Dan
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Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
They look a little different and take a little more horsepower.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Well, in tender markets like these today, we have to get very specific to do everything we can to make the most amount of profit that we can. And so every bit of that data and decisions is going to help us just arm us.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I'm going to brand it as John Deere infrastructure. So we can't have electric vehicles before we have the infrastructure to support them. We can't have autonomous tractors before we have the infrastructure to support it, and then all the supporting attachments. I think of like a skid steer. A skid steer is nothing without all the attachments. We have to have the attachments that work with that.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So, yeah, you're building the blocks of John Deere infrastructure.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I was just about to say that. Some of the infrastructure is also teaching people. I don't know how to plug in a this or a that. As you guys have incrementally taught people that... hey, this is what GPS is, and then this is how you work a touchscreen, and then this is what WAS is, and this is how to make an AB point. Now we're all up to speed, okay?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Now, how do we take that and put a second receiver here? And then how does that talk with this one? And I mean, I'm just geeking out on all the tech that we can go, but each person is in their own incremental step of learning, if you will.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Innovator, right? Yes. Yes.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I have the first question here. Let me go here, will you? Because I actually heard a question that was asked of the little man running around out here, Jackson, just a Jackson thing right over there. And they said, hey, Jackson, if this wasn't called a gator, what would you call it? Oh. What's your answer for that? If it wasn't a gator, what is it?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
See, and I would have called it the tax write-off to start off. And I was like, wait a minute, got a little bit more here. And now everybody found the functional use of it. So first, let's maybe buy it over here.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Didn't you have to put up one of their grain bins while you were there, if I remember this story, the safety home?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So all jokes aside, you were getting serious. And the serious point is, as I look at it over there, I even asked, like, what is the marker on the left side of that? And Tanner's like, I don't know. I'm guessing it's for marking boundaries. I mean, you guys have teched this thing out.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So I think back to the original Gator that I thought like on a golf course and it was like a six-wheeler and it was low to the ground.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Gators live to a long age. Now we're calling it XUV. So what are some upgrades since then for any listeners like independent suspension or where yet?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Ooh, I like that. Portable office. That's key. I was going towards land management, and even though I joke that it's a tax write-off, I think it's become way more important than that as a tool in the toolbox that was maybe a tool that we used for fun, and now it has become oh so much more important, Tanner. as not a trusted advisor, but a trusted piece.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So if I had to guess, or I'm going to ask you here, I think large farmers, let's say, I'll say 5,000-plus acres, 2,000-plus acres, I'll say that. Okay, do they use it more, or do the guys that are like, I've got a food plot in southern Iowa for hunting use it more? Yes. Okay, that's smart. That's what I thought.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I've got a whole new market for you. I take my kid to football practice, and every one of the parents, like every small community now, let you have golf carts drive all over town. And every parent comes up because we don't have bleachers, and they just drive up there and sit on them. I tell my wife, I'm like, why are we sitting in the dirt? We need our own side-by-side or something. There you go.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Tanner needs an upgrade of his golf cart.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
A lot of hay equipment as well.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
You can marry these two together in that they both have GPS and make us more accurate and better decision making and hopefully more profitable. How wide? So as a first year farmer myself on the row crop side, anyway, I'm making decisions on how wide of stuff to go and and how new of tech I need. But it also depends a whole lot on the John Deere tractor I have in front of it.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Question I wrote down is how much horsepower? Let's go with width first. How wide are these new tools? And then, how much horsepower does it take?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So help me with something. As I'm a decision maker, I'm sitting here at Farm Progress Show. You have a new tool, and I love new stuff, but the budget's tight, of course, this year. So my tillage tool works pretty good, but I'm also an auctioneer. John Deere holds its value. I can sell this with that XYZ Auction Company. And I can upgrade your new piece. Why? Why should I? What's the advantage?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I'm going to put you a little on the spot here, but you're good at answering questions. So I'm going to challenge you with a hard one here. All right. I have a coffee group I go to in the morning, and there's a lot of naysayers. Okay. And these old boys are going to say, it works fine the way it is. It's just a new feature you're selling me.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Why in the world, okay, you've given us some whys to make it applicable, but there's got to be some data-driven decisions behind it because I know Deere uses data. So if you're that old boy that's asking you that question, standing right here at the booth, geez, it works just fine. Is there some data you can provide to me that you guys have why you went this direction?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
74 or more, isn't it? Somewhere in there, 74.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
That was a legit trap question. Did I tell you my wife's story? Yes. So she put DEF in the diesel tank. Oh, jeez. of our truck, but she caught it. She realized it. She was distracted by the kids and calls the dealership, and they're like, do not start it. Do not anything. We have the thing towed. I'm outside. I'm like, why is there a tow truck here? What's going on?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
She wanted to handle it herself. She did, and it was expensive. Not a worry on his gator or our high horse. It can be bad.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Yep. Yeah, I can't wait to be a part of that launch. Yeah, absolutely. But think of this, Tanner. How many seasons does the average farmer get? We did it once. It's like 33. 33 seasons that you're the decision-maker operator. So six years, what is that, a third?
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
No, he's not. He's not. So just be thinking ahead for what is coming. That's why we're revealing this now. But I have a crystal ball that says that I think equipment might get smaller because we've maxed the capacity of the roads. We've maxed the capacity, weight limits, et cetera.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So as we become autonomous, do we just have more farms and they're all tilling at the same time and they're all harvesting at the same time? So we need smaller size because we're not so much worried about time and efficiency. As you guys are going autonomy, is it still just as big?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I know at the last show we were at, you guys had a newer program that's more of a lease program for some of that technology that some of maybe the older farmers didn't have that can move. And it can move from my tractor to maybe even, well, it's a lease program. So I could just get another one and just do it as a cost per acre or cost of doing business and then upgrade the gator that we have.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
with another monitor, another whatever, to map that as well. Now, you're talking about brand new, but I might already have one myself. That's still in play, right? We can still buy monitors, buy globes, buy et cetera for our current.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
It does work, yeah. You guys are working good with the old and the new to bridge that gap.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I said metro, didn't I? Geo-metro. He's a geo-tracker. How dare you? I know. We're going to get a lot of flack for that. No, it's all right. I'm going to make a meme of him in a geo-metro.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I was going to say, I'm guessing there's some newer technology and touchscreens in it as I watch the booths that we've sat at. I see a lot of that. Even you go buy a new truck anymore. I was fortunate enough to do that. And even the Ford dealer said, well, we need an hour to go through the screen to tell you how to program everything.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Yes, definitely.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Well, and one of the things I learned is I had some of the technology, but I didn't have the modem. So I didn't have the modem that would automatically sync into my tractor. I was still thumb sticking it, you know. And so that's come a long ways as we think of where there's cell phone signal, where there is satellites, et cetera, that we have. I know immediately the juice is worth the squeeze.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Just pay for it. Upgrade. Upgrade. Of course, and that was part of that new program too, that lease program. You get the modem with it. I ended up buying another one.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Eric, you just made me interject one little thing here, and that is for you listeners of Farm for Profit, when he said R&D, we have an episode coming up that you're going to want to listen to on R&D. Just a teaser here. Keep listening. I'll take the $5 for bringing that up.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I'm assuming that's some of the technology for the guys that are afraid of that touchscreen.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
And Tanner, for you and a lot of our other listeners, you know, you work with your father-in-law and of course they might set it up and then you might have a hired hand. And that hired hand or that son, brother-in-law, daughter, et cetera, they sit in it and maybe they didn't do the mapping originally, but maybe there's another team member who is the oversight on this or the overwatch.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
And so, yeah, time. Yeah, exactly.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
what's coming down the pipeline and what's here and offered today the technology is fascinating and we we on the podcast we normally get to talk about all the big cool equipment that's out there i think this one was a really fun one and for you listeners that are looking out there uh your gator might be a couple years old you guys got to check this thing out i'm just telling you i know everybody's thinking big tractors big money look at this gator we've learned through that i wrote down a lot of different things on here but i remembered the tech stack comment the fact that
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
But they do have to deal with a family. So answer the question. What do you got?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
You've got to have an app. I told Corey the other day my wife got a new Maytag dryer. It tells us when our clothes are done. I don't really know what the value is here. You've got a new Maytag dryer. But we have a dryer, and it has an app, and it tells you when your clothes are done. It doesn't fold them, though. There you go, Corey. Yeah, that's what we need next. That's what we need.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Like, it's all ready.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
What else could you do for automation?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So for the guy that doesn't know, why do we go from 15 to 14 or 13 if we're going to hold it longer? What's that do?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
And Tanner, you just showed up. Where'd you come from? You were recording somewhere else and now you're here. I was. I was.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
They hook us up.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So we're at the John Deere booth. We are. And it's kind of the... Getting towards the end of day two. It's been a huge crowd today. It's a little less humid, but maybe hotter today. And now we get to talk with the game itself. We get to talk with John Deere.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Just a little closer with your mic, and then I'll pick you up a little better. Sounds good. Perfect.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
I don't think... we'd think we were discriminated against. I don't want to be here and say, oh, because we're two Americans. We absolutely do what we're getting into. And it was almost going there and getting rejected was like in fun activity in and of itself.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
It's like you're participating in the thrill. Let me put it this way. I've gone skydiving before. And the level of anxiety I had just as I was stepping up to be judged was the same level of anxiety I had just as I was about to jump out of the plane.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Almost a relief. Really? You get it over with. I wish I had gotten in, but... Yeah. And then when Chris was ejected, too, I felt really good about myself. Would have been devastating.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
So there's a few things I want to know. One thing is, say there are some cases where it's cuspy, right?
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
On the cusp of a decision, where they're like, they can't decide when you're 20 people away whether you're a yes or a no.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
And they want to get a closer look. What are they scanning you for? Right. What are the cues that are going to, you know, nudge you towards getting in versus kick you to the curb? Got it. The other question that I have, every time we would leave, we would walk around the whole club. I wonder if there's a way to sneak in. No. Like, is there just, like, a fire exit? Yeah.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Like, is it permeable from any other orifice than this drawer? I mean, I expect it to be hard, to be clear. I don't think that there's some easy, oh, just go in the back door. I'm just like, if you jump a fence, crawling under a bush, like, I'm like, is there a way? And would you do it if there were? Yeah.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
I would say our form of relaxing is generally not relaxing. It's like partying.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah. Okay. But, you know, respectful, healthy, wholesome partying. Yes.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah, it was a really short trip.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
There was a very unstructured itinerary, which consisted of absolutely nothing.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
But we knew what the crown jewel of the trip was supposed to be.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
I guess it has this mythical status attached to it, which is no one can get in or very few people can get in. But once you're in, it's like this mystical palace of fun and amazing music and God knows what else because neither of us have ever been inside.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
And I think part of the whole allure of the venue is because they reject so many people, they have rejected so many famous people, from actors and celebrities to the Elon Musks of the world. And so it would be one thing if, you know, we're not A-list celebrities, so of course we're not getting into this club.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
But even the top of the top of society, the top of the top of the business world, even they are not getting into this club. Yeah, it's savage.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
There are Reddit forums, subreddits completely dedicated to this. There are TikToks dedicated to this. In English? Yeah.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
In every language. We were kind of looking back on the last time that we went, and we were like, what did we do wrong? And I think the last time we went, we were so ignorant to any of these rules, we showed up in, like, black American apparel t-shirts and thought that would be adequate for the dress code.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah, no, totally, woefully inadequate.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
We had a shopping module one day where we went to Kreutzberg, which is like their sort of like funky neighborhood with all their vintage stores. And we were like, we are going to dress like freaks.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
There's this air through the day of like, we're going to cinch this. Like, it felt that way to me.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
If it was going to be any moment, it was going to be that day. Got it.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Okay, so tell me about the line. So it's always a fixture. Like, you show up. It's very, very long. Three to four hours.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
When a bunch of people in front of you get rejected, you feel kind of optimistic because you're like, well, they're not going to reject everyone, you know? Just statistically, we're probably in luck.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
You know, that's up for debate. Oh, really? Some people might say they're kind of watching you the entire time.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
No, but people do come back. You see people that are like kind of like strolling the line. Uh-huh. And then you see them again at the door. That happened at least once. Oh, so Santa Claus is watching you. Yeah. But for the... I mean, I assumed or I felt like, for the most part, you weren't really scrutinized until you were within, like, 20 to 30 people at the door. Okay.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
And they're looking out and you could feel their eyes on you. Okay. And so how, what was your strategy for how to behave in the line? The conventional wisdom is to be just stone-faced. Now, we tried that. We also tried the approach of being like, let's just be normal.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Now, another thing that's interesting is I think that they could tell, to the point of like scanning you for authenticity, like we actually are gay, which works in our favor because it retains its roots as a gay club. And they're gay at the door.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
There's actually like a physical demarcation. So like you get to a certain point where like the line actually has a railing around it. Okay. So once you reach that point, you're like, whoa, this is game time. Then you're within like 20 people of the door. You know that you're with inside of the bouncers. That's when like you could hear a pin drop.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Okay. And so you get up, and then there's a number of calculations that are going on in your mind. Do you look at the bouncer in the eye? Do you look kind of at the ground? Do you smile? Do you keep a straight face? Do you say anything? Yeah. And I think on this try, this was like our authentic friendly selves attempt. And so, you know, I smiled at the guy. He asked how many people were.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
I said two. I was friendly. I think I asked him how his night was going. Did he answer? No, of course not. One of my calculations was whether or not to look like I was having fun and into the music. So I kind of like was dancing a little bit. But, you know, Very, like, minor movements. And I don't think that strategy worked. It didn't.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah, and you're constantly making adjustments on how to not appear to be a witch.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Is he a he? It's a he. There's Sven, the main dancer. If Berghain itself is the epitome of what you would think of East German old techno nightclub, then Sven is the epitome of what you would think of as the bouncer, the lead bouncer for that venue. What does he look like? A large man with a large number of tattoos and piercings on his face. That man is... He's a unique individual.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Is he intimidating? He's extremely intimidating. And there's two others. Apparently there's some sort of communication between the two of them, some sort of silent communication. But it's not legible. There's only one amount of legible communication, and that's the decision.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
It's always one person they pull up at a time, or a small group. And sometimes they're immediately rejected. Like, they don't even get to say a word. The bouncer just puts his hand out, and they just keep walking.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
It's not so much a point as an open palm out the direction that you should be going.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah, it's like, you're welcome to go anywhere else in Berlin.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Or is it two chances? The line was just as long, I would say, if not longer, actually, during the day. And yeah, our thinking was perhaps we would attain that additional level of respect if we pretended as if we were going separately.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
We acted like we didn't know each other. And I was ahead of Chris. And I get up. And one of the bouncers was like, how many? And I say one. And then he just stares at me. And stares. And I actually thought this was the time I was getting in. I was pretty confident because it was like a solid 20 seconds, I would say, before I was rejected.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
But as soon as they rejected me, they looked at Chris and immediately rejected him.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
So we're pretty sure they caught us on the lie. Yeah.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
It was insane. It felt like an X-ray.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah, it actually was. Actually, as we're saying this, I'm like, we're idiots. Yeah. Obviously, they knew that we were together.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Well, that would assume they remembered us out of the thousands of people who are probably trying to get in there.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah, I think we've figured out the answer as to why we didn't get in and we were just dumb.
