Hour 1: A Bracket of Iconic Sounds

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Speaker 7 I have noticed, as many of you have, that over the last 10 years, whatever the conversation is about race, or whether it's race in sports or race in politics, that it has gotten in some instances unfathomably dumb, as when Mina Kimes finds herself in quote-unquote controversy talking about Jackie Robinson because of how ridiculous the behavior is around any of these conversations.

Speaker 7 I'm going to talk later in the show with Jamel Hill about the

Speaker 7 general dumbness of everything that happened last week, where it's like that is not a smart race conversation.

Speaker 7 Stephen A.

Speaker 7 Smith ending up with wanting to debate Donald Trump on DEI from that as the starting point with saying that RG3 wasn't liked by the people at ESPN and RG3 longing for when games just used to be games in coverage.

Speaker 7 That controversy is one of the dumbest I've seen in my lifetime as we're supposed to be evolving this conversation.

Speaker 12 But Stephen A. Smith debating Donald Trump is Super Bowl numbers on television, right?

Speaker 3 That would be electric.

Speaker 1 It's my worst nightmare.

Speaker 16 I hate it so much.

Speaker 17 I mean, two president, maybe a presidential candidate coming up with Stephen A.

Speaker 16 Smith, man.

Speaker 3 Again, my worst nightmare.

Speaker 7 You guys just want to.

Speaker 7 That's what that the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 It would be.

Speaker 12 You're telling me there are people at home.

Speaker 1 You know, a lot of people like sports.

Speaker 12 A lot of people in this country like sports. If you said to this person, Stephen A.
Smith is debating President Trump tonight, they're not watching.

Speaker 15 Everyone's watching.

Speaker 17 Pay-per-view numbers.

Speaker 18 That'd be massive.

Speaker 5 Pay-per-view numbers aren't very good.

Speaker 19 good.

Speaker 17 But the point is, it would be pay-per-view.

Speaker 2 Big comeback.

Speaker 18 Exactly. Big comeback.

Speaker 15 You have to pay in Trump coin. Oh, good God, man.

Speaker 20 I hate this so damn much.

Speaker 17 I hate it so much.

Speaker 20 Like, you want to talk about doing shows, you want to split off sports and politics during a sports show. Jackie Robinson's entire life was politics.

Speaker 21 Like, he couldn't play Major League Baseball until 1947, where he was the first person to break the color barrier.

Speaker 2 Like, what are we doing here?

Speaker 18 Like, you had to play Negro League Baseball.

Speaker 20 Like, what is, I don't know what RG3 is talking about.

Speaker 14 It just doesn't make any sense to me. It makes me so angry.

Speaker 7 Can you guys look up for me just the history of the phrase color barrier? Because I want to explore something here that I do not know because

Speaker 7 it's not an actual barrier.

Speaker 7 But when I think of whatever that is meant to represent, I think of Jackie Robinson.

Speaker 7 There is not another name I think. I don't know what a color barrier is if not for Jackie Robinson as representation.
I don't know the history of that phrase.

Speaker 13 I mean, Rosa Parks had a color barrier, too.

Speaker 7 Agreed, but I don't, I'm saying I don't know what a barrier, where that phrase once started.

Speaker 1 It's here. It's with Jackie Robinson.
Apparently, you know, they called it the color line,

Speaker 1 but also referred to as the color barrier.

Speaker 1 And it literally, by definition, it says the color line, also known as the color barrier, in American baseball, excluded players of black African descent from Major League Baseball and its affiliated minor leagues until 1947.

Speaker 1 It's Jackie Robinson who broke it, and that's exactly where the truth is.

Speaker 7 So that is the history, and that is the fact. And we are in the process of rewriting history through everything from banned books to arguments about censorship.
And they're just distracting, right?

Speaker 7 You need to understand that Mina Kimes is being used there for how she looks and whatever her political ideology is as a tool to then ensnare RG3.

Speaker 7 And it's how you do it. It's how you win.

Speaker 7 You just pit the sides against each other, let them devour each other in the stupidity, and you run off with all the money and try and make Gaza a luxury resort strip, like with the richest man in the world in your office.

Speaker 3 Like that's how all that happens.

Speaker 7 You have all the money in the world and you've cheapened every principle there is in America.

Speaker 15 Well, here's the thing about a color barrier, because every black person had a color barrier back in

Speaker 16 1947 and before that because it was Jim Crow back then it was segregation like you couldn't you couldn't eat at white restaurants or drink water from a white water fountain that's that's how things went back then

Speaker 7 I need a sorbet of some sort, Jeremy. I'm going to put you in a tough spot here.
I'm going to need a transition here that is light and breezy.

