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This is the Dan Levator Show with the St sports trivia questions. Do you know sports?
But are you just out here capped out flexing
with a jersey on?
Salute to Taylor Swift, we love you.
And you know it's not delivery.
It's the Giorno.
Let's go, ladies and gentlemen.
I got some questions for y'all and I need some answers.
OK.
OK.
Duh-duh-duh.
Who is Taylor Swift dating right now?
Who is Taylor Swift dating?
Hold on, hold on, what do you say?
I say Nick Cannon.
Nick Cannon, ladies and gentlemen.
Swifty's and Nick Cannon link up while and hour.
Oh, Travis Kelsey.
Travis Kelsey.
Travis Kelsey, she got it right, yes, sir.
They got to win her, yeah, we got to bring them some merch bags.
If you answer one of these questions right, you've been a shot the hell out of not only me,
America, the Jupiter, Germany, everybody.
So let me stop talking about it. Let me be about it.
What is Roy Bellamy's favorite sport?
Roy Bellamy's? Well, it sounds like Bill Bellamy. I'm gonna say football.
Roy Bellamy's favorite sport is hockey.
You feel me? My dog got it right, bro. You feel me?
Hey, my dog get a bag.
Give me, give me, give me a dog a bag.
What is Stugots' real name?
Stugots, I'ma say Daddy.
Cause that's his dad.
He done his dad?
Somebody give him a damn bag.
But I'm sitting here with the power slap.
Players in the building, what's your name, big dog? Zawain D. I. Yes, me the way in the eye and giant witness wagon. What's your name, bro?
Jesse juggernaut nothing Jesse the juggernaut you already see what's going on and what's your name brother Robert the real deal
Trujillo ain't a real deal. You know you feel me not Holyfield, but be Robert you dig it
How high is a regulation NBA hoop ten feet easily look a boy slapped the hell out
of you and he know his sports give my boy the prize give that boy the prize okay
okay okay look he got the easy one I'm gonna give you the next one
Who is the highest paid player in the NFL?
Patrick Holmes It's Joe Barrow brother. You feel me we gonna come back. We're gonna let you give you chance to redeem yourself
Please don't slap me and I was on the you
Can you name three?
Superbowl halftime performers
the Eagles
Poison and
Right carry
Look you are so wrong that I don't see none of them damn names on this
I was looking I'm like where's the Mariah?
I
Where's the Mariah? Half time show.
No, not about the football.
Not about the half time show.
Justin Timberlake.
What did you say?
You know he watches the half time show.
It's all about the football.
Right, it is.
Justin Timberlake.
Exactly.
Bruno Mars.
Evan Dempley.
Evan Dempley last year.
Yeah, look at that.
Evan Dempley last year.
I know we back, but me and my dog just grooving.
That's how we doing.
You feel me?
Me and my dog gonna groove for a little second.
You feel me? We gonna enjoy this night. groove for a little second. You feel me, we gon' enjoy this night.
We alive, we blessed, look at us.
Two blessed brothers, now I'm back to the game.
You feel me?
I always put that stone in there baby.
Put that stone in there baby.
Brother, where you from, what's your name?
My name's Willie Pully, I'm from Asfield, North Carolina.
Hey, Asfield, you like the Panthers, what you think about them Panthers? That's right, I'm a Panther but I'm from Asheville, North Carolina. Hey, Asheville, you like the Panthers?
What you think about the Panthers?
That's right.
I'm a Panther, but I'm losing.
I'm going to have my stuff on Sunday, though.
Who you got winning the Super Bowl?
I'm going $40.
I'm going $40.
Hey, Travis Kelsey, you're the Swifties.
They ain't going to like that one.
Yeah, but they don't.
It's football.
Taylor can't win this game. Oh, no.
That's polarity.
Yes, we gotta get back to football.
Yeah, we gotta get back to football.
I like Taylor Swift though.
You don't like it?
Never.
I love Taylor Swift.
But we gotta get back to football.
Can you name all the professional teams from Las Vegas and Nevada?
All the professional teams from Las Vegas and Nevada. All the professional teams from Las Vegas and Nevada.
Raiders.
Yeah.
Nuggets.
Uh-oh.
Basketball.
My boy said the Nuggets.
I think they in Denver.
Oh, that's Denver.
We got the Raiders.
We got the Aces, the Las Vegas Aces.
And we got the Las Vegas Golden Knights.
The hockey team.
That was close. I was thinking nuggets and we are back
ladies and gentlemen with two players over here. What's your
name brother? Pete. What's your name bro? Bobo. Bobo. Hey,
Bobo in the building. What NFL team has the most championships?
You ain't gonna pay treats. Oh, correct. Get my dog a bag. You
feel me?
Another question for the kid over here.
Can you name three Super Bowl performers?
Justin Timberlake, J.Lo,
and Dr. Dre.
Hey, the winner, you feel me, little man?
And there we have it, ladies and gentlemen.
The first edition of Jupiter D
We got some players involved. We got some slappers involved and guess what we didn't get slapped
Thank God, but them brothers knew they sports and all the energy the aunties knew they sports as well man
Must Vegas is love man. If you got some love outside, guess what?
We coming to get some of it man man. Thank you for everybody involved.
And tune in next time.
Same bat time, same bat channel.
Jupiter Day is presented by DeGiorno.
It's not delivery, it's DeGiorno.
Praise the Lord, everybody.
Praise the Lord, everybody.
Give it up for y'all.
See y'all are looking beautiful.
I know y'all tired of hearing my damn voice.
By now, how long was that goddamn video?
Viva Las Vegas, everybody, welcome man.
We so honored to have each and every one
of y'all involved in here.
This means so much to us, y'all, for real.
If we don't get a chance to talk to y'all, just know.
This means everything to us.
You feel me?
Shout out to Greg, Cody, and the He-Haw 3 over there looking sexy as hell.
Oh my damn.
Y'all already know that's my big brother right there.
You feel me?
Y'all know when I was homeless, that man over there got me believing in myself.
