Andrew Hawkins
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Make Saturday Nights Great Again
That is a great sketch. I can sing Chronicles of Narnia word for word, bro.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Make Saturday Nights Great Again
Narnia, shit is happenin'. Das ganze Ding. Das ist in den letzten 25 Jahren. Das ist in den letzten 25 Jahren, Bro.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Make Saturday Nights Great Again
Good shout. American whites, man. You're so right about that. It's tough. Cooper Flag coming up. Das ist das, wofür sie es machen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Make Saturday Nights Great Again
Are you kidding me, man? Captain Stubing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Make Saturday Nights Great Again
Du musst nicht warten, um es live zu bekommen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Make Saturday Nights Great Again
You understand what I'm saying? Times change. America longs for that time. You're over here trying to make America great again. I'm just trying to make Saturdays great again.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Will Not Respect Black History Month
Subban's top 50 best-looking black men in America.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Will Not Respect Black History Month
I got a number one, too. Oh, number one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Will Not Respect Black History Month
Asinine. This is disrespectful. So they clip it off and you can get on Saturday Night Live, star in a Spike Lee movie. Offensive to me. Offensive that you would have a top ten list of best looking brothers and it would be your family.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Will Not Respect Black History Month
My Aunt Charlene has the same top five. She's 66. You are so right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Will Not Respect Black History Month
I knew it. That's where it was. When I cut my hair low.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Will Not Respect Black History Month
I got to be up there. I am, but, you know, don't be mad because I'm padding the stats. No, but it's cheating. It is cheating. It is how I talk.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Yeah, that is a part of the sport and there is like layers to the shit talk because there's like the situations, kind of like what Mike is talking about. I've been in the league and I've been shit talking someone who is clearly superior to my playing ability. And I'm like, man, I cannot wait for this game to get over because I'm writing checks that my ass can't cash. And so...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
You're like, you go through this game and you're being dominated and you're trying and you're like, God, I just want to get out of here. And then there is the version where you're like, I got to get this person out of the game, out of their game and focused on something else. You tried this with James Harrison, didn't you? Yeah, I did it because it was just fun. It was like...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
James Harrison focusing on trying to kill me and not focusing on getting the quarterback was like, A, it helps my team, but also it's like playing a little bit of a game of chicken. It's like, man, am I going to make it out of this game without dying? I didn't, that game specifically. I went to the hospital. But the whole thrill of being like, man, I wonder if I can do this and get away with it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
It did, man. When you came to? When I came to, I'm like... What is that? Oh, did we have a party? Yes, we did.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Hardest I've ever taken some shit talking was from the crowd. High school basketball game. And my brother was playing for the Bengals at the time, and they were not very good. And they started chanting a bunch of stuff about my brother. Like, I'm okay if you shit talk me. But that got under my skin so bad. I played horribly.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
And then after the game, I tried to go up in the student section and fight. And, yeah, it was like one of those. That was the one time where I wish I could. Penn Cambria was the name of the high school. They got me good, Penn Cambria. But this war isn't over.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
I was going to say, you guys are doing pretty good at shit talking to me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Give me another word. The Vortex is like the Nerf one with the tail on it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
It was kind of only for the long ball competition because when you tried to play actual backyard football with it, it became tough. Dude, you could throw bullets with that thing. But it was hard to aim because it was like your perception of where you were throwing. It would go like 10 yards further. You need some touch precision, Dan. Maybe that was it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Maybe that was my first inkling that I wasn't a quarterback.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
The vortex competition would be epic.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Yeah. I don't love being in pain. I miss being in pain. There's a difference.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
It makes me feel like I put the work in. But you chose your kids.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
You could have had a Super Bowl, and then they could have went to the NFL because you were absent. You're ruining the cycle of our football. This is why American whites are dominating. There's not enough fatherless kids, Hawk.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Yeah, no, it hurts. It hurts, man. My ankles hurt. I walk down the steps like I'm 60 in the morning. It takes me at least 30 minutes to not limp around throughout the day. I have bone spurs in both of my ankles so they don't bend the way they need to.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
So it's literally just me picking my feet up and just going like this with no, what is it, torque, really, for a little bit until they get warmed up. It's harder to work out. I should probably start taking anti-inflammatories to make myself feel a little better. My shoulders hurt. I can't lay with my arms up for a certain amount of time. All those things. It just sounds like you're getting old.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
I gotta be honest. I think this is just age. But I'm 38. Is that supposed to be?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
I think, if anything, it's delayed pain. No, it hurts still. I mean, I just I'm still an elite athlete. I think if we had a competition, I would still win all the competitions. And this is my shit talk amongst us. You're saying it's my defense mechanism. You don't want any smoke with me, Billy. All right. I still run the 100 meter dash in at least 11 seconds.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
You'd beat him in pole vaulting. I'm old and slow now. I think that there is so much content on this show that goes malnourished. Tell me about it. That is a superhero plot right there. That in order for his superpowers to kick in, he has to taste blood. Dan's still talking his shit, huh? So he has to get punched in the face. Something has to happen to make you taste his own blood.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
So that he turns into the fish man. I would love to see pole vaulting between you and Billy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Pole vaulting is always dangerous. You would take him, though, right? In pole vaulting? You think you would take him, right? That seems so dangerous to me. I am more fearful of pole vaulting and NASCAR than football.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
And then he says he doesn't talk shit. That's the funny part. Not that he does it, is that he thinks his style, because his style is different. I would have never said that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
People talk shit. What? I'm a Brett Favre in this manipulated machine.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
There are so many other dynamics going on that would have made it hard, Stu. I know. I understand.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
No. Well, have you, Hawk? Very valid. I have nothing for that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Have a baby. Have you had kidney stones? No kidney stones. Oh, you're soft.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
I did get hit by a car when I was 12, though. Okay, you win. Wait, how fast is it going? It was going pretty good. I flew into an intersection on my bike, but I wasn't supposed to be gone from the house. And so I got hit, and I flew about probably 25 feet in front of another car. girl my age, once she see I was okay, she started laughing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
And the lady was like, oh my gosh, she stops the car, she's like, are you okay? And I'm like, I'm fine, I just gotta get home, because I wasn't supposed to be gone on my bike. And I was so scared that I was gonna get in trouble for being gone, I just went home.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
The adrenaline was going because getting hit by a car seemed to be the path of least resistance between getting in trouble by my folks for leaving the house when I wasn't supposed to.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
I broke my back in a game when I was in college. You know what? It helped me in football because after getting so much pain, I then wasn't scared of any of it. Really? Yeah. It got to a point where I was like, you've had everything. You've broken your back. And it was like, all right, whatever happens, happens at that point. You were numb to pain.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Yeah. Don't worry for me. I'll be all right, man. You got out early.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
I agree. It was worth it. At this stage of my life, I will say it was worth it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Just slapped you off the line and ran right past you. I'm here. I would not be here if that was not the case. I'm talking to Dan Leberton.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
We know. I remember 20 years ago watching this show like, man, if only I could make it on that show. You made it, kid. You made it. I made it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
This is where I thought Stu Gatz was going with Googling that. I thought it was going to be a Travis Hunter comp, which I'm like, hey, that's not bad. That's not bad comp. That's pretty good for Stu. But then it was not.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Yeah, insoles is worse. To play with no insoles in your, now look, this is the 1980s. So I don't know what insoles were like then, right? It could have very well been a thin piece of paper, right? Because they weren't exactly modernizing the technology of cleats at the time. But for me, it would be harder for me to play without insoles than it would be to play without socks.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
And my feet hurt so much constantly. All day. My feet hurt all the time. I have a bunion. That is the size of a damn ping pong ball.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Give me a number, man. Is he driving a white van outside? No, no.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Because I wouldn't want it from Dan's guy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
They're like, their feet hurt. Usually, the bigger the people, the more their feet hurt. So they probably have a passion for fixing people's feet. Feet doctors are weird, though, right? I've never been to one, clearly.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Oh, really? I had ankle surgery. I don't know if it was a podiatrist. It was another... I mean, they just explained that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
She was saying that the podiatrist does do ankles, and I was saying mine did not. Mine was not a podiatrist who did my ankles.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
What are you talking about? I like how he's getting out in front of this story. That's smart of him. I like what he just did there. He gets out in front of the photos that are clearly going to drop.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Like the next level of athletic footwear. But that's why I'm a little bit more forgiving of players at that era and the way that they look when they move. because I'm like, they're wearing church shoes. They're wearing like cardboard strapped to their feet. Exactly. They've tied up construction paper On their feet, and they're asked to look as athletic as the guys do now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Yes, and their shorts are way too high for them to maneuver at the speed that they'll need to.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
There's no way that's comfortable. There's no way that they put that uniform together and said, you know what? Now this is built for speed. You could dance in it, though.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
I hate to be the devil's advocate on something that makes me look awesome. So let me let me preface this by that. But yes, it is a scary thing. But I'm also weirdly wired to love that kind of stuff. I am the kind of person that believes football players are born, they're not made. And for me, that's where the confidence that I could play amongst those giants and be in that world came from.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Not because I thought I was awesome. It's because it's all I wanted to do. And I miss, I'm not kidding, I miss being sore on Mondays and Tuesdays. I miss the feeling of being like, yo, I cannot even walk right now because I just left it all out on the field. I miss physical contact.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
That's a weird thing to say, but I truly, like when I play basketball every, what, once every 14 months, and I'm playing and I'm trying to be a normal civilian, and then someone will get super aggressive with me and be like, oh, you're a little guy, let me bump you. And it turns me on so much. Like I get chills and I'm like, oh, you just gave me the green light.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
I'm going to run into you at full speed, and I don't care anything about what happens to my body. So it is a little bit like where that's just naturally who I am as a person as well.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
No, for sure. For sure. I mean, you have a particular set of skills that help protect you. But also, it's like when I was a kid and I had nothing. I would always like how I would convince myself to do something would be like, would you do this for a million dollars? We all play that game. And so like when I would be going through it, I'd be like, hey, this is for a million dollars.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
And I would do this weird thing where I trick my mind into believing that eventually I would be paid a million dollars for running through the stampede unprotected.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
That's what I like is an adjustment because you miss that. The cool part about shit talking is that we get to resolve it immediately. So when Jeff Teague is going to shit talk LeBron, LeBron is going to dominate him. And then for 20 years, Jeff could be like, yeah. I was wrong there, he was pretty good.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
And I have those stories too, but it's like we get to go out on the field and see exactly what the result can be, and that's the cool part. Whereas in the workplace, that's where the frustration comes in because it's all subjective.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Let's go. This is awesome. I'm shaking my head, but I completely disagree because that is lunatic behavior.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Don't Let Me Taste Blood
Why are you tasting blood so much? I think that's more the concern.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Nein, und ich sage nicht, dass ich mit den Browns oder den Bengals zusammen war. Du hast 53 Leute. Ja, alle Motivationen werden anders sein. Meine Motivation war, ein Spiel zu spielen. Aber ich bin auch ein Maniac, wenn es um die Erwartungen geht. Also habe ich jeden Tag wie es ein Spiel war, weil ich Angst hatte, dass ich getrennt werde. Das ist nicht lustig.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Es ist nicht lustig, zu fühlen, dass wenn man einen Fehler macht, Du wirst deine Familie nicht ernähren können. Und mein Standard, auch wenn es nur ein Spiel war, war mein Ziel. Mein Standard hat sich nie verändert. Ob ich mit den Browns, Patriots, Bengals oder was auch immer war.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Und es gibt andere Leute, von denen ich nicht denke, dass es verrückt ist, Leute zu denken, die in der Poverty geboren sind. Ja, einige Leute wollen einfach nicht mehr in der Poverty sein. Es kommt darauf an, ob du den 1% oder die Genetik-Lotterie gewonnen hast. Eine große Mehrheit der Jungs in der NFL sind nicht arbeitsethisch. Es ist nicht so, wie du es ansprichst.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Du hast die Genetik-Lotterie gewonnen. Und weil du 6'6 und ein 4'4 mit einem 42-Inch-Vertical-Leap fährst, Jeder versteht, selbst wenn du nicht motiviert und hart arbeitest, bist du immer noch besser als der 5'7-Jährige aus Toledo. Wir geben dir immer noch einen Schuss. Wir haben eine bessere Chance, mit dir zu gewinnen, als mit diesem Jungen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Es ist also keine Überraschung, dass es viel Glück gibt, einen Lockerraum zu bauen, der den richtigen Mischung der Jungs hat, der die richtige Mentalität hat, der den richtigen Mischung der Genetik hat, und auch als Quarterback, der sich mit dem, wo du bist, in dieser Zeit verbindet. Die meisten Champions-League-Dynastien und Teams haben das vor sich.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Yeah, there it is. He's right. That's not wrong. And it took me a while to verbalize that in sports. That's a thing for me, especially in front of Stu Gotts. When I said that, Confetti fell from the ceiling. I don't even know how the hell he had it on cue. But sure enough, as soon as I said it, just... Feuerwerke. Willst du das vorlesen? Es scheint offensichtlich.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
I feel like we're glossing over how good of a dancer Matt Kugler was in that clip.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Das ist nicht sein erstes Rodeo, das ist in den Augen. Wahrscheinlich hat er viele Minuten und Zeiten gebraucht, um die Schulter-Symmetrie auf den Beat zu bekommen. Ich kann die Musik nicht hören, aber ich kann es in meinem Kopf hören, weil ich sie sehe.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Ich weiß, wie Kluger sich jetzt befindet. Ich kann es sehen. Er will die Musik aufmachen und mich als den Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit sehen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Es scheint offensichtlich, weil es so ist. Und ich habe es schon lange negiert. Aber Mac McClung, der drei-malige NBA-Allstar-Slam-Dunk-Champion, war eine Sache. Als er zuerst über Dinge rückte, dachte ich mir, das wird ausfallen. Jemand wird es irgendwann fangen lassen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Das war vor Jahren. Und ich erinnere mich an die erste Ausstellung, die ich an diesem Show gemacht habe. Ich habe alle zu einem Mann namens Riley Moss eingeladen, der damals ein Cornerback für Iowa war. Und ich habe gesagt, hey, aufhören, weiße Cornerbacks kommen. Und alle waren so, was sagst du? Und ich habe sie gesehen spielen gegen meinen Bruder. Und fast forward, hier sind wir.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Nummer eins. Wie kriegst du das Geld für diese Firma? Das ist wichtig. Ich bin hier jeden Morgen zwei Stunden lang. Und auch Nummer zwei. Warum hat sich das nicht gut gemacht? Und ich schreibe Noten für jedes Video. Also...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Okay, hoffentlich habt ihr Sicherheit, aber wir sprechen später.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Wir haben Cooper Dejean, wir haben Riley Moss. Du hast Cooper, du hast Riley, du hast nie Riley Cooper. Lass mich dir das klar machen. Riley ist gut, Cooper ist gut. Kein Riley Cooper. Offensichtlich die Kaitlyn Clark, die Women's Basketball übernimmt. Cooper Cup. Cooper ist wie Cooper Flagg. Es gibt viele Coopers. Cooper ist wie der weiße Jalen jetzt. Es ist wirklich das Jahr des Coopers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
First off, this is the most I've ever watched any coverage of the Daytona 500, I'll be honest. You haven't seen a car yet.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
I just feel like we should have opened with these videos, with this conversation. This has been my favorite part of the show, I'll be honest with you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Erinnerst du dich, wie groß der Deal war? Ja, das war ein riesiger Deal damals. Aber wiederum, du kannst Raleigh gehen, du kannst Cooper gehen, du kannst nicht Raleigh-Cooper gehen. Das ist die Regel. Also ja, wenn ich dir hätte gesagt, okay, kommende Saison wird ein NFL-Receiver sein,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
... der in den Schuss geschossen wird und dann am nächsten Tag spielt, weil er versucht hat, für seine Kante zu werden. Du hättest nicht gedacht, dass ein weißer Typ, Mike, das nicht sein würde. Ein tausend Werte. Ein tausend Werte. Es hat ein paar Wochen gedauert. Du hättest nicht da sein können, aber es ist eine Evolution. Es ist eine Evolution im amerikanischen Sport.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Na, die sind nicht gestohlen, also das ist der Unterschied.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
No. The specificity of the van is what's throwing me off. You gotta have a lot of room for the electronic equipment.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
War es vorher oder später, als er dich mit Demi Lovato verheiratet hat? Oh, das war vorher. Er wusste nicht, dass ich ein Lovato-Bro war.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
It's easy to see why Billy has his own day. Because this is not only... I heard that you were shitting on that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
I was not poo-pooing the situation. I was not.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Nein, sie haben meinen Tag verurteilt, weil ich keinen offiziellen Seel auf der Begründung hatte. Aber ich hatte einen Seel. Und dann haben sie ein Bild von dem Musiker-Seel gemacht, weil er schwarz war.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Ich möchte nur wissen, nicht nur bin ich stolz auf deinen Tag. Danke. Ich bin stolz auf deinen Tag. Das waren die fünf besten Content-Klips, die dieses Show zu bieten hat. Wow. Okay? Und der Grund, warum, ich habe einige Noten gegeben. Nummer eins, sie könnten das Ganze bei etwa 61% reduzieren.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Das war ein bisschen lang. Zweitens, sie könnten es direkt zum Interview des Mannes machen, wenn du sagst, bist du gespannt, Pippel zu sehen? Er sagt, ja, das ist großartiges Content. Nr. 3 war eine Art Eröffnung, die alle Videos führen sollte, weil noch niemand in den Ständen ist, also gibt es ein bisschen eine Bildung.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Oh, es ist eine elektrische Eröffnung. Ich bin eingeladen. Nr. 4, wir könnten es direkt zum Kugs-Dancen machen. Auf dem Konzert. Jedes Mal, wenn er tanzt, musst du ihn da reinlegen. Ich sage dir, du musst mich auf das glauben. Ich kenne den Content. Ich bin nicht nur ein Typ. Und dann Nummer 5. Das sind Kofferhosen, übrigens.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Ich möchte, dass du das Netzwerk am Ende dieses Videos schaust. Lass es sich in den Netz legen. Es wird hier ausgeschnitten. Aber das war das. Das da war, wo ich dachte, oh nein, das ist... This isn't a fluke. He's a confident dancer. You can see it. You can't hide that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Das Gator-Team ist lustig, weil das sein Teil der Equation ist. Von all den verschiedenen Gators-Spielern, die sich in die Probleme gestellt haben, war sein Teil das Endwort an der Kenny Chesney Party. All right, let's get started.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Yeah, it was four plays, but you can't deny he left his Achilles on the field for that franchise. I thought you were talking about Brett. He left it out there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
We were still talking about Brett Favre. Don't put that back up there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
I'm answering it seriously. Popularity? No. The Jets have never been a part of the national conversation as often as they were in their franchise history. Yeah, but for the wrong reasons. That at least goes to the bottom line, though.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Was ist mit Hoffnung? Hoffnung bedeutet nichts für dich. Du hattest so viel Hoffnung. Ich habe Hoffnung jeden August. Du wachst heute, du wachst in diesen Morgen, fühlst dich, als hättest du eine Chance. Das eine Morgen, ja.
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Das ist nicht falsch. Das ist nicht eine falsche Ausgabe. Und vielleicht bin ich ein bisschen verabschiedet, weil die Browns mir ein wunderschönes Dankeschön gegeben haben, als ich nach vielen Spielen verloren habe. Aber du, ich meine, du sprichst über das Liebe, das sie mit mir ausgesprochen haben, nachdem ich von dieser Organisation weggegangen bin.
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Und ich bin kein Aaron Rodgers, also bin ich so, weißt du.
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Es war nur das eine Jahr, Jessica. Nein, ich habe nie das Trainingcamp verpasst. Nein, ich war sicher ein Show-Up-Typ. Wenn man unter 5'8 ist, muss man für alles zeigen.
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Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Und sie haben mir auch ein schönes Goodbye gegeben, als ich ihre Organisation verlassen habe.
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Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Okay, also vielleicht bin ich ein bisschen mehr Aaron Rodgers, als es auf der Oberfläche aussieht. Okay, das spielt zu meinem Punkt. Es ist okay, ihm zu danken, dass er gekommen ist. Weil er musste viele Meilen bewegen, um in die Jets zu gehen. Er hatte andere Orte, wo er damals gehen könnte. Das war der Ort, den er entschieden hat. Es hat nicht funktioniert.
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Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Es ist okay, amicably zu verbrechen und zu sagen, hey, keine schwierigen Gefühle. Danke für die Zeiten, die wir hatten, Stugatz. Ich kann schwierige Gefühle haben. Ich kann. Okay. Okay.
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Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Ich fühlte mich so schnell wie je in meinem Leben in der Off-Saison mit den New England Patriots. Und es war nicht der Arbeit, weil alle sagten, oh, du kommst da und es ist hart. Ich bin nicht Angst vor Arbeit. Ich bin eigentlich ein Arbeitgeber. Also wenn ich mit Crack verdammt bin, dann wirst du mich nicht mit Crack erschrecken. Es ist eine gute Sache. In der Mitte meines Arbeitsbedürfnisses.
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Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Das Problem war, dass es schmerzhaft war. Und es war schmerzhaft für viele Dinge. Und es war wie, Mann, das fühlt sich nicht so gut an, was ich tun möchte. Mein Knie schmerzte und ich war vier Wochen im Off-Season geschlossen. Und so als ich da war, war es wie Tag zwei, kein B.S. Ich war wie, oh ja, das wird nicht für mich funktionieren. There was no light in the building?
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Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros
Ich liebe Steve Smith. Ich bin ein großer Fan von Steve Smith. Nicht ein Typ, der sich verpissen möchte. In der alten Zeit. Er ist ein sehr maturen Typ jetzt. Aber in seinem Heimtag. Ja, er hat den Eishockey-Teammate verpasst.
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Ja, ich denke nicht, dass es eine Linie gibt. Und ich denke, das ist der ganze Punkt. Ich weiß nicht, ob die Chiefs, die ja nur die Superbowl in einer riesigen Form verloren haben, aber du sprichst über Erfolg in einer Dynastie. Sie tun es nicht in der gleichen Weise, wie die Neuen Patriots es tun. Das bedeutet nicht, dass, weil sie Spaß haben und sie haben...
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bessere Marketingagenten, dass sie nicht immer noch eine Dynastie und eine Kultur der Gewinnung sind, richtig?
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Und ich denke, für mich, auch wenn es um New England geht, und ich sage, dass es für mich mühsam war, weil ich 31 Jahre alt war, ich hatte drei Kinder, ich habe professionales Fußball gespielt, bei dem Zeitpunkt, für zehn Jahre, um diesen Traum zu fangen, was mich von einem, der auf jemanden's Couch lebt, zu der Arbeit in der Fabrik, zu all diesen verrückten Dingen.
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Und mein Ziel, und ich sage das nicht zu viel, war es, nur ein Spiel zu spielen. Also nein, ich kam nicht in die Liga, weil ich ein Pro Bowler sein wollte. Ich hatte keine Vorstellung, dass ich einen zweiten Vertrag bekommen werde. Ich hatte nichts. Ein Spiel war alles, was ich wollte. Also bin ich 31 Jahre alt, und ich gehe in eine Halle für 20 Yards. Ich und nur ein Trainer.
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Und wenn wir näher zusammen sind, und ich bin neu, und wir sind neben einander, sage ich, hey, was geht, Coach? Und sie schauen auf dich und gehen weiter. Und ich sage, okay, ja, ich kann das nicht an dieser Zeit. Vielleicht um 25, als ich unglaublich hungrig war und nur versucht habe, mich selbst zu zeigen.
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Ich habe meine Gefühle nicht verletzt. Es war so, dass ich nicht wollte, dass es so war. Hey, hey, Mutter. Ich habe gesagt, was geht, du hast mich nicht gehört. Richtig. Don't do that. I didn't want to go there because I'm new here. And because that's how I feel now because I have children that I would rather be at home with at this time. That's why it was the wrong time for me.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here? Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up. Well, I do know that to be true, but even during ad reads, like... Cuervo. I think you could lay out, especially for one of our great partners. Sweet, delicious Cuervo. Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
Hey everybody, it's Mike. 50 incredible years of Miller Lite. That is right, it is Miller Lite's 50th anniversary, and I know, speaking personally, Miller Lite has been by my side through weddings, birthdays, even a couple of sports championships that I'm really lucky to have enjoyed. Miller Lite has made all those perfect moments even more perfect.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
So cheers to you, I know I'm speaking to a fellow fan of Miller Lite, and cheers to and a beer with a taste you know you can depend on. A great beer trusted by beer lovers for 50 magical years. Miller Lite is brewed for taste. Simply put, it just hits different. And at just 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces, Miller Time is always a good time.
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The original Lite beer since 1975 and still iconic 50 years later. Miller Lite, great taste, 96 calories. Go to MillerLite.com to find delivery options near you where you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller Time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
You were teammates with Ray Lewis. You know.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
I actually have a question. Can we hit pause on that? You guys played each other. Did we? In the league. I don't know. We're asking. You were in the same division. We were, but it's like. I know you were inside and Dominique was on the outside.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
You don't think there was ever a time where you guys shared a football field? That's interesting, considering how much time you spent in the division. Yeah, I don't know.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
I asked ChatGPT if Dominique Foxworth and Andrew Hawkins ever played a game against one another in the NFL. The answer was no. Because Dominique played corner in the NFL from 2005 to 2011.
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before retiring due to injuries hawkins entered the league in 2011 while their careers briefly overlapped in 2011 dominique was dealing with injuries and only played two games that season before retiring so they never face each other in an actual nfl game there's the answer chat gbt finally gets one right
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
There is one way that we can fire it back up. Oh. I finally get the answer. Tony will be quarterback. There won't be an actual ball. I feel good about it. Just all footwork, baby.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
Throughout the history of American politics, it's often how you say things. What's the best compliment you ever received from an opponent?
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He's the greatest receiver of all time. My bad, brother. You won one football game in two seasons.
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He wasn't there for that. Unless you think this show's the only example of getting worse show over show. Cleveland Browns followed up a one-win season with a zero-win season.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
Hawk, what's the best compliment you receive from an opponent?
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But you left there feeling good about yourself?
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the best part about it was there was an intermission interview they were playing the ducks and one of the ducks players were like you guys got a slow start yeah the bongo anthem really threw us off a little bit
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
I say you do it in Canada, turn the crowd. Turn the crowd. Because they're going to be booing you either way. I like that. So maybe if you do something different with it, they're like, wait, at first I wanted to boo this guy. But his ambition.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
They each get one? Yeah. Each member of the Beatles, they're all going to be directed by Sam Mendes, accomplished director. Accomplished director, did American Beauty. They're going to have, it's basically the Beatleverse. And four movies are going to all come out in April of 2028. Okay. It's being touted as the first ever bingeable theater experience.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
They're all going to be in each other's movies, but the focus will be on Paul's movie on Paul and so on and so forth. Got to start with Ringo. Ringo is played by Barry Keegan, who's long since been rumored to it, to be attached to this project. This has been something that's been talked about for several years now in Hollywood.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
Sam Mendes taking on the Beatles, but doing an individual movie for each member. They finally announced the full cast today in the release of 2028. Now, I don't know if it's all coming out the very same release date. It would make sense to stagger them a little bit. But all four movies are going to come out the same month. That is a plan right now. This is very ambitious filmmaking.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
It's a very Netflix-y streamer type of idea. We've never really tried this in the theaters, but I kind of like that the theaters are trying to hop aboard the ambition train. And Sam Mendes doesn't really make streaming films. This is a big-time, cinematic, very accomplished director. It's the Beatles. They're literally the biggest thing ever. When it comes to music.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
I don't know if it's going to focus on the same time period. Chris is reading the article right now. I don't know if it's going to time hop a little bit. I mean, it's the Beatles. They went through, famously, several different eras. But their stories are going to very clearly be intertwined.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
But from a filmmaking perspective, I don't know how they're going to go about shooting this. It seems like a nightmare to edit because like, well, we're in this... We built this set for the Ringo part, but this is a big part of John, so I assume they're going to have their own perspective of the very same scene. It's a very ambitious project to take off.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
Yeah, Ringo's very clearly the fourth. And probably won't make for the most interesting movie.
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um and you know people have taken shots at his musical ability and whatnot but the george one will be interesting see what ringo's like michael from boys to men well if i gave a comp you know like he was the one no longer surprised at your whiteness thank you i was just trying to i'm bilingual in that way i was looking i was looking for a sports comp but that's a good that's a good non-sports well it's hard because like the
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
It would have to be, I'm trying to get sports comps from the same era.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
But it only feels that way because he's been around. You know, like in your life, John would probably be the more famous of the two. Most talented. Really? If he were around still, he'd probably be the most revered. I don't know.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
George had a great single career. Yeah.
