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It is not lost on me.

It's legitimately moving and symbolic that we are right next door to the Freedom Tower.

The Freedom Tower is reopening.

Tony's going to go over there with my father.

My father hasn't been to the Freedom Tower since he first got to this country and was sort of processed through the Freedom Tower next door.

And I wanted to ask you guys, because I do think that as a show in the present English language media and maybe ever in the English language media, we are the most Hispanic show that there has been in sports.

And at ESPN, right before Skipper was gone, I had like submitted to him a plan on some things that ESPN could do to be better with that demographic because it's an underrepresented demographic in the sports media.

And for all the complaints that you hear about people fighting about what equality is or isn't, Hispanics generally are wildly and hugely grateful to be in this country because of how awful some other countries without freedom can be and are pretty quiet about complaining about

inequality in this country.

But I just wanted to ask you guys when it comes to Fox and ESPN, as I see so few few Hispanic men and women on television when the demo is a huge one and it's the magical unicorn that everybody wants to capture the Hispanic demographic.

Who are the people that you're looking at in sports media?

Because I don't think people are even noticing this because Hispanics don't tend to be very loud about this stuff because our gratitude is profound.

Give me the people that you see in sports on television talking into microphones that you're like, yeah, that's a Hispanic person.

That's that's a Hispanic viewpoint because I'm seeing fewer than I usually have seen.

Like I, when we were at ESPN and it was Izzy and it was Tony Collins and it was Sedano.

Now it's just Sedano.

Like now you see what on ESPN?

What's on Fox that's Hispanic?

Anybody?

Is there anybody?

I can't answer that.

I mean,

there are certain talents.

I'm a big fan of Hercules Gomez, former U.S.

men's national team player

He's Hispanic, and he does really good English language stuff, but it's siloed, right?

It is aimed towards a Latin audience, even though his knowledge goes well beyond the game.

But there aren't many known, and now that you mention it, fewer.

I can't really think of a box personality, but I'm thinking on my feet here.

I don't watch it, but I would imagine if we watched the Portez, it's going to be all Hispanic.

I know, but it's such a good game.

Right.

Yes,

it is a good game.

A good answer.

A good answer He's an allies.

He's thinking on his feet.

Yes, he has stopped stabbing people and he has stopped throwing knives long enough to do it.

Well, uno then.

I'm sure Stephen A.

Smith, though, has like

an hour on Fox or whatever.

ESPN de Portez.

Stephen A.

Smith, I saw, is now being paid just as much by Sirius XM as he's being paid by ESPN as he continues his world-conquering domination.

He was making, and I I understand why Molly left First Take when she is

making 40 times less than Stephen A.

Smith.

And yet I can make the argument that Stephen A.

Smith is worth.

40 times more than a moderator that you can swap in and out and keep first take feeling largely as it was.

But to see Stephen A.

Smith have the freedom to not only make more for first take than he's ever made and be their highest paid employee, right?

He is their highest paid employee.

He's like the highest paid person in sports annually.

Remember that stat that you always used to say about Jim Rome?

There are very few people in sports that are actually playing the game that say they out-earn annually what Stephen A.

makes.

Jim Rome, what I used to say about him because of the deal he made with Syndicated Radio, he had a higher annual salary than anyone playing sports.

And now Tom Brady makes more for broadcasting sports than he ever made for playing sports, which is

an obvious absurdity.

You guys don't think, though, that it's surprising.

Never mind that it's surprising that I don't see the Latin demo, it's a pretty huge demo.

Fox's baseball coverage on network Fox is David Ortiz and Alex Rodriguez.

It's also Jessica Mendoza, Mark Sanchez, Pedro, Pedro Martinez as well.

And then you got Turner.

And then you got ESB and Deportez, too.

Bueno de nosota.

That's true.

You are just crushing

as an ally here and you do have deportes can you say it with a little more spice though because you're saying it extra extra gringo you're saying deportes

deportes is one of those words that i i kind of like fall in line with the gringoification of it like queso i don't like to say queso i like to say queso los angeles we're all we're uh we're all people who say nobody says los angeles i get mad when i go to los angeles and i hear los felis like that's.

Oh, dude, I love people talking about street signs in Los Angeles.

La Brea.

I have said before that my father on ESPN

was one of the last sitcom dads that there was.

That this sitcom dad is not necessarily

extinct, but is close to endangered.

Do you guys agree with that assessment before we get to Mike Ryan's top five list of top five TV dads?

