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Chapter 1: How did Cuervo become a part of the show?
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Shadow in it. Shadow in it. Jessica, how many University of Miami games have you gone to with Mike Ryan?
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Chapter 2: What are Mike and Jessica's experiences at University of Miami games?
I think two, maybe. He didn't go to the last two. I don't know why. His basketball teams are so good this season. He just abandoned them.
And what has it been like when you've been with him at those games? There's a reason I'm asking these questions.
He wears a full Adidas Miami Hurricanes tracksuit. He sort of walks in with a swagger. He shakes everyone's hands in the club section. He's got great parking, great parking, great seats. I sat on the court side for the women's basketball game last week.
Touching wood.
Like three seats down from Brianna Stewart.
Now I'm curious, is his hair slick back or push back?
Never back. I got the entradas. I'm not showing the world that. Yeah, I mean, you should know better than that.
I thought he'd be slick back real good.
But the Adidas jumpsuit thing, is it Tony Sperano-ish? Is it Bob Huggins-ish? What is he going for, like, in terms of just throwing on gear that represents I'm Miami through and through, and also I'm a dad?
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Chapter 3: Why is Mike's interaction with Zagaki notable?
It works for both. Oddly, it works for both. He's no longer with us. I did mean to say Tony Soprano. Okay.
Well, it's that one. Because he's a little Italian.
The reason I bring it all up is because I don't know if you guys know, as Mike has told you, and Mike's been publicly critical of their athletic director, so when you're in this company, it can be a little awkward, but while all of this is going on, where Mike is in a group of people,
that have heard him say some things that can be critical of the University of Miami, he was stunned and surprised to get a hello from Zagaki.
I got a text message about it.
Well, because Jess has been with me while I have to awkwardly shuffle past Josie.
Yeah, Mike's tickets. So you have to get from like the club section to where his tickets are behind the visitor bench. You have to go in between the row of the stat keepers and the TV and the radio people. And you got to kind of like, oh, excuse me, squeezing right past you there because it's a very narrow section. So you kind of bump everyone a little bit. And so Zagaki sits right there. Yeah.
Every damn time.
And, you know, Mike's walking through in his tracksuit. And, like, Mike's a big guy. Like, Zagaki sees him coming. And it's very awkward for Mike.
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Chapter 4: Is sketch comedy experiencing a resurgence?
Yeah, she had really funny interviews. I would go viral on that.
Also awkward, though. She would do that on purpose. She was going purposely awkward.
There's a lot more of that on like TikTok, honestly, with a lot of people who are purposefully making you feel uncomfortable, whether it's going and approaching people as a purposefully bad singer and asking them to sit through songs that you're singing or pretending to act as a certain type of protagonist in a movie, but in real life and just making people feel uncomfortable with what they're watching.
But because it's all edited together and it's not live or in an interview setting, it allows for TikTok creators to do that a little more.
Eric Andre is another person who does a great job of that.
New season of Righteous Gemstones coming out in two weeks.
Can't wait.
I still have... I have on my phone, and I will just check in every once in a while with him in Righteous Gemstones doing an imaginary lasso during a congregation preaching he was doing and pulling someone out of their physical seat because of... How well he does awkward almost everywhere that he appears.
Speaking of awkward, the big story from the scouting combine, which had a whole bunch of NFL news yesterday. We did not get to all of it, but there was a ton of NFL news. Big wheel. At Starbucks in Indianapolis. Conflicting reports about Brady and Stafford meeting led to Jordan Schultz, an information insider from Fox. Friend of the show.
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Chapter 5: Who is dominating the lane of awkward comedy?
David, accosting can feel good. It can feel like camaraderie. But to others, it can feel like accosting. Which actually does fit Bob Costas.
What was the context of what Sal Palantonio did to you?
Well, no, no. Again, Sal Palantonio just came up and said hello. I had not talked to him in a long time.
Dan was like, ah! But he does not like you.
I didn't think he did. And I've said some things on the air that are funny about him. We've made some fun of him. We've also pointed out the teeth, which is something that we do to some of the people at ESPN, Mike most specifically. But that stuff all gets attached to me when when your teeth seem to be veneers or not real.
But he came up to me and I didn't have any I haven't had much of a relationship with him and haven't talked to him a long time. And he just started talking to me about how long he had been at ESPN, one of the longest tenured employees, 33 years, still doing it. And it felt like an accosting.
But he was just being nice. The most amazing thing about that story, it wasn't outside the Eagle Stadium. I thought Sal was fixed there.
Oh, dude. In front of that team facility that looks like it's in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Does he sign off his IRL conversations with ESPN?
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Chapter 6: Why is the scouting combine story humorous?
used to be the destination, now kind of what Dan would call a traffic cop, right? And inherently replaceable.
Like, Hannity is more famous than Lesser Holt.
Yes, yes, absolutely, for all the wrong reasons. But Lester Holt is up there, I would say. David Muir, too. David Muir is another one, yeah. Zaddy. Anderson Cooper. Anderson Cooper.
We've cheapened it, though. And in sports right now, there isn't somebody that would play the role of traditional anchor that would move to places. Like, Tirico's the last one. Van Pelt, yeah. But I'm saying he wouldn't or hasn't done it. Van Pelt would be somebody, but that's not a thing that's going to happen anymore is the idea of that dead.
The star, I need to get that television person who's associated with just news giving, not opinion, not this is the political perspective of this person or attitude or charisma or personality. This is a news giver and I trust this person as a credible source. That's dead, right? Joy Reid.
Just kidding. I mean, Rachel Maddow, right? She's an example. She's terrible. Oh, yeah, true.
Thanks, man. I think it's a weirder conversation that Dan is trying to play because I think for news, there are names and there are places. But for sports, I'm with you. I don't know if there are any names out there who aren't already established at ESPN.
It is SVP, though.
But he's at ESPN. Like who would, if ESPN wanted to do a Hannah Storm-like deal, we're going to go out and get a big name because SVP was on the golf network before.
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Chapter 7: Are news anchors still relevant in today's media landscape?
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Don Levitard. While there's nothing official and conversations are still ongoing. Was that a fake Schefter? I tried. It was pretty good. It was excellent. I feel like there's legs. I tried at the beginning and then I lost confidence in it. Why? It was good.
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Chapter 8: What are the latest updates from the Phoenix Mercury?
I'm with the confusion, though. I don't know if it's a shed made of wood or a shed holding wood. Put it on the poll, Guillermo. Taking someone out to the woodshed, is it a shed made of wood, or is it a shed where the wood is kept?
Both. Several notes. Number one, we didn't need the last 30 seconds. We were doing a Gene Hackman clip.
Bullshit. That's good show banter.
That's classic show. Classic show, man. Number two, Gene Hackman was in the Marines. I don't know if any of you guys do that then or now. But he was 88. Number three.
And in the Navy.
And to Mike's point about throwing gluten in your eyes, that's cheating, right? This is a Gene Hackman quote about... acting and being successful at acting. He said, it was more psychological warfare because I wasn't gonna let those efforts get me down. I insisted with myself I would continue to do whatever it took to get a job.
It was like me against them and in some ways, unfortunately, I still feel that way. It's a narcotic in the way that you are trained to do this work, and nobody will let you do it, so you're a little bit nuts. You lie to people. You cheat. You do whatever it takes to get an audition to get a job.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is the words of someone who would absolutely throw gluten in your eyes and then kick your ass. Doesn't play fair.
I remember from that interview him saying that he didn't watch any of his movies ever because he was so self-conscious about how he looked and was so self-conscious about his acting that he would not want to watch all the things that he had done wrong.
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