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The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.

I have been tempted in restaurants walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys?

I've done it. And now here's The Marching Man to nowhere, fatface, and the habitual liar.

Hello, Jim. How are you?

I'm good.

Thank you for making the time for us. We appreciate it, sir. Jim Larinega with us. I was thinking to myself as you came on because I'm looking at you and you've been doing this for so long, and obviously, the results are obvious, but your love for it is a thing that endures. I don't know if you've considered retirement. I know that you've got a contract through 2026. It seems like something you love so much that you almost could not do it. Thank you for joining us. But I wanted to ask you at this point in life, what gets you up in the morning to go to the gym because it's still the place you love the most?

Yeah, my favorite time of the day, Dan, is practice. Three o'clock in the afternoon, I get to be around 18-22-year-olds. They keep me young. I love teaching and coaching, working with them, trying to explain to them the different ways that will help them improve and help our team improve. I'm constantly making adjustments in our practices to see if we can improve in the areas that need the most attention. I was very happy with the last two efforts. We beat Notre Dame, held them to 49. Last night we held L. I. U. To 49, and our emphasis has been at the defensive end of the floor and it's starting to pay dividends.

This seems like one of the best teams you've had, and I'll talk to you about that in a second, but I really do want to talk to you about the coaching of young men. You were listening while we were talking about how this business changes. I can't even imagine how dirty this game has been in the shadows for a long time. Now, more of it in the money realm is out in the open. But when you heard us talking about the business of the game, I would imagine that Jim Larinega at some point has to feel a little bit confused by everything happening in his sport. And it makes you no less a leader. It's just like, What the hell is happening here? The rules are all different. We're just going to make them all up. And okay, now we're giving these guys millions of dollars. Okay, let's do it that way.

Yeah, but Dan, the game of basketball has evolved over the years. Think about back in my day, there was no three-point shot. In 1986, they put in a three-point shot. You had to adjust. And then you had a college basketball, NCAA tournament in arenas, maybe 20,000. Now we play in a football stadium that seats 75,000. So the game has been evolving every four or five years. It used to be one and I'm sorry, used to be high school kids could go directly to the NBA. Now it's one-and-done. I mean, things are constantly changing. Nil and the transfer portal have really put college athletics in turmoil. I mean, it's the Wild Wild West for sure. But for me and my staff, we just keep plugging away, trying to do the best we can with whatever the rules are.

What do you view in your career as the most challenging of the evolutions, the one that you regard as, This one gave me the most trouble. This one kept me up at night. This is the one that made me most uncomfortable, because you must be obsessive-compulsive about your work, correct?

Yes, but the thing about any job is there's always adversity. There's always difficulties to point something out and say, Oh, well, this is more difficult. Well, that depends on how you deal with it. My staff and I, we work every day planning, planning, planning. We try to teach our players, Dr. Stephen Covey, seven habits of highly effective people. And the first habit is be proactive, meaning you got to plan ahead. So while things were changing, we were making plans to change along with it.

Are you a life coach?

Oh, absolutely. Here's a good example. My players, most of them have never been to a Broadway show. Tomorrow we leave for New York. We're playing Colorado in Brooklyn at the Barclay Center, and Saturday night we'll be taking the players to Hamilton. Today I will be explaining to them who Alexander Hamilton is, why his best friend was George Washington, why Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton, and why we fought the Revolutionary War and why there's a United States of America.

I'm sure they'll enjoy it more than when you tell the story. The reveal, I think, will be cool to them. But you've.

Got to be- Can you also rap this lesson?

It's interesting, though. You got a big smile on your face because somewhere around the business of this, like the joys of teaching, are what move you, I gather. Exactly.

My high school coach was the reason and inspiration that I got into coaching. I love learning from him, listening to him. He was always telling me stories, sometimes about basketball, sometimes just about life. He was the most highly network guy that I knew growing up. He knew everybody. In fact, how crazy it was, my father, in 1993, was diagnosed with cancer. My mom called me. I was living in Bowling Green, Ohio. I hadn't lived in New York in well over 20 years, and she said to me, I need a doctor for your dad. Well, who do you think about calling? I called my high school coach and said, What do I do to help my father? He said, Don't worry, I'll take care of it. I'll get the doctor. And he did within a day. My father was at Sloan Kettering, working with the best oncologist. So my high school coach was a great role model for me, and I've tried to emulate him.