You got me thinking, like, not just our show, but Highly Questionable was responsible for one of the great TV dads of our time, Gonzo.

If I were putting together a list in terms of the modern era, he'd be in the discussion, no?

I like to think so, but probably not.

No, it wasn't a...

It's a good pick of you, Dan, on the screen.

It wasn't a show.

That picture makes me remember the commercial that we made, the one commercial I've ever ever made.

I'm curious, do you think that the barstool audience turns on barstool at all when they see barstool making commercials for things?

Because their thing, which has been a small thing that's theirs, is now something that's more mainstream.

Because I was thinking when I made that commercial, I remember how mad people were that we went to ESPN.

They were afraid that we were going to change what we were doing because we were at ESPN.

But I didn't realize when making the only commercial I've ever made for anything, our television show, I was like standing on a third floor and beneath me was Jim Rome on a second.

You were hosing them down, right?

Well, I was, I was, I don't remember what I was doing, but I had a hose and everyone thought that what I was doing was phallic.

Yeah, because it looked like you were peeing on them.

You had a bungee cord because that's you were on the third tier and you had to find your way down, but then you were just doing that awkward stance that you did, which a lot of people do at the urinal.

So it looked like you were urinating on Jim Rome.

It is what people thought I was doing, but

I I don't think Boppy rises to the height of sitcom dads.

But you have a top five list that has OLIs?

I have, notes, I think Gonzo is the OLI.

I have a top five list of television dads of the last 10 years.

It is good because we're not doing this anymore, Dan.

But you're in agreement with me?

I thought you were going to disagree with me about the fact that it's almost that it's almost extinct.

Well, maybe this list will change your mind and remind you that, yeah, there are some still good TV dads out there.

They can only do good.

Number five, Johnny Rose from Shit's Creek.

Great one.

This one came from Jeremy, honestly.

It wasn't for me.

It's top tier.

I thought this was your list.

Is it your list?

Johnny Rose?

I needed a suggestion because I didn't want to underserve a part of the community just because I was ignorant to it, because I didn't like Schitt's Creek.

A lot of people do, and a lot of people espouse the virtues of how good of a dad Eugene Levy was on that show.

Put it on the poll at Lebatard show.

More famous eyebrows.

Eugene Levy or Anthony Davis?

Number four,

Lee Corso.

Great TV dad.

I don't think that counts.

I don't think you've got this.

I don't think you're playing the game correctly.

You don't think Lee Corso was a dad like a dad to many?

A grandpa?

A grandpa, maybe.

A buelo.

It could be an older dad.

There are plenty people that are that are north of 40 and 50 that have a dad that look like that.

And I'm sure there's a part of our audience that's like, yeah, Lee Corso, that reminds me of either my peepa or my dad granddads are dad too

that's a buelo that's not the same category sitcom dad i think of like phil from modern you keep making

number three

you jerk frank reynolds from it's always sunny philadelphia

sinister dad yes

a good sinister but good dad but sinister

you can't be a good dad and sinister

frank reynolds shows and undeniably close relationship with his children And it's just trying to decipher who exactly are his biologicals.

Number two, Phil Dumphy, Modern Family.

This is number one for me.

And number one, I mean, this one's easy.

Bandit from Bluey.

The greatest dad in television history, period.

Not just the modern era.

If you've got kids, you know that Bandit is dad gold.

So damn funny.

It's a disappointing list.

Just being honest

your kids are teenagers you're out of the game yeah I don't know that fool

what's been your obsession with bluey lately bluey's a great show and and for those that have it's one of those things like there's so much out there for children to consume on television and it's pretty much all bad I have a six-year-old totally hijacked my television still running shop

I've watched them all, Dan.

There is one show that's like, I like that show.

It's a good show.

This is actually, it shows you a really healthy family dynamic.

It's got great role models, even though they're animated creatures, and it's bluey.

That is wholesome content.

It is good stuff.

And they just announced a bluey movie that is coming out in August.

And I'm telling you, for an animated feature film that is not...

originally Disney or Pixar, this will shatter records.

There is going to be bluey mania next summer.

It's going to be the summer of bluey, provided that we as a as a species make it that far.

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Woody, we have a photo right here.

If you can see in this photo with my daughter there, I am pointing exactly to the point on the Stanley Cup where it says, you suck ass.

Stugats.

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Right there.

They engraved it.

It's like they got it engraved.

