Hour 1: The Worst Part Of The Life (feat. Christopher Bell)

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Last night, basketball got off to a fun start. Greg Cody inexplicably swaggered in here today on behalf of North Carolina.
That poor downtrodden sad sack franchise that needs the defense because it is such a great underdog. Greg Cody stormed in here today and said, even though he didn't know who San Diego State was, North Carolina vindicated after West Virginia's governor came after them.
They were maligned. They're not that bad.
They're better than West Virginia. And everybody was acting like West Virginia was wrong.
Oh my God. That wasn't the game last night.
That wasn't the game to be talking about last night. Okay.
It wasn't because the Alabama State game, the St. Francis Alabama State game was more exciting.
However, I do want to just linger on this for a second because it's the fastest that any one of our takes has ever aged well. Like we yesterday were like, oh my God, governor of West Virginia, get over yourself.
Like we're splitting hairs, blah, blah, blah. This is why North Carolina should be in.
This is why they are in blah blah blah like five hours later north carolina just blows out san diego state all of the takes that we had yesterday aged very well and i would like to pat ourselves on the back for that never if north carolina lost jim it might be a little tricky today it might be a little tricky we might be walking some things back but they left no. We can all move on now.
Worthy. Chris, do you have a stat of the day related to this? Start of the day.
Start of the day. It is a start of the day.
Start of the day. Start of the day.
So you did. You had one immediately ready.
I was surprised by that. Start of the day.
Start of the day. It is a start of the day.
Stunning how good you've gotten at this job that It is the start of the day. Stat of the day is presented by Miller Lite.
You will never believe who sent me this stat. Against San Diego State last night.
By the way, San Diego State, the team that led the nation in field goal percentage defense. North Carolina became the first team in NCAA history to score 95 or more points, to shoot 50% or better from the field, to shoot 50% or better from three, to shoot 85% or better from the line, all in one game.
North Carolina did this last night. Also, West Virginia was complaining so much about this.
They didn't even realize their head coach was leaving for another school. Darian DeVries got hired by Indiana yesterday.
So really rough. Exactly why I said if you're a player on this team, you're like, all right, pump the brakes, hang on a a second because now there's more important things going on and everyone's been distracted by this stupid tournament stuff.
I think the governor of West Virginia needs to sign an executive order to prevent that coach from leaving his university. It's an outrage.
It's a crime. Was it this guy that gave you that sign? Yeah that was him.
Thank you Taylor. Back to the Alabama State game Dan, I don't know if you caught this, but the game ended on a Hail Mary pass.
It was so cool. Alabama State, the player, I think his name is Micah Simpson.
He was a middle school quarterback. Launches the ball across the court.
Gets deflected off of a couple Alabama State players. One of them gets it.
Puts in the layup. They win the game.
It was absolutely electric. It was such a fun final four minutes of that game.
And again, March Madness delivers. Are you guys ready for what we're about to gorge on this weekend and in coming weekends? Because this has even gotten Tony's attention.
Tony can sit out. Tony can be a little too cool for school in some of our conversations.
He's not interested in some of the hockey stuff, pretends but is faking it poorly. But college basketball, March Madness has grabbed him by the throat and it starts – basically the thing about this that's so great is just, hey, look, sports everywhere, morning, afternoon, and night, and there will be a lot of bad games in there, and God Almighty, everyone's going to shoot 36%.
You've been spoiled by the pros. Trust me when I tell you, some of this is going to be very hard to watch.
The funny thing is about March Madness, the individual games of college basketball, most of the time kind of suck. Give me the last five minutes.
But when you put them all together, 64 of them happening within a two-day window, all of a sudden it becomes magical. Alabama State, who nobody could even tell me what their mascot is, all of a sudden...
The Barnets. Okay, outside of somebody who watched the game.
They throw a pass, gets bobbled eight times, all of a sudden the layup goes up, everybody's an Alabama State fan. Nothing is better, nothing produces more amazing moments with such bad basketball than March Madness.
It's incredible. I love it.
It just really is just... White guys.
You're opening up. You really didn't watch the Alabama State game.
No, no, no. Historically, March Madness.
You're going to say opposite white guys? You know white guys bring the magic. Thank you.
Backdoor cut. Princeton.
It's the secret sauce to March Madness. It's the white guys with the ill-fitting uniforms against the teams with the good uniforms.
Elbow jumper. Brick.
Not as many white guys. Finally, someone had the balls to say it.
It's the white guys. The best zone defense you've ever seen.
2-3. So well coached.
Backdoor cut. Put it on the pole.
Shooter! They're all shooters, but they never make it. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show is the secret sauce to March madness, white guys.
It's a loose ball. Get it? Admit it.
Admit it. Deep down in your heart, you know all the great moments.
All of them. All of them.
All of them. All the memorable upsets.
All the great shots. Somewhere there.
Somewhere framing the moment. Not true.
Is a white guy. There can be an accent.
This is not an absolute. You're fixated on Mello? I'm at McNamara.
I will say one of my favorite things about about march madness is there's always a main character every year there's always the one guy who gets like last year was the i can't remember his name because the dude from mc state you know not him he was a main character he was a main character for sure and that was a great run but no i think he played for like grand canyon i honestly can't even remember but he ended up getting getting a wingstop deal. And he was the main character for two weeks.
And it was wonderful. Jack Golke.
As soon as the turn of the night. He was incredible.
The guy didn't miss. The guy didn't miss.
As soon as the turn of the night, you're like, I can't remember his name. But for two weeks.
He didn't miss for two weeks. It was incredible.
Yeah. I'm not as into March Madness anymore.
It's become apparent to me, like, once I had a team that was actually good, making runs on both ends, on the men's and women's. And I could say this to the pros, too.
I generally don't – I'm not a basketball fan, I found out. I'm just, like, a Heat Hurricanes fan.
And without rooting interest there, I haven't even filled out a bracket. No, like we have NASCAR in town.