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I got Mike and Billy and I got Chris and we've got Roy. We sent him out on remote. We got Greg Cody and we got Stugatz. Like this is the crew that people love the best from the beginning. And over the last few years, we've brought on a lot of voices that has made this a very crowded holiday party in a new space that we've already outgrown.
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Got it. Okay, so we are buying perfume in Cologne.
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Yeah, so Billy, for the holidays, he's not going to lift a finger for you or anybody else. He's going to keep his book sales. I have found, Chris, this is a good question to ask your mom. I'm going to guess that your father is one, that we could document that your father is one of the least charitable people in the history of finances. Oh, wow. No, because he's all about taking for the holidays.
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It's not about giving. Like, it's not. Have you bought any Christmas gifts?
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Greg, Greg, how late are you on your Christmas shopping? And what kind of spree is this going to be that's just going to grab some perfume at the end?
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You came in here saying it's a Christmas sprint. I'm behind. You came in here saying that.
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No, but because you've been boxed in on being a taker for the holidays. You're not a giver. You're a taker. If you could do it, you'd just get gifts and not give a single one.
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So outside the doors, we've got Lucy and Amin and Jeremy because everyone's here for the holiday.
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I find it rare to be friends with somebody for 40 years and delightful, delightfully discover something.
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something about him i did not know i'm just learning what a gift i'm getting right now yet to learn that it has been confirmed by his son greg cody is an expert rapper i would have never had you being that i would have never guessed that if the key is the cut and the crease the scissor work has to be pristine and and perfectly aligned the creases have to be sharp
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party and I want to know with honest answers from our crew in here how do you guys just feel about the office holiday party as a construct as a thought I'm asking the audiences and I'm asking you this like in your workplaces out there do you enjoy going and then being with the co-workers do you have a company where that is something you want to be doing in your free time or does it become a responsibility and an obligation everyone rather be home with their families and not have to go to a holiday party
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Well, if I may with you guys, I think I've got an idea here that you guys can maybe help me with. Because... I like Greg's idea of giving a seminar on gift wrapping. I would love to put him in another room with Jeremy and have him give that seminar while actually watching him wrap a gift.
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I have in my car, my wife sent a toy in today, a lovely unicorn, that we can have him wrap so that we can see what it is that looks like, even though we're looking for unwrapped toys.
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Yes, I've got to match that one as well.
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I'm not doing it that way. I'm going to just make a joke. This is what I'm telling you so that I'm not false advertising. I will generally estimate what the toys are worth and then buy that amount of toys in a shopping spree with Billy, and we will give all of those toys over to branches, fl.org, if you want to give for yourself.
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The thing that I want to do with Cody is have him wrap a gift here and show us. Get him the scissors he needs. Get him the gift wrapping he needs. Like a master class, yes. I'm surprised and delighted by this, so we will get to it over the course of the show. There are a number of other things that I want to get to, and Roy is one of those things at Dolphin Mall.
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While I will not continue to bombard you with information on the toy drive for the next three days, I do want to get your attention here by dressing up our employees as Santa Claus, whether they like it or not. Roy, are you okay with this being called a Roy drive? Today is not a toy drive. It's a Roy drive.
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All right, so thank you. You write so well. It's just one letter off. Thank you. Are you okay also, Roy? Are you okay, Roy, also with me calling you Stoic Santa? Is Stoic Santa okay by you? Sure. Okay.
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No, that's good. So you can see Roy at Dolphin Mall and all of that holiday enthusiasm can pour over you and the mall's right there. You can go buy a gift and then you're going to hurt me if South Florida does what I think it's capable of, which is somebody with great wealth just shows up and buys a bunch of toys.
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And now you're going to hurt me because if several people do that, then I'm going to be in tens of thousands of dollars and I'm in over my head and I'm drowning. Hmm. What do you think this is, McAfee? You think I could throw $100,000 at people for kicking field goals? I don't pay the guests a million dollars here to ask me about my back status.
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You know, Billy, I do appreciate how meticulous you are on this one. I'm telling you right now, I'm not matching it toy for toy. You have to.
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Okay, then what I will add.
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Okay, but this is what I'm telling you. As you and Stugatz try to box me into more money and more work, this is what I'm going to tell you. It's a write-off. You know what? You're right, though. You're right. You're absolutely right. I have been swayed.
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And so now your assignment as our employee is to list in detail all of those toys, what they are, and then help me find someone to go out and buy those toys with my money.
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What's the honest answer here?
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And a unicorn. You keep a running tab in the back room. You keep a running tab of all the stuff we have.
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Roy, we'll come back to you in a second. I appreciate your Panther jersey. I appreciate that you're wearing it. We're going to talk about Panthers and some local stuff here because some of the sports stuff going on is interesting.
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One, you've got and let me go through this for a second, because Greg Cody's all excited because if the Dolphins beat the Niners, their playoff chances skyrocket to 12 percent. So so Cody's excited about that. Mike Ryan has come in here and said, Dan, I'm not going to let you off the hook on the heat. Dan, you cannot let the heat off the hook for what is presently happening with the Miami Heat.
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And in the middle of that. The Panthers continue to be just awesome. Just awesome fun. And did something that I don't believe, I don't believe has happened in South Florida's sports lifetime. You've got us caring deeply about regular season hockey games.
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You've got us caring when they go play in Winnipeg or when they're playing in Edmonton because now you're developing some allegiances to the storylines. You've watched a previous playoff run, and now you know the players from the other team. South Florida's getting caught up in something the exact way that a sports fan base has to be built around winnings.
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25 years with no playoff success, like not even winning, like 25, you got that 96 run and then you got a quarter century of not, you'll get to the playoffs with Pavel Burry, whatever, but you're never winning a game. You're never winning a series.
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Mike, you got here before I did by a year, I would say. I would say that in your... reduced fan with that the Panthers last year in just your consumption was the first time in your lifetime maybe, maybe 96, where the Panthers had run the heat out of your purview. Yeah, other than the two years before that.
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That sounds lovely. Does everyone experience it that way? Do the people listening to this, because the reason I asked the question is because I would love to be building a company where people get together at the holiday party and it is a rip-roaring affair. where everyone's got their arms around each other because they love working together so much. That would be wonderful.
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because i'd argue that right now okay so three years you've got yeah like three years like the the the barkov huberto uh team that that really started oh these guys have been around for a while you're gonna you're going to tell me now that those panther teams to you were something you were watching with more interest passion than and and so the derrick white shot at the buzzer with the celtics and the heat you're going to tell me that panthers feelings overrode those heat feelings well when
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Okay, but can I – when I talk about – look, Greg Cody – is the most historic sports columnist now that we have going in town. Living, yes. Only in terms of stature locally, as a journalism legend, Greg Cody finishes, I think, second to only Edwin Pope in this town. Maybe he's running neck and neck with Dave Hyde on columnist greatness. I don't know where he put himself on this list.
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But when it comes to what's happening in this town right now, two columnists are calling for the firing of Chris Greer with the Dolphins. I don't know. You can correct me. That still means something to me when newspapers do that.
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And I don't recall a time in South Florida history when two columnists were willing to do that at the same time since going back to Jimmy Johnson and Don Shula at the very end when Dave Hyde and I were doing it. But I think I have it right when I say it's unusual for our market to call for the firing of a leader. So that's happening with the Dolphins.
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I'm not saying that you don't.
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You know what? All right, listen to me. I'm not going to have you sit here with a straight face and tell me that you cared about the Panthers more when Bam Adebayo was blocking Jason Tatum out at the rim. You have had some of your heat allegiances beaten out of you by the Celtics the last year.
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The only reason I'm bringing all of this up, Mike, is because this is exactly the only thing a team can do in this market, like a hockey team, to wrestle the city away from the incumbent in sports. We don't support four and five things at the same time down here. So if you want to wrestle the town away, do it with regular season games that matter. I'm watching basketball games.
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I don't care when the Heat are losing to the Pistons by a point.
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You're not joking. I could dream on and that dream will never come true for me.
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Don Libetard. You don't remember the idea for a home run call?
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Oh, no, just make another run. Just make another run. No, you gotta win some cups. Exactly right.
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If they win another cup, finish your thought. I'm sorry I interrupted you. You were cookin'.
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All right, and so you saying that to me, my purview, lifelong South Floridian, is crazy. It's crazy. I understand. So before we get to the excellence of all of this, because they're the thing.
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Flip those jacks. I like that as the new take. The new way that I enter the room to have a take. I flipped those jacks. Can you guys put on the screen for me in the corner, please? Mike mentioned a parade, and it just made me think of the single best parade that I believe Metal Ark Media has ever had. It was Greg Cody's Miami-Dade Panthers win the championship, Connor McDavid's overrated parade.
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that he did here with us. And, yeah, it just makes me happy. Look at Greg, how happy he is.
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That was right after the Panthers won the Cup. That was our parade in the streets of downtown Miami. So when I say to you guys that it's unusual because this has been Broward's team, okay, like it's hard to get all the ethnicities. I mean, I don't know. Tony and Billy still don't care about the Panthers, right? I shouldn't speak about Billy as if he's not here.
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It's really, it ends up being two holiday obligations on a work day. That's right. Right.
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Mike, this is what I'm telling you. What I can't believe I've witnessed over the last five years is a management leadership that turns from the best offensive team in the sport during the regular season to realizing immediately, oh, that don't work in the playoffs. Got to do that. Rip it up.
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I would have gone with that for a couple more years and I would have died at the feet of the lightning and given them the state. Because I would not have been bold enough to make the move that brings Kachuk and stability to town. I would not have had the foresight to know that Paul Maurice would become the winningest coach in Panther history already. Already. Think about that for a second.
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Low bar. I know, but still. But still. To see this team be this kind of excellent and to have it be in the middle where the other things that need to happen in your town around sports have to happen so that you can grab a town the way Tampa does, the opportunity is right here. And I just didn't think in my sports lifetime I would ever see.
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a time where hockey could be that thing in both of these markets, even as Dade County yawns largely about the Panthers, but they're making us, I think, care about regular season games in a way I haven't felt before because I've got, I live around bars and stuff. I hear what's happening around me. Hockey is doing something in Dade County I've not seen before.
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Do we know what ours is? I'd like to know whether ours is going to be an open bar. I don't know as we sit here.
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Billy, thank you for being a voice of reason because you're absolutely right. But you understand how to my tinny sports ear... I would totally be surprised by local sports excellence. Barely local, honestly.
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I'll go anywhere to find it. It's been so long since. It's barely local. The Dolphins have been bad for a really long time.
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This is a stunning commentary from longtime veteran columnist Greg Cody in a town where columnists are calling for firings. Greg Cody has proclaimed the Panthers have a chance right now to be the second best team in the market.
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I'm going to be serious when I say this. War crimes. Stugatz came in here today and with Cody they commiserated and Stugatz arrived at the conclusion that the holiday party should be closer to him at Landlubbers. He wants it. He's mad that we're
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Lefties. Billies. Anywhere.
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Do me the favor, please, video of putting a camera, training it on the other room there so I can see who is gathering here for the holiday party because I just saw a whole lot of people out there. We've got Lucy out there. We've got Jeremy out there. Izzy is out there. So we've got a lot of people we can use today at our disposal. Roy is at Dolphin Mall. He is Santa Roy. It is a Roy drive. Yeah.
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He is. I don't know how he would feel about me. Put him up on the screen to video. I can see here in the preview that Roy is there. Yes, he there he is. And so I'm excited to see. I want to call him stoic Santa. But Roy doesn't want me to make him mirthless. So help me help Roy as he gathers at Dolphin Mall. I am promising right now as we escalate this toy drive.
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I am promising everyone that I will match the number of toys given by all of our audience here. Wow. I will match.
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No, I'm just going to make a quick estimate, and then I'm going to get the amount of money that I need to make that quick estimate double the amount of toys that we're giving.
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You know what? We could do that. We could do that and make content out of it. You and me doubling the output of the audience at toy shopping. Let's do that.
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It was your idea. No, no, no.
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No, you said you'd love to go shopping with me.
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Turn it down!
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I see the delight in Stugatz stirring to life and giving me work and expenses. I love charity, Dan. Yes, I know. I see just a general enthusiasm of getting me to do more work to get more money spent. I see it on you. It delights you.
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Right. Yeah, that's not what's happening here. What is going to happen is I'm telling the audience. I can't false promise this. There are rules to this. I'm telling the audience that if the audience stuns us with coming to Corner Coffee Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Make some noise, BD.
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here at the Elser through tomorrow, or if they go out to Vivo at the Dolphin Mall, a mall where you can buy toys, I'm saying that whatever your generosity is, you have... the ability to hurt me here with what I'm offering.
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You have the ability to make me have to buy thousands and thousands of dollars in toys if the audience, and I fear our audience's support, if our audiences do the labyrinth degree of difficulty of having to at 10 a.m. to noon on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday show up at Dolphin Mall or at the parking lot of a Flanagan's that is closed
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And bombard us at the last minute with toys because I've hastily organized a toy drive that the company is not equipped to handle at the moment. And the company would have preferred not to have this the week before the holidays when everyone is mailing it in. Everyone is done this week. No one is trying this week. You've got your foot on the gas. And I'm like, toy drive.
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We've got to make kids happy. It's urgent. Greg Cody is here in one of the best holiday sweaters I have ever seen. Amazing.
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Yeah.
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I actually like that. Look, for all the beer commercials that there are, Greg Cody is a Miller Lite spokesman saying, I like Miller Lite a little too much. Is it great? No, it's not.
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You can have both. You can love a sponsor so much that you over love a sponsor.
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Please stop. Yes. Greg Cody is trying to bring back the phrase maniac. We think that the phrase maniac has just all but expired.
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Shadow Show. Shadow Show.
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Okay, Billy, why are you laughing? Are you laughing because Greg Cody Tuesday has gotten off to a limp or an uproarious start?
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Shadow Show. Shadow in it. Shadow. Eventually, I want to get to the point where we start one of these and Greg Cody already has his headset on and is ready to go. And we then start sharing and spilling secrets to the audience in the shadow show. That's where I want to get eventually. But the reason I am excited today right now is because I've got. Original show right here.
