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I really do feel like you guys have put me in an impossible position here where I have to do this five-minute interview agreeing to terms I didn't want.

Somebody on a cell phone.

You guys don't understand how hard it is to like even call the corridors of power.

Like we have to go through a labyrinth just to make sure we could get Mickey Arrison on the line to celebrate his Hall of Fame induction this weekend.

He's going to be pulled all over the place.

He's doing two other interviews, five minutes, and forced.

We have five minutes available to us.

And over the last, I don't know, a few hours, you guys have forced me to do an interview that doesn't seem like it could go well.

Five minutes is a set of terms that we've never agreed to.

No video.

We're a video company now.

That's what we've been doing the last four years.

No video?

That's not something that we do anymore.

We are doing these things as a concession to a man.

Yes, Chris.

We're going to call him live on the air.

Do you think he's a hello or this is Mickey when he answers kind of guy?

Because

I think of people like when they're, you're a Mickey Arrison type, you say, hey, this is Mickey.

I think he's one of those types of goes, yellow.

I think he's going, I think it's, yeah.

Oh,

power move.

All right, so we're going to call him live on the air.

Are you guys ready?

Because Because I have to set up the five minutes, and I have to set it up with him because this is the five minutes don't start until we've asked our first question.

Okay, so he's going to sit down.

At the start of the question or the end of the question, because we have

like family feuds, yeah.

The clock starts as you start.

I want to start, let's start there with him, Billy, because I think it's laughable that he's only giving us five minutes, and I don't mind giving him a hard time.

He's probably going to have a clock also, so it's going to be like three, two, sink.

I bet he likes family feuds.

Yeah, you should sync it at the beginning for sure.

Find out what time zone is in.

We're going to have that whole conversation with him on the front end before we start the clock.

But also, like, this could be like a genie situation where you have three wishes, right?

And I wish I had more than three wishes.

Like, boom, that was one of your wishes.

So if it's at the end of the first question, you ask him, hey, does the clock start at the end of the first question?

Then that might have been the first question.

The clock could have started.

But we have to be quick, too, is what I'm saying.

Because it's five minutes.

I'm quick.

Ask my wife.

You should start with that.

How would you do that?

Usually on top.

Ooh, what if that's the first question?

A little iceberg.

Mickey, how's the performance?

Yeah.

Power bottom.

Man in the street, freaking the sheets, that type of thing.

Tony, you're of the belief that I should ask him off the top in an interview that has five minutes before we get to the ownership by the Saudis, 10% of the company.

You're of the belief that.

Don't start with that one.

But you're of the belief that, no, better to start.

How are you in the sheets?

Or how quick are you?

You think that's better?

That's crass.

Oh, dude, the Joe Rose.

How the lady's treating you.

Hmm.

Is he talking to Big Dog?

Is that one of the three interviews?

Let's do this.

I'm excited now.

All right, go ahead and call him.

But the

five, the five minutes do not start.

I've got to talk to him about this.

I'm definitely not confused.

All right, hold on.

Just call.

Very exciting.

What was the first question I already forgot?

Hello?

Mickey?

Hello?

Yes.

Hello, Mickey.

The clock does not start on five minutes.

We are on the air.

We've got five minutes with you.

Congratulations.

You're the greatest owner in the history of South Florida Sports.

We're very happy for you.

Who's this?

Hi, Dan.

That's good.

What a joke story.

No, we got it.

I get it.

No, you.

I forgot all my questions.

Okay, I've been told I have five minutes with him, but I'm just telling you right now, all right, Mickey, that the clock does not start until we, until after we've asked our first question, okay?

You're coming to ask the question yet?

No, I have not yet asked the question.

We have five minutes with you.

I don't think that you want to do any of this, not this interview.

I'm not sure you want to do that.

What are you so busy doing, Mickey?

Mickey, what are you up to today?

What does your day look like?

That's the first question.

No, it is not.

No, it is not.

The clock does not start until I ask the first question.

Billy's not getting in here and asking the first question.

The clock does not start.

I started out with a cappuccino at Starbucks

with a banana bread.

It was pretty good, but it went right through me.

You ever heard of the.

Ooh, okay, too much information.

You ever heard of Starbucks in your house?