Speaker 7 Can you give me something that you came in here after a couple of days off dying to talk about today that can transition us from the conversation that makes Royce so angry into something a little lighter.

Speaker 1 Well, it's a perfect conversation transition because it's still baseball oriented. Did you guys see what happened with the Orioles AA affiliate, the Chesapeake Bay Sox? No.

Speaker 1 Because they are

Speaker 1 going to have a unique name for select games this season.

Speaker 1 Just like the Pensacola Blue Wahoos became the Pensacola Mullets for select games, the Chesapeake Oyster Catchers is the name.

Speaker 1 And here's the logo of what they used for the chesapeake oyster catchers now i don't know about you guys

Speaker 3 but

Speaker 1 that oyster

Speaker 16 also looks like something else to me i like the logo what's wrong with it for the audio audience it's a baseball glove and the glove caught an oyster and in the oyster it's a pole that looks like dan can you find the baseball

Speaker 7 Is it inside the vagina?

Speaker 2 I think you found it. What?

Speaker 3 It's an oyster.

Speaker 13 I thought the transition was going to be Jeremy singing his song about color barriers.

Speaker 2 Oh, God.

Speaker 3 Oh, Lord.

Speaker 15 No.

Speaker 18 He seems to have a song. He's an ally, though.

Speaker 19 He could whip one up.

Speaker 7 Is there not a market?

Speaker 7 Is there not a marketing department here? Is there not a, like, how does it.

Speaker 15 Oh, there is.

Speaker 1 And that's why they ended up with that logo.

Speaker 7 What's the back? What's the story? What is the backstory? What is now happening around this wonderful logo?

Speaker 1 What's happening around it is great because they released it. And what's funny is it seems as though they might not have had anyone catch that

Speaker 25 on

Speaker 1 the front end.

Speaker 12 But

Speaker 1 after they tweeted from their official account, some saw an oyster, others saw something unexpected. We see an opportunity to turn viral laughs into positive impact.

Speaker 1 In celebration of Women's History Month, 10% of all oyster catchers' merch sales will support I Am Survivor, which is a cervical cancer education center.

Speaker 2 So it really worked worked out perfectly.

Speaker 26 It's important because in a diverse workplace, someone may have said, hey, this actually looks like a vagina. Yep.

Speaker 7 So when I mentioned that Jeremy yesterday was doing that report on advancing through dancing, and the heat, by the way, have been doing for a while now a celebration of women, that if we're going to make the RG3 Jackie Robinson conversation about politics, this then too would be the heat aggressively being political by simply celebrating women during their broadcast, which is a choice the heat have made.

Speaker 7 That is now a political choice? That's a political choice.

Speaker 1 I don't know that it's political.

Speaker 1 I know that they have been doing this for several years now, and specifically the Advancing Through Dancing cause is really great because it's a professional leadership workshop for everyone who's a heat dancer.

Speaker 1 And ultimately at the end of it, what they did was they gave out a $10,000 grant to the winner who pitched what her business would be.

Speaker 1 She runs a non-profit, and ultimately she's going to use that money to help get her pilot's license because it has to do with aviation and being able to spread for a good cause. But it's like,

Speaker 1 it's inherently criticized. Like if you go to social media and you see any of these posts, particularly with the heat, like even

Speaker 1 the celebrations for Women's History Month, all you're going to see is replies of people saying, fire Pat Riley.

Speaker 26 I mean, of course it's political to celebrate women's inclusion in sports. It's political to have women included in the workforce in this country.

Speaker 26 We still have very backwards laws that don't really let women and especially mothers continue their careers in this country.

Speaker 26 We don't have a lot of things that other countries have. It's all political, Dan, yes.

Speaker 1 And to bring it back to the Jackie Robinson part of it, right? Like that's why diversity, equity, and inclusion is important.

Speaker 1 Like DEI, again, we talked about this a little bit on Friday, but that phrase has been hijacked and turned into just a symbol for everything that the right doesn't like, no different than woke was, no different than critical race theory was, and no different than Black Lives Matter was.

Speaker 1 They just keep taking these terms. They turn them into abbreviated terms, BLM, CRT, DEI, so that nobody actually knows what the words are.

Speaker 1 But diversity, equity, and inclusion are the reasons why you're able to build up a workforce that is able to produce something that's better than it would have been if it was just a bunch of white dudes.

Speaker 7 I asked you for a palette cleanser.