You feel me?
I opened the ESPN app and his old ass was believing in newspapers in the 2000s
And I was like damn if this old ass joker can believe in himself
Well damn it I can shake it off you dig me and I got a tattoo of my dog and brother in front of all these people
I love you and I appreciate you big bro. You are the man to me. You mean everything to me. You dig it
Give it up for Greg Cody
Yes, sir, ma'am.
We gonna keep the show going.
I'm sorry I had to do that for you.
I just, I gotta keep it real with y'all.
You know what I mean?
I can't keep it fake up here.
You dig me?
Thank y'all for being here.
I'm gonna swing it over to Greg Cody and the He-Ha three.
But first, we gonna thank Circa Stadium Swim.
Oh my God.
Please give it up for the Circa.
All the employees in the green tracksuits fresh of hell
They got the freshest outfits in the world. You did salute them
But let's toss it over to my big dog my brother my muse
Grant Cody and the he how damn to cuz it's three of them
Thank you juju I love you
Thank you, Juju. I love you. I want to thank you all so much for being here.
We hope you have a great time today and that you remember it.
I'm going to introduce the stars of the show right now.
This guy survived yesterday and got to today.
He's got one show remaining as executive producer. His last show, Love to Mike Ryan.
She does PowerPoint presentations to find friends,
cries from joy on football fields across America,
and has an extra tooth.
She's Lucy Rodine.
and has an extra tooth, she's Lucy Rodine. He's the handsome nemesis of Billy Gill, a cubanito meathead,
who is the object of lecherous desires none of us new stew got still had.
Ten Day Tony!
She can do the nation's finest F1 minute in French.
College football coverage in too much Irish and has 494 favorite teams.
She also has feet.
She's Jessica's Montana!
He's a Nepo baby worth 50 million dollars, the fruit of my cobweb loins. I love him like a son, baby.
He's Chris Cody.
He's the father of Princess Claire and a hockey fan who's show might appear after some games
on an occasional Friday.
He's King Roy Bellamy.
He's a lighthouse of positivity with a questionable taste and at least a couple of his tattoos. Again, some love for Juju Gotti!
He's afraid of everything except anarchy.
He's Billy Gill.
He's a despicable scoundrel stuffed with unending lies.
But we all love him anyway.
He's Stugots! Oh, I almost forgot somebody.
Hang on.
Who's that other guy again?
Who am I introducing?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Dan Levitar, everybody.
Dan Levitar.
And you know it.
Dan Levitar.
Dan Levitar.
Dan Levitar.
Dan Levitar.
Dan Levitar.
Dan Levitar.
Dan Levitar. Dan Levitar. Dan Levitar. Dan Levitar. Dan Levitar. And you know it.
Thank you dad, thank you dad, thank you dad, thank you dad, thank you dad, thank you dad.
Thanks dad.
We're playing Vegas during the Super Bowl.
Are you kidding me?
Let's go!
We had three legendary music acts yesterday.
Wayne Newton, Wu Tang, Flavor Flav, and the only one performing music. They were here to listen to him perform
his new Vegas act, Greg Cote. Greg Cote. Greg Cote as Flav called him. That's a
fine. And the He-Ha 3. Yeah. Poor family 2 because Greg didn't understand what he was doing when he named the fan. We do know it, thank you.
Thank you for who you are, that we know anywhere we go, you're going to land with us.
I think I can speak for the group when we meet you afterward and we're going to do this
today, we're going to talk to you.
You move us deeply when you tell us if you jump,
we will catch you wherever you guys go because you listen to us from there
and you love us and so now we do this uncomfortable dance for you. I kind of want to jump. I wish
the stage was closer so I could jump like you guys should try. I want to jump. Try it. You always try to people with your athleticism.
Jump.
Jump.
Jump.
Jump.
Jump.
Jump.
Maybe some pillows out here.
I'll do a later show.
We'll build up.
Jump.
Billy already stood on the chair that was spinning.
We were chopping this character of crowd work Chris.
Yep.
Trying to.
We should maybe, can we move this?
Tyler, let's move the stage a little closer
if we could mid-show, thank you.
Yeah, Tyler, do that.
Forgive me for this because I think it's blasphemy.
DeMar Hamlin did not win comeback player.
What?
I mean, the fake punt kind of screwed it all up for him,
right?
Fun. Just hypothetically speaking, if that fake punt kind of screwed it all up for him, right? Fun.
Just hypothetically speaking, if that fake punt never happens...
He probably wins it, right?
Like, you had like a spotlight moment where everyone kind of remembered,
oh, this guy has like a half tackle, and now a failed fake punt.
Were they going for a moment with that fake punt?
Like, do they put him in that spot because they're like, this'll be a thing. This is an SP. He had a moment. I mean, I don't know.
When he came out to life, they said the reason why it looks so bad is when they get a certain look
from the other team, they run a fake pun. There needs to be one guy on the staff that's like,
the bar Hamlin should not be doing that. Forgive me, I understand getting into the nuances of this.
I just want you to know, right before the Super Bowl,
a big event that is morally questionable
and we all capitalize on,
that the comeback player of the year was not a player
who came back from the dead.
That was it, Joe Flacco did.
Technically, Joe Flacco also did, and he had it in Joe Flacco did technically also did.
He had it.
Joe Flacco also did.
That was a big plot hole.
You could argue Joe Flacco was more dead.
Yeah.
You cannot argue that.
He played for the sets.
Joe Flacco said he did not want that award.
If you don't want the award, don't accept the award.
Give it to the more.
I mean, I love hot things.
He needs to do that.
No, we need to threaten it.
No. Flacco, do the right thing.
Flacco give your award. Give it back. Give it back. Give it back.
There we go. Good. Yes thank you. Guys did you not see the fake
one? Proud word Chris. Do the right thing Flacco. He came back.
Come on this goes without saying. No. From the dungeon.