We have the Miami Open in town.

There's plenty of niche sports that I follow more closely

that are going on like in 20 minutes.

There's going to be tennis from Hard Rock Stadium

that I'm going to be dialed into.

So I think my interests have just changed.

But I'm in on the white guys.

Okay, but for the casuals.

Thanks for letting us know that you don't watch Marsh Madness. Love the white guys a really hard sport to follow and i follow a lot of sports and i think in following all these other sports and with my teams not being good it's just hard to follow college basketball not that you ever need we got it we got it you are now all about racing you're about tennis you're out on basketball no i mean on race as well but on basketball you seem professional and college you're out got it you're in the minority here because this is just a smorgasbord of avalanche of action is what it is it's stakes it's throwing into a washing machine and turning it on the maximum Just here's sports.
And there are going to be a lot of bad games, but they're playing odds on this. They're going to draw you in in the last few minutes.
And I don't remember that Gresge guy's name either, but he was kind of bald. All he did was make jumpers and then signed an NIL deal.
No, you know who I'm talking about. The male pattern baldness? They just said his name and Dan and I still don't remember.
He had more of a Billy Donovan V. Yeah.
It wasn't balding. Like a Norman Osborn.
He had something. What he had, whether it's Sam Rockwell or someone else, what he had is hair that made me think he couldn't do that during March Madness.
I want to be very clear. Oh, he played for Oakland.
Yeah, that was him. He's got the Billy Donovan, right? Yeah.
I want to be very clear. This is comic book Norman Osborn, not Willem Dafoe Norman Osborn, for the record.
There are some sports things that I wanted to get to today, and one of them is Minnesota's out on Aaron Rodgers. So that's the report, right? It's a credible report.
We have credible reporters with different sides to this. So earlier this morning, there was a Tom Palacero report that said the Vikings are moving forward with J.J.
McCarthy and for the moment that's bad news for Aaron Rodgers seemingly this delay is because he quite fancies the Vikings and that's his top destination however in the moments that followed Diana Rossini recently reported that it's not over yet for Aaron Rodgers in Minnesota. However, the Vikings are prepared to go into this spring and evaluate J.J.
McCarthy, his health, how far he's come along before making a decision on Aaron Rodgers. They're essentially tabling the Aaron Rodgers discussion.
So now the ball is back in Aaron Rodgers' court. Do you retire? Do you go to your plan B? Do you go to your plan C? Because as of right now, there doesn't seem to be a path in the immediate future for Aaron Rodgers in Minnesota.
They want to see him in spring mini camps and then evaluate. Great poker chip to play in business negotiations if you're the Vikings.
Hey, wait it out. Maybe Justin Jefferson will be there for you.
Psyche, we don't want you. You're retired now.
Giants don't want you either. What a move that would be at the end for the Vikings to do that to Aaron Rodgers and end his career.
Because if the Giants is my only choice, I'm retiring. If the Steelers are a legitimate choice, I'm going to try.
But the Vikings is where I want to be. It's humbling, though, because the place you want to be the most is telling you like we're not quite there yet like there has to be a certain scenario in which we'd be interested but right now in a vacuum we're not so you can go you're free to go ahead and make another decision like the vikings internally decided like we're gonna run the risk of aaron rogers doing whatever it is that he wants we're gonna move forward and see if this kid is healthy enough we are so close to the complete brett farr villain arc for aaron rogers we need a couple more things we need him to play for the vikings we need to get to the playoffs d-pick d-pick obviously that's a big missing one we're still missing that one and also scamming welfare state dude no there's another one that're missing.