Speaker 2 I tried

Speaker 2 bring palette

Speaker 2 we ended up in exactly the same well it's not a palate cleanser at all it's the same palette what happened here

Speaker 2 i didn't get cleansed i'm in the same thing jamelo fixed this oh

Speaker 7 okay well i'd love to get all your thoughts on the matter on what jackie robinson i stayed with jackie

Speaker 7 both of you

Speaker 13 The crazy thing about this is like the story was not about the removal of the article, right? It quickly just became a story about Mina during FaceTime on Around the Horn.

Speaker 13 And that's what the debate became about. Like, the outrage wasn't even about the action.
It was about the reacting to the action, which is kind of like the usage of her television time.

Speaker 13 Yeah, it was like, you guys are getting mad about the wrong thing here.

Speaker 7 So I'll tell you some backstory here.

Speaker 7 It is dated, but just so that you know the choices that are being made in media at the moment around this kind of stuff, as you have legal rulings over the weekend where people are afraid of Trump and his money.

Speaker 7 And in this small little stupid playground of sports,

Speaker 7 a long time ago, me, Mitch Album, and Mike Lupica wrote like these two-minute things.

Speaker 2 The sports reporters. No, no, no.
No, no, no.

Speaker 7 No, no, no. No, it's not this.
Please.

Speaker 7 It's not a parting shot on sports reporters. That was one thing.
That's not what I'm talking about.

Speaker 7 I'm saying weekly on Sports Center, their signature property, Disney and ESPN, proud of this thing that is meant to represent their company as the proudest thing built on SportsCenter.

Speaker 7 In there, they would put these two-minute things that we wrote that were meant to be journalistically sound. Here's where the opinion is right here on whatever, politics or whatever.

Speaker 7 You know, the shit stain takes off into the sky on pointing out in sports to people that the size of difference between the liberal media person and the average sports fan is larger than the size of the average media person in in America and the average journalist by leaps and bounds.

Speaker 7 And in sports, you will find this anti-black, anti-gay, anti-women. You'll find it more in sports proportionally.

Speaker 7 And other audiences are now feeding on that in communities where they can do this stuff like yell about DEI and then do the gender politics stuff that can allow trans people to be killed at a disproportionate rate and be good with it.

Speaker 7 We had two minutes on Sports Center, and after we did this for about a year, and the focus groups came back clearly, we don't want that. We don't like that.

Speaker 7 I want when my opinion is also expressed by somebody, I want two people talking about that idea, not one person telling me what their idea is.

Speaker 7 And so then from there, all the things that are more inclusive are birthed, and Stephen A.

Speaker 7 Smith can become the star he can going right, going left, and be just super inclusive everywhere and become a giant wrestling star that could fight with the president in debate at the height of the stupidity of the sports debate, where we, in sports, we're supposed to be leaders on this stuff.

Speaker 7 And

Speaker 7 I'm showing you a place where that stuff was actively said by the consumer, I don't want that.

Speaker 7 And then the people with the FU money comply because that's what all the corporations are going to do that have the FU money.

Speaker 7 And now they will bow in front of this money with Musk and Trump because they're scared of the way all of the mess can be wielded.

Speaker 7 Like, I can't unsee the way all of these corporations after George Floyd said all the right shit, and I can't unsee the way it all went back to being exactly like it was with an even worse backlash and now making the sports document, it's not even Kaepernick anymore.

Speaker 7 It's this garbage. Like it's just nonsense.
Well, really, we're going to argue whether Jackie Robinson was historically relevant because of race.

Speaker 7 Like we're going to make it so stupid that you just can't have a conversation about it, that no one's changing their minds about everything.

Speaker 7 We're just going to be fighting till the end of time until we blow each other up.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's the death of expertise, right? Like, that's kind of what's happened this century: is no one cares to listen to someone who

Speaker 1 has researched or studied or has become an expert on whatever their topic is. They want to hear both sides of the conversation.

Speaker 1 It's why we let Mike Ryan talk about the heat when I'm talking about the heat, because people want to hear the uneducated side when there's an expert right there who can tell you everything that's happening.

Speaker 17 palette here.

Speaker 26 Oh, to be fair, we were cleansing the palette with the cute little oyster glove, and then Dan was like, what about the Heats Women in Sports Day?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I tried to make a joke about finding the baseball.

Speaker 3 You get it, Dan?

Speaker 1 Because of the spot that it is in the oyster?

Speaker 3 You get it?

Speaker 7 No, Jeremy, the.

Speaker 19 I can't see it either.

Speaker 7 The humor is so high-brown.

Speaker 1 It was lost on you?

Speaker 7 Yeah.

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Speaker 1 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 27 It sounds to me like everybody could use a hug because a hug is always the right size. Stugats.
All I have put in my body today is three cups of coffee and an entire cup of hog.