I mean he made the playoffs as a Cleveland Brown as in any ways more impressive
I'm gonna be honest and Vegas has kicked my ass
Yeah, you this city man. We got out to a good lead. I mean I was up. Yeah
Like you know 15 going into last night. We gave him way too much time on the clock
15 going into last night. We gave him way too much time on the clock. Vegas won on a 24-0 run and I am destroyed this morning.
You left, you left Patrick Holmes too much time.
We're the Dolphins on Monday night and Vegas is the Titans.
You're Shanahan in the Super Bowl. Ooh.
Too soon. What happened?
Jeez, what happened there?
No, the Shanahan family was here today. Wow.
Chamely.
We're cooking.
Friday, Chris.
You want to get Perfoperty back off the ground?
I want you to do it. Let's go.
Who's Pern with me?
That is the...
Oh, that was a dumb sound.
Goosebumps. Goosebumps. Every time.
Dan, I have an idea.
Oh, Lord. To present to you and these lovely fans in the great city of Las Vegas crowd work Billy
They're so bothered by the Shanahan line, I'm sorry Shanahan family. I
Was thinking Las Vegas seems like the perfect place to have a Super Bowl
This has been a great. It's been been amazing. And they love having it here.
And there's endless things to do.
That was the whole idea.
It should just always be in Las Vegas.
That's always a good idea.
Wait, every year?
Every year in Vegas?
Every year in Vegas.
Every single time.
What do you guys think?
Justice for David Sampson.
What?
Go, Pee-pee. What? Boo. Boo. Boo.
Boo.
Go, Pee Pee.
Hashtag.
OK.
He came back to the deck.
He did, yeah.
You got Andy.
He got more first place votes than everyone else,
but Flacco beat him with the second and third place votes.
This guy's so.
I don't like that. Electoral College, Dan. This guy is so mad right now because he has 17 signs and you went to the one person and
she only has one sign. He's been flipping through six signs already in this first second.
Go back to the Stugatz book sign. Go back to it. Stugatzbook.com. Thank you everyone.
If you want your signs read on the air, don't leave with the Taylor one.
Yeah. Yeah. This is the is the saddest game day ever.
Look our guest list.
Strong.
Demographically old.
Don't do that to Dominique.
Dominique just showed up five minutes before the show said, hey, you texted me yesterday. I'm here.
Well, you never said yes.
I have a run of show.
I have never planned a show more.
But we love Dominique, so we're doing that.
So he's coming up soon?
Soon, next segment.
Yep.
I promise.
And when it's Manus Calco?
The segment after that?
Jessica, I shouldn't say this to him, but you didn't know who that was recently, right?
Let's keep that in the production meeting.
I was a TV pilot crew that had never heard of Sebastian Manus Calco.
I was just blown away by this.
He's a popular comedian. I mean, I don't even understand.
He's telling us Top 5 right now.
He can tell out Madison Square Garden five times.
Yeah, biggest box office right now like top five box. Well, he's done two movies with DeNiro
Like two of them because Bill Burr and some others are getting some of the comedy power
That they're giving you know the Rogan guys like there's a we had David spade on like ten years ago
And when you asked him like who's next who's the next guy that could potentially play arenas?
And he's like there's this little known guy
That just opened up for me at the comedy store yesterday. His name is Sebastian
And he only called him Sebastian was like like Madonna or Cher at the time because man is Calco is not it's a tough one
Yeah, I can I can see it. Let's chant it Sebastian. Oh
Crowd the syllable situation.
Look, look, look, look.
What was the last name?
Sebastian!
Manascalco!
Yeah, the syllables don't work.
No, no, no.
I'm gonna flip this table over.
No, but please help me with this part because I want them to feel the energy when they come
up here of what it's like to do, you know.
Yeah, Sebastian has no idea what it's like to perform in front of people.
No, but I want the people to give him the love before he ever comes out here.
Like, invigorate him.
He's a very likable comedian and him and carrot top.
I think you'll get their best effort if he feels your energy.
I'm familiar with how that works.
I will do my part.
Do you want me to cheer for him?
Yeah.
Tell us exactly what you want us to do for these guys.
Paniscalco.
I can land up on the Benescalco.
Sebastian!
Benescalco!
Alright, Sebastian.
That knows how to pronounce his last name.
Can be on that.
Yeah, go over there and pronounce his last name.
Can you go to the Greg Kote Hiho 3 stage to get something that aggressively introduces
our comedians?
I'm sorry, I'm distracted, Dan.
There are a couple guys over there and they are looking good.
Oh, they knew exactly what know exactly talking about I mean, I'm trying to look at the he-haw three, but I can't not you three steak sauce behind you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
Love the confidence in overhearing there are three Jack looking dudes over there that look good
And they knew that we were talking about them because they saw our audience and said, who else could they possibly be talking about but us?
It does look good though.
Oh my God.
Whatever you're doing.
Is that oil?
What are we using?
Deca, you want the trend?
You a trend, bro?
Yeah, you're on track and tell.
That's trend.
Are those the slap guys?
Those guys are in town.
Yeah, they're probably. You want us trend. Are those the slap guys?
Those guys are in town. Yeah, they're a power.
You want those guys got some hands.
You guys seen these guys around these slap dudes like Bruce
Chris go get slapped.
It'd be odd if they didn't have hands, Chris.
It's almost I'd say there I say hands are essential to power.
But you guys these people know what I meant.
You've seen these guys. Ham hocks.
Hmm.
We should track down Bruce, the former reaper and get him in power slap. But you guys, these people know what I meant. You've seen these guys, Hamhawks.
We should track down Bruce, the former reaper, and get him in Power Slab.
It'd be a fucking titan.
Billy, how much? What I got the joke you were making about thick hand, thick handed Bruce, who worked
for us for a while and was literally falling asleep while he worked.
My last day on the job, it was a good joke.
Like it was way inside. Like I say on the job. It was a good joke, Mike. It was way inside, Mike.
Last day on the job. Bruce.
He had thick, media, aggressive, lumberjack hands.
