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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
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Does anyone know where Billy is? Because he, or Mark? Mark, yes. Okay, we think he's got a bathroom emergency. All right, we will ask.
I saw him with some medicine this morning. He came with a CVS bag. He had some medicine in there. I couldn't exactly read what the medicine was. Maybe it's something to stop or something to go. We don't know.
HIPAA. Okay, I'm sorry. Yes, we shouldn't be doing that. Illy Gill, Billy Ill. I don't know any of these things to be true either. They might all be reckless speculation. I just don't know where he is.
I'm telling you what I saw, Jack.
It's a fact.
It's very rude to speculate on another man's tummy.
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Chapter 2: Is it rude to speculate on another man's tummy?
Yeah.
Okay, put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Is it rude to speculate on another man's tummy? I have not seen what any of the reaction has been to this, so I am just genuinely curious. As one of the great evergreen sports topics in the history of sports, a Hall of Fame topic of should Pete Rose be in the Hall of Fame, for the President of the United States to now—
Chapter 3: Should Pete Rose be pardoned posthumously?
To now pardon Pete Rose months after his death is not just posthumous, it's posthumorous, okay? The idea that Rob Manfred is now saying, okay, I'll take it under advisement whether to bring him into the Hall of Fame. The man was literally dying to get into the Hall of Fame for 50 years. Dying, and as soon as he dies, now you consider pardoning him from what? He already served the sentence.
What are we pardoning? We are We are forgiving Pete Rose's name after he's died doing exactly what good for whom?
Did the president always have the ability to pardon Pete Rose? They just never thought of it?
I don't think he did. I think he overstepped his bounds here. Any president ever could have been like, you know what? I pardoned Pete Rose. Was he just pardoning him for the crime, the tax evasion crime, like posthumously? He wasn't pardoning him and saying, I get to decide whether Pete Rose is in the Hall of Fame, correct?
I didn't know that this is how pardons worked, that you can just pardon people for making whoopsies that stain their reputation in their own sport. Greg, do you have any thoughts here?
Well, baseball has come out and said the president has no sway over whether or not somebody is eligible to be on the Hall of Fame ballot.
Who would have had it as baseball being the one entity to stand up against one of these executive orders? Like, no, no, no, now we're going too far. You're testing your power, pal. You can't. We're Major League Baseball. God damn it.
You can't put Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame. Do you know how long we've been stubborn about this one dumb thing? But I'm with Trump on this one, too. Paper straws. This. It's a museum. It's not a moral factory. I want to ride behind Trump on this and then get violently out of the way when we do what we did Friday to embarrass the Ukraine. I don't know where...
americans are on shame but friday no it's humorous to me that we're now feigning outrage over the idea that trump has an alliance with putin not a surprise been going on for years why are we acting like we're so surprised that he's against ukraine in this whole matter everything indicated that he was
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Chapter 4: Why is the Magic Crate of Content significant?
It's dusty. He was a baby face for 20 years. He kicked off the Ruthless Aggression era by slapping Kurt Angle in the face. And since then, he's taken us on a whirlwind. This has been years since we've done this. But it's also been years since he's been a fixture in the main event scene.
He's carrying quite the losing streak, which is why he would find himself in this situation to turn to The Rock, knowing that he's not good enough anymore on his own.
Greg, go ahead and reach into the... I just don't know why Travis Scott was there. How does the magic crate not stop you from talking? Because it stops you from talking. Really? Nothing ever stops him from talking. Nothing. Who, me? He doesn't respect any of the properties we have around here. Do I read it? Yes, you read it. Close to the microphone like a broadcast professional. Sorry.
How close is John Cena to The Rock? Wow.
Great question.
No! Do you mean in terms of friendship? That is ridiculous.
Proxy?
Give me that. It's an open-ended question. In terms of national and international stature?
Hold on. I think this is for Dan.
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Chapter 5: How does celebrity influence impact friendships?
But yes, you're married.
Yeah, but some people are married and they're like, oh, my wife's my best friend. They're all lying.
Come on.
They're all lying.
Well, two became one, though, Billy, so technically she's with you.
They haven't been married very long if they're saying that. I'll tell you that right now. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Is your spouse lying if they say you are their best friend?
Everybody knows that.
You're just saying, though, that you're now in federal witness protection. I thought the value of that is that you would never have to tell your friends that you sold them out for a price.
Well, there's two instances here. I did witness a crime, which is why I'm in witness protection. But now I have this double offer. So I have two things going on here in this scenario.
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Chapter 6: What mysteries surround Gene Hackman's death?
Yeah, there was also another dog roaming around, right? What was that dog? Two dogs. What did that dog know?
No, it was two dogs.
It was two dogs were alive. Yes, two dogs were found alive. One was in a cage.
What did they say?
Yeah, seriously. And how do we know the dog didn't put himself in that cage? I'd be talking to the dogs if I was the cop.
I think we do know that he wouldn't put himself in that cage. You don't know that. I do know that. I can rule that out, that the dog didn't put itself in the cage and then starve.
You're not a cop. Dogs do that. Charlie does it all the time. Thank you, Greg. All dogs go to heaven.
Dan, weren't you the one that was like, ooh, it was a love pact right when it happened?
The dog? I was.
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