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Speaker 4 So, I think Jalen Ramsey might have taken a shot at the Dolphins yesterday. So, Jalen Ramsey, he's going to play for the Steelers this year, Greg.

Speaker 4 And Jalen Ramsey, speaking at, you know, Pittsburgh Steelers practice yesterday, he actually started speaking positively about the Dolphins as far as the way that they honored his trade request.

Speaker 4 And they honored it because they wanted him gone too.

Speaker 4 I mean, like, from what I understand, the talk of the culture and the locker room and disrespect disrespect toward the coach, late to meetings, effort, all like Jalen Ramsey was one of the guys at the top of that list, you know, who they had to get rid of if we're going to change things around here.

Speaker 4 So of course they wanted to honor the trade request. And Jalen Ramsey said, quote, I do appreciate the Dolphins and them working with me.
Let's go to a team that's going to be able to compete.

Speaker 4 Let's go to a team where there's a lot of respect.

Speaker 29 for the head coach.

Speaker 4 What do you make of that?

Speaker 9 That's not a subtle shot. That's a direct shot.
My understanding was always that he didn't get along with Vic Fangio, the defensive coordinator, who they got rid of.

Speaker 30 Well, they were not quiet about that, right?

Speaker 9 Yes. And so that was a thing.

Speaker 9 You know, I mean, Mike McDaniel is an offense-minded coach. I don't know that he dealt all that much with the defense, but yeah, that's a clear shot.
That's a clear shot.

Speaker 9 And Mike McDaniel has to earn back that respect, you know, because his teams have had issues in terms of leadership, in terms of, you know, culture, quote-unquote.

Speaker 9 Whenever players start talking about we need a better culture, you know, that's pretty corrosive. You know,

Speaker 9 that can mean a lot of different things. It can mean Tyreek Hill at the end of last season saying, I'm not going back in this game, and then

Speaker 9 hinting that he wants out and then backtracking on that. This is not just any player doing this.
This is... arguably the best player and a captain, a captain of the team.

Speaker 9 So when one of your captains is the one creating problems, that erodes culture. And all of that falls back on the head coach.

Speaker 4 I'm not going to disagree with what you said, but I wonder if it's also worth pointing out that Jalen Ramsey, for his career, has been in the league, what, nine years?

Speaker 4 For his career, he has been one of the best, if not at times, the best cornerback in the national football league. It's a premier position.

Speaker 4 It's one of the four most important positions in the game, cover corner. And nine years in the league, he is about to start playing for his fourth team.

Speaker 4 Like, I think it's worth mentioning. You know, we could talk about Mike McDaniel.
You know, let's go to a team that has a coach that, you know, everyone respects.

Speaker 4 But at the same time, not many guys are as good at their job, an important job, as Jalen Ramsey. And they're about to play for their fourth team when they've been in the league nine years.

Speaker 9 Well, plus, Jalen Ramsey is an aging player at a position where you tend not to age very well. You know, cornerbacks and running backs are usually the first two positions you think of there.

Speaker 9 My problem is not that they traded Jalen Ramsey. The problem is they didn't replace him.
The problem is between trading him and injuries, they have the weakest cornerback league

Speaker 9 meeting room in the entire league. And that's a problem.

Speaker 4 I think they think that, look, Minka Fitzpatrick is going to upgrade that secondary. And by the way, Jalen Ramsey, if he was still on this team, may have been converted to secondary here as well.

Speaker 4 Like, he's going to play in the secondary for Pittsburgh, most likely, or at least a hybrid role.

Speaker 33 All right.

Speaker 4 Which is funny because that's essentially what Minka Fitzpatrick, why he wanted out of Miami initially.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 34 It's funny that you got to get Jalen Ramsey out here.

Speaker 16 We got to fix the culture. Let's bring in Minka Fitzpatrick, who also had terrible things to say about the franchise and the head coach.

Speaker 4 Well, but specifically, well, specifically, there you go. Specifically, Brian Flores, who, I don't know, I think at this point, Minka may have been right about Flores.

Speaker 2 A lot of Minnesota defense, though, there's rock and roll.

Speaker 4 Hey, some guys, some coaches are are meant to be coordinators. Great offensive coordinator, great defensive coordinator.
How about Spagnolo? Like, amazing defensive coordinator was a shithead coach.

Speaker 4 Like, Brian Flores may be that guy as well.

Speaker 9 Yeah, but when you're winning, nobody says a word. Okay, all of this is coming out.
after an eight and nine season where you didn't even make the playoffs.

Speaker 9 Nobody was criticizing Mike McDaniel two years ago or three years ago when he'd made the playoffs twice in a row, when he was this offensive wonderkin. When you lose, people are looking for excuses.

Speaker 30 They're They're chirping. They're frustrated.

Speaker 9 And this is what happens.

Speaker 37 I would actually cite Brian Flores, though, as an example of, remember that Dolphin team, you had the big Ryan Fitzpatrick improbable comeback against the Raiders.

Speaker 36 That team was in playoff contention.

Speaker 17 It was right there for them.

Speaker 33 They were doing a fair amount of winning.

Speaker 39 And it was well known that the team didn't get along with the head coach.

Speaker 17 There was a lot of drama around that team that was one of the better teams when you compare it to what they had done previously.

Speaker 40 So, I mean, it can get that bad.

Speaker 36 You can manage that locker room so poorly that it still becomes a storyline despite success.

Speaker 4 When you mentioned Ryan Fitzpatrick, can I just bring it up real quick? Because it always reminds me the first time I hear Ryan Fitzpatrick's name in a really long time.

Speaker 4 Remember that pass he threw for the Dolphins in that game with the big comeback?

Speaker 2 That's right.

Speaker 4 Where they caught his face mask and they ripped the helmet. So his eyes were like in the ear hole and he couldn't see.

Speaker 4 And it was a bomb that he threw, which was caught like

Speaker 2 right on the the sidelines.

Speaker 2 Incredible throw. Insane.
Best pass ever. Right.

Speaker 17 And you kept thinking, like, man, why doesn't Flores back up to it?