Too big for an old man.
We had him on Mystery Create if you guys want to go find that episode.
Oh, to the love of God.
Just saying. We're talking Bruce.
The boss.
Billy, how much?
He came back from the dead.
How much would I have to pay you, Billy, to literally let one of those guys slap you?
Like a professional slapper.
You're the one getting slapped, not me.
No, I'm just saying, if I put, like, well, it's the number.
I'm not getting slapped.
I think for...
No, let's say the number.
Oh, Billy, everyone has a number.
I'll eat one for two mil.
Two million, I'll eat one.
Forty million.
Chris, you would eat one for less than two million.
So I mean, it seems like a liability issue. Yeah. Yeah.
It's not a waiver. I thought that was still a wacky thing,
where we're still got to get punched for a million dollars and he dies.
I thought that there would be a great final act.
Like it would be perfect.
He still wouldn't win comeback, podcaster of the year.
That's what I thought.
There was a chance I was going to get slapped in the face yesterday for free
by Josh Allen. Oh man. He met his nemesis. Yes. What
happened there? Please. What happened? It was great. You know, just trying to
promote subway and their cookies and their chew drills and their pretzels. And
Josh Allen was the guy doing it. So we said, let's talk to Josh. Yeah. Dan, I
was hoping I wouldn't have to pay the piper. I was hoping I could just kind of
get through it without anybody knowing what was up.
And Juju made sure to kind of point that out to him that maybe someone in the past
said that he had a stupid face.
And then he turned and he said, was that you?
But in fairness, I went in there very peacefully and he's the one that started with me.
Billy, that's alive.
He bullied me for my love of ketchup of all things
Billy was worried about me doing like bringing him into the whole Josh Allen thing and because Vegas has kicked my ass
I forgot to do it. Thankfully Juju did Billy had to face his nemesis
Josh Allen wait you just forgot to add that's like why we were going to talk to him.
We were four or five questions in and then Juju thankfully was there because he's a Bill's fan.
So we asked Josh Allen the question. Josh immediately realized it was Billy. They stared
at each other face to face. I thought Billy was going to get his ass kicked, but Billers survived
it and we're thankful that he did. But it was funny, man. Josh Allen's a good sport. He is. Had I got a punch face though, I could
have retired. Like it would have been amazing. Like the idea of him punching me in the face
very publicly in front of so many witnesses, the settlement.
Oh, did you ask Josh Allen for an autograph? Two guys. Yeah. So you autograph my hat. Who
is on your hat right now?
You have a little Dickie autograph.
Josh Allen.
Josh Allen, little Dickie.
We had him on radio rope.
Romo Dunesay is on there.
He is. Michael Pettix is on there.
Sebastian, whose name I'm not going to try to pronounce,
is going to be on there pretty soon.
Got some good names here, man.
She just had Dominique do it too.
Why is he out there?
It's Steak Sauce. and those three dudes on trend.
Max, you got yesterday when we went out. Mike had a DJ set yesterday, by the way.
Well, I keep under playing this and I'm like, how cool is that?
So he does the Gronk Super Bowl.
He does the DJ set and then he comes to this city and while he, three is performing over there,
he quietly hits a club that everybody would have been at if we'd told them he
was doing the DJ sets because everybody loves the DJ sets.
A lot of people came out. I appreciate all the fans that were there.
I recognize some of the faces, but as you know, I am a man of the people.
I love getting out there, reaching out and touching folks and smiling for photos.
I am as personable as they come. So a fan asked me, hey, would you like to DJ with me tonight?
I was like, yeah, of course, I'm a champion of the people
and the people's producer.
So we did that.
And I thank everybody for coming out.
Even Sugat's came out.
Yeah.
So I had to play a really laborious, grateful dead zone.
I thought you were going to headline this.
I thought this show was going to end by us opening us the club live
Like Friday night let's send people into the Vegas. Well, it's not happening. Well, that's not happening
But I think great Cody's gonna play lovely cruise
Funny thing a funny thing happened Dan during a Mike's DJ set. I got a clock there. We got to finish up the set
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For Dan it's never clear am I prepared
It's never clear, am I prepared? It's never certain, and now the end is near
Every breath could be my final curtain
I know I promised more
But it's hard to bring one every Tuesday
I'm bragging that's how it was back in my day
Oh now, what more, what more could stand more?
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which is where I was born, bitch.
You want to do a work?
This guy's trying to catch up. He's trying to catch up.
I know, he's caught up.
What's that, macaque?
Something like that.
Green suit. You look like if plankton from SpongeBob was a pimp
It's outstanding so sexy
Huh, what?
That is my cat you could go to jail for that, but it's what I
Love a good cat. Is he the coolest guy on this team? No. Oh
My bad. I didn't see Lucy.
Hey guys, Lucy last night was on one
because Caitlin Clark was playing basketball.
So we're all having a drink at the bar
and Lucy shows up and tries to talk to us for a little bit.
But eventually is arguing with the bartender
because the Iowa game is not on in Las Vegas.
Like people would care and then she's on her phone
yelling at anybody who come close to her
because Caitlin Clark is out there getting cooked.
That's not funny.
And that's her phone.
You apologize to me right now or we're not friends anymore.
I'm sorry.
Caitlin Clark is a little overrated.
What?
Oh, no.
She couldn't be more highly rated.
So it's hard to not be.
I mean, if you're ranking people, you go Martin Luther King.
Jesus, Katelyn Clark.
Maybe switch the team.
In February?
You go Jesus over MLK in February?
Oh, there you.
He says, uh, he says, uh.
Oh, there you.
He says, um.
Kick-saving abuse.
Jesus of rights.
It's important.
Why do you didn't start a civil rights chant is it because?
civil no no thank you Jessica
Civil can I I heard you guys address the flacco
The flacco the dead yeah, and it is February
the flacco and the dead. And it is February.
I feel you.
Second highest ranked person to come back from the dead famously.
It's Jesus and then who's second?
The Undertaker.