Yeah, they got it engraved right there.

It says Chris Whittingham sucks ass.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Billy, are you like me that when you hear just the phrase, the numbers, 102.7, and I don't think that, I really don't think

that future generations, yeah that you hear 102.7 and it feels like magic it is something that conjures now we have a relationship with radio that maybe not everybody has because we've made our lives in our livelihoods in radio but when I hear 102.7 when I just hear those numbers magic 102.7

That's all dead, right?

Like that's no literally yes magic 102.7 is literally dead.

Does it people singing are dead?

Well maybe, but I just mean the idea of all of that.

Call letters,

happy radio songs, tuning in to someplace and allowing them to choose your music for you.

No, Dancy, this is where you're wrong.

You've been stuck on satellite radio too much and 90s on 9 or whatever it is that you listen to.

102.7.

Rest in peace, magic, right?

You used to play the songs from the 50s and 60s when I was growing up as a kid.

And I would be like, why are we listening to this?

They were like 60s and 70s.

Whatever.

Well, he was, yeah.

Who was the guy that used to walk around in the socks in the office that that i think rick shaw is he was he on magic one he ran 102.7 he'd walk around this the office in just socks and then like if you stayed late enough editing the podcast he'd be in a boy scout uniform giving tours I don't like it.

Do you remember?

I don't like that.

Zaz, you don't remember that guy?

You did the show After Hours for a long time, and there used to be a guy that he was, I guess, a Cub Scout leader, and he would give tours of different Cub Scout troops during the show, and he'd walk by, and they'd like look in the studio.

I vaguely remember this.

And during the day, he never wore shoes.

He was always in his socks.

I don't like that.

He would brush his teeth in the bathroom.

Yeah, who was that guy?

Who was that guy?

The distinction between

what radio, what you imagined it was based on listening to it, and then what it actually was when you got there and lived inside of it, there is no greater gulf in the history of American entertainment.

You didn't think it was glamorous?

The imagination would make whatever it is that you felt about 102.7 make it seem vastly more glamorous than it actually was.

We are blessed.

I'm so grateful.

I loved radio.

Audio is still my favorite medium, but like I got to be there when radio was still a thing.

And I realized like 20 years from now,

like the younger generation is going to be looking at me and I'm going to be talking to them about this job that I had and it's going to be like I was a milkman.

All the walls just had brown carpet on them.

Like I've never seen carpet on walls before.

Acoustically treated.

Yeah.

Was it acoustically treated or was it before we knew how to acoustically treat things so we used carpet but brown it was all brown for some reason i didn't understand it it was a big color back shag was it shag was it a shag color office rug but like from the rug to the wall dave corey had the zebra remember that

music character yeah

so again Dan, rest in peace, Magic 102.7.

But what they did is they revitalized it 102.7, The Beach.

I don't like that.

The Beach, fun music.

80s.

A little bit of 90s but mostly 80s music oh that's great i was a big fan of the beach that oh so it's like derivative of the coast 90 uh 97.3 correct which had gnarly 90s and today which had gnarly charlie on the weekends and it was like all 80s weekend from gnarly charlie you know what else is like a throwback station now never really changed its branding power 96 it's like you grew up listening to power 96 guess what we stayed the same we're back to just 90s hip-hop and turn of the century hip hop but do they have big booty bass music do they have the power hour yeah power hour is a big deal Big Booty Bass Dan was that thing.

Power 96, when you mention it, this is what I remember, okay?

I'm in grandma's car because I don't have my own car, but I'm driving it.

And I placed dice on the rearview mirror.

And Power 96.

What color?

Like a boss.

They were white.

They were white, fuzzy dice.

Fuzzy?

Man,

fuzzy dice on a rearview mirror.

I'm like, this guy

was business.

That was me.

I'm pathetic as I say it, but here's even more pathetic for you.

And you want to say, you say, Milkman, how's this for Antiquated?

At the time that I was listening to Power 96, all they would play all day is the top 10 songs in America.

There was no 11th song.

It was only all day.

It was the top 10 songs.

Yeah.

That's great.

Love it.

That's great.

Man.

Fuzzy dice on a rearview mirror.

That guy fucks more than Jason Bonetti.

Rob Sidney.

New 102.7, The Beast.

Rob Sidney was the guy with.

Yes, he would come wearing the Boy Scout.

Yes, yes, yes.

Look at how happy it makes Billy to be.

What the hell did he Google to get that name?