Where I am, I have a Starbucks.

It's called the Mohegan Sun.

Oh, you own the Mohegan Sun?

No, the Mohegan Sun.

This clock

has already started.

No, the clock.

No, the clock is.

No, no, no.

No, no, don't start the clock.

It's already gone.

You already asked two questions.

You ever had one of those plain stick donuts, Mickey?

Don't start the clock.

Don't start the clock yet.

I haven't tried to.

Don't bother.

Don't waste your life on that.

Okay, what happened?

You said your breakfast went right through you.

Yeah, that cappuccino was just a little strong with the jet lag coming from Italy, you know.

Okay.

This is not the first question.

We've got five minutes and a second.

No, it starts with the first question.

How many first questions if you can?

Okay, no, we're going to start the clock in a second.

Mickey, thank you for joining us.

Zazzlo, you're in agreement with me.

Greatest owner in South Florida sports history, bar none.

Has brought me a lot of joy.

Greatest owner, yes.

That question was to Zazzlo, not you, Mickey.

That's right.

It was to DeZaslow, not to Mickey.

He is willing.

He is starting his Hall of Fame week right now.

It's very busy.

He's only got five minutes.

I'm going to ask the first question.

The first question is, true or false, you are looking forward to making your Hall of Fame speech.

False.

True or false, Mickey, LeBron is the best player in franchise history.

Oh,

tough question.

I got to give that to Dwayne Wayne.

That's a good answer.

Yeah, but it's false.

That makes it.

So why'd you make him such a shitty statue?

I mean, that thing looks nothing like him.

No.

Billy.

He didn't sculpt, dude.

It wasn't his fault.

Billy, that's not a question.

What is that?

You said you wanted me to ask him that, Dan.

You said, Billy, make sure you come in and club him with a headache.

You pulled him aside.

That's not true.

You pulled him aside.

You were like, Mike, ask him if he knows Zaslow.

And then, Billy, ask him about the weekend.

All right.

Mickey, are you excited about this weekend because you deserve it?

I'm excited?

No, I'm

excited is not the word.

What is it?

I'm appreciative.

Why would excited?

It is an honor, and so I'm appreciative, but it's not, you know, it's not what I love doing.

Getting up and giving speeches.

I don't think I've given one in 25 years.

Did you get any help with it?

Yeah.

And

are you dreading this?

Because

it should feel, forgive me for doing this, but it should feel like a celebration of great accomplishment.

It's the height of the sport.

Well, like I said, I'm appreciative.

I appreciate the honor from the hall, no question about it.

But it's not something, it was never a goal.

And so while I appreciate it, you know, the goal, we've reached our goal three times.

And

so I rather look forward to the fourth more than this.

But like I said, I'm very appreciative.

What are you proudest of?

What are you proudest of in your career?

Building the largest and greatest cruise company in the world.

Basketball-wise?

Being competitive most years,

winning more games than most franchises.

Coming from an expansion team, one of the youngest franchises, I think we set a pretty good record of achievement, which I'll talk about in my two minutes.

Dos Minutos!

The unfairest criticism of the Miami Heat in recent years.

There's been so much of it, I have no idea which is the most unfair.

Is there a way for that?

I have the unfortunate ability of reading social media, which is a horrible thing.

but having read, you know,

seen a lot of the

Twitter reaction to

what we've not achieved in the last year or so is no fun.

Mickey, is that the unfair criticism that has bothered you the most?

I don't know that it's unfair.

I didn't say it was unfair.

I just said that, you know, it's not fun to read.

Did you guys really lose LeBron James because Pat Rai stole his cookies on an airplane?

I think you have to ask LeBron James why LeBron James left, but I think in retrospect, he made a, for his personal career, he made a great decision.

True or false, the last year in Miami, LeBron James quit during the finals.

I don't believe a player like LeBron James ever quits.

Come on.

Do you know who Jonathan Zaslow is?

No.

Oh.

See, that's not right.

Devastating.

That's bullshit.

It's a great question.

I'm saying that's a you have to.

You're calling Mr.

Harrison a liar?

I'm saying Mike Ryan.

Mike Ryan's bullshit.

He's bullshit.

Ask Mickey Harrison your question.