Speaker 18 Don't let him fool you.

Speaker 13 He said in the break that he's jittery. This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats.

Speaker 13 You want a behind-the-scenes story, Dan?

Speaker 7 Yes.

Speaker 13 So we're doing this March Sadness tournament that's going on, and the fans love it. It's great about it.

Speaker 13 So we're doing March Sadness and one of the video submissions was a new character, but the file got corrupted before this person could make it into March Sadness.

Speaker 13 So I don't know if you're aware, but we have this character, Zazzo, called Misogynistic Bane, who makes appearances from time to time. Okay.

Speaker 13 And we had a fan who created a character that was feminist Darth Vader.

Speaker 13 And it was an incredible character where Darth Vader would come out and be praising Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 13 And then, when we tried to submit it and put it into the system, the file got corrupted and then it couldn't be tracked down.

Speaker 13 So, if you're out there, feminist Darth Vader, feel free to reach out and send us more videos.

Speaker 13 Or if there's a lot of fake feminist Darth Vaders out there who now want to run with this idea, I have no way of knowing which one the real one of you was.

Speaker 13 So, feel free to send in all of your feminist Darth Vader videos, and we'll be sure to try to include them in the show moving forward.

Speaker 7 I don't know what the reaction is, and I don't want to know

Speaker 7 what the reaction is. Can we just give a brief update on some of the advancers? Can we just play some of the advancers?

Speaker 7 And I'd like to start a different tournament right now just to make this a little messier.

Speaker 13 Well, so this is what this is what we can do. So

Speaker 13 we've been putting out some of the competitions against each other.

Speaker 13 And we have two of the competitions that were going against each other, two of the games that fans could vote on to see which fan moves on to the next round.

Speaker 13 So the first round, it was tell us us why you should watch a game with Dan or tell us why you're the biggest fan of the show. There was some confusion there.

Speaker 13 Then, the next one was, tell us some of your favorite show moments. And then the fans go on and they vote for who it is that they want to advance.
So, here are two of the matchups that we have.

Speaker 13 We're down to our Sweet 16 now. Things are getting serious.
This Thursday and Friday, we're going to have our Sweet 16 matchups. And then, Saturday and Sunday is our Elite Eight.

Speaker 13 Things are winding down very quickly here.

Speaker 13 And one of the things that we've found in the past, when we would have looks like, which fans didn't really like that tournament, but when we had the looks like tournament or we'd have some of the other tournaments, it would be the same thing over and over again.

Speaker 13 So there was a fatigue and you kind of knew the number one seed, you know exactly what you're going to get every time it gets played. It's the same thing.
In this tournament.

Speaker 13 They're submitting new videos with new prompts every single round. So you could very easily have an off round and the number one seed gets bounced.

Speaker 13 In fact, I don't want to spoil anything for those of you who are catching up on March sadness on Twitter or whatever, who are going back and watching them and following along, not in real time.

Speaker 13 We all know Wednesday is Spoiler Wednesday. On Wednesday, Zazzo, you don't know this.
Unfortunately, you won't be here this Wednesday. Wednesday, Spoiler Wednesday.

Speaker 13 That's the day we can talk about the Sunday shows. So I'm not going to spoil what happened to March.

Speaker 7 It's a Wild Billy Wednesday, which is strange to me that we're putting some rules in Wild Billy Wednesday.

Speaker 18 Spoiler Wednesday.

Speaker 13 Well, the wild thing is we come and we spoil shows, but they've had four days to watch the show at that point in time. The point being,

Speaker 13 some of the heavyweights that we thought were going to go far in the first round had a dud of a second round and have been bounced. And I need to check my scorecard.

Speaker 13 I believe there's only one number one seed left in this tournament at this point.

Speaker 7 Well, let's just

Speaker 7 get me updated here.

Speaker 13 All right, so here's two of our matchups. We're going to head over to Region 4 for one of our matchups.

Speaker 22 Who the hell is Tony?

Speaker 3 Spitting fast.

Speaker 3 That was amazing.

Speaker 29 My favorite moment was the arrival of Peepo and his pure passion for the U.

Speaker 22 But I'm in this tournament for one reason.

Speaker 29 To make it to Miami and collect a debt. Greg, you flip-flop more than a Hialeah Chincleta.
You're so crooked, I feel like your next career stop will be the mayor of Miami.

Speaker 29 I mean, your last article that got clicks came from stabbing your best friend in the back. Cody, pay your bets.
You're no journalist. You're a con artist.
E2 Sabe.

Speaker 2 Whoa. Well, I have a...

Speaker 13 I have a conundrum that I found was a match. Was the first one?