He needs to retire and then un-retire. Maybe this is it.
Maybe this is it. Part of that story arc, and then Vikings.
Yeah, he needs to ruin a woman's career. Also, I was wondering, like, hey, what's up with Jack Golke? I, you know, forgot his name and also that he existed.
Let's, maybe I can find out and see what he's up to. There's a story catching up with Oakland's Jack Golke.
Apparently, he plays for the Wisconsin Herd of the G League, getting a few minutes off the bench, averaging three points a game. Attaboy.
Our guys. Attaboy.
Still getting that three off. There'll be another one.
There will. Multiple of them.
They're going to spring all over the place. Also in football, Adam Schefter is reporting that it's done now.
Cam Ward is the number one pick. Yeah, his most recent podcast said all the momentum is going to Cam Ward.
Cam Ward is essentially going to be the number one pick. It's just a matter of where he goes to.
But Cam Ward's going to have his pro day here but the consensus is among NFL front offices is Cam Ward is going to be the number one pick in the NFL draft. Congratulations for quarterback killer Mario Cristobal, I guess.
That's really cool to have a number one overall pick be a Miami Hurricane that's been a long time. But yeah, Cam's going to be number one, but the team has not yet been decided.
And the Titans, who have leverage here, no doubt, if they wanted Cam Ward, this would be done and dusted. If you look at the betting odds cam ward going number one is a heavy heavy favorite but cam ward to the titans not so much so now there's an interesting game because cleveland's in the number two spot it's that's a dangerous game of chicken and they badly need a quarterback and tennessee's not totally thrilled with the quarterback class and and the giantsants also are rumored to be toying with the idea of moving up to number one and drafting Cam Ward, which obviously would affect the whole Aaron Rodgers thing.
That's why I said yesterday, Aaron Rodgers is holding people hostage. He needs to make a decision, because you'd rather have Cam Ward than Aaron Rodgers, right? like you'd rather have jj mccarthy your number one draft pick than a 40 some year old aaron rogers is there anything more tepid that he could have said in terms of flimsy sourcing than the phrase rumored to be toying with like in terms of rumored to be toying with i don't know with the idea rumored to be toying with the idea that's right rumored to be toying with the idea don't know.
Rumored to be toying with the idea. That's right.
Rumored to be toying with the idea. It's just, you could say that about almost anything.
Well, but it's a fact. I mean, there have been reports that the Giants want to trade up to number one.
Do I know that for a fact? No. So I'm quoting reports.
How are you so bad at your own bit? So please please stop being mean to your father cam ward is going number one according to adam schefter no matter uh who wants a number one in a weak draft and a weak quarterback draft when the thing that everyone in the sport wants now right the most valuable thing that you could possibly get in the draft is jayden dan. Value immediately at quarterback.
Value and production immediately at quarterback allows you, correct me if I have this wrong in the architecture of the game, it allows you to speed past everyone else if you can immediately somehow hit on the unicorn, but less of a unicorn than it used to be, of guy averages 10 yards of play in college the way that Daniels did, and he immediately translates to the pros. That's what you're trying to get as the standard when you go all in on Cam Ward, correct? What you're trying to do is, oh, wow, look, one move.
The commanders passed the Cowboys after 20 years of not being able to pass them. Pass them like that.