It's the Mar-Hamlin.
The Undertaker.
The Undertaker.
I think Nikki Six, Motley Crue.
I would say that.
I mean, this is appropriate.
When Jesus came back from the dead they didn't
really give an award they weren't too happy about my dog they're pretty much
so I feel like we're on course in two three thousand years from now
Hamelinism will be a thing and it'll be something that we all believe in who
needs an award if you got a whole damn religion?
What's wrong with y'all?
And to be fair, lots of animals
are capable of resurrecting themselves.
Macaque?
No, Macaque's, they can't do it.
I think the wood frog can.
Immortal jellyfish also can regenerate its cells
and kind of start its life off.
You know a lot about animals.
Oh, wooly callipillars, wooly callipillars.
Come back from the dead.
I'm just hanging around this show until Ron McGill gets tired and I can be the
animal guy. That's all I really care about.
I pretend to care about sports so that occasionally,
Dan'll let me come on here and talk about woolly caterpillars.
You are more fascinated by the animal kingdom than anybody here.
You are amazed by the animal kingdom.
Animal off. Yeah.
He starts his podcast with an animal tidbit. Yes, normally random facts including animal facts yesterday
We did a live show and we started it with this little known fact about the green
What is it the Greenland shark? Yeah, they don't reach sexual maturity into a hundred and fifty years old
They live to be about 250 years. Also, if you were to eat their flesh, you would get drunk.
It's true.
Chuck Ginglin, I ain't a joke.
Stop laughing.
You think I'm trying to make you laugh?
Try to make you smart.
I don't want to tell you what to think.
Can you tell us about the live show
because the idea that you went and they...
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
They missed it, but my darling got it.
I did miss it. I did miss it. I'm getting old.
Sorry. You want to know about the live show?
I wanted to know about you and Mina doing a live show together in Vegas.
Like, we as a show are allowed to be proud of that, right?
Oh, yeah, sure. I mean, it is a child of the Dan LeBatard universe that is grown. It's like the Miles Garrett of the children
of the Dan LeBatard universe where it once was a kid,
but now it's a whole nother species
because me and Mina are that awesome.
So I appreciate you guys letting us,
or appreciate you for giving us the opportunity.
You can clap now.
Oh no, no, no, don't clap.
Don't clap, don't clap, don't. I don't clap. I don't clap.
I mean, you guys think I was actually being genuine.
You just ruined it.
I would just setting it up for a joke to undercut Dan.
That's all.
Fox.
Word.
No, stop.
Fox.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Need the punchline.
Let's go.
No, I.
They don't deserve it.
Okay.
The moment's over.
Yeah, it's over.
So, um, another thing I found out last night about Lucy was that
she prized on people's conversations on, uh, on flights and I believe everywhere else.
I love to use drop. You don't feel ashamed. I think that's the only acceptable place on
a plane. If I can see your phone through the crack and I got four hours to kill, like the
worst thing on the plane is when you're...
It's the only place that's acceptable.
At a movie theater, dick move.
Do.
Do.
It's never acceptable.
Has your life interesting enough?
No.
It's always real boring too.
It's like just got on the plane, just landed.
Give me the good stuff.
It's not that boring if you're Lucy.
I had this woman on my flight here who was typing up like a complaint about her coworker,
except she was, it was a PowerPoint.
So I was like, oh man, she's given a presentation.
Turns out she doesn't know how to open up a word zone.
So she's changing the PowerPoint settings to look like a piece of paper,
and she's writing about her coworker.
I won't use their names, but she is not a nice gal.
And she is very disrespectful to my girl, Kathy,
who's been at that company for 39 years.
Oh wow, veteran.
And she was typing like this.
Jess, why were you doing that?
I mean, that PowerPoint was for Bimble and Bimble alone.
Lucy has let loose in Vegas.
I think she was smoking cigarettes aggressively.
Oh, there's one on my voice sounds like this.
Do you want one?
No, heater.
We, a lot of us actually went out to Mina and Dominique's live show yesterday.
Thank you, guys, sincerely.
And thank you for the insight because I hammered Trent McDuffie tackles over.
Nice. Because of the insight.
I found out that Bill Barnwell's middle name is Jerome.
Yeah, Jerome.
That's actual.
That was a real thing.
I found out that because Kevin Clark was there,
that the Miami Hurricanes still live rent free
in everybody's heads.
I was attacked for my passion for the Hurricanes,
but you guys are pretty good at this football thing.
Yeah, we're good.
I want to say that I appreciate all you guys
for coming and being a part of the show. However, buy a ticket.
Oh, you cheap bastards texting me. Hold on a second. You said let me in. You think you
give me on the slide back door? Let me in the back door. You said on your show last
week that you were shaming people who were pretending like they wanted to buy a ticket
when you knew you'd get them in for free,
you're playing both sides.
Exactly.
You don't get the game.
I just like making people uncomfortable.
If you would have asked me for, or you would have said,
pay, if you would have bought a ticket,
I would have then said, I'm a loser, pays for a ticket.
Dominique, also, you should be paying us
because we were doing some crowd control work
because there was a first date or something happening
at your show, and they were talking the entire time.
I've never done this thing so many times.
I shushed them.
I literally, I had to go shush and I felt so mad.
She shushed.
And then they were like, did you hear that girl shush us?
Oh my God, that girl shushed.
And then I got really scared.
So I kind of like crowded in.
They were also holding each other's faces at one point.
I did not like them.
Some guy laughed at the wrong time, it was crazy.
I'm telling you, first date or something.
We're five minutes into the show,
and some guy just slow clap into song.
It wasn't a slow clap, she said, we'll be right back.
If we say, we'll be right back, what are you guys gonna do?
What?
I started to clap, and I was the only one
in the whole place to do it.