Ask him.

Mickey, have you seen the new Superman?

No.

Mickey,

congratulations this weekend.

Five seconds left.

Was that as uncomfortable as you feared it would be?

No, it wasn't uncomfortable.

You know, I always look forward to talking to you, Dan.

I don't know why you never invite me.

Yeah, why aren't you inviting him, Dan?

I've been inviting him for 30 years.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mickey?

He does talk to you tomorrow and serve up more softballs.

Come on.

Weekly spot.

Anytime, Dan, you know that.

All right, a weekly guest.

Mickey, good talking to you.

Mike, you didn't get any Terry Rozier questions in.

Oh, yeah.

No, I'm the soft one here.

Matthew Berry, next.

Thank you, Mickey.

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Don Lebatard.

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Angel, we have gotten far away from where it happened, but I really did think that David Sampson had a bar early in the show when he said scammers can scam just like scammers can be scammed.

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Zaslow likes that opulence.

So, too, does Matthew Berry, who has a backdrop here that is exactly the backdrop that Matthew Berry also always wants to have as the fantasy king

that he is.

Like, look at him.

Like, he's doing this.

That's insane.

Yeah, of course.

Big football.

Big football is all behind him.

And look at him.

He's preening.

That is an album cover right there for fantasy league players everywhere.

Look how large he looks there.

Yeah, it's weird.

So I'm at the link, obviously, Football Night in America tonight.

We're kicking off.

We actually have football tonight.

Cowboys and Eagles.

So I'm here in Philadelphia.

It actually looks semi-fake.

It looks like AI, Dan, but

I am here.

I'm on my iPad talking to you guys.

So, yeah, it's unsettlingly large.

Well, you look epic.

You're a king in the industry.

And everyone knows this time of year,

the fantasy.

I open the floor to you guys.

You guys know I don't like fantasy.

You guys know that that's not a thing for me.

Why?

I don't follow all this stuff.

I don't care about whether you follow.

You don't follow football.

No, I just don't want to predict.

Dan, let me ask you a question, though.

Can I ask you a question?

Because I know you've had this take for a long time.

You've been very consistent about this.

But have we ever gotten into why?

And somebody just said this.

Why don't you like fantasy?

I know you don't, and I'm not trying to convince you to do it, but I'm just curious, what about it don't you like?

The thing that I don't like is that if I am betting on someone to get 80 plus yards in a game game rushing, and that person ends up getting hurt, I don't like losing my money.

I don't like investing in things that are so predictive that no one knows anything about what's going to happen.

You guys are very good at the information.

You guys are better than most at being able to correctly predict what's going to be a success on the field.

But the thing that I don't like about it is it's so much guesswork that with my money, and I can lose so much of it quickly because I'd prefer just one game and I'd like, I'd like that to be where the action is.

I don't need to have action in 150 different places hoping that Kyle Pitts has over three and a half catches.

This guy doesn't love ball.

He doesn't.

I should have known early when he didn't like my list.

How long was he crying?

That felt like 35 seconds.

Yeah, I would say the audio went out there, so I didn't hear the whole thing, but I get the general gist of it.

I would just say that in terms of fantasy, you don't have to play for money.

You can just play with your friends.

And it's not really about Kyle Pitts over three and a half receptions.

You are rooting for players and their performance, but it's not that's more of a betting thing, I would say.

But it is, it does give you a rooting interest in games that you might not normally care about, and it is a way to you know bond, whether it is people you work with, people you went to college with, uh, friends and family, it's a way to stay in touch as well.

So, um, but I understand that, like, I respect it, I've heard versions of that before, and uh, I consider it an amazing accomplishment in my career.

I consider it an amazing accomplishment in my career that despite the fact that Dan hates fantasy, I've somehow managed to be a multi-time guest on the Dan Lebatard show.

Dan, you're actually going to be in a fantasy league with Matthew Berry.

You don't know, but you're signed up.

We're doing the draft next week.

We're going to start it a little late, but a guillotine league, and you're in it.

I don't even know what that means, a guillotine league.

Oh, it's the good stuff.

You actually might like it better because if you lose the first week, you're gone.

You don't have to deal with it anymore.

But it's for winning.