Yeah, and you're also counting on Cam Ward to elevate others. You understand you don't have a Justin Jefferson in Tennessee or with the Giants, but you expect Cam Ward to be so good that he's going to make receivers a different level.
I mean, Greg, respectfully, Malik Nabors is an incredible wide receiver. And if him and Cam Ward are paired together,

NFC East has a really good 1-2 down the board. You can't forget Neighbors there.
Like, Neighbors... Neighbors is incredible.
No, he's good. No, not good.
I think we can now make the argument after one dreadful season with the Giants, could we not, that Neighbors enters the class of, that's as good as there is in the entire sport. You don't think that's right? I wouldn't put him as good as a Justin Jefferson.
I mean, I'm talking about that's the only class he has not yet reached based on the production level with no quarterback play and not a lot of help after Saquon in New York. Like, I think no one disputes what I'm saying here, that Neighbors has entered the class of top three receivers in the league.
Jamar Chase is in there too. Greg, if I give you the stats, 109, 109 receptions, 1,200 yards, and seven touchdowns as a rookie, where do you put that as far as best rookie years ever? With no offensive line.
Or quarterback. With no quarterback.
No, he's great, and I was remiss in not mentioning him, and I'm glad you did. We really pounded you there.
We really just, we leapt on you. But Chris, stop being mean to Greg.
We were unfair to you. Well, but he was factually inaccurate.
No, I was. Yeah, I forgot Malik Neighbors in making that comment.
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Don Lebotard.

I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public.

Stugatz.

Don't do it.

This is the Don Lebotard Show with the Stu Gads. The thing that I wanted to get to with you guys that we have not gotten to, because I know Lucy was obsessed with this as it related to Ben Affleck, perhaps at 50 years old, going back to previous loves again.
But we are now dropping multiple power couples. And I did not know that there were two new power couples that have entered the room on discussion for pop culture purposes.
One in athletics, one in Hollywood, one super young, one longer in the tooth. Which one do you want to hear first? I want longer in the tooth first.
Meryl Streep and Morton Short. That's yesterday's news.
I know, but I wasn't here yesterday. But you've been watching Only Murders or not? Yeah, I mean, they were really hot and heavy in season four.

Blossoming there.

Season three?

Season three.

Everyone's rooting for that to last.

Also, you look at the general timelines, and if it doesn't last, where do they go from here?

Whoa.

I mean, you know where they go from here.

Whoa.

It's just, I don't mean to be glib, but in athletics, there's another hot new couple,

and this might be one of the best- looking, most athletically fit couples ever. Ben Shelton from the ATP and Trinity Rodman.
Oh, wow. Superstar soccer player.
I like it. I mean, they must have kids just for this country.
They must. Patriotic.
They must. It's their patriotic right to have children.
Olympic babies. Olympic babies.
World-class athlete babies. They come out with abs.
No doubt. They come out with eight abs.
Speaking of hot, how is this for a transition as a broadcasting professional? How about this guy right here, Christopher Bell? A great nickname. Indisputably great nickname, right? The Iceman.
He might be tired of telling the story of why and how he is the Iceman, but I'd like to talk to him because he's with Joe Gibbs Racing. He came into Las Vegas this past weekend.
I don't know if this is a record hot streak or just a hot streak, but he's won three consecutive NASCAR Cup Series victories this season, and he's currently second in the Cup Series standings. He's looking to win the second time here, Homestead Miami Speedway, this Sunday.
It's a festival. Greg, you go almost every year.
We've been there. This is the best thing Homestead does, is it not? Yeah.
Obviously, I preferred it when it was the season-ending race, you know, the Super Bowl of NASCAR parochially. But yeah, it's a major race.
They only have, what, 30 of them or something? Oh, but I'm not talking about major race. In Homestead, this and Hurricane Andrew are the things that Homestead is associated with.
Probably is here, too. Well, one of those is better than the other.
And you'll be happy to know that the reason why this is landing in March is because they're going to renovate Homestead. And the expectation is that the championship will once again be here that's

why they're putting in a march so they can be ready for the championship it's a giant event mike please go get your gear head uh and thank you iceman for joining us uh does anyone in the family refer to you as iceman please take me through the history of iceman because you are reputed to be more aggressive than the other drivers well i'll be honest that's the first time I've heard of that. So I don't know

where that came from.

What? So it is not so i'm giving you a nickname that doesn't actually exist that i'm just producing for you that is not actually your nickname maybe you have just started something we'll see if it takes off okay well i hope so because you deserve the nickname i want to give it to you right now just keep referring to him as Iceman no matter what. Why don't you make up a nickname? I might as well.
It's right here. It says it right here.
It's the first thing on my sheet, the Iceman. Do people call you Ben Solak by chance? I could also see that nickname.
I have literally never heard that before in my life. It's wonderful.
He's good on football. Thank you for being on

with us, Iceman. You

are, however, more aggressive than

the other drivers. Explain to me how

and why.