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You're doing two obligatory Christmas parties today, two obligations that everyone has gathered around for. Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show. Do you like the company office party, yes or no? And then also put on the poll at Levitard Show, company office party, time of great enthusiasm and dreams or horrible obligation? Because I don't know.
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Look, God bless football has taken a beating this football season. They have carried us. They have worked hard. They're flying coast to coast. They are trying to make money.
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Yeah, Stugatz is claiming that his body feels like an NFL player's does at the end of the season. Worse. They're killing themselves for you to make more and more content. We're the biggest content machine that there is, just belching out content every day. And Billy and Stugatz do God bless football, and they're tired. They're exhausted.
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I don't want to speak for them, but I don't know that they want the general mirth of two office parties today.
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I am going to double whatever it is that the audience produces here, and we're going to be doing it for the next couple of days. Today and tomorrow, it's at Dolphin Mall. It's 11401 Northwest 12th Street, and it's from 10 a.m. to noon, although he's already out there. Chris, can I go to Roy at Dolphin Mall? And is he okay if you asked him if I make him a stoic clause?
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Roy, how are you doing out there? You look like you're filled with mirth. It is nice to see. The backdrop is very professional. You're giving off Christmas spirit in your eyes. How is everything out there?
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All right. Thank you. We're looking for athletic balls and equipment, dolls and Barbies, remote-controlled cars, Nerf toys, board games, play food, tea sets, jewelry, craft kits, cologne, perfume, building toys, Legos. The mall is right there.
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Every time it stops me as well. It does.
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The perfume and cologne is strange. I don't understand why that's in there, but it's in there. High schoolers. Gift cards. Right. They're not just little kids. They're not just toddlers. They're often forgotten. Christmas comes for all, right, because we forget. That's the real stink of the holidays, that you often forget the teenager because you're busy buying toys for the kid.
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He rolled through that, Mike. He rolled through the fact that you were talking about kids who don't have parents, and he waited.
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That's right. I can do it efficiently that way.
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Thank you to all of you. So many heartfelt messages I got. Happy birthday, Dan. I was so moved by all of them. I did not think they were bare minimum efforts by you who felt the need to text me on a day so you wouldn't be forgotten. And I noticed that you'd put in an effort, but a bare minimum one. So thank you. Boom.
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Thank you for your not heartfelt love sent efficiently just because you felt the duty to send it. And now the burden and responsibility I have and guilt of answering you. You did not give me a gift. You gave me a burden.
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Thank you. I appreciate all of the messages and all of the love. Juju, what else? What today did people people have a problem with?
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Oh, that's fair criticism. Fair criticism.
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Yes. I am guilty often of playing something about 12 notes too long. Yes.
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Yes. Well, he was fuming.
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Look, look, look. I called Tony after that segment and I, I said to him, Tony, thank you. I know you were seething. I am promising you that the comedy duo of you and Rose is funny. That Rose, that I am, I am promising you, you did not see what was happening behind you. And so you do not know how much Rose was supporting what you were doing. She was not overshadowing you.
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She was trying to support you. She was look, Rose was, on behalf of Metal Ark Media, tries her hardest all the time. She gets pepper sprayed, and she is trying to help there, but she made a mess of the proceedings and therefore stole Tony's segment.
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For the holidays, if you want to wear something, if you like wearing a little bit of art that means something to maybe just you, can you explain Justice for Rose? She got pepper sprayed on behalf of the show while trying to do journalism and in so doing led the way to stardom because now we learn that she can sing and we learn that she made Tony's top five better even though Tony seethes about it.
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What am I going to do about Tony's Cuban Santa sensitivities that he would get that mad about his segment being stolen? Thank you.
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Oh, my God. Okay, so you guys see things more clearly than I do because I thought that he was seething as part of a bit. No, he was seething.
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You guys all saw through that, though. I didn't see that. And furthermore, after that, Billy and Jessica and Lucy simply refused to go after him. And I'm like, are you kidding? That's where all the good stuff is. You think Tony being mad is any less funny than Greg Cody being mad?
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chris juju can you give me some help on something i'm bad at birthdays like i'm just bad at sort of receiving what all of that should be would be uh and i got a lot of texts yesterday and i've not answered a lot of texts and so i feel guilt about not answering a lot of texts but also The text feels like sort of the bare minimum you can do to acknowledge my birthday.
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Juju, the whole thing is something that bothers me. What's happening with the NBA where they're falling behind while trying to make the kinds of changes that the purists love. I don't hear a whole lot of people who love basketball, who are getting extra meaningful games where money's on the line, and a whole lot of people are checked out because there are too many threes.
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Those games are like all the other regular season games. It feels to me like the purists are loving the games, and then a whole lot of other people are saying, ah, check in after load management during the postseason.
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Well, Pitbull Stadium is funnier than the Emeritus Cup, where I didn't ask any of the difficult questions about the general sports washing all around Emeritus. Moving on to other things.
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That is – I'm going to endorse that. I'm going to endorse changing all of – we've already changed the other – look, the three-pointers were too much. Let's change the rules just ever so slightly and make that worth three points, too, so somebody's got an incentive to go dunk. I like that.
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It's the start of an idea. Let's workshop and see if we can come up with something that we'll take to the league and it'll be like the magic at bat. They'll steal it in 12 years. What else do you have?
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And on that day, I'd rather concentrate on doing something lovely with, say, my wife than having to answer a bunch of texts that were kind of sent halfheartedly because people felt like they had to.
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Monsters. Monsters. Repressed people. Repressed monsters. At Levitard Show is where you vote on this stuff. Anything else, Juju, before we get out of here?
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What's 12-0? What's 12-0, though? There was a 15-9 game yesterday. That was Atlanta over the Raiders was 15-9. Was that the Scorigami?
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I did not know that. Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show for tomorrow. Do you trust Skorogami more than you trust family at Levitard Show? I like you updating the polls here, too. We've got to get back to updating some of the polls, just the special ones that people would want answers to. Thank you, Juju. I'll talk to you again tomorrow.
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They gave me a responsibility and the burden of answering them on a day I would like largely to myself. And so I feel all I feel bad about all of that for not receiving the love of that. But Juju, it feels like a bit of a bare minimum love. You did not buy me a gift. You just looked at a calendar basically and fired off. Happy birthday, Dan. And it was like bare minimum efficient effort.
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What do you make of the fact that the internet is now telling him he's got love all wrong after a video showed that his fiance seemed to be a little bit bothered by the fact that he just had to sign a bunch of things and take a bunch of pictures and be famous.
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And now a whole lot of 50-year-olds, a whole lot of Sterling Sharps and everyone else, or Shannon Sharp, are coming in here and telling this young man where he needs to grow up around love. And I don't know where he is with this, but I have found interesting how invasive everyone is comfortable being on a kid's relationship.
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But Billy doesn't think we're doing this right because... Hold on a second. Falsehoods. What are we doing?
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and them putting out everybody, his business and her business on what the intimate details of their relationship is, because now she gets a fame too, but it's unpleasant. It's a really unpleasant fame.
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Like the fame that comes her way ends up being something like she's being judged from every corner of how it is she's supposed to be or serve Travis Hunter as whatever it is they view a relationship as. And I'm just asking the group,
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What you make of how comfortable the Internet is telling Travis Hunter how to live his life around love, giving him the advice of you've got to get a prenuptial agreement, you've got to protect your money, etc., etc.?
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I just thought that perhaps you thought that Tony featured as a toy drive person. You thought that we're not putting him in a position to succeed because he's Tony and because of some of the details involved with what we're doing today.
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If you guys want to do a relationship show around this, I suppose that we can. We don't.
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Right, this is what Chad Johnson was saying. That's exactly what Chad Johnson was saying, and that's the way to go in this circumstance, certainly. I think we can all agree, do you love love? And then at some point in the middle of that, Kansas City fans were booing that, too. And the Mahomes family dynamics are all very complicated. But if we're going to sniff around...
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in the lives of these public figures and make them professionals early, and they're gonna make their relationships public, which is then gonna make the mess come to them.
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The thing I'm asking about where it is this can devour young people, young people in immature relationships, and I'm gonna say immature relationships, because I'm gonna just simply assume that any relationship any of us had from 17 to 21 was probably a slightly immature relationship.
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Fair enough. And you, as my chicken fry expert, because I know there's all sorts of gossip there, you explain to me what the difference is between the two things I'm doing here. You're doing, hey, I've got a TikTok addiction. I've got my chicken fry addiction. This is where I like to spend my gossip time enjoying somebody's personal life.
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And I'm telling you, there's a whole lot of Internet doing it in Travis Hunter's relationship. Why is this one not as interesting to you?
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All right. I appreciate you doing that. And you are not wrong when you want to bring a lighter touch to all of this. So does Jeremy. Jeremy is insistent now. We've opened this particular portal. Now he's just farting and burping song all over the place because it's the job he's wanted all his life. Let me sing songs during the holidays to people.
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So he just whipped up a chicken fry song that I'm not very eager to hear.
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Yes, because we are asking people to help us here with unwrapped toys. And we got a late start on this.
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I'm just going to say it. Yeah, you said you liked it before. Chris came in here and he brought me the chicken fry song. And I'm like, am I going to like that? And he's like, I don't know. Lucy likes it, though. She can't stop laughing. I'm like, do we want to trust that judgment? And he's like, yeah. And then we play it first.
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We're jostling. It's like the Super Bowl.
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It's the same place every year, but it sneaks up on us. I saw poor Fuentes in the eating area, and he was just lamenting that he's like, Dan, Christmas sprint. I haven't bought all the gifts. Nobody's fault but my own. Just muttering under his breath about the Christmas sprint.
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Dan Levatard. I just heard a song that had Frank Sinatra singing from the window to the wall till the sweat drop off my balls. Stugatz.
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So, what I'm saying here.
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Old Blue Eyes. Congratulations on your SUI nomination.
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Okay, and so the reason that I ask all of the questions is because I have been almost fundamentally ill-prepared for whatever the internet age and social media age has
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That's what people say. He looked sour, and I went up to him, and I don't often do this. I'm like, are you okay? Is everything okay? And he's like, yeah, you just caught me thinking about the Christmas sprint and all of the stresses involved. But we're trying to alleviate some of the holiday stresses. This is a real easy transaction. You bring us a toy.
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has rocked so i don't actually know the world the travis hunter is headed into next because he's probably been living in a version of this world that i don't understand for three or four years as hey renegade team is going to go play for a little bit of jackson state And then they're going to go and make themselves first-round picks and go to Colorado.
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And then they're going to get to the fringe of college football. And they've been living famous and big next to Deion Sanders for a while. So maybe they're prepared for all of what comes next because they've got the perfect mentor in Deion Sanders to warn them at every turn.
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But all of it does seem dangerous from where I'm standing, like not understanding what fame is doing to 17- and 19-year-old kids as we fast-forward how professional football is.
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My point is, and I will leave it, and we will go and enjoy the holidays with Cuban Santa in a moment. My just general point, perhaps this is the most obvious thing in the world that I'm saying, that I'm saying nothing astute here. But holy shit, Travis Hunter, what a giant victory for you to go from historically black college to best player in college football as the hood ornament on that thing.
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God bless. What an achievement.
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And we take it and make a kid happy with it. Like, it's a super easy way to do this. And we're at Flanagan's this morning. Tony is Cuban Santa. It's at 2721 Bird Avenue, Coconut Grove, right in the grove, the heart of everything we do.
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Before we go to Cuban Tony at Flanagan's at a bar on a Tuesday where we do a toy drive, I love that we're doing it this way. I just want to celebrate. Hey, Travis Hunter, you get to enjoy all of that for a second, no matter what the expectations were, because you guys did an enormous thing. I'm sorry the Internet has climbed into your business as you're a star for the new age. The new Dionne.
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You're the new Deion taught by Deion to head into football. And it's going to be so much fun to watch that he met the expectations. Because you tell me he was the number one pick. Go ahead and name all of the last 20 of those. Those don't always end up here. I'd bet against any number one pick I'm seeing doing what Travis Hunter just did to college football. Wouldn't you?
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Wouldn't you bet against that? Because I think that the machine would eat up all the number one picks. And then occasionally, it belches out a star in the top ten.
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Okay, and so the place where it's most interesting to me, because I've seen Stugatz saw the Ball brothers sort of conquer an internet space, and his high school girls were super interested in that.
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OK, and I'm sure you can name some. I would bet against all of that. But what I'm saying to you about having seen Dion's climb from he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, showed up his last college games with a top hat in a tuxedo, 0.0 GPA, because he was telling all of us, I'm using college only to get to my fame.
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He has birthed this in the internet age, something that has lived on the internet for a while and for four years has been famous and has brought a whole bunch of kids who think they know him that when they stand on that stage, holy shit, the Heisman ceremony means something to kids it didn't mean something to.
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That stuffy trophy room that he just barged into, he did it with an internet fame behind him that feels like it knows Travis Hunter and has known him for three years.
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I think it's impossible to know that because what he's edited into, I don't know that anyone has the tools for. Maybe he gets through it.
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Under the star of David. Or the Bears. Under the star of David on a Christmas tree. Let's go out to Tony here because Tony is getting gifts now and he's Cuban Santa Tony and he's at Flanagan's and I ask everybody in South Florida to tell people, to run and tell people that Tony is here.
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And he's accepting toys for the next couple of hours at Flanagan's at the most legendary of all the Flanagan's, 2721 Bird Road, Coconut Grove. Let's check in here with Tony now as we begin our toy drive. Tony, what are you doing out there? What information can you give me about what's happening at a bar on a Tuesday morning in Miami?
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No cash. Hold on. My bad. You can't accept cash. No, that was different. You cannot accept cash, Tony.
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Tony, you can't do that as Santa.
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Tony, you can't be Cuban Santa and then saying, bring me cash and leaving with it in your pocket. Sure you can. Tony, you can't. Tony, you can't be on television asking people to bring you cash through a fake Santa beard. Fake? Yeah.
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Thank you, Tony. We will check back in again. We will check back in again and get to your top five in a second. You know what? Tony, get yourself together. We'll come back to you. We'll make it technical difficult because Santa's having a... Tough time with his beard. Tuesday at a bar. Can you see the long hair here?
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Yes, I can tell that you're not faking it. I can tell that this is... It's not a bit.
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I hate that song, obviously.
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So, Mike, let me stop you here for a second because I aired this year. I really did. And I was actually – I considered it for a moment, and I should have done it, but I was too flippant about how I was voting. I should have called all of you and asked you how you would have voted on this.