Coach, I want to talk to you about one of your strong suits, which has always been player development. We've seen how far a player like Wooga, who has left alone in the elite eight against Kansas, and now he's turned himself with your coaching into a player that's talked about as a lottery pick. But I want to specifically talk about Norchad O'Mear, who had options this offseason, has a bit of a tweener body. He's built like nobody in this program has ever been built outside of Jimmy Graham. He's always had a nice touch, but he's developed a more consistent three-point shot, and you seem to be giving him a green light. How much of your offseason outlook is, I got to do what's best for the team, but also, Norchard, to get to this next level, I'm going to help you in those ways. Help the team, but also help you in your next phase.

Well, you must have been watching us pretty closely because I'm.

Glad every game, Coach. Go Cains.

Here's what happens. Last spring, Norshad sits down with me and his high school coach who's advising him. Norshad says he wants to try out with the NBA and test the waters. I said, Well, who's your agent? He said, Well, I don't want an agent. I want you to set up tryouts for me. I did. I worked with him to try to get him exposure. Then I talked to all the NBA guys when Norshad pulled his name out. I asked them, What are the things you feel like he needs to do to better position himself to play in the NBA? They said, Develop his three-point shot and his ball handling. We immediately went to work on him actually rebounding the ball and dribbling it himself, pushing it in transition. If you watch his play closely enough, you'll see it's not every time. He outlets the ball plenty, but he'll also handle the ball a lot more. And then we worked on his three-point shot and he spent a ton of time developing it. He's now shooting right around 40 % from three. He's in the 80 percentile in free throws. So his shooting has improved, his ball handling has improved, and he's still a monster on the glass.

Have you had a player that physically strong?

Yes, I've actually had a number of guys over the course of my career. He's like a Greek god. His body is incredible. But he's also the nicest human being off the court. He's got all the best qualities, the best personality that a person can have. He is a tremendous competitor on the court and a very nice person off the court.

Did you just say of Mike Ryan, though, in his face? Did you just say if you've been watching us closely? Are you not aware? Are you not aware of just how closely Mike.

Ryan- No, he gave me credit on the top end. He's like, You must be watching closely.

Well, this is the reason you ask questions at this point, right? So that somebody can tell you, Yes, you've been watching closely. To flash my monofide is. Yes. Well, because you care about this team deeply. You came in here today raving about beating up Rod Strickland by 50. You're invested in this team. You care deeply about this team, and you think now that you've gotten a taste of the elite eight and final four, you think this team could be the best team, and Jim needs to know that.

Coach, we're Blue Blood. You have us building every year by year, a lead eight, final four. We had a tough break that Loyola stole our final four. Bruce Brown and Lonnie Walker were going to the final four that year. We had to remind ourselves, you've been here for 13 years. When people look back at your storied career, this may be the program that you're associated with, and that's crazy considering you took George Mason to a.

Final four. I thought he was coming here to retire. I criticized him on air for coming here to retire.

But no, you got plenty of life in you and you're building something special. I'm sure it warms your heart, Coach, to see what's happening there, especially on weekend spotlight games. You know what that student section used to look like. I know what that student section used to look like. You're building a basketball culture here. There is no reason why the Watsco shouldn't be 10, 20 years down the line, looked at as one of the prestigious places in college basketball. You're building something that special.

Well, I agree with you there. When my staff and I first came in 2011, I said, We not only want to have a good team, but we want to have a great program. We want to build tradition and develop a program that consistently competes with the top teams in the ACC and in the nation. We've been able to do that over a short period of time. But we're still well behind the Blue Bloods like Kansas and Carolina and Duke and Kentucky. We need in our recruiting to be able to get some of the very best talent. You mentioned- More money. -lonnie Walker.