Billy, Billy just googled obscure.com, which is where he lives.

He loves making the reference that four people get.

He seems so happy, man.

He lives for it.

Why was he walking around in his socks?

Those floors were

there.

There was a PD in that building.

I won't name him, but in retrospect, it was definitely hitting on me.

He was like after me, too.

I'm like, yeah.

Oh, man.

The all-new 102.7, the beast.

It's over, though, right?

That as a concept.

If I played that for those children running around saying 6-7,

if I played that for them, Jeremy, do you even know what this is?

Like, is this something that you have any familiarity with?

The song and the,

these aren't called letters because they're numbers, but this whole thing,

people singing.

This is the rebrand in like 2014, 15.

Yeah, of course I know.

101.5.

Wow.

Come on.

What song do you hear after that?

Fairy Manilow.

Sue Studio.

I'll say True by Spandau Ballet.

It wasn't a song.

It was John Tesh's voice.

That was, oh man, you're taking me back right now.

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Be where you represent.

There's Rob Sidney with someone who's obviously not Prince.

Well, that is Prince.

He got a picture with Prince.

Maybe it's the Musinex, but that looks like Prince.

That is Prince.

That's photos, funny.

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No day.

What are we out at Downs?

What are we doing to this guy?

We've made Rob Sidney's day.

Who's out of Bucky's?

Wow.

Hey, Rob.

Magic 102.

I wanted to ask you guys if you have seen the trailer for the new Netflix movie.

It has not come out yet.

I don't think it comes out out for a bit yet.

The Miami Cops in Hialeah being played by Affleck and Matt Damon.

I don't know who it is.

The Rip.

The Rip is the name of it.

And I've seen that Netflix is taking advantage of, hey, these two guys, you guys like them in movies together.

You haven't seen them in a while.

Here's a cop movie.

And also, here's what our subscription costs a month.

If you want this movie, it's going to cost you $7.7.99 a month, where the way that they're selling it, and it's smart, obviously, is we've got these guys doing this.

When's the last time that those two appeared together in a vehicle where they were both doing the starring opposite each other?

And in this case,

they're police officers and they're dirty police officers, because I assume that putting,

I'm assuming.

I passed this the other day when I was talking about Robert Redford, and I did it very briefly.

And I was just saying, is that time in movie stardom done where you've got just a signature person who makes movies that you will simply watch what they're doing.

On Netflix, I've watched here Black Rabbit, which I enjoyed.

I ripped through it real fast because if Justin Bateman is now into directing, I want to see what it is that he's doing.

Jason Bateman, excuse me.

Thank you, Chris.

If Jason Bateman is directing a movie as he decides with his creative choices to grow, I'm going to watch what he's doing.

But it's not because he's necessarily starring in it, it's because I like the choices that he makes.

If I tell you, Affleck by himself is not what he used to be.

I think Damon kind of is.

But when I put them together, that triggers a nostalgia that makes people want to watch that movie.

Well, nobody watched The Last Duel.

That was the last movie that they were in together.

Now, that was...

Ben Affleck was in that?

Yeah, no, it's one of those moments.

Like, he's not...

Adam Driver is the co-lead with Ben Damon.

But Ben Affleck pops up and everybody from the 90s is just like, yeah, like Tony saying hello to the train driver.

Can we praise him universally for always making good choices if he's presently in a state farm commercial?

Okay, you don't have to.

I'm not saying, look, got a bag.

God bless everyone for getting the money, right?

Which is what he's doing.

But I mean, obviously, he'll make decisions, financial decisions there when he's pretending to be Batman, but he's not in state farm commercial.

I don't understand how you can have the career arc that Ben Affleck has had, where you dug yourself out of like the superhero hell that you were in.

He was in a hole.

Yeah.

And then you're like, all right, I'm back.

Awards everywhere.

Let me try this superhero thing again with Zach Snyder.

Why would you do this, man?

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Don Lebatard.

The glory is Captain Sloppy.

Stugats.

Is this Chumbucket?

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

I saw that Will Smith is coming here in November.

At the beginning of November, he's going to be at the arena.

I think it's a motivational speech thing or a business conference thing.

And when I saw it being advertised on a on a bus stop, it made me wonder and consider actually for the first time, oh, is Will Smith done?

Like, did that slap with Chris Rock?

Will Smith was before The Rock, the biggest movie star in America.

I think he had made more $100 million movies than anybody except Eddie Murphy.