Oh, man.

How and why. I want to win.

That's why. I don't know

how. I guess I just

do it. I don't know.
It's been

a hell of a ride, though. It's been a lot of fun

to be able to start the

season all so strong, to win three out of the

Thank you. I guess I just do it.
I don't know. It's been a hell of a ride, though.

It's been a lot of fun to be able to start the season also strong,

to win three out of the first however many races it's been.

It's been great, and I'm excited about getting to Miami.

Miami is a great racetrack.

You guys broke news to me again by saying Homestead is getting renovated.

I think that's awesome, and I'm excited about the future of that place. Christopheropher can we put you down for a second to see if we can get this audio fixed because he's from his race car right now that's actually where he's coming inside a helmet i i must admit i saw a research packet on you and i saw the iceman christopher the iceman bell i'm like man i'm a nascar fan i'd never heard that before i guess i'm not that much of a fan But apparently the Iceman, this is the first time he's heard it too.
So do you not like NASCAR as much either? Are you surprised to find this out? You guys got me? Can you hear me now? We can hear you, but it just sounds a bit distorted. Echo-y.
Yeah, I don't know what else to do here. But yeah, I don't know.
I've never heard of Iceman, but I'll take it. I'll claim it.
Can you try taking your helmet off? Sure. Where's my helmet at? Chris, thank you so much for having fun with this.
There was something that, again, I watch every race. I love NASCAR now.
And there was something that I hadn't seen ever before, but that's not saying much because I've only been recently passionately following this sport for about a year and a half. But it seemed like you and your crew exposed a loophole in the rules in Las Vegas.
I'd never seen this before. You're on pit road.
It's decided that you have a left loose front tire and then you run the risk if you go out on the onto the track you're penalized two laps two of your crew members get suspended your team makes the call very quickly to have you pit in your teammates box i didn't even know that you could do that did you even know that this was a legal loophole So it was i think it was last year maybe two years ago uh i remember adam my crew chief he told me that hey if you ever have an issue stop in your teammates box and they'll hit all the lug nuts to make sure that the lug nuts are tight and uh so that was the first time in a couple years that it has come up and i think it's it's relatively new since the introduction of next gen, because the old cars, you had five lug nuts. And the odds of a wheel coming off were really, really low if you have five lug nuts.
But with now only having one, obviously, if you have a problem on the one lug nut, the wheel is going to come off. And, yeah, it certainly saved us from damaging our car.
Like if a wheel comes off and you start making and you have to drive back to pit road, it just destroys the underbody of the car and really hurts the car performance. So it really saved us this weekend at Las Vegas.
When we talked to the college basketball coach, Rick Barnes, he wanted to talk about racing instead of basketball. If I give you the choice going into a conversation like this.
Would you prefer to talk about your profession. Or would you prefer to talk about the Oklahoma City Thunder? I'm a Thunder fan.
I followed them through the offseason pretty good. But since I started racing.
I haven't been able to really keep up with them. But I know they're doing really well.
They're leading their conference. And fingers crossed, I would love to get to go to an NBA Finals game.
In order to be as great as you are at this, do you have to be lopsided? How much time do you even have for things other than the obsessive compulsive work you have to do? Yeah, I mean, it's just such a long season. And certainly with us racing at a different track every single weekend, it doesn't leave much to to follow other things but you know you kind of get into a routine and a rhythm whenever you get into the summer where it opens it up a little bit but certainly whenever you know you're just getting the season started you i at least myself i'm focused on uh you know week to week and going to the new tracks so i i yeah i haven't been following the thunder very closely but come June or May or June, you know, I'm going to be following them really close if they keep advancing.
Will you ask for good seats? Absolutely. Hopefully I get to be front row, court side.
Okay. And so you're not bashful about that? You make that call yourself? I mean, I might have someone else make it.
You've got people to do that for you.

You've got people handling

that for you. What is the worst

part of the life?

The worst part of the life

of what? The racing life.

The lifestyle,

the travel, the moving around.