I erred in saying Kyle Pitts over three and and a half yards because when it is that you go to yardages and you have to do the guesswork, what you're saying is that this allows you to care about games that you wouldn't normally care about.

And I would say it's part of the dehumanization of the athlete because he's only worth whatever his 60 yards in resistance.

I hate to say one police.

Kyle Pitts is out on that field whether I draft him on my fantasy team or not.

Dehumanization.

Jeez, Louise.

Are you kidding me, dog?

I want him to succeed.

I want him to have 100 yards and a touchdown.

They already elected a Pope, Dan.

It's fine.

I'm pretty sure you don't know what fantasy football is.

Okay.

Matthew Berry has a

legitimate league, that he would actually enjoy it.

If you opened your mind and gave it a shot, I actually think you would enjoy it.

Because, right, I understand the dehumanization aspect, but that's true with football, right?

There are fans that have nothing to do with fantasy that yell at guys because they dropped a pass, because

they didn't complete something.

So, I mean, like, it's, that's just a fandom thing that's not a that's not a fantasy thing that's just how certain people view the game but uh i don't view the game that way and i don't think anyone on your staff does dehumanization man i legitimately love shane vereen yeah i will love shane vereen forever danny woodhead is a god he is such a human to me he's more than a human that like but jokes aside i jokes that the one that's one of the great things and why fantasy football is so good for the nfl is because you joke about shane vereen or danny woodhead two legends in the fantasy game, but it does give attention to players that might normally not get it.

The Jaguars were not good last year.

Brian Thomas Jr.

was not a highly drafted guy.

You know, Marvin Harrison, Malik Neighbors, those were the wide receivers that everyone cared about coming out of college last year.

But Brian Thomas Jr.

became a superstar in fantasy football.

And he's obviously known in NFL circles, but not nearly as well.

as he was in fantasy football circles.

Small market guy who performed very well on a bad team, Brian Thomas Jr.

last year.

And so it does give attention to players that might normally not get it.

Matthew, you played fantasy football obviously for many, many years.

What is the most angry you've ever been over fantasy football?

There's, you can search it up.

You can, Alfred Morris, one point.

I was in a league and

I just

lost it.

And it was a Monday night football game.

And I needed one point.

Literally, one, the guy I was playing was done.

I needed Alfred Morris, who at the time was the starting running back for the San Francisco 49ers.

It was a Monday night game against the Packers.

I just needed literally one point from Alfred Morris.

You got points for first downs.

So I win the game, but then there's a penalty.

It comes back and he never touches the ball again.

He literally got only one play.

He earns a first down.

He got like an eight-yard carry for a first down.

They call it back due to penalty.

And I lose by like 0.7 when all I needed was one point.

And I just did it.

I just lost

it on

my podcast that I was doing.

And so I just did an epic rant.

And you can search it up on YouTube.

Matthew Berry, Alfred Morris, one point.

And I just go off for like five minutes.

That is the angriest I've ever been.

It's just, it was just the most frustrating loss of all time watching that entire game and Alfred Morris can't get any one stupid point.

Chris Cody, would you like to get that audio and video so that I can tell you why it is that I don't like fantasy as we see our friend Matthew Berry melt down in an assortment of hysterics over a single football yard when he's an alleged adult human being?

I would like to play that sound for the people and what it does to people I also don't like because the people want to tell me about their fantasy league and that terrible loss they suffered.

Yeah, but that's the part of the community, Dan.

You don't like community.

I've realized

you don't like community.

You don't like ball.

Like I love war stories, more of them.

But Dan, people are like that.

People are like that about Alabama losing to Florida State.

Like when you care about a team, whether it's your fake football team or your real football team, when you lose a frustrating game, you're upset.

That's why we love about, that's what we love about sports.

There's a passion.

There's a there's a there's a love there.

And so, yes, you know, when the people you love let you down, you get disappointed.

And whether it's, you know, a fake team that you've assembled or a team that you've grown up watching, you know.

So I don't know that any of the emotions you're arguing against are different in fantasy than they are in normal, actual football.

That would be my argument back to you.

Matthew,

you must get fantasy football questions wherever you go, which is probably really annoying when you're just trying to like enjoy your day.