More money. Come on, Jim, let's do an infomercial. Hey, Miami, he needs more money. Jim Lorenaga needs more money in recruiting. We need more money. Jim, you know how hard it is to build a business in Miami, Jim. Nobody's made that program work the way that you have. I think we need to do an infomercial together. Right now, hey, Miami, we need more money. We got to keep these players paid so that Coach can take them to Hamilton.

Well, here's what I would say about that. My staff knows that there are certain players I don't want to coach because they're high maintenance. They're kids that think only of themselves. We're constantly looking at kids who are very team-oriented, who are very competitive, who really understand the game of basketball, who come here for all the right reasons. They want to get a great education. They want to live in this beautiful environment. They want to compete in the ACC against the best players in the country. And of course, they want to play after they played in college, they want to get to the NBA and we want to prepare for that. You used Hugo Poplar as an example. He's a perfect example of a young man who came here. He's physically gifted, but he had to learn to play the college game. While he's playing the college game, we're working with him on his skills to become an NBA player. If you see what he's doing now, he's going to be probably a lottery pick at the end of this season if he chooses to go pro.

Look at Mike.

Mike's got the self-Somer saying.

He's got the.

Self-satisfied look. Dan, you're an alumnus from the University of Miami. What can you do to help better this program? I know you're friends with Carlos Booser. Get on that text right now. We need to help build.

This program. I'm not a college basketball insider, but I think the Booser kids are going to betray their old man and strike out on their own. But I'm not an insider. I'm just speculating.

God, in your mouth, God's ears.

Jim, thank you for being on with us. We appreciate it, sir.

My pleasure, fellas.

Don't live a tard. Were you guys building out the A-rod bathroom of your imaginations? Is that what I heard you discussing during the break?

Towels with an A on them.

You know the thing you slide the toilet paper on? That's a baseball bat.

Hey, I like that. Stugatz. Do you think he actually calls it the throne?

Probably does. I think it's.

An actual throne.

An actual throne? There's got to be a full-length mirror in there somewhere.

I imagine somewhere in his house, he has a replica of David, but with his head.

On it.

This is.

The Dan Lebertar.

Show.

With the Stugats.

Let's start this segment without Jess and Lucy. Let's just start this.

Mike.

I hear Marshmello ass.

In here. Yes, this is what it's like. This is what it's like trying to run a place that has a bunch of creative people in it. What is this?

Jessica and Lucy. I gave 15 minutes. They're on minute 25. What is happening?

Chris, you can speak to, in the executive producer role, you can speak to the difficulties in rounding this crew and just getting everybody to sit in their seats to do the goddamn show from inside the pen.

You give an inch, they take a mile.

When they walk in here, let's give them the silent treatment. Where are they? And then you just start with a because they are in trouble.

Well, they're not going to know they're on air, though, so you got to be careful because they're going to be in legitimate trouble, and then they don't know they're on air, and they might say things that are a little too honest. Instead of therapy couch, you're going to hear some things you don't want to hear.

Yeah, so I already heard the excuses in my ear. They're stuck in an elevator, which immediately made me feel bad. But I'm like, How likely is that? It's turned into already they're waiting for an elevator. So no, what's happened is they're late.

Are they by the pool? Did they go to the gym area? Look, man, winter in Miami is lovely. This is as good as it gets because it's 60 degrees. I would not blame Lucy and Jessica who have been smothered by our heat. I don't know, man, our people are not very nice. This is not a friendly town. This is a very unfriendly town.

If they thought that before, wait till a couple of minutes from now when they walk in this studio.

We're already setting up the shot to just stare at them, the video camera. I think we just go silent when they're about to walk in and we stare. We'll tell the audience, Oh, here they are.

We're going quiet now. We're going to stare. We're going to make it obvious, though, that they're on the air because I believe we will cause a problem if they come in and we're yelling at them because they're late to start a segment and Mike's doing the dictator stuff that might not let them know that they're not on air.

I'm not being a dictator. I think I'm being very fair. I've given a 15-minute break is quite nice. Not a lot of people have that in their workplace. I feel taken advantage of right now. We have to create content. There are deliverables here. We have to send content to our partners over at DKN in a certain window, and they're standing in the way of that.

We can't do it now. We can't create... Here they come.

Hey, not my fault. All right?

Dan wants to talk to you guys.