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I don't think anybody's asking what could have been. His legacy was kind of cemented. It's just like if he were still around right now, he'd be ultra revered.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
People think John Lennon is the best.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
One A, one B. I wish your dad were here to get his perspective because he was around when it was going on. He was.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
Legacy-wise. But he wouldn't be as served. Paul has a great legacy. But his legacy is great.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
Ringo might take it. Now I like this for a sake topic. That's something to chew on, my friend.
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Hour 2: The 52% Beatles Guy
Because this whole thing is he's the disrespected Beatle. I'm sure that act has worn thin on him a little bit.
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George was around a little bit longer.
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Do you think they're going to have arguments and it'll be portrayed in one way from John's perspective? It'll be great. And it'll be a totally different... different experience from the whole?
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Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Show it to me. Well, we don't really have a video per se.
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Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Oh, you got an uncle name going to start with A? He just makes stuff up, man. Like, he literally just, yeah, he could do this back in my day. Like, Rick. You're lying, bro.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here? Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up. Well, I do know that to be true, but even during ad reads, like... Cuervo. I think you could lay out, especially for one of our great partners. Sweet, delicious Cuervo. Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
Like, I'm shocked that you were... Hang on. Billy was a collegiate track star. Right, I know. So I want... It sounds like he was on the track team. It sounds like he played many events on the track team.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
Indeed. I guess it's one thing to say that he took accountability, which he did. But he took accountability for Deshaun Watson not being good. That's essentially what he's apologizing for. To me, when I quit the Browns, I didn't give a shit if he was going to be good or bad. I was hopeful he'd be bad because I didn't like him as a person. You acquired a garbage human being.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
That's what I want an apology for. Not because it didn't work out for you.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
We should really have popped down in who it was. Yes, undefeated producer Tony. That was our Tony.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
That's how you erase it. That's how you get me back. There's only one way. Well, there's two ways. You can try to find a way to get Baker Mayfield back. That'd be great. I love Baker. Roof of the Bucks. I'm a big Baker guy. We all know wrong decision was made there. But Cam Ward is the other way to fix it. Cam Ward, because of the Miami ties, I love Cam Ward.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
Does he? Yeah, he's a good basketball player. With a hand in his face. I mean, he's not a pro by any stretch of the imagination.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
Tony's the best basketball player here by a wide margin. I know that that's not a great brag.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
And, yeah, that'd be a great elixir for what's ailing me right now. And I'm likely to support wherever –
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
Cam Ward goes to because I'm that big of a fan of his and I'm going to be rooting for him regardless of even if he's a Baltimore Raven or Pittsburgh Steeler I throw my support behind Cam Ward so I know that the Browns fans have been through a lot and I think Browns fans even though some of them supported Deshaun Watson do deserve someone like Cam Ward and I lived it I've seen Cam Ward turn a program's fortunes around I think he's an incredible player I think Tennessee's kind of figuring that out though
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
The tequila that invented tequila. Proximo. Cuervo.com. Please drink responsibly.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
Cam Ward, I'll probably surprise you with the take. Cam Ward is a flawed prospect. He's not perfect. If you go through his best games, he'll do things in the best games that will positively make you mad. He's the type of guy that a GM will fall in love with, but also the type of guy that might get a GM fired. And I think, look, Cam Ward had a special season. last year.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
And yeah, I think he's going to be a great pro. But also, if this edition of Cam Ward was in last year's draft, he's probably maybe the fourth quarterback taken off the board. You can even argue fifth, considering how Bo Nix finished last season. I think it says more about the current state of the draft class that Cam Ward is being talked about.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
And because he's going to be number one or talked about as the number one pick, then of course the comparisons to Patrick Mahomes are going there. But if he's Talked about his fifth quarterback off the board. You're not hearing those comps.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
It is funny, though, the discussion around Cam Ward because it would relatively be... Look, we're not talking about Shador as much because he's consensus second quarterback being taken off. And I reached out to someone in NFL scouting and I asked him, like... How do you think the draft would go if this year's Cam Ward was plopped in the last year?
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
He said, Caleb still goes number one, even though he was betrayed by a coaching staff. The upside is still there. Then you go Daniels, and this particular person said Cam Ward's three, and I found that surprising ahead of the likes of Drake May and Bo Nix. I understand over Bo Nix, but Drake May, I feel like in terms of measurables, in terms of like...
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
what an NFL front office feels safer with because Cam Ward is risky because of the footwork, because of his ability to kind of freestyle a little bit and hold the ball a little bit longer to make things happen. I think Drake May would be a safer pick, but this guy had Cam Ward in round three.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
I'm not going to reveal my sources. What is this guy doing, Mike? What is he doing? This is a high-ranking scout in the NFL.
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The Big Suey: Domonique's Racist Cat
What's interesting is we did this exercise with Cam. Where would this year's Cam be drafted in last year's class? It's real scary for Shador if you take this year's Shador and you drop him in last year's class. That's a guy that's being talked about going third overall. That's probably not a first-round talent with last year's class.
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Local Hour: Burn The Tape
He did look like Big X, but he also played college football. Yeah, did he? Yeah, he did.
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I think he went to a D2 school, D3 school.
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Uh-oh. Turnover, turnover, turnover. To back guess.
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That was crazy talk, man. I still don't think, I don't understand where that ref I'm pissed about that.
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I think the refs should have names on the back of their jerseys, and they should get on the podium after the game and go through the game tape like we had to do today. There's no accountability for you just to say, hey.
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I'm all of a sudden the touchdown czar, and I'm just going to decide you get a touchdown and you get a pick over there because I like the way that you've been paying attention this game. No, that's not how this works.
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We didn't take a timeout. We didn't regroup. We didn't huddle up. Nothing. It was... If you can't stop... the opposition from scoring, take the time out, coach. That is like coaching 101. You don't just let it continue.
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His explanation is tough. I know exactly what you mean. Everyone gets it.
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And then the defense gets their team ready for the... Because the real fear is that you can't commit too much to the tush push because they'll throw it deep. But if you want to do the tush push, you declare, you get your tush push team ready, we get our tush push team ready, and we just...
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Yeah, and it's like, yo, tush-push team. It becomes a special team. We're going to make it look less like football.
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Coming under center for one play. That's really what it is. It's special teams. That's where we're missing it. We just cracked the code. It's a special teams play that doesn't fit within the other course of plays, much like all the other special teams plays.
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What am I saying? You're trying to agree with Mike.
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Because here's my thing really quick. I've been flip-flopping back and forth arguing both sides of the take. Nobody's noticed. No, no, no. What you're doing. I forgot which take I was arguing for in that moment. I know you said that I was really right with something.
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Yeah, I don't like that portion, but I do like the idea to even the playing field because there's no way you can stop the tush push in a way where it seems fair for both sides. And the argument Mike was making... That, well, he was saying it in jest, but in sarcasm. But it's true. All the rules do benefit the offense, so now you give them another one. When is the last defensive rule that passed?
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Well, that plays into this as well because in the tush push, if I'm on the D-line, can I just dive at the offensive line's legs? You can. Okay, so they didn't take that away. All right, well, I got nothing for you, Nick.
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Could you beat his ass, though? Could you beat his ass? That was good. It got nuts, man. Could you beat up Tiger Woods? It got crazy. It got crazy for a second, Bill.
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I never thought about it until he said that. I never questioned why Mike is the only one who ever stands until Keenan Thompson said it.
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I want it on air. Mike was definitely an old, like a 90s five. Not like a today's, not like a Jokic. And Mike was like, you know what, I'm putting it on my shoulder. He brought the ball at the court and pulled from the logo and it went way over the backboard.
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No more Laranega talk. Now, look, I will say what they always say. Yes, 24-hour rule, but they also say the tape is never as good as you think, and it's never as bad as you think. And I don't think... the game film was as bad as we thought it to be when we left the game because somebody asked Kenan Thompson that question yesterday, and he answered it somewhere, and it ended up on Variety.com.
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So maybe we shouldn't have came out the gate with that play. Yeah, hand up, hand up. But you weren't wrong to see that opportunity in the defense.
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Before he said hello. I mean, but I'm – We learned from our mistakes.
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Yeah. Which I'm okay with that move with the comedian. It was a decision. It was a choice.
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I mean, we all had our down. No, no, no, no.
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is some good open criticism of me let's dive into so we good is it all out on the table i did i did say two up two down and i feel like we glossed over that we even forgot about that and i also want to i want to raise my hand with accountability there you go especially as one of the only two blacks in game two to say i i am ashamed of myself i will be better today yeah i mean two black people's not enough we gotta get another black person i i hey carl
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Literally, two up, two down. That's what we are today.
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I'm just playing devil's advocate here because I don't – I don't feel great about punishing somebody for doing something better than everyone else. Because that is the name of sports. And it does, like we talked about, tie into the legal corked bat situation going on in New York. They're not corked.
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Yeah, it'll it'll help us in game two for sure. So look, the tush push. What happens? The only reason why I kind of agree is what happened in the Super Bowl when the rest were like, we're going to give him a touchdown. And that's like a conference championship game.
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We're just going to give them six points. Which is, come on, man. We should have made a bigger deal about that as a society. What the hell are we doing? Who gives you the right? Who gave you the authority to award touchdowns for plays that aren't touchdowns in the conference championship game?
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soon enough who loses more in commercials by continuing to keep this play going it was it not the most effective we've ever seen against the tush push it was but it's in that two minutes it's a it's a quarterback sneak like i don't understand like just because it looks a little different than your conventional quarterback sneak we're gonna outlaw it then outlaw the quarterback sneak so and the argument is it doesn't look like football it looks exactly like football to me a little like rugby
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Yes, and so we can just run a jet sweep on his ass every time he's on the field just to say, hey, we took away... It's 10 on 11. Let's go far left. Job finished by Desmond Watson.
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Hand up, my bad. It's all right. We can bounce back from that.
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What if they just tush push all the way down the field? What if they're averaging three yards a clip and they just say, you know what, we're just going to tush push this entire drive.
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I would roll bums in alleys for bottles they had. I would roll rich guys coming out of nightclubs downtown, one in particular that was right by a very choice alley for it, because I knew that those people would have cash and credit cards, and I would just wait across the street for someone who was stumbling and push them down on the ground and take their wallet.
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And it was, that's how I lived, day to day, and I saw nothing wrong with it, I was just trying to survive. Ultimately, realizing deep inside that I was losing this game of life, and rather than work to get out of the hole that I was in, I wanted to quit, right? And the longer I dwelled on that, quit life. The longer that I dwelled on that, the more that turned into suicidal ideation.
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Eventually, I acted on it. I woke up one day in a in a flophouse hotel that I had gone into with a fistful of barbiturates and a couple of bottles of, you know, warm pop of vodka. And. I chugged them all and I woke up and I wasn't dead. And apparently I'd been out for a couple of days. And my intention was not to wake up. And I don't know why.
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A hundred plus thousand people descending on, you know, essentially South Beach, although there are events all the way down to the jump off spot to the Keys and all the way up to West Palm and.
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I mean, I took enough barbiturates to kill someone twice my size. I don't know why I survived that day. But I did. And I picked up the phone and I did something that I had never done my whole life that everybody had told me. was sort of the key to growing as a human being. And that was to look someone in the eye and say, I don't know how to do that. Can you show me?
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Because you couldn't tell me anything about me. I knew more than you. Everything was self, self, self, self, self. I was better. And not only did I reject your opinions and your advice and any wisdom, and I was a terrible listener, but I... I also blamed you for all the problems that I had. You got the pretty girl. You got the better grades. You stole the attention of this group of friends.
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Whatever it was, other people were the problem. It was always me not getting things at the party as opposed to what I was bringing to
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So that's what I'm asking you. How no one noticed. Because there was no direction. I had a sick mother who was basically invalided by a surgery in a hospital gone wrong. And a father who was living in an apartment downtown far away. I've learned today that my father, who's my hero, ultimate hero in life. uh, was, was also the person who abandoned me into that situation with my mother.
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Um, which is okay for me to say today, it took me 20 years in, in sobriety to even realize that there was an abandonment in my life by him. Um, and because I would never do that to my own kid and it, it, it were the situation reversed and it was a, um, You know, and looking back on that home situation, 14 years old, self-will run riot.
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It has become a massive really Wednesday to Monday scene, so much so that there are there are giant sized ticketed events that other people throw because they know so many people are in town like Art Basel, like so many or Basel, I guess, as we're supposed to call it.
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It would be the best way to describe what was going on in my head and my behaviors. And without supervision, you know, horrific things develop. So there was that in me. in very large amounts.
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Oh, very well. You know, a lot of addiction and alcoholism is characterized by a duality of lives, right? So on one hand, I was sinking further and further into my addiction. And alcoholism and the behaviors that are associated with it, which are just as destructive.
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On the other hand, you know, nine to five, I am, you know, rock starring in great grades, president of my senior class, you know, you know, doing all the right moves in all the right groups, doing all the right things. And by the way, a lot of really fun, great stuff was happening to me in high school. But my five to nine, so to speak, was a lot of...
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Delinquent behavior, you know, things I'm not proud of, a lot of drugs and alcohol use. And, you know, what would have happened if I wasn't? Would I have even been more high achieving? Yeah, I would imagine so. But, you know, I did well. I got into a good college and I continued that duality all the way up until I couldn't support it anymore, which was about a year and a half before that eviction.
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Until the drug problem caves in everything else. It was actually the alcohol problem. And I mean that really specifically. And it's why I think alcohol, and I've said this a lot very publicly, I think alcohol is more dangerous than any drug I've ever experienced. If alcohol was invented today, you wouldn't be able to buy it in stores. It's so dangerous. It would test out so dangerously at the FDA.
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It would be classified as heroin is classified. You just can't get it. I quit drugs about three years before I sobered up, about 18 months before the complete instability and the homelessness and all the rest of that. It accelerated my downward spiral. I was completely uncontrollable. My life was completely unmanageable on alcohol.
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On drugs, I was able to somewhat function, mostly because I was using a combination of uppers and downers to work. I could show up. I could pop a pill and be alert, quote unquote, and I could show up for things. When I went solely on alcohol, my life just absolutely hurtled out of control. Four days, five days of blackout that I would awaken from and nothing.
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you know, look around and say, where am I? I mean, it was really, really, really, really bad. And the worst kind of, you know, self-loathing. Alcohol brought out the absolute worst in me. And when I was focused solely on that and drinking around the clock, I was unable, completely unable to function physically, mentally, physically.
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Obviously, there was no spiritual life, no inwardly directed moral set of values. And that's when things got really, really, really bad. Okay.
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Yes. And free samples of things.
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It has become really something that's quite incredible and raised, you know, 40 million dollars for this hospitality school, which is a vital, vital, vital importance because of the intersection of, you know, societal tentpoles at which chefs and people in the hospitality industry sit from health and wellness to immigration to national security, hunger, waste, climate crisis.
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No, no. I mean, I have shared privately in recovery rooms, in certain environments, the litany of worst of the worst. And I have no desire to get into – glorifying that behavior by listing all of it out. But I was not aware that I did it. But it's so fascinating that you mentioned this because somebody asked me about this at dinner last night.
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I did an interview for a group called Think that creates videos for mental health and wellness programs. support for people. And they came and interviewed me and I told them a story that wound up being in this cut. They created a seven minute video. We're going to put it up on my website and on my YouTube, I think next week. I think folks can see it. It's think.com or think.org.
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I really should know that. But it's quite a compelling piece that they put together. They invested a lot of money in this. The animation alone in it had to cost a fortune. It's a really well done seven minute, condensed version of my story. And in it, I talked about jerking a guy off in an alley for money when I was doing – when I needed money for heroin.
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And I realized that I had never told – that had never come out publicly before. I think the way – the media works, more people will probably know that now that I'm talking to you about it, then we'll ever see it on think. So when you talk earlier about the value of sharing these, these details, it is in there.
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I'm sure there are people out there who are just absolutely horrified listening to that, but I know there are also people, men out there and women who will listen to that and say, yeah, I did that too. For, for some, or a version of that, that kind of behavior where you will cross every moral line to get, to prioritize your using is that, that jumping off place that we, we,
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As alcoholics and drug addicts in recovery, when we look back, we say, wow, that was another line that I crossed. Oh, another year later, that was another line that I crossed. And in fact, it was those behaviors that year that made me think, all right, drugs bad, booze legal, I'll just do that. And it wound up, as I said, accelerating my downfall.
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It's overwhelming. And, you know, I mean, where did you get the sensitivity to that? Because most people aren't sensitive to that. To which part? The loss of dignity, the shame?
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I mean, yes. I mean, could you absorb that intellectually? I mean, you're very empathetic.
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It is. Every year I get better. It was a process to identify it. It was a process. It was a sequence in my life. There was the first couple of years that I was, you know. clean, I mean before real sobriety kind of set in, my life was very simple. I worked from nine to five, I went to meetings, I went home, I went to bed. There was no workaholism. There were also no relationships.
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There were also no bills coming to the house. You know, life. I wasn't in the complete flow of life. The more I inserted myself into the complete flow of life and became successful because I didn't have the drugs and alcohol to interfere. And because I had learned a different way of living and a different platform on which I mean, physical platform, literal platform on which to predicate my life.
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Things start to get good, and you start to realize that, okay, sobriety is not a switch that's on-off. It's a dimmer. I mean, it slides. The room gets brighter and darker. And many times during the day, there's not on or off. Life has got a ton of gray. And so whenever I was confronted with a problem or something, if I didn't want to think about it as a chef in a restaurant at
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It is fun entertainment. I'm co-hosting the closing party, something that I've done for, I don't know, the last 15 of the 20 years that I've been down here. And, you know, obviously the regular demos and dinners and the other things that I've been doing every day on the hamster wheel of excess that I've been, you know, treading. Yes.
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three, four, five, six, seven years clean, which is what I was doing for seven years in Minnesota, was I was a chef and partner in a very small restaurant group. As I was kind of rebuilding my life, I could dive into work. I mean, restaurants are perfectly
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day-to-day restaurant work is perfectly suited for that if you're part of the leadership team because you can find the excuse to be there early before everyone shows up and leave late after most people have gone and justify it, right? Oh, this is a job that you have to devote yourself 100% to. I mean, devote yourself 100% to anything and there's no room for the rest of what life has to offer.
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And the older you get, you mentioned mortality. I think it's more about realizing and I think it's probably the, you know, every year I have a different message for people. And I've realized kind of looking back at the last couple of months, my message for people does have a lot to do with my mortality, which is what do you want to spend your, your time on?
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Because when, you know, when I died, which, you know, knock on wood won't be for a long, long, long time, people speak nicely of me. I hope, uh, assuming that I, I die clean and, um, I continue on the path that I'm on. People will say nice things about me when I'm gone. My possessions will get divided up. Pictures will be on people's walls.
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I'll be remembered fondly for a while until I'm not remembered at all, which is really – and I'm talking about on a regular, regular basis – you will gradually fade from people's consciousness. And at the end of the day, you know, how do I want to spend my time? Because accumulating the things is not going to do me any good when I'm gone. I need to be enjoying experiences now.
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So hanging out and taking a walk with my kid has probably taken on 20 times the importance today than it did a year ago. I mean, literally a year ago, because those are the things that I want to be doing more of while I'm still ambulatory and can take a walk.
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Yes, because I can't say the word no. We were saying that before we came in here. Once I'm coming down to a place, folks look at me and they say, hey, you're here. Would you? Could you? And I'm like, absolutely.
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It's how you support your family. It's how you take care of yourself emotionally and mentally. There are a lot of healthy things about that. I always describe it to young men and women that I mentor, especially in the recovery that, you know, we have all these metaphors for it. You know, stay in the center of the boat. Don't get near the edges.
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You know, it's the same thing as driving down the center of the road. Stay as close to the center line of the highway. Don't start bouncing off the guardrails, right, in life. And it's difficult because sometimes life forces you to bounce off. Sometimes that guardrail comes towards you. So it does become challenging. But we do seek out, for some reason, as human beings, there is an element of
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of self-sabotage in all of us, right? It's just magnified, I think, in some of us.
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Oh, wow, what a great question. Well, if I had to pick one concept that was specific but touched the three, four, or five biggest things that are guideposts for me, it's very hard to pick. We don't look at one star and say I'm going to navigate towards that. Stars are too far away. We need to have a cluster of stars. It's a grouping thing. I have, I think it's learning to be the dog.
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My goal in life, every day when I get up is more and more to try to be the dog. The dog is pure empathy, pure empathy. I mean, even Hitler had a dog. Think of the worst person you know, they have a dog. That person comes home, they sit on the couch, the dog jumps up in their lap and puts their head down and is just with that person. That's what dogs are, they're pure empathy.
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And I have learned that I don't have to fix your problems. I don't have to judge you. I don't have to do anything in life, but just be with you. And if I am really just with you, I mean, there's that beautiful moment in the, in the movie big night and you know, Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub are in that kitchen, and Tony Shalhoub just makes scrambled eggs for them.
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All their plans have gone awry. They're gonna lose everything, but you kind of are left with the feeling that they won't. They're gonna figure a way out of this. Because they're finally just with each other. The movie ends with the two of them in silence eating scrambled eggs and and toast. Right. In that movie. And there is an element of of of being the dog there that is so beautiful.
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And in that piece of film sort of. everything that I'm talking about. But if you can just be the dog with someone, uh, you have incredible access and incredible ways to touch each other in relationship. And I, I've got a really short example for you. Um, You're in a relationship. Your significant other that you live with comes home, walks in the door hot.
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I mean, red hot, anger, swearing, slamming doors, throwing bags. I lost my phone. The dog ran away. I think I'm going to get fired. My new boss is a jerk. There's a lot happening. There's a lot happening. And I turn to that person and I say, well, did you... Ask the security guard at work if they found your phone. And the security's like, you know, up yours. I'm an adult.
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I don't need you to solve my problem. Of course I talked to the security guard. I'm just venting. I need my best friend, you know. Right. Screw you. You are not connecting as human beings. If that person comes in and does the same thing and I say, sit down and I go into the kitchen and I get a glass of water and I turn to them, I said, that sounds awful. What else happened?
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And I just let them like, oh, well, better than I talked to security. I did this, did that. And it's like, you know, thank you for listening. Thank you for just being there for me. We we see examples in space for it all the time to be the dog. We just don't we want to you know, I call it operationalizing before co-regulating. You have to co-regulate with someone first and then operationalize.
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If I tell you what to do before we're co-regulated, my advice is meaningless.
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And by the way, that human connection is the essence of my storytelling. And it is the thing that I hear back the most from fans about my TV work, right? I mean, very few people relatively taste my food, buy my products, you know, do the other things that I do, but in, in groups of millions of people, they see my weekly, uh, TV work that I put out now. And, you know,
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A very large number of people collectively have seen the eight or nine TV shows that are up on the HBO Max. You make a lot of content.
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I'm talking about the way you feel. Gratitude is how I run my life. Words matter. You are a wordsmith. And when we talk about not having a home for a year, you know, that is homelessness, right? And it's not food insecurity, it's hunger. And I've experienced both those things in my life. I've been, you know, a homeless street junkie, user of people, taker of things. I've been in jail and prison.
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It's your craft. Yes. And on television, that is what people when they say, oh, you're so respectful to other people or I like and go with you anywhere on that journey or I will watch any piece of content that you put out, whether it's talking through a recipe because of the story that I tell that goes along with it or whether it's a.
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six-hour docu-series on MSNBC like What's Eating America or even stuff that I produce, the Hope in the Water, the PBS series that we made, docu-series that came out last summer, is a great example of that. It is, I'm not in it,
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But as the owner of the company that made the series, it is infused with our DNA because the people who I work with, who are my colleagues in that business, they are phenomenal carriers of the messages that we try to weave. And it is such an interesting thing to have that spat back at you by friends and fans alike, where inside I'm thinking to myself, okay, that was good.
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I was able to connect that way with people. People don't, you know, we don't have it written out in a lower third or graphic that crawls across the bottom of the screen. But, you know, I've written about this and talked about this a lot. It's like, you know, food is good. Food with a story is better. Food with a story that you haven't heard about is better than that.
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But food with a story you haven't heard about that you can relate to is the best of all. And that was Bizarre Foods. It was Delicious Destinations. It was Zimmern List. Some of my other work that isn't necessarily
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always about food is you know we've stretched a little bit at our production company we do I mean the company itself produces a lot of different types of shows and not just in the food space but with the stuff that I do it's not always in the food space you're a mercenary merchant about understanding that you can tell I've learned this I can tell all the stories through sports you can tell all the stories through food 100% I do it through hardware
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And so could you. You either have that storytelling gene or you don't. You've just chosen the world of sports and competition. I mean, you know, without breaking down everything that you do, you know, what I love about sports because I'm a sports geek. It's how I discovered, you know, your show years and years and years ago.
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And we talked about this a little bit or hinted at it both on and off air when I did your podcast. that other show with you a couple of weeks ago. Um, it, it is, I love sports because you can, you can get every itch scratch. You can tell every kind of story to it. The human drama in sport is great.
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The human drama in our food world is great, you know, because I can talk about international relations, national, international security, um, you know, voter suppression, climate crisis. I mean, every story that I want to tell, I can tell through food. That's my, food is my tool. Sports is your tool. But we tell the same kinds of stories. It's the same stuff. I was watching, you know,
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I follow so many different sports things on my phone, and now my phone knows what I like, all the AI stuff that's integrated into these social media platforms and on our devices.
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So I turn on my laptop or my phone, and it's throwing stuff at me that I love, which for an addict, I can sit there for hours watching the right kind of little videos, and then I yell at my kid for spending five minutes on his phone. But that's great. I saw last night, someone was counting down like greatest moment in sports.
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And what came in at number two was the Korean Winter Olympics, the cross-country ski race, where we had never been on the podium in cross-country skiing. It was Sweden, Norway, Sweden, Norway, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Finland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Norway. And... which is great if you love herring, which I do, but US had never done it. And what was her name?
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Diggins, the young who wound up getting the gold medal. And she was third by like 10 yards over the last quarter mile. And you just watch her digging deep. And it's that famous picture where she's sticking her foot out, like stretching, doing a split to get her tip of her ski across the line and squeaks out the gold and then collapses, literally collapses, having spent every ounce of energy.
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And I hadn't seen it in years. And it's a little 35, 40-second clip of the end of that race at night. And you can see that the Scandinavian skiers are – kind of coasting to victory at one point. And she has to physically get up this little hill and then physically catch up getting down. And you're just like, there's no way. There's no way she's going to do this. And she does.
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And you could talk about everything about life in that moment. Everything. The same way that if you serve me a bowl of soup, I can tell you everything about that culture. And we can talk about our food system in America if you serve me a bowl of minestrone. I'll break it down for you that way. Yeah.
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Oh my gosh. Disaster. It's very funny, and my pride always talks about this. The network, in an effort to promote other seasons of Bizarre Foods, would call them different things. So we made 140 episodes of Bizarre Foods, but we made 40 episodes of Bizarre World that was the same show.
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I've done some horrible, horrible things in my life. And then, you know, had a complete 180... you know, flip 33 plus years ago and my life changed all for the better. And while life still happens, I mean, life is fired at us at point blank range, right?
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We made 80, 90 episodes of Bizarre Foods America, which is just the domestic stuff, because you want the press to report on it. There's nothing new about a new season, season eight of Bizarre Foods. There's nothing new there to get PR and marketing out of at any earned media. So we would call it something different.
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Which is something I always have to clarify for myself because I have to remember how really how privileged – it doesn't come from a place of ego. It's just that there's hundreds and hundreds of hours of that show and – I mean 400 episodes of Delicious Destination, something ridiculous. And that's just my first two shows, right? When the very first show came out, it was –
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Morocco aired for the first three were Morocco, Spain, Ecuador. And I was so proud. And I was like, I can't believe I'm on TV. And by the way, the network only bought the first 10 episodes. Right. And you're just so lucky to get there. And no, so few people get to that point. Even fewer get a second season. Right. I mean, it just doesn't happen to be doing what we do.
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for as long as we've done it is super rarefied air, right? And I just remember being overwhelmed with happiness, but also overwhelmed with this feeling of, please let me do more of these. The joy, the personal satisfaction The adventure of traveling. I mean, the selfish, the healthy selfishness part of it.