But when you did Avengers, were any of the Avengers asking you fantasy football advice?

They were.

They were, and they do to this day.

And honestly, the reason I was in that movie, I was in Avengers Endgame, is because I was in a fantasy league with Joe Russo, who, you know, obviously directed the movie with his brother Anthony, the Russo brothers.

And we became friends and he said he had a part for me.

And I was just like, great.

And so they're actually, there's a lot of them that are hardcore fantasy football.

players.

And so for a number of years, I played in the league with

Chris Pratt and Chris Evans, all the Chrises, actually.

Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr., Paul Rudd's a crazy fantasy football player.

All of them.

Yeah.

I need a couple of them.

I need you to keep hitting that.

He just hit us with like five look-at-me Louis, did he not?

Hemsworth had the worst team, right?

That got us in no football.

Hemsworth was actually, no, Hemsworth actually had a good team.

I think he probably had somebody helping him out.

I'll see Robert Louis.

No, I'm not allowed.

Are you allowed to do a look-at-me Louie when I'm asked a direct question?

When I'm answering a direct question, I need to know the rules on this.

No, but they said, no, but wait a minute.

He asked you about being in the Avengers, and then you volunteered all of those names that you're in a league with and that you're still friends with them.

No, no, no, no.

Dan, he asked me, do any of those guys ask me for, did any of the Avengers ask me for fantasy advice?

And so the answer is, is yes, they did, I suppose.

But I would think your audience would want to know, okay, well, which of the Avengers asked you for fantasy advice?

And I'm telling you that not only they asked me for fantasy advice, but they're hardcore.

players um that are league fair enough if i mention that i i think i'm i'm just i get one look at me louis Louis.

I don't think five.

He's the founder.

I'm not the only one that I was in a league with him.

That's fair.

He's fair.

I'll allow that one.

He's the founder.

You're not entitled to allow or not allow around here.

Sure, you've already gotten it and you'll eat it.

You can object to it, but you'll still eat it.

Founder of fantasylife.com, host of the fantasy football happy hour with Matthew Berry.

It's on NBC Sports and Peacock.

On his pod, the description is Matthew Berry is on the Mount Rushmore of fantasy football analysts.

Who's up there with you?

That's a great question, actually.

And I haven't, I didn't come up with that phrase.

I didn't say that.

I don't know who else is up there with me um i'd have to actually i'd actually have to think about that um a lot of people that do great i feel like i'm just going to offend people if i don't mention uh if i don't mention

you're in the entertainment business sir you can't wiggle around that question with a bunch of cowardice you got to throw a couple of people on there at the risk of offending others eric carabelle is waiting with bated breath

Yeah, listen, Eric Carabelle is a legend, right, Eric?

Eric's been doing it forever and ever.

He was at ESPN before I ever got there as well.

I'll say my friend friend Joe Bryant, over at Football Guys, has been doing it forever and does a great job, still does a great job.

So I'll say

I'll put him up there as well.

Evan Silva would also like a word.

I think he didn't allow Carabelle up to it.

No, listen,

Evan's great.

I mean, that's the thing.

Like, you could mention a bunch of people.

I'd be like, yeah,

Evan's great.

Like all the people I work with at ESPN.

Matthew.

He feels great.

Matthew feels great.

Matthew, did you just give us coach speak on Eric Carabelle?

Is that what just happened on our show where you just said, well, Eric Carabelle, yeah, you know, he's a good guy.

A lot of respect for him.

He's a lot of respect for him, but no, he's clearly not on the Melt Rushmore.

But I would never say that.

I would never say that out loud because I'm just giving you a bunch of blue mist in your face.

Well,

now you're going to pay me the corner because I like Eric.

I have no issue with Eric.

He's not on the Mel Rushmore.

He's out.

He's out.

He's out.

He's out.

Get him out of here.

He's much more of a baseball guy, and he would tell you that himself if he were on the Mel Rushman.

Oh, my God.

We didn't say fantasy football, Mount Rushmore.

We said fantasy football.

Some would say without fantasy baseball, there'd be no fantasy football.

Precisely.

Respect your elders.

Meanwhile, they're cutting the grass behind me.

Well, oh, here's a Mount Rushmore guy.