That sounds like a music. That sounds like a little song.

You guys are in trouble. And I'm not doing that again.

No, it's so nice of you guys to join us. Yeah.

Happy to be here. -all right, what's the problem? -what the.

Fuck.

Happened? Why are you so late?

I'm the 24th ranked best media personality in college football. What are you exactly-The show starts when Lucy gets here, okay? First of all. That's where we're going. Second of all, the elevator bank's here. Leave a lot to be desired.

They do.

Some point, technology works.

Against you. Jeremy has an Emmy in his hand. He was here on time.

Not really. He wasn't on the list, though. He was also late.

Did Big Game Boomer give you the Emmy?

What is that drink that you have? Mancha.

Billy, Lewis, and I have done trycept workouts in 15 minutes and gotten back here. Not that it's really done much for me, but we've still done it.

You guys, I mean, that explains a lot that your trips are 15 minutes.

I don't have a lot of time. You guys made me do a lot of things.

Stop being mean to everyone. Stop being.

Mean to Lucy. You don't get to turn this around on me. Lucy didn't do anything wrong. I'm the bad guy because I give 15-minute breaks that you turn into.

25-minute breaks. Was it a long line? Did it take a while to get your order? It was the elevators, I'm telling you. Was a sauter back.

You can walk up the stairs.

From the lobby. No, actually, I didn't know that. Can you show me where the stairs are next time? Yeah, the second elevator. That would actually help a lot.

Yes, there are elevators there. They're right next to the elevator, the stairs.

Does anyone else do the thing where it's like, I walk up three flights of stairs every day? That's my ex. I look at it like... When I take the bright line, there's always a cavalry of people taking the escalator because it's a good, the equivalent of three stories, I'd say, to get from the ground level to where the train is. I walk up the stairs and I just say, This is it. This is my... That's the decision I'm making today. I'm going to not take the escalator. I'm going to walk up. Sometimes I go every other step to get the.

Extra burn. When I lived in New York, I lived on the fifth floor and the fourth floor back to back years, and I have never been in better shape in my entire life, because every day I'd have to carry groceries up the stairs. I felt like I was a weightlifter. I'd carry my luggage up and down the stairs all the time. It was the best workout of my life, and I never had to do anything else.

That was my weight. The problem is I do the train about twice a month.

We should do a fitness commercial for you on what it is that you do and your training regimen, and you, too, can have a body like this if you just follow these three easy, literal steps.

Here's the thing. Here's what happened. There's just three steps. I love the Elser. I really do. This place is great. It's beautiful. The fatal flaw of the Elser is that when you're going through the lobby, you have to go outside of the... There's two ginormous elevator banks. You have to go outside, scan your thingy, go to the floor. So Lucy and I screwed up. Actually, the guy might have just... He might have hit the wrong floor because he let us up. He might have hit the wrong floor. He might have hit the wrong... So we got out on the wrong floor, and we had to go all the way out of the bank. We had to go around the corner. And then we were like, Oh, my God, we're on the wrong... We're on a different level, and we were in the garage. We were walking.

Wandering around. At any point did the.

Time matter? Yes. Look in Slack. I wrote in Slack, Lucy and I are stuck in the elevator. Also, there's a ton of people here. Wait a second, stuck in the elevator? There's a ton of people here today. There's a billion people waiting to get on.

You were stuck.

In an elevator? No, we were just walking around the elevator brings for 10 minutes because we had to go out and we had to go back in. So you weren't stuck in an elevator? No, I said we were stuck waiting for the elevator. You had your coffee on. I did just have.

An espresso. All right, she's... She is. Let's examine this for a second. Wait, you are reverving a little bit, so I do want to ask this question.

There was a sentence in there that was the fastest sentence I've ever heard.

The coverage has gotten very fast around here. Nina Kymes is talking at a high rate of speed. There were feet around Lucy's head the other day, and we were making her talk at a high rate of speed. But I genuinely want input here, and I genuinely want to understand better.

Because- She sent this at 10:00. Hold on. We have on the TV right now, the Slack message that was sent at 10:17. Just to let.

You guys know we were safe. Thanks for being worried, by the way.