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And I had no idea, except through looking back on it, that actually 25 years later when I made What's Eating America, I was like, oh, no, no, no, that's the apex, right? I mean it just – the goalposts keep moving, right? If I had been satisfied with stopping at the first season of Bizarre Foods and just said, you know something? I've reached my dream. I'm putting – it's like knives down.
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That's it. The buzzer has gone off. I would have undersold myself. But I – The next week, what's really, really, really interesting is how lucky we get in life because the next week, the show rated exactly the same number, which was a very small number. Very few people watched the first episode of Bizarre Foods. Very few people watched the second episode of Bizarre Foods.
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What what networks look at is episode number three. If it hasn't caught fire by then, they're not going to buy a second season, especially in the unscripted lifestyle space, which is the space that I occupy. And so week three, we had a lot riding on it and the number came in. It aired that third Monday of the season. We did not get a great number. It was a few percentage points lower than
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points lower than weeks one and two, which I think were the same, identical numbers. And that means the audience is not coming back. It means you're not growing audience. It is the episodic number they look at. And all I'm thinking is, well, it was, I mean, I got that first year. I'm going to have to think about what the next show I want to sell is.
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We can't, we can't predict when the dog is going to run away or when the relationship is going to end or when the job changes or the, or the, the parent dies or the child gets sick or we get sick. You know, the big sort of things in life that tend to be, you know, hinge events.
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If I want to keep doing this, what else would I want to do? How do I take this first season and get a book deal? I mean, all that stuff is going through my mind.
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Phone rings Wednesday morning to the Jay Leno Show Booker from the Jay Leno Show and says, we saw this clip that was sent around of you in episode three getting spat on, lit on fire, having your whole body break out in hives because you're beaten with these poisonous bushes.
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They were beating guinea pigs, live guinea pigs against your chest until the guinea pigs died, hitting you so hard with a live animal. in this shaman's, basically a brujera, an exorcist, exorcised demons from me in a small little town called Orovalo in Ecuador. And we put it in the show, and I had actually made that scene happen. It was me, a producer, and her boyfriend, later husband.
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Friday, I go on the Leno show. You know, we weren't supposed to be shooting that. Everyone was on lunch break. I'm walking around. I'm curious. I go in. I realize I can pay this guy five dollars. He'll perform an exorcism on me. I'm like, Shannon, Mike, let's shoot this. They said, OK, begrudgingly at first and then way into it.
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And we stuck with this for a couple of hours and skip what we're supposed to shoot that afternoon. a year and a half later, the Leno show calls me cause they see it. And that Friday night I'm on the tonight show and you get that. And as someone who grew up watching Johnny Carson, I'm just waiting to hear the words, Oh my God, you're fantastic. We've run out of time. Will you come back?
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And Jay says that to me. And I just was like, Oh my God. And I had a sense. I really did have a sense because I'd grown up with the Carson show, uh, And I had watched the Jay Leno show a lot, as America did back in those days. Oh, my God. I said, this is going to something's going to change. The next week, the ratings numbers went through the roof. Tony's book came out.
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that week, and they had us on back-to-back nights. So you could settle in on Travel Channel, and there was a two-hour block, later a three-hour block with our reruns, alternating shows, and then double-stack our reruns. You had four hours of Zimmern and Bourdain, and it was...
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For three years, I mean, we pulled some numbers that were equal to Monday Night Football, you know, after season two, season three.
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However, in general, the thing that has happened to me has been placed in a position where I can operate best when I'm in a state of being grateful all the time. And I'm reminded of it all the time face-to-face because I'm very public with my story. And that's been sort of the key to my own happiness. If I wasn't public with... my story, I wouldn't be getting the, the empathy back.
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I mean, you're not— Yeah, but not standing in a kitchen. Food Network, remember, at the time was not doing competition shows— This is 2007, 8, 9. Food Network had no competition shows. It was, you know, chefs standing behind a cutting board, you know, you know, Emeril and all of those great chefs, great friends of mine doing great TV. But it was all I mean, Emeril.
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Emeril Live was the most adventurous thing.
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Oh, my gosh. Some of the stuff that we do. He is a wonderful human being and an amazing parent and an amazingly – I'm just saying he took his chefing – No, no, no. I do it all the time.
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No, it wasn't your mistake. I'm not saying he's an asshole. I'm just saying for years I did Bam on television to make fun of him because I thought it was
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wrong I didn't take it that way we get caught up in the night like I do that stuff all the time when people come up to me they say oh well this is actually I met you four or five years ago I often I really my lips to God's ears I will oftentimes say to them was I nice or was I a jerk because sometimes in the moment someone people have said to me their version of well this dish didn't come out or you know my sea bass is cold and they've insulted the great insulted me James Beard award-winning yes
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Of course, which is why I'm a nice Jewish boy from New York City. In restaurants, I would always do a second Seder, and I love cooking my grandmother's Seder menu, because it's traditionally a really dead night in the restaurant business. And
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I realize it's the toughest crowd in the world because no one's chicken soup, even if mine is twice as good as your grandma's, is better than your grandma's because it's what you grew up on, even if it's dishwater. So I realized I was competing. I would go table touching. How is everything? It's okay.
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And that's what you would hear because everyone's like, well, my grandmother would always put carrots in her soup. And I'm like, well, there are carrots in the broth. We strain them out and then we wanted to do something a little. And I realized, oh my God, it's not working.
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It's one of the reasons I think that Tony wound up just cooking for friends and family and sort of never went back into that space because you leave yourself open for too much other stuff. It's kind of safer to be on TV.
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Were you competitive, though, I would imagine? Of course, 100%. The first couple of years, 100%. As a matter of fact, I'm always reminded of it because we had our big sort of friendship breakthrough where it kind of went to a...
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a much better level down here, the first year he ever did South Beach, which I had been doing for a while, where he asked me to come out during his demo, which was basically he did this Wonder Wheel thing where he spun this wheel and he would answer questions from the audience depending on what was going on in this wheel and some other things were going on.
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And I came out and he put his arm around me and said publicly how much he admired what I did because we told the same stories and we loved the same things. And we were, you know, sons from, from different mothers, brothers from different mothers. But, um, he was amazed. He made a very funny joke about it. He said, you know, I eat the walrus anus and so do you, except you have to do it sober.
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He said, which is, he said, which is why, you know, I, I, you know, mad respect for you. Um, and it was really, really interesting because, um, You know, we were on Monday night together. We built that travel channel. I mean, we really did.
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I mean, I can look back on it now and say that again without having to apologize for it, that, you know, our Monday night allowed them to spread out the the content wheel across the other weeknights and bring on. A half dozen other shows that did really, really well.
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Why? Oh, my God. Because it would be acknowledging that I've actually achieved something.
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OK, I know. But it's like I'm you're not allowed to have ego about that. You're not allowed to say because I'm scared if I get too much ego about where it's going to take me. It's not about acknowledging that, you know... Isn't there self-love there, though? There should be. In being proud of yourself? Should be. I'm just not, you know, I'm not... you know, feet of clay.
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I'm still frail in different parts of my life. But the point is I am okay today when people, someone said to me, well, you and Bourdain built that channel. And I was like, in my head, I'm like, just say thank you. Just say thank you. Don't argue, just say thank you. And I finally just said, thank you. Five, six years ago. And I've been able to say thank you and acknowledge that we did do that.
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I wouldn't have to talk about it all the time and having to talk about it all the time. And when I say all the time, I mean, in my public life, it is, it is the greatest gift because it's what keeps me sober. It's what keeps me healthy, happy, serene. When I am not those things, it is usually because of a problem of my own making that put me in a position to be hurt.
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And then they put us on different nights to kind of stretch the slate, as it were. It's just network strategy for growing audience. It worked. Tony stayed on Monday. I went to Tuesday. I brought my audience over. They could put other shows underneath me and just grow a night. And then they take that person I grew and put them on Wednesday.
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I mean, so it's a long term, decade long strategy to grow the audience. the network, which they did. But we really made that for them. And when they put me on Tuesday night, we became very competitive. And people always, you know, you're the two best shows on Travel Channel, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And we sort of had the same content wheel.
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So our competition started to become who's going to get to Cuba first? Who's going to get to North Korea first? Who's going to get to... Syria first, you know, and we would call each other on the phone and and and kid each other about it But you'd hang up and you'd be like I'm gonna get I'm you know We got to get our visas before Bourdain does right like competitive.
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Much less helpful. But I mean, even if we're playing darts, people say to me, what kind of sports do you like to play? And I always say anything where I can keep score. Because even if you beat me 90 to 60, I'm like, OK, there's a benchmark. Next time you'll beat me 90 to 70. The next time it's going to be a toss up. Right. I'm just going to I'm going to practice. I'm going to figure it out.
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I'm going to. And it's what I love about. It's what I love about life are those little competitions and scorekeeping. However, I can go into a dangerous place with it where it is much less helpful.
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I got to clamp it on there and realize that I don't have to just keep pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing.
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At a certain point after that South Beach thing, we got together. We got together with our kids. We got to know each other a lot better. We were able to talk about... the issues that we were having in life as opposed to just our work or, you know, you just go to that next level of relationship with somebody. And it was a and in fact, the very last time I saw him,
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was down here at South Beach Wine and Food Festival the year that he killed himself. And I was working when that happened. And it was a very, very, very difficult day, a very tragic day. But I was able, because we were close friends, I was able...
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with dignity for him to address and because of my own experience with my own mental health issues to talk about an aspect of his life that other people could not address because they did not have suicide as a uh event in their own life as a as someone who is a what's the best way to describe it? I'm not recovering from it.
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It is an act that is no longer an issue for me, but as someone who had those feelings and acted on them and tried to take his own life, I think I had an understanding of what was going on there that other people didn't. So.
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Yes and no. So that you're. Yes and no. Yes and no. I heard things come out. I mean, we all hear things come out of friends' mouths where we're like, you really believe that? What? I mean, that's not cool, bro.
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And there were aspects of life and relationship that he would express joy or concern about where, you remember I talked before about staying in the center of the lane and not hitting the guardrails, where you see a friend hitting guardrails, but I didn't put it all together. And I should...
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I hate to shoot on myself, but I guess a better way to say it is you would think with my background and what I've experienced in my own life that I would have been more aware of the pain that he was in because nobody goes around broadcasting it. We all have that TV commercial idea of depression where the sad music goes on, the camera dims. Maybe it goes to black and white.
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And, you know, that's not how life works. That's not how life works. And that's not how depression manifests itself all the time. It's not like the TV commercial. And I, I am so repulsed by it and it makes me so fucking angry to see it that commercial after commercial has the face of suicide. Depression is a 20 something year old woman sitting on the edge of a maid bed and
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head down with sad music playing because that's not how it manifests itself. That's how a commercial will symbolize it in an effort to get more people to buy that drug, right? Which is really hospitals and doctors. I mean, some people, you know, watch a commercial and go to a doctor and say, can I get this medicine?
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But very few, you're really trying to sell to a very small audience, but they're going to buy in very large numbers.
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The portrayal of it, which is why I love saying I have all of these issues and I'm a suicide survivor. But you're so happy and successful. I'm like, yes, you can be both. And by the way, I'm in recovery. I am active in my recovery. That's why I'm happy and productive. And it's why I'm joyous and free.
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And the minute I cease to be active in my own recovery, I give up that joyfulness and that freedom. But with with Tony, when when he would tell me about the new relationship with the woman or the feeling of not being there for his daughter or issues in his relationship with his daughter's mother and both when they were married and not, there are.
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Looking back on it, I'm like, oh my gosh, there we go. That was something that I, as a friend, I realized that there were so many gifts. One of the things I have to practice is trying to find gifts. something that justifies sadness in life, when there's something like that.
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To tell people nakedly, this is what addiction was for me. Correct. And I was in a position where there was an element about it that was, as my spiritual guru in my 12-step program described it to me, that was a form of service work, right? Because...
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And it took me years to remember that what I need to be talking about when people ask me about Tony's death is not fetishizing it, it's not telling stories, oh, look at me, I was a friend of his and everybody, he was the most magnetic person I've ever met in my life. I mean, he is worshiped and rightfully so in a way that is reserved only for our greatest of people in our culture.
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And very deservedly so. However, I have to also remember that rather than fetishizing that and talking about it in a way that makes me look good, I need to take the messages of what that experience taught me
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to help other people and there are so many things in there you asked before when we started this conversation about the things that motivate me to be more open and more revealing about my life it's not only because i don't want to go back to that really dark place where i was when i tried to take my own life but it's also because i can use those things to help other people
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And, you know, I mentioned that an hour ago when we were talking, but it's really underscored when we talk about things like Tony's death, which, by the way, is one of the things we will look at. It's all those suicides. Remember. You know, we will never know. I mean, Robin Williams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, how many actor Heath Ledger. Right. Discovered with drugs by his bed. Right. Do we.
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Matthew Perry. Were those were those acts of people taking their own lives for someone like me? They are because those people knew the behaviors. Right. Could lead to jails, institutions and death. Knew it. Were they doing it consciously? We will never know. Right. Those people died alone. You know, Whitney Houston, same thing. Was it an attempt? Was she trying to take her own life?
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Was or was just simply an overdose? She happened to be in the bathtub. We will never know. But those are things that when I'm specifically mentioning public people, because when I'm talking to other people, I can I can use that because it's a common reference point.
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Again, not fetishizing, trying to use it to help other people to point out that we don't know what's going on in those moments when you're alone. It is reaching out and asking for help rather than keeping all those things stuff down. That's going to wind up saving lives.
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Oh, well, I appreciate that. Thank you. I appreciate the platform to be able to talk about it. You know, I truly believe that the more, you know, sunshine that we throw in all this stuff, the the fewer problems we're going to have in this area and that society has taught us that looking good is is is something to be prioritized.
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if, if I'm placed in this, in this world where I started, well, I was placed in this world where I started to have a platform and I had to make a decision about how public I was going to be with this.
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When, in fact, I think being vulnerable is what should be prioritized. We need to make change. being vulnerable something that is a regular part of our lives.
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That's exactly right. And I didn't use a one of them.
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And the more that I kept it away from people, the more, not only was it secret keeping for me because I wasn't living an honest and open life, but I was missing out on the opportunity to help another person who could look at me. Cause on the outside I look bright and shiny and you, If they heard that I was a suicide survivor, maybe they would say, oh, my gosh, so what happened?
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I mean, if that was 33 years ago and this guy looks pretty happy and like he has a pretty nice life and then they hear from me that I am pretty happy and I have a pretty nice life, then I get to tell them what happened. And what that transformational moment was for me, maybe it helps another person.
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And what I have found, especially when I do things like this and I have conversations about my life with another human being in a public way, right? Listeners are, we will change someone's life, probably many, many people's lives just by having this conversation. I get stopped every single day by someone who thanks me because of something I said that helped them. a family member.
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Well, you do start to benefit from it in such a regular way that it is like a lab mouse hitting that little dropper in the cage that rewards them in some way, whether it's with sugar water or whatever. Yeah, I mean, I'm an addictive person.
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100%. Because I have not... And look... addiction swapping, which is something, as a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, I would tell – I mean I do tell newcomers we have to slow our lives down so we are not addiction swapping. Alcoholism and drug addiction will kill you faster than workaholism. But workaholism will kill your relationships, right?
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So you better tread lightly on those addiction swapping. You don't want to start picking up candy and cigarettes and putting down one thing and balloon up and get really sick. So I tell people – You know, what was told to me when I showed up, which was slow, slow it down. And I spent the first four or five years in slow mode. And then as my life started to build back up, I was able to.
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have some perspective on the things that I was starting to do on a more regular basis. So I could meter my workaholism. I could meter out the tie. I didn't want to be number one, a one trick pony. I also would, it would be very boring for me personally to live a life where I was just preaching all the time, but selectively, absolutely. Yes, I am. I am addicted to,
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to the concept of gratitude, the way I get that way is by sharing my story and doing service work puts life in perspective for me. And service work saved my life.
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No, no, no. I love it. I mean, you know, this is these are the conversations that I love and I love what you do. So, yeah, let's dive in.
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evicted from an apartment and and i and before that i don't know what your uh family situation was that would allow you to uh to be dabbling in drug use too early for most kids uh i mean the really short story is you know family of um a good family uh well off private school you know summer home i mean you know one percenters for sure um
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You know, I at a very early age, I already had the addictive personality and the way that manifested itself was in extreme selfishness and extreme selfish behavior. Everything was about me. Take, take, take, take, take. And, you know, when you're 10. being a user of people and a taker of things looks differently, you know, it's, you know, spoiled Brad. Okay. He's amusing. Nice.
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Uh, can he be tender and real at times? Absolutely. Uh, but mostly he's acting out of self, right? But loving home, discipline, home, Loving home. Parents trying their best. I mean, you know, kids don't come with instruction manuals. I'm well aware of that as a parent. But yeah, my parents tried the best they could. Did they have issues that were unresolved?
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I mean, one of the things that I love about this new sort of mental health and wellness program.
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The moment that we seem to be having in this culture with so many people talking about it and telling folks it's OK to not be OK is that we're going to end some of the generational trauma that young people in my generation were victims of for sure, because our parents were told to stuff that bad feeling down. So when I ask.
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Had you arrived at your teens yet when you're using? Yes, I did. You're very insightful. The term discipline is really, really interesting. You know, there is a balance of affection and direction that I think we try to use with our kids. I got very little direction and a ton of affection, which is great. You want to be loved and feel loved, but without direction.
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we can wander aimlessly and get into a lot of trouble. And if we are already predisposed to enjoy that trouble, you know, some people get into trouble. They're like, oh, my God, that was so uncomfortable. I don't want to go near that again. You know, I call it the tequila syndrome. They get drunk on sweet, bad margaritas at some point. They're like, I'm never touching tequila again. Right.
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And I know adults like that. It's just like, nope, had a bad night with tequila once in high school or college. Like, don't do it. And I find it fascinating because this is in a way sort of describing what how normies are to people like me who are addicts and alcoholics. You know, I never would describe a bad. on drugs and alcohol. Because that was my wubby. That was my solution to things.
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And once I found... You know, I had some situations in my life that I didn't want to have my brain be percolating on. You know, my mother got sick. My parents had divorced. I was nervous about high school. And I knew what would make me not feel that way was smoking weed and drinking. And very quickly, those two things did not... scratch the itch enough.
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And so then it became pills and cocaine added into the mix. And then we added heroin into the mix and hallucinogenics and on and on and on. And by the time I got to college, you know, I was a full blown addict and alcoholic of immense proportions and actually had my first intake at a mental health center when I was 18 years old up in Poughkeepsie, New York. I went to Vassar College and
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Well, 24 years ago, Lee Schrager had the idea, along with Southern Glazer Wine and Spirits, to, you know, throw a little party on the beach, have some chefs come down and cook some food, raise some money for Florida International University's Chaplin School of Hospitality. And it's taken off from there. It's now, I mean—
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And they told me that I was chronic on the Jelinek scale, which is how they measure alcoholism and addiction, relatively quick 20 question test. And you answer yes to all those things. It's like, wow, you're at the full end of the scale at 18 years old. And but you can't tell an 18 year old that.
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South Beach Sessions - Andrew Zimmern
You know, their path is going to lead to, you know, jails, institutions and death, because at 18, we all think we're Superman. Right. So I just kept going and gradually over the course of the next 12 years until the time I was 30 and I got I got clean and. The elevator just kept going down through descending levels of, you know, Dante's circles of hell. I mean, it was just really, really awful.
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South Beach Sessions - Andrew Zimmern
Now, looking back on it, I can see that when you're in it, you don't see it as anything is a situation to quote unquote manage. You feel like you're in a small boat in an ocean with waves bigger than your mat. You can't see over the next waves. You're just dealing with the wave that's in front of you without a long term plan. Um, it eventually led me to losing my home, being evicted.
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South Beach Sessions - Andrew Zimmern
Um, and by the way, I, I was enjoying a very successful career in New York city before my drugs and alcohol absolutely made me unemployable, which is about a year and a half before I went homeless. Um, and I wound up, you know, squatting a building in lower Manhattan, uh, no, just casements in the windows in the, well, in the space where windows would be. Um,
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South Beach Sessions - Andrew Zimmern
Pirating electricity from the brownstone two or three over from the one that we were squatting. And, you know, my biggest issue was stealing comet cleanser to sprinkle around the dirty pile of clothes I passed out on every night so the rats and roaches wouldn't crawl all over me. You know, I would steal purses to survive. I would roll bums in alleyways.
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Postgame Show: Top 5 March Madness Moments (feat. JuJu Gotti)
We talk White Lotus this, White Lotus that, like Thursday, best Thursday of the year right here. And we're talking about White Lotus for six hours and kissing and let's focus on hoops. How about that, Juju?
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
No, not a Bones player. Could have told by the outline.
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
I do not want Aaron Rodgers ruining my rookie quarterback. He is not at the I'm going to mentor you and make you better stage of his life. Let me make this make sense for Hawk. Please.
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So now the glasses really make sense.
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Ooh, that hurts.
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I'm a legend to a lot of people, Dan.
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If I'm the Seahawks, I entertain it. I don't think they're incredibly close to a championship because of their quarterback situation. Not that it's bad. I like Geno. But if I'm them, I'm collecting assets to make a rebuild to actually put you in position in a conference that has the Rams or a division with the Rams and obviously the 49ers. Now, if I'm DK, he said he wants to go to a contender.
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There are very few that actually have a chance. So I'm curious of which offense... He could actually fit in in his style. I don't think it's the Ravens. Bills, that doesn't feel like a fit to me. And really, it's Patrick Mahomes. I'm talking about who has the best chance of making a run at this. To me, it's those three teams, unless the Philadelphia Eagles are saying A.J.
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Brown could want to go somewhere else, and that's their solution to replace him. Houston? I mean, I think Nico Collins, to me... He's your alpha one already. Nico Collins is not a big drop-off from DK, if a drop-off at all.
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
Thank you. Can we tee it up? Do we have that on tap? Because clearly, I don't think you realize the pioneer that I am. To sub-5'9 football players.
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
Yeah, he's an NFL legend. I'm not going to let you disrespect him.
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There's a height requirement for you to consider somebody a legend. Is that what it is?
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
Name me some more consistent wide receivers over the last decade than Tyler Lockett. Ridiculous.
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
It is, because the Seahawks are still in the...
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
So what is it? You only think Hall of Famers are legends? Is that what the criteria is?
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
All right, so then change it to Hall of Famers, man.
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No big deal. Just how many times did he do it?
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That is true. He's a third round pick.
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It wasn't a Hall of Fame legend. He might be a Seahawks Hall of Famer. There's already a descriptor for Hall of Famer, and it's called Hall of Famer. Legend and Hall of Famer are not synonymous.
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
Yeah. I mean, I'm never going to be in favor of diminishing the star of a legend on a day that's supposed to celebrate him. And he is a legend, not regionally, nationally. Also, alongside of that, it is relevant to that conversation that you're getting rid of a staple on your team who has been the source of production at the receiver position for a decade. And the other one wants to leave.
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That's newsworthy and, again, connected to the fact that you're releasing Tyler Lockett.
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Look, man. I'm insulted right now. I'm insulted. Why wouldn't I be an NFL legend?
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I mean, I was 50 under 40 in The Athletic, the famed publication that you guys talked about this Jimmy Butler article in. That sounds like an NFL legend to me.
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I mean, continue, Dan.
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No sound though. No sound. Make it rain. Luckily, my highlights don't need sound.
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Try it. Any truth to the rumor that Pat Riley had the nutritionist pull it from being sold at the games?
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Is anybody clocking how Dan is looking at me right now for asking the Pat Riley question? Anyone clocking how I'm looking at this milkshake?
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
That's my Saturday night. Yeah, that's fine. Steak and shakes business model.
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You're a small-time guy.
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Why are we ordering steaks and shakes?
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That is the most disgusting thing I've ever heard in my life.
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Like pre-McDonald's revolutionizing the process for fast food. It was like, oh, you pull up. I'll take a burger and a shake. Well, to be clear. This nice little car you got here, darling. And they go back and they roller skate and come back with the little cone hats.
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
No, we don't want retro joints. We don't want, we don't want those. Let's not retro that. All right. Let's keep it. No, no. I'm talking about. Keep it to Jordan. I'm talking about. It's not retro segregation, Tony. I'm talking about roller skates, hamburgers, and pizza. Tony's scared.
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That's not true.
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Johnny Rockets is solid.
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Hold on a second. I'm a burger connoisseur. Please make no mistake. I love burgers. I would never put them in a shake. Yeah, I will crush you and burger them, okay? Johnny Rockets, though.
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is is a is a fine food establishment and actually in cincinnati uh you could get the naked wings at johnny rockets you know what it was called the pac-man jones special because pac-man jones would go there and say i don't want any sauces and i'm sure he said it aggressively that's my guy you don't do he only does aggressive i thought it was because of the strip club in vegas
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So he got the naked wings, and I would go get the Pac-Man wings when I was at Johnny Rockets. And they tasted amazing.
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Because we all get old, man. It just comes along with the territory. At some point, every local joker, as you like to describe NFL football players, every local joker will eventually get released. And that's essentially what it is. The money you try to get out before you're overpaying for an aging product. And that's the situation with Joey Bosa.
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He's been in the league for a while. That's not young. That's not young in football years, especially on the defensive line where you're taking wear and tear. And they've gone through this a couple of times with Joy Bosa. He's had injury issues a bunch over the years.
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And they've always kind of figured out because his cap hits would hit so hard or he would have missed a season or half a year or be in and out and peppered. And they've typically figured it out because... He is in such good standing with the organization. In my opinion, this likely came to a point where they're like, hey, we just got to, you know, he understood, they understood.
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And he's on the market. He'll be a, and for talking in receiver terms, he'll be a number two pass rusher somewhere and make somebody really good. But he's not a guy that can man the ship anymore.
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
Isn't Khalil Mack a free agent?
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Wow, so they don't have a cleaning house. This is what rebuilds look like. Hey, and also I have a really great Khalil Mack. They made the playoffs. I have a good Khalil Mack story. I'll be really fast. So I went to the University of Toledo, right? God's favorite university. Toledo. Toledo. And I came in with a rookie running back named Jalen Parmelee. He's from Midland, Michigan.
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Is he related to Bernie Parmelee? Not related to Bernie Parmelee.
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But he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins after our senior year. This guy was a freak specimen. I'm talking about 6'1", 230 pounds. He ran a 4'3". He vertical jumped 43 inches. He did not have an ounce of fat on him. When we would be in the light, it was like, yo, that dude looks different than the rest of us. He comes into his own.
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He has a really good junior and senior year, and he becomes a sixth-round pick. Well, he had these tattoos on his arm that said, Florida-born, Michigan-raised. He was adopted. And we would always joke with him, like, you know, Jalen, you were in Florida for two days. Like, you're not really from there. You're from Michigan. But he didn't know his birth family. All right. Wait a second.
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Fast forward. He didn't know his birth family.
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He didn't know his birth family. Fast forward, okay? So a couple years ago, he calls me, and he's like, Hawk, how you doing? I'm like, I'm good. You know, we actually played together in Cleveland, which was really cool. Me, him, and John Greco, who were freshmen together, we all played for Cleveland in the year we went 1-15. You know, there's a whole other conversation there. We won't get into it.
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Legends. Legends. So then he calls me a couple years ago and he's like, yo, Hawk, how you doing? I'm like, I'm good, man. Haven't heard from you. How you been? I'm good. I found my birth family. I'm like, dude, congratulations, man. That's awesome. I believe his adopted family, they were sick. Something happened where he wanted to get information about his medical history.
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And so I think maybe on Ancestry.com. Anyway, he found an uncle, found his birth family. He's like, yeah, I met them. I'm going to meet them for the first time next week. I'm like, that's awesome, bro. What are they like? He's like, I look just like my dad. And Two of my brothers, he has three brothers, two of them are in the NFL. And I'm like, what? That's crazy.
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He said, yeah, Khalil Mack is my brother. That's better than being related to Bernie Parmalee. Same mom, same dad. And Khalil Mack was his brother. You talk about crazy NFL stories.
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
I was okay with my status as a legendary NFL player, Dan.
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And you call Devon Best a legend. This is still America. Devon Best was good. This is still America. Let me put that out there. I love that Hawaii team. Oh, my gosh. Out of the slot. I was like, I used to watch his film. They should call you Andrew Best.
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
You should have said, but Andrew Hawkins is not a coward.