Speaker 10 But like, Tua would get pulled from these games.

Speaker 17 Ryan Fitzpatrick would come in as a closing quarterback and just justify the decision, which made evaluating Tua very difficult.

Speaker 42 We also thought his head

Speaker 29 got ripped off that play.

Speaker 32 Like when his head, because remember, they moved the helmet sideways.

Speaker 43 And I was like, oh my God, his neck is now stuck like this.

Speaker 2 And now he can't play quarterback.

Speaker 4 So we wouldn't have been sure if Darren Waller was retired or not retired if we mentioned him right when the Dolphins had signed him. Do we have a

Speaker 4 little game we could play here, Jeremy, of retired or not retired?

Speaker 1 Yes, we've compiled the list, and there's the theme music.

Speaker 44 So, we have six players on this list. I'll go one at a time, and you guys determine retired or not retired.

Speaker 7 So, first, I think I get it. Defensive back, Patrick Peterson.

Speaker 44 Retired or not retired.

Speaker 34 This game is going to be very difficult.

Speaker 2 Patrick Peterson. I feel like I remember a recent message sent like an announcement.

Speaker 47 He's retired. I'm going retired.

Speaker 8 Where did he play last?

Speaker 9 I would have said not retired.

Speaker 21 Was he at Pittsburgh last?

Speaker 4 Wasn't he Arizona? Maybe Arizona.

Speaker 2 Did he close things with Arizona?

Speaker 9 That's a different game we're playing.

Speaker 17 Well, I mean, I was going to say still active, but there are people in this room that are pretty sure about this.

Speaker 16 So I'm also going to say retired.

Speaker 4 I'm I'm pretty sure, like, within the last two weeks, he retired.

Speaker 7 Congratulations.

Speaker 6 He is retired.

Speaker 48 And he was indeed a Pittsburgh Steeler most recently.

Speaker 2 Thank you for

Speaker 29 next up,

Speaker 6 kicker Matt Prater.

Speaker 2 Wow. Kicker.

Speaker 1 Still playing. Former UCF Knight Matt Prater.

Speaker 2 This is the

Speaker 2 first one.

Speaker 41 Yeah, he has a boot.

Speaker 43 He was down in Arizona, right?

Speaker 21 I say active.

Speaker 8 Retired. Are we just going to do that?

Speaker 4 Any player we don't know if he's playing or not? We say he was in Arizona.

Speaker 2 He was in Arizona.

Speaker 2 He was at Toastpoint. Yeah, they all were.

Speaker 1 He remains in Arizona. He is an active kicker in the NFL.

Speaker 1 At age 41.

Speaker 2 I'm good at this game.

Speaker 10 Yeah, we're going to wear that boot out.

Speaker 6 Next up,

Speaker 7 Mercedes-Lewis.

Speaker 44 Retired or not retired. Tight end.

Speaker 21 Best blocking tight end, maybe, in NFL history.

Speaker 16 Could have had a great career as a lineman.

Speaker 12 He is.

Speaker 1 I know we're 41 years old. I know we're combining

Speaker 4 two games here but last play for the giants

Speaker 42 i like this game i think he was a bear in arizona whoo

Speaker 43 i say retired i'm going 41 like if you didn't say the 41 i would say he's still active so i think he has a digital way so i'm gonna go retired i'm gonna go trader's 41 though still active kicker kicker who though mercedes lewis can block he's dead i'm gonna say unretired i'm gonna take a chance with this one mercedes lewis

Speaker 47 Is a free agent and active.

Speaker 2 Okay. Looking for another opportunity.

Speaker 45 All right, so that one's that one's tricky, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Dolphins.

Speaker 2 That's active. And where was he last?

Speaker 1 36-year-old wide receiver, Julio Jones.

Speaker 2 He's retired.

Speaker 29 Retired, not retired.

Speaker 2 He's retired. Yeah.

Speaker 47 Retired. He has to be retired.

Speaker 49 He's retired.

Speaker 48 He played for the Tennessee Titans last, right?

Speaker 34 No, he's got to be retired.

Speaker 2 Different game. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Mercedes-Lewis last year played 17 games for the Chicago Bears.

Speaker 2 Of course he did. I don't know how about that.

Speaker 4 He appeared in every game at 40 years old.

Speaker 2 That's what it says.

Speaker 42 You're 17 games.

Speaker 4 Oh, blood bears sucked.

Speaker 11 Well, yeah, he had to help the offensive.

Speaker 3 One catch for two yards.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 1 Not Dan's favorite new comedian, who he's very upset that the Daily Show made him wear a suit, but quarterback Josh Johnson.

Speaker 2 Oh, he's always playing.

Speaker 44 Retired or not retired.

Speaker 29 Julio was retired, right? Did I?

Speaker 2 Julio was retired. Yes.
I think I said

Speaker 46 Josh Johnson's still playing. He's always playing.

Speaker 42 He'll back up till he's 48.

Speaker 45 I think he was brought in as a camp arm.

Speaker 34 I'm going to say camp arm for Josh Johnson.

Speaker 2 I'm going active.

Speaker 4 He seems like a guy who's always ready to jump off the couch and play if needed.

Speaker 2 He's got to be old.

Speaker 11 He's like in a Tannehill situation, right?

Speaker 2 He's like free. 30.
Tannah is still waiting for the right situation.

Speaker 2 Free agent, not retired.

Speaker 2 39 years old.

Speaker 5 He's a third street.

Speaker 43 He's a quarterback in like the 40s.

Speaker 46 Young 39.

Speaker 41 Camp Arm knows all the offenses.

Speaker 9 Unretired.

Speaker 1 He is a Washington commander.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 1 And finally,

Speaker 1 defensive tackle at 38 years old. And Domican Sue, retired or not retired.

Speaker 51 South Beach session. Yeah, retired.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he just retired.

Speaker 9 He just retired.

Speaker 1 Way to just try to make sure you guys all are paying attention to what we do.

Speaker 29 Domican Sue retired.

Speaker 11 South Beach Session.

Speaker 30 Wonderful.