Speaker 13 The first one actually did a Jeremy cover on the first round, and and he did the pink pony club, and he was dressed as a unicorn, and he won in advance. And this round, spoiler alert,

Speaker 13 Brad the Bard was eliminated. Brandon threatening Cody has moved on.
Now,

Speaker 13 here's kind of something that we might have been worried about.

Speaker 13 And if I'm going to be truthful, in our selection committee, which is me and Kugler, we went through the videos, and there were certain people that we said,

Speaker 13 there might be a red flag here. Like,

Speaker 9 this might potentially be something that

Speaker 13 Frankie's going to have to intervene on. Frankie's our security guard, as everybody knows.

Speaker 9 So,

Speaker 13 here's the thing: Brandon now has advanced in Brad the Bard. And Brandon apparently made some sort of bet with Greg Cody in Las Vegas when we were there at the Super Bowl.
And his first video,

Speaker 13 he was saying he's trying, he's found a workaround where if he wins this tournament, he comes down to Miami and he intends to collect on this bet with Greg Cody.

Speaker 13 And truth be told, I think it was a 16 seed, so I thought, Brandon's not going to move on. Like, it's fine.

Speaker 13 And then Brandon moved on and upset a number one seed. And now Brandon, as a 16 seed, has now eliminated a number eight seed.

Speaker 13 And apparently these threats to Greg Cody are a thread that are going to continue throughout these rounds.

Speaker 13 So I'm now starting to wonder what this bet was, because I have absolutely no frame of reference why it is that he keeps lightly threatening Greg Cody and if we will be responsible if if he actually wins and comes through to deliver on said threat of making Greg pay off this bet.

Speaker 12 So no one's asked Greg what the bet is?

Speaker 13 No, and he's on a cruise now. So, I mean, we may find a situation where he's in the final four, and we don't know if we're going to be flying a crazy person down to maybe beat up Greg.

Speaker 13 And I know you would hate that, Zaszlo. Oh, listen,

Speaker 12 this is not something I actively think about, all right? You guys like to think that I'm sitting around, you know, twiddling my fingers and coming up with a plan to take take down Greg Cody.

Speaker 12 I don't think about Greg Cody. I don't know what to tell you.

Speaker 13 Well, we'll worry about Brandon and his threatening of Greg Cody if we need to next round or the round after that.

Speaker 12 Well, what about Dan, though? Dan's got to watch the game with these people.

Speaker 18 Yeah, Dan's fine, though.

Speaker 13 It's safe the first round. We'll be safe the first round.
And he doesn't have a bone to pick with Dan. It's really Greg he has a problem with.
So we're fine. We're fine.

Speaker 13 If you want, we can preview another matchup in Region 4. Now, this is one of those situations where number five Alvaro was very strong in the first round.
And I thought Alvaro might go on a deep run.

Speaker 13 And then Brandon, number 13, who in the first round told us about his dead dad, round two told us about his potentially dead dog.

Speaker 13 And he

Speaker 13 may have sprung an upset here.

Speaker 13 Here's the matchup.

Speaker 30 Take 19. Favorite show moment? Wow, so many to shoot from.

Speaker 30 Like the old saying goes, En la mañana a se comier ros por que escoa tienemiedo, which, of course, we all know means that time that Greg Cody revealed dance engagement. That was crazy.

Speaker 30 Oh, how about that other time when Stugotspin so que yo no lang cosa engrablanco?

Speaker 30 Hoy, okuando viero moso comira, se hoya, which of course we all know means hamburger with cheese, and tonight we are all butter. Oh, and Kevin Durant has no rings.

Speaker 30 Oh, and Lebatt Durant, but not the Roberto Duran interview.

Speaker 30 Night night.

Speaker 13 Hey everyone, my favorite moment is when Dan told a story about his dead dog.

Speaker 24 He was shirtless, sobbing at a stoplight, holding his dead dog in his arms. A fan pulled up next to Dan at a stoplight, again, as Dan's sobbing holding his dead dog in his arms and said Dan Lebatard

Speaker 24 as a dog lover of my own I could never imagine something like that happening to me and my sweet boy

Speaker 13 if you want to avoid more dead dogs just vote for me

Speaker 7 So universal applause for the tournament.

Speaker 13 Oh the fans love this tournament.

Speaker 12 Am I the only one that wants to see what the other 18 takes were from Alvaro?

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 13 You would have liked his first round submission, I think.

Speaker 2 It was poetry.

Speaker 7 Tell me whether I should, and we will continue with that tournament as well, but tell me whether you guys would like to partake in this as a tournament. Can we just put together, please?