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Yes, just like that. I should have called all of you and asked you how you would have voted because all I know is that I watched Cam Ward all year, and if you're better than any University of Miami thing that I've ever seen, and you're the only reason that your team is in a national conversation, you become just like Shador Sanders and Travis Hunter at the very least, but much better at offense.
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Like, not a little bit better at offense, much better at offense. And so I just voted for what I watched in every game this season, which is more proficiency at that position than I'd ever seen in a University of Miami uniform at that position. But neither Lucy nor Jessica would have voted the way that I would have voted. And I would have asked all of you to vote. And how would you have voted?
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Flanagan's is not a trap house.
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It is one of the most delightful places in all of South Florida. The next two days we'll be doing this toy drive at Vivo at Dolphin Mall. They've been very supportive lately. And so we will have a different part of Miami where we can go get toys. And you can also just drop them off here at the Elser because we've got a place here, Corner Coffee, that's open from 7 a.m.
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Well, that's why Jeremy sings that Homer song about me.
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Manny Navarro, for sure. So, Jessica, I want... Okay, look. The rest of you, this happened before. Lucy wanted to hear the chicken fry song. It was funnier to her than to anybody. But nobody was laughing harder at braying Jeremy, serenading in my face with hot breath music. Dan's a homer right in my face. Dan's a homer. No one enjoyed that more than Jessica roaring with laughter in the back row.
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She had her hands in front of her face and I could still see her teeth around her hands because she was laughing so much at this terrible song.
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I will cop to this particular bias. Yes, of all the players who were anywhere around the Heisman, I only watched one of all of their games. But it was amazing. I'm like riding a bucking bronco against Duke and Wake Forest.
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I can't even imagine how that blue field looked.
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to 2 every day if you can't do it right now. Do they know we're doing it? Yes. They would need to know we're doing this. It's a good question.
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You guys aren't doing something that I did here, and I ask you because I'm genuinely curious, and it's one of the reasons that I should have asked you. I wasn't penalizing Cam Moore. Now, you guys are saying, what would it have been if Cam Moore had been undefeated? I'm asking you this question. If the Syracuse game goes...
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the way that it needed to for him to have the Heisman moments that I'm always telling you these guys have to have.
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At the end of the Syracuse game, when it's his own coach denying him the ability to have both the Heisman moments of, let's see if I can convert this on fourth and nine, and let's see if I can get the two-point conversion on the road to get my team into the playoff, I ask you the question, do you factor in at all that his own coach denied him the moments at the end he would have needed
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I have no idea. I'm going to tell you guys now... Not Syracuse.
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Let me tell you the gift that you just gave me, because I'm not even making this up. I'm trying to throw it to the toy driver. But Cuban Santa's got hair in his lips. And as you're talking to me, because I'm like, okay, I can just toss the show to Billy, right? I hear from Lewis in my headset, don't go back to Cuban Santa. Don't go back to Cuban Santa.
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I'm telling you. That Flanagan's taught me. It brought me gently into adulthood, that Flanagan's. It walked me right into adulthood just allowing me to drink alcohol.
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When I was in college and after college, and they allowed me to enter adulthood in a way that jostled me less than it might have otherwise if I didn't have chicken wings in front of me.
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Well, you mentioned it might not be open, which is. Well, that I'm going to look up the hours. It's a hole in our plan because I, you know, go.
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I think it's pretty good. I hope they're open by noon so we can tell people stop in, bring a toy, have lunch. I don't know whether they are or not.
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There's a toy gate. We're doing a toy gate right now at Flanagan's. Who wants to come to party with Cuban Santa?
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You can also meet that songbird Rose. Lucy finds no one in the world more delightful than that songbird Rose.
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You are so amused by her inability to say the name of that Italian alleged murderer of CEOs, Luigi Mangione. I've rarely seen you as happy as I saw you yesterday when you were staring at Rose's complete inability to say that name.
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All right, let's start with that because she's producing Tony. We'll start there.
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All right, listen, Metal Ark Media, I didn't want to have to do this in public in front of everybody, but only I get to exploit my father. Everyone else, you need to knock it off. You need to check with me before you do that. Like, you can't make, I get to do it. I get to do it. No one else. Get it for 10 years on ESPN. That gives none of you, none of you that permission.
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I'm looking at you, Mike Bryant. You didn't tell me you were doing that. You didn't tell me you were voicing that. I exploit my father. No one else. ESPN rented that accent for 10 years. It's retired now. It is done with its exploitation.
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I'm talking about the cartoon graphics and you adding sensual voice to it. Again, when I exploited him then, I'm allowed. ESPN needed some help with the Hispanic demographic. Still does. Good God. Good God, feel free to have some Hispanic people on air. Needed help. And what happened after that? Dad held out. He was bluffing. He didn't know how to tell his son he wanted to retire.
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ESPN gave him a raise, called his bluff, then he was confused, and then he went flat crazy. And that's how he quit the show. And that's what that exploitation did. So I've learned my lesson, and I would like for you not to do that anymore.
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Inclusive. Inclusive. What's the problem with that? You're welcome. What's the matter with that? I mean, you've got a whole tree. I've got a little star at the top. Hanukkah also starts December 25th, does it not? Hanukkah starts December 25th? Look at you.
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I'm looking at everyone here asking. No one seems to know except for... No, it does.
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so uh so yes a star a star of david now uh tony is at this toy drive at cuban santa and uh billy informed me through giggles during the break that big daddy's opens at 7 a.m baby so if you want to get your party on right now yep 7 a.m to 3 a.m if you want to get your party never closes three to seven trust me i live there it doesn't close at three three to seven don't no look live
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We all saw that you had your never closes lined up before Billy said his seven to three. And you were going to get that shot off no matter what. You stopped listening right there. I did. Tony is at Flanagan's. This is the legendary Flanagan's. Is it not? This is the one. The one that brought me to adulthood in college. And we're collecting toys there.
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And we're going to be doing it today until noon. We're doing a toy drive. A Tony drive. And Rose is also there. And Rose cannot pronounce the name of the alleged CEO murderer. Hmm. Luigi Mangione.
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let's go out to Tony at Flanagan's and let's tell people, motivate them over the next three hours to get out there and bring a toy or several toys.
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You guys, I don't know about you, whether you have like a bit of an antenna for when something in the future might go wrong. But Billy, as a bellwether for whether or not we're doing the wrong thing, when skeptical Billy makes an appearance.
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These are the kinds we're asking for, Stugatz, because we're going to want... Like, what an easy way to use this platform to just make kids happy right here in our city, the city we're celebrating 20 years in, and we haven't done quite enough of this over the 20 years, where we're just giving back because it's... because it's a good time to do it.
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So balls and equipment, dolls, Barbies, remote control cars, Nerf toys, board games. You can bring more than one. Jewelry, craft kits, perfume, cologne. Lucy was confused by that one. Perfume and cologne. Because I could see Stugatz like smuggling some toys and taking them home and undoing some Christmas, some early Star of David shopping.
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That's right. At the Elser. You seem a little rattled, Chris. Are you okay? Is everything okay? Or you got everything under control?
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There's a lot of defense being played about what we're doing today.
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I told you, Chris. I told you that I was met with Skeptical Billy. And Skeptical Billy has a way of undermining some of these things before they get started. You may have noticed his work over the last 20 years.
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Look, I believe this is – let's have a group meeting here. We don't do very much of this. I believe we take for granted slightly just because it's such an overwhelming thing that our audience always shows up when we ask them to. It's not – And I'm not saying that we actually take it too, that we all spend our time taking it for granted.
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We cannot appreciate enough the way our audience, every time summoned, helps with something like this. Every single time. It is without fail. And so it's not something that I can articulate well enough. 20 years in, Stugatz, what a power it is to have with the platform, hey, let's do something good here over the next three days. Where it's hastily put together, that's my fault.
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I get a little worried about things we're doing, and we're doing a toy drive for the next three days. That seems like a nice thing. Just give some kids some toys. It's an easy way to make them happy. Our audience is very giving and has, you know, has money. Our audience has money and usually shows it in instances like this.
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Flanagan's today and Vivo, Dolphin Mall, the next couple of days, we're trying to get a lot of toys. You can bring more than one toy. How about cash? You can bring gift cards. See, I'm worried about Stugatz and the gift cards. Like if they bring the gift cards back here, all of a sudden Stugatz is going to do his holiday shopping in our bin meant for others.
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He doesn't have kids of this age, but I can see Stugatz on eBay all of a sudden selling Legos.
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That's the ones he would go steal. Put it on the poll, please, at Levitard Show. Are Legos crazy expensive? I'm going to go out to Tony out there in a second, but I wanted to circle back on something we were talking about yesterday because it's been kind of fun to see, like...
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For college football to get to its exciting time in the new age and hand a trophy to one of the losers, here, Travis Hunter, you didn't get into the top 12. The standard for Deion and everybody is get into the top 12. You came close, you were relevant, you're a wild success. But now here's the biggest trophy in the sport before we kick off, you know, the Army, Navy over here.
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And just let's celebrate football during the holidays and eat too much and give and have bowl games on the televisions. Because everybody's about to get a little bit time off around the holidays. Travis Hunter and Colorado just achieved a seismic thing, a seismic, heismic thing.
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To go from. historically black college to most famous coach in the sport, and Travis Hunter holding up the big trophy. That's like just a monster achievement. Like monster achievement. Travis Hunter is now getting a lot of dating advice from the entirety of the internet because people are warning him. Everybody's very comfortable, and he's pushing them off very comfortably.
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You've got to get a prenup there. You can't just give yourself over to love. Do you know what is coming into your life right now as the number one pick? Star of college football, the hood ornament on whatever Deion was doing. Hood ornament's so huge. bigger than Deion's son who might also be the number one quarterback taken. Like just a giant achievement what Deion and Travis Hunter have done.
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I want another angle of Tony surrendering, and I'm telling the video team while Meech talks that they need to immediately get me another and a better angle.
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Well, yes, because the surrender, the grabbing of the forehead, all of these things are not quite as clear in the video we saw as the one we're about to show, because the one I've seen is a better one than the one that we just saw, but we were in a bit of a rush, which allows me, based on the forehead trigger I just had, I wanted to ask you guys something. Matthew Kugler...
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the producer of South Beach Sessions. He's done an excellent job with it recently. Thank you, Dan. Fake Matthew Kugler, that's excellent. It would help if anyone knew that he was a soft talker. Again, and mine was too deep a cut. No, I'm not. Look, I'm objecting to his as well. I'm objecting to his as well. His was no better. His was just made to Mike.
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Mike and Tony are the only ones who got that joke.
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I was here for both shows. Roy might have gotten that joke. I did. Okay, that's it. That's the group. No one else got that joke. It was a joke for three in that room. No one else knows that Matthew Kugler is a soft talker. Can't hear him.
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Now everybody knows. But I want to ask you guys a question because I said this to him and he got really offended. And the thing that made me think of it is just what we were talking about this coming. At the holiday party, he was offended with me because I said to him, You look like somebody who would have been in a 1950s barbershop quartet. That's so good. Great call. With the hat on.
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No, yes, with the hat on, but he said, no, what is that supposed to mean? And then this is where he got offended. It's the forehead. And then he held his forehead and he got real shame. And he's like, why would you say that? Put his hand on his head? Yes. And I'm like, no, everybody's got a forehead. There's nothing wrong with you having a forehead. Now we don't. What are you doing, Dan?
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He's not going to like that. Oh, no. Don't do that to him. He's not going to like that. No, that was a private conversation. He's not going to like it. Private conversation. But it's not that everyone's got foreheads. I did a Google search and I'm showing him barbershop. Cortana, everyone's got a forehead. Everybody's got foreheads. Every single person. They all had one.
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I'm like, what's offensive about that? How have I hurt your feelings? What are you insecure about? We all have one of those. Yours is no worse. If someone should be worried about that, it's Stephen A. Oh, no. Shrapnel.
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Okay, let's see this video now. Let's see what... No, that's not the video.
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I didn't want a barbershop quartet. Hold on, I'll send you... It's still on my phone. I'll send you the one I was looking at because I went through and I'm like, look at all these foreheads. It's just all barbershop quartet foreheads. But let's look at Tony and what can only be described now as succumbing. There it is. Oh, my God. You might as well have said, take me.
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What kind of porn?
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I'm pretty sure, Tony, I don't know this for sure, but I'm pretty sure that our show ends as soon as that liability hits the earth.
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When are we going to get together? on a column map and on whatever visuals we're going to produce to people because I mean, I'd like your expert analysis on this.
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Tony, I believe to be, even though Tony is a very good basketball player, I believe that Tony doesn't understand the size and strength of the people in the NBA and then he will tell me some form of I played against Fab Mello who was very strong as well. But I don't believe
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that Tony, if he were playing one-on-one with Meech now, would have very much chance to do anything with him in the paint because I think Tony's underestimating how strong someone like this is. What would be your front office analysis of what I'm saying?
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All right, so pretty close. Pretty close to reading, I mean.
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Wait a minute, though. Now Meech is a mean. You're coming closer to Tony's side than we were last time we talked about this because Meech was 11-0 is what Meech was saying.
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Look at me, Louie. Part of the story. You know what? I made a mistake here. That's not look at me, Louie. That's name drop. I don't have name drop on this console. I had to separate. Forgive me for that. Look at me, Louie, and name drop.
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This one is tough. This one's tough. I put you in a bad spot. I put you in a bad spot.
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Yeah, a lot of names. And we're doing, look, I'm trying to keep up in the modern age and this is what we've got to do. Chitty, chitty, bang, bang. We ride it into the sky.
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At the time I think I've told you guys before I just couldn't believe the idea that when this man was in the shape of professional basketball at this size he would run on the treadmill at a speed of 10.0 for an hour. Like, and then get off it and not be particularly winded. Like, just be fine. And I'm like, how is that possible that this machine works this way?
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But I will say, though, as he was talking to you just now, Tony, I heard him groan when he was crossing his legs because his back hurts. So like I heard the sound like hiss out of him just crossing his legs because his back is hurt. So when you say he's in better shape, I'm not certain because he's on drugs and he's hurting over here because I just heard the sound that came out of him.
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It was creaking.
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Let me show you a video of why don't you remember playing against Amin in pickup ball with Amin as this is your teammate here. That jump shot right there.
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We ride it into the sky. In order to get young people, the reason he brought up Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, again, during the break, while I was just really grateful in general for this man's friendship as we celebrate 20 years, all of us together, he's special. Special.
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He makes the show better every time he's here, and he's always done that for many, many, many years. But he's old. That's how you do that for many, many years. And he mentioned Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. And during the break, he was still creeped out by Stephen A. Smith. And he was doing, he was just, I don't know what was happening, but he was describing the whole thing as sticky.
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You're going to pretend here that you don't love Matthew Kachuk more than you love anybody you've ever loved?