I have to clean something up.

I found a movie even more recent than The Last Duel, which was 2021.

They were both in air together.

What is that?

Oh, that's Michael Jordan.

Yeah, didn't that

play Phil Knight?

Yeah, that's a good movie.

Is Will Smith done?

Like, did that slap end up quietly ending his career?

Now, he had had obviously a lot of bad choices before that, but did he somehow, the night that he won the Oscar, did he end his career as a big-time actor who's going to get all of the big roles?

No, I would have thought so too.

And he's kind of become a punchline, and we'll see if he ever does like an original concept.

But the Bad Boy sequel came out after that, and it was a big success.

I think the thing that killed his career was when he started rapping again.

Oh, that's true.

Yeah, that was.

He came out with an album recently.

The freestyles were not good.

Even though I'm an action star.

I've heard rumors that he could be Netflix's...

to follow up the Brady roasts.

Like if they got him to agree to do that.

Ooh, that would go a long way.

That could help him in softening him.

I don't know, man.

I get a little uncomfortable.

There's no way he does that.

They would go so hard.

He's that upset about ad jokes about Jada Pinkett.

There's no way

in terms of he has to realize how out he is right now.

I think that's a way his team could say, hey, if you want to get back in here.

I still tense up.

Like, I still feel embarrassed from that moment.

It was so awkward.

Well, I told you guys that I read his biography and I thought it was really good.

And there was a lot of interesting stuff in it, including how sort of formulaically he made some of the choices to become what he wanted to be.

Like, he went up to Schwarzenegger and said, I want to be what you are.

I want to be the biggest movie star on the planet.

So when you talk about that, what that economy is and how you rejuvenate it, when Mike says bad boys, that's him going to the well that he knows he can go to, trying to kickstart it.

And I just don't know how many other offers he's getting because you're not seeing him.

in big vehicles when the entire industry has changed in a way that finds all of this this stuff on streaming.

Like, it's still strange to me to see Affleck and Damon starring in something that I can pull up on my television.

Like that's not something when I was talking to you guys about Robert Redford and whether that's going to be allowed to exist anymore, the movie star as sex symbol, as the guy everyone wants for a single role.

Not, you know, not Ryan Reynolds or Gosling or pretty boys that are absolutely movie stars, but what Redford was or what even Clooney was, where you got one role and every director wants that actor for that role.

I think that time, if not dead, is headed toward dying.

I would say it's also important to point out with Will Smith.

He had done plenty of movies over the last 10, 15 years that just bomb.

And so that,

on top of the incident at the Oscars, you probably his movies had already taken a hit, I think.

Okay,

but again, remember, Oscars, he's winning.

What was it he won for again?

Oscar.

Serena Williams is dead.

That's not a good sign right there.

When you can't tell me what the Oscar was, it's like, oh, yeah, he won an Oscar for what?

I wouldn't have guessed it.

He was good in that now that I think of it.

But yeah.

Yeah.

That's why.

Well, let's just go ahead and Google Will Smith Oscar, see what comes up first.

The reason why you don't remember it is because the slap.

The slap just outshined everything.

It just erased what was an incredible comeback story.

Chris Cody's not wrong when he said it had been.

I mean, we were making fun of him for

making that Netflix thing with orcs, and he was making a lot of decisions for many years that were not good decisions.

But usually, you win the Oscar, you get a lot of chances after that.

What if he threw a knife instead of the slash?

Ooh, that might have been pretty cool.

Well, I don't know.

It wouldn't have reached, right?

Like, it just would have been like, oh, man, he's really angry.

That's crazy.

But the slap, there was something about the slap that was just...

I think the knife would have been worse probably well not if it does a reach mike you still cringe yeah man when you just see will smith like yeah because i just take i go back to that moment it was so awkward just makes me sad it was so it was so strange and like as it was happening you kept hoping that it was like a setup and that there would be a smile but everyone just had to sit in it and i think he won the award after that oh of course yeah yeah he won the award it was later that night somebody that's like the most like it's the most awkward thing that you've ever seen.

Well, it was one.

There's two parts of it, right?

Because he slapped him, and everyone's like, oh, funny.

But then it was when he yelled, keep my wife's name up.

Juma!

And that's what I was like, and he had that serious look on his face.

And like, Chris Rock was stunned by it.

So he said under his breath, man, I could.

And then he decided not to.

So to be clear, if you guys are saying had he thrown a knife on stage and not hit Chris Rock, it would have gone better for him.