That if it's fantasy and it's not just football specific, Ron Chandler

of baseball HQ fame.

Ron Chandler is an absolute legend.

He's on the Mount Rushmore of fantasy sports for sure.

Didn't he invent rotisserie?

He did not invent rotisserie.

He did.

He was the first person that takes

Rogers.

Ron Chandler was the first person that used analytics and data, underlying statistics, to predict future performance under the lens of fantasy sports.

He's the first guy to do that.

I need to stop you for just a second because I've been negligent this segment.

He's the founder of FantasyLife.com.

He's the host of Fantasy Football.

Happy Hour with Matthew Berry.

It's on NBC Sports and Peacock.

He's a giant.

Trying to sell fantasy to you.

What's next?

French fries?

Yeah, yeah.

Pizza.

It's awesome.

I don't know about pizza.

Okay, I know you guys.

He's got the link.

Look at him.

This is a great day.

Okay, yes, it is.

My bad.

Let's get in these last two minutes that we have with Matthew Berry.

Just condense it for it because I know everyone out there is searching all pods for all information.

Give us your best two minutes of Matthew Berry is telling you this weekend, here's where the money is in fantasy.

No, I love it.

Hang on one second.

I got the

no, I know.

Everyone's getting ready for a big night.

Well, everybody's waiting for these two minutes, Matthew.

I've wasted everyone's time because everyone wants the gold of these two minutes.

I will get out of the way.

And for two minutes, you give everyone, please, your best information this weekend.

For this weekend, I think Xavier Worthy, who's had at least five receptions for each of his last eight full games against a Chargers defense.

It was one of the worst teams against the deep pass.

No Rashi Rice, no Jalen Royals.

I think Xavier Worthy has a big game.

No team in the NFL gave up more rushing touchdowns last year than the New Orleans Saints.

Give me James Conner, who last year got 76%

of his team's goal-to-go rushing attempts.

I think Drake May has a great game this week, his debut against the Raiders.

According to Pro Football Focus, our friends over at PFF, no secondary is worse heading into week one than the Las Vegas Raiders.

I think they let him run quite a bit as well.

I think Jacksonville and Carolina is going to be a sneaky shootout.

Give me all the Trevor Lawrence, all the Travis Hunter this week

as well.

I'm excited for tonight's game

with the the Eagles and the Cowboys.

I think they pass more this year, the Eagles do.

So give me Samay Brown and Devontae Smith.

How about Jerome Ford?

I think Jerome Ford, with Quinn Sean Jutkins, still unsigned for the Browns.

I think Jerome Ford is going to be

Jerome Ford is there.

That guy is what?

No.

Jerome Ford is what?

He's still taunting Matthew.

Jerome is what?

Everybody wants this.

This is Jerome Ford is what?

What?

It's being lost.

Jerome

Because his audio blows.

The link.

Jerome Ford.

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Don Lebatard.

I ain't never met nobody in the world that's done hate on blues.

Great nomination.

Like, who don't like Blues Clues, bro?

If you don't like Blues Clues, you're a loser.

Stugats.

Look, you get one paw paw print that's the first clue you put it in a notebook now what do you do

blues clues blues clues sit on the chair and think about it this is the dun lebatar show with the stugats

we have again segregated jeremy tashet in baseball put it apart from the show it's in the post-game show if you want your baseball if you want your pitch clock on a football Thursday that I've befouled by talking to Matthew Berry in a way that everyone here thought was improperly disrespectful because I wasn't properly loving of all the things that Matthew Berry is.

Look at Tony still shaking his head.

It's just he's a legend of the game, Dan.

And then you don't like fantasy football.

You don't get it.

It's like we're trying to pitch it to you.

Like if it's the first time ever, it's in 1984.

You're essentially saying what he does is bullshit.

Yeah, that's what you're doing.

Look, I did the Brad Marshawn thing for two months.

I knew it was a bad bit.

I admitted I was wrong.

You've been doing this bad bit for 15 years.

I may have to admit at some point that my ignorance about this thing makes me hate it because all of you asking me about Greg Cody's football lobos has poisoned me over the years and made me hate fantasy football.

You'd think that after the show was presented by DraftKings, he'd get that.

I am who I am.