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I urge you if you're listening on audio this week to find us on YouTube because some of the supplements are funny and we need to use those video behind you more often. That should be playing behind Amin at all times when he's on the show.
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Let's play some sound here. I want to know, because I think, with a bad back, maybe not, I don't believe that Tony can withstand what this, even at this age, would feel like backing down. And it's no slight on Tony. It's just a celebration of the strength of what it takes to get to the top of professional sports.
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But the thing that I wanted to play for me here, because we're talking about this the last couple of days, I haven't seen it. I started to watch it last night, and I heard my voice in it in the first little bit, and then I turned it off. I'm like, hold on a second, honey. And then I'm like, we're going to watch this together. I want to watch what this thing is, because...
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Aaron Rodgers in my lifetime. You have whatever opinion you want to have about him. You cannot say he's uninteresting. You're not allowed to say he's uninteresting. You may be tired of him and sick of him, but this story is something that has not been seen in American sports. Someone this great going from...
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televised national insurance salesman when that league gives you 10 guys who get the endorsement money. 10 guys get to be face of the league for that entire monster sport. He was one of them and was embracing, as I've told you before, going to the apartment of Mina Kimes, let me get out in the public and show them more of myself. I'm a four-time MVP.
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I've been arguing that that's the best quarterback I've ever seen. I argued it while Tom Brady was winning the titles. Better at that skill than anyone I've ever seen. To see him then short circuit into something that now has a documentary, Enigma, where he keeps claiming he doesn't care what people thinks, but he keeps going out of his way to show people that they should think something.
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Because he wants to be seen, understood, accepted. Yesterday on the show, Billy said, I don't think I'm going to love him. I don't think I'm going to grow in a documentary with more information and access to love him. I think I'm sad for him because he seems empty, seems unhappy, seems like he's searching. But aren't we all?
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Well, where was the lie?
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He does so with ayahuasca, and now he's revealing himself with a story that I don't think has much precedent in American sports. Someone like this doing this, and now people are like sick of him. I don't want to talk about anti-vax stuff. But here he is still on Disney, still with McAfee after there was a howling a year ago about that's not going to exist anymore. Soon that'll be gone.
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It's not gone. There it is. 4-10 team. Middle of your week. On Disney, there's Aaron Rodgers saying, show me your VAC status. When I play this sound for you of Ryan Clark, because Ryan Clark works at ESPN, and there's just a tension around this thing that exists at ESPN that isn't like ESPN. And people like Ryan Clark have Disney as the backing.
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But here's Aaron Rodgers every week, 4 and 10, not gone. Disney can't get rid of him. Disney couldn't do anything. There he is with McAfee every week. And here's Ryan Clark, you know, bothered by what it is that Aaron Rodgers is doing on McAfee.
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Meach, what are your thoughts in general? I don't know how much attention you're paying to Aaron Rodgers. You know next to nothing about American football, but I bet you know something about him, yes?
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Have any of you seen Enigma yet? Because I'm looking forward to seeing this.
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Not in plain sight. Not in plain sight. If he was, he was concealed. The same way he was immunized. If he was this, it was hidden.
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The thing that I wanted to get to here before we check back in with the toy drive, talk to Dirk Nowitzki is because I- What? We're doing what? We're going to get back to the toy drive and we're going to talk to Dirk Nowitzki. He's on the show today? Yes, he's on in a few minutes. Did you not know that? You're leaving? Okay, this is great. Why didn't you tell me that? Okay, I thought you knew this.
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I thought everybody knew this. Forgive me. Dirk Nowitzki is going to be on in a moment. You're going to do the same thing with him that you did with Paul Pierce? Yeah, I'd rather he leave than embarrass us again.
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Okay. Very good. Yes. Yes. That was very strong. You, though, Meech, when I'm seeing, and I got to get to this toy drive, too, because I see that Rose now has more toys and she's laying on the floor. And I got to get to something, Meech. So we got a lot to get to here before all of this stuff. But when you talk about the stuff that we were talking about with Aaron Rodgers, the pandemic,
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He did. This is the thing. I actually just had this conversation yesterday. I mean, Ricky sent me a note on what is the appeal of Stephen A. Smith. And my answer was, he's the best professional wrestler anywhere in sports television. Like, it used to be Cosell, but it's very much a professional wrestler. It doesn't even mean that he doesn't believe what it is that...
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And you and Tony feel comfortable enough, and I get it, he's putting it out in public, to be like, man, that seems like an intimate thing. We don't have to see your entire life. You can do that intimately and just keep it to yourself. It seems to me that somehow this person wants desperately to be seen while claiming that he doesn't want desperately to be seen. Like...
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This documentary, everything that he's doing, he wants in front of you something that's a work of art for you to discern. You cannot tell me that person isn't wanting to be seen when he's going to the apartment of Mina Kimes at the start of all this. Write the feature story, humanizing writer who writes about human beings. Write about me for real.
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Dirk Nowitzki is next. I don't know if Meech played against him. Did he play against him? Dirk Nowitzki next.
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that he's saying because he does believe what he's saying. Does he believe what he's saying? Yeah, I don't think that part's an act at all. I do not believe that Stephen A. Smith is bluffing on what he thinks. I just think he's turning up the volume to the maximum professional wrestler level that there is to beat all the other people who are coming for the throne of the king of this business.
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It was Rudy. Was it Rudy's brother? No, it was Ricky Williams. I'm sorry I didn't make that clarification.
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that's true that is and that was a really inside joke you just did call back on yesterday's gifts that one of them came from Rudy Martinez and I couldn't read it because I didn't have my glasses on it like why would you guys decide to go that inside on the joke any particular reason that you would do that like that inside where you're referencing something from yesterday I'm guessing very few people got your Rudy Martinez joke not to not not that it's not okay to make a joke for four and five people around here
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All right, let's check in again with Rose here at the toy drive at Dolphin Mall. We're stirring her to life. Her beard is not working very well. We continue to collect toys on behalf of Branches.com. Rose, how is everything going out there? What can you update us on?
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What can you tell us about how the toy drive is going now on its final day around Miami, but we'll still be collecting every day 7 to 2 here at the Elser Hotel, the coffee house downstairs. You can bring your toys. They're collecting them. Coffee Corner, excuse me. Rose, how's it going at Dolphin Mall?
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Okay, but it looks like... I don't know if you see. Yeah, one of those toys looks like it was from yesterday, though. It looks... Oh, yeah.
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Build your coffee, Rose. Okay, be careful. Rose, Rose, don't ruin the six toys you have there. Rose, come on. Rose, Santa has to get... All right, I'm glad we checked in with Rose. We'll check in again one more time before the end of the show. Thank you for your contribution, Santa. I don't know. She does have it, right?
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Thank you, Rose. I think there are liability issues there. We've got to be careful. We've got to learn from the pepper.
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It was amazing, by the way.
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If I may, by the way, Meech, one of the things that you need to know here is that... In video that we are filibustering in order to find, I will simply tell you that Tony, who prides himself on Cuban machismo, simply surrenders There was some succumbing.
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Okay, I don't know which one's the best of these.
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He's stretching the story in order to get to the video because we kind of sprung this on Lewis, but this is a great callback as opposed to Rudy Martinez. This right here is a playground for me because to present this to me, Meech is going to howl with laughter at At Tony, this man who would back down Meech. Tony, who thinks he would back down Meech in the post.
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Well, no, Meech couldn't back Meech down. Right. And that Meech, 6'10". What did you weigh in your playing days at what body fat?
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Okay. And so this person... will enjoy watching video of you surrendering yourself over to a spider monkey who at that point, your fear was such, he could have done anything he wanted to you and you would have succumbed.
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What I would love, and I don't know if we can slap all of these things together, but there is a lot I want to do with my old friend Meech. One of them is this Calm app thing. I don't know how we combine all the things to calm you before you skydive, but at some point here, I'd like you doing a segment with Ethan strapped to your back.
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I'd like to see what that looks like and sounds like as you and Amin talk about whatever it is that Amin was trying to bring up here.
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I was just laughing with Meech during the break, making fun of him about his Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reference. Tony, please get me all information you can on my old friend, emphasis on old, referencing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Are you actually on the ground? Yeah, he's tiny. Again, a howler monkey, a spider monkey. Come on.
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Now, I have, if I may, and this is a very well-produced show, but I can tell you, video has told me, they've just radioed in, we have the actual video. Do you guys want to go with the recreation? I'm having fun right now.
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It's more of like a... Here's the video for Meech. You will see it yourself, Meech. And you tell us whether... Meech, look at my feet. Watch, he's about to go. You please tell us if we overpromised. He pulled your hair, dude.
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Let's see it one more time here. Let's see this one more time.
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We'll have him on later. We'll see if we put him. Thank you. Good seeing you.
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Oh. I didn't realize we had a substitute complicated legacy. Brought to you by Headquarter Toyota.
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There are a number of other things that we need to get to with Meech, including stump the Meech. And I do want to get his thoughts because I don't want to waste all of his time with the silliness. You're having quite the beef publicly with Elon Musk and then the Internet after that. You don't mind your challenges like this. So you want to explain to us why.
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I have not talked to you about any of this, but I imagine that you are just generally appalled by the way that haves are accruing more and more power and disparity from have-nots, and they will soon rule or ruin the world because they have all of the power. What is the nature of your beef with Elon Musk?
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Stugatz. I want t-shirts made for this Panther run. What could be this Panther run? Our Panther group chat, we're not afraid of the Lightning.
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Did you have a turkey buzzard on your balcony and why is your lip swollen and it's one of your teeth? Do you have a bloody mouth?
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Were you drunk? Like, what happened? You're just clumsy? I was clumsy and also alcohol, man. Why were you running across the street?
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The turkey buzzard is telling its friends, you're not going to believe this strange bloody thing with a big lip I just saw.
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me and said i'm so sorry i did not know that this was no plus ones now i'm standing next to my wife and it's the first time i'm learning that there are no plus ones at our party so i've broken the rule upon upon coming in i didn't even know the rule and then izzy's apologizing to me about the rule and i'm forced to consider for the first time the rule because i'm like Is it OK to do that?
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I will tell you that you would be stunned by the size of the birds we have around here that you think are small because you're looking at them from a distance on the beach, and if they landed on your balcony, they'd take your cat. They would fly off with your cat. Your cat would be a meatloaf in the claws, in the talons of that bird.
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I'm like, holy. All of a sudden they're the size of Shaq and you're like, I did not know that. Where'd all that come from?
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He works for Only in Dade. He doesn't run Only in Dade. He runs some of the page stuff. To run Only in Dade is to be a mafia king. Yeah. So are you saying?
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Because that must be Juan Miguel. That's not going to be Sean Miguel. That's not going to be Don Miguel.
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Dan, all I'm going to say is yes. I'm not going to say anything else. Thank you. I mean, are you OK? Because your face looks swollen. And I'm now imagining as you were rushing, you know, five, four, three, you want to get out in front of the car. Now the car is waiting for someone who's in the street on his face, bleeding in a puddle.
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Well, I want to ask. This allows me to play a couple of Stephen A. Smith sounds, and I want to get to what it is that Tyreek Hill did on Twitter. I'm not going to call it X. I'm going to refuse for the rest of time to call it X. But Stephen A. Smith had some commentary on both Miami and Joel Embiid.
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And I want Amici's thoughts on this and I want Amin's thoughts on this because I so rarely question whether or not An athlete cares enough. I don't do that very much. But let's listen to Stephen A. Smith here hammer Joel Embiid, who has had an assortment of injuries in the last couple of days.