Speaker 7 I'm just going to say

Speaker 7 an assortment of iconic sounds. Just iconic sounds.
So if I'm going to go, I'll go 16 through one here, and just tell me if this is a tournament that you would like to do, yes or no.

Speaker 7 We'll do it as quickly as we can. Number 16.

Speaker 7 Is that an iconic sound?

Speaker 4 That is the intro to Back to the Future. Yes.

Speaker 11 Okay. I'm sorry.

Speaker 15 How does that not put a smile on your face? It's a sign.

Speaker 7 But I just didn't know that that was an iconic sound. Give me a 15.

Speaker 2 It's a much stronger 15 than

Speaker 7 a 16, right? That's stronger.

Speaker 3 15 is an embarrassment for that, by the way.

Speaker 13 That's like a 4-3-2.

Speaker 26 They lost lost their conference tournament.

Speaker 7 All right, hold on just a second. Hold on to this tournament because I want to think about this for a second.

Speaker 7 I want to give some consideration to whether or not this is something I want to do going forward because we can, it'd be pretty easy for us to come up with 68 great sounds.

Speaker 13 Well, we have to decide pretty soon because the real tournament's halfway over.

Speaker 7 Well, I want to throw this tournament at that tournament in the event that we don't want anything to be too perfect, too universally applauded by the fan base.

Speaker 13 Well, good news, we have a tournament that is not.

Speaker 3 Okay, well, I'm glad that.

Speaker 7 Well, you just told me that I lied.

Speaker 13 They hate this tournament. Billy, why?

Speaker 18 I wanted to make you feel better about it.

Speaker 7 No, I know. I know that.
Billy, you think that I don't know that they would hate this tournament? I don't know. Okay, I appreciate you saying that.

Speaker 12 I'm worried about your feelings.

Speaker 13 I don't want you to feel, you know. So, if I have to come out here and fib a little bit and tell you, yeah, it's universally

Speaker 2 approved.

Speaker 18 That's what I'll tell you.

Speaker 7 I'm not mad at the lie. I am mad that I know that the fans aren't going to like us outsourcing our work to other fans to try to do our work.

Speaker 2 Well, I have a spoiler alert for them.

Speaker 7 Give as a prize, watch the game with Dan.

Speaker 13 Well, that, well, look, at some point, if we tell the story of how this happened, that was not supposed to be the prize. That's a whole nother thing.
But I don't know if they're aware of this.

Speaker 13 The Looks Like tournament was completely outsourced to the fans. They came up with all of those.

Speaker 13 We weren't writing those. It was always outsourced to the fans.

Speaker 13 And if they think that watching hundreds of terrible videos is a lot easier than just reading Jim Laranega looks like he works at IHOP.

Speaker 3 That's not exactly how it works.

Speaker 7 Well, but see, this is one of the wonderful criticisms that can come your way when you don't or we don't do something well. Yes,

Speaker 7 there is great frustration, great frustration in working your hardest to do something less good than something that was easier.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 9 Yes, that's correct.

Speaker 2 There's great frustration in that.

Speaker 7 Yeah, that's not a great situation to have, to work a lot harder on something that becomes less good.

Speaker 1 Going back to the other tournament, I thought that that Back to the Future sound was the beginning of Springfield's favorite color. That was what I thought it sounded like.

Speaker 7 So

Speaker 7 it wasn't as iconic a sound as I thought it was.

Speaker 16 516.

Speaker 7 All right, let me go. Give me 14.
Give me what would be a 14 in an iconic tournament sounds.

Speaker 2 That's a real low.

Speaker 15 Yeah, that's kind of low.

Speaker 7 You've got a real big impression of yourself when that's the introduction you want to make.

Speaker 16 Bombastic. I mean,

Speaker 2 just for all time, I want everyone to know when

Speaker 7 20th Century Fox is walking into the room.

Speaker 7 Number 13.

Speaker 2 EA Sports.

Speaker 3 It's in the game.

Speaker 2 Getting criminally.

Speaker 3 Wow, that's a good one.

Speaker 2 Criminally. That's a good tournament.

Speaker 12 You keep saying that it's too low, but every sound we hear, they're all amazing.

Speaker 2 Give me a 12.

Speaker 7 Give me an 11.

Speaker 13 That's too high.

Speaker 19 That's too high? Yeah.

Speaker 12 All the ones we've heard already are

Speaker 3 better than

Speaker 13 what was that?

Speaker 10 That was Super Mario Brothers when you get the extra life.

Speaker 14 1960.

Speaker 2 Oh, crying out loud, man.

Speaker 19 Make us look old.

Speaker 18 Just make us look old, Tony.