I disputed that.

Than just actually.

I'm with Chris, by the way.

I think if you see him, there's a camera on him.

He's like, did he throw something?

And then they pan to the stage.

Like, did he just throw a knife?

Everyone would be like, oh, by the blade.

So just to be clear,

what you're alleging is the knife's not landing, right?

He's just throwing it inside.

I'm trying to fight.

Me and you, we're here trying to figure this out together.

I'm trying to figure out this allegation that it's better for him to throw a knife and miss than land a punch.

In my mind, it reaches him, but just the handle hits him, so it falls.

Oh, that would have been crazy.

In my mind, it hits him, but we don't know it hits him until he looks down and he's like, He's bleeding.

All of a sudden, it's just so quick.

It's on his face where he's like, What just happened?

Exactly.

He doesn't even know.

And then he the adrenaline of hosting the show.

But then the blood starts dripping, and you're like, wait a second.

What is that?

That is so sad every time it happens in a movie where, like, the hero is

heroic, you think?

And then they're like celebrating they got to safety.

And you're like, and then he opens his jacket.

How do you not know your shot?

Oh, no.

In these movies, they're always just like, oh.

The adrenaline.

Yeah, come on.

The adrenaline.

I feel like that's it.

There's times that it happens to a bad guy and you're still sad.

No.

Like when it happens to Tom Cruise and collateral.

You're like, no.

I feel like we came around.

Tom Cruise and collateral.

I feel like you turn the corner and you realize you took an affinity to Jamie Fox.

And it's kind of weird that you were in this movie with Jamie Foxx while he was with your ex.

Yeah.

I think I have it right when I say that as surprised as Chris Rock would be if he's just doing his monologue and I don't know where a knife thrown by Will Smith embeds itself in his stomach, would still be less surprised than I was when I was talking about Will Smith and Zaz decided to make his knife sound again and bring back the knife conversationally.

Again, just because it reminds us of a better time in this show two hours ago when we were enjoying ourselves more instead of running out of gas.

Had the knife falling short, but just sliding across the stage slowly and then the tip just hits his shoe.

Clattering.

Like clattering and I still don't think that that's worse than what happened.

I think throwing a knife at someone is worse.

We can agree though, walking up and slapping someone doesn't make you look like the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Billy.

Most of the times are you happy that someone's bleeding out because it's about to ruin the the plot like that scene in the departed where he's in the warehouse and Leo's like sad that his like his buddy died and he's like you know I I remembered I gave you the wrong address.

You're the wrong

Do you think they would have let Chris Rock die on stage had he thrown a knife and got embedded in him and then he fell to the floor and was bleeding?

The better question is does Will Smith still get the Oscar at the end of the night?

You don't think he gets the Oscar?

No, I think they do a revote?

No, I think they suspend the broadcast because of what happened.

But do you think that they would know to act immediately or they would think it was part of the show?

Is this segment in poor taste?

I saw an episode of Monk where that happened.

Put it on the poll at Lebertard's show.

Would they have given Will Smith the Oscar if he had stabbed Chris Rock?

These are dangerous hypotheticals that I'm uncomfortable with.

I don't like it.

Especially when what happened was so much worse.

The thing.

It's not worse.

It's not worse.

Oh, to slap a man like that and not to flash a smile.

What if he went up and body slammed him wrestling style?

That's fine.

Just picked him up.

That's fine.

The thing that I'm objecting to is

that if Will Smith had thrown a knife on stage that hadn't made any contact, it would have been less of a story than what it is that actually happened.

I agree.

Is that not a temptation?

No!

He's just in a fit of rage.

He threw a utensil.

It happens to be a knife.

He's just mad.

What if it was a fork?

I've in my mind trying to figure out what happened there.

If you'd like, I'd like the opportunity to get reckless now.

Sure.

All right.

Hold on a second.

So.

Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless.

Here is something we like to call reckless speculation.

You good.

We probably should have fired this off seven minutes ago.

So I was trying to figure out like what's going on there.

Obviously, him and Jada are hitting Rough Patch.

Why would he just fly off the handle here?

And I thought, older guy trying to get back into action movies.

I thought steroids.

Wow.

That's a good take.

So is Roid Rage?

That's a good explanation, right?

Could be mixed with something else, too.

Or for reckless.

Yeah, yeah.

With what?

I'm being reckless right now, but I'm not going to be all the way reckless.