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Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
In fact, for the last few years, I've been a little bit bothered by the way that Mike Ryan goes with some form of this team's banged up or you have to play through that when all of us, have different pain thresholds, and I don't expect everyone to have the pain threshold of a hockey player. That's not my expectation. Or a podcaster.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
But let's listen to Stephen A. Smith here just go after Joel Embiid as somebody, he cares very much about Philadelphia, and Philadelphia is just hammering Joel Embiid.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Was anyone complaining about that at the party?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I've got a disparity here. Mike Ryan is laughing. John Amici, a former professional basketball player, has just dropped his head into his hands. So who's right here?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I wasn't asking whether I'm allowed to bring my wife. You're always allowed to bring your wife.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I'm looking for it. It seems to have moved somewhere.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Let me find it for a second. Yeah, I'm sorry. Please. Oh, yeah, here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Thank you. I appreciate that. I wasn't asking for that part, but I did immediately feel self-conscious of, wait a minute. No one else is allowed to bring their plus one and I'm here with my plus one. It made me immediately feel self-conscious.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I'd like to just... I'd like for people to see the size difference, if nothing else. If you're not going to give us... We do have a basketball court here in the hotel. Do we? We also have a rock climbing... Where? Oh, damn, your lip looks really bad, dude. Yeah, it looks bad. Oh, shit. We can do rock climbing, too.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
We should make... Let's see, because we've got rock climbing, we've got basketball, we've got an assortment of things here. Let's see what we can do with John Amici. But, I mean... Can you tell me what you think of this Joel Embiid thing? Where do you land on all of this?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
It's like when you guys got all mad that we were in Austin for South by Southwest and I was staying at the Four Seasons and everybody else was at a Days Inn.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Really? Well, this is before I got control or more control over my company. I tried to rectify that upon noticing it. But this, what do I do about this? Were there people complaining that they weren't allowed to bring their wives or husbands?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
So his meniscus... He dunks. You're not talking about dunking against the Knicks in the playoffs where he's got that giant dunk, lands, and his knee collapses.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Don Libetard. Again, started on the breakfast flan. Oh, man. I've been singing the song to myself all morning long. Breakfast flan. Stugatz. Have you never heard the breakfast flan song? No. Hit me with it. Okay. I wish I had some breakfast flan. Breakfast flan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I mean, I want to go to Amici here so that, and you know how the protocol works here, so we've got to respect the seat here. So we can't be interrupting Amici anymore. Amici, when he wishes to speak, he gets the floor from all of us. But I noticed that with your swollen lip, when you send maintenance plan, you seem to have a lot of difficulty with L's with your lip.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Say it again.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
All right. What were you saying that he, the poor man with the bloody face, immediately interrupted you?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
No, no, wait a minute. Again, this is not the part I'm asking about, and I will self-penalize here. It's not okay. for everyone else to not bring their spouse and me to bring my spouse.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Put it on the poll, please, Juju. At Levitard Show, have you ever before heard the phrase popped their clogs? I don't even know what it means. It means you died.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Worse than I thought. I don't know what popped their clogs is. Perhaps you'll explain it to us. We will get to Diana Rossini here in a second.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
A 300-pounder during a football game named Ledbetter did a backflip to celebrate something, and I'm like, how is that possible that that can do that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I'm always hesitant to question some of the things that we're questioning. Somebody's mental frailties, somebody's physical conditioning. When he looks like Joel Embiid, you're going to tell me that that's out of shape. And maybe it is, but I don't know how he takes care of his body. I'm assuming a body doesn't look like that. With that body fat index, unless he's taking care of it, at least some.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I don't know whether he's taking care of it perfectly. But Diana Rossini joins us now. And I want to tie this to these Brian Callahan quotes where he's objecting as the Titans coach. He was asked. The question was put to him because, again, his season is awful. It's in Mason Plumlee. It's in Mason Rudolph land. Yeah, it's just in.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I haven't told people yet that John Amici is here in studio with us. We are thrilled to have John Amici. I will ask him, as somebody who knows about these things, in a second, I'm going to ask him for an official ruling declaration on this. But before we get started, I just want to tell everybody, this is a historic day in the history of sports media. In the history of maybe American media.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
And so when he's asked whether his team, whether many believe that his team is fantastic. Soft physically and mentally playing that sport like that makes it just enrages me He says I mean you really want to get me going today. Yeah, I think to be honest with you I think that's complete and total bullshit if you want my honest opinion.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
These guys are tough bleepers, man They go after it every day They play hard as hell and at no point have we ever put on tape at any point this season that this is a soft football team I can't even wrap my mind around how that would even be a conversation. I Just because we don't win games doesn't mean we're soft. These guys play their ass off. They play hard. They play physical.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
You can ask any team that plays against us that when they come off the field, they know they played us. Well, that's not saying much. We just won by 40. Better is to beat the football team that knocked them so unconscious that they don't know who they just played.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Well, Diana, thank you. The host of Scoop City and the senior NFL insider for The Athletic. What do you make of this? And would you describe any team in the NFL as soft? The Dolphins get it more than anybody.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
But Diana, soft? Like, what are we doing? Look at what these human beings are doing. Like, yes, you can make the argument that one team is tougher than the next, but you will not be able to convince me. Like, you can make the argument. You won't be able to prove it to me. You will not be able to prove it to me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Never before has there been a greater disparity in the history of the spoken word and media between the words coming out of a single seat from one day to the other than Stugatz being replaced today in this seat by John Amici.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
The part that I'm objecting to is this. If you want to make your assessments on this, you can make them, but you don't have the proper information to make the accusation. It's not wins and losses. I don't know how you're measuring – These things when you don't know the pain that someone is playing through. You're just looking in their eyes and you can tell me they're not tough?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
All right, so let me ask you this question. John Amici is here with us, okay? His feet were a little bit heavy in defensive postures. He was not much of a rebounder. Was your toughness question yes or no? Because I happen to think I know what this man's toughness is. I happen to know what his professionalism is and what it is that he would play through.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
But did you get a reputation for somebody who wasn't tough enough? And how offensive would that be to you?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Make some noise, BD.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Okay. That is on the video product, the YouTube product. We will go out to our toy drive here in a little bit because after Tony and Roy competed against each other to be a better Santa Claus, we are now going to an even skinnier Santa Claus because Rose is going to be out there for us today at Dolphin Mall. We will check in with her in a second.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
But I want to continue the conversation about the holiday party yesterday, which escalated quickly. Okay. And when I say it escalated quickly, I don't know about the rest of you, but at one point I looked up and a Greg Cody who had had too many beers and was now chasing it with shots of tequila,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
was drinking a shot from a hockey stick with David Dwork, and both of them at the end of that thrust their arms up in the air together in the moment of greatest solidarity I have seen at Metal Lark Media. David Dwork and Greg Cody did shots of tequila, threw their arms up in the air, and it was a soulful connection.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I was not expecting the strangest buddy tandem since Roy and Dwork on the hockey show, and anyone I would associate Dwork with in general,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I mean, stop. Nobody wants to hear it. Nobody wants to hear it. That's your choice.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I do want to talk about what happened in that game last night because to go on the road and beat 6-1, a team that had lost seven times all season with Kachuk scoring two goals. Hey, there's a mean.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I mean, beating Minnesota 6-1, going on the road, scoring like that in that game...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Also hurting is Amin Alhassan, but I don't want to exclude Amici in the most aggressive way possible by not just talking about hockey, but talking about Florida Panthers hockey. I've got a champion.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I want to talk about all the sports things now that Amin has joined us, but I did want to ask. Amin, if you have any thoughts on the corporate, on the holiday party, I would like all of them. You seem to have had a good time. I want from Amici some analysis of whether we're doing the party correctly or not as a company.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I would like constructive advice. Wednesday's not... Poor Chris Cody had to sleep at the Elser. He just got... He was all right, Dan. Hump day. It's a bad choice for the party to do it on a Wednesday?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Just nobody likes that person who's telling you all the time that he or she is dry. Amin is clearly not dry. Where do you stand as an advisor for... For an assortment of corporations as a psychologist, where do you stand as what it is that should be allowed at the company party? Because I felt a bit self-conscious not allowing everybody to have a plus one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
And I don't know what the right thing should be.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
No, when I got there with my wife, Izzy's immediately apologizing to me because he did not know it was no plus ones, which is the moment that I realized it was no plus ones. And so it was not my decision, as many things around here are my responsibility, but not my decision. And so I really don't know what's right here, though.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
But it's my first holiday party, and I didn't know it was the rule because at the previous holiday parties, I had not noticed that that was something that was happening. It's just I wasn't paying attention to it, and I had noticed it no previous. I had not noticed it, and I probably wouldn't have even noticed it last night.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I don't think it was my first holiday party. I think it was my first holiday party where this was pointed out to me. I haven't noticed it at previous holiday parties. It wasn't something that I was conscious to. And the last one I went to, I didn't go with my wife.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Shadow show. Shadowing it. Shadowing it. Is Amin here or did the holiday party get him?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
It's no plus one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I believe I deserve to bring someone as well. So what is your ruling on this? Because I haven't actually even talked to any of our executives about how it is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Put it on the poll, please, at Levitard Show. I felt so bad. I felt so bad for Izzy because he immediately became self-conscious. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Should the company make holiday parties always plus one? Yes or no is the question that I want to put before you. I mean, how... How much are you hurting? How much fun did you have?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Were you one of the people taking shots off of a hockey stick?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Well, I'll tell you why. Because I've never done it off a hockey stick before, so I did not know what we were doing. So when they said, do you want a shot? I said yes, and I asked for a mezcal because I thought I would be sipping it. Once a mezcal becomes a shot and it's super smoky, you've made a mistake. You shouldn't drink that as a shot. You need to sip mezcal. Nobody does shots of mezcal.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
That's not something you do.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
You can appeal it to the commissioner if you want. You can argue on your way off the ice. You need to get out of here again because you're dry.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
We have replaced him with John Amici, and we will see if we find Amin at some point. But I have a number of holiday party-related questions, because when I got there yesterday, Izzy immediately apologized.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Okay. What are you proudest of in there? Like if I tell you you can only choose one of those things to hold up as the best part of your legacy, what do you assign the greatest worth to?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Mine was the reverse. My father's an engineer from Cuba, an exile. Is that right? Yeah, he wants me to go into engineering, and I'm coming and saying I want to write. So he's come and gotten freedom. He's going and sending me to a private school that he can't afford, and I want to write. It's like, what are you doing? My mom's like, you've got to let him chase the stuff that he dreams about.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
That's funny. My father was an engineer. a mechanical engineer. Well, let me read to the audience here what your relationship was with them. So Sam Black, you say a great father and an extraordinary man. I was very lucky to have him in my life for so long. He was everything a man should be loving, considerate, humble, kind, giving a mentor, a man of fierce integrity, an artist with a vision.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
His smile was like sunshine and it has sadly gone out. I am blessed. He was my father. He knew the path we should follow. The world is less of a place without him. And none of this is bullshit. It's true. What was he doing that would make him a man of fierce integrity?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
So even in the war, he's finding the morality.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Just for moral reasons. For moral reasons. The shirt you're wearing is one of his designs. Yeah, it is. And he became an artist. Yeah. And so was it a thing where he's going from something that's rigid, he's disillusioned, and then he goes into the arts, and that births the openings that would be there for you later in life to pursue the arts as well?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
You say of your mother, Jeanette. She died as she lived. It was on her own terms always. She was one of a kind. There will never be anyone like her. Fierce about her belief that the world could be a better place, that all children are our children. She was a brilliant teacher and wanted to be more than a teacher. She was hard on my friends. Because she didn't want the world beating us up.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
It didn't she was a ferocious angel when I perform you can hear her from time to time Sarcasm was her sword. We were all lucky that she mothered us. I won't miss her. She's always here I can't thank you enough for giving her your attention. It made her very happy It took the sting out of her not living her dream through you. She was living um
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
It was all of them. Did you want to be a thespian or did you want to be like when, if you're going and studying drama and deciding what your dreams are, are they written or are they performed? I wanted to write. That's really what I wanted to do. And why did you stop doing it in the traditional way of writing plays?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
She was the one screaming at the television when you were young and arguing with the newscast or arguing with the state of the world.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Because you're just yelling about the state of America. It's what you're doing now, is it not? And it keeps getting worse somehow. It seems it keeps giving you fodder. It keeps giving the family fodder.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Can you tell me about how it is that she influenced you and how they shaped love for you, relationships for you? Because the world that you have chosen to work in is not a friendly one to relationships. It's not conducive to recreating whatever love it is that you had in your house.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Not that you have stopped, but somewhere along the path you decided to go stand-up.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Well, you manage, though, somehow, usually angry comedy isn't something that doesn't have a knife that will slice somebody in the face. Like, you managed to walk the line pretty well between anger and not being cruel.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Well, but you're not acting, right? I mean, you're just turning up your eight to a 10. That's the only thing that's... The anger's real. You're just turning up the character to make him the lovable comedian. Let's get back, though, to what I was asking you that I veered away from. What did love look like in the household to you?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
And as someone who doesn't have kids and has devoted himself to this lifestyle, where does love inform how difficult it is to have relationships with the kind of career that you have had?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
You didn't tell me that when I was- Well, she could have had her own life and done big things outside of just raising you because of wherever America was in the 50s that made him the earner and put her in her place. Exactly.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Well, she gives up her entire life for the kids and does it very well, it sounds like.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Oh, it didn't translate as necessarily warmth or affection toward you guys? Well, it would make sense if she didn't want you. I know, wouldn't it? I know. I mean, if she's like dying of resentment because when she sees in your faces you get all your dreams, she doesn't get any of hers. I don't know what she imagined being. What was she denied?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
So that's why she's yelling at the television, right? Yeah, that's part of it. But you don't know it as a child because it's concealed from you, but it doesn't show itself necessarily in warmth. Yeah, the world being, you know, the world was unfair. And so how does this affect or illuminate your relationships going forward as someone?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Yes. But not just that. You're not merely yelling. Also, your character as a yeller is getting rewarded and getting identity and – every corner of the place that you're measuring success.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
All your dreams are coming true because as your last tour, final tour, allegedly, I don't believe it, goodbye Yeller Brick Road, like this became your identity and your career and a path to happiness as chosen through your late brother.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Oh, it was feeding so many of your vanities and feeling so much like warm love that you didn't even need anything else.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Seinfeld says you don't feel your feet, right? You're hovering above fight or flight so much, and you're killing it, that that is the most joyous creative space. Most fulfilling, just you're buoyant. The laughter, it's the best that a comedian can feel, it's almost the best a human can feel, according to your definitions of feeling things.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
The best feeling you've known?
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Okay. Thank you. But I thought it was in the realm of that. I would think that if I gave you the choice of the next 30 years, you live as long as your parents, and what you get for the next 30 years is great sex the rest of the way, or that laughter the rest of the way for the next 30 years, I think you're choosing the latter instead of the former.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
because the way that you guys talk about that is the way that athletes talk about being in the zone, but you were married for 10 months in 1974, right? The reason some of this is so interesting to me is because I got great fulfillment from reaching what I thought were all my professional dreams and desires, but because I was doing it alone, It was a little bit lonely.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
I wanted to be sharing it in a way that had some depth and some connection. And not until falling in love in my late 40s did I realize that something, there was something else available to me other than the just feeding forever the selfish narcissism of isn't it great that everybody, you know, whatever, applauds me or laughs at me because that, and that I get to make a career this way.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
250 nights on a road feels like a dream for somebody who's a performer, who's a thespian. I'm making a living performing and making people laugh.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
So it would cross an ocean. It would have to cross an ocean first. So you weren't getting the fulfillment that would come with just laughter, telling a joke to an audience, getting the immediate feedback of laughter. It's the opposite of that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Because it really is about the doing it and the feeling good of the instantaneous laughter. The money and all the other stuff, the fame, the specials, that stuff is nice, it's great to make a living, but it's not the reason you do it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
So which is the long-term relationship for you if you could only pick one? Is it with the audience or is it with the art? Wow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
It's a stall tactic, but you are thinking about it, and you've devoted your life to this thing, that relationship that you have had that doesn't make it lonely, that makes it shared is both with the audience and the art. But you're saying you'll do it in a basement with the 12 people who are your friends, who are sort of your audience, but that's not really what you're talking about there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
And so I'm asking you, I've made career choices so that I'm working with and around the people whose company I enjoy to make the things. But I'd have a hard time answering that question as well as someone who doesn't have kids and just recently fell in love and by falling in love, because I want to talk to you about anger.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
gave me real access, lubricants that I needed to feel because I'd always repressed my anger. And so I've had anger over the last seven years in a way that has been surprising to me because there's been sort of a flume release on my emotions since I've arrived at my 50s and given myself over to somebody with all of those vulnerabilities.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
No, it's never that. But I have just done some real learning around some of the things that you're talking about. I'm interested... I'm interested in your anger because I just recently sort of got access to it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
I'm just now learning to treat anger as information, as data, as stuff that is informative to me that I don't have to react to emotionally if I can just observe that I'm doing it when I'm doing it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
initially that's not the way rage works generally no no but it's but you can learn there the consciousness of that has been a real learning tool i'm still not good at it but to see in retrospect where it is my anger has gotten me because i haven't treated it as information and then i just spill over emotionally and then behave in a way i shouldn't wow
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
But you've seen in your, but you've had a relationship with anger since you were a child. My parents always pushed that down. I never saw any of that. I never saw, what passed for love in my house never had anger and it was concealed from us. My parents had to show a unified front. So I didn't have, I've told this story before.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
I was 30 something years old in the back of a car and I saw my face in the rear view mirror the first time I saw my parents argue and I just was reduced to like a four year old. Yeah. It was just funny to see my head shrink and become a child in the back seat because I didn't have any – I didn't – it sounds like you had at least an honest appraisal of feelings in your household.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Well, some of the stuff she could have been if not for the time and the place, correct?
