lost. Number two.

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The empty plastic bags with cocaine residue.

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A little tiny ones. You see them, right? Yeah, that bag can only be for.

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One bag. Mike, use the garbage can. Number one.

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It could also be for a spare button.

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Oh, yeah.

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I'm really going to miss number one. The two little birds I say hello to every single day, Rocky and Apollo.

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Oh.

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Yeah.

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Really gives you hope. Are they parrots? There have been parrots landing on my balcony recently.

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What birds are they? I wonder if.

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It was too cute. Little birds. Human feces. That was O-L-I.

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O-l-i, human feces.

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-and-urine.

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Don Levitard. Do you realize that for 30 minutes… Now, we might not have been doing good show, but we were doing show for about 30 minutes, and then you just decided to tell the story as if were in the eating area?

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Stugatz. Many refer to it as a kitchen.

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Eating area. Who calls it an eating area? Nobody. Nobody. What an eating area? Was the bedroom the sleeping area? Hang on, I got to go to the urinating area. I'll be right back. The eating area.

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This is the Dan Levator show with.

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The.

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Stugats.

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Last day at the Clevelander.

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Juju Gadi begins his audition for executive producer today.

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There's a new sheriff in town.

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There is. We will see how that goes. This is our last official day at the Clevelander. We will have an awkward week next week as we transition.

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We still have shows tomorrow.

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I understand. That will be doing live. But this will last... This will be our last official day at the Clevelander. We have show to do tomorrow, elsewhere. I don't know why you need to make that clarification on me. You know what? Go sit outside for two minutes. What? Just go sit outside. Just go sit outside. Oh, my God.

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Send his.

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Ass to hell. Go to hell.

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Go to hell. What? Send us.

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Ass to hell.

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Go to hell.

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We will celebrate our time at the Clevelander. I don't know if the rest of you are emotional about this or not, but David Samson is one of the new Metallark employees. It has been a polarizing hire, but many people, many, many people love the content that David Samson puts out on Nothing Personal, which is now part of the Levitard and Friends family and love this hour.

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David, today is our last official day at the Clevelander. How many times have you been here and what is your favorite Clevelander memory?

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My favorite Clevelander memory? We used to spend a lot of time at the Clevelander because, remember, we had a Clevelander in the ballpark, so I spent a lot of time there negotiating with the people who owned the Clevelander back in the day as we put together a deal to put the Clevelander in Marlin's Park. And we would go there for afternoons and we'd do a meeting and we would block off from 2:00 to 7:00, and the meeting would be from 2:00 to 2:30. And then we would just go hang out by the pool from 2:30 till 7:00 and have a lot of fun. I never felt unsafe. It was always an interesting, fun crowd. There were times when we were playing games or jumping in the pool or all sorts of interesting things. And that was pleasure. My biggest business memory, I believe, is the first time I came into your studio and I pulled my car up right in front because no one had told me where to park. And someone came out and I expected it to be valet. And it was someone who came out and said, You can't park there. That's where Dan Levitard parks.

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And I said, Listen, I don't want to take his spot, but I'm leaving my car here. I'll be back in a half hour. And the answer was, I'll have to ask Mr. Levitard. And I said, That won't be necessary. And I just kept moving. I gave him the keys, and I came up to your studio.

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Dan, what did you say when they asked you?

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They never came. They knew not to ask. That's my spot. They pretended to ask.

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Get off.

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My.

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Plane.

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The fourth time that I was there, when I was there for a couple of days in a row last year, and I had to deal with the garage, I had never been in that garage, and it did not seem like a professional outfit that I was a part of when I had to deal with getting from the garage to your studio through four back doors, a kitchen, and then up two flights of stairs.

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It's like GoodYou.

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Got to go through the whole thing. I pretty much thought, and it's a good thing that I did not come since I lost my smell. And I was thinking to myself that I would have come way more often recently if you had wanted me to. Hell, yeah. I have a.

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Phrasing brother. He has lost his scent. He has lost his sense of smell. He came a lot more. He does not actually smell. Or he smells like nice things when I have.

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Smelled him. Hasn't come since.

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He is a very... We already got that joke. It's been made four times already.

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Let's get to the top. He's going to send me something, Dan. It's being done in Mexico. And once in the United States that they're giving shots in people's necks in the hospital that gives them their sense of taste and smell back. I've had a bunch of people get to me on Twitter with that, and I've been deciding whether or not to do that, but it's not FDA-approved, and so I'm not sure what to do.

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The shot in the neck seems aggressive. I have also seen that experimentally, they are fixing some of the smell, sense of smell and taste for people. But I don't know how successful that is. And I can't imagine you trusting it.

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No, and I'm not going to go to Mexico to do it. That doesn't seem and that's nothing against Mexico. I just feel like I don't want to be the first. It's not like I make a living. I'm not a chef.

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It is something against Mexico, though.

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No, because I would have said the same thing if it were for almost any other country.

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But then it would be something against any other country. I believe you. I believe that you're not making that Latin-specific- Chris.

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Cody had a top five, right?

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Oh, I got one.

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All right, what's.

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Your top five, Chris Cody? Top five, Clevelander moments for me. Some of these are in show. Some of these are out of show. But just Clevelander moments for me. O-l-i, the early club segments. When we brought in the curtain, what school did the curtain reveal? Asu, Forks up, baby. We did that for months where we would have mascotes come in. We had Greg Cody appear, even though it was a Friday. The Clevelander Girls. The Clevelander Girls would.

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Come up. It was a time. My dad was dancing.

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And C. Martin, also.

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What a time that was. Second O-L-I. This could be way higher, but Mike used this on one of his lists early in the week, so I don't want to double up on that. The Josh Norman hug. It just has to be on everyone's list. It was just.