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Isn't it fun? Isn't it fun to be able to make moves that matter, that surprise you? I think for so long in the NFL, it was like, you know, they're not going to trade this player. You know that this guy is going to have an OK market when he hits free agency to have like actual sparks. It does feel like the NBA feels around free agency like If J.J.
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McCarthy potentially being traded after not taking a snap and being as highly drafted as he is, that's special because it could potentially change the trajectory of another franchise who needs a quarterback but not in position to do so.
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Yeah, and I agree with that take. I actually think they should let Sam Darnold walk, which is crazy because he had the season that he had, and you don't typically see a quarterback here for the agency that had that kind of year. But when you look at the Minnesota Vikings, if I am them, I'm looking at Kirk Cousins,
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And I'm looking at Sam Darnold, and I'm looking at them, Sam Darnold previously, and also Kirk Cousins after he left. And I'm going to say, I think I have the guy in KOC that can get me the max amount of production from J.J. McCarthy under this system like I've done with the other two quarterbacks. There's not going to be a plethora of people lining up for Sam Darnold.
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It's going to be quarterback-needy teams, but there's still going to be the, uh... We've seen him in other situations. And the same goes for Kirk Cousins. I think you take advantage of that rookie contract so you can continue to build the roster around him.
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The Big Suey: The Show With The Regional Legend
I think that's a great assessment. I think what they have as coaching staff, even organizationally. Shout out to Josh McCown, another Browns and NFL legend. I'm not going to let Dan say anything different. He's a quarterback coach there in KOC. Kevin O'Connell, who runs the offense. I do think... that that is a more attractive proposition than Sam Darnold. And that's not a knock on Sam Darnold.
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It's great for the season that he had, but there's still such a risk associated with it. And it was, you know, magnified on the biggest stage in the biggest game of the magical season.
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They got to trust the organization.
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That's business. That is like when you do any business deal, you want to be the piece of the deal that is the value. You're connected to me. And then when you leave me, you won't be as successful. And I got to trust myself in that that is the case. That's what the Patriots did for years.
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I'm going to disagree with that. I'm going to disagree with that, not fully. Number one, I don't believe Dan could play quarterback in the NFL. I am 1,000% certain he could not do anywhere.
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That's a big bubble. Okay, as an NFL legend, I can promise you, you will not complete a bubble screen. All right. Number two, what Sam Darnold has, because, you know, I don't want to position him just as a pedestrian. Like, yeah, he's not lived up to the expectation. And that is how you judge players from where you came in your expectation, how below or above you get to that.
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Last year was the first glimpse we saw him above. But he has the tangibles whenever you're drafted top 10. You have the physical tools to be elite.
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And that's what he showed that to your point, when you mix that with great offensive strategy and a coach who understands quarterbacks and how to maximize it, you take advantage of that elite level talent that not every quarterback in the NFL has just because you're there.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
Three and two sounds like it's along those lines. Question, why did they take away the ice cream, if it was indeed ice cream?
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
I believe that Hawk and Amin are tougher than I am. They have seen me lament and whimper for a while now about, I don't think I'm a good leader. I'm bad at leadership.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
It sounded like real concern.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
They won the last game they played before this one. A, heads colds are going around. That's number one, something we cannot take lightly and should not take lightly.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
Everything is going around. Two, the disappointment of, I guess, the way Terry Rozier played last night, which I was made aware of this morning because there's not a person on planet Earth who knows less about the Miami Heat than the guy that you're talking to right now. You do this every day.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
I mean, I don't want to minimize anything because people go through things really. And obviously we've all, you know,
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
have had our own struggles and moments of you know mental health situations because life is hard it's hard for everybody but i would say if i'm the organization i can't tell them exactly how to handle those situations because i'm not an organization they are and this is not their first time going through that with all the history of dealing with athletes but it does come along with the territory and i would say the same thing to athletes
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
Like for any player that has to go through certain mental health situations, yes, that is a tough thing. That doesn't mean it's not valid, but to play in this game, it comes along with the territory. The same with the media and accuracies. This is where we are in life, Pat Riley or whoever, because this is a part of it.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
The same time they'll love you when you're winning championships, you'll get the other side. If a player is going through it, much like any injury history or anything, you have to navigate that. That's not an excuse.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
time you come in here though I don't know anything what happened last oh you guys lost I guarantee you watch them more than I do I promise I only get the heat news when I walk in this building and Terry Rozier but you walk in the building saying hey guys whatever happened with that Jimmy Butler situation I want to know smiling solid troll where did that where did that end up
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
I literally have no idea whose father died. So the idea that I said it doesn't matter. I don't know. Everybody's father died.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
My father passed as well. But I don't know. Who's crying about whose dad in this damn situation? I'm going to read the athletic article. I will get around to it, but I'm just trying to figure out. Also, with those connections being made, it feels like from the lack of information I do have that you're saying that
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
whenever a team or or an executive or if it's pat riley he makes these concessions that he never makes with a player in an effort to connect like where is the loyalty or the return of of that grace in these situations Correct?
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
Like, explain to me the last... He's on Golden State now. The last we left it, there was something going on with Pat Riley and a disagreement about should he play, should he not? And I'm like, you know what? We're looking for topics for the show. I don't know if we have time and can fit it in, but where did that land? Dan, do we?
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
So I'm good on the Jimmy Butler situation. Organizationally, I know it was turmoil when Jimmy was with the Heat. How do the Warriors feel about Jimmy being there? They love him. Like fan base. They love him because... Update.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
But also, it's his hometown team. So maybe they just fourth quarter against the hometown, put Terry in. This one's Riley just, you know, being the good guy that he is.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
Well, he asked a question. But check back when his contract's expiring. Yep. That's it. So that's another good point. Because as a casual basketball fan, there's only a couple moments that I hear about Jimmy Butler. And that is when he's making runs in the playoffs... And or something crazy. That's it. Going on organizational. And this is like every three to four to five years.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
And so when I hear that Pat Riley feels a certain way about... Jimmy Butler and how it ended, it sounds a little crazy to the casual who was like, you took in a pet bobcat and you're now upset that he bit your daughter? That feels weird to me.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
Hey, I have a history of being a part of a tank. The key to a tank is that the players can't know that it's a tank. It's like you just put Hawk at X receiver. Yeah. And Hawk is like, man, now they're finally getting it, right? But. About time y'all figured this out. You got to be a wizard, no pun intended, to really be able to make all the pieces.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
So how did Jimmy Butler end up on the Warriors? That's a good question. What was the catalyst? At the end, how did it ultimately end there?
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
That's what you said.
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So ultimately, that's how he ended up with the Warriors.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
Never. Never had one. So how is Jimmy Butler doing with the Warriors? Really good.
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Local Hour: So... What Ever Happened With That Jimmy Butler Situation?
I'm just getting caught up slowly. I don't want to derail the conversation. Every once in a while, I have a couple questions every here and there. It's okay, Dan. It's just Cliff Notes.
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Postgame Show: Show Awards Pt. 1
Good job. Deserve it. All right. I appreciate it. That ordeal yesterday was longer than I would have wanted it to be. Doesn't sound great. It doesn't. You said, all right, I thought you had an award. No, I didn't.
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Postgame Show: Show Awards Pt. 1
I got my typical amount of sleeps that I typically get. I would like- I mean, you also have awards. You got real awards today.
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Postgame Show: Show Awards Pt. 1
Okay, well- I would like to give Andrew Hawkins the award award. That dude got so many awards.
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Postgame Show: Show Awards Pt. 1
Should we do something different? Like, should we do, instead of awards, do just like... Film study instead?
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I want to give Chris Cody the adult in the room award. Wow. That's a first.
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No, I mean. No, I think. Throughout the show today, and maybe it wasn't in you guys' ear, Chris held me down. Held me down in the air. with timing and preparation. And also, when I was reeling an interview, you know who I- Chris, what do you got over there? Hey. Hey, Chris. Chris. Help me out. Yeah. Ask a golf question. Don't you play golf? Do something. Help me.
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What? I don't know why I said that.
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Because you know what tomorrow's going to be? Best show in show history. Guaranteed. Guaranteed. Mark it down. Everybody looking at me a little sullen in the face like they don't believe me. Well, we got to lose a couple because we have to work Thursday and Friday. Don't tell the people that I threw the first game. Don't tell them I threw the first game. You think I don't know how to interview?
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Postgame Show: Show Awards Pt. 1
Yeah. I want to give you the Roy award. Yeah.
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I mean, I had offers to play offense. I chose not to. Okay. Is there a B-Roy or a C-Roy in the fam? No. Just Lee and G. Just Lee and G. D-Roy. We out.
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You think I can't ask a list of questions? All of a sudden, I can't ask a list of questions.
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Oh, you think that was a mistake? Come on. You think it was a mistake that I went womp, womp, womp? It was a perfectly timed one? But what about...
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Yeah, that was because I was trying to do a callback. Was that also you? Huh?
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Why are you still so sad? Like, I get it. Like, it's fine. It wasn't perfect today. Good-ass show. You know what I think? People enjoyed today's show. I agree. Also, I know one thing about a man named Dan Levitard. He gets a little nervous when I come in here and get cooking. So, I mean, it's not bad. I dropped one off my foot. I want Dan to feel comfortable.
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All right, awards. Why are you telling Mike about the honking here?
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What's the number one food that will send you to tummy ache city with your GERD?
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I have an idea how we can get back out ahead.
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Which is by doing weekend observations.
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Weekend observations is presented by Miller Lite. Dumb. It's one of the busiest times on the sports calendar. And we're one of the biggest podcasts in sports. But inexplicably, our hosts left us. One went on an indefinite hiatus. And one took his elegant swan on a work trip to L.A. But you know what they say. The show must go on. And this segment is still sponsored.
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Were any French people upset with Pierre Escargot back in the day?
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So just like that, make no mistake about it. Dominique, you and Charlie Kravitz are back. Charlie Kravitz, the vanilla snack.
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For only the second time in men's NCAA tournament history, four one-seeds are in the final four. For context, the last time that happened, Stugatz still came to work every day. The L in Levitard stands for Los Angeles for the exclusive Sedano sit-down. Jeff Conine inducted into the Marlins Hall of Fame. Mr. Marlin. Put it on the poll.
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Can you be called Mr. Marlin if you played more seasons not on the Marlins than on the Marlins? Anytime there's a stoppage in play, Stan Van Gundy has to let you know how disgusted he is by it. Nobody, and I mean nobody, hates to see a review coming like Stan Van Gundy. SVG. Yankees, with nine home runs in one game. The Bronx Bombers.
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WFAN taking calls all day about people wanting to talk bat size. That's what New York Sports Radio is all about. The Yankees, paying an MIT physicist instead of Juan Soto. Chess, not checkers. Also, Aaron Judge, do it in the playoffs. BYU, the rare team to score 88 points in a college basketball game, only to lose by 25. Alabama, live by the three. Alabama, die by the three.
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Paige Beckers, bucket getter. Dominique, do you know what the B in Beckers stands for?
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Fuck it, get her.
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Pete Crowe Armstrong. Canon. PCA. November 8th. Frank Reich. Bill Belichick. Go ahead and circle it. Got the Stanford job. It was breaking news like an hour ago.
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Texas Tech. Choked. If I was a Texas Tech fan, I would never recover from that loss. You know what the W in Walter Clayton Jr. stands for? Winner. You know what the C in Walter Clayton Jr. stands for?
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Closer. You know what the J in Walter Clayton Jr. stands for? No. Just give him the ball and get the bleep out of the way. Alex Ovechkin. Still doing it.
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Death. And Don Staley in a Final Four. You tell Don Staley where the Final Four is, and she'll make sure she's there. The Jets GM announced that he believes Justin Fields will be the starter. Buddy. That's what the $30 million guaranteed already told us. Justin Verlander. San Francisco Giant. Miami Marlins. Feisty.
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Congratulations to the guy who really went out on a limb and picked all four one seats to make the final four. Dan Lebitard in Los Angeles asking comedians, what's the worst part of the life? Dan, the worst part of the life is listening to you interview comedians. What happened there? Taylor. Bill Belichick's girlfriend Jordan trolled the Atlanta Falcons with an Instagram post on 3-28.
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When Bill Belichick won that Super Bowl against the Falcons, Jordan was 15, and Stu Gott still came to work every day. Big Ten, with zero titles since 2000. Hey, Big Ten, do it in the NCAA tournament. Haley Van Lith, the first player in history to take three different teams to the Elite Eight. You know what they say. If you have three elite eights, you don't have one. Auburn's Denver Jones.
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UCLA beating LSU to make the program's first Final Four. You know what they say. First time for everything. I'm not sure a coach has ever handled leaving a school worse than Kevin Willard. Leaving Maryland. Terps. Headline. Steelers are considering Aaron Rodgers. I hate them. My personal hell would be watching Aaron Rodgers play for the Steelers. Speaking of hell. Art Bryles. Dominique.
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Those are the weekend observations.
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Thank you. I mean, we're back even too. He's really been taking his time lately.
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I don't think we're trailing. I think we're all right. I think it's funny when you mess up, respectfully.
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But then he'll do this. And then he'll do this.
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Also, Taylor deserves credit for weekend observations because this is a place now where we lift each other up, right?
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I think the best part of the game is still ahead of us. Yeah.
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Did they have a real ball when you played?
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That's why you should have said no. It was a maybe, though, for a few weeks.
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This is why a simple no would have been great.
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It's the Shohei situation where the NFL – There are these events that happen that you never expect to happen, so you're not prepared for them. And Travis Hunter, I think, would qualify for one. So I'm not sure how a team would actually handle it if Travis Hunter became a free agent. My assumption is that they're not going to willingly pay him for it.
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Across from them, we'll jump that. We got my guy, my security blanket, Charlie Kravitz, a.k.a. the Vanilla Snack. Hit him with a salute. What up? Curly, Justin Timberfake. Let's go! And our number one go-to guy, the quickest man in history, quite possibly the most talented dude in this building right now.
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any surplus, even if he's the best corner and the best receiver in the league. They're going to use their leverage. They're going to use their franchise tag. They're going to use whatever leverage they have, the fifth-year option, in order to avoid doing that. It's going to require Travis Hunter. My guess is we're going way into the future.
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But if Travis Hunter balls out for six years and plays on both sides of the ball, it's going to require him to actually sit out. Because what they're going to do is be like, all right, best-case scenario. You are the best receiver. We'll now pay you because receivers get paid more than corners. So we'll pay you higher. Rightfully so.
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It's broke my heart. The reason why I hurt me is because I wanted to disagree. But I actually don't disagree.
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Yeah, it's harder.
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I mean, you know what?
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Being a teacher is hard, too. They don't get compensated. No one gets compensated for how hard their job is. They get compensated for how valuable they are. And you know what? I'm sorry. Patrick Sertain, very valuable. Justin Jefferson, more valuable.
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I hate it.
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I hate it when we had that argument about could NFL guys play in the NBA or NBA guys play in the NFL.
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It's all subjective. There's some things that I can bring myself to lie about. But if you've ever been around, I ran into Julius Peppers in Aspen, and he played basketball at Carolina.
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If that was a black dude saying it, I wouldn't feel as like, I don't know about this. And it's not only that it's not a black dude. He trying to, it feel like he put some pain in his voice. One more time.
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there has to be at least two people of African descent in the building. Because that's the part that throws me more than anything. It's like, when there's one dude here, and all you whites... It feels like an attack. It's all here like, look at me, Leroy!
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He also dressed like he cared about himself, which I appreciate, which is rare for the Levitard Show. What? It's Andrew the Hawk Hawkins.
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I don't know.
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I was busy making people uncomfortable with my lyrics.
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I just wanted it to sit there. You did it perfectly. I remember last time I was down here, I was teaching David Sampson how to do a show. Gosh, I love being here with Hawk, man. It's so much easier. I don't got to teach this man how to react to when someone says something awkward or funny or silly. It's like, yeah, if you don't know what to do, shut up.
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Let it sit there because it then becomes funny. Why did you say that?
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You redeemed yourself with that one. I see you, Big Red. Get him, Big Red.
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He's witty. Oh, man. Hey, guys. Going to have a good show today. I want to start with some football because it's me and Hawk in here.
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Did anyone ever call you Big Red? Go for it. I don't know. I didn't know.
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Yeah, for sure.
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But that's because he lived there for eight months. That's eight months longer than everybody else on the football team.
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Talking football. Real ball knowers in here. Hut, hut. And it's the only sport that, like, this country really cares about. All other sports are tertiary. There's one sport that's main, and that's football, and we finna get some more of it, supposedly. So, Hawk, 18 games.
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I know like hockey nicknames is like you just add a Y to things, right?
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Yeah, I think so.
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Maybe Foxy.
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Is that racist? It feels racist.
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What are you doing? I don't know what any of that means, but I loved it. Foxy. Yeah, I feel like football nicknames, sometimes you get a little Y action. Sometimes you get...
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a like the first syllable of your name but you also i think we do like the distinguishing characteristic yeah it's like if you're just moved here from cali then you're gonna be cali or if you got a big head you're gonna be noggin it's not that deep yeah no it's not yeah no but i mean it's it's a it's deeper than hockey nicknames hockey nickname is lazy throw a y on that thing yeah we're gonna we're gonna yeah we're gonna give you something else
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Yeah, I was looking around this room and all the nicknames that I came up with when I... When it first came. When you got back into football mode, it was like, okay, I can't say that. Oh, yeah. On my show, Charlie and I have a rule where you can ask for permission to go back to the 90s.
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And if permission is granted...
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You get to say things, but it's understood. Only for 90 seconds. Yeah. You go back to the 90s. That's a good thing. 90 for 90.
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And so in a text, I forgot I went back to the 90s, so I just instituted that I can apply for retroactive 90s pardons. Because I was... Ooh, Charlie. I... I know we should do give it to me. We were bragging. I was we were bragging about our Uber ratings. And so I was challenging Charlie to put his Uber rating up versus my Uber rating. Yeah. And so I don't want to spoil it.
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You know what we should do? I want everybody to go find your Uber rating. And don't tell it, don't yell it out, but I want everyone to find your Uber rating. I do Ubers for groups a lot. Oh, hush up, hush up. Whoa, no. Same excuse. Nope, nope, nope. Same excuse.
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All right. Everybody, find your Uber rating. Write it down. And I'm going to do Charlie. I would like you. Maybe we'll do it next segment. guess the order of everyone's Uber rating. So based on what you know about the people in here, I want you to guess the order of the Uber ratings. And I would like also, people at home, we'll give you some time, next segment, or at work, wherever you are.
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I want you to guess, too. Hopefully at work. I mean, maybe.
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Hopefully not at work. Yeah, man. No, do what you got to do. I mean, what do people do listening to this show? Do you sit and watch it? Maybe you're. Yeah, I hope you're listening at work. That's better than. Right. I mean, I guess I don't know.
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In a new era of media, do you. Does anybody just sit and. And like my kids will go on YouTube and actually just watch YouTube. Do people do that with this show where they put it on and like full attention, I'm watching this, or is it like a side screen action?
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I want some tweets. Some tweets of people showing us their setup or telling us what they do while they're listening to the show. And I also want some tweets of you guys guessing the list You're going to get a lot of toilets if you send in where you're listening to the show.
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I don't care. I don't be on Twitter. I just want some engagement, baby. Let it rock. But also, I'll give you the list of names in here if you're not watching so that you can make your own list at home. So it's me. Andrew Hawkins. I'm Dominic Foxworth. Andrew Hawkins. You got Chris Cody.
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I mean, I wish.
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I know. We did the intros, but like now. Why are you redoing them? I'm not redoing them. I just feel like, okay, it's fine. They remember.
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Look at Lucy. You see, there's no gravel. I heard gravel. There's no gravel.
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Let me play it again. His name is Andrew?
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Yeah, probably not. Just threw him under the bus. Hold on. I'm going to play Leroy and Lucy again, and this will determine whether Andrew took us back to the 90s or not.
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He tried to make it deeper. He's Leroy. The ending was a little, ugh. Yeah. It had a little of that to it. Let's hear Lucy real quick. It felt like he wanted us to believe he was the descendant of slaves. He clearly is not.
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Put some stank on it, Andrew. Look at Lucy. Chris, you tried to defend my man, but my man brought no pain. There was no pain. That reminds me. So I mentioned that I saw Pep at Aspen. But on the flight home from Aspen, I was sick.
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Remember when Pep Hamilton got an interview just like a week ago?
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Yeah, so it also contributes 100%. I guess it doesn't need an analogy.
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Thank you. I don't know. Thank you.
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You want to start with some niche sports equinox? No, run the damn ball. Start with football. Run the rock. FB dive. Oh, yeah. So the 18-game thing is something we've been talking about for a while. Even back when you and I were in the league, they put it on the table in the 2011 negotiations, and we promptly slapped that shit right off the table.
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Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.
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But we knew it was coming back around because the NFL has – a ton of power and leverage, and money is what matters. So what are you thinking, Hawk, about the 18-game schedule that the owners are now at the owner meeting and the breakers discussing it today?
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We would rip the thigh pads out because the thigh pads were made of like cushioning around a tiny plastic plate and everyone would cut the plate out and just put the plate in your thighs or wear nothing. Or wear nothing.
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So I agree with that as the league strategy. And the league's other strategy is also be bigger and more powerful.
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Do you want money or not? Yeah, we could talk about it. I think we should actually get into how the increased revenue is going to be split because it's going to go disproportionately to the stars and quarterbacks, while the people who are going to take the brunt of the wear and tear are not those guys. But I would like to also focus on how old we are because... It's a good topic. You know what?
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I remember coming up and learning that at one point there was only 14 games. And I was like, man, that's crazy. And to imagine that I played in the league, the league will soon have 18 games. I would have played like you think about that. You think about the players who played in a 14 game league when we were in a 16 game league. I thought about them like they were. Like, fossilized.
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I am going to be a guy very soon, when they had 18 games, and they could be like, oh, you play? They used to have 16 games? I'm like, yeah, we used to have 16 games.
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So we... Yeah, this is not the smart idea to talk about how old we are to start this show.
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But I need it. It's okay that I have to work. No more games. No more games. So there's a couple different avenues that we could go down. And I think the idea of... Flooding the market with a product eventually has some sort of backlash is one way to go, but I don't feel like we got any takers. I was talking to Charlie about this yesterday, and he looked at me like I was stupid.
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Oh yeah, welcome to the Dan Levitard Show sans Dan Levitard. But don't worry, I got you. I'm here with my dog, Hawk, and it's not just him. We got a whole bunch of people. Give me some music, Chris. In the EP chair. Oh, this is nice. It's Chris Cody, a.k.a. Christmas Cody, a.k.a. Big Red.
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So I know how ridiculous it sounds that giving more football could be a bad thing, because I know how much we all love football.
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However, the final week of the season last year, there was a lot of trash on my TV screen.
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The two bye weeks is not going to solve the fact that there are going to be more irrelevant games at the end of the season. And there's a possibility that we could get tired of football. Am I crazy? Am I crazy, Chris?
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So all week ones.
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You'd get up for week one.
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Okay, good. I was fortunate enough to not have those situations, but I guess I'm not a math major, but my thought would be that if you extend the season, there's more of a chance for you to end up with more teams that are out of it, and that's what I'm concerned about more than anything. That aside, is it possible, and this is a broader business question probably,
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that there's a bunch of different ways to like kill a business and maybe i'm wasting my time and i'm going down a really ridiculous path but one of those ways is always tied to greed yep and it's saturation yeah and like as we have the nba and like i know we're not going to 82 football games and we have major league baseball i think we all acknowledge that the nba would be far more entertaining if we had
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That's a 60-game season.
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There's never been a dope dealer on the corner. Yeah, it's like, man, how am I going to move this?
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Yay, private equity makes everything better.
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Nope. Back to you. It was good. I like that. Next to him, we got Roy, the Iceman, a.k.a. the boy toy. Roy Bellamy. What's up? Love you, Roy. In the back row behind Roy, we got Jessica Smetana, a.k.a. Smetty Wap, a.k.a. Trap Queen. Smetty King. Why are you still dabbing? Smitty gang, we dab forever! Just waiting for them to put me on camera. There it is! Dab in, I see you. Let's go!
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I guess to your point, Mike, and Hawk and I both work at ESPN, and we talk about football year-round. So adding a week of more football, we're going to be talking about it whether they're games or not. At least it'll be another week of football.
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I mean, it was also thought like we were coming out of the concussion stuff, and we cared for a hot second. It was a quick minute, wasn't it, that we cared?
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Yeah. And I remember, so, like, I guess we all have these things that you get, like, unreasonably attached to. And as someone who played in the NFL, like, I'm like an NFL guy. And I remember the Mark Cuban quote, and he called us hoggy. He was like, it's looking real hoggy. Like, who you talking about?
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Yeah, and I text Roger and was like, you know what? Let's take Christmas. Let's take Christmas. Let's take Christmas. Shut that man up. Take Christmas from him. The idea, when it first got put on the table, we slapped it off the table in large part because we wanted to make advancements in health and safety. But I think sometimes we touch on this.
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From a union standpoint, we always assume that there are two parties, the union and the league, that are of equal power that can have a negotiation. But once I heard 18 games was on the table and 18 games meant more money, I knew at some point the league was going to get it done.
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Because the challenging part about it, though, is when you talk about adding more money, and it's going to be a lot more money in the salary cap for everybody, which is nice, but it's all going to go to the quarterbacks and to the top-level receivers, which is, I guess, why the NBA ends up with a max salary provision to make sure that the guys who are in the league that are also going to be
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in football's case, going to be taking the brunt of the injuries and hits and all that from this. We'll get some of that.
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The franchise tag is exhausting for a lot of players. It helps out some players, but for most of them it gets in the way. We have this conversation a lot about running backs because the idea of positional value when you are so good that you're the centerpiece of the offense.
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I would argue that Christian McCaffrey at his peak is worth as much as any top receiver because the offense is built around him. To your point, there were a bunch of different proposals made in the union before we would take them to the league about how to protect salaries for specific groups.
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A salary floor was never one that was considered because the assumption is, particularly in the running back position, is if you raise a salary floor for a player, you're just going to get them cut, especially at a position that feels like the.
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it's pretty interchangeable some of the other things that were more that were entertained more realistically was creating a separate pool just for quarterbacks because that was always the the scary thing was like oh the quarterback's gonna take all the money ain't gonna be nothing left for any of us
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It's it's it's really, really fun. And for anyone who's been even around Miami when it's going on, you can just feel the energy of 70, 80,000 people who are just there for this incredible event that is now citywide. Hundreds of private dinners and restaurants everywhere. the big events on the beach, lots of satellite events in different neighborhoods all over the city. So it's really exciting.
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I keep going back to the well until the well runs dry, Dan. That's the whole point. No, the restaurant industry has suffered immensely from... No, I understood that part. It was the taking it in the shorts part that I didn't understand. I like that. Keep going back to the same group of metaphors. Sacks.
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And number one? Number one has to be what are called in the rest of the world groundnuts, but we call them here in America peanuts because of their versatility, popularity, and I think texturally what happens to them at different temperatures makes them really popular with culinarians. We can do a lot with peanuts.
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I am still buddies with Cousin Stiz. We're social media buddies, but we slide into each other's DMs frequently. One of these days, I will be in a city where he is performing and take my kids and we'll go. Should be a good time. He's a great dude.
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It's interesting. You know, I sort of fell into a television career. You know, I was a chef and a restaurateur and... You know, I had never thought of myself as a storyteller, but in fact, that's what I was doing with my food. That's what I was doing whenever I was, you know, on the stump in the food world, flying my trade, you know, at events like the one in South Beach that you're talking about.
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And then I in the early days of food television, this is 28 years ago, started to get my mind my name out there and started to do some little appearances. And then it led to national appearances that led to national regular appearances on other people's shows and then ultimately to my own work. And obviously, Bizarre Foods is a legacy show on for 12 years. We made hundreds of episodes at one
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a gazillion awards. And I guess probably as famously as all of that, Monday nights on Travel Channel for years was Star Foods with me and No Reservations with my friend Tony Bourdain, back to back for many, many, many years. And I think for a lot of folks, young and old, that was a pivotal moment in the history of
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food television where it wasn't a talking head standing behind a cutting board making you teaching how to grill a steak or make a pasta. It was actually innovative explorers out in the world bringing cultures that you may not be exposed to and new ideas and new ways of thinking about not just food, but about all totems of culture right into your living room.
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And that's what I've continued to do with my 14, 15 shows since then with all of my nonprofit work, with all of the other things I do with my production company, Intuitive Content, is we try to keep people curious and bring ideas out into the forefront of American culture that may be buried or come from somewhere else that people may not want to hear about.