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
And so do you feel them at all? Do you feel your parents in the same sort of way that you felt your brother in the opening of Doors? Or is that different?
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What is the answer to her question? Why aren't you retiring? Because you're alleging you are in this special.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
I don't believe you. The final tour. That's fine. I don't believe you.
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You'll open when Kreischer's got a theater that's easy work.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Okay. So you're retiring from having to carry the whole economy on your back, which can be hard for a comic.
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Do I need to emcee an open mic now?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
So you're just talking, the logistics of touring have become a giant pain in the ass.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Oh, what a great way to travel and see America. Sure. Like funded by your art. Like that's the dream.
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Do you have like a pinch me gratitude moment or moments that are the landmarks of where it is you'd be most emotional because you'd be like, how is this my life? Or here's my brother with me providing something I'm sharing with him because I've arrived well beyond where my dreams resided.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
You got to voice anger as a theater guy.
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You made anger palatable, not beyond palatable, lovable. Well, I mean, that's career legacy stuff. Yeah, that's really. I mean, I'm not going to say it's who you are, but it's who your character has been, no?
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Well, can you separate, can you help me see the separation between the real you and the costume that you have put on for 40 years because you are in character as someone who's always wanted to be an actor? Run that pipe, I'm sorry. The real you, no, that's okay. The real you versus, I understand that on stage it's the real you, but like I was saying, it's the eight turned up to 10.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
This character that you have of rage, bile, not cruel, funny, lovable anger, I don't know if that's what's in your kitchen at night eating dinner. You might get angry about thing X, but I don't know that the characters on stage who has had all the success you are is the you at home.
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But all of that is refined. What I'm saying is your costume is very refined as a thespian. Jezelnik, whoever. I don't know who you admire these days for wearing a costume and being a character. Well, because you're not that angry, but because you've gotten so much of your identity, profit, success, rewards from being on stage as if you are that kind of character.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
I could see where your identity might get merged between the two human beings because one of them is bringing you all the rewards. It's the one on stage.
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You've been doing it so long. The reason I asked the question the way that I did, you've been doing it for so long and done so many reps of it. You've got more than the 10,000 hours of expertise that I can imagine that the walk from the dressing room to going on stage is you putting on some sort of armor that you've been putting on forever so that you can go
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do the thing that brings the intimacy between you and the audience that you might not be brave enough to do as the real you. You're the real you might have too many insecurities to connect with your audience there.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
The expectation of funny is totally different. I will tell you that throughout my career, one of the best producers I had when he put me and my father on television, he implored the producers of that show, he was telling them, do not place the expectation of funny on them. Let them be funny as human beings. Let them overachieve because there's not the expectation of funny.
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The reason I admire comedy so much is because the expectation of funny makes it that only 300 to 500 of you can make a career at it every year. Because the expectation of funny is a terrible burden.
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They expect to laugh. That's, that's what makes you, you can fear it. If not in the costume that you've perfected over the years that can, that can tame it.
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And when you say broke, you're talking about from 20 to 40 you're broke?
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Well, this is what I wanted to ask you about how you carve likability, how you curate it, how formulaic you are about knowing, as many stand-up comics do, what needs to be tapped into so that you can maintain the right side of likable, I guess? Like how... after 40 years of doing this and sculpting this, how did you arrive at your comfort with voice around anger?
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Like where was the breakthrough there? You get to it at 40 years old, and then how much stumbling around do you do before you realize, okay, this is who my character needs to be, this is what my voice is?
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How long had you been doing it at this point?
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But for 20 years, okay, and so now how long are you in, you have now decided to dedicate, some door is opened, opened by your brother, and you're now looking for what does the costume look like?
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
So this is a bit out of body for you here. The entire experience, it's fascinating to hear you describe going to this place, visiting it, occupying it, living in it, and then leaving it.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
But this is just acting. It's one of the things that draws you to acting is the fact that you can that you're performing as a robot whose features you're all controlling.
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That's all stuff you know works, right? Largely from audience to audience, no matter where you are, that 50% or 60% is going to give you 50% or 60% of the confidence you need to try and push it to 100%.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Well, that's Seinfeld. One of Seinfeld's many gifts is that he is able to deliver it as if it is fresh and also conceal what is the very real disdain he has for just people in general. Yeah. That his anger is more substantive than yours and nobody knows it. That it's hidden behind an act that is just meant to conceal that he openly loathes you. Yeah.
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And he's conquered comedy in a way that doesn't have a whole lot of precedent either. So who are the craftsmen and craftswomen that you most admired? I know you grew up with Pryor and Carlin and those are the guys who tend to formulate just about everyone's shaping about your age.
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Willing to get arrested for his work.
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So you feel like you're looking at a sculpture by a foremost artist and it's a masterpiece. And even now you would look at it as such in your 70s.
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You vent it a little bit. You summon it. You're forever crafting it on stage, tapping into the anger so that it fuels you.
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You ended up going through a back door to get to all the things you wanted from the plays. Like you just didn't, you went a different route. You went through the back of the theater to get to all of the things that whatever it is you were dreaming about, it was more constipated the way that you were doing it before your brother ended up allowing for a laughter.
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And you would phrase it that way, right? That your dead brother, your late brother, excuse me, opened the doors for you to be happier so that you could have a more fulfilling existence with your work.
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How would this have all changed over the last four years if not for the pandemic? What was the punctuation of your career going to look like?
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Okay, very good. That seems extreme, but okay.
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Of course you can say that. I was playing your straight man. Of course, I'm all for shit on the desk, yes.
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That's how we're going to end this right here. You and me are going to take a big shit on the desk and we're going to be ta-da, South Beach Sessions.
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Oh my God, that sounds like the comedy around deathbed remorse. If you can't be around the laughter and you're totally alone, isolated to all the choices you make, how soon before you just eat yourself up with ravaging doubt?
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But are you thinking at this point of giving it up because it's not really a career or you're making enough so this is good enough because this is AAA and I'm not going to be a major league player, but maybe I can still keep fighting from here and become a playwright, become more of a playwright, a more successful playwright. But then you didn't, or then you chose another path.
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And it was just a withering examination of all of the choices you have made in your life, including to not have children and to self-loathingly judge those just because you had the time in the pandemic to remove all the distractions and be alone with your lonely truth. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it sounds awful and not funny, but you made it funny.
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That doesn't sound terribly funny to examine your life with remorse and anger and then be really mean to yourself on stage.
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lewisblack.com. Let's shit on the desk right now together. The last tour, goodbye Yeller Brick Road. The final tour, I don't believe it. lewisblack.com is where you get your tickets. Thank you, sir. Appreciate the time. Appreciate the comedy. Appreciate the honesty.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
And I think, correct me if I'm wrong on this, I don't want to be presumptuous, but in what I've read about you and what the producers of this podcast are trying to do, I lost my brother recently and they've asked me to explore grief and you tie your career change to the loss of a brother, correct? Yeah.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Hello and welcome to South Beach Sessions. I'm particularly excited about this one because this man is a giant, a titan in the comedy industry. You usually don't get to do it for close to 40 years. Usually you age out, something happens, and it's hard to keep up. But he's got his present tour, which he claims is the last one. I do not believe him. Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road, the final tour.
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Like, you made that jump somewhere spiritually around whatever you learned about mortality and grief there?
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After life, you're saying that he was doing this for you.
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I would think that most people would think you too cynical to be that spiritual about afterlife and your brother opening doors from the beyond for you.
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Super interesting to me because I will tell you, and this part is hard and it sounds like lunacy to speak it out loud, but there are times that I just feel something from my brother pushing me in a more joyful direction because it's what he wants for me.
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The cynic in me does not want to accept that I know so little about the unknown that I can believe in something so syrupy.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
When I feel it, it can't be unfelt because it melts all the cynicism in me. It will make my eyes water to believe it. I want to believe it. I just have a lot of trouble with the trust of believing it.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
You can find tickets at lewisblack.com. I want to see if some of these numbers are right because... You have done, in some years, 250 shows in a year?
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
And that's – Your mother visited you in the form of a cardinal or a bird of some sort.
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Same, same, I did this a couple of times with him.
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Yes. No, it's horrific, and also out of body.
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You can go be happy now or to the degree that you can be happy around all of our human dysfunctions. Exactly. And did you feel laughter in the room with him? Like, did you feel... That while you're resuscitating him, he's going to be mad at me for getting the credit of resuscitating him. That's funny. That's one final joke from him at the end.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Okay, so if I say 40 plays, three best-selling books, 12 comedy albums, 14 specials, two Grammys, what am I missing? And about 20,000 shows in a lifetime? Yeah.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
This is your proof more than anything else? More than anything else, the proof is the feeling that you would find fundamental in, no, I felt my brother's presence here from a different place. And furthermore, he changed my life path. And people who hear that and say he's crazy, what is he talking about? How do you dissuade them of that because you've lived it? Fuck them.
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
I would stun my audience I think with the feeling and I would say it with conviction too like there's just there have been some things that have happened that are so gentle but I was extraordinarily close to him as it sounds like you were extraordinarily close so why did you lose after why do you lose you say you lose the connection because now you why wouldn't he still be enjoying it with you if you're still enjoying the success and the fruits of your career at 76 when no comedian gets to do that I don't know
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South Beach Sessions - Lewis Black
Well, you lost your parents. They were both in their hundreds, right? Like your father at 101 and your mother at 104. And when I read the things that you say about them, I can't believe how normal and loving your environment was. I expect comedians to come from something different than that.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes with JuJu Gotti
You say that defense is trash, though, Juju, but that game was won early with what Ed Oliver and that defensive line. was doing to Detroit's offensive line that I did not believe could be done to Detroit's offensive line. I thought coming into that game, I thought the Lions would be able to run the ball all over the field.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes with JuJu Gotti
If I'm playing the Bills in the playoffs, the team I want to do it with in the AFC is the Ravens. Because I feel like I can hold the ball all game and limit Josh Allen's possessions. But you still have to feel good that your team can put up 30. Your quarterback's always protected. He doesn't turn the ball over.
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And your defense can make big plays because if you can get pass rush, you can get turnovers.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes with JuJu Gotti
Chris Cody, do you not feel like a sports fan loser in comparison to Juju Gotti? Even though you are a Florida Panther fan as well, everything that's happening in South Florida sports is something that makes Juju laugh at your football team.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes with JuJu Gotti
I tried to separate you, but I was unsuccessful. What is the criticism from today's show? I saw you wincing from the beyond on Jeremy hitting us with 1950s songs with a top hat and performing with jazz hands.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes with JuJu Gotti
Original songs? All originals. Yes, get to work. I love Christmas songs. It's your best way to more money and responsibilities in the company is tickle me with Christmas songs. Juju, what else do we have in the way of criticism from what we did today? Yes.
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Well, thank you, Juju. I will accept that from you in the audience. I've told people before that there is no greater caretaker for the link between us and our audience than Juju. So the connection is meaningful to me that people would want to wish me happy birthday and want me to absorb it because I'm not good at birthdays.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes with JuJu Gotti
The holidays can indeed be lonely and are best shared. Thank you for the holiday wisdom, Juju. Feel a little bit better about your bills. You're allowed to feel better on a Monday, even though they've got a lot of heartbreak in their past.
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You have the quarterback everybody wants, and I know you fear getting your heart broken with three turnovers in a playoff game against the Ravens, but for now, you can enjoy it.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes with JuJu Gotti
Juju, you've got to enjoy it more than that. You are the biggest Bills fan we've had around here since Christine Lisi. You nationally identify as a Bills fan. And for all the talk of football that we had today, and there was too much as there always is on Monday, we didn't talk nearly enough about your Bills today because that had to feel good.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes with JuJu Gotti
I have rarely made bigger mistakes than the mistake I've made in the last three months of calling Juju during a Bills game. Not a good idea. And a Bills game where they were turning the ball over and fumbling and stuff. So that had to feel good for you yesterday where you're announcing to the league, hey, we can beat everybody, even the best, wherever it is that we play.
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Local Hour: Thursday Night Football Reaction
The never-ending possible, Dan, you don't want to know? I'm glad that you have plenty to do. I want more of these assignments for the holidays to keep you busy. Look up all of these things.
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We'll check back in with him later. I want all of this information. I just prefer, though, to ask Andrew Hawkins, how good is Jordan Love?
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No, I did. I wasn't asking you to fake it. I should have probably stayed there with you.
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No, I let that go. We're going to keep working on that. And at some point here, I want to go back to you and Amin and first fake, and we will see how good and sharp you guys can do this. But I really am asking you on Jordan Love, when we talk about Who are the top five quarterbacks in the game? Are you willing to already put him there and not continue the discussion?
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Like that he's already in the top class and you would not be surprised at all if he runs through road games and wins a Super Bowl. If he runs through Detroit, if he runs through Philadelphia and wins a Super Bowl.
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The thing is, that top five trick I play, I played it years ago as a top ten trick when I was putting Rex Grossman in my top ten. Because once you get after nine, it was tough. Once you get after four, it becomes a difficult thing to find who the fifth one is.
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I wasn't going for young. I was just saying something I've said for 20 years. You've said hella for 20 years?
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Who are the guys you're talking about when you say something that I don't hear a lot of, but I agree with what it is that you said? You said... Stafford is at the point of his career where it's easy for him. He's got such a mastery. He's done so many reps of what this is that there aren't going to be many surprises.
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If you protect him, he will get rid of the ball quickly and accurately, and he knows where to go with the football all the time. How many guys in the sport, any position... Are you saying that person has done it so long that they're making a very difficult thing look easy because they've sort of mastered where the high end of their ability is? In the NFL? Yes.
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Because you just said something about Stafford. I agree with the assessment, and I don't know how many. Aaron Rodgers made it look like that for me during his prime where I was just watching all the time. I'm like, how is this this easy? You know who else does it? I'll tell you somebody else who does it, and I think it gets underrated.
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I don't know how many other quarterbacks have the skill I'm about to talk about. The way Joe Burrow, who got sacked a ton early in his career, steps up in the pocket. Eyes up, not afraid, steps into the defensive tackles. Not a lot of quarterbacks are doing that. He makes that look very easy, and it's not easy.
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I believe, though, that we're deflecting, we're projecting, we're distracting. It's his face. Hawk, you played a violent sport.
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Yeah, I would be. Aggressive description. I mean, what is that? I'm just saying.
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Thank you. Mike, you were saying earlier in the show, and I'll let you continue your point in a second, but when I said the word hella, you said you were going to throw a flag. Can we get a flag now so that we can throw? Oh, there it is. Wow. Okay. There you go. We've been so quick today.