Speaker 2 Good job. Who did he play for last? Yeah.
A different game.

Speaker 4 Wonderful job.

Speaker 2 Is he in Philly?

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Speaker 51 All All right, we got to go back out there. That was big.

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Speaker 4 So we talked a little bit about this yesterday because two days ago, the AP poll made its preseason debut.

Speaker 4 That week one is a banger of games. We had three games of top 10 matches.
You got LSU Clemson. You got Miami Notre Dame.
You got Ohio State and Texas. I'll be there.
I'll be there for that.

Speaker 4 Ohio State and Texas. The AP screwed it up.
You couldn't have one versus two. It's one versus three.

Speaker 4 When number three is favored against number one, makes sense of that.

Speaker 4 Anyway, we got preseason rankings came out a couple days ago and we talked about it yesterday but we didn't get a whole lot into the canes though the canes are preseason top 10.

Speaker 4 Greg expectation for the hurricanes right now Real high.

Speaker 9 I mean, playoff high for sure. I think that's what needs to happen.
Mario might not admit it, but I think he feels it and believes it. You have to make the top 12 and be in the playoffs.

Speaker 9 That's the standard for UM this year.

Speaker 9 They're ranked in the top 10, albeit at 10, for only the second time since 2005. The other was Mark Rick's 2018.
And they have everything.

Speaker 9 They killed it with Carson Beck in the portal.

Speaker 4 I think Carson Beck's going to be great for them.

Speaker 9 I do, too. And their past defense, which sucked last year, is much improved.
I think they're the whole deal. I think they have the best team.

Speaker 9 I think Mario has a great chance to have an improved record for the fourth straight year. I see them going like 10-2, making the ACC championship game sky-high hopes for the Kanes.

Speaker 34 I am worried about the wide receiver position.

Speaker 36 They don't seem to have a go-to guy yet.

Speaker 35 Carson Beck, from being out at camp, Carson Beck looks good.

Speaker 34 The arm looks good.

Speaker 37 I know that that's a concern.

Speaker 21 Very decisive with the ball.

Speaker 33 I'm curious.

Speaker 34 I really can't make heads or tails of who's going to be the leading receiver here.

Speaker 12 You have C.J.

Speaker 17 Daniels, who they brought in as a veteran presence.

Speaker 17 Had an injury plague season last year at LSU, but before that, lit the world on fire when he was at Liberty.

Speaker 41 This may come as a shock.

Speaker 17 There might be a 17-year-old that may end up being Miami's leading receiver.

Speaker 9 Well, but they're going to be a more balanced offense, though.

Speaker 2 Oh, yes, absolutely.

Speaker 17 They got two guys that have potential to put up huge seasons on the ground. Mark Fletcher, a bigger bruising back,

Speaker 35 has been very productive since the day he put on shoulder pads here for this program.

Speaker 10 But Jordan Lyle flashes a game-breaking ability.

Speaker 35 We saw that huge run where he turned the corner at USF last year.

Speaker 16 year where he pulled away from guys.

Speaker 17 That game-breaking ability has kind of not been around Miami so much.

Speaker 17 Brashard Smith took that ability, went to SMU, and now will be a deep sleeper for the Kansas City Chiefs with that next level speed.

Speaker 45 But I think Malachi Toney is going to be a real surprise for this team.

Speaker 35 A true freshman that's going to make an impact there. But the defense has been shored up.
You think they certainly brought in a ton of players in that secondary.

Speaker 17 You have Heatherman, the brand new DC that comes over from Minnesota.

Speaker 42 Yes, this schedule is more difficult than previous years.

Speaker 16 They got Florida.

Speaker 14 Oh, but hold on.

Speaker 4 A schedule is going to be more difficult than previous years.

Speaker 8 They're going to be favored every game this year, right?

Speaker 27 That's curious. We'll see what happens at SMU, but they only have four road games.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 39 Only four road games, and then late November, it can get tricky at Blacksburg, at Pittsburgh, back-to-back, but you don't know what kind of condition those programs will be in.

Speaker 4 Don't they not leave the state of Florida until like November? Yes.

Speaker 2 Yeah. No, it's crazy.

Speaker 10 For their centennial season, the schedule does lay out nicely.

Speaker 39 Now, they could take a step back in terms of overall record and be a better team.

Speaker 49 They could finish this season 9-3 and be in that playoff contention and still find their way to Charlotte, especially if two of those losses come non-conference.

Speaker 49 But Miami, it was, I like the vibe around Media Day at the ACC because everyone's just kind of confident that Miami is going to be there in the end, at least in their conference.

Speaker 37 And the conference has lost a lot of talent this year.

Speaker 10 I think the ACC is probably going to take a step back while Miami takes a leap forward.

Speaker 16 But I'm excited about what they did at the quarterback position.

Speaker 9 I think they got a real good one. And I think it's notable that SMU is their only, what I would call, difficult road game.
All of the other most challenging games are at home.

Speaker 16 I mean, historically difficult places to play Blacksburg.

Speaker 36 And we saw in 2017, before that 2018 year, that got kind of sidetracked by injury and Mark Rick's own decline with his health.

Speaker 35 Pittsburgh ruined a season for Miami in 2017 in which they would have been ranked number one

Speaker 35 headed into the conference championship had they not dropped that.

Speaker 2 I'm at SMU week two you need to do a little advanced scouting a lot of former hurricanes there wear that hat though yeah yeah yeah that that makes you undercover all right you gotta wear that flex vic backwards and uh we can sneak you in there on the sidelines cover stallion style is the last time that notre dame was here at miami was the blackout game 2017.

Speaker 16 That shit was awesome. What a game.

Speaker 14 Was it a blackout?

Speaker 35 No, the blackout happened actually before that, Virginia Tech.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. Yeah, regular game.
Yeah, regular game. Which was like a crazy crowd, too.

Speaker 17 But 2017, Notre Dame, that's really the only game that Miami Hurricanes fans can point to and say that building had some magic to it.

Speaker 40 That building got really loud.

