Barguments w/ Dan "Bass" Levy

**Nigel** (0:00)
You're listening to The Hammer and Nigel Show.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:02)
Barguments, arguments, arguments, arguments, arguments, arguments, arguments.

**Nigel** (0:13)
My name is Nigel, Jason Hammers here with a very special guest on the hotline for Barguments.

**Jason Hammer** (0:21)
Dan Bass Levy coming out of Chicago, Illinois. He is a radio icon. He is a voice over beast, and he single handedly trying to keep the Bears in Chicago. How are you?

**Dan Bass Levy** (0:36)
I am trying, but I think I'm losing the battle.

**Jason Hammer** (0:38)
We'll see what it was. How was the Fourth of July, Bass?

**Dan Bass Levy** (0:43)
It was actually quite lovely, except for the weather, it kind of stung for a while. But then right about 10 o'clock, the fireworks got back going. What about you guys?

**Jason Hammer** (0:50)
I'm fireworks guy. Like either people love me or they hate me on the Fourth of July. There's no in between.

**Nigel** (0:58)
Let's ask Hammer this, Bass. How much did you spend on fireworks?

**Dan Bass Levy** (1:02)
I was just going to ask the same question.

**Jason Hammer** (1:05)
So we cut back a little bit this year because we had the Ireland trip.

**Nigel** (1:09)
Yeah, you went to, I just got back from Ireland.

**Jason Hammer** (1:11)
$1,200.

**Dan Bass Levy** (1:14)
What is it usually?

**Nigel** (1:15)
You cut back.

**Jason Hammer** (1:17)
Normally, it's around $2,000.

**Dan Bass Levy** (1:20)
Okay, because my wife's brother-in-law typically spends around $5,000 in Indiana. And it's about a five-minute display of a pretty awesome fireworks.

**Jason Hammer** (1:30)
Does he light them all off at once, like the San Diego situation of a couple of years ago?

**Dan Bass Levy** (1:36)
It's not as dangerous as that, but they live across the street from a middle school, and he just goes in the football field where everybody's not, and you just look up, and it's about five minutes of throwdown. It's pretty awesome.

**Jason Hammer** (1:48)
Now, the last question about this before we move on to Barguments, is he as drunk as I am when we're playing with the dynamite?

**Dan Bass Levy** (1:55)
Oddly enough, he is sober, but possibly way more dangerous than anybody drunk can do it. It is definitely, I'm going to watch it from my car in the moon roof kind of a watch.

**Jason Hammer** (2:05)
All right.
So for somebody that's tuning in for the first time here, we do this every Friday right around this time. It's called Barguments. You're the man that coined the phrase. Tell us about it.

**Dan Bass Levy** (2:16)
Barguments is exactly what is in the title. It is arguments that you have with your friends and people at a bar, barbecue, barbershop, anywhere you do the Mount Rush Wars, would you rathers or goats, anything of that nature. I do a podcast so you can download it anywhere that you get a podcast. Got a YouTube channel and a really fun Facebook group that a lot of Hammer Nigel listeners go to, even Hammer Nigel jumping in as well. It's a really fun one. And every Friday, I like to come on this year's show and lob one up for you guys. Oh, yeah.

**Jason Hammer** (2:47)
Let's get it going, man. What do we got?

**Dan Bass Levy** (2:49)
All right. The nastiest or grossest woman in a movie.

**Jason Hammer** (2:58)
Now, this isn't necessarily the worst or meanest. This is just the nastiest or grossest, right? Because I think Charlize Theron played like a serial killer or something. You know, yeah, that's a horrible thing. But we're talking about somebody you would look at and just go, Oh, God, jeez. Right. Is that what we're looking for?

**Dan Bass Levy** (3:22)
We are looking for skin crawling. Please don't let that come anywhere near me. Kind. All right.

**Jason Hammer** (3:27)
Get us going.

**Dan Bass Levy** (3:29)
All right. I've dug deep into the well and there's a lot of good ones out there. But there is none that makes me more creeped out than Mama Fratelli from the Goonies.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:38)
Oh, yes.

**Nigel** (3:56)
Oh, she was awful.

**Dan Bass Levy** (3:58)
The voice itself is gross, let alone the visual on that one.

**Nigel** (4:04)
And she played the same character in Throw Mama From The Train, I think.

**Dan Bass Levy** (4:08)
Every movie she's ever been in, she's been a horrible looking mess.

**Jason Hammer** (4:12)
Like, is that who she is? Like, we've always talked about Charlie Sheen. He always plays himself in everything he's in. Billy Bob Thornton kind of plays himself pretty much in everything he's in. Maybe that's just who she is.