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yeah uh botswa not even close i went in there i am a very cynical overly educated uh east coast old man and uh if you had told me that a human being could eat piles of hot charcoal four feet away from me, dig himself into the sand, disjoint his shoulders and hips to do that, and then astrally project himself miles and miles away.
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And have another shaman go into my head and learn things about me that there is no way he could have known about. No way. All that stuff happened in front of me. And then I went and sat outside the shaman's hut because I didn't want anyone to talk to him because I had to ask him when he came out how he knew what he knew about my life. And he actually went into my head and.
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We had a shared experience and we captured it on tape. And I'm just hysterically crying. I'm clearly in another place with him. It was one of the most staggering experiences of my life. But that's where I learned how to be.
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Oh, that is that is a Minnesota flag that was carried by a regiment to Round Top in at Gettysburg. See what I mean? I collect a lot of unusual memorabilia, and I actually think really well amongst a lot of clutter. So you see a lot of things behind me. This is actually my office. That's one of Paul McCartney's guitars over my other shoulder. But I happen to have a...
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over on this little thing here i have the nut sacks of six or seven different animals uh that i've taken in the wild and whose balls i've eaten and most people gravitate towards that first and foremost i have that in my house too well as does everyone i just have more of them which animals There's a well, the largest belongs to the 25th largest wild bison ever taken.
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I shot it in New Mexico about eight years ago. It's about this big. And it goes down to, I mean, relatively small, but, you know, Kudu, you know, which is an African bison. antelope and a lot of different animals in between. I have a wildebeest nutsack over there that is about the size of a softball. And they're tanned. I actually tan them myself in a rustic way. You just put salt into them.
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And the most awkward thing in the world is once you start collecting them, When you're out with tribal peoples or you have an opportunity to harvest an animal and eat it with a tribe, and I say, can I have the nutsack? And they look at me like I'm crazy. And I tell them I'm going to make a purse out of it. And then sometimes they fill it with salt and they tan it for me.
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And one tribal people, I was there for a week. They actually put a little leather around it, like a little drawstring pouch, so I could actually use it. I just don't like to take it out in public because people ask all kinds of crazy questions. What's that nut sack doing in your hand Zimmern? Well, can we see show us your nut sacks?
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He had the opportunity to prank us This is an African antelope called a kudu More hair than I thought.
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It's the size. By the way, this is almost the size. It's nutsack is the size of my head.
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That's exactly right. I will tell you, I will tell you that one of the funniest episodes of Bizarre Foods that we ever shot, we went, we were in Beijing and we went to a restaurant where all they serve are dishes made with the twigs and berries of various animals around the world. And I was with a guide and, you know, because I don't speak Chinese and no one in that place spoke English.
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And, you know, my Mandarin is terrible. wonky and uh we just ordered the tasting menu and they start and i my lips to god's ears is true they start with the smallest twig and berry set of a snake and it goes all the way up to an ox for your final course. Then it goes back down, because dessert is a sweet one made with azimuth and frog testicles, which are very, very small.
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And it tastes sort of like a rice dessert, or a tapioca pudding sort of thing. But I will say, That as crazy as that all sounds and as much as even I'm giggling on the inside, when people say, well, we want to eat all parts of the animal and we want full utilization so we're not wasting. It is that it is those experiences from.
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20 years ago 15 years ago that is the reason why i'm the global ambassador uh for food and specifically food waste for the united nations world food program because i've seen what full utilization looks like and i understand I think what's tolerable in different cultures around the world.
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So it informs a lot of my even a lot of my nonprofit work and other things that I've won a lot of attention for. And in some cases, you know, some hardware.
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You want to know something? You want to know something from a creative standpoint? And I'm not doing any log rolling here. When my publicity people called and said, do you want to go on and talk to you? I was like, are you kidding me? Because they had never asked me who I listened to and have listened to for years and years. You've been in my home for decades. 15 years, I think.
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So, so that joke is more than one location. So my, my, my point is a complete stranger that I don't have any respect for yet, except for the natural respect that I bring that new relationship. I might, I might drop trow, but I have too much respect for you, believe it or not.
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Well, I mean, okay. Define happy. I'll tell you one thing, though. I don't think Emmy would have been out of the question.
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Well, I think I think it's the biggest in the country, and it is one of my favorites. And, you know, I was there in year one. I've been a part of this forever. The people who created this festival are close friends of mine. The recipients are close friends of mine. The Chaplin family I've gotten to know. FIU I've gotten to know and spoken there many times.
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But what's really amazing is we started giving money into the scholarship fund. And we get volunteers from the school to come help us at these big events. I mean, I'm I'm cooking a fancy pants dinner Thursday night at Lamar in in Miami. I'm doing some stuff at Foodie Con on Saturday. I am co-hosting. I hope you're co-hosted the closing event on the beach. I think every year that they've had one.
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And I'm doing a demo on Sunday in the Grand Tasting Tent. And we have FIU students helping us all the time because those are our volunteers. They help make the festival go and the students get a chance to work with the great chefs in the world that fly for this event. What's nuts is to be in a restaurant
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In Orlando or Palm Beach, you know, and I'm there with my friends or my family and the chef comes out and, you know, the food's fantastic. And, you know, I told chef, nice to meet you. And he says, it's just an honor to meet you again. And I'm just and I said, oh, forgive me for not remembering.
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And he turns on his phone and shows me a picture of him as a student at FIU, volunteering in my booth or at my demo. And it happens to me at least twice a year. And the reason I bring that up is that the restaurant industry has really taken it in the shorts over the last eight, nine years, with the downturn in the economy, then COVID, and we could just keep going on and on and on.
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So supporting scholarships for people that want to keep the culinary culture alive in America, which is about 11 percent of GDP. Sorry, it's about six independent restaurants alone or about six and a half percent of GDP. That's just independent restaurants. Just independent restaurants employ 11 million people.
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Independent restaurants, which is where most really good culinarians go to ply their trade, that's the heartbeat of America. It's where we celebrate our birthdays and anniversaries and go on first dates and last dates and, you know, everything in between. So vitally important work. So, you know, we... Talk about eat, drink and educate. And we get a chance to do all of that.
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Yeah, you know, Dan, and I think the thing I thought of was that because obviously we only found out because Dwayne Wade talked about it on his podcast a year and a half or more later. And it reminded me of and I thought back to around the time he says this happened, 2023. Did I notice that Dwayne Wade was kind of conspicuously absent or low key? And I'm like, I don't have any memories of.
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But then it made me think of Chadwick Boseman, who we didn't know was fighting cancer that whole time up until he passed away. And I said, oh, he had cancer? He had aggressive cancer, apparently. But we didn't know. We just thought he was just over the whole Wakanda Forever thing in all those photos he took with fans and stuff like that.
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And in reality, no, he's exhausted because of cancer treatments. And that was the thing that really... kind of got me thinking, like, wait a second, Dwayne Wade's been walking around making appearances, TV, as owner of the Utah Jazz, all those things, and we just didn't know that whole time he was dealing with this.
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I mean, that's some real strenuous work conditions. I'm working while I'm trying to be careful.
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You know, the crazy one about that, Andrew, is we get a lot in the NBA where guys, because they are large human beings, their heart just gives out. And everyone always seems to think, oh, it's a retired guy. You know, you probably let yourself go. And I'm talking like Sean Rooks is the name that always comes to mind. Sean Rooks was a dude that didn't eat well. He cleaned, right? He didn't smoke.
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He didn't drink. Exercise all the time, right? And he was on a coaching staff, which means every year, you know what happens. The first day of training camp, what do we do? We all do physicals, right? Everybody, staff, players, everything. So this is someone not only doing all the right things as far as how to live a healthy lifestyle. Mm-hmm.
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But was getting the checks and balances on at least a yearly basis, regularly. And then it's just like that. And that's the stuff that it's kind of humbling when you think of just the mortality of it. Man, there ain't no control we have over any of this stuff, man. Sure, we can do certain things, but you don't control it. You're just trying to mitigate risk is what you're doing.
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Anti-inflammatories is what... It was linked to kidney disease and kidney failure. Larry Johnson famously stopped taking anti-inflammatories because of what happened to Alonzo Mourning. And his career overnight went to like almost hit a wall because his back was completely messed up from earlier back surgery. And so he needed that just to feel loose.
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I'm just thinking of the poor team doctor or trader or whatever sitting in his office like, all right, guys, game day. Let me see. Let me look up some last things. And here come the three new guys. All right. Just like, uh...
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What was that like the first time you had to play without Toradol? After you've experienced the bliss of Toradol, now it's like a band, hey, you gotta just go out there and play.
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And here is the actual hit in question. I like that there's someone in a darkened room with a slideshow. Picture one, like, I'll talk in picture two.
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He was clearly head and shoulders above the competition.
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Yeah. Like you say, Troy is taking crazy chances. But for him, it's probably just rinse and repeat. Right.
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It was amazing because he hits, and before he gets to first base, the entire team has come out. Everyone gets a high five. On the first baseline side. And they're all just, and he literally stands still. He's not like jogging and shouting them out. He just stands there. What's up now? What's up? It reminds me of Peter Warrick in the Sugar Bowl. Y'all want me to end this shit right now?
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Again with Peter Warrick. Dude, it's one of the. Hey, I'm going to tell you right now, there's like, I think every person has like three to five athletes in their life. It doesn't matter what their actual ranking is in the sport. In that moment, you're like that. That's the guy. You cannot tell me a football player that I feared more than Peter Warrick. Wow. That was the pinnacle of football.
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It's crazy because- You made five dudes miss. The way you describe it, not the actual play, but describe all the ramifications, it is clearly- the most important to your life, like, most important moment of your entire life. It is. This is what made you millions of dollars and allows you to sit right here and crack jokes about having a date.
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And all I'm imagining is that he can't feel anything.
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Oh, my God. That's got to be the cool part, right? Stu Scott was on the call. Yeah. I'm watching it.
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Yeah, man, it was... That's the part that I think... I've only obviously been tangential, right? Where they're talking about us, but it's not that I did, right? But the part, Dan, where... You win a big game. You have a great game. That's awesome. But then when you go home and say, let me see what these bastards on SportsCenter are talking about. Just turn it on. And you watch it on repeat.
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You know how they repeat the SportsCenter after something?
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What are we doing? Why are we making this? Look, the man made his fortune as a land man. You guys saw the show. All he wants to do is hang out with his family. Looking for glory holes. Glory holes. That's all it's about? It's about family. And glory holes.
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It deserved a whoop. A couple of them. It was earned. There's a couple of them in there, man.
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I think it gets two whoops. There was at least two whoops. It's two whoops.
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There's the first cut that he makes and then the sidestep to come back to the inside and going this way.
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That's crazy, man. You've never even seen that really done in a game at that speed. In my mind, you said whoop as you did it. Yes, bro.
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So you're telling me there was no big picture. It was just, I can't get tackled by him. I can't. Like, wait a second. Is that the end song? The first sound he made did sound like fire.
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Because it's orange, there's this brownish orange. History. You ready for some football history?
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And you're like, it's okay to be inappropriate. What? He wasn't being inappropriate. He was talking about glory holes like a land man, though. Glory holes.
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He earned the All-Star game. So did Jamal McGraw.
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glory that he was good job jamal mcglure just got a quick google search you know who tyler hero is but have you ever thought like man that controversy down there in miami with tyler just guys been a part of every superstar trade conversation for the last five years chris i just quickly i don't want to break off hawk but like basically what makes tyler hero a national thing is number one the damian lillard talk number two was that clip that on me on his podcast that ran on tnt
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Those are the two big things. Had to be good for subscriptions.
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Yeah. Let's resurface it. How's that podcast doing now? Let's not talk about it.
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It's because we're talking about one bit. Landman is a television show on the Paramount Plus Network, right? Okay. And it's Billy Bob Thornton. It's Jon Hamm. It's about the people in the oil industry in Texas, right? Okay, go on. And so one of the episodes has a cameo by Jerry Jones, who, of course, made his nut in the oil business, right?
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We'll ask Andrew Zimmern about that later in the show. So he does this, right? He comes in and he gives this great speech to Jon Hamm, whose character is in the hospital. He had a heart attack. He's got the beep, the defibrillator and all that stuff happening in the background.
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By Jerry Jones. Great acting. In a room with Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Hamm. Jerry Jones is the best actor in the room. Did he know that it was a show? I don't think so.
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Yeah, I mean. And so he talks about what this business is all about. It's about your family. I didn't buy the Dallas Cowboys for anything else. I wanted to work with my kids. I want to surround myself with my kids for the rest of my life. This is acting.
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Black people lotion their elbows daily. Roy, have you ever had anyone at work tell you that your elbows need lotion?
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They do, but... It's more of like... I'm still a little skeptical. I look at it, and it's a brand name, but I'm like, you're in a dollar store, though.
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It's my whole platform. You walked in with a cigar and a monocle.
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Oh, that's right. The plates, right? There you go. Commemorative plates came from a dollar store. They wouldn't be a dollar now. They'd be 55 cents.
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No, no, no. It's funnier to do it like that. Under, yeah.
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Well, Dan, I think I can answer that question. The dollar store does not say how many dollars. It just says dollar store. As opposed to 99 cents only, which went out of business because your name is 99 cents only. So the moment when you get the things are 109, 129, 139, you kind of then have a false advertising.
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Dan, I swear to God, this happened to me in real life. I worked for one of the teams I worked for. The general manager asked me what I wanted to be, and I was like, I just want to help the team win championship. And he said, no, no, no, everyone has their own motivation and stuff. He said, for me, example, I'm the general manager. I manage things generally.
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And I looked at him and I said, are you serious? That was his definition of GM. What's a GM do? I manage things generally.
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He has never talked about being an MVP, being the best in the league. I'm sure that stuff is in the back of his mind, but even in his personal conversations that I've been around and a witness to, all he cares about is winning a Super Bowl. And that's because I think he grew up here in South Florida, And that's also all the youth football players here care about.
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Like when I play with kids from South Florida in the NFL, they don't talk about college. They talk about when they were playing against Pompano or Tamarack. And it's like a point of pride. I never understood it until I got here. So for Lamar, truly, the Super Bowl does represent something else. And he's going to be that hard critic on himself, too.
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No, by the way, Sloan Sports Analytics credential.
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Please give those players their rings. Which corpse did you raid to get those rings? He's the one buying the rings off of eBay.
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Wow. What podcast awards?
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Is it a pull or a push? What is it?
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Congrats to Sam. And congratulations.
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I don't even know if those are confetti cannons. I think they're just containers of confetti. Mine just opened up and spilled out slowly. Yes, that's...
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Demand a recount. Real quick question. So you say the podcast awards, but there's not a name. What is the name? I'm looking at all the... Let's go with the potties. The potties, yeah.
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Now there's a war on clarity. That's the thing, right? You can't even have real context of what the hell you're celebrating. These are the most prestigious awards. It's all you need to know. Okay, well, I don't say congratulations unless I'm impressed, and I need to have context to be impressed. I do not think he has a better football podcast than Mina Kimes.
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So let's all continue to do mental gymnastics to figure out how this happened. That's all I'm asking.
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Because he's celebrating his own day. What is the population in this town?
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I'd like to see if I should be impressed. Thank you.
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I'm just saying. Just get the look at me Louie button ready. What do you mean look at me Louie button?
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The American football pod, best American football podcast.
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It's nice and hot now. There's an Andrew Hawkins day. That's all I'm saying. There it is. Now you can hit it. Where? Hit it, please.
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Located in Cambria County.
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It's not. I think we're at roughly a 17,000 population.
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I'm just letting you know that's where my bar is.
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I have a declaration from Mayor Tregonia for October 20th, 2011 for Andrew Hawkins Day. My family celebrates that every year.
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The black guy is the fraud. I should have seen this coming. I should have seen it coming a mile away. Are you saying that is AI racially biased?
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I pressed it.
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What in the hell is that AI? First off, if it was a personal achievement... Why would they make the decision not to even acknowledge it? And then when you, like, are you sure? All right, so there's this thing he makes up on social media, but I'm not even going to act like it's a real thing.
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And I'm not talking Allen Iverson. No, D-E-I is racist. This is ridiculous.
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No, we got to zoom in on the embossed seal. There it is. From Mayor Thomas Tregonia. In Johnstown, on behalf of our city council and all of our citizens, extend to Andrew this expression of our esteem and our very best wishes and thanks to him and his family. Andrew Hawkins Day. Mayor of that city.
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Are we willing to take a government proclamation with a city? This doesn't feel a little racially biased.
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Look at that. The apology is never as loud as the accusation.
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Okay, I don't trust that. I don't trust the potties. Sports Podcast Awards. The spas. The potties. Is what we're calling it. The spas.
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It's okay. I forgive you. Shout out to Peloton as I'm taking my victory lap. through God's country, also known as Johnstown, Pennsylvania, population of roughly 19,000. As I sit here over top as Johnstown, Pennsylvania's favorite son, the home of also Jack Hamm, who does not have his own day.
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I actually don't know, but I'm sure if you check chat TPT, Mike, they would say he has seven days because he is not black and they won't discredit it without the proclamation and official seal. Shout out to Billy Gill, OK, for your day, because now that I see the way this company approaches people who have through their esteemed accomplishments,
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had their own holiday in their honor, I now understand that I was mistaken for trying to find out the population of your city. It is an incredible honor. Congrats to you and your family. And congrats on your big spa, your spa award, your potty award. Congrats on using the potty, Billy. I'm very proud of you. Shout out to Peloton.
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And most importantly, and I'll end with this, shout out to me, right? Everybody. Look at me, Louie, baby.
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Look, I love Stu Gatz. Don't know if he has the best American football podcast. He does. I'm a big football guy. Don't know if you know that about me.
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From the spas.
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The potty.
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Can we get a little research?
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Yes, you should. It should be soiled on. I think I'm excited. I'm excited for the awards. Congratulations to you guys. Can I start by saying that? Although I'm not starting, I kind of went in a different direction already, but I want to say congratulations. I do have questions about what the hell we're talking about.
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giving and receiving to just ask questions in i just want to know how happy i should be very why because he won the best american podcast you guys podcast i've been on this show so many times not a single time have i come on here and been introduced as a cambria county sports hall of famer that's true you've never associated hall of fame with my name that's correct You know why?
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Because it matters who the hell is calling you a Hall of Famer. No, it doesn't. So I'm all for awards. Okay, if that's the case, I don't ever want to show up here without being described as a Hall of Famer.
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They probably had Shea Shea and Black American. Best African American. Best African American, yeah. Okay. Now we're getting down to somewhere.
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I thought when that audio started playing, it was Shannon Sharps. That was Dan. I'm like, whoa.
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I can't see that. Refuse to believe Stu Gatz has a better football podcast than Mina.
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Yeah. The other teams, we were jealous of the other teams' success. No, this is around the conversation of Cam Newton saying he wouldn't trade his MVP for a Super Bowl. And everyone was like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe you would say that. And I'm like, I kind of can. I mean, I think that that makes sense.
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So Stugas getting his personal achievement over Meadowlark winning the best podcast company. You know what? We should celebrate it because personal achievement is OK. And I don't like the war that's going on against personal achievement.
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It wasn't because of me not like Barkley, you know It's the greatest American spin is what this is and I'm not against team sports I'm not against team success like that is the goal the goal is to do both to be the best in the world and also Let the fact that you are so good at what you do create a champion in your entire team but nobody in America
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is going to work their whole life at something, a passion, and be like, I'd rather do it for my company. That's the thing that people miss, is that athletes really, I mean, yes, we all want to win the championship, because again, it's another signal that we're the best at something. But when you distill it down, it's you working for your company.
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And you're not gonna trade your company's success for your own legacy. You know why you hardly ever hear about MVP trophies being sold on eBay? That's such a good point. Do you know why? Think about that. Why you've never heard, oh, this MVP is hard on money, and they're selling their MVP trophy.
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Bingo. Right? Because it's a lot harder for an MVP to run out of money than it is somebody who was a part of a 70-person roster with a ring. Again, this is not an indictment on championships for organizations and teams. That's what this is all about. But for the athletes as well, like, yeah, it makes... I don't like the fact that it's a bad thing to... to feel like you're the best in the world.
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Like Josh Allen is another good example. If he does win an MVP, it's like, oh, you shouldn't be happy about that. What the hell are you talking about? You dream about this stuff since you're four years old. Yes. Yes, you should be trying to win a Super Bowl, Josh. But if you win an MVP, feel good about it.
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Yes, I'm sure I noticed it. I don't know if I really dialed in. It's what I expected. The Mark Andrews catch was probably 10x easier than the Dalton Kincaid catch. And I don't even like the fact that people act like that was an easy catch for Dalton Kincaid. It wasn't. It was an incredible play by Josh to give him a play. And it was a... a harder degree of difficulty than the Lamar throw.
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And it's like people will nitpick about anything, but regardless, maybe I don't feel a way about it because with Lamar, I know how hard Lamar is on himself. Like Lamar has... been so consistent in his approach to the game, and I've spent time around him, and it is not fake at all. He genuinely only gives a damn about a Super Bowl. And that's what makes him an anomaly.
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We agree that Rocky had DTE early in the game. Yes. From day one. From day one. He came into the pros with CTE, do you agree? Yes, advanced. It was like, he shouldn't have been fighting. We can look back and be like, hey, maybe you should just keep the warehouse job.
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It's just not revealed yet.
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I'm the secret sauce. Are you actually going to come out against the UFL? No, I love the UFL. The UFL is great. I just take issue with you pointing to me. about a league I did not play in.
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I love it. My question, and this is very – I don't even want to qualify. But, okay, so the players that are fighting for – the money and all the things, it feels a little premature. What is? Like the, I don't know what the UFL makes. I don't know what those TV contracts look like. I don't know what the CBS, I'm coming in this unchecked. That's how we like it. That's how we like it here, right?
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But I will say that when I'm looking at the UFL, to your point about CFL, my opportunity there being similar, is I'm looking at it as an opportunity to build a profile and tape to try to make it to the NFL versus creating a career out of the UFL. Now there will be players that do so. And that's great. Not by choice, though.
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And I kind of feel like it's cutting your nose off to spite your face a little bit for a work stoppage in a scenario where you guys are trying to put enough film out there to make it to the big show, which is kind of the whole premise around quote unquote spring football in the first place. So that's not...
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It's not disrespectful to the UFL to say you're a feeder league to the NFL because that's how it's built versus the CFL truly views himself as a self-contained professional league in their country that has been around longer than the National Football League.
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Is that true? It is true. What? Absolutely true. Yes. It is the OG. You mean older than the merger? No. Older than the actual league? Older than the actual league. And then also, you've got to realize, in the 70s... 1956 is what I'm looking at here. The salaries are comparable. That's not older than the NFL then. Well, then it is the merger. Well, the NFL.
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In my older age, I have become a lot more appreciative of Rocky V. I showed my kid one through four, and we went one day binge-watched all of them.
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Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for watching.
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Rocky wasn't even in eight. He wasn't in the second one? No. The Creed series is slowly making its way to goat black movie franchise.
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He's a bad dude. Hold on, Clubber Lane. Clubber Lane was not a good dude.
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I love that we're calling it Rocky IX. It's Rocky IX. He gets a world title shot very quickly.
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Secret sauce. So this is what I believe.
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Annoying, shrill voice. Shrill. He should have took the fight. I mean, could we not be honest and say he shouldn't have fought the dude? Who? Anybody shouldn't have fought the dude? You're saying Apollo should not have fought the dude? Apollo shouldn't have fought him. It was an exhibition. He didn't know the dude was going to go like that.
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Rocky shouldn't have fought him after he watched him kill Apollo. Rocky should have thrown the towel earlier. But again, think about it. Rocky gets a concussion every... He's clearly concussed. He is a concussion. Can we get an independent neurologist out here? That didn't exist at that time. Or do we... 20CB.
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Look at my finger. All right, he's good. Go.
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Michael Jordan would never fight the person who ended up killing you in the ring for you. That's fair. So this is why Rocky is maybe one of the best friends in American history. I didn't say he's a great friend.
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He's got the premonition. He's going to do it. Number one. Because he wants Michael Jordan to go to his funeral. He's going to make sure it happens.
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Millions of cognac and cigars a year on your body.
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Yeah, he's not. You see how I'm trying to dig into it? I'm trying to make sure I keep my money. Like, I can't believe. I'm sorry, Mike. All you said he spends his money on is cigars and cognac.
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Yeah, Russell Wilson. About how it's so sad that he gets to go make up the $21 million with the New York Giants. And that it's a terrible ending to a career. I completely disagree with that take. I think he might be the happiest person in all of free agency.
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I can't see a world at all where Russell Wilson, I'm not even kidding, not even a single point of it I can see where he would be disappointed in how things transpired, especially given where he was with the Denver Broncos. And he was positive in that situation. Yeah. And it was clearly him and his coach did not get along. His coach hated his guts.
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He got cut in a season where he was playing decent. And the thing about it is he didn't finish last year great. He is aging. Everyone does. He's not a young quarterback. But he's not playing that far off of the way that he's always played. And that is just the elements around him. And now he gets to go to New York media market with his superstar wife. Well, superstar.
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Back into, yeah, Ciara's a superstar, bro. She was a superstar.
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Yes, she is. I would argue she's more famous now than she's ever been. Nah, that can't be true. one two step sir that you guys are living in a moment like she's more visible now no she's not the injection of sports i had the biggest song on the planet the biggest song on the planet she had the the missy cosign i think you guys are really really into hip-hop at the time At that time, absolutely.
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I still think Sierra. When Luda hopped on the track.
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I didn't say it wasn't fire. Dip, dip, dip, dip, dip. I didn't say I wasn't in the party's going hammer. Come on, man. I'm just saying she's still a superstar. She is. And they're now in the media market of New York as opposed to Western Pennsylvania.
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Now do that with Aaron Rodgers over the last three years, and you will see that it's the same thing. He's played better, and yet we still are more excited about Aaron Rodgers.
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You got to develop your young quarterback. You know who's really good at helping develop young quarterbacks with rocket arms at 6'5", with a lot of potential? Stephon Diggs. Josh Allen. Ring a bell, anybody? I love it.
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I can't believe how much we talk about Mack Hollins. Taylor introduced me to that name like a year and a half ago, and now he's a superstar. Black Sierra. I like how we barricaded Mike, by the way. Good job, Billy. I have no idea what Mike's doing because I'm not looking now. There you go.
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I'm not surprised because he is a great talent, and he still is one of the best 32 quarterbacks in the league physically. The question is what comes along with him off the field and being a 42-year-old in a locker room that you don't really feel like you need to be subjected to everything every player is subjected to. How does that play? Hogg, let me ask you a question.
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By the time I retired, when I got plus 30, I hung out more with the coaches than I did the players. Just because I'm married with kids. You got 21-year-olds coming in here with music. I don't know. I was very much the old guy. That's how me and Joe Thomas became friends because he's an offensive lineman. I'm a wide out. But we're both old as hell.
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And he was the only person I could talk to about, like, older person things in the locker room.
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I got to look now. I'm sorry. Yeah, segment's over. Segment's been over. Nobody was going to tell me.
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You're not worried about the aftermath of the breath?
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What is that voice?
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This is a great take.
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That's the effort voice?
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Every champion has a secret sauce.
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Every NCAA champion has the secret sauce. The secret sauce. White guys. Underdog. White guys. There it is. And basketball, same thing. Underdog, white guy.
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Is it that the white guy is like a main part or just that he just needs to be there?
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Briefly have a moment. But it's like for a shot. Have a moment. Could be a shot.
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Okay. Okay. Now, is that reverse engineered? That would be my rebuttal. Right? Can you start? That little moment, not even a big deal, but because that moment is the white guy doing it. That's a ticket. That's a ticket? All right.
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I don't hang out at those bars. You're giving us a glimpse into your life right now.
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The upside-down pineapple thing.
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I have an unchecked theory. Oh. Because I think you're right. Let's do it. So I'll need somebody else to check this. I don't know if we have it. No, no, no. No checking. We don't check around here. We just give theories. How old is the coach? And I don't want to be an ageist. He's pretty old. He's pretty damn old. One of the oldest. Yeah. One of the oldest. I think it's an energy thing.
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I think it's a... I do not feel like... recruiting in the portal as well as recruiting high school, as well as recruiting my own players, and I feel like a lot of the coaches that have expressed that issue or said I'm not doing this, they all come from the old guard, but it's a lot. You are 100% locked in.