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It's-now, let me ask you guys a question. Do you think it was made funnier by the fact that it was security cam footage and not an actual camera.

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Yes.

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Well, it was because I believe Josh just came up and said, Dan gave me... How did we learn of the hug? Because we went back and we were like, We got to see this thing. I forget.

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Who said. No, there were people around who saw it and said it was awkward, including Josh Norman, who was made uncomfortable by it.

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Classic times. Number five, Dan thinking Amine was a Clevelander waiter the first time he met Amine.

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He took.

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My.

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Number one.

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I thought Diana Rosini was somebody who worked in Deportes, too, I think when she was here. I didn't recognize her either.

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That was just... What was your thought there when he did that?

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Well, he never addressed me. What happened was I was sitting in this little.

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Place where Louis sits. I thought it was weird that a Clevelander waiter was having his lunch in our setting. I did think that was weird.

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For the listeners, before you enter the actual studio area, there's a little anti room.

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Where Louis actually sits. The saddest green room in the history of Green. Well, it used to be.

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That used to be the.

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Green Room? That used.

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To be our green room. Oh, my God. I think Mike was like, You want a sandwich? Because I came early because I thought it was like an ESPN show where we have to do a preshow meeting.

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And.

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They didn't do any of that stuff around here. Exactly. Mike was like, Do you want lunch or something? I'm like, Sure. I ordered a turkey sandwich, and I'm eating it right there. Dan walks in and walks right by me. I was like, Wow, this Dan Levitar guy, he's all business. He's going straight for the studio.

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You had your back.

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To us. Yeah, I was sitting. But I looked up and you walked in. You walked straight past me and I was like, Oh, I guess he's all business. This was 10 minutes before showtime. Stugat showed up one minute before showtime. Then I hear Mike say, Did you meet a mean? Dan said, No, where is he?

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Number four.

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Number four, Super Bowl in Minnesota. Mena Kymes doing a report from a zipline.

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Is that a cool vendor moment? I'm trying to have to maintain a traction to the fourth quarter. They let me touch. I guess that's the health issue. I'm like, Oh, my God. This is a... I'mi can't breathe it out.

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She's still with us?

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Oh, my God. So get.

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To braided with four and see what it.

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Sounds like. It got sound so much better.

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Oh, the classic. So young. By the way, this top five brought to you by Miller Lake, 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. Number three. Number three. This is a personal one. I don't even know if people remember this in here. We had a meeting once with important ESPN suits at Naked Taco about a block away. On our way over there... And on our way over there... I stumbled and tripped over the side of the roadway, and I fell down, and I'm like, Okay, this is fun. Not that embarrassing. As I'm like, All right, everyone, all the suits saw it. We stand up and we start walking, continuing-No, we don't stand up. You stand up. We all stood up and we start walking towards Naked Taco. I realized as we're walking now, I have a gigantic tear in my pants right in the crotchel region. Now I have to sit down at this big, literally the most important people at ESPN. And it's like, I'm not going to... I have to hide a gigantic tear in my shorts the entire lunch.

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Did you cross your legs?

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I did. Luckily, it was not a high tie. My legs weren't really exposed. I got in nice. They didn't notice. We unveiled this the next day on the air, but it was just the peak of embarrassment for me, so that's got to be on there for a while.

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Number.

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Two. Number two is the Greg Cody tumor, Hard Network out.

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I just want to give you a sample of what Greg Cody sounded like, which set us all off in a panic, everyone except for Greg Cody, because he's old and he's stubborn and refuses to go to the doctor. So that's what you sounded like for the better half of a month. Now, me, Dan, everyone, we told you repeatedly to go to the doctor. You ignored us. You finally went to the doctor, and the results of your visit to the doctor were what? Yeah, after several tests, they found a tumor in my chest.

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It's.

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Dan, Stool and Greg Cody. On the ESB and radio.

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It's hilarious. Who is that talking, by the way?

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Who is benign?

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Number one.

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It was a benign tumor.

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Not as funny. If it had been malignant.

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They found a tumor in my chest. It's Dan, Stool and Greg Cody on the ESB and radio.

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I missed that.

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So.

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Much, number one. They found a tumor in my chest. It's Dan, Stool and Greg Cody on.

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The.

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Esb and radio. Radio.

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Can you imagine someone who doesn't watch the show?

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I was so mad, bro.

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I love Greg Cody.

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I.

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Was so mad.

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They found a tumor in my chest. It's Dan, Stewart and Greg Cody on ESB.

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And radio.

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Great work.

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By Stewart there. Us in the back, because we see the clock coming down. We're like, Oh, no, this is not gone as planned.

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I had.

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To click the button, so.

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That did feel great. That was Stewart?

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We all learned of the tumor.

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Together.

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I.

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Think. It's Dan, Stewart.

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And.

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Greg Cody on ESB and radio.

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Number one. Number one, this is probably a top moment for everybody else. A horrifying moment for me in the battery costume, down by the pool, waving my little jazz hands as Dan berates a security guard. Oh, no. Not berates, but just defends our honor. And holy crap, was that a moment?

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I'm still mad about First Aid coming in here and eating all the muffins downstairs while they were trying to charge you guys $9 for those muffins. I'm mad at everybody about that but still. David- Can we.

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Talk about the new studio, Dan? I have a major question.

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Yes?

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What is the bathroom situation?

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Much better. Yeah. A much better bathroom situation.

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Do the doors go all the way to the floor or do you see people's feet?

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It's two individual bathrooms.

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You get your own private things experience. You lock that door and you got the sink to yourself, you got the urinal to yourself, you got.

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The toilet to yourself. We're going to have bathroom lines for the first time. You know, a little backup.

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I wanted to ask- How many times a day will they be cleaned?

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Oh, not at all. Oh, shit.