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Chapter 1: What is the siren's call that Dan is trying to resist?
Amin just hit me with a voice that was kind of between on the spectrum, lecherous and seductive. And he said to me by way of good morning, and I'd be curious what you guys would guess he was talking about. He's like, Dan, are you going to be able to resist the sirens call? Are you going to be able today to resist it? Do you guys have any guesses on what the sirens call is? Opening day.
That's what Jeremy whispered to me. That was a different conversation. Oh, I can't wait. It's going to be a fast opening day. It's going to take an hour and a half. What did you say, Billy? I didn't hear you. You said I might earn my bonus tonight. Would have been a funny joke.
Yeah, you know.
It's fine. Move on. What do you think the siren's call is? Hmm.
There's a number of options. Riley, could it be? Oh, I know what it is. I absolutely know what it is. I think.
I think? LeBron on McAfee? That's what my guess is going to be, LeBron on McAfee. No, well, it's adjacent. Stephen A. I love the confidence. I love the confidence of I absolutely know what it is I think. That should be a life principle for you. Like to peter out at the end with I think. I absolutely know something I don't absolutely know.
Well, I thought we were talking about Jimmy or something, but there's a bet going on, so I don't know if that's what was in play. But then I remembered, you know. I mean, there's a number of LeBron things. LeBron started up his podcast again. Sands, J.J. Redick. He was doing it with Steve Nash. Then LeBron was on with McAfee for like an hour and a half or something.
There's a number of things there. I mean, let me check the trades, see if anyone signed a media deal. Hold on a second.
That's the siren's call for Dan. Check the trades. Variety. Variety. Hollywood reporter.
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Chapter 2: Why is Russell Wilson's move to the Giants significant?
Yeah. I've never felt more like, oh, this is what happens when you live in a red state for too long. And SEAL Team 6 killed Obama.
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I don't know when Russell Wilson's professional career began, but if you had told me in 2010, if you had come up to me and said, you're not going to believe this, but in 2025, you're not just going to be talking about what LeBron James said. You're going to be talking about what he did in 2025, 15 years ago, while a Russell Wilson signing makes you profoundly sad.
I would not have had the ability to understand what you were talking about because Russell Wilson going to the Giants, I saw that happen. I'm like, oh, two lonely people met and are not going to find love. That's not going to end in the way that anyone thinks it's going to end, and it just made me sad.
But Dan, isn't it, on some level, two lonely people who know there's nothing going on tonight, so it's 3 a.m., the lights are coming on. You lock eyes. Yeah, and it's like, hey, were you my dream partner, the person I was going to spend the rest of my life with? Not really, but maybe tonight.
Almost like one of those pacts that people make on TV shows where they're like, hey, if we're not married by the time we're 40, you want to just go ahead and get married? It feels like one of those where both of them have just kind of reached a space in life where it's like, all right, we could settle for this.
Are they getting married? It's a one-year deal. Or like a two-year, whatever it is. It's not like, oh, it's seven years. Russell Wilson's a quarterback. No, it's like, all right, damn, man, we need somebody. Like, I'm dating, I've kind of just met this person named Jameis.
I was going to say, it's three lonely people, not two.
It's not really serious with me and Jameis either. Like, hey, maybe like, maybe, maybe. But I think.
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Chapter 3: How does the podcast team feel about Russell Wilson's career?
think this is sad I think this is someone who's towards the end of their career finding a place to play and continue their career because he doesn't want to retire I don't think that anyone believes the Giants are going to be Super Bowl contenders exactly their wins total I think is like three and a half next year if you were to bet on that they have one really good rookie wide receiver they have a good a couple good defensive players but a good player on defense if you're Zaz or
But, like, decades of, like, not a great O-line and just kind of not making great front office decisions. And so he wants to keep playing. They were the one team that needed a quarterback still. I don't think it's sad. Like, this is just sort of how sports work towards the end.
Okay, except for... He's not old. He's not an old person. Russell Wilson, to me, if you give me word association, that's a vibrant, spry, athletic personality that plays the position differently than a lot of people do. How old is he?
He's 36. I mean, for a quarterback? That's young.
That's young.
Young for a podcaster, perhaps.
Brady played another 10 years. It's not young, but the Giants just took Russell Wilson over the 42-year-old guy who might be your quarterback in Pittsburgh. That's the only remaining door that's open there. How do you feel as a Steeler fan about what just happened there?
You lose Russell Wilson, who gave you a winning season, and it would appear that the only option left, the only musical chairs left for Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers, are the loneliest of lonely meetups because Russell Wilson and the Giants just paired up, leaving them no options.
How do I feel about Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers? It feels like it's been inevitable for like three weeks now, so I've just accepted it. I don't like him as a person, but I do think the Steelers have done a lot of good stuff in the draft, in the middle to later rounds that make their O-line pretty good. Their receivers have gotten better over this offseason, like signing DK Metcalf.
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Chapter 4: What is the analogy between Russell Wilson's career and Ezra Edelman's documentary?
No, I mean, I didn't make fun of Italians. He was celebrating, though.
I was. Taylor was in the kitchen, and I know I said less Taylor, but Taylor had an opinion that I wanted to put on the poll as well, because he's like, smoothies are fruit. He didn't like that there were green smoothies over there, so just put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Smoothies are fruit, yes or no? because the greens are still out there.
Like I saw that all the smoothies, whatever the colored smoothies were.
Whoa. Smoothies are for everyone, Dan. You already accused me of segregation yesterday.
Now I don't even want to say fruits.
I don't know. Maybe Russell Wilson is sad. I'm telling you, man.
I can't decide.
I don't think it's sad, though. Here's the thing.
What's the sadness? I know.
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Chapter 5: Why can't Ezra Edelman release his Prince documentary?
I'm saying to you. Should have won two. I'm saying to you, as he sits on his couch, he knows the year he had last year. He's not sitting there like, OK, here we go. The Chiefs are going to bring me in to replace Mahomes. He knows who he is at this point of his career. So he's got a job, a starting job, right? Most likely. And they're paying him $21 million and his family life is great.
Yeah, I'm going to say it's not sad. It's pretty happy. And if you're the Giants, again, like Jess said, they're going to be one of the worst teams in football next year. So it's not like, oh, my God. OK, I could put Patrick Mahomes on the Giants. It's still not good enough. It's still, as I said, eight wins, maybe nine wins, maybe nine wins.
You guys are assuming that I'm sad for Russell Wilson here. Just the whole thing.
Who are you sad for?
The whole thing made me sad. That something has to exist in the sport to feed at the bottom of the standings in that division that is only existing to lose to everyone else. That a champion's career ends with that as the punctuation bums me out. But not for him, just for everybody involved.
But his career could have ended two seasons ago, right? His career could have ended after the Broncos, but he got another chance with the Steelers.
And he was fine. He was okay. I really think it's overstated how bad he was at the end of the season. I think the whole team fell apart at the end of the season. I think he was part of it, but I don't think you 100% put it on him.
This is good for him. This is a good time. Pad your stats. Ensure that you're going to make it into the Hall of Fame because people have said that you've played your way out of the Hall of Fame. Now it's time to start compiling. Go out there, take that starting job, and start racking up TDs, yards, whatever you need to do.
Dan, you would say Russell Wilson had a well-above-average NFL career as a starting quarterback, yes?
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