I know you guys love what you do,

but what do you regard as the part that is hardest about what you do? Man, that's a good question. I I'll be honest.
I don't know that I've ever been asked that, but I appreciate it. And I will say that I have the coolest job in the world.
It is. I mean, how awesome is it that I get to drive race cars for a living? But on the flip side, it is still a job.
And those days where just you have races that go really smooth, and I won three in a row. But then last weekend, which last weekend I still finished 12th, so it wasn't the end of the world.
But it's like everything you do is wrong, and you can't pick the right lane on restarts. And it feels like you're just bashing your head against the wall.
So, you know, it's competitive. It's professional sports.
And some days you win, some days you lose. But those losses are extremely hard at times.
They can be. And the pressure's on, man.
So, you know, everyone wants to be a professional athlete. But I don't think, you know, some people don't put into perspective the pressure that we're under it would appear that i mean all racers love racing but you really love racing because i'm a kyle larson fan he dismissed max verstappen once by saying do it in the chili bowl and i had no idea what the chili bowl was and then i ordered flow racing and i watched my first chili bowl and it's dirt road racing it's it's like basically like basically souped up golf carts, guys going in a very small circle round and round.
And you were in the middle of it too. And you're a really good driver.
Why the chili bowl? Like, can you even explain the chili bowl to the lay person? Yeah. So it, well, the cool thing about the chili bowl is it's well, number one, you named it, it's dirt track racing.
And dirt track racing, the car is constantly in a state of drift and you're sliding around the corners. And the driver matters a lot more on dirt tracks than it does on asphalt tracks.
So NASCAR, which is the, you know, America's top form of motorsports, the car matters a lot. And if you're a really good driver and you're in a slow car like you're not going to win you're not going to be successful but on dirt track racing a really good driver can take a slower car and and make it win races so uh that's one thing that i love about dirt track racing is that the driver matters a little bit more.
When you say casually the pressure we're under, can you articulate it? Yeah, I mean, I don't know how to articulate it more than there's, you know, just millions of fans watching, millions of dollars being spent, and millions of time and hours and effort put into your race car. And it's all dependent on me doing my job and making sure that I hit my marks.
And on top of hitting my marks and being fast, like not screwing up, like never spinning out, not coming down pit road, not running into people, not running into the pit crew members, stopping in the right spot on the pit box. Like there's just a ton of things that everybody is pouring, you know, their heart and soul and money and resources into me to make sure that I do my job.
And that can be said for everybody, all the drivers out there. It can be, but I don't think necessarily that people know what the price is of dreams, right? So when you talk about these pressures or how exhausted you are after a race, can you sleep or are you adrenaline through the roof? What level of tired and drained are you to be at the end of that? Yeah, well, it goes, it kind of goes both ways.
Like if I really screw it up and I do a bad job, I won't sleep at all. Now, if I win, I won't sleep at all because I'm high on adrenaline and I'm pumped up.
But it's those days, the do my job and I get the most out of my car and I finish third, fourth, whatever. Then I can sleep okay.
But definitely, you win the race, you're pumped up, you're celebrating, you've got buddies over, you're staying up those nights. And then the days that you really screw up, you're not sleeping because you're like, gosh, man, why did I do that? NASCAR is known for its rivalries, driver rivalries.
Who's a guy on the circuit that

you don't particularly like? Or should I put it, who's the driver you would most like to beat

by one car length at the play? You're really getting in there.

Oh, man, that's easy. That's Larson all day.
So me and him have a very similar upbringing,

similar background. We both are dirt track racers, and we push each other to the edge of control all the time.
And I think he would say the same thing that he loves beating me and I love beating him. Iceman, it's been nice seeing you.
Thank you for coming on and lending us a racing credibility that clearly we would not have without you,

and we now have even less because we've dubbed you the Iceman when you're not the Iceman.

Thank you for being so icy, sir.

Hey, I appreciate it. I appreciate the nickname, too.

Okay, I appreciate you being so kind about it because it could have been a lot worse,

and it still feels pretty bad. Thank you.

See you, guys.

And also the submarine sound. The you guys.
And also the submarine

sound. The nice man.

And also this question from Dan.

What is the worst part of the life?

Not my

best effort. Wait, play the whole thing.

Play the whole clip.

We did

not edit this silence. What is the worst

part of the life?

The worst part of the life of what?

That was great.

The nice man.

The nice man.

Thank God he was nice, okay?

Because that could have gone so poorly.

He never got his Jalen Milrow takes, though.

I would have loved to hear about, you know, combine quarterback takes from Ben Solak. I can't tell you how frail I feel right now.
You'll have a shot at redemption with Ryan Blaney later this week. What is the worst part of the life? You must ask Ryan Blaney the same exact question.
Yes. I'll just play the clip.