Speaker 4 I think that's the only game at that stadium where you were able to say that game was over before it started. Like you knew what, because this used to be a case of the Orange Bowl all the time.

Speaker 4 But that night, you knew, okay.

Speaker 10 Right away. We know what's happening.
Yeah, right away.

Speaker 17 Once Will Manso leaked that video of the Notre Dame coach talking all that crap about the turnover chain.

Speaker 37 But we were at ESPN at the time, very close to Marty Smith and a bunch of people with College Game Day.

Speaker 35 And they said that that night at Hard Rock Stadium in 2017.

Speaker 4 I think Herb Street said he's like, this is the best atmosphere of the year.

Speaker 49 Second loudest place they had ever been to

Speaker 36 as a crew. That was back in 2017.

Speaker 17 Maybe they'd been to louder places, but they said only behind Death Valley and LSU.

Speaker 4 Could it be like that for week one, number six versus number 10?

Speaker 2 Absolutely. We'll see.

Speaker 38 Notre Dame has some issues too.

Speaker 13 They have a legit quarterback competition right now.

Speaker 10 They lost a quarterback that was a proven commodity for them.

Speaker 49 And they have some injuries across the offensive line.

Speaker 45 They're still very talented, but Freeman teams get off to a slower start over at Notre Dame.

Speaker 36 So it lays out nicely for Miami.

Speaker 39 And they'll have an opportunity with a standalone game.

Speaker 35 Certainly Carson Beck and some of the other talented players on this team have an opportunity to make a real saving and get a lot of national attention with a standalone TV window Sunday night.

Speaker 9 And the points were pretty much close to a push the last time I looked.

Speaker 4 Should the Virginia Tech game be tough? Like, they haven't won more than eight games in six years.

Speaker 49 You never know what kind of shape that program is going to be in.

Speaker 21 They want to push the head coach out.

Speaker 34 The fan base is over.

Speaker 39 The head coach may be out, and you don't know.

Speaker 17 Do they play hard for a new guy in the portal era?

Speaker 21 Do these guys check out?

Speaker 17 I would say normally most Miami Hurricanes fans would look at late November games at Blacksburg, at Pittsburgh, and be a little worried about that.

Speaker 51 But the caveat of those coaches perpetually are talked about as guys that could be on the hot seat.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Brent Pry, 3-8, 7-6, 6-7 in his three seasons at Virginia Tech.

Speaker 1 So while I'm sure there are some good wins in there at home, it's not, given what Miami is supposed to be, something that should be much of a challenge.

Speaker 1 But every year there's one of those ACC teams that seems to knock off someone at the top.

Speaker 47 But all you got to do is look to last year.

Speaker 43 Could it have gotten closer than last year's game, Miami, Virginia Tech?

Speaker 2 Like, that was the closest football game of all time.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 42 It was like a ball here, a hand here.

Speaker 43 Was he out of bounds?

Speaker 36 Was he not?

Speaker 40 The Hail Mary that went out of bounds.

Speaker 41 I would say Miami has always had these things, and it goes to the pro ranks, too.

Speaker 34 The weather games late in the season.

Speaker 17 This Miami team is more built for that.

Speaker 36 My colleague over at Keynes Insight D Money points to, remember when they went to Boston College, played against Cassianos, who's now at FSU.

Speaker 21 That's a tricky spot late at Boston College.

Speaker 39 We've seen it with one of the greatest teams of all time struggle there.

Speaker 17 And they just are built in the trenches in ways for that weather that previous Miami Hurricanes teams have not been.

Speaker 4 God, how good is college football we're so close football's back baby i got my phil steele magazine in the mail yesterday i love that saw it's kind of late you're cramming huh uh this is how i do it like i i hit the road in two and a half weeks all right and then it's every week i'm on the road uh with the spn so i i it's time it's like all right i i need to start cramming that like that that's how i do it like i i don't i don't start looking at the magazine last month like it's now is the time things change too you got to get most up-to-date information right so i got the phil steele magazine that that's the college football Bible.

Speaker 30 All right.

Speaker 4 I got that in the mail yesterday. I was very excited.

Speaker 32 It's a magazine, though.

Speaker 9 Wasn't that what you're reading, wasn't that written a month ago?

Speaker 11 No, I just got it.

Speaker 2 I just got it, yeah. I know, but it was,

Speaker 9 it takes a while to publish a magazine, right?

Speaker 4 It has all of the information.

Speaker 42 It's got the building blocks. That's what you need.

Speaker 4 It's got everything you need. There's so much info in there.

Speaker 4 So I got to start studying, but once in a couple weeks from now, Greg, you're going to be able to ask me at any school in the country, and I will know everything about it.

Speaker 56 I'm a college ball expert.

Speaker 9 I'm just surprised magazines are still a thing because when I was a kid, Street and Smith was the Bible. Like, I used to get their pro and college preview issues all the time.

Speaker 9 But I didn't know that that was still a thing in 2025, the magazine.

Speaker 11 Do you guys, when's the last like magazine subscription you guys had or that came to your house? You know what came to my house two days ago? Fortune Magazine. What? And it had my name on it.

Speaker 11 And I have no idea why it is that that I've never subscribed.

Speaker 26 Did one of those people come to your home home and it was like no, I've never subscribed to it.

Speaker 11 I mean, maybe this is like some, I signed up for something. You know, like sometimes you buy something.
It's like, oh, you get three free magazine subscriptions. I must have.

Speaker 11 checked off something or I went to like a boat show one time years ago or something.

Speaker 4 What's the last magazine subscription you remember actually subscribing?

Speaker 11 I think the last one I actually had was ESPN the magazine. Wow.
Yeah, and I don't think that's even published anymore, right? They canceled that publication.

Speaker 14 Yeah, a long time ago.

Speaker 11 But Fortune Magazine came to my house two days ago. Did you read it? No, not yet.
It's on, you know, you know what? I thought about doing with it as soon as I got it.

Speaker 28 I was like, you know what?

Speaker 11 I'm going to put this in the bathroom.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 11 And this is going to be bathroom reading because there was like a glory day of like all the magazines are in the bathroom.