Speaker 2 You are.

Speaker 7 That was a great retort. 10.

Speaker 12 What's that from?

Speaker 17 That was better than EA Sports?

Speaker 20 Okay, guy.

Speaker 7 I um I got moved by the end of that

Speaker 2 where, yeah, there

Speaker 7 there.

Speaker 12 There. What do you think happened in the game?

Speaker 3 Somebody scored. Scoreless.

Speaker 2 Scoreless.

Speaker 7 Scoreless game.

Speaker 3 Went to penalty kicks. Number nine.

Speaker 12 I mean, everybody knows that's a one seed. Come on.

Speaker 7 I don't know what that is. What?

Speaker 15 It's the pornhub intro. What?

Speaker 2 That's a number one overall.

Speaker 2 That's a number one overall.

Speaker 7 I hear Ethan Bodowski screaming through the walls that

Speaker 7 are soundproof. I hear him shouting.
That's a number one.

Speaker 2 He knows all about that ponov intro, I guess.

Speaker 1 Not in the state of Florida anymore, though.

Speaker 15 No, he's got an ID. They're workarounds.

Speaker 7 Number eight.

Speaker 16 That is from the price is right, apparently.

Speaker 12 That's terrible.

Speaker 1 We should have reversed the order of this.

Speaker 7 Well, we're doing it on the fly. Number seven.

Speaker 12 That's good. You know you're about to watch something good when you hear that.

Speaker 9 Yeah, that's worthy of its seat. The last couple, actually.

Speaker 7 Number six.

Speaker 7 Ah!

Speaker 3 What is that?

Speaker 16 That's the Wilheim scream. That is a very famous scream that you hear in the movies.

Speaker 12 It's not very famous if you have to tell us what it is, though.

Speaker 2 Who's Wilheim?

Speaker 15 Apparently, he was the guy that screamed, Wilheim.

Speaker 2 Very famous.

Speaker 18 Fourth member of the band. I don't know what it is.

Speaker 7 Can you play that again, please? I don't. It's strange to me that

Speaker 7 I don't know what these iconic sounds are. What? I don't.

Speaker 2 Sounds like Zaz a little bit.

Speaker 10 Wilheim, two names.

Speaker 3 No, it's his last name.

Speaker 2 Oh.

Speaker 7 I don't know what that is. Number five.

Speaker 7 Number four.

Speaker 13 Of course. Classic.

Speaker 7 Number three.

Speaker 3 Billy, what do you mean?

Speaker 13 It's more of a song.

Speaker 12 It's a little longer. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 I feel like that's a song.

Speaker 13 Yeah, these are different categories. Sound effects and songs are different.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 21 Just an intro to a very famous HBO.

Speaker 3 Song song, yeah.

Speaker 18 I mean, so it's a song from Back to the Future.

Speaker 2 No, that's

Speaker 13 like the Titanic song. Is that a sound or a song? My Heart Will Go On.
That's a song.

Speaker 15 No, that's a legitimate song.

Speaker 7 Number two.

Speaker 7 Man, I feel once we get to number two and stuff that those, there are some other questionable ones in here. And number 16, I think we could come up with a bunch of one seeds here.
Number one.

Speaker 7 So, Billy, what are you refuting? You're saying

Speaker 7 the curb your enthusiasm has to go because it's a song and too long. Andres Cantor has to go because the gold call is too long.

Speaker 18 Still don't even know who Wilhelm is.

Speaker 26 If the goal sound is going to be there, we need a double bang in the one spot, I think.

Speaker 7 All right. I'm going to continue with this tournament.
We will see what we put together and just throw at you.

Speaker 1 What about that lady from the local news when she fell

Speaker 1 doing the grapes? And she goes, ow ow

Speaker 7 ow ow yeah i think that might have been like one of the first things that we played again and again as a show 17 years ago whenever it happened on live television i think like the next day and it feels like something i that feels to me when you tell that story and we'll play this sound for those of you who haven't heard it because i i think of it as almost one of the first sounds we ever played that sort of spread and i guess it wasn't pre pre-social media but it feels like it was about two, it feels like it was really early in our show's history.

Speaker 7 Where a woman is crushing grapes with her feet on national television and she falls out of the grape bucket, and when she falls, something really hurts.

Speaker 31 This is a woman. Listen to the sound she makes when she hits the floor.
She falls off a platform.

Speaker 31 She's like crushing grapes with her feet, but she slips, falls right on her face, and this is what it sounds like.

Speaker 32 Tours and tastings, vineyard tours, seminars, arts and crafts. It's a lot of fun, a whole day.
Stop. Stop.