I will always be who I am.

Is that Popeye?

Juju.

Yes, thank you.

That is Popeye.

I am what I am.

That's Popeye's phrase.

I'm just taking it.

I didn't know that Popeye hated fantasy football.

Juju is here.

He is going to critique the show in other ways.

In what other ways did I fail today, Juju?

Man, I'd like to welcome you to the Mob Land Hive, Big Brother, because like I say, man, that's just an incredibly produced show.

I can't wait for season two, but you enraged the crowd when saying it it was better than the Sopranos.

That was what could be better.

Yeah, you had a lot of reactions.

Oh, no, wait a minute.

Just so that everyone knows, like, I love the Sopranos.

It's one of the greatest television shows of all time.

I just got five Guy Richie movies.

If you give me seven seasons of five Guy Richie movies, it'll be better than the Sopranos.

Well, Cafasito Crew Gaming says you are a prisoner of the moment.

And Jeremiah W says you have gone too far.

Nope.

Look, you guys aren't properly respecting what Guy Ritchie does.

The actors in Mobland are so much better than the ones in the Sopranos.

So much better.

Not a little bit better.

A lot better.

And the music.

Just, Mike, please look up for me.

Even better than the great Stevie Van Zandt?

Mike, please look up for me, if you will, the music at the beginning.

It's the only intro I do not skip.

I skip all the intros except the music to Mobland because I don't know who even does it because the song at the beginning of Mobland is so.

You skip the succession intro?

yes well that's the only other one

that's the only other one I occasionally did not miss you did get me Zaz the great poly walnuts rest in peace by the way what other criticisms they got of me uh they don't have too many too much more criticisms they were uh a little bit restless on the football talk because we started with a lot of other stuff besides football today we got into Mickey Harrison pretty early we got into David Sampson which is a crowd favorite and they was like get to the football so whenever whenever Tony did his list, man, the chat lit up and y'all really lit them boys up today.

Thank you.

We'll do better tomorrow.

I'm not so sure.

It's a football fan.

I'm not here to save you tomorrow, Dan.

And Dan is threatened to be here.

You got to talk for the rest of the season.

Thursday Thunder is upon us.

Let's do that quickly before we get to Gas Bag of the Week.

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Kazim, you got to know.

Salute to Cash, man.

But football season is back and everybody's celebrating.

So I want to kick it off with going over 6.5 catches right now tonight for my boy CD Lamb, man.

Come on, man.

They're going to be down a little bit tonight and they're going to have to air that thing out.

So

CeeDe Lamb over 6.5.

Second leg, I'm going with my boy Fergie.

I'm going with Mr.

Cavender himself, Jake Ferguson, for over 3.5 catches as well.

I feel like that's,

and I don't want to jinx it, but that seems pretty Scooby-snackable to me, if you feel me.

Last leg, you know, I can't forget about my ladies.

I can't forget about them.

Even though it's Football Thursday, I'm going with the Minnesota Lynx.

Minus two and a half points tonight against the Las Vegas Aces.

The last time they played the Aces, they beat them by 50-something,

50-umption points.

So lock it in tonight.

Thursday, Thunder, baby.

As an apology to Matthew Berry and an audience that has turned against me and rightfully turned against me, what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a deal with MetalArc Media and Matthew Berry that he gives us his best three three minutes of fantasy football secrets every single week where he joins us.

And it's just every single week, I'm going to give you what you want.

Not what I want.

I don't want to do three minutes of fantasy football, but where he gives you like the machine gun, here's what you need to do this weekend.

You don't even need to listen to my whole podcast.

These are the moves you need to make.

We're going to do that deal as a season-long apology for what it is that I did on this first of football Thursdays.

My apologies to all involved.

Let's do the polls here before we end the show on a gas bag of the week.

What do you have?

And this part of the show.

Pitch clock is in the post-game segregated.

What do you have for us on the polls, Juju?

Man, we got some important polls today.

Does a donut need to be sweet?

85% of the audience says, yes, it does.

Sorry, Zaz.

Sorry, what?

I was sweet as hell when I was touching my lips.

Does a donut need to be round?

56% of the audience says, no, it does not.

Salute to Zaszlo.

That's a bit of a shocker, is it not?