He started reading an ad, and he started reading an ad, and and mean I was like, all right, we'll be right back and now blah blah blah go in
It's just one clap there awkwardly making us all uncomfortable and I
Who needs me same in fairness. You had no idea you were going to a live spot. I mean, thank you guys
Okay, we have spots you guys are hey
Okay, I've spots you guys are hey
We were just me like you did with Wayne yeah Wayne dude fisted me twice yeah twice
This to me and then came on the show oh
Geez that's a thing that happened. Greg Cody can sing guys and I
hate it. He legitimately can. He's got a great voice. He sounds fantastic. Can you
guys throw the show to him? Can you make a request of some sort? Can you ask him?
As long as Jeremy doesn't talk, I'm good with it. Because we haven't tested his
mic. We don't want Jeremy to talk. Throw our show over there so that they perform something for us
that they've already performed or just one of their hit songs,
one of their He-Ha 3's classics?
We're calling an audible, guys.
Get ready.
I would love for them to do some sort of hit song
that they've already prepared.
I'd also like to make Greg Cody learn some Jodicy lyrics.
That would make me so happy.
Some red condition.
Oh, I would love to hear Greg Cody
hit some shy acapella.
Oh, mmm.
Ba-da-do.
Did you sing some Wu-Tang yesterday, though?
Oh, God, that was painful.
Baby, I like it wrong.
Yeah, can you do that?
Can you do that?
Baby, I like it wrong.
Oh, yeah.
Ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, yeah. That's flimid, flimid.
Man.
Let's go.
Singing's hard, guys.
Oh, baby, I like it wrong.
Oh, baby, I like it wrong.
Still off key.
Is that the sound that you made when you made Chris's?
Oh, DB Forever.
That's right.
And that's how we introduced Wu-Tang
James Brown owner they can play the wrong song too. Oh, can we be and you know it and you know it?
Yeti can we get a wrong song baby? No, don't do that to him
Yeah, those lines I mean you gotta get the
None of the floyd's Dan more lines
None of the loins, Dan. More loins.
You're loins.
Baby.
You're wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
That's it.
You are sexy.
I love it.
Loins in that one.
I'm a Baltimore guy, so it means something special.
I of course gave it a sexy.
That was sexy.
That is the highest compliment from Dominic Foxworth.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Because there is something sexy about he didn't care how good
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Yes, yes.
She was married to Roger Rabbit, even though he was a bunny and she was a humanoid, but
they were both cartoons.
Stugots.
I had to crush him, Betty Rubble.
Oh, wow.
What?
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
Whoa, with a surprise nomination from Stugans!
Showing you his dirty, dirty, inner nine-year-old!
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Sin city banging like my hall of fame boats, so get those stakes up higher
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Lady Luck, please you're gonna smile on me Keep those lov-o's rolling hot I know
We're gonna have more fun than the law allows Like an episode of the Greg Cody Show
Viva Greg Cody! Viva Greg Cody!
Oh there's a blackjack table and a roulette wheel A fortune to win with every spin
I'm gonna conquer this city like it's P.F.P.I.
So let's let the winning begin
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This is exciting. Let's go. I told you to bring some energy for him. You have to understand.
We got somebody who is killing the comedy game. Killing it. Sold out Madison Square Garden five times.
Think about that. That's crazy. Breaking his own record. He's got a TV show on Max
Bookie. He acts with De Niro. And he currently has a residency at the Encore Theater at
the Win that I hope I can get into the next couple of nights with my wife because I think
you're great at strength and thank you for joining us
Sebastian Maniscalco this two guys is so very strong in you dad. I am so proud of you
Before the question I admire you because of how likable you are it is a rare trait
We need more of it these days. I appreciate it. I gotta tell you guys something listen
I just came from radio row or whatever you want. It's on Plus, it's heaven.
It's on No.
Two people, there's nobody really paying attention.
No.
You come here, you got a live audience,
you got some band over here that's fantastic,
and you got 29 people on stage.
I mean, you're not gonna get this anywhere else
in Las Vegas, so I'm happy to be here and,
I'm for a coat!
You don't see this at any other show.
Thank you, Sebastian.
Firm.
Look, great.
And he's got some Giorgio Prattini slip-ons,
which I gotta appreciate.
Well, he's aspiring to your style, I believe.
He's aspiring to be stronger fashion sense than you. You pull it off casual. Dan, look at this velvet, though. Come on your style, I believe. He's aspiring to be stronger, fashion sense than you.
You pull it off casual.
Damn, look at this velvet, though.
Come on, look at this velvet.
No, this is dolphin.
Oh, no wonder.
It wasn't wet.
That's why.
No, I appreciate you noticing the jacket and everything.
But nice to be here.
Nice to be.
Give it up for the three people that are in the pool
that they had to bring the lifeguards in for
Lifeguards are like, yeah, it's gonna be easy day and one idiot gets in the swim. Yeah, we got to work. So
Thanks to the lifeguards for coming in today in 50 degree And thanks for making your sign back in my day people took pride in writing a book by the pride of the lion
It's guys advert. We're gonna clip that for Greg Cody. Oh my God, you just did a promotion for Greg Cody of He Haught 3.
He's taking a photo.
He's over there taking pictures for his new book.
All the money goes to animal charities as you wear a dolphin jacket.
All right, who knew?
I don't know if this was a plant or what this was, but God bless you for making your sign
gay.
He doesn't understand why you would dare to test Vegas
with a residency or with the excess of the city.
In four days that has kicked his ass,
he has lost to Vegas.
Vegas has kicked my ass.
In fact, leaving Vegas is more fun than getting to Vegas.
Who the fuck wants to stay here for that long?
I mean, honestly.
He's killing Vegas and I think he's entitled and just.
Hey Vegas, relax, okay. Second day you get he'd from the Vegas audience
You feed all my vices Vegas, I'm sorry you have you have a gambler's voice
Yes, yes sounds like he's been at the table for nine hours
So
Are you actually trying to win money out of here?
The only way, the only way you walk out of a casino with money is you have to actually
work here.
That's the only way you walk out of here.
So no, I'm not hitting the tables at all.
I do my Vegas very mild.
I come in.
Stakehouses.