We were supposed to be back at 10:10.

You guys don't even care that we are gone for so long. No one called and asked, Are you guys okay? You guys are all out there by yourself on the mean streets of Miami. We did. We cared plenty.

We delayed the start for you.

We cared plenty. We just kept saying, Content.

I have a lot of blind spots. I do. They've been revealed to me more and more over the last-.

She could get a rear.

View mirror. -three years. Well, funny you should say that because the Clevelander is in my rear view mirror.

Lucy, you're just letting just do all the talking for you.

I'm the 24th best college football personality. According to Big Game Boomer, I don't think I need to defend myself. Stop yelling at Lucy. She didn't do anything wrong. I've never done.

Anything wrong, ever. She's just standing idly by while big sister takes the fault.

I came in and said it was my fault.

I need your help.

It's not good enough. We have to make content. You have to lie and say it's someone else's fault, Lucy. God, I can't believe I have to explain.

This to you. Jessica and Lucy, I genuinely need your help here because a few years ago, and Jessica, you know how unions work, you are for employee rights. I had a friend who had a business, and he was saying that his youngest and, quote-unquote, laziest employees were the ones that were unionizing on him.

Now, that sounds like a big game boomer if.

I've ever heard one. And what I wanted to ask you, though, is, because I wondered to myself when he asked me that, I wondered, Well, is that you getting old? Or is that that young people are going to change the way the workplace ought to be? This is a content place where Mike Ryan is cracking a whip, getting us in here every 15 minutes and stuff. Because that's the job, we've got to produce a bunch of content. We've got DraftKings as a very… They've been a very good partner during a difficult time in the media escape. They've been an exceptional partner, and we've got to get them these things at this time every day or making more than anybody else makes.

I think we just made 15 minutes of content by being late, actually, Dan.

Don't not rationalize this. We could have had a conversation about Diddy, all right? And instead, we had a conversation about you being late.

Why don't you have Danny Cannell, number 25, come in here and do it then?

What should the rules be? Because it sucks to have a bunch of rules and rigidities around trying to make stuff. The one thing I yell more than anything in that room is running back in here. No time for human interaction.

There isn't because we have to hit all the notes. We have guests coming up next, and it's Thursday. You know what that means? It means I don't have someone sitting in that seat to hit it, so I'm going to get up from my chair right now and make cocaine just do the Thursday thunder. Just give me.

A second. Also, the rules should be sometimes people are late, and it's the elser's fault. I'm just a girl, okay? I'm just doing the best I can. I got my macha. I'm in a better mood now. Everyone needs to calm down. I am just a girl. Thursday Thunder, presented by Jiraf King sportsbook. Mike, Thunder. Yes, we're doing it.

It's the game.

Of the century tonight.

Mike.

Thunder. There might be only seven point scored by either team. Who's to say? We have a hell of a parlay. It's disgusting. We're going to start with Mitch Trivist, Pittsburgh Steeler starting quarterback under 180 yards past...

Thunder, thunder, thunder. We also have on our second leg of the parlay, TJ Watt. I think he's going to get a sack tonight, plus 0.75 sacks for TJ Watt, one of the best defensive players in the League. And finally, we're going to take Ezekiel, Elliot, with the under in rushing yards at 60. There we go. Scary. It's also very cold out today. Maybe storms are brewing. 60 rushing yards under. I don't want to watch any of that.

Thursday, Thunder is brought to you by DraftKings sportsbook. You can follow this parlay on DraftKings sportsbook app.

What advertisement is that for the game? If all of the shows everywhere are infomercials for what's coming up next month, the SPS. Colorrush.

They haven't done.

Colorrush in a while. I think it's the throwback.

I'm telling you, there's something nice about placing a bet and not watching the game. I love a good just check the phone about halfway through, see where we're at. I'll tune in late if it's close, but I like just making a bet and checking in on it. That has this game written all over.

That's true. I will be watching it. Me and my besties for the Prime Time games. We've been doing a group parlay every week, and if we win, we will do a very nice fancy dinner the next time they're in Miami. Bringing the whole friend group together, Dano.

Hopefully, they don't count on you to show up on time.

Or to make the parlays because I'm.