Are you guys not shocked a little bit by that one?

No, I thought

donut had to be round and have a hole.

No.

Whose tears did you enjoy more?

Alabama's or Bill Belichick's?

Oh, that was from yesterday.

That's a good one.

Right.

55% of the audience says they enjoy Alabama's tears more.

Right.

Also, happy retirement to Nicola Vucevich under the radar.

Sneaky big man.

The Russian.

Yeah, the Russian.

The last poll.

Who's the nuttiest fan of the week?

The Alabama fan who gave us a barrel to remember?

Or

it's two.

Dang, can I explain?

I struggled yesterday as well.

What is happening?

The UM fans fancy inappropriate.

Okay, so this is our new sponsored segment.

Nuttiest fan, we can't do it correctly.

Well, peace and peace is partner, let's say.

yeah okay yeah okay well the back of the man's jersey says i come in peace and the back of his wife's jersey says peace

which fan is the nuttiest of the week 64 of the audience says the peace couple and those are your polls uh thank you uh juju i appreciate the time would you like to hear who this week's gas bag of the week is because i've been asking these guys to get better at finding gas bags of the week.

They have failed.

They failed for months.

They failed for years, really, getting me just, you would think with all the people talking at the content trough, it'd be pretty easy to find someone who's a gas bag of the week.

So show me, guys.

Show me something here on who was most wrong this week, most loudly about anything he had to say in the gas bag department.

Gas bag of the week.

This is a beast coming to college football.

This is not a lazy old man that you underestimate because you're forgetful about what he did before the last five years you were watching.

Do you know what it takes to win in that sport?

Everyone is fighting for money, for careers with their bodies.

This dude conquered everyone, had a murderer on the roster, went through cheating scandals, conquered that league again and again, like no one has, and now wants to prove it.

in the minor leagues of professional football.

I'd be terrified to compete against whatever he's got coming my way.

I don't feel good about it as a Miami fan.

Hey, hey, cut that one.

Hey, cut that, cut that one.

Bad Eddie.

Bad Eddie.

Important context.

So Mike is clearly the gas bag of the week.

How often are you going to shoehorn Aaron Hernandez into a conversation?

Let him rest in peace, Dan.

What?

Wait.

What?

Embarrass yourself there, Mike.

Great.

What?

Who's me?

I have shoehorned a lot of Aaron Hernandez into the show today.

Not exactly the way to celebrate the return of football, I don't think.

I think I failed today in that regard.

Did we fail at the Mickey Harrison interview as well?

Didn't quite ask him about the Saudis.

I think we were soft, and we set ourselves up there.

You're just a mouthpiece.

Jeez.

It's bad.

It's bad.

You were talking all sorts of noise about Mark Cuban, and then you were like, no, I'm going to ask him about this.

And you were like, I'm definitely going to ask him about Kushner.

That is my idea.

I'm going to ask him.

And then you did it.

Yeah.

Could have gone better.

Zaslow, to you.

Like, I don't know that on a football Thursday.

I don't know.

I would say in general, my judgment was a little bit off today, that doing that with Mickey Harrison at all was a bad choice by me.

I just,

he's lying when he tells us that he hasn't seen Superman.

Well, where was this tough guy earlier?

His energy, though, was palpable.

Yeah, he was definitely telling the truth when he said he didn't know who you were.

See, that's another thing.

I mean, you're telling me I haven't seen any kind of personality like this from Mickey Harrison.

Now, all of a sudden, he becomes a trickster?

Told us his cruise line is the number one cruise line in the world, too.

Whoa!

That's up for debate.

That's up for you.

Where were you, During?

He was here.

The chickens.

Excuse me?

The chickens are back.

Billy showed up.

I was here for journalism, my friend.

I'm with the Big J in the show today.

He owns Royal.

Big J.

That statue is shit.

Come on.

It's not his fault, but come on.

I mean,

his building.

Gaga is his fault.

Buck stops with him.

Yeah, what happened to Gaga?

We forgot to ask about Gaga.

It's only five minutes.

He'll be on wake up.

Oh, I took a big shit today.

He's like, whoa, Mickey, come on, man.

It's family show.

What are you doing here?

He'll be on next week.