Speaker 2 That's where all my friends deals go. Yeah, and that's where they go.

Speaker 11 But I don't think they even sell bathroom like magazine racks anymore, do they? They can't. There's no magazines.
Why would you need a bathroom magazine rack?

Speaker 2 Billy, I can relate.

Speaker 9 We get, every week, we get a people magazine delivered. Still? Yeah.
And I said to my wife the other day, do we subscribe to that? Why do we?

Speaker 27 And she's like, I don't know.

Speaker 2 I mean, just every week we... Lap a luxury at the Cody house.
I don't know. Whatever it comes.
Doesn't matter.

Speaker 11 Does anyone read it or what do you do with it?

Speaker 2 I leaf through it. Yeah.

Speaker 34 What's going on?

Speaker 11 What's going on with the Hensworths right now?

Speaker 9 You know, I didn't leaf through the last one, but, you know, if

Speaker 9 Taylor Swift and Kelsey are on the cover, I might give it a look.

Speaker 2 I don't know. All right.
That kind of thing.

Speaker 4 Billy, what magazines did you subscribe to when you were younger?

Speaker 11 I think ESP and the Magazine.

Speaker 51 Sports Illustrated.

Speaker 47 Oh, for sure.

Speaker 2 SI for kids.

Speaker 28 I didn't have SI or SI.

Speaker 47 How about highlights?

Speaker 32 You have highlights? I did have highlights.

Speaker 11 When we were younger, we had highlights. When we were younger.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 24 Pitted pictures.

Speaker 4 I had Rolling Stone the longest.

Speaker 2 I had Rolling Stone the longest. Rolling Stone was 2010.

Speaker 4 It was the last one that I didn't have anymore. I had Rolling Stone forever.
I even had it, you know, change the address to come to my college residence. You know, I had Rolling Stone forever.

Speaker 4 And throughout my,

Speaker 4 when I was a little kid and then into like mid-teenage years, I used to get WWF the magazine.

Speaker 28 Those are the two.

Speaker 28 Wow.

Speaker 2 You're such a mark.

Speaker 35 You're getting worked in that magazine.

Speaker 38 Whatever, man.

Speaker 4 I like reading about my favorite superstars.

Speaker 41 That's how you got tricked into writing Hulk Hogan Get Wells.

Speaker 2 It wasn't a trick.

Speaker 4 He wrote me back. It wasn't a trick.

Speaker 2 Did you keep that letter?

Speaker 49 You still have it? I wish I still had it.

Speaker 4 It was a postcard.

Speaker 49 I wish I still had it.

Speaker 4 He signed it and everything. Yeah.

Speaker 11 I mean, now I would think it's probably worth, you know. No one's getting more postcards from the Hulks.

Speaker 4 Greg, Earthquake put him in the hospital.

Speaker 15 Is that right? That piece of shit earthquake.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I don't know who the hell it was. Oh, it wasn't a real earthquake.

Speaker 39 John Tenta.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Oh, okay.

Speaker 4 It was before he killed Damien with the same move that he used to put Hogan in the hospital.

Speaker 26 Killed Damien.

Speaker 9 Well, you'd think Damien would have been ready for it.

Speaker 10 Yeah. He was in a sack.

Speaker 36 He didn't know what was coming.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 53 At least he.

Speaker 11 What do you do now that you hit the roads down at the manor? What happens with the kids?

Speaker 4 I live in a mansion first.

Speaker 19 Oh, in a mansion.

Speaker 11 At the mansion, now that you're away, cats away, the mice will play. Last time we spoke to you, it seems like the mice were playing quite a bit.

Speaker 2 What are you saying? What?

Speaker 2 Yesterday, you were talking,

Speaker 11 you've never heard the expression, when the cat's away, the mice will play?

Speaker 11 You're the cat, allegedly, according to you. Some are saying you're a mouse in the household where your kid is running roughshod, running away from home.

Speaker 2 There's a question about your gambling.

Speaker 11 It's kind of like when the enforcer's not there, you allege to be the enforcer of your home. When you're away, what happens?

Speaker 4 Oh, so you're asking, like, who's in charge and I'm away?

Speaker 11 Well, I'm asking, yeah, if there's any control when you're away.

Speaker 4 Well,

Speaker 54 not for that's not my concern. Like, I'm not there.

Speaker 2 Teenagers running the roost, you know.

Speaker 4 Like, all right, my wife's in charge for those couple of days that I'm not home for the week. And, you know, when dad comes home, everybody got to have their shit together.

Speaker 33 All right.

Speaker 4 But while I'm gone, all right, you know,

Speaker 4 just don't let me hear about it. It's pretty much the way it goes.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Yeah. They're working for Cody.

Speaker 9 Yeah. Teens running the roost.

Speaker 2 There you go.

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Speaker 2 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 38 Billy, somebody has written in here,

Speaker 2 I need way more.

Speaker 2 I'm sorry.

Speaker 47 I just said in his headset, haven't you been to to all of them too?

Speaker 9 It sounded like you were speaking aloud. My bad.

Speaker 9 Totally on me.

Speaker 38 That's 100% on me.

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 7 Stugats.

Speaker 9 But that goes without saying.

Speaker 28 Right. That it couldn't happen.
Well, now he said.

Speaker 2 He didn't say it. He said your head again.
That was just your head again. Craig.
My apologies.

Speaker 2 Craig. What? Greg.
Yeah. Craig.

Speaker 47 He apologized.

Speaker 47 Craig.

Speaker 2 Sincerely.

Speaker 52 This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Speaker 4 So tomorrow, the NBA releases its entire schedule. Full schedule, entire NBA schedule is being released tomorrow.

Speaker 4 But we did find out a couple of days ago, I think it was yesterday, that the Christmas games.

Speaker 26 What are you doing over there?

Speaker 9 He keeps making fun of me.

Speaker 9 Your mic is higher than mine. There you go.

Speaker 46 I was just saying before, like, his mic is normal at his face, and yours is just like, I need to talk way down here.

Speaker 9 It's so ridiculous. The obsession with microphones.