I don't even do that.
I do like two shows.
I go up and I watch a documentary.
I mean, I'm 50, with a six year old and a four year old, so I have no energy to go out
clubbing, alright?
But you do have it for creatively making movies with De Niro, which is, I don't know, which
one's better if I ask you with your heritage and everything else, selling out Madison Square
Garden five straight times, or you can say you had two parts with De Niro.
Yeah, I mean, growing up watching Robert De Niro, I had posters on my wall with this
guy and next thing you know, he's playing my father in a movie, which De Niro wanted
to have my father on set coaching him how to be him.
So I'm sitting there watching and my father's a hairdresser
and DeNiro's asking my father how to do a dye job
in one of the scenes.
And it's just sitting there going, this is amazing.
I never thought I'd see my 78 year old father teaching
80 year old DeNiro how to do a blowout.
So yeah, working with old De Niro how to do a blowout.
So yeah, working with Robert De Niro was, but listen, it wasn't one of these movies
where, you know, they yell, caught and me and De Niro are talking about where we're
going to go at night.
Your separate places.
He went to his chair to open up a no boo.
And I went to my chair to study.
I was like, so, but you had to be, scared, performing in front of him, right?
I was sweating, constantly sweating.
Because, you know, I mean, this is arguably one of the greatest actors of our time.
I generally don't do a lot of acting.
And now from soup to nuts, I'm working with DeNiro for nine weeks in Alabama.
So what are we pointing at?
What's going on over here?
Without being, because I have a question.
The first one that he wants to get
in.
That's why she did that.
We did a whole show yesterday.
Never spoke.
He just jumped in the pool.
I think all of us are just stunned.
Roy wishes to speak.
Roy is just questions.
That's why it stopped everything in the track.
Roy is stopping every.
You never speak.
You never speak.
Well, with the Irishman, it wasn't just De Niro.
It was De Niro and Pacino on the same scene.
What was that like?
So, yeah, that was a whole other, you know, De Niro, Pesci, Scorsese and Pacino.
And this was one, this is before about my father.
So, in that one, I was, this is what happened.
They yell cut, Scorsese, Pesci and De Niro come out, they get in a circle, they start
talking and I'm not invited. Now, cut, Scorsese, Pesci, and De Niro come out, they get in a circle, they start talking.
And I'm not invited.
So I'm thinking, I'm thinking I'm getting fired.
This is after the first scene.
I'm like, that's it, I gotta pack my bag and go home.
Should I get in this circle?
Should I stay over here?
So I guess, you know, they have a shorthand
with one another and they talk about the scene
and then we fired it back up again.
But yeah, you know, to be in two movies like that,
and because I really don't do a lot of movies,
was I want to see a dream come true
because I had never even dreamt it.
Well, but hold on a second.
On dream come true, because I ask you specifically, pick one.
You can only pick one.
Madison Square Garden, five times or that,
because that, I can't imagine,
you didn't weep anywhere with gratitude anywhere inside of that because you were selling out at the height of your dreams
This place five times. I gotta tell you I'm constantly weeping
Constantly
I'm all up for a good cry my wife don't cry at all
We'll be watching a movie and I'm drowning in my own tears. I look over at her and I'm all up for a good cry. My wife don't cry at all. We'll be watching a movie and I'm drowning in my own tears.
I look over at her and I'm like, nothing.
So yeah, I go stand up,
Mass and Square Garden, because that's what I do.
I mean, I'm a comedian and to do Mass and Square Garden
five times in a row coming up here in September
is gonna be pretty monumental for me.
And can you explain to us what that's like for you just emotionally?
As the performer in you, given whatever it is that you actually dream this would look
like one day, because I don't know, I don't think anybody understands how hard it grinds
with, with not a lot of health insurance.
Like you're there, it's your art, it's you, and you've got to survive.
Make a living for your kids on your funding with the expectation of funding.
That's hard and brave.
You know what?
You sound like my mother with the health insurance.
Because that was her biggest concern.
So as I got into this business in 1998, what are you going to do for health insurance?
Because you're on your own out there.
But I didn't enjoy Madison Square Garden the first time I did the four shows.
And I really kicked myself for that because I was always thinking about okay what's next what's
next and if you learn anything today enjoy the moment you are in right now
don't be looking you know six hours from now when you're losing your life
savings at the blackjack table so this around, I'm gonna be more in the moment
enjoying it because sometimes I think ahead of myself
and I lose what's actually happening right now.
Okay, so a lot of times people come over here
and your job is to just do the promotion
of whatever it is you're selling,
but why do you believe in bookie on Macs?
Like that's an interesting project for you to take.
It could just be your sports routes or that there's a lot of
funny there.
But I'm imagining you're spending a lot of time creatively
there.
Yeah.
So I went up to Chuck Lorie and I pitched him a show loosely
based around my life.
He came back and said, I got an idea about you being a bookie
in Los Angeles with the pending doom of legalized gambling
on the horizon.
And I was like, you know what?
I like that idea better because I'm kind of tired
of playing myself.
I did it in the movie about my father.
I'd shot a pilot with Tony Danza as my father
six years ago and never got picked up playing me.
I'm like, I like this idea of playing another guy.
I don't really have a lot of sports roots.
I mean, I grew up a Chicago Bears fan,
but it's not like I'm the guy that you're gonna ask,
who should the Bears take in the draft?
I don't even know who's on the list.
So.
Damn, I was gonna ask you that, man.
Well, I got this quarterback out of USC.
The problem with the Bears, right?
Williams, I know that much.
I know Junior much I know junior
Harrison juniors and that's about after that I fall off a cliff but whoever the
Bears take you know they're doomed that's true Justin Fields will leave the
Bears and they'll go win a Super Bowl that's right I just see those sports you
know sports I know a little bit just a a little bit. But I'm just tired
of watching the Bears game because I'm watching all these other teams, even Mahomes. And I don't,
I've never seen this move before. Mahomes goes up. First they go in the shotgun, and then they
got to come up to the line and see what's going on. But the running back comes up too. Like he's,
like he feels left out. It's performative.