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So you're actually taking advantage of the portal in NIL as opposed to being cursed by it. Also, great replacement on the women's basketball side and Coach Cullop. Big fan.
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I forgot that connection. She was the Toledo coach. She's got the energy for it. She's certainly got the energy. I got another secret sauce team, by the way. You watch how you say that. I said, holy Toledo, Batman. No, you said, oh, Toledo. I felt the energy. Holy Toledo.
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I am probably going to catch up on the results.
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Yeah? No, no, no. You said too much. No, no, no.
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Not Sister Jean. Not Sister Jean.
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Isn't that connected, though, in some ways? Is it? Because isn't it probably why LeBron, when he felt... The comments from Stephen A. Smith was probably more disappointed in Stephen A. Smith than he doesn't care what Skip says. And that's probably just hurt Skip even more. Of course. That it's like I not even looked at with enough respect to get under your skin.
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Look. Where's he from? Where's he originally from? He's from Florida. Bible Belt.
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Talk about Dan wanting to parachute in. This is how I feel when I see crazy route footwork videos going viral nowadays or like a bunch of short receivers in the NFL being superstars. I feel like I'm in that straitjacket. I'm Skip Bayless in that situation.
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The fun CTE. See, it's messed up, man. Now I feel bad for Skip Bayless, and I did it before you started this take. It's sad, man. It's sad. Legitimately, the feeling of...
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I think I'm just now realizing that Stephen A. and Skip had the same take this whole time.
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They were on the same team the whole time. I feel like my childhood was a lie.
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I just got to make sure I die in North Carolina. Jordan who? Hopefully he's there. Belfort. You got to die in North Carolina while he's there.
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His putter has to be positioned right by your casket when he gets on the green of hole 17. Yes. And that is the only way he will be at a means field goal.
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Like it needs to be.
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The very least par. And someone had to have bet him before he got to the golf course that he bet he could not – go for par and go to your funeral. That's a parlay, right? A literal parlay. That's good. Yes, that is the only way. If he eagles, he might speak.
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Yeah. Oh, man. Okay, let me get on that. And by speaking, he's going to ask where the bathroom is. No, hold on now. You're not going to do this to me. He's not coming to your funeral with me. He's coming to my funeral. He's not. This is what we do on Fridays. I would be willing to bet so much money. Let's put it in your will. Sure.
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That if I'm wrong, I will give this money to your estate, to whoever you like, whoever you're leaving all your assets to. Yes, I like that. And this is kind of doing me a disservice because Mike's going to see this and he's going to consider it a challenge because I'm saying something you won't do. Andrew Hawkins couldn't do it. I'm saying something that Mike Jordan can't do. Okay.
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He is not coming to your funeral. And that's when he took it personal. He might take that personal, but that is my honest belief right now.
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Mike's not coming to your funeral.
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I don't know what that means. I don't even know what that means. Me neither. I'm just going to say yes. But everybody's response tells me it's something I shouldn't touch.
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But I was really doing that.
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Dang. I don't like it. I still don't get that. So I haven't watched a bunch of NBA games, as you guys well know here. But I did catch this ending. And I do feel like Amin is not doing this game justice. No? You come out with an agenda. I had an agenda? You had an agenda. You come out with the Stephen A. Smith, LeBron. You let that story continue to go on.
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You give it another day of life out the gate. Then you show just the last shot of that game, which is maybe... 6% of that. The story, and again, I'm not the basketball purist. You are. This is the game that you protect, that you love, that you champion. True. This is maybe the best ending of a basketball game that you will ever see. Period. Now look, the stakes aren't playoffs, championship.
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But in a vacuum, not only that, Giddy air balls a floater over LeBron because he's scared. He's having a great game. He's like one assist shy of a triple-double. And I know all this because it's literally the only three minutes of basketball that I've watched this entire year. It was pretty good. Good three minutes. I'm like, damn. You should watch more.
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It's like when you jump in on a show that everyone else is watching. Like you watch Game of Thrones and you're like, wow, I see what the hype is. And you jumped in on the best episode. Yeah. Giddy air balls a floater from point blank range after having a great game.
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And this is after the air ball. Stolen. Stolen. Giddy with the steal. That was his triple-double assist, I believe.
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Yes, I saw it. It was an inbound from LeBron.
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I mean, if you stopped the game right there, yes, that is what the narrative is. If he could just inbound the ball. If we all just died at that moment, then yes. But they ended up scoring a great play because of the attention on LeBron. Reeves goes right to the cup. And at that moment, we thought the game was over. And it was like, oh, that narrative is no longer going to be there.
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How about Patrick Williams in that three, by the way?
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Somebody's got to be on Giddy there, right? I mean, you get the most dangerous guys are everywhere else.
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The most dangerous guy was Josh Giddey.
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Are you going to transition? Yes. To college basketball? Yes. All right. Can I give a disclaimer really quick? Okay. This might come to a shock. A shock to a lot of people. I have no idea who's won a game in the March Madness poll. What? Okay. It's not because I don't like college basketball or March Madness. I promised my kids that I would do a bracket.
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And I've been really busy and haven't had a chance to do a bracket yet. And so I've been not watching the game so I can still do my bracket and be ethical about my picks. Wait, hold on.
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They have done theirs. I have not filled mine out yet. But I have not. Oh, wait. So you're going to hold on. Second chance brackets are a real thing, but you missed the start of the Sweet 16. But I haven't seen any of the games.
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But what you and Mike are saying, though, is really offensive to just people who really love basketball.
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Well, let's go to an investigation here. Let's go because Andrew Hawkins, we now finally have the video here of this Andrew Hawkins investigation. There seemed to be a slight bias here where he said Larry Bird was boring as a player as well. So if you guys can please get me the proof.
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He is claiming that Izzy was the one who mentioned Larry Bird, that it is not him who brought up Larry Bird, and he cannot be accused of bias here. Let's hear the sound. Let's see the investigation.
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Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Then mow it. Cover your balls? Yes or no? At Levitard Show. Put it on the poll. Only the balls. Well, but sometimes, look. You cannot walk from the sauna to the whirlpool and make no stops and no cares about anything. I'm with Hawk on this. And it's not because I don't understand how pours work. And it's not because I don't understand how water works.
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Balls are buoyant. Put it on the poll at Levittard Show. Are balls buoyant?
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It is. Come on. It is. You can't go straight from the sauna to the whirlpool nude in front of people.
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I want to get Hawk's thoughts on something else here. Travis Hunter is saying something, and this is funny to think about, right? Because Travis Hunter was, we had video of him in his kitchen with all of the awards, and I would be for every position getting an award. I'd like to know every year who's the best cornerback. Please tell me every year. Is it Patrick Zerdan? Is it Stingley?
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I'd like to know. Somebody tell me who gets the award for being the best cornerback. But Travis Hunter... Who may be the number one overall pick. I don't know. Shador was teasing Cam Ward here last night saying that Travis is going to be the number one pick.
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So Travis Hunter, here's the sound on him talking about how little money Cam Ward was getting and how prices are rising all over the sport.
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There is so much weird stuff going on all around this sport. Was it an East Carolina punter who's 31 who just entered the portal? There was a punter somewhere. What is happening with Van Dyke? So Van Dyke leaves Miami, goes to Wisconsin, and now he goes to SMU. I thought that was going to be better in Wisconsin than it was. And SMU already has a playoff quarterback?
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because the whole thing is shady because of the contract what was leaked is that he would get six million dollars of that he had a six million dollar offer to not go to the nfl you're going to now start how you well you already have college programs that will compete with the nfl to keep their players from going to the nfl east carolina university's punter luke larson is officially entering the transfer portal following his fourth and now final year with the pirates at
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How much would you pay to go back to college to know what you know now and to just go back and get another year of college?
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I don't think he's thinking about football, though.
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Let me ask you this. Did you know your coaches sucked while they were sucking or did you have to get good coaching later to realize your coaches sucked? Um, that's... I don't want to be harsh, but yes, I do.
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Put it on the poll, please, at Levitard Show. Does it surprise you at all that Andrew Hawkins is stubborn about his arrogance? Why don't you people realize that I'm great and belong in the NFL? Clearly there's something wrong.
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I thought I said Decker.
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My favorite stats that would illustrate to you why it is the AFC East was what it was when the Patriots and Dolphins were both in it. Wes Welker, 50 career touchdowns. One of them for the Dolphins.
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one of them i love that one of them for the dolphins and here's his experience with his neighbors when he was a dolphin i just moved into a house and one of my neighbors said you play for the dolphins i was like yeah he told me no one who were born 12 last year
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He and I think it was Zach Thomas one time got confused outside of a restaurant with a valet and somebody just handed Zach Thomas his car keys. What do you mean that happened? That happens routinely to me. You get handed car keys at a valet? Yes.
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I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there.
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Routinely. What's the most embarrassing one you have there? What's the most memorable one you have? Routinely confused with the valet, someone just hands you a set of car keys.
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I don't know why it is you're always around. Les Taylor is a life adage we should all live by. We were talking about coaches that suck, so let's go to one that is viewed as the best there's ever been in college football. He did a really good, revealing interview with The Pivot. Ryan Clark is doing a lot of good work, and he's also fighting with everybody, which I enjoy. Is his lapel getting bigger?
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Ryan Clark has evidently stepped publicly to Marcellus Wiley, which seems unwise, but Ryan Clark doesn't mind fighting with people. Saban, former Toledo head coach, by the way. I was surprised to hear Saban say this was his greatest regret. They asked him about a coaching regret. See if this one surprises you guys at all.
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Put it on the poll, please, Juju. Would the six-win Wizards win 50 games with Jokic on their team? Six wins is what the Wizards have. They are dreadful. I have a number of different videos that I would like to play for the audience. But first, Andrew Hawkins, I think, I feel like, wants to attack Izzy.
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It's an interesting lack of self-awareness that Jimmy Johnson knew himself well enough that he's like, I will leave college. I don't want to leave Miami. It's my ego. It's I need to test my ego against the best.
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And the reason I bring this up is because we were talking yesterday about something that I found fairly shocking, which is Dan Hurley's arguing with a referee, UConn's basketball coach, back-to-back champion, clearly great. And he says, don't turn your back to me. I'm the best coach. in the bleeping game. If that's the ego of Hurley, what do you think the ego of Pat Riley is?
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What do you think the ego of Nick Saban is if that exists inside of Dan Hurley and gets spit out loud? Can you explain to me these authority figures, the size of their egos after they have had success and where and why they have to test that ego against the best?
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I believe that Pete Carroll, the bigger news there, and Tom Brady returning to be his quarterback.
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Mike Ryan is accusing me of creating tensions everywhere and that he asked me if I'm doing a bit. But this is you volunteering something during the break about Izzy, so you might as well take it up with him.
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But he is single-handedly responsible for losing a Super Bowl. When do you have those with a coaching decision that's that obvious? The game ends, Tom Brady's on the sideline, and Tom Brady has nothing to do with why it is the championships being won. How often do you have a coaching decision at the end of a game that's just like, yep, I'll remember forever that that coach made that decision?
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I am not tarnishing his legacy. I'm saying if I say word association, Pete Carroll, I don't know that people are going to won championships instead of lost championships.
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I'm going to guess slightly older than that. Hawkins is right on the money.
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Is that shared showerheads? Because right now, what what you just created for me is I've got I've got Dion Dawkins and Josh Allen under the same showerhead at the same time. And so the visual you've created.
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It is. You are out here giving us access that we have not had before.
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Okay. You've written that down as well. Thank you. I really do just enjoy creating, mixing and matching, you know, just putting Laramie Tunsil next to C.J. Stroud and just both of them just showering under the same. And, you know, C.J. saying.
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That's a little warm. I'd like I'd like a little I'd like it a little colder. It just doesn't what you're describing doesn't make sense.
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Can you give me the name of somebody that you were bothered because they were just a little too comfortable with their nudity in the locker room? It was excessive. You don't need to be prancing.
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You didn't answer my question. Yeah. You avoided my question.
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On naming someone who... It was too comfortable.
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It's okay. If he doesn't want to play the game, that's fine. I'm just going to call him out in front of everybody for not playing the game, and I'm going to re-ask the question because he didn't answer the question.
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Right. I just don't think of it as I understand the locker room is sacred. I just thought perhaps you had a friendship with somebody. And because insults can be the language of intimacy among men, that maybe there would be somebody. Yes, I've made fun of this person because he likes to swagger or waddle through the locker room.
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Okay, so he's pretty stubborn. He will indeed look up things until he proves that your memory is wrong on who you played for. No, no, no.
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I really don't know why Mike decided to bring this to a Pat Shermer conversation.
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The sound and the video that I have here, because I've got an assortment of videos that I want to play for you, but we mentioned Deion Dawkins, and he showed up at a game, which this struck me as odd and a bit primal, just showed up at the game, did the walk that everybody does in the nice clothes.
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shirtless like and Dion Dawkins is 300 and something odd pounds and he's a wonderful lineman and he's making an argument here on behalf of something and I want to see if you would agree with this from Dion Dawkins video. Do you have that sound please? Okay, you do not have Deion Dawkins, and Roy has left the room for some reason.
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At any point that you guys want to give me that Deion Dawkins sound, you let me know, because Deion Dawkins is arguing on behalf of, he wants an offensive lineman of the year. He wants somebody, I assume it's offensive lineman, it may be offensive or defensive lineman.
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So let me hear that sound real quick, please.
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Look at me perhaps when I'm nude in the locker room.
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Looking for sugar daddies every day. Stugatz. Hell yeah, brother. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.
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Watching them will be what I have planned.
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Beavon A. Smith, listen to me. Like my grandmama always tell me.
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You can put a raccoon in the ass of a popper, but you can't make a jackass jump. Okay?
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I watch way too much Shannon Sharp. There is nobody that I enjoy more. In life than watching Shannon Sharp. And that is the honest to God truth. So I should have brought my muscle suit.
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Look, when you're at this point in the season, you have to understand that things change, right? It's like that sophomore quarterback slump. You go out and you have a great first year, and then defensive coordinators adjust. They figure out what your tendencies are. This is what happens late in the season.
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And for Jim Harbaugh, him understanding both sides of the ball when you brought him into Los Angeles, you knew that's what you were getting. Not just a guy who can—
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tutor the quarterback with all the ability in the world but also his understanding of defense bringing in mentor and in these moments where they go down by a whole lot of points and they surge back because of that prowess because of that knowledge that he has on both sides of the ball december is when you get the most from your from your head coach
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He said it like twice, and it was a lot. I couldn't hold it in at that moment because I like tapped out by looking at his face. And then when I came back to, he was yelling notes with such emphasis. And I'm like, what is going on here?
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True lack of leadership. His ego is swollen like a mean's lip. That is the issue with Joel Embiid. From a leadership perspective, you cannot go out of your way to show everybody how much you care about personal accolades.
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You cannot go out of your way to show everybody how different you are, how cut above the rest of you are, because all the people that are tasked with following you feel that and see that, and they will go away from whatever it is you're trying to do. So he cannot motivate anybody around him because it's so very clear that everything he cares about involves Joel Embiid. It's hard to get along with.
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And in those locker rooms where everybody is high paid and everybody wants to be the star, a real leader does not separate himself from the group. He goes out of his way to say, hey, all I care about is our collective success. And because of that, he will never get along with another star.
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He will never be in a position where he's in a locker room and people will fall in line and say, this is a guy that we believe in and we will follow to the ends of the earth. And it will show up every single time playoff basketball comes around that he is not of the creme de la creme as far as NBA stars are concerned.
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He's also forcing me to face him because he's on the profile of it. So now I feel like I have to turn that way. And I think he spit neosporin onto the mic.
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You're cosplaying that Stephen A. Smith. That doesn't count.
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So good. And when you look at the way that he performs, really when you get into that late November, December part of the season, it makes you feel good about what you have as a quarterback, right? For what he has to follow up with Aaron Rodgers, obviously legendary there. But to be able to raise the bar that I feel like he has in that, I don't know if I'm being serious right now.
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I was still heavy into the first fake bit.
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I don't know if I can cement him in the top five right now. Extremely talented, still very early in his career. The top four cemented, it's Josh Allen, Lamar, Patrick, Joe Burrow, whatever order you want to go.
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I was going to say it didn't sound young.
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Yeah, and honestly, I would probably put Matt Stafford there. He's a very good quarterback, and it's really easy to him. He's at that stage of his career. But I think Jordan Love is right there. It was a joke in those beginning parts of the season where he's throwing interceptions. That is the question mark around Jordan Love is because he is this risk taker.
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He trusts his ability, his arm strength, and sometimes it gets them into trouble. Now he plays really great. It sucks to be a player to be like, hey, I played really good in the month of December, the most important month of the season, heading to the playoffs, and they call it the Toyotathon. They make a big joke out of it. Sometimes it's happy Honda days.
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Happy Honda days, whatever you want to call it. That is why Jordan Love, in my opinion, and why he's in that conversation, because he does get better as the season progresses and into the playoffs, and He has that kind of ability. It's just early on, you have to mitigate the risks that he takes. Otherwise, it gets them into trouble routinely.
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No, it's not. And that's why he's one of those four. Like, Joe Burrow, they're young. The issue is, like... He has obviously his entire career ahead of him. Like, there's nobody under 35 that has won a Super Bowl in the NFL, quarterback-wise, except Patrick Mahomes. And that's like, I don't know if that's a stat.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. But, like, I said under 35. Under 35. Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean, it wasn't prize fighting. I don't know what the hell happened. His face looks wicked swollen, man. Did you get shot? What is going on?
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There's only one quarterback under the age of 35 in the NFL that has won a Super Bowl, and it's Patrick Mahomes. He's right.
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1980s. Yeah. So the point is, is like we look at these quarterbacks, and they are incredible. Joe, Lamar, Josh Allen. But it's the same narrative, and it's – Depending on who you're talking about, if you make it like, oh, Lamar needs to do this, right, or Josh Allen. No one's done it except Mahomes. Like, he's in a class of his own.
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Is that what we're reporting this on?
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Where did he come from? Columbus. He is born in Columbus. But he raps on like a lot of cities. I'm sorry. No, that's OK.
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But, Hawk, for the people— I don't know how to approach what's going on here. First off, I seen you this morning, and I didn't see you. You know why?
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Travis Hunter has to know that this comes with it, and he has to learn from primetime that this is a part of the process. If Travis Hunter goes to Florida State, He's still an incredible player. We don't care as much. That's just a fact of the matter. And that is the prime time effect. And I feel like there is nobody better positioned to teach Travis Hunter that lesson.
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Now, my advice to Travis Hunter would be keep the main thing the main thing. You're going to make a bunch of money from football. And if any of these things become distractions that affect how you play on the field, which they will. And they can and they have. And I know many of cases and examples of that.
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Then it's not worth it before you get to the inevitable 200 million dollars you're going to be worth in three short years.
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Sat down. Even as Dan started talking, I have like a condition I call face blindness. Also because I was reading a book. Where I don't look at people's faces. I was reading a book like a spy. Dude, it's... It looks bad. I mean, it looked like you. I don't know if you really fell or you're getting abused at home.
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I was locked in, I'm not going to lie. I appreciated the stats, and I wanted more.
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Never mind. Keep the main thing the main thing, Jeremy.
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So you felt like they gave him too much respect by having so many people around him, guarding him while he's in handcuffs. That's not a crazy take. The crazy take was he's not some mass murderer. He murdered one person.
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And I'm dripped out. I'm hella dripped out, as Dan would say.
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It looks like he was the defender whose face Marshawn Lynch ran through a motherfucker of. Does it look fleek? It's lit, Dan.
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I'm looking at you because I didn't see the game last night, Dan. I got to be honest with you. I was traveling, and I would love to lie. If we were on the mothership, I would have just faked it. But too much respect for you to lie. What would faking it sound like? I would love to know what that would sound like. Let's do this a different way.
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Listen, when you look at the Denver Broncos this season, they have actually relied mostly on their defense and what Vance Joseph has done. Like, I like what Bo Nix has done as well. And it's obviously a match made in heaven with him and Sean Payton. But there have been times where you feel like the play calls are being called around some deficiencies he has.
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And there were moments that popped up last night. And when you look at a game like that and you need your defense to step up, well, now when they don't, You have cause for concerns going into this stretch of the season, which is the most important part. Nailed it.
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It makes you really believe, like, damn, Draymond really went over last night.
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Hey, there's money in it.
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As I'm sitting there and I'm enjoying a caramel macchiato watching this game late night with my feet snuggled up in an Ohio State Buckeye Snuggie that my wife gifted me on my birthday in college in 2008, I thought to myself, this is what you want. when you came into this season from Harbaugh.
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Because you think about Justin Herbert and his arm strength, and you feel like he should have always been in the class with Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes. The list continues. And last night when you got that glimpse of how Harbaugh has really brought his talent to the forefront and filled in that blind spot for him to get the most out of him.
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And there's moments where you see that incredible arm strength, right? And then that's where you get excited about and you finally feel like... This is what the Chargers needed to get over the hump.
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17-year-old blanket that you're snuggled up in. Hey, it's why it's my lucky blanket. Here's what you do.
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That's what Lyd McConkie has with Justin Herbert. Down the stretch, you saw it in those moments on third down.
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Oh, okay. We had this conversation last week, too. He's a hockey player. This is what I like about you. I live for this, man. Yeah, I like that.
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Give me a few steps over here, bro. I've got chills, man.
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I don't mind it. I didn't even bat an eye to it.
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That was great stuff. And I think what warmed the cockles in my heart was him saying us. That's true. Hey, howdy, listener. Why don't you sit down here next to me? Let's have a fireside conversation in the winter. This is all theater of the mind anyways. The weather outside is a little chilly. Let's warm up. Let's cozy up.
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Not just to each other, but also to that beautiful white can of Miller Lite. That's right. Make these moments even better with Miller Lite, the great tasting light beer for people who love beer. A new year is a perfect time for friends, family, and great tasting light beer. Tastes like Miller time. You know, as the football games get bigger, everybody's talking about hosting parties.
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It's always difficult. Everyone's got an opinion. Why don't you just bring out a nice cooler of Miller lights and make everybody happy? You could be on opposite sides of the big game, but you still know that you are brought together by Miller time. Miller Lite is a great unifier. Miller Lite is brewed for taste. It hits different than other Lite beers.
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The original Lite beer since 1975 and still the very best one. Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to MillerLite.com slash Dan. Find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Tastes like Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
Going on? Palpable dread, fear, chaos.
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Yes. Yes, always. Okay.
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Man, you're getting it. We thought we could change him, and for a long time, we felt like we did. The fourth marriage was the best marriage.
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That he challenges the other players.
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Well, I wanted him to finish his point because I don't know the modern makeup of an NBA baller and how Jimmy Butler is just so different than that. When Jimmy Butler, I mean, I loved basketball at a time where everyone was kind of more built like Jimmy Butler from an intensity and approach to the game type of thing, and there were way more fights in the locker room.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
Now everything seems to be a little bit more harmonious.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
Well, every time there's a leak, you ask who benefits the most from this leak. Now, I don't believe this to actually be the leak, but the person that benefits most from this leak, if the palpable dread subsides and there isn't chaos and there isn't fear, and hell, they may go out and be galvanized and win this game, Kevin Love.
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Take me, take me. He benefits the most from it, okay? Now, it's not a source on the team. It's a source near the team. Maybe that's a way to protect your source that might be an actual player.
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But if I'm Kevin Love and what I bring to the table the most is my ability to bring those folks together in the locker room, why don't I establish that this locker room is a total mess until Uncle Kev gets involved? Okay.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
We have covered this story a bunch, but one thing that we didn't actually touch on was the NBA PA's involvement. Because remember, the suspension came down. It's like, okay, you can suspend somebody for that. The NBA came out immediately with a statement. Yeah, the union came out with a statement. And then it was reported that the Heat were ready for this, delivered pages and video.
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citing examples of why they were justified in their actions to suspend Jimmy Butler and not a peep since then. Jimmy Butler hasn't publicly objected to the suspension. He fulfilled the suspension. He's done his time.
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But Jared Goff has the second most touchdown passes in the league when you include regular season and postseason since 2023. Ironically enough, the guy that is first by a gulf of six is Baker Mayfield, who is also a guy that has that debate.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
They're dudes.
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He's a dude. He's a low-level dude. I just said he has the most touchdown passes over the last two years.
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But Herbert, did he slide out of dude?
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Come on, man. There's certain abilities you've got to have.
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Can you be a good football team with a Jag? Huh? Can you be a good football team with a Jag? Who are the good football teams with a Jag in that position? Lamar Jagan.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
How much do I owe? After the show, we will give you the QR code, and then we'll explain what a QR code is.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
I'm so happy that because of our show, you have decided to download Venmo. It's going to make your life so much easier. Thank you. To do what Dan just did.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
Hey, howdy, listener. Why don't you sit down here next to me? Let's have a fireside conversation in the winter. This is all theater of the mind anyways. The weather outside is a little chilly. Let's warm up. Let's cozy up. Not just to each other, but also to that beautiful white can of Miller Lite. That's right.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
Make these moments even better with Miller Lite, the great tasting light beer for people who love beer. A new year is a perfect time for friends, family, and great tasting light beer.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
tastes like miller time you know as the football games get bigger everybody's talking about hosting parties it's always difficult everyone's got an opinion why don't you just bring out a nice cooler of miller lights and make everybody happy you could be on opposite sides of the big game but you still know that you are brought together by miller time Miller Lite is a great unifier.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
Miller Lite is brewed for taste. It hits different than other Lite beers. The original Lite beer since 1975 and still the very best one. Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to MillerLite.com slash Dan. Find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Tastes like Miller time. Celebrate responsibly.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
What? It was literal snow because he's from Canada. He's from Canada.
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But not for white guys. Vanilla Ice was on the nose.
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They hit him twice.
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You shifted the paradigm.
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Not in 74. Tap the Bottle and Twist the Cap was an absolute banger, though.
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That's true. That's not how we are here, man.
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That was when MTV was still breaking music, so the music video kind of introduced. I'm like, wow, this is crazy.
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He also looks like snow.
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Not insulted.
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That's no track bangs.
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You know what the song is about? It's just a ridiculous thing for my man DKO to be rapping about.
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Did we purchase the rights? Can we search it on a tweet?
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Could we? It was Shop of Ranks adjacent.
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We had a royalty free song to open things.
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Are you guys just that jaded? We had palpable dread, chaos. Jimmy hasn't even begun to make shit uncomfortable. He's teased what color he's dyed his hair for tonight. That's a mystery in itself. This is a guy that every franchise in which he's wheeled his way out of, save for maybe Philadelphia, he has burned it to the ground. And it's usually been behind closed doors.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
Now he is ending his suspension in the regular season. And reportedly teammates don't want him back. And we may have a Timberwolves practice play out in front of the nation on court in a finals rematch. This is actually fascinating.
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I understand the Jimmy Butler fatigue. I feel it, too. But if you told me, hey, there is palpable dread and fear of chaos going around Oklahoma City and Milwaukee tonight. I'm tuning into that game to see palpable dread, chaos, and this guy hasn't even begun to make stuff uncomfortable.
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The Big Suey: The "Palpable Dread" Around Jimmy Butler
You're getting the whole thing right now, Hawk.
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Clay Thompson trade. Here we go. A decade ago, yeah. I don't have to do it that way. So now we're in 2013. Continue, Dan.
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I'm with you.
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John Stamos, member of the Beach Boys. Neither here nor there, but we continue.
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Nothing to do with race, just matter. Just matter. It's all matter. It has nothing to do with race. You might have made your guy white if you were white. You probably made your guy black if you were black. But it wasn't about race. It was trying to see yourself as the best quarterback in the world.
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I could see myself in him. That's wild, yo. That's wild, fam.
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Yo, what is we talking about, murder? Huh? Hey, we down in Miami. Yo, Jimmy got to chill, fam. He got to stay where he at. Yo, I done spent a lot of years in Miami. Trust and believe, okay? I've been there. I done did it all. I was in Club Dream, Club Bed, Mansion. I'm talking about when it was the real mansion. We had Denali's, Caddy's on the block. I'm talking about 20 deep.
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But what I'm saying is, hey, yo, Jimmy, man, what is we doing? Every three years, you're going to try to just leave to a new team? Have we not done this before? Yeah, that's crazy. Come on, man.
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Yo, Pat, get your stuff together down there. You in charge or not, yo. I can't imagine running a spot, and I can't have control of nobody down there. You know what I'm saying? Yo, this man is wild. Get him out of here. You're crazy. You said you got to control him down there. Control him down there. Hey, yo, get control of your people, yo. It could never be me.