Speaker 32 Oh, stop.

Speaker 32 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I can't, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, stop, oh, stop. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I can't breathe.
Stop.

Speaker 32 Oh, no. Oh, dear.
I think she is actually hurt. Brush my hair.
Somebody get me a brush. Oh, dear.
Let's go to a commercial.

Speaker 7 I had the wind knocked out of me when I was young, and no one had explained explained to me what that is. And that is terrifying if it has not been explained to you trying to grab your breath

Speaker 7 when you've fallen out of a swing and fallen on your back and you don't know what it is to lose your breath.

Speaker 17 Dan, by the way, I was at my nephew's flag football game the other day and I was reminded of you because I was looking at the coach on the other side and I was like, oh, he doesn't know what he's doing.

Speaker 17 And then it made me think of you as the coach of the Little League team.

Speaker 18 And I'm like, oh, I get it now.

Speaker 17 Dan had no idea.

Speaker 17 The problem is the coach couldn't stop the double double reverse. So the kid would throw it one way and then the other way.
They're five years old.

Speaker 26 Neither could Miami this year, to be fair.

Speaker 17 Also true. But then I would think of Dan, like, what was it? You had the one play and then all of a sudden when they stopped that one play, like it was over?

Speaker 7 To be clear, the story that Tony is telling, and he just decided to look me dead in the eye and say, hey, Dan, I saw someone who didn't know what they were doing and it made me think of you.

Speaker 3 In a football setting.

Speaker 7 He was saying that sincerely, and I know exactly what he was talking about.

Speaker 7 When I was 15 years old, I was coaching an undefeated football team that was the only team in the league that had a quarterback who could throw and a receiver who could catch.

Speaker 7 And we rode it to great glory until a coach stifled me in the championship game because his team had gotten a lot better, and I just had that one play.

Speaker 7 I didn't really, because I was 15, and I didn't know what I was doing. I was a very bad coach.

Speaker 7 So I'm glad, Tony, that the story that made you think of just total incompetence is watching somebody that didn't know what they were doing.

Speaker 17 Couldn't stop the double reverse. I mean, you know, the kid's going to throw it back to the other kid and go the other way, Zach.

Speaker 7 Zadzlo, there's a number of different things that I want to throw in front of the shipping container about you that I think are strange.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 7 Shipping container, is it or is it not strange to travel with a soap dish?

Speaker 13 A what? What?

Speaker 7 A soap dish. A soap dish.

Speaker 17 A soap ashtray?

Speaker 7 Is it not a not a no, like in the shower?

Speaker 8 Yeah, like where you put, like, it looks like an ashtray.

Speaker 17 You put the soap in it, right?

Speaker 3 And it's got a cover.

Speaker 9 Is it or

Speaker 9 a dish?

Speaker 7 Is it or is it not?

Speaker 18 Oh, a travel.

Speaker 13 Well, it sounds like a travel case. That's different than a soap dish.
Yeah. If he wants to travel with a bar of soap, what is he going to do? Put it in a bag?

Speaker 3 Yes, I do. Plastic pack.

Speaker 13 Zephyr Hills, man?

Speaker 13 Irish Springs?

Speaker 6 I don't care about the water.

Speaker 5 Zephyr Hills is water.

Speaker 12 Weird or not weird? Soap dish. No, that's not.

Speaker 21 That's not weird.

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 1 I like cleaning my body. Hotel gives you free ones though you know

Speaker 1 wait what of course this is weird roy what do you why would this not be weird it's it's a travel case for the soap that you want to use they give me soap no but the dish like a ceramic dish i like i have my bar of soap that i like using i i can't necessarily trust that the hotel has a bar of soap that is good for my skin but let's clarify so this is not you bringing like a little ceramic dish to put soap on this is you having a travel case that's plastic that you can kind of snap it open and close with your own soap.

Speaker 2 Okay, that's a good thing. That's a little more normal.
Yeah. Thank you.
Dan, not weird.

Speaker 9 Setup wasn't great though. The bar of soap is weird.

Speaker 26 That's not a soap dish, also. Normal.

Speaker 18 One made it seem like a soap.

Speaker 2 It's like an ash.

Speaker 20 Come on, Dan.

Speaker 7 When I was in the shower with Zaz, I saw a soap dish.

Speaker 7 And you guys can call it whatever you want. He can hide with whatever his shames are here.

Speaker 7 He can say, I have a carrying case, and then all of a sudden be met with your judgments and start changing what it looked like. That looked like a ceramic dish to me.

Speaker 1 But I was clean.

Speaker 3 Was it ceramic or not?

Speaker 2 You were.

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