And also make up a nickname for him as well.

Let's do that.

Call me Iceman.

Let's do both of these things.

I'm going to make up a different.

Let's make sure to start the next one the same way.

I don't know.

Should I go Iceman or should I make up another?

You've got to make something else up.

The wind turbine.

Maverick, what's the worst part of life? Oh my god. Now, keep in mind, I'm gonna let people see fully behind the curtain on this.
We were supposed to end that segment with a game I don't understand, which was Vroom or Vroom Vroom. Yeah, it was a well-constructed game.
But I bailed on it because I didn't trust my prep that began with his nicknames, The Iceman. I was helping you with the Chili Bowl question.
That was pretty revelatory. One Vroom would have just been meh, and two Vrooms is like, oh, I'm in on that.
Vroom Vroom. Can we just play it now? I'd like to play that game.
You play it with my dad. All right.
Let's do this with your father here. All right, Greg.
Vroom or vroom vroom. You have 12 items in your cart, and the 10 or less.
What did I do? Why are you coming after? You're making noises back here. I'm making noises.
There's 10 items or less is wide open. You have 12 items.
I need to regroup. Vroom or vroom vroom? Well, that doesn't apply.

What am I going, meh?

Are you darn right?

Like, what does that mean?

Am I...

I hate people who go into an express lane with one item too many.

So that's vroom.

You're vroom on that.

I'm the guy who counts the items of the person in front of me.

You're vroom on that.

Okay, I'm vroom.

I'm glad we didn't get to this.

Yeah, it's a bad idea.

Greg, so you're very religious on the fact that 10 means

10 yeah i do you never sneak an extra one in there 11 i always count my items i'm always wanting to

get in there because i'm always in that like i'm always around 8 to 12 items i just the way i shop

so i'm always like oh man i'm counting i'm like if i have 11 i'm just going and assuming that

if they count they'll miscount gents you know what i've done i've started doing the self-checkout

lane i don't have to wait i'm not for me i as well. I take out the little gun and I scan it right in my thing.
If you have produce, though, it takes a little bit longer time. You can scan everything.
I like sprouts, too. Sprouts are the best.
Underrated. What are your thoughts on Milam's? Milam's? Is it Milam's? Yeah, Milam's.
Milam's. What are your thoughts onums? I'm a Sprott's guy.
I don't like how they demand you to put it in the bag at the self-check. It's like, put the next item.
It's like, no, I'm just going to put it right here. Can I scan all my stuff? It's almost like you can't scan the next item.
You have not put it in the bag yet. It's like, stop.
I'll put it where I want to put it. I scanned it.
That's all you're worried about here. Don't worry about if I put it in the bag or not.
By the way, I do have a grace period on the express lane. If it's 10 or less items and you have 11, maybe 12, I'm going to let that go.
But if it's more than 13, the play is when the other person is leaving, but still within earshot, I say to the cashier, I guess that guy couldn't count, huh? I have a top five receding hairlines.

I like this. Let's do it.
But it's not any

receding hairline, okay? I'm not going

straight back like Walton Goggins,

which I like how Hardy leans in.

I'm going your V-shaped receding hairline.

Oh, yeah. The Dracula look.
Yeah.

Number five.

Orlando Magic point guard Scott

Skiles. Wow, Scotty.

Number four. This one's kind of sneaky because he's blonde and it doesn't stick out as much, but Daniel Craig.

Number three, newlywed, Justin Theroux.

Number two, Billy Donovan.

And number one, comic book Norman Osborn.

What is the worst part of the life? Weather is starting to warm up. Regular season's starting to wind down.
Games of consequence in sports starting to ramp up. I know what you're going to need by your side.
It's by my side already. Miller Lite.
Yeah, that's right. I'm making my springtime a Miller time.
I'm making my sports time Miller time. Going to a car race? Miller time.
Going to see some tennis? Miller time. Going to chill in the backyard with some friends and make some memories? Miller time.
I love Miller Lite because it's got taste that I know I can depend on. No games.
No gimmicks. It's that simple, folks.
It's just a great beer for people who like beer.

Miller Lite is brewed for taste.

It hits different than the other Lite beers.

It's got simple ingredients,

and at just 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces,

Miller time is always a good time. The original Lite beer since 1975

and still the very best one.

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slash Dan to find delivery options near you, or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much

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Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company,

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