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Come on, yo. What is he doing? That's crazy.
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Hey, if I'm prime, I'm going to Dallas. And if I'm Jerry Jones, I'm going to get Dion. Like, go get prime.
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He's going to get D.R. back in Dallas. You're prime in Dallas, yo. If I'm Jerry Jones, it's the only thing that makes sense. Who else can deal with his ego? You know what I'm saying? You got your owner who's the GM, and it's cool to be the GM if you know how to pick players. He don't know how to do none of that.
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He don't know how to pick them. It ain't the X's and O's. It's the Jimmy's and the Joe's. That's a saying all this time, Murda. You know, so you get Deion in there. Get Shador in there. Get Shiloh in there. Get Deion Jr. He do the videos in Colorado. Throw a uniform on him. It's better than what we see out there now, Murray. He tripping. He shooting the videos. Come on, man. That's crazy.
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Everybody down there with the podcast. And I like podcasts. We got a podcast. We got the best podcast in the game. But come on, we ain't out there having to tackle Derrick Henry. Somebody got to do your job, yo. Get prime down there so we can get the players to do their jobs.
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You mad. You mad. You mad. You mad.
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Let's try this again. He's a mean assassin. Let's try this again. I'm a mean assassin. Yo, Dan, he's the man. He's a mean old bastard.
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Hey, yo, that's crazy. That's crazy. Lamar Jackin is wild, son. Lamar Jackin is absurd.
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Lamar Jackin? Hey, yo, that's wild, fam.
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Trevor Noah, the backup quarterback for the Ravens. I think he's talking about America's.
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You wildin', man. That's crazy. Hey, yo, stat. Man said Lamar Jackin. Hey, yo, how you stop this show to say let's do it right and then come out with Lamar Jackin? That's crazy.
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That's wild, son. Back to not caring about the moderator. That's crazy. Lamar Jackin is absurd.
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Well, it's really weird to spoof a show that I'm actually on. Can we address that? That's a humble brag. So I got to go into character.
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I never got it this early. Hey, that's crazy. That's crazy.
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That's wild. That's crazy. That's on me. We never even addressed why I'm in 2003 garb. No, and don't.
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I got to give props to Jell-O. Jell-O's the biggest star. Shout out to LeVar Ball. Shout out to LeVar. In the ball and game. He in the Hall of Fame. I'm from Hall of Maine. Yeah. We having breakfast, but no club. I'm not Charlemagne. It's Jello Ball. It's Jello for sure. He's done the thing that we didn't expect, okay? He signed with Def Jam with a 2003 hit. He got the bag. That was my era.
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So if you wonder why I'm in the pink mink bandana... long chain nobody was wondering everybody was wondering they was wondering hawk when was your era it was 2003. that's when i that's when i came into myself hey yo that's crazy lamar jack that's wow that's crazy yeah that's crazy it's jello ball because you gotta look at it like this
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It is so hot in this coat.
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Man, I had to go to great lengths to put all this together.
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That's on me. Jello is the most famous ball, brother, to put a button on that. He signed with Def Jam. And also, he is the best...
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LiAngelo Ball is the best musician athlete in the world and of all time. Day one. I can't get with that killer.
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So not athlete who wants to do music on the side.
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Master B has a case. So all that, you got to put the musicians in a room and then say, yo, who is the best athlete?
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I would put Master P in the argument. I would put Sam Hunt, country music artist who played quarterback at UAB and signed with the Kansas City Chiefs before going into country music. Julio Iglesias, I got from Mike Ryan. Reserve goalkeeper for Real Madrid. That's legit. Has to be legit. Toby Nwigwe. who was a music, a rap artist who played linebacker at North Texas, would be in there.
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It was like a 6'5 big, though. I don't know. What are we doing with Nelly?
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He did dominate Rockin' Jock, but I don't feel like he had... He can't contend with the officials who have played at a high level. J. Cole? J. Cole... Play pro basketball. All right, so do you think J. Cole could beat LiAngelo Ball one-on-one?
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He's not a better basketball player than Master P. J. Cole's release, I don't know. Master P played for Houston in college? No. Yeah, Master P was a Division I basketball player.
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Master P was not a Division I basketball player?
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You know why I don't believe that? Because three of Master P's kids are Division I basketball players, and his nephew is starting at, like, Kansas or something. So let me get this straight. That's how genetics work. So that is the reason why I believe that Master P was a Division I basketball player. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
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I thought you were going to say Olajuwon didn't play Division I basketball. Then I was like, okay, now I'm pretty certain.
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You did. I shattered his childhood. You shattered the dream of Master P being a Division I basketball player who went on to play for the Charlotte Hornets in a preseason game and dropped 20. So those are facts.
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That makes him an even better athlete that he went to preseason with the Charlotte Hornets and dropped 18 in the fourth. He dropped 18 in the fourth? More myth. I don't know.
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Was that for the internet too?
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Damn, that's good. That's it. I mean, the games might get worse as you get to the Super Bowl. We might be less interested every round. Well, but it is possible.
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Put your hand in the snow. I don't want to watch football in the snow. But it is cool to see the way that it's all shaped up. Like this is the football that you want. You're neutralizing Lamar Jackson with negative three degrees. He's from Pompano. I know. So if he overcomes this. I know.
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Like 2003. Everything was better in 2003. That's crazy.
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It's green eggs and ham, okay? And you're like, what the hell does that even mean? 2003 version of Hawk? I'll tell you what it means. It's would you, could you in the snow? I would, I could in the snow. It doesn't matter. That's what playoff football is. Yeah, we want the best to be the best. But it should be any given day, any element. It does not matter.
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If you are truly the best, you line up wherever we're at, whatever the elements are, and I will beat you.
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Wherever they at, murder. That's crazy, Killer. You understand what I'm saying? It doesn't matter. Anywhere. We could do it in Buffalo or Baltimore, either. He said you could do it where? Anywhere. Oh, whoa. Oh, that's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. He said he could do it anywhere. That's crazy, Murda. Murda, tell him.
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I'm not kidding. That's crazy, killer.
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He talking about the snow murder.
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That's wow. That's crazy. That's wow style.
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Did you know one was black and one was white, Dan?
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My favorite part is the, like... All the conversation that happens this year about who is the MVP between Lamar, between Josh Allen, two incredible players have had incredible seasons. And for it to culminate in them having to go against each other, I've actually felt like the conversation about them has dropped this week.
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Almost like everybody who was arguing one side or the other is like, oh, excuse my language. We're going to find out this week. So I can't say too much because it'll be an immediate you're wrong. Whereas before it, you could just, oh, this guy's better. This has a better season. They're the better team. This is a better roster. We're going to find out.
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Tapping in. You're tapping in. You're tapping in. Everything is wrestling. You're wrestling. I have a Madden theory about Josh Allen and Lamar that I'd like to share. I kind of teased it a little bit before the show. Because there's so many people on like, hey, I'm a Lamar, Josh Allen is this, and where I am is they are two incredible players, like out of a lab. And then I thought about it.
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And I asked people in the producer room, and I said, hey, did you guys play Madden? Did you create a player? And like, yeah, I did. Well, who was your player? And the white guys are like, oh, he was 6'5", 230, 99s everywhere, could run, could throw it across the 100 yards down the field. And then when I was a kid, my quarterback was about 6'2". He was lean. He ran like a wide receiver.
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He could throw it all over. And I feel like the Madden theory is whoever was your creative player when you were a kid, is who you are rooting for between Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson because they are two built-in lab quarterbacks that you could only access if you had Madden 2003 day.
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I didn't say no, I wasn't. He said, how contagious are you? Okay. And I said, I don't know.
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I wasn't a Santa Claus kid. My parents didn't teach me about Santa Claus.
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Because they were like, hey, you know, we're not going to make it seem like some white guy is buying you these gifts when we're working double time and over shift. Exactly. So, yeah, no white Santa, no black Santa.
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Is Jesus black? I mean, it's basically the same question, right? He's Jewish. I mean, I don't know how. Yeah, the original. I think there's multiple standards.
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I'm shocked by that, actually. That is crazy. Breaking news.
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I think Santa is like a UPS, the UPS guy. It's like he's different for every community. I don't think black Santa would get off in the white community. I have original recipe. Without somebody calling the cops.
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Yeah. No, I have crispy toast.
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I got bad Santa. I got black Jesus in my house.
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Absolutely celebrated Christmas. So you're just saying that your parents- Christmas in my household was Jesus, not Santa. So that's heavy on the Christmas, not so much on the Santa Claus. And so Jesus would buy you the presents. Jesus would provide the opportunity for the parents. He always does. My kids, they see black Jesus. There's black Jesuses at my house.
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So they grew up, they went to stores, they were like, wait a minute, why is Jesus white in this store? It was like, they didn't even know that that was a thing. So black Santa, black Jesus, yeah, you got a representation. Jamil gets it.
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The black president, of course.
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I thought you wanted me to play through injury.
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Yeah, I'll say so.
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I'm so confused right now. Not teaching so much as it's up to you, right? It's important for your kids to see themselves as the superheroes. Because you'll see yourself. That's what Jesus represents. You see yourself in that. When you see Santa, you see yourself. Your kids see themselves in those things. So not so much teaching them that Santa is black. More as... He could be black. Why not?
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Why can't Santa be black?
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I smoked 17 packs of cigarettes a day. You haven't asked me that yet. I am Stu Gotts Jr. That's what everyone calls me on the street. Why did we go from coughing to diarrhea? Where was the link there? I think David has diarrhea, and he was trying to diagnose what he has to blame in me.
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And you don't think he deserves the top dollar?
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That's Daniel Jones money. You're talking Daniel Jones money, Jamel.
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If you give me 40 to 45 million and I'm Brock Purdy, I'm going to turn into Devondre Campbell real quick on that sideline. All right. I'm going to need that top dollar or, you know, I ain't playing, David. Welcome back.
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Jameis is just crazy enough to win that game.
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I think he's been delivered by Black Jesus from those pick sixes.
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What just happened?
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I don't even know the rules, and that seemed illegal.
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Yeah.
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Colts play.
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Tough team.
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I'll take it. I like it.
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Kirk Cousins is playing.
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Yeah, there's no way on an NFL sideline for you to get that information. So there's nothing that could have changed at quarter one, play one, to when they got to that moment. And my question, Dan, is was he kicked off of the sideline because he refused to play? Or did he voluntarily say, hey, I'm not going in and just left the sideline? If the latter is the case...
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then he probably is done in his NFL career. Because to walk off a sideline, it's one thing not to go in, which is terrible in and of itself, but maybe there is some explanation of why I cannot go perform. If you leave the sideline, that is quite literally you walking away from your NFL career.
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Yeah, no, that wasn't something I was willing to negotiate, which is a different situation than this. And maybe it's not. Maybe that's my own bias, thinking that the situations are different. But I don't know these people. And what's most important at that point in my life is making sure I have a paycheck because I have a baby on the way.
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And I can't risk going out there and putting something on film that will ruin the opportunity for what is the closest thing to financial freedom for me. In this situation, I don't believe that is the case.
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Because even if he was, for whatever reason, wanted to go about it to where he did not truly want to play and it wasn't just a hissy fit because he was upset that their all-everything linebacker had come back from an Achilles tear and they chose him over him.
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He maybe thought he would put enough on tape to make it seem like that was his position or they would have to earn it back because he's been the guy they've depended on. That's what that feels like. Because even in the other scenario, you go out there and play, and you grab your hamstring, or you grab your neck, or you fake it and be like, hey, I did one play, I can't play.
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That's not what happened. This seemed like he was trying to retaliate for a move he didn't agree with, and when you needed me most, I'm going to try to get you back.
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Yeah, and I don't think you're wrong, especially when you're getting paid that much.
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I can't exactly remember, Mike. You know, my brain is fuzzy. I've taken a lot of hits. He has diarrhea. I have diarrhea, you know. I've taken so many meds this morning because David keeps slipping them in my coffee.
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That's a tough one.
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I don't think that being a leader guarantees your success, right? And there are certain mediums where that leadership – if they even are natural abilities, bode better than in other places. And I think that's what people are talking about with UNC. Like when you look at the New England Patriots, how he built that program, what that program stood for,
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it is in stark contrast to the state of college football today, right? Like, yeah, he's going to get guys to give him the most. We understand he knows the X's and O's of football. We understand he knows how to find diamonds in the rough to get better output than maybe what is on the surface of a player and their ability.
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But also, what he wasn't dealing with was essentially a roster full of one-year contracts. And that is how they built the program at New England. Yes, winning is all that matters. And when you get your opportunity, your time will come. But we're going to get over-the-heel football players. We're going to get undrafted guys. We're going to get more out of them than any other program can.
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And we're going to take advantage of that for the lifetime of their contract. What happens when a guy comes in, he balls out, and then they all want to go into the portal because now... They have a higher appetite to make more money with other programs that you have to match. And that dollar amount just continues to go up.
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Get rid of the elements. I do not want to play in rain.
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Maybe when the Stugas were running backs in the NFL.
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One in 15 season. When you're like, it's the third quarter, you're down by 30. Right. You know, the defense is out there. They start to say, punt return on alert. You're like, I got to go back out here and risk getting my head taken off knowing there's no chance for us to win this game or probably any game for the remainder of this season. But you went back out there. But I went back out there.
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Every single time. And I don't know if that was me being institutionalized, but I did fantasize about it.
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Oh, I'm so sorry, Stu. There's no rehab for feelings in the NFL. Very sad.
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I won't say it's impossible, Dan. I mean, if he still wants, I don't know. That's the point. Like, if I walk off a field, I have no intentions on ever walking back on it. Like, when Vontae Davis left, he wasn't coming back to a football field. He knew that. He's like, you know what? This is the moment where I feel like my career is done.
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And I think that is what's going to block him from playing on another team. I don't think he's going to want to come back from this. But he's a good player.
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He was also the 2023 Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee. So it's like a good dude... He's just done.
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He's like, no, I ain't going back in. Mid-game holdout, man. They should have just negotiated a new contract. He'd have been in there by the 4th.
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It does surprise me. That's why I'm leaning more towards the is he trying to retire type of thing. Or is it that, yo, I didn't warm up to go in here to play. If I go out there, I'm going to get exposed.
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Yeah. No, he definitely loses friendships if he had them. You'd be surprised how there's not like real friendships in the NFL. But regardless, you're absolutely right on all those things. I'm just trying to like put myself in the mind of Campbell of what could be going through your mind at 31, which is old in the NFL linebacker who's been on the sideline the entirety of the game.
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Maybe you didn't warm up the way that you thought you would because you didn't think you were playing. And in this moment, it's like a. I can't go in there because I'm going to get exposed because I'm not ready to play. Now that is something I can identify with. My rookie year with the Bengals in preseason, this is the second preseason game. Now I'm a guy coming from Canada. I'm low on the roster.
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And I'm like, I'm trying to do everything in my damn power to just stick around on the roster. It was late in maybe the first game that I played. I can't remember who it was against. Maybe the Jets, maybe the Lions. But Marvin Lewis walks up to me and he's like, hey, go out there and jump in on punt return. Or the special teams coordinator, Coach Simmons, and I'm like, no.
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And he like, eyes went up, and he's like, wait a minute. I said, go punt return. And I was like, yeah, no, I didn't practice that. And he's like, gives me another opportunity to say, hey, Hawk, get your ass out there and return these punts. And I said, coach, I didn't practice that. And I don't want to go out there and drop a punt.
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And then you cut me and then all the rest of the 31 teams see that I can't catch punts and I don't have a chance. Marvin Lewis comes over to try to convince me. And I said, look, if you give me a week, I will return punts next week. They were like, okay, interesting. Interesting strategy. You're crazy, man. That week, I worked on punt returns all week. They put me in.
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I returned it for 41 yards in the first punt return. Made the practice squad. That's an honest to God, true story. But I was not willing to go out there and just seal my fate when I wasn't confident in myself and abilities.
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That is a true story.
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It's hard. The stakes are too big to go out here and just give it a shot because no one's going to have that content. I'm imagining you as a punt returner.
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It is. I didn't return a single punt or kick in my career, and I'm 5'7". I'm the first sub 5'10 receiver in NFL history who was truly just a wide receiver. I don't think you guys realize that. I was not a returner. I can't believe they didn't waive you. I know. But it was a bet I was willing to make.
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That might have been the wisest I've ever been in my life.
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So here's what happened previously to even me getting to Cincinnati. Lockout happened and I had signed with the Rams. And I got cut on day one. And I had a great practice. The one thing that happened in practice one is I dropped the punt. So if I'm the Rams and you might be thinking, oh, he's 5'7 and he dropped two punts. And I'm like, well, maybe that's why they cut me.
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Won't make that mistake again. Get to Cincinnati. Not in a game, brother. Go out there and return. Absolutely not. And it was a thing. Like Marvin Lewis, the special teams coordinator, the receiver coach, they're like trying to convince me like, hey, you don't know how bad of a light this is putting you in. But I had to bet on myself in that moment.
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Yeah, we played in that one a lot. Very exciting. You have Pittsburgh ties, right?
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Absolutely. It needs to be a movie.
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I've been thinking about this a lot, actually. Leonardo DiCaprio I think would be great.
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I don't know about Carnegie. Tom Hanks, also. I don't know if you've heard of these actors.
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Yeah, and it'd be great to get them both in there. There's a lot of white guys. Plenty to go around.
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Everyone is so lost right now, Jessica. Me and you know what happened.
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The rest of the world needs to understand that this was the biggest natural disaster on American soil until Hurricane Katrina in my hometown. Okay? Okay.
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Now I feel at home, Jessica. Thank you, Dan. You're welcome. You should be more like Jessica. She knows how to welcome me in.
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I would imagine.
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Yeah, that's a great question. And you know what I love about this show is I can be honest. I don't I'm not honest anywhere else as much as I am here. I hated bowl games.
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What was the swag bag like for the GMAC Bowl? I think for the GMAC Bowl, we got a, this is an old time. It was like a portable DVD player. Nice. We got a camcorder for, actually no, we got a portable DVD player and a camcorder for the Motor City Bowl, which is my freshman year. We went against Dan Orlovsky, torched us.
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Oh, he's pissed. He's pissed. He is. His team had just lost, too. I mean, they took an L. Look, I'd be lying if I said I never thought about leaving mid-game. Really? I mean, we had some bad losses in my day. When you say quit, you mean quit your career? Yeah, like maybe this is the minute. Maybe this is the minute I'm done. Right here.
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In year two, we went against Jordan Palmer and the UTEP Miners, I believe is their mascot. And they gave us like a designer hammer. And I'm like, okay, this is, I'm good on bowl season. They elongated our season, You practice for a month and a half after your season is done. A hammer? They gave you a hammer? They gave us a hammer, man.
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I don't know what the hell it was, but I didn't play in another bowl game for the rest of my career, and I didn't lose a night of sleep.
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I mean, I wouldn't throw the game if that's what you're asking.
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Also, I don't know if you've been to Toledo, Ohio. Oh my God, are you kidding?
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It is miserable. Perrysburg? And we didn't have an indoor facility. This is the Mac conference we're talking about.
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I've never been to the science museum. No, we're just practicing in the snow for an extra month and a half. Only to go get whooped by whatever six-round quarterback. To get hammered and to get hammered. Both. Yes. It was miserable.
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Yes, absolutely.
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No, that's your business. Are you in the business of not getting a career? I'm in the business of not losing my career. So I got to go. You're on the practice squad. I wasn't yet. So what career did you have? I can promise you, had I went in there and dropped a punt, I would not be sitting at the – I can guarantee you, David, had I got in there and dropped a punt against the Carolina Panthers –
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In my second preseason game of my rookie year.
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I'll never make a mistake twice.
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But you can fantasize about it. You've never fantasized about quitting a job? Come on, nobody in here fantasized about quitting their job in the middle of a work day.
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Yeah, I think this is it. It's too good now. Yeah. I need misery. And actually, my first practice in New England, it snowed. It was May 28th. So there is that.
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Absolutely not. That's not how that works.
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One catch for one yard? You don't want zeros. One catch for one yard is just as bad as all zeros, but all zeros shows that you played and didn't get a catch.
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I think I've had games with negative receiving yards. Can we check the stats on those?
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Exactly.
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You know why I'm not in the box score, Jessica? Because you went return a punt?
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Because I broke my back the game before and I did not play in the bowl game. That's one year. What about the second? The first year, it's zero catches, zero yards. Because I did play in that game.
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That was a tough game.
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We lost our number one receiver in Lance Moore. Bruce got hurt. Bruce Gretkowski. We were loaded with NFL talent.
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I know it's like, man, I can't believe you've done that. We've all had this fantasy before of just being like, you know what? To hell with this, bro. I'm going home. You know what I'm saying? Do you always act on it? No. How about ever? Did you ever act on it? I've never acted on it.
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Parmelee?
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I was in the slot.
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We got dudes. I would argue we are a top 50 program in the last 40 years.
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I understand Mike Tyson.
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This sport hurts, man. It's more dangerous to go in than for me to walk off the field. Look, now look, I have told a coach I'm not going in before.
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It was not against the Steelers.
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I'd be in a lot better situation health-wise right now. Wait, so you told the coach? Yeah, I told the coach I would not do that. Really? Now, I don't know what the situation is with Campbell, right? And I know it looks terrible. And it is terrible. If I was his teammate, I would also be pissed. Like, you think we wanted to go in, bro?
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I'm just saying let's take a moment. to try to understand this situation. You have a girl. No moments. A guy did your girl wrong in her previous relationship. And you come in and save the day. And you've been the best boyfriend that anybody could ask for. I know where this is going. All of a sudden, ex-boyfriend comes back around and says, I've been working on myself. I went to therapy.
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I'm a different person now. And she says, you know what? He was my first love. I'm going to give him a chance.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
Within the first week, he's back to his old tricks. And she comes crawling back to you, David. And she says, you know what? I need you. I'm going through a tough time. Things didn't go the way we planned. And you know what? I realize now you're the one I want. You're going back in that game?
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
It depends on- She's not. It's a lot of money.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
Here's the thing. I completely agree with everything every player has said. I completely agree with what you guys are saying. I think this is one of those moments in sports and football where everybody is going to be on one side because it's clearly the right side. To his point, it's hard to win football games when guys don't want to play football. Devil's advocate. Yes.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
He's actually doing the 49ers a favor. Really? Because this is the conversation versus how terrible they've been playing. So they should be thanking him for giving them this out at the end of a game because that was a horrible football game.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
I wrote it down, yeah. I do think it's a microcosm of what's going on in the 49ers. I think they have aging superstars, and you just can't run that kind of positionless offense and style when guys are hurt and routinely injured and not playing well. I mean, Deebo's asking for the ball, and he's dropping what seems to be a touchdown pass at moments. Like, yeah, this is a microcosm of what—
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
the state of the 49ers is. And again, I know we're all joking here, but that is bullshit. To quit a game, there is an accountability that happens with the football team. You hear it in Kittle's voice, and you expect the guy next to you to be as locked in as you are. We're going to do everything we can to get a win.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
We're going to come in here, and under any circumstance, even if it's the littlest contribution, we're going to do whatever is needed. And clearly that wasn't the case. Now, again, he might be going through something mentally. We've seen moments where guys have left mid-game. You know, this is probably closer to the A-B situation than the rest in peace Vontae Davis situation.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
Because it just felt like mentally Vontae Davis just wasn't in that moment, end of his career. You know, it was like, this is too much. I've moved cities this many times. Where A-B's was very similar to this. He wanted the football. They weren't giving it to him. They told him to go in. At the end, he was like, no. You didn't give me the ball, I'm not going. And this feels more like that.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
You don't expect it from a 31-year-old linebacker who's been in this league a long time. Thankfully, he kept his shirt on.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
No, I wouldn't say that because then we didn't know. We didn't find out until after. I wish you would have because we made it a little more interesting.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
In the rain, yes.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
Yeah, it was garbage. And, I mean, there's garbage games on Sundays as well. Now, look, my take when I was in the league on Thursday night football, I hated them. I mean, they were the bane of my existence. The two things I hated most in the NFL were Thursday night football games and joint training camp practices.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
Because joint training camp practices are a sneaky way for teams to add, like, three preseason games. Because you go harder in those joint practices than you do in the games because you're there and you're like, okay, I'm practicing against the Bills. I might be a free agent next year or this year.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
So we're like literally competing for two coaching staffs to show what you have on like a, oh, this is my chance. And guys go way too hard. And then you play. Play that team again. Because they're looking for a job.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
Yeah, I mean, that's valid. How about the glass half full? We're sitting here being so negative. That's the part I didn't mind. But it is hard to get up for a Thursday. Now, here's the other part for players. Like, everything feels like the worst thing in the world. Until you're in it.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
As an old person in the league, when the Thursday night football games were coming around, I was like, this is crazy. This is terrible. But then over time, the young guys didn't care because it's just life to them.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
The old guys feel it. The young guys, I mean, when I was 23, 24, I didn't even warm up, bro. I just walked out to practice.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
And I'm like, you're putting on Bengay before practice? How old are you, dude? By the time I was 30, I'm hot tub, cold tub. You're bathing in Bengay.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
Heat pack. Ice pack. 17 Advil.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
Meditation moments. Insoles in the shoes. Tort all. Green tea. Greenies. No, this is no bullshit. I would leave our position meeting. My receiver coach let me out of my position meeting 20 minutes earlier just so I could go through my routine to be ready for practice. That's how old I got.
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Local Hour: Andrew Hawkins on De'Vandre Campbell Quitting
I say dome every NFL stadium. Nobody likes that take, but... Grass?
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
It wasn't a sister, but it was a sister. Tony B.?
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
What's the... That one, yeah, yeah.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
That's the guy? You walk a flock of word for word? Word for word.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
A lot of things were said that day, by the way, that were just absolutely insane.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
By the way, we're talking about a massive selling store.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
We can definitely not play it.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
We can't play it for a number of reasons.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Like, where'd this guy come from?
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
So it's like swamp ass or death? Pretty much.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
We didn't. It's not Kevin? We don't know, to be honest. We don't even want to know. Have you heard about all the brothers, though? There's like five or six of them.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Get the list together, and then we'll do pomp and circumstance.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Important list. We're going to give it the support. Okay.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Yep. Don't look now. I'll go for Mike. Presented by Smirnoff, the world's number one vodka. Please enjoy responsibly. You're close to him. Keep reaching. Ladies and gentlemen. Hopefully nobody's looking right now, except you in the car. Please look. Joe Flacco is a Cleveland Brown.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
A one-year deal worth $4 million, up to $13 million with incentives. You're about to spill that coffee again, man. Knowing that, hey, whoever they got at quarterback is going to get hurt. I'm going to come in. I'm going to throw for about 3,000 yards half the season. I'm going to throw for about 21 touchdowns. Keep this train going. Maybe about 10 picks. Maybe 11. Doesn't matter.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
I mean, why are you looking? Why are you looking? How did you know I was looking? I'm on the lookout for lookers. I do the look police. Don't look now. Kyler Murray says he's intrigued by the thought of running more in 2025. Wow. What do we think about that?
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Don't look now. Don't look now. You're looking.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Yeah. What do you mean? Okay. Don't look now. Alan Lazard says he'll take a pay cut to stay with the Jets. Oh, wow.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
You don't like the Lakers as a spicy team?
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
I know exactly what we're talking about because it's theater of the mind. I know the glasses that are in that room and Hawks opening them up. It's funny.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Don't look now. Panthers signed Colin Granger, a center from Coastal Carolina, on the basketball team. He's a tight end prospect. Hasn't played football since eighth grade. Did you just read that? No.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
No, it was mental. I was reading it from the text that was in my mind. He was freestyling. Do you have a Braille phone? No, no, no. It's just when you read something and it sticks in your mind, you read it. And I say it like I read it. So what do you think about it?
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Anyways, what do you think about a tight end prospect who plays basketball to get brought over to football? Hasn't played football since eighth grade. Jimmy Graham.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Antonio Gates. Tony Gonzalez.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Austin Reeves has been playing some of the best basketball I've ever seen. He's about to cash out again. He's incredible.
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#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
One, two, three.
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#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
But I want to... No, no, no, no.
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#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
I'm running this meeting, you're not. Mentally unstable Completely unfit for his job All his associates are shady Accused of multitudes of crimes. Vindictive underhanded sleazeball.
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#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
Marimicropini loves his grifting and defamatory lies. Uncool of a bozo. F*** Vince Locco. F*** Vince Locco. He's like a rogue.