Not good at that. Except this one. This is not the best. I believe this is the problem.

It's windy.

In.

Here. Do you realize that all around us at DraftKings Network, you have touts who know what they're talking about and are taking these games seriously and giving a lot of information? We are making these bets and they're sloppy. You're telling people, I'm not going to watch the game. You accompanied with, You know what my expertise is? I couldn't get over to those buttons, so I'm going to make a thunder sound poorly, and I'm going to try and join you to help out, and I'm not confident or I'm the thunder sound.

No one's had a better segment than Lucy, just reiterating time and time again, she's number 24 and just a girl.

I'm just a girl. I don't know what you guys expect from me.

Don Levitard. I did not propose in a hot air balloon. But I did go on a hot air balloon trip, a ride in San Francisco, Northern California. On my honeymoon, we got stuck in a tree, and I haven't been back since. I mean, to the entire area, by the way.

Stugats. You just avoided the entire, not just the tree, not just hot air balloons. You've avoided the entire West Coast. This is the Dan Levator Show.

With the Stugats.

Someone DMed me the other day. Sure hope you'd be okay with Mike Ryan calling you his daughter in the presence of your probably hot mom because equality. Something tell me you wouldn't fly. I was like, My mom says thank you.

I thought we should put a Golden Bachelor together for Mike Ryan's dad. He was so handsome, but it's been scrubbed from the internet.

Yeah, it's weird how that happened. I don't know, my dad was texting me and my wife was texting me, Well, Julia wants to see Abu and your dad's bothering me about where to find it on the internet. I'm like, I don't know. It disappeared. Weird. And that's not usually how things happen. Weird. I'll send an email.

We have to figure out how to create a podcast segment. Let's find Mike's mom. We have to figure out how to do that. I think we found her. David Samson, an admin-He's dead. David Samson and Adnan Burke are... No, don't do that. Took a dark turn. David Samson, nothing.

Personal to you? Cabayero Woodlawn. I can walk you there if you'd like.

Call you Abu, though. Abu, once an Abu. That's what I called my grandfather. Is that.

A- Yeah, well, my dad was born in Havana, so some traditions say.

Adnan Vork has a very good guest on Cinefile, I was told. David is here. Look at him. Look at him, gloating. Look how happy he is over there. Go ahead, Adnan, tell the people what is on Cinefile and how you got a big-name guest.

Dan, he may only be the biggest in-up comedian in the world right now. Sebastian Maniscalco, not on nothing personal, not on the Dan Levitard show, but somehow some way on Cinefile. And my understanding is that, listen, David's podcast is doing very well numbers-wise. The Levitard show is enormously popular. But Sebastian said, You know what? I want my pick of the litter. I want someone who sees things the way I see things. I want someone to appreciate Cinema the way I do to promote my show Bookie on Max. I'm taking Vork. So 30 minutes of Maniscalcoing this. We talked to the Irishman. We talked about my father, not my father, but Robert De Niro, the film he was in. It was amazing. Samson, you're going to love it.

David?

Do you have a booking agent?

Yes, I was going to plead the fifth, but yes, I do, David.

What are you doing?

David, what are you doing? We're under the Metallark medium. I'm sure that our talent booker can help you as well. You're telling me no one's reached out to you as far.

As it- Well, no, no. Okay.

That's what I'm telling you.

Well, no. Look, all right, let me say something here on behalf of David Samson, who the poor guy is busting his ass, and there is so little gratitude around what's happening right now. I saw the press release yesterday. This is almost too unbelievable to believe. I saw the press release yesterday for All the Smoke and Levitire and Friends Network, and I just see a text from David, Hey, did you guys purposely omit my name from the press release? No, it wasn't purposeful. It was an afterthought. Now you're here on Cinnafile, and you're saying that you're getting a guest, and David doesn't even know that we've got a guest booking agency helping us with that. David continues to get disrespected in a way that's now starting to make me really uncomfortable. It's actually.

A contractual provision in our deal that there is a booker, who, Metalyr Kaz, who would be booking for Samson Sit downs. I have been told that the booking people are not available to help for nothing personal. So it's fine. I use my Rolodex when I can. But Adnan comes on here, hoity-toity, talking about all these guests and Pablo Torre, God knows how... I mean, Lars, Pippen.