There's a lot of different reasons as to why that might happen.

A little bit of the white lady.

Is that what you're saying?

What's that?

Careful.

We're on a knife set.

You know what I'm about that white rage?

That's reckless.

Reckless.

A spoon is forgivable.

Fork, like the blue Raja.

That's a good reference by you.

He never wore blue.

Pissed me off.

I still make fun of Hankazaria because he comes.

This is my favorite movie.

Well, this is what he did, though, okay?

This is formulaically, when you talk about what it is that people in Hollywood have to do formulaically to become the old-timey Robert Redford type of movie star.

Hanka's area coming off of his performance in Birdcage, okay, where everyone noticed how talented Hank Azaria was.

After you have that kind of seminal performance, he and his people knew that you get three chances at becoming from there the giant lead movie star.

You'll get three movies.

He thought he was making good choices with Godzilla.

Mystery Men as the Blue Raja.

And I maintain that's a good movie and that was a good role for him.

It should have been more successful.

Ben Siller just...

Yes, Furious Man or whatever.

All he would do is get as a superhero.

That's right.

He just gets mad.

There's

no superpower.

Was William H.

Macy's a shoveler?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Nice.

Kel farted.

And the third movie was Mystery Alaska.

And those aren't the choices you can make if you want to then parlay your birdcage performance into a resounding movie startup.

Two movies with the word mystery in them, neither a mystery, one of them with a guy who is farting as a superhero power.

So, wait a second.

It's a superhero movie about dudes that don't have superpowers.

They like are

shaking their fists at the real superheroes.

They get no respect.

You know what that movie's greatest legacy is, right?

What?

It gave us All-Star by Smash Mouth.

Really?

Can you guys look up for me, please, Ben Stiller's character?

Was it called Mr.

Furious?

Because his character was to just get enraged.

His super power.

So he's the Incredible Hulk without turning into the incredible Hulk.

Without any real power.

It's just anger.

Like,

it doesn't have any strength behind it.

I really think.

He would get one of the porks and just

key the car.

Greg Kinnear played Captain Amazing, who was like the actual superhero that they all wanted to be.

Yeah,

he had a NASCAR-sponsored tracksuit.

Mr.

Furious was indeed the name.

Pee Wee Herman was the spleen.

He was the farter.

He was a farter, yes.

Oh, wait, what did you say?

Kelchell, he was the invisible boy that wasn't invisible until the end.

Spoiler alert.

Spoiler alert.

They know that they try to see that movie.

Casanova Frankenstein, the bad guy.

He was bad.

Is that Jeffrey Russell?

That's a good name, though.

Casanova Frankenstein's a good name.

They're like, we got Casanova and Frankenstein.

Let's combine them.

Put it on the poll at Levittard Show.

Is Casanova Frankenstein a good name?

I was thinking about this the other day, actually.

We were talking about, for some reason, commissioners and Adam Silver and the power of commissioners.

And I was thinking, and I didn't say it at the time, the greatest name that a commissioner has ever had is Kennesaw Mountain Landis.

There has been no greater name than one of the original baseball commissioners, Kennesaw Mountain Landis.

You will not do better than that.

Well, there was a pretty good name that was bannied about by Chris Cody during the commercial break because Spaceballs 2 is coming out and he got really excited about the returning to acting, the unretirement of Rick Moranus.

I did not put the gap there.

I said Rick Moranus.

Is that not how it looks?

No, it's not,

you guys.

It's Moranis.

It's Moranis.

Tomato tomato.

That's why I heard you guys all talking in the other room about Moranus.

I didn't have any context for what it is you were talking about.

You were talking about the unretirement of Rick Moranis?

You were going to say it my way.

They bullied you into it.

I get it.

Moranus.

You guys are putting a little like

space there.

I just said Rick Moranus.

It didn't sound weird.

Rah.

That's how I've always said it.

That sounds normal to me.

Yeah, I bet it does, pal.

My guy.

Hank Azaria, after the birdcage, selected a script where he was a superhero, the Blue Raja, who threw forks.

And didn't wear blue?

Maddening.

Reading the synopsis of that one.

Probably not something that gets made today.

Mystery Man?

Blue Raja, where he's...

Doing an Indian accent the whole time.

Hanks area.

Spoiler alert.

Yeah.

It was a put-off.

Don't look into The Simpsons, buddy.

Oh, no.

I mean, hey, look, hey, Kazaria, baseball guy.

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