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#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
Why don't you just say Jew? Trash somebody. Billy Corbin. Bastardo Derson Rosso, Corolla 2.0 Gets off abusing power and his political foes Corruption and malfeasance are his M.O. You know he's gotta go On Culo Raposo Pay for play F*** Vince Lago, F*** Vince Lago He's like a ruin-raging psycho You're gonna listen F*** Vince Lago, F*** Vince Lago
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
It's a very weird thing. As someone who's moved down here, I do not trust it. Not only that, on the front of it, it doesn't say, like, Dan Lebertard's Premier Dentistry. It just says dentist. Yeah. It just says podiatrist.
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It makes me question things. I'm not from this culture, though. So I don't know. You guys have to give me that information. Where I'm from, that is not the case.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Now I've traded it out when we took the break.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Number one hit. It's great. It is top tier. This is not fake, and I thought it was when I saw the conversation around it. I'm like, oh, everyone's just talking in jest, and it's like, oh, okay, we're making, we're all laughing at and not with. And then I heard the song, and it grew on me. It grew on me big time. LiAngelo Ball.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Is LeVar Ball the best father ever? He How can you fake it?
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
I want to center this conversation. I don't like that we're making jokes about a number one hit song. with LaVar Ball's clearly fake song. I'm with Cuomo on that. What? We are taking away the attention, the notoriety, that one of the best rappers in the culture, of any culture, has embraced with us.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Featuring LaVar Ball, what father would you rather be? Archie Manning or LaVar Ball? Because listen, you have Peyton and Eli, super successful. But then you have Cooper. But then Cooper gives you Arch. You got Lonzo and Mello, clearly superstars. Mello, he was right about him since he was eight, which is crazy.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
And then you're like, but you have Jello and he's kind of, everyone's kind of bringing him along. And now he might be the biggest rapper that LA has seen since Kendrick Lamar.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
That is not a real song. That's what song he's singing. There is zero talent in that. What? Even that little bit of.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
I've been name-dropping this entire show. Well, Dan, I'll earn one look at me, Louis. I've been lying on this show with name-drops. The two sweets. I tried to earn Jess a look at me, Louis. She wasn't as proud of it as I am. I thought this was a badge of honor.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Is this your way of telling me I look handsome? I think that was a backhanded compliment.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Well, usually I have much larger boots. I mean, it's a great looking outfit. You look great. You've been working out. You look great too. Your work is showing off. It's not an outfit that you would expect someone to have an opinion on whether who has the big font for Rolling Loud. Thank you. I think that's, thank you, thank you.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
I'm going to go call Tyrone. Thomas, a Hall of Famer, Stephen A. Smith, and Mad Dog Russo. Those are just a couple of friends that I like to hang out with when I'm in penalty boxes.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
I don't know. You should have went to the theater.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Just taking notes. This is what I was saying. He texted to me to workshop some things. No, no.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
As a former NFL player, I usually am playing in those games.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
I have a very long history with Uncle Mike, which is what me and my family call him. Tell me more. Fourth and Long. I wouldn't be here without Michael Irvin. Anybody here know the show Fourth and Long? Raise of hands. Zero.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
roy kind of halfway i mean i heard the name okay so reality show a reality show in 2009 on spike tv huh where they took six defensive backs and six wide receivers whose it whose football careers ended on terms not their own off the couch for a chance to play for the dallas cowboys hosted by none other than the playmaker michael urban well there was a young kid living on a couch in toledo dan
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
with not even a bedroom to my name. Undersized, but giant heart. Undersized. Not even the room? But it was heart over height. And he sent in 30 audition tapes, overnighted 10, two-day mail 10, and regular mail 10, to make sure they got it. They kept getting tapes. He stalked down Jerry Jones at the 2009 NFL Combine to try to get an opportunity to tell him he wanted to try out for this show, Dan.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
And by fate... By the grace of God and Marcus Freeman, he was selected as a top 50 player to come try out. And in that tryout, he balled. And he sparked a relationship with a Michael Irvin. Congratulations. And did the show. It was a runner-up. He did not win. He did not win. He did not get chosen by the playmaker. But he went to Canada in the CFL and created it. Empire career.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
And now he drove a Maybach to the studio. And now I came here in a Rolls Royce. Have you run into Michael Irvin since?
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
I do, not in that tone. You should. Also, Dan attributed criticism to me and I hadn't spoken on the beat yet. I like what you did there. Thank you. Nope. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Okay, there it is. So what I would, my constructive criticism is I love where you took the sample. I was thinking about it more in the realm of an old school hip hop beat.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
The whole thing plays off the front, right? Yeah, there's a sample to it where I think like Kanye beats, right? Where it's the old school Kanye. Just please. Yeah, it's like you give me that and it's a- All right, I'll work on it for next week.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
It's a damn good run, Dan. Well, it's bad football. How can I say that? It's bad football. He comes in with his chest high up in the air and hits him as high as you can. Physics will tell you the low man wins. You get your body in an angle to be able to combat the driving force he naturally has because he is driving his legs. So as number six comes in, this is his tackle to make.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
He comes completely standing straight up where you lose all leverage with your chest. Incredible run. It's bad football as well.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
If I rank the football, let me rank the football. Ball carrier, incredible football. Number one, it's great. Second best football on the play, the first tackler coming in. You get low, you go at the thigh board, he makes an incredible hurtling play. The next three Penn State players, Bad football. Six comes with his chest, loses all of his leverage.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Eleven comes and tries to strip the ball instead of making the short tackle. Bad football. And number 29 just throws his body in there without wrapping up. All of you, if this is Little League football, get your asses on the bench. We don't put that on film.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
I got to contact her by listening to her. Thank you. She is so on a football high right now. And it's earned. I can't remember the last time I was on such a football high.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
You can't buy single food. So it's like, yeah, I paid for it, but everyone gets to eat. So everyone kind of ordered their thing. I ordered, I think, a shrimp cocktail, which was like $300. But I had to contribute. They had already taken the hot dogs and all the cheaper options. I was pissed. But anyway, the shrimp cocktail's there. Everyone's having a good time.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
The moment Aller threw that last pick... The Notre Dame folks go crazy, right? All of a sudden, all the fun-loving, you know, we're all in this football is great thing. Out the window. Guy in the back is like, hey, you got people back here trying to watch the game. Oh, oh, is this what it is? It's time out. The game's not going on. I'm like, okay, come on, son. It's time to go.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
It got tense quick. I also feel like there was more Penn State fans than Notre Dame fans.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
That seems pretty fun. It was two games going on. There was so much entertainment. I mean...
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
I'm literally right. It's an hour and a half to take college. It's an hour and a half to Pittsburgh. And my nephew played football at Penn State. He's an alumni. I probably go more. Penn State than Pitt. My little brother played football at Pitt. And Toledo just beat Pitt in the bowl game, obviously. My dad played football at Pitt.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
And I'm just kind of... They didn't recruit me either way, so I'm kind of like, to hell with everybody.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
context helps, and that's kind of what my question is. I didn't watch that game and feel like Penn State was a bad team that shouldn't be there. Not at all.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
You know, and so even like you just said, if Marcus Freeman and his team loses, it's still a successful season for Notre Dame. I would hate the fact that Penn State ended up on the bad side of that loss to be like, oh, now what a terrible ending. Yeah, I guess context matters over the years. But they got really close there. And closer than Penn State teams have come in a very long time.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
But this dude, to me, is a stiff. I went there scouting Drew Aller as a Browns fan. He's from Cleveland. And I saw all the hype videos online with him growing up in Browns gear. And I'm like, we might have something here. Let me go get the best suite that I can find at Hard Rock Stadium. So I have a bird's eye view exactly of what we could get. What yard line were you on? We were on the 50.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
I was in two suites throughout the game. You ate two sweets? You ate two sweets? And the first sweet, there was about five orange jackets in there.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
And here's the crazy thing. It's just sweat. That is not true. That is not true. Wait, Hawk, I have to ask.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
I completely agree. So I'm not kidding. I went into this game hoping that he crushed it, and then the Browns at two could convince him to come out. We trade down to six. We get an extra first-round pick, and we still get our quarterback. When I watch this All-22 tape, and I'm going to get real football here, but when I watch this All-22. Look at me, Louie.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
I knew it! Congratulations. And I'm A-back. Thank goodness. Thank you. Thank you.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
Wow. I'd like to thank my parents. I'd like to thank my best combo, God and Marcus Freeman. I love them so much. I would like to thank the Academy. There's so many people I'm forgetting.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
I need your words. I might curve in that corner. Whoa, whoa. We're going to do it. Who else here? Just so many people. I plan to be back here. I couldn't do this without you guys. This is just the beginning. Thank you.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
Yeah, I was in there. And even in his best plays, and this is where the SMU and the Boise State stuff come into play, because he had some big throws there. But even in those, it was like the receivers are slowing down just a tick. And I was telling my son, who was a big Cam Ward fan, like we've talked about, he's like, I think it's Cam Ward.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
I'm like, this guy, but he's 6'5", and as you keep watching, he's having trouble getting to third reads. In the NFL, you have to be able to come across the field and say, okay, this isn't here. Can I go here and still make a throw? And when you watch this game, all those things came into play. On the pass interferences, he did get bailed out. Those were bad balls.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
They were late throws, and they were hung up in the air. which helped him in those situations, but those should have been touchdowns. Also, on the goal line to the running back, you have to put that out in front of him because he has to maintain speed. Even if he catches that by his knee, you're allowing the defender a chance to come up and make that stop.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
Absolutely. So you're slowing the running back down. And in that moment, with just such a thin margin of error, if you're the arm talent that you should be, regardless of what your drop looks like, what foot drop he throws, a lot of passes falling away. But that means you have to have the arm. to still put it in the spots that you want, to your point about the accuracy.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
And then when I'm looking for you to say, okay, this isn't here on the front side, can I get to a third read, scan across the field, and make a throw? That's literally how the last interception was thrown, because you're falling away, you try to get to the third read, and you can't place it. Those are issues.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
You guys are throwing a lot of subtle shots. Can I say that real quick? Because that was a shot. It's a question. It's a shot, though.
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And then Jess was like, I want to know, what was it like watching the game at home? And it was kind of like, that's a flex a little bit, too. It was a lot different on the sideline, guys.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
Quick max shot out the gate. I'm not going to condone that. But isn't that what you want in the playoffs, though? That anybody could win on any given night.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
I was in a suite at the game. Wow. Congratulations.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
Yeah, it's a lot of sweets. It's ridiculous. I got them. It's a shared suite.
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It's like a StubHub of sweets. And anybody can buy a ticket in this suite. So the point is, it was a mixed bag in this suite. And we had Penn State. people who were super passionate. We had the front row of the suite, all Notre Dame guys. In all games, something happens with Notre Dame, they go ballistic. Something happens with Penn State, they go crazy. And it was all good.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
They're like, who are you rooting for? I'm like, I could care less. I went to Toledo, okay? So we're sitting there and everything's all love. We're buying...
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
group food because the food doesn't come with the shared suite you gotta buy it bespoke and then it's like a bunch it's expensive and you have to buy like a Caesar salad and it's like 85 dollars but it's like it's 10 or something I wish it would exactly how do you break that down with strangers it's like wings are 230 dollars
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
My voice is my voice. My voice is always deep.
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I've heard this bit before, this segment before. It's the Toasted Challenge. All of a sudden, bragging was introduced.
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The bragging.
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That was me burbying him. I was worried that Jimmy Johns was like, Tony likes to brag. I was like, okay, sponsor. You give us money. We'll talk about your brand. You don't editorialize all my guys. That's where I was at. Now I know it's Chris. Jimmy Johnson, my bad.
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My eyes. It's got a rasp to it. It's always got a rasp to it. Nah, man. Do you understand how much... metric liters of alcohol I go through a week, you'd think my voice is just like, oh, I'm like this. But when I've had a night out, I'll go like this. You think that's what happens? Nah, man.
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No, you weren't thinking about me last night. You're thinking about me today, but last night, clearly, not a thought. I was thinking about you after the game. After I saw you? Yeah, no, no, no. It was after the game. You want to, hold on. Everyone's like, oh, I bet Amin looks tired. Like, yesterday I was tired. I was dragging. I'm walking through.
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I go down those million steps from the media seats down to, you know, the floor to get back to the tunnel. And as I'm walking, I see Taylor Rooks, right? That's my friend. Superstar. I do my little funny business with Taylor. Make a joke, whatever. I don't know what that means, but go ahead.
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What are you guys doing?
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I am a little bit of a cartoon character.
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Okay. With my media friends. Okay. Not with y'all, because you can't be trusted with the real me.
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There you go. I've been on Cinephobe. You would get. As I turn away, as Taylor's walking around, I see, the first person I saw was Goff, and Goff looked guilty as shit. He's like... And I was like, man, what are you doing? I thought, man, you know what? Guys, one night in Miami, whatever. Like, hey, man, what's up? And then I turn, and I look at this smug bastard right here.
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And he did, you know what really hit me hard? Was that Goff had the shock and shame, like, shit, we're here, and we didn't invite him in. Dominique was just like, hey, man, what you doing here? Hey, how'd you get here? I had no guilt. Nonchalant as F. And I was just like, this guy is, I'm confused. Did it drive you to drink? I don't get driven to drink.
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You didn't know I was working, though.
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There was an extra, because Charlie said no, and at no point did... Y'all literally said, we would rather have an empty seat than to check what Amin's doing.
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I'm going to be critical of your lack of ability to discern between me and Goff. You said Amin's friend was there. I mean, Goff's friend. We all look alike, don't we?
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See how he foisted it on you? He's blaming you. He's like, I was trying to give you time. I was trying to help you out, but you're welcome. That's what he's doing. I mean, that doesn't sound like a good partner. I'm just saying.
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You want to hear the wild part? I didn't even know anything. Like, even though I said, hey, guys, let's meet up, and they're like, oh, we're tired, whatever, we can meet on Wednesday. On Thursday, I'm sitting here, I'm getting makeup done, and Jessie, who does our makeup, was like, so how was XYZ Restaurant last night? I'm like, what? That's where you guys went, right?
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It's, hey, you ever want to fire that flare in the sky, buddy?
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This is what happens. I walk in here. It's a viper's nest. Before I even walk in here, I'm getting makeup done. I'm trying to come here correct. I hear the show. Y'all are already getting it on me. I'm like, okay, that's what we're doing? Regular, I mean, yesterday, I was like this, hi guys, what's going on?
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At no point did anybody reach out to me directly. It was a group text.
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
You've done two hours of show based on my life, and now it's about your life.
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Today, I gotta do the Stephen A. And I gotta put my voice right down here, because that's the most menacing.
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Don't look now. Both of y'all going to be blindfolded for this?
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Arizona. Yeah, your hometown team. My guys. COD. Shout out to Kyler Murray. Trey McBride is his name? Yes. That's the most generic Build-A-Player name I've ever heard in my life. Trey McBride. You know what? No, it's not a video game name. You know what it is? It's a movie. It's a rom-com. And Trey McBride plays for the Arizona Thunder Snakes or whatever, something like that. That's what it is.
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I mean, look, Amin, you want to talk about sports?
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I don't know if they do. They probably don't. I don't. What does that mean?
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What does that mean? So when Geno Smith signed with the Seahawks, I think it was his first year or his second year in the Seahawks, we had a show in the offseason. where I said Geno's about to kill it. It was the first year after Russell Wilson left, so it was Geno's first year, and I said he's about to kill it. And a bunch of people on the show, most loud of them was Chris Whittingham.
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
We're like, oh, you're out of your mind. And I said, he's going to throw for 30,000. What was it? You said, I think, 4,000 yards, 30 touchdowns.
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
God, you just got it like that. Oh, I guess because I was oversleeping and having too much to drink with T. Morant, that's how I got it done. Ain't that right, Bill? So I didn't drink? Dreams, man. What else, Tony?
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I wish.
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April, that was an excellent answer to the question, because what I zeroed in on, as you said, was if you're tired, what if you're not tired?
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What if the penis isn't tired, though, either?
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Straight up. I regret not getting in a car accident now. Oh my god. I would love right now I would like in my mind my my biggest dream that would have been to be Laid up in a gurney like everything in cast and then on the screen just have the Levitar show Oh, I mean probably overslept his biggest regret is being alive Pretty much not dying if it makes you feel any better.
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B B B B B B B B . C. C. B,
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You guys thought you would be invited to my funeral? That's where you guys were at? What are you trying to say? Roy, you're good. Thank you. That's crazy. Here's how it goes. If you've been on Cinephobe, you're good. Thank you. So Roy, Billy. Billy's been there. Speed 2.
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.
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You know what do-rag lines are?
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Shout out to my boy.
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Chris Taft Porzingis when he was 12, you ever seen that picture? He's got the braids on and then he got a durag, I mean not a durag, he has a headband on. But I wanna ask a question, because Bill pronounced it corn rolls. And I hear people sometimes say corn rolls. It's corn rows, right? That's what I said. It's a row, yeah.
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I know you heard rolls. Yeah, I know. This is what I do when I'm attacked.
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I'm on my job. I'm on my job right now. Okay. You know what? Y'all got to talk about this.
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
He's taking notes, man. 730 p.m. Heat game. Yo, shout out to Jason Goff. What are you, my baby mama?
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Two hours. Okay. So we'll say 9.45. He's media, so he says hi. You think the game ended at 9.45? Let's go with 10 o'clock. Hold on. It was a TNT game. That means every timeout and every quarter break is longer than a regular one.
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Are we okay with 10 o'clock? I don't think it ended at 10 o'clock.
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Did you come right out of a Jay-Z song right now?
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No, I don't know years. Show me my jeans width. The leg. Was it this, this? Stop me when I... My prime Miami years? Yes, like the jeans. Oh, the jeans. Oh, they were... No, stop doing that. Right there.
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Hold on, hold on.
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Carl Canai, Pelly Larson, Carl Canai, all of them. We all were in, or those of us of age, were all in that era. We wore jeans that were way too big. Yes. They're back. God knows. Yeah, and they're back. My kid knows. I know this from my childhood. I still have a pair of FUBU khaki shorts in my house. You're waiting. You're waiting on the return, right? It's only a couple.
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I got them in 02. I'm going to tell you what's going to happen. For us, by us. Hawk, I'm going to tell you right now. Someone famous, more famous than us, is going to wear their Fat Albert sweater or whatever, and then it's going to be back in, and then you're going to pull them out.
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Here's my problem. 90% of my baggy-ass 2000s clothes that aren't like nameless, faceless white tees or whatever, Sean John. That one I don't think is gonna come back. No, I think that's it.
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
We'll figure this out. A black 491 was what it was. A black 491?
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Okay, okay. Exactly what he said. Really good. That's how I know, because he's black. I know. Someone else would have given me, oh, it was a 4-2? Like, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. Charlie, what do you think happened to Amin?
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Interesting. Sounds like someone went off program, and it wasn't me. It was Dominic Foxworth.
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What an old move. Like a paper ticket?
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So golf, this is how I know, man. All the fly ass suits and the handkerchiefs and all that stuff and the bracelets. Now I know. Oh, that's where it goes. I thought it was just merely he was just stashing it all for a rainy day. Nope. He's buying damn near floor. What t-shirt you got under that Nike tag? Oh, I've been waiting for someone to ask.
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I've worn this before on the show.
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Make a note. You think. Hold on. You think. Guess what? Sounds like someone didn't get the reference. This is the DMX? Yeah. There you go. Which is why. I think that's exactly why. He said what he said.
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I know.
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You're not going to get me. It's about the socioeconomic crisis going on in America.
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Yep.
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King of Diamonds does not exist anymore.
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It's a Cadillac dealership now. What? Look at you guys. You guys are old. That's impressive.
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Define after the game. Did you guys hang out? At the club. I didn't hang out with T. I didn't hang out with T, no. But I did see T. You said define after the game.
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No.
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I see a lot of people. What can I do? I gotta go through. Was he one of the people? No, he wasn't.
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Also, let's assume I did. What's wrong with that? Nobody said anything. I don't know. I know how cops do, man.
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Did I eat this morning? No, I didn't.
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
So for the melanin deficient friends of ours who are watching this show, there's this television program called First 48. They know it.
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I just didn't tell you certain things.
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They don't know it. They don't have it. There's two shows that were mainstream shows when they created, but somehow black people loved and the rest of America was like, I don't know what the deal is. Number one. Race deflection. I like what you're doing.
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It's a master class. This man is in his bag. Are you on my side or are you on the other side? So number one is First 48, which is what Hawk, everything Hawk is doing today is all straight out of First 48. Number two is To Catch a Predator. When I tell you that this, on Sundays from like 2011 to like 2014, dominated, dominated the lives of me and every person I knew who was of color.
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But the white people are like, what's the catchphrase? I'm like, what do you mean? You don't know what Chris Hansen is? I don't like that take. It's a bad take.
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Talk about that one a lot. No, Carbonaro effect, it's not. It's the people on it, not the people watching it. White people love watching Carbonara. You cold? Carbonara was always going after tricking black people. You know why? Because we emote. We emote. White people, you do those tricks on them, like, oh my gosh. You need a cigarette?
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Did you have a problem with him? Oh, wait, hold on. He's excellent at trying to do show as opposed to just talk about my life? Yeah.
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
What are you talking about?
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You want to do a show? Amazing. Yeah, we got sponsors to do it.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Back to the jokes.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
I just got a yup heading down text from him. All right.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
This is exciting. I feel great.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Thank God Amin isn't dead. Number one, no way in hell Michael Jordan was going to his funeral.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Amin dies, but maybe we meet MJ. I sent a bunch of texts in that 15 minutes. Most of them were people connected to Michael Jordan. It said, Amin Elhassan died. Do you think Mike is going to come to the funeral? They said, are you serious? I said, yes. They said TBD. So that doesn't sound like it's a confirmation.
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I wanted to come in and be the MVP, man. I had a whole week planned out. We go down 0-1. We rally Game 2. You guys split. Three and four. And you come in. And I just come in.
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Moody Moses?
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Carry the hell on, Dan.
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What's up? What's up? Oh, that was smooth. That was smooth. You know what we do. It sounds like you've heard some basketball disrespect this week.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Maybe if Sacramento State is on maybe a home stretch.
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He's not going to smile. I don't think you want to smile. You don't? No, because you want it to feel like... You and MJ are connected in that way. So it can't be like he's sad, you're in the back. Like, I get to meet him. It's got to be like just me and my boys. So you got to get it candid.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to get it candid where you... You got to match his energy. If he's laughing, you laugh. Well, he's never laughing. If he's crying, you cry. If he's sad, you... If he's confused, like... Wait, that's Amin El-Hassan? Then you are confused, because you're like, I thought this was... I thought this was Khalid El-Amin. I got confused. What?
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
You don't want to put like the meta glasses on Amin. Well, then it's sideways.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
That sounds like serial killer vibes.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Yeah, it was real weird. They had machetes with blood still on them in this room. It was dark. We weren't supposed to be in the cellar. And they said, don't open the fridge no matter what you do. But it was cool. It was just vibes, man. Me and my boy.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Did they do like body like makeup? No. It wasn't like a portfolio. No. Of like, man, look at these caskets we designed.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
No, it's weird. It's Chinese, man.
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In their dead state.
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Where would you want your funeral to be at? Like, if you could really be like, yo, take me out one more time doing this, what would you... Because you're not going to have, like, the confidence to actually do it. You should.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Facts.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Dirt in the casket. Just a little grass. Hand in the dirt. Yep. Die pads. This is how we'll always remember you. What would you want? I like the club idea. I do, because I want everyone to have a good time while I'm there. I would like my funeral to be a roast. And you got to make sure you roast everyone in the room, too.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Like, yes, roast me, but also, like, make sure, like, you know, everybody gets it.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
You don't get to put on makeup when you're late, man. Yeah, you got to watch it, man. No, you got to come in what you got, Amin. You don't get to.
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There's got to be a scurry to it.
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I left my car on the freeway and I ran here. When you're in football, there's no scarier moment for anyone who doesn't know this, okay? When you play professional football and you're late or running late.
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Not for the Dolphins.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Tony knows. No, there is no scarier thing in my life ever to this day than being 20 seconds on pace for being 20 seconds late. You genuinely are like, Do I wreck my car?
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You got to wreck, bro. You either got to slash your tire on the highway, like poke it, or you just got to... Just a little light into a pole. Just a little. You just got to skin it a little bit. You guys think I'm joking. I'm being so serious. I can promise you there's been multiple players.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
aired out the whole section, bro, with the air Draco. That's crazy, Job.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Especially if you're not at the top of the roster.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
All right. So let's not. You don't get to come in and not address the elephant. No, no.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
I am the elephant. Oh. I don't address it. I am it. Okay. So I know what happened. You got a haircut this morning. And you can't control the barber's time. No, no, no. I've been here. I know. You can make up whatever lie you're about to tell me. I know a fresh haircut when I see one. And that is the only situation when you're in the chair. You can't just be like, yo, I got to go. Stop right now.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Middle town. Like, nah. You...
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Little hand blickies. Little hand blickies.
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Turn your head.
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Thank you.
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Hand-blicky protest. He blew smoke off the barrel one time. Oh, let you know that. I mean, he got hot. Yeah.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
The Draco typically does. When you sling it all over section 206.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
The cutaway call? Like, hey, we got to stop showing. Like, when the streaker. Hits midfield, it's like, yo, do not show the hand, Blicky. Under no circumstances, after every three, crowd shot.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Why not? I want to have this conversation with Amin sitting here when he gets here. Because I didn't watch any game film. I'm like you, Tony. I didn't watch any game film this week. I don't watch games I'm not in. Just coming fresh. I catch the highlights. But I did catch the highlight of Amin saying he had the superior being of time.
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that his body knows better than to let him sleep when there's work that needs to be done.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Well, he's trying to say, like, if we went to Cleveland, you could imagine the places we've been together.
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No, don't do that because now Tony's getting me worried. I'm not a worried kind of guy. That's what I'm saying. But I didn't even consider that there could actually be something going on and how this is going to age with an empty chair of a mean without information. Oh, yeah. We could be. We're going to lose game five and it might be worth two games. It might be worse than that.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
And we might end up losing the series. Got to risk it for the biscuit.
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Irrelevant today. Today, it has reached peak.
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I just hope that he overslept. Because the most ridiculous of all those things was I wake up without an alarm clock. The no hangover thing, we all kind of know a friend that's like, I don't get hungover. That's not that rare. No, it's not that rare. In the drinking streets, in these drinking streets, not getting hung over is not good.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
I like how you clarified that because you're like, yo, I'm in these drinking streets. That's what I'm saying. You don't know these streets like I know these streets.
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I know a few guys out there that are like, I don't get hung over.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
I don't think we should put his business out of where specifically he was until what time. We don't know. Well, you need to know where he was for us to find him. We need to know the time.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
But also, why didn't you leave the room for 24 hours?
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Because I feel like they have, like, video camera in the hallways. And if they're coming, they're like, yo, check the surveillance. Has he left? He hasn't. I actually died. Did you jump out the window or something?
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
I got an idea. I'm going to text him, you good, question mark.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
I don't think you're going to respond. Bro step number one. This is how every search for a dead person happens. Or just missing. Or just missing. Or just missing. He's never missed work while I've been here. So now I am a little concerned, and I'm going to talk through it because it's good content in the moment that I won't be able to go back and make if the worst case has happened.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Usually 8.50, he comes walking in. What's up, everybody?
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
I like them.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
I'm just telling you. I don't feel good about... Amin's whereabouts.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
I feel like Amin, of all people, would be good with this type of bit, though, on the front end. We don't know anything yet.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
We will be able to cash in on that MJ bet though.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
It's very open-ended and our audience is like, we want to get this. Is Cole on tour?
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
He will not take accountability for not waking up. I just got a little concerned because he's very regular in this shit chat we have. Uh-oh.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
like on days he's not here around eight o'clock before nine o'clock like he generally is on the toilet and he hasn't reported in there either today so we gotta smell the smell under the door i'm i'm half worried all right we're gonna move i'm half still committed to this bit and half genuinely worried yeah we're gonna move on because this is a bit i
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
As the minutes go by.
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Like three minutes in it. Like rushing.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
And they were funny at first, but now it's... Okay, so Jeremy, I think you have some information. Jeremy, talk heat while we're all sad. I'm going to defend Lamar no matter what you say, but I'll let you go ahead and give us some information.
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Local Hour: American Crime Story (The Disappearance of Amin Elhassan)
Cuervo.