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So we're throwing a flag at Andrew Hawkins for a stat that he lost confidence in just based on the reaction of the room. He had confidence in the stat, and then he realized he's been faking it, didn't see the game last night. All of you stared at him silently. What is... I like to pay my fine.
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I'm gonna get the stat again from him and see what's right right. What is correct. But because you mentioned the fine, I am here to announce to everybody here and to the audience that we now have a new fine system because it's going to have enforcers and Sarah Spain has gotten involved. And now we have the Venmo fine bucket.
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So we will be able to pay all of the fines that need to be paid around here. But now give the stat more confidently, and we will try to verify it. I've verified it.
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At what point did you get hyphy? Right. I was asking the video people to get me. I've been scouring footage trying to get where Amin fell on the street to see if we could get that footage. Because we have cameras going on 24 hours, surveillance cameras out there. And if I had a time, I could be able to pinpoint. But I don't think you were close enough to the range.
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Enough. Enough. Enough. Major penalty. Five minutes for stumbling. Chris Cody, Mike Ryan, both of you, out of here. Both of you. I've now got... Out of here. Yes, both of you. You too, Taylor. You out of here. You out of here as well. We have a Venmo fine bucket that is now in play. I'm very excited about this, being able to take your money for the holidays.
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The Chiefs are going to play three games in 10 days with a quarterback on a bad ankle. They run the risk of collapsing here at the finish line because there are a lot of difficulties with what it is that they're presently doing, winning all of these close games. But I wanted to get Amin and Hock's thoughts on what is happening around Travis Hunter. He is a star. He is headed to superstardom.
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It is rare. in football to know the faces. Only the quarterbacks get that. Maybe a couple of Kelsey's every once in a while, but it's rare to have famous faces from college entering football because they wear a mask. And this person is an internet sensation. He is very popular with young people. And I want to show you some video here of
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Travis Hunter dancing in his home with an assortment of his trophies. He took all the hardware. That's the Bolitnikoff. It's not the Thorpe, although Dion promised to give him that, give him his own Thorpe. It's the Heisman. I don't know what else. There's a third trophy back there. Bolitnikoff. Okay, yeah. Best receiver as well. We need to change that to another receiver. No? The Bolitnikoff?
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Nobody here remembers Fred Bolitnikoff.
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Freddie B. From Raider? Yes, nobody knows who Fred Bolitnikoff is. I literally just told you who he was. You did? Yes! So, yes, not nobody, but I don't...
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nobody all right put put it on the poll at levitard show do you know who fred balitnikoff was but the thing that i wanted to ask you guys about all of this all of this swirling around him because we talked earlier this week and mike saying he was the number one recruit in the company country and i'm like go ahead and look at all uh the heisman trophy winners and give me all the guys who panned out as number one recruits in the country who then went through college and actually showed themselves to be the number one recruit in the country yeah bryce young was the last one to do it and i gotta tell you the
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most recent crop of number one recruits in the country look like they're well on their way with jeremiah smith and arch manning uh historically that has not been so maybe something has changed but historically your your rate of failure it's just very hard to get from high school to the pros but
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As it relates to Travis Hunter and the thing that I wanted to ask you about, now Bow Wow is on the internet also telling him, mind his money, be careful around your woman. A whole lot of adults are giving him... Bow Wow?
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You were in one of those Mission Impossible camera blind spots, whatever it is. And I don't think we can find where you were.
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And one of the things that Bow Wow said is that you're being covered more for your relationship than you are for winning the Heisman Trophy. Now, that's not true, but there is this disconnect in the mainstream. you're being covered for winning the Heisman Trophy. On the internet, you're being covered for your relationship.
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These are two different conversations happening in two different places, and the fault line on that conversation is where podcasts and things like this can get... can find the lane between what the mainstream media is reporting, because you will not see anything about his relationship on ESPN, on Fox. You will not see it anywhere. Because this is internet gossip.
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And so the thing I wanted to ask both of you is, when internet gossip becomes something that reduces the standard of what is being discussed on television, where you can be more personal, climb into someone's life, and then feel comfortable to tell a young man what his relationship should be, how do you navigate?
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the distance between those two things the mainstream media is not interested in this subject matter but the people are like this is clearly a conversation point that people want to talk about whether it's fair to talk about it or not but there's a lot of people that want to talk about a lot of things that we don't address like a lot of people want to talk about rotten things that we don't get into this is a vice like my face
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That explains why none of the footage revealed a man falling on his face in the street in a pool of blood.
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has a Whitterburger at his wedding. A Whitterburger. He created a whole Whitterburger off of Whataburger and he added it at his wedding. You sound jealous. I mean, why wouldn't I be jealous of that?
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Look at how amused old Swollenface is with his own joke there. I just saw his face shake and not his upper lip.
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Can I ask the group something help with producing of this show? Because something just happened to me and it happened just to me. And it's in a it's a bit of a purgatory I'm trapped in. So he's talking, Hawk is talking, and he says, keep the main thing the main thing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And then Jeremy, who's always thinking about the heat and always wanting to talk, gives me the private show in just my ear of Eric Spolstra. Because Eric Spolstra says all the time, you've got to keep the main thing the main thing. Goosebumps. I don't want this in my life. I'm not saying Jeremy in general.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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All right, Jeremy, get out of here. No, no, no. I'm not saying Jeremy in general. I'm just asking you what I do with... He just needed to say it to somebody, and I've got a whole team of people better equipped to absorb it than me while trying to listen to Hawk. I don't need a private Miami Heat show in my ear, but he is...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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very frustrated that he doesn't get more heat talk from our show, never mind just him, that our show isn't discussing the Miami Heat enough. He's got to get out of here, though.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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In the penalty box. You can give us a spin room Tyler Hero stat from the other room.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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The other thing that I wanted to talk about with you two is everything that's going on with Luigi Mangione. The... The... The brothel guy. The video yesterday... of an alleged murderer who shot a healthcare CEO in the street. The video of him being surrounded by authorities like he were Hannibal Lecter. And many people opined that he looked cool as a menace to society surrounded by this.
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There's a fascinating thing going on around him where with young people demographics, you will get an alarming percentage in the 30s or 40s who are who think it's somewhat reasonable what he did. Like, you will get numbers that you'll be like, what are we doing here?
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In terms of the desperation between haves and have-nots, where the desperation is getting to such a point that these kind of symbols are making an appearance where you're like... This is real desperation being signified by one lunatic.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Well, I mean, is holding a book in front of his face as if we're on video, which we're not. This is the shadow show. You have been disoriented. The thing that I find funniest about what's happening here beyond beyond even the way he's pronouncing words and I can hear the lisp when he laughs. the face moves, but not the lip.
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Can we talk beyond the murder? Can we talk about some of the macro being touched on here when he becomes an avatar for a thing? And the thing I'm talking about is a desperation, okay? Whether it's now, 20 years from now, or 50 years from now, whenever it is that people are fighting, the poorest of people are fighting for money and food. The poorest of people are fighting for health care.
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And it becomes a more obvious thing that there's a desperation and there's a wall between the rich people and that desperation.
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when you have so many people identifying with the desperation that they get numb to the idea of, well, it's just one murder in the street and the cause, as I told you, I've got to look up the percentages here because the numbers of people who thought it was somewhat rational, a thing to do to kill someone in the street
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over healthcare, no matter how much I agree with whatever your cause is outside of like wartime stuff, I don't know that you can make the argument to me that I'm gonna be okay with murdering someone in the street if it's not in self-defense.
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The lip stays stationary because it's like stapled by the scar to his face. And Hawk, you explain to the people, they'll have the reveal in a second, although he'll try to hide it, but explain what you're looking at as a man who has emerged from a violent sport.
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the the people versus the oligarchs and people are rallying around this guy it's it's really the numbers the numbers are startling okay the numbers are startling when i tell you one in four americans approve either a little or a lot of what mangione did here and 41 of young adults That's crazy, man.
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When we're more armed than we've ever been and the divisions are, you know, more overt than they've ever been, it's crazy to me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Even while I understand the frustration of the desperation for you to be so desperate that you're okay with somebody else killing somebody in the street in a way that makes him more popular by the day as he's surrounded by, you know, authorities wearing, you know, nice sneakers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Grateful for all our audience, grateful for this family of people who have held this business afloat here for the last four years, our last day before the new year, before a break. And I just wanted to say thank you to everyone in here and everyone in the other room who can hear me because you guys have done a year of very hard, very proud work on what is still a startup.
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And we are thrilled to be expanding and adding new friends. And I just want everyone here to know the level of grateful I am because I can be pouty and I can march around sometimes and my mood is hard to read. I want everyone to know here that I'm proud of the job that we've done. I'm happy to have Andrew Hawkins and Amin here today. to help me sort out something I think I figured out last night.
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I will not believe that that Denver Broncos team can win anything, and I haven't believed it all year, and I'm telling you what happened here, because that Bronco uniform is not something I necessarily associate with failure. John Elway changed that for me, and then Peyton Manning won a Super Bowl with a defense when he was throwing nine touchdowns and 17 interceptions.
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But I can't shake that they allowed 70 to the Dolphins. And so when you're playing the Chargers, I'm like, you're not better than them. I will not believe you're better than them, even if you are better than them. You may be better than them. I've seen the numbers on Bo Nix. Their offense, points and yards per play, not a lot of difference between this and last year.
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And I don't believe anyone else in the audience believes in those Broncos. Do you disagree? You're looking at me like you disagree.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I believe Amin and Hawk could both do this probably off of games they didn't see. Amin, Memphis last night beats Golden State by 50. What were your thoughts? The Golden State Warriors embarrassed as Draymond Green goes 0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 for 4 from the field, 0 assists.
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All right, I got a new show, First Fake, where we put them next to each other and we ask them questions, asking for expertise on things they haven't seen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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This is bonus time at the company, and every time you've made that sound, I've inexplicably wanted to give you money. Like, just cash because of how, man.
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The Chargers last night, Hawk, I thought, showed to me some of what it is that Jim Harbaugh says of Justin Herbert, that he's one of the best as a talent skill guy that he's ever seen at the position. What were your thoughts on the Chargers last night?
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But you didn't see the incredible arm strength. And what you did there was masterful on the front end. Show America a little of your personality before you get to the take. Take them into your life, into the intimacy of your living room. Show them a little bit who Hawk really is as he fakes his way through the analysis.
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You didn't see it, no. Put it on the poll, please, at Levitard Show. Do you have any blankets that are 17 years old? Yes or no? I think we've got the start of a game here. I want to get to the stat of the day in a moment, but I want to ask this question seriously.
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Andrew Hawkins, are you worried about the face of Amin Elhassan? I had not seen it this close up, and it is hella swollen, and that scar on what remains of his mustache.
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In the history of sports entertainment, have any of you ever seen the faces of someone you loved on television while doing their job look as bad as Amines does today? Bob Costas had pink eye at the Olympics. Everyone had commentary on that. When have you ever seen a professional media face look as beat up as this one?
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No, no, no. I'm talking about when have you ever turned on whatever is your favorite sports show these days and seen Dan Patrick clearly bloodied by the previous evening?
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Give me the stat of the day.
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Jeremy, I was told by Chris before he read that, first me, then Jeremy.
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I get it. I know. I'm just saying that's the communication I got while sipping coffee. The silence the audience got is because my executive producer told me. He gave the communication to me. He said, I'm going to read this thing, and then it's going to Jeremy. And then I looked at Jeremy, and Jeremy wasn't looking at me. Off me, coach.
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Peanut Tillman said that he was playing in a game in Chicago, and this is Peanut Tillman, right? Notorious tough guy, where the field was so much ice and stuff that when he went out there, he's like, I just don't want to do this. I want to quit. I want to stop playing football.
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But Hawk, can he get a job again? Because this is the cardinal sin, right? The times I have seen... Players react the way George Kittle did. Barrett Robbins, when he didn't show up for a Super Bowl because he had a bipolar episode. And Vontae Davis, when he quit at halftime of a Bills game. It's the only time I've seen players react the way they react because it's the cardinal sin.
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Will another team put this player on a roster once he's cut because this is the worst thing you can do in football is choose not to play when your teammates need you?
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The reason I ask the question is because this is a player. who has, like all players in the NFL, worked so much of his life to get to this point, and now we're learning his name associated with quitting. This is what he's getting. He is known now more for quitting than he is for playing.
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Fred Warner has been playing on a fractured ankle for 11 weeks. I don't even know how a human being does that. The rest of that team is falling apart after being one of the best teams in the league for five years only because their guys keep getting carried off the field. They're physically broken, and this guy does that.
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I think he loses friendships over something like that in that locker room, given what trust means in your particular game.
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I can't believe you did that.
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I can't believe that you told coaches who were coming to you on the sidelines asking for a favor. I haven't practiced that. It's not a favor.
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It's unbelievably smart. I just can't believe your coaches accepted it without consequences.
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Jessica, what is your level of enthusiasm for Saturday and bowl season?
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That's right.
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Congratulations. Thank you. Are you afraid of losing to Indiana? Indiana?
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You guys would have no idea who I am. You guys don't understand, though, what an amazing decision that was that he had to make when he's doing the calculations on, if I drop a punt, I'm going to get waived. Am I going to get waived if I tell my coaches I'm not going to do this? There is calculations happening on your career on the sideline right there.
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You tell Belichick you're not returning a punt. You think it's going the same way that it went with Marvin Lewis? Hell no.
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I wanted to ask you about something I've been talking about for a couple of days, funny enough. So Odell Beckham and the Dolphins agreed to mutually part ways. And one of the things that I was saying this week is, How does Odell Beckham, given where he's been in sports and fame and stardom, feel about playing a Dolphin game and seeing a stat line that has one catch for one yard?
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I was arguing that a receiver might rather have zero catches for zero yards because then people can assume he didn't play.
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I think one catch for one yard is worse than zero for zero yards. But what if I make it one catch for negative one yard? Then do you prefer that to zero for zero yards?
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Can you guys get for me the last time I heard I broke my back said quite that way when Mike Tyson was in a ring being interviewed by Jim Gray?
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Put it on the poll, please. Is Toledo a top 50 program in the last 40 years? And play the Mike Tyson sound, please.
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I wanted to ask David Sampson something here based on what it is that the Jets are doing with their GM search, where they're going to a firm that employs Rick Spielman and Mike Tannenbaum, two failed Dolphin general managers, to get their new general manager. NFL Jets general manager on top of that. Yeah, Tannenbaum is both, right? A failed Dolphin general manager.
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Actually, he was more successful with the Jets, but Spielman also a failed Dolphin general manager. What do you make of just the general incestuousness of continuing to go over and over to get your expertise from the same people?
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They can't, right? They don't have... Those two people proved to me over many years that they don't have a special ability to find talent.
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