Speaker 4 It's not ridiculous. There's no obsession.

Speaker 28 It really is an obsession.

Speaker 2 There's no obsession, Willie. We are a show.

Speaker 16 We are a show.

Speaker 19 It's not an obsession.

Speaker 4 It's actually a necessity.

Speaker 2 Is it? Yeah. Yeah.
Are you questioning that?

Speaker 9 Whatever happened to the megaphone? Let's just get old-timey megaphones and

Speaker 2 do what? And do what with it?

Speaker 54 You know how football players need helmets.

Speaker 4 It's an obsession with helmets in the NFL?

Speaker 9 They should, you know, it's like motorcycles. You want to wear a helmet? You wear a helmet.
Yeah. If you don't, you don't.

Speaker 40 No, no.

Speaker 41 It's like motorcycles.

Speaker 39 Do you want a motorcycle?

Speaker 40 You need a motorcycle.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Debatable.

Speaker 4 So a couple days ago, the NBA ahead of its schedule release tomorrow. They released their Christmas Day games.
They got five Christmas Day games

Speaker 30 like usual.

Speaker 33 I mean, all those go.

Speaker 11 The NFL's playing on Christmas.

Speaker 4 Well, and yes, the NFL has decided,

Speaker 4 you know, they pulled up last year, the NFL, like Debo, and said, we're taking Christmas.

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 4 You're not in on all of the action on Christmas, Greg?

Speaker 9 No, it's ridiculous. The NFL and NBA now are competing to out Christmas the other.
The only holiday where I love NFL games or pro games to watch on TV is Thanksgiving.

Speaker 9 Okay, that's a part of the ritual. Okay,

Speaker 9 you're timing the turkey so that it doesn't interrupt with the middle game that you really want to watch, et cetera, and so forth.

Speaker 9 But on Christmas Day, to quote a phrase, Jesus Christ, I mean, you can't, whatever happened to Christmas? Christmas, and don't get me wrong, I'm not super religious. I'm not.

Speaker 9 Like, I'm not going to to church on Christmas. I'll tell you that.
Relax. Not that there's anything else.

Speaker 43 Well, technically, nobody goes to church on Christmas.

Speaker 46 You could just leave it at, I'm not super related.

Speaker 48 Okay, but

Speaker 9 even so, Christmas, when I'm growing up, you know, Christmas is

Speaker 9 a holiday. You know, you revere the holiday, you watch the little kids open their gifts.

Speaker 35 But so is Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 It's a holiday.

Speaker 9 Yeah, same thing. Thanksgiving,

Speaker 9 you're eating and drinking a lot and watching football on TV. Christmas used.

Speaker 47 Sounds like Christmas, too.

Speaker 9 Christmas used to be that, and now it's five NFL games, not one or two, five

Speaker 9 or five NBA games, and three NFL games. You have eight games competing with each other from late morning until late at night.

Speaker 46 Cody's are considering moving Christmas.

Speaker 9 Where's Christmas? Where's Christmas? You know,

Speaker 9 it's just too much. It's excessive.
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 4 But you don't have to watch the games.

Speaker 35 I know, but

Speaker 9 they're on TV. I mean, you're a football fan.

Speaker 2 You're a hoops fan. You got to watch it.

Speaker 11 Were you a Christmas Day or Christmas Eve family?

Speaker 26 Wait, I thought, now, look, I don't know if you guys know.

Speaker 4 I'm Jewish. I understand that Christmas, it's more about Christmas Eve.
Like, that's the big partying and the dinner, and it feels like

Speaker 4 that's why neither of those sports play on Christmas Eve.

Speaker 46 I think it depends on the family.

Speaker 47 Yeah, it does.

Speaker 46 Some people are Christmas Day people.

Speaker 47 Some people are.

Speaker 9 I make a big dinner on Christmas Eve. I mean, to your point, it's a special day as well.
I just think sports have gone over, especially it used to be the NFL-owned Christmas.

Speaker 9 Now, the NBA, in the past several years, has been competing to the point where there are five games now instead of three.

Speaker 2 It's just, it's too much. I didn't like success of it.

Speaker 34 I didn't like the reported slate for Christmas Day for the NBA.

Speaker 17 It should be noted, while everyone was assuming that the NFL was going to totally take over Christmas, there was a nice little ratings story for the NBA last year as the NFL went behind their Netflix paywall and whatnot.

Speaker 13 People were tuning in on cable and the ratings for the NBA did increase despite the extra competition.

Speaker 4 You got Cavaliers at Knicks.

Speaker 39 Fun game.

Speaker 46 Let me guess, Lakers Mavs. I haven't seen it.

Speaker 51 Are they playing?

Speaker 4 No, both those teams are playing, but not against each other.

Speaker 4 Cavaliers at Knicks because the Knicks always have the noon game at Madison Square Garden. And then you got Spurs at Thunder.

Speaker 59 Fun game.

Speaker 4 Mavericks at Warriors.

Speaker 59 Fun game.

Speaker 4 Rockets at Lakers.

Speaker 43 Big game, not a big game.

Speaker 2 It's a big game. That's a big game.
I agree. Durant.

Speaker 4 Duncich.

Speaker 26 LeBron. LeBron's second.

Speaker 4 Duncich's team.

Speaker 26 And Timberwolves, nuggets. And that's our late game.

Speaker 46 Is there a bigger indictment? Like, we've talked a lot about the heat and how they're just kind of on the downtick.

Speaker 46 We haven't even sniffed a Christmas game in a few years.

Speaker 45 I mean, look at the Indiana Pacers. They made the finals.
They don't get...

Speaker 42 But it's just like, we used to be...

Speaker 30 Like, I felt like there wasn't every year.

Speaker 1 There was a good, like, eight-year stretch where we were just one of those.

Speaker 2 LeBron. LeBron.

Speaker 2 He wasn't here eight years.

Speaker 32 Well, like even after.

Speaker 4 He had Shaq and Wade before.

Speaker 50 He just

Speaker 1 played on Christmas in 2023.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but they were there five years ago.