David, this is what you think of the guest that we have. By the way, you just saw the holdovers as did I. Look at this. I got this soap sent to me with sayings from the holdovers, Snarling Vista Ghost, Genuine Troglet, Dights, Rancid Philistines. That's what he thinks of MetalArk Media, everybody. That's what Samson thinks, the holdovers now in theaters.

Do you have to show the free swag that you get from all the movies that I love watch and review that somehow you're on a mailing list like L. L. Bean?

Maestro, a screenplay, if you want to check it out. Excellent screenplay to read. Bradley Kupert's really got sent to me as well. Really good stuff there. Please, stop. American fiction. I got a Christmas card sent to me from the Holdovers, Alexander Payne.

You reviewed The Holdovers in a Sinifile episode. I'm very curious to know your thoughts on that because I've been very interested in this movie just from the ad campaign. It's a throwback ad campaign with an actual voice explaining the trailer as it's happening. I was a big fan of how it was being marketed.

What is Samson laughing about? What's Samson? What's the matter?

I did a seven-minute review on Nothing Personal, Mike, of the whole time.

He needs my review. I love you, Mike. I love you.

-i would prefer Admin.

It's fantastic, Mike. He had some point. It's set the '70s and they want to get that '70s vibe. You're right, the trailer was mimicking what you'd expect of a character-driven movie from that era. Masterclass from Giamatti, resounding return to form for Alexander Payne after the misstep of downsizing. You know what a great filmmaker he is. Not just sideways, but the descendants and elections. So it's a terrific film, Mike. You'll love it. But I'm sure the seven minutes that Samson did.

Was much, much better. In fairness, David, your thoughts on the film, three seconds or less.

I liked it.

All right, let's do top fives.

I'm just shocked.

I'm shocked right now. I could have given them way more than that in seven seconds.

Can.

We discuss for a second? Can we discuss for a second that Jessica and Lucy had no idea who Sebastian Manoscalco is? I get it. You might not be a big fan, but they were like, Who is this person?

Looked him up. Never seen him before.

-that's crazy. He's not for us. Not the young people.

Is he a big game boomer?

Big game boomer. He's not on the list. -a lot of my wife stuff. I know that was Borat, not him.

But still. He didn't want to do Italian, so he just did the non-offensive Borat. That's exactly what happened. But it's not. Borat also offensive. Play around with it. You guys, I need your help with something because David's discontent is not a joke. He launched the merch store here unpopularly earlier this week, you could still get discounts. Samsonsucks20 is the code. It's levitardaf. Com, and it's a 20% discount. Twenty what? 20%. 20% discount. Excuse me. But you can also buy 20 shirts. But, Samson, the disrespect is real. I'm beginning to feel bad for you. It is not intentional. You know good and well it's not intentional.

When you text me both at 3:00 AM and 8:04 AM, I view that as intentional.

You're taking that we are disrespecting you as a company again and again by just purposefully neglecting you and not neglecting Pablo Torre, for example, in New York?

Well, I would just say that you're in violation of the contract. That is what I would say.

I.

Can direct you who to send you emails to, and they would promptly be ignored.

That's how that one happens, isn't it? What is the list you guys are doing today, David?

So today is December seventh, and it's Pearl Harbor Day. And so we wanted to do a top five list of war or war-related movies.

And Adnan, how are you feeling about your list? Because we were talking in here the other day about Dunkirk for some reason, a film of that scale. I just don't know how you can't be impressed by that movie, even if you don't like that movie just to see something that grandeose. But Adnan, how is your list likely to from David's?

I think mine is just better, Dan, and more current. I think it's something that will hit a little harder.

Without even knowing my list, is that just your default? Do you have that written in your notes of your phone? What to say about David's list, Thursdays?

No, I'm just resoundingly confident, David. My list will be better than yours. That's just how it goes.

Number.

Five. Number five, David. Go ahead.

Three Kings.

Three.