Let's go on.
You got it right.
Okay.
And then they go back together.
Bears ain't doing that.
Right?
It's a good analysis.
So my home's figured it out from Brady.
Go over there and sprinkle your dust over there.
My no, we know more, but he's not doing it.
You think he's not doing anything.
He must be doing something because a lot's happening after that
But I'm just saying when the Bears get up to the line no one's talking
You know like no one's pointing this guy's coming watch. They're just head down
Can't wait to go out to eat tonight. I mean I I
Don't know
The media row I don't know you got to tell us how you's good analysis. Media row, I don't know.
You got to tell us how you experienced this yesterday,
because it is really a carnival of carnivores coming over and just
be funny, funny man, be funny.
You're experiencing sports, Vegas, gambling,
all of it being together at the same time in your city.
Is that an epicenter for your funny here in the residency that you're doing?
Because you're in Vegas during an insane week.
I can't believe that they're about to play
amid the gambling, the prostitution,
that the conservative NFL is playing around, you know,
Sin City.
This is my pitch.
This is my pitch.
And I want to get the audience reaction on this.
I say we do the Super Bowl, we alternate Vegas
and Sofya in LA every year year the hell with the rest of the league
What a perfect place go to the pool go to the pool you are a distraction with your
Another sign drop the ball. It's a good interview. This is a good day
You can't come here and have ten jokes hoping to get one of them on. He was cooking and you dropped the signs
at the worst possible time.
It's dirty, have some respect.
Some dignity for comedy.
You just interrupted his set.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's not an interruption.
We get this type of behavior a lot at the shows, okay?
Anytime you bring a live audience in,
you're bound to get some guy who's spent,
I don't know, an hour and a half making.
An hour and a half.
I'm an hour and a half.
With a marker. I mean, come on. You brought that. He did not spend an hour and a half making a marker I mean come on you brought
that on the half on those sides that's that thick marker too dude come on yeah
that's a thick that's a that's a heavy heavy marker next time you do a sign put
a little color into it take some time maybe draw figurine
it's all right we'll get to you guys take Take it easy. Take it easy.
What do you make? And I asked this question of comedians a lot. It's such a fascinating
time in comedy. Shane Gillis is now being used by Bud Light at the end of the month
as comedians try to find this free speech space. Your podcast is one of the hundred
that are kicking ass because comedians have found this lane for business where they can talk unfiltered to their audience without any limit.
As you hustle against the Rogans and the Burt Christchers and everyone in the competitive
game, how are you staying ahead of everybody in the business because you're just likable
and people want to hear what you have to say about things?
That's nice for you to say that.
What I've done, and this wasn't really by design. I've always been kind of even in high school
I was never part of the popular group. I was always on the fringe, right? Same thing with my career
I'm not really piped into all that's going on in comedy and comedians and hanging out and whatnot
So I've always taken the just concentrate on myself. I can't worry about anybody else
The only thing I have is me and my material. So I've always taken the just concentrate on myself. I can't worry about anybody else. The only thing I have is me and my material.
So I've just constantly wrote material
and yeah, I have my podcast.
And nowadays, you know,
when everybody being so sensitive and whatnot,
I do have a bit of an editing mechanism
even while I'm up here, right?
I'm not one of these guys that's a loose cannon
and I'm gonna say something that's gonna go viral
and I'm gonna be popular for that.
I just concentrate on just-
So you can avoid all of the danger spots by not getting,
that's the hardest way to do it in comedy, right?
You're not getting currency or attention
just from being provocative for the sake of provoking.
Yeah, I can't do that.
I just can't do that.
My comedy is more observational.
It's not like shock and I'm gonna shock you with something or
Or do something outrageous where people are gonna go my god. Did you see that?
That though, yeah, I just try and concentrate on whatever my father's doing at the time and bringing that to the stage because
same
Fathers are great for material. I mean, especially him.
I mean, we just went, I was in Chicago four or five nights ago and he wanted to go and
get a refrigerator.
And I don't like shopping with my dad because we go into a major department store and, you
know, he's there for eight hours going, where's the coils on the refrigerator at?
Coils.
He wanted to clean the coil. He was going the coil. I go, Dad, your basement
looks like Bin Laden lived there and you're going to clean coils on the refrigerator?
So we get to the point where we got to look for the price and he's, all right, let's go
make a deal. And I'm like, Dad, this is not a flea market in Palermo.
So it's like they got a set price.
So whatever my dad's doing and people go,
you don't talk about politics, this that.
Whatever my dad is doing at the current time is funnier
than what Trump or the hell's the guy's name
that we got in office now.
Biden.
Biden.
Super Bowl week, Dano.
I can't believe it.
Brown, Brown, Brown.
That's the tequila.
Roomba.
So yeah, my dad's funnier than both of them.
We have to get out of here, not enough time.
Just on the way out though, as someone who loves the craft
of standup comedy, when you look at the Mount Rushmore
of the people who do the real sculpting
and you really like.
Oh, Mount Rushmore like the people who love
you love the craft of it if I if I made you pick four could you possibly
limit it to four yeah I say Richard Pryor Eddie Murphy to the guys I grew up
on George Carlin put yourself on there and put yourself on there no no no John
Johnny Carson I think Johnny Carson although wasn't a like comedian in a sense that he was, you know
He was a host more than a comedian, but his comedy silence
Which you don't see a lot anymore. You don't see a lot of
Silences golden in comedy a lot of people that do comedy is very like rushed and they don't give you any breathing space
If you watch Carson, he definitely did that. So that's my top four.
When you said about Rushmore, I got nervous
because I had to go in my brain and go,
is that four or five?
That's good.
Or you had to name presidents,
which didn't work out for you just like five seconds prior.
I could even name the president.
Just a guy.
Again, residency at the Encore Theater at the win.
Thank you. It's one of the best doing it.
One of the best doing it.
Appreciate it.