Speaker 38 But after Milwaukee,

Speaker 39 I think after the bubble, and they made the finals in the bubble, they didn't get a Christmas game.

Speaker 2 Yeah, recently post-Lebron has been kind of.

Speaker 9 I think if you're going to have five games on Christmas, one of them's got to be a stinker. You know, throw in Wizards against Jazz.

Speaker 2 What?

Speaker 2 Like, what?

Speaker 32 Why would you want a bad game?

Speaker 32 No, you do.

Speaker 11 You toss in a stinker there so that you can enjoy the meal and enjoy the time. Like, this is one I need to casually pay attention to, if at all.

Speaker 9 Give me a two-hour break.

Speaker 25 Exactly.

Speaker 9 With Wizards and Jazz, and then you get back to the real.

Speaker 49 I like this idea, and that should be Christmas morning.

Speaker 53 When people are opening their presents,

Speaker 36 they should add more games.

Speaker 32 It should be wall-to-wall.

Speaker 34 It should be like Boxing Day is for the Premier League.

Speaker 2 You just go wall-to-wall.

Speaker 4 Yep. Can you just imagine what Greg just suggested on Christmas Day?

Speaker 47 The

Speaker 4 abomination of wizards and jazz.

Speaker 14 That was just a bad idea. You're lying to me.

Speaker 11 That's right, though.

Speaker 39 You're lying to me if you're not putting that game on while you're unwrapping Christmas Day presents in the morning.

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 45 If there is an NBA game going on, it tips off at 7 a.m.

Speaker 36 Eastern Time.

Speaker 2 You're asleep. I'm watching Christmas time.
I'm so awake. On Christmas.

Speaker 2 I guys are awake. I got the paper.

Speaker 2 Oh, dude. You think you're waiting? Christmas morning.

Speaker 11 Are you crazy? What time do you think you're going to wake up on Christmas moving forward?

Speaker 59 Right now, this Christmas? Maybe nine.

Speaker 40 Maybe

Speaker 2 this Christmas? A newborn. Since this Christmas? Are you retired? You wake up at 9? 9.

Speaker 28 What time do you wake up every day?

Speaker 3 Well, every day I wake up for like 6.

Speaker 11 On weekends, on weekends.

Speaker 28 On weekends?

Speaker 42 Saturday mornings, mornings I wake up at 6.30, play hoops at 7.

Speaker 14 So why do you think you're going to wake up at 9?

Speaker 2 You're not going to do that. Because we have not taken a win over the day.
The year before

Speaker 11 your in-laws are going to be up to your kids' first Christmas. If you think you're getting any rest on Christmas.

Speaker 28 You think we're having Christmas at our house?

Speaker 2 You think it's up to you? Of course I do.

Speaker 11 They're just ding-dong, and the whole family is there.

Speaker 2 I'm not going to put up a tree. Nah, I think you're going to be a good one.
You're taking them over at them.

Speaker 11 Stop putting up a tree on your kid's first Christmas.

Speaker 46 Nah, Tony's got to get your hair.

Speaker 11 Take your kid away from this family.

Speaker 2 Tony, you get one more year.

Speaker 46 The baby's so young right now, you have this year. But after this year, 8 a.m.,

Speaker 46 you're like in your house every morning.

Speaker 34 I don't think he has this year because while he may be playing it cool, mama ain't.

Speaker 26 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 27 It's baby's first Christmas.

Speaker 2 To be honest, I'm a big fan of Christmas trees, so I will get the real Christmas tree. We gotta have a tree.

Speaker 16 Yeah, we'll get a real tree.

Speaker 2 We're about to get the boss around on this.

Speaker 38 A real tree.

Speaker 2 We have a real treat. But

Speaker 43 it seems as though... Maybe the in-laws are going to do Christmas, so everybody goes over there to celebrate Christmas.
We got nieces and nephews. We got other family.

Speaker 43 So it's like a giant thing over there, not at my house.

Speaker 51 You're going to be awaken awaken time for Jazz Wizards.

Speaker 10 I'll tell you that.

Speaker 4 I'm realizing now that I am so far ahead of you guys when it comes to the kids.

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 4 And you're careful about what time you have to wake up on the weekends and what time, like, do you want to ask, ask me when I wake up on the weekends?

Speaker 59 Oh, ask me. When do you wake up?

Speaker 4 If you don't care. Whenever I want.

Speaker 4 Whenever I want.

Speaker 46 I mean, your kids are just running around town.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, they're doing whatever they are.

Speaker 42 They're going to Chicago this weekend for UFC.

Speaker 2 And of course, me and Cody. Lawless.
Jeez.

Speaker 27 Lawless.

Speaker 11 You need the crap game early on so if you get a TV for Christmas, you like don't miss, like you're setting it up and you don't really miss it.

Speaker 42 I mean, but that's why you have Cavs.

Speaker 11 That's why you have a bad game at the beginning.

Speaker 2 That's why the Knicks are okay.

Speaker 4 So you can quickly plug out and plug in.

Speaker 11 You need like a crap sandwich of games, like a bad first one, a bad last one. And then in the middle is where you're like, okay, this is

Speaker 2 where the crap is.

Speaker 4 Well, then you got the NFL, Greg.

Speaker 11 Oh, they did this wrong.

Speaker 49 How so?

Speaker 11 Well, because the first game is Cowboys Command.

Speaker 4 Oh, all all three NFL games. If we were doing big game, not a big game, all three of these games.

Speaker 28 Yeah, 815.

Speaker 47 All three big games?

Speaker 53 Yeah,

Speaker 28 next one's a big one.

Speaker 11 Lions Vikings.

Speaker 50 Big game. Yeah.
Now, the

Speaker 11 8-15 Prime video now we're going on from Netflix over to Prime. We're switching channels, switching stations.

Speaker 47 Broncos Chiefs.

Speaker 2 Massive game. That is a massive game.
That's a banger.

Speaker 29 Broncos are going to have to show us, though.

Speaker 11 By that point in the season, we're going to know if it's a big game or not a big game.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I mean, that's like week 17.