Kings is a 1999 movie by David O. Russell with as they tried to get gold that was stolen during the Persian Gulf War. Mark Wallberg's in it, Ice Cubes in it. It really is outstanding, both in humor and in seriousness. That's why it's my number five.

Good soundtrack, definitely a good movie, a little under the radar.

I like it. It's a good call. Yeah, I like that movie. Number four.

Lord of War.

Also a good choice.

Lord of War is with Nicholas cage, and it's come back to the forefront just recently because The Lord of War is the guy who we exchanged for Brittany Griner. That's a little side note. Tom Brady's ex-wife is in the movie Bridget Moinahan, as well as Jared Leto. Outstanding performances all the way around. And what this guy did and how we are all implicated in global war would shock you.

It's pretty much - Other than that, pretty good.

Number three.

In Glorous Masters. If only this had been how it ended, Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt. It is a movie that is often overlooked, I think, with the performance that is the greatest potentially supporting actor performance in the history of movies. Maybe the greatest start to any movie ever made, it makes my list at number three.

In your review, you point out the flaw of the movie, which is that it's never as great as that first scene. The first scene is outstanding, David. I couldn't agree with you more. It's perfect in terms of the economy of scale, the dialog, the directing, the reveal that they're in the basement. Of course, Christophe Walsh ordering milk. But after that, I don't think the rest of the film is nearly as sharp as that opening. I think it's a little bloated. I think it's a little self-indulgent. Mike's heard my criticisms of Tarantino before. I don't think it's overlooked. I think it's looked where it should be, which is it's good, it's not great. It's certainly not the number three best war film of all time.

Number two, Schindler's List. It's not uplifting, and I will say that I've watched Schindler's List only one time because I didn't want to watch it a second time. But it's a movie that especially in this day and age, everybody should watch because it is true that not everybody is anti-Semitic. Schindler's List with Liam Neeson, before he was this crazy action hero, he played the starring role in this maybe the most important movie Spielberg ever made.

I'm not going to on Schindler's list. Ray Fines is great, too.

I think it would be very.

It's a good list. No, it's a good list. So far, don't stumble here, David. So far, your list is fine. No objectionable things on your list, but number one. Give him time.

The greatest war movie I've ever seen, and I don't think it'll ever change, is Saving Private Ryan.

You know what that is? Good list, David. Good list.

Look at that.

Let's.

See, Adnan. Let's see what.

You got now. Per tradition, Adnan has 90 seconds on the clock to give his full five.

I'm a little flubmoxed by the standing ovation there, but the shipping containers. Here we go. Number five is the film that I think is better than Saving Private Ryan, came out the same year. Maybe it's a little more esoteric, but it's a thin red line. Great film from Terence Mallek, incredible cast Sean Penn, nick Nolte. Saving Private Ryan certainly is notable, but Thin Red Line was beautiful and poetic. Number four.

Good morning, Vietnam.

Robin Williams rocking from the Delta, the DMC. He's never been better than this film. Barry Leventon, also some drama. Forest Whitaker as well. Really funny movie. Number three, I mean, they went right to the heart of the jungle. Francis for Coppola, Apocalyptic now. The truth, the love of all three sequence, incredible that helicopter assault, Unforgetable. Number two, it's the greatest war film of all time, arguably Oliver Stone's Platoon. Number one, since Ameen Al-Hassad was really offended that David and I didn't give this movie enough love, although we both had it in our top five Ben Stiller movies. The number one war or war-related movie is Tropic Fund. I bet.

It is. I bet it is.

Yeah, out of the game. That's why you get the prime guest.

See you later. I just want to point out Moneyball could be considered a war movie because Winsabove replacement.

Jeremy, leave. Jeremy, just leave. I don't mean the studio, I mean my life.

That's a good joke. That's not even war-related.

Winsabow replacement, David.

David, you can go with them for not getting it.

David, right over his head.

See.

You.

Later. Could have said a League of their own also.

Jess said a lot of things go over his head. No, I didn't. No, I don't.

Say that. Come on. A short joke, Mike.

Seriously. It wasn't me. It was Jess and Lucy.

That's Lucy, Jess.

I'm just a girl, David.

And.

You're not allowed to be mean to me. And you're not allowed to be mean to me because I'm just a girl.