Speaker 11 Yeah, week 17.

Speaker 59 Fight for a playoff spot.

Speaker 36 Everyone loves the Broncos this year, man.

Speaker 4 But it's too much for you, huh?

Speaker 9 They're an it team. And the Pats.

Speaker 46 The Pats, everyone likes, too.

Speaker 9 Yeah, but I would do the same thing with the NFL, you know, throw in a Browns-Titans game or something, you know, just for a respite instead of three in a row.

Speaker 9 But yeah, the combination of NBA and NFL, eight games on Christmas Day, is too much. It's simply overload.

Speaker 11 What would you do, Greg, for Thanksgiving, for Thanksgiving football games? Because I feel like Thanksgiving games, the late game is the one that I'm always kind of by that time.

Speaker 32 So it was Steelers, Ravens.

Speaker 11 My energy. Well, last year was Dolphins, right?

Speaker 47 And it was a terrible.

Speaker 46 I always picture it being an AFC North game.

Speaker 11 It was a really bad game for the Dolphins. I think it was Dolphins, Packers.

Speaker 46 It was their worst game of the year.

Speaker 11 And it wasn't close.

Speaker 46 I heard the big dog talking about this morning, like 20 missed tackles in that game.

Speaker 9 I think the money game is the middle one. I think the prime game on Thanksgiving is the middle one.
The late one?

Speaker 50 Cowboys.

Speaker 11 The late one, you're already like, my energy is already down. I'm triptophan or whatever it's called

Speaker 9 inside of me yeah and I'm like oh I've been watching some dog show I know football and another football parade like I can't anymore no but the late game I've been hammering Jim Beam all day you know I'm I'm I'm I'm not ready to watch three more hours you don't late game is big by the way

Speaker 4 Tony you see what this Thanksgiving slate is late is crazy

Speaker 2 God

Speaker 2 at Detroit

Speaker 2 begin

Speaker 2 it's a whole new world with Detroit being massive It's crazy.

Speaker 53 It really changes the entire dynamic of that holiday.

Speaker 4 Yeah, not so funny now, Lions. Come on.

Speaker 43 4:30. Right when you're getting over to your family's house, you're going to start getting the turkey out.
Kansas City, Dallas.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 39 Craig, googly, Moogly.

Speaker 30 Big game. That's a big game.

Speaker 43 And then as you're winding down for the night, maybe you're getting that extra piece of pecan pie or

Speaker 43 pumpkin pie. Pumper.
Cincinnati, Baltimore.

Speaker 2 So Templars of Toledo.

Speaker 4 But Greg doesn't like it. Greg wants a stinker mixed in somewhere there.
Do, you know.

Speaker 2 Browns Panthers. I mean, come on.

Speaker 9 Yeah, something like that. Yeah, Saints.
Throw in the Saints. Yeah.
Somebody I don't want to see. That way I'm not obliged to watch.
I can concentrate on my meal. I'm in the kitchen doing a turkey.

Speaker 9 I don't have to worry about the TV. You're in the garage barefoot.
Well, that's true.

Speaker 2 Can we put up that statue?

Speaker 9 A bronze statue out of that one. Ridiculous.

Speaker 46 AI made a statue of my dad. It's recreating the photo of him out in the parking garage frying a turkey barefoot.

Speaker 4 Is this like like jumping off the Tom Brady statue? It looks. Oh, look at that.

Speaker 46 I mean it's got a poppy face.

Speaker 27 It looks like poppy.

Speaker 46 If you really zoom in, the face has poppy vibes, but it's, I mean, it's clearly...

Speaker 29 Barefoot.

Speaker 46 It's clearly that photo. I mean, it's your...

Speaker 30 And you got the

Speaker 4 frying the turkey.

Speaker 8 No, that looks...

Speaker 2 Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 Eyebrow, yeah. That really does look like poppy.

Speaker 10 People's eyebrow there.

Speaker 4 That is...

Speaker 4 That's a dead ringer for Poppy.

Speaker 39 I think that's Lyndon B. Johnson.

Speaker 1 It's Dwayne Wade statuesque, where it's like every detail about it outside of the face is perfect.

Speaker 2 But the face kind of throws you out.

Speaker 4 What about the toenails?

Speaker 46 Does it have that is one thing pointed out? That it's the

Speaker 11 my dad's toenails are, yeah, these are kept.

Speaker 2 Actually, I'm looking down at that toenail.

Speaker 9 No, long enough. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Because that'd be hell of an attention. By the way, look at those calves on that step.
Boy, you're in great shape.

Speaker 27 Let me see your stand up over there.

Speaker 2 Let's see if those are real calves.

Speaker 2 I got long pants on.

Speaker 41 And you can pull them up. You got nice calves.

Speaker 49 They always surprise me whenever you're in shorts.

Speaker 54 Pull a calf up.

Speaker 2 Pull a calf up. Let's see.

Speaker 15 It's like Boog Shambi.

Speaker 32 Let's see if he can pull a calf up.

Speaker 13 I'm glad you left. Boog Shambi's got the craziest massive calves.

Speaker 21 Because as used to produce Boog Shambi, he can tell you stories about those calves and that they're big.

Speaker 17 All the stories are, he's just.

Speaker 47 I mean, those are old people's shoes, but yeah, the calves are nice.

Speaker 2 Kind of petered out. Yeah, I don't know.
I was like, he could tell you stories about those calves. Like, what? It's like, I think, well, we can't pick up.
Calves are got a student lonely.

Speaker 26 He's got big calves.

Speaker 4 All right. I think it's the end of the story.

Speaker 30 I think there's a whole lot more to that right there.

Speaker 53 Great calves, though.

Speaker 2 Thank you very much. Your calves are.
I'm talking about Boogie.

Speaker 46 Yours looked more impressive in the statue.

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Speaker 19 Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots.

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Speaker 13 So, enjoy the tequila that started it all.

Speaker 22 Cuervo. Cuervo.

Speaker 5 The tequila that invented tequila.

Speaker 2 Proximo, Quervo.com, please drink responsibly. Cuervo.