Hour 2: Balls Live Forever (feat. Amin Elhassan)

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Speaker 11 Another amazing weekend in the NFL.

Speaker 13 How does this sport routinely do this?

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Speaker 23 What is the big game next week? Is it Jacksonville at home against the Chiefs?

Speaker 20 MNF.

Speaker 24 Yeah, Monday night.

Speaker 26 We're not even doing this week.

Speaker 27 We're done with this week.

Speaker 23 Not quite yet.

Speaker 23 There is one story, I believe, in the NFL that is being

Speaker 23 wildly undercovered.

Speaker 23 And I think the audience might be surprised by this story because you have a home stadium that is actively injuring its most important players.

Speaker 23 And I don't think enough people are talking about what is happening with and to the New York Giants.

Speaker 23 So yesterday, the Giants pull off the biggest upset in the sport because Jim Harbaugh, who Zaslow has credited with being the greatest coach ever and Colin Cowherd has stolen that take,

Speaker 23 was wildly unprepared for the quarterback draw. He had no answers for Jackson Dart just scrambling right up the middle.

Speaker 23 Jackson Dart scores on his opening drive, does the funky chicken in the end zone to dance. Jackson Dart also punched people with a stiff arm as he was running down the field.

Speaker 23 He got the full rookie experience. He also entered the concussion protocol as well during the game.

Speaker 23 Jackson Dart was serviceable, although just throw for 100 yards, kid, and don't turn the ball over and allow Justin Herbert to make mistakes against our defense and allow Dexter Carter or Dexter Lawrence, excuse me, to produce a fat guy running with the football moment that was only usurped by the Alabama player being thrown a screen pass.

Speaker 23 What was his name again? I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 350 Proctor.

Speaker 23 Thank you.

Speaker 23 Close. It was a delight.
And the Giants, though, I don't think enough people are talking about this. What is that stadium?

Speaker 23 How is it that this stadium gets away with hurting all of the important Giants players, including Malik Neighbors, the most exciting wide receiver, young wide receiver in the league, being knocked out for the season with an ACL tear that you knew immediately was horrible just from the way he was writhing around on the ground?

Speaker 29 So we have a stat.

Speaker 11 Keep in mind, this will just count Giants.

Speaker 13 We've seen plenty of injuries to opposing players and famously Aaron Rodgers on that same turf. But the Giants have drafted six wide receivers and tight ends in the first two rounds since 2014.

Speaker 13 Hodell Beckham Jr., Sterling Shepard, Evan Ingram, Kadarius Tony, Wandale Robinson, Malik Neighbors.

Speaker 11 Five of those six have suffered season-ending injuries at MetLife Stadium. This turf remains a problem.

Speaker 13 The NFL just kind of keeps pushing along, but their season is done-done after an infusion of hope with a new quarterback in there.

Speaker 27 And you saw their offensive production.

Speaker 22 Jackson Dart likes to air it out.

Speaker 13 That would have been a great connection to get excited about.

Speaker 14 Might have even saved Brian Daybull's job.

Speaker 13 Who knows? And now their season is totally crushed yet again by an injury sustained by the turf monster at MetLife.

Speaker 23 Why aren't more people talking about and making the link between that state? How many more players do I have to injure for the Giants before that becomes a national story on that field is unsafe?

Speaker 23 This isn't a coincidence that this keeps happening to the team that plays the most there.

Speaker 4 You figure after the second or third one, you're like, you know what?

Speaker 31 Somebody should look into that, right?

Speaker 4 After the first one, okay, it's a fluke. Second, third, fourth, it's like, all right, we're hurting our guys that we're paying by not just.

Speaker 4 How much is it to change the turf in a stadium?

Speaker 24 Arizona wheels it in and out every two days.

Speaker 30 What are we doing?

Speaker 26 Odell Beckham tweeted out about it last night after the game. You see this, Danny tweeted, dear NFL, I mean this with the most, with the utmost respect and love.

Speaker 26 We take all the precautions in the world with everything else when it comes to players' health and safety. Please, please, please get rid of the turf.
Thank you in advance.

Speaker 26 And then he followed that with respect, and you know I love the Giants, but death life.

Speaker 26 That's a play on the name of the stadium because it's MetLife. He calls it Death Life.
Has taken too many talented players away from the game. I know it's not all the Turf's fault, but at least maybe

Speaker 26 to where we've gotten all research done, the turf has to stay. It's at the highest of quality possible.
At least we can start the discussion.

Speaker 27 Look, injuries happen everywhere, every stadium, violent game.

Speaker 13 That may or may not be for Jonathan Zaslow.

Speaker 26 I'm just tackle a guy normal. You can't just run around punching dudes.

Speaker 20 It is a narrative around this stadium more than ever.

Speaker 11 And it doesn't just happen to New York Giants players. We saw Jalen Phillips have a huge injury on that same turf.
Aaron Rodgers famously, as we mentioned previously.

Speaker 14 It's a thing.

Speaker 18 And it hasn't stopped being a thing.

Speaker 26 You know what? I'm actually thinking now. What if instead of, I may be in on this.
What if instead of actual tackling, the only way that the play-ins,

Speaker 26 you have to punch the guy. That's how you get him down.

Speaker 15 Have you seen that video?

Speaker 4 It's at MMA basketball where dudes are playing basketball, but it's MMA too.

Speaker 17 So you grab a rebound and then you sock a guy.

Speaker 35 I might be in on that.

Speaker 6 That sport is for me.

Speaker 35 I might be in on that.

Speaker 16 That sport is for me.

Speaker 17 But look, yet another brilliant talent.

Speaker 15 Who knows if he'll ever be the same?

Speaker 11 Because people heal from these injuries differently.

Speaker 33 And at what point do you bake this into how you construct a team?

Speaker 14 Let's stop getting guys, skill guys on the outside that can help us.

Speaker 15 Let's just be a trench and running game team because the MetLife turf comes for us all.

Speaker 23 That is a disaster injury for the Giants. That is a disaster injury for the development of a young quarterback that did show some promise yesterday.
That's a tough spot to put Jackson Dart in.

Speaker 23 I haven't seen a quarterback look good against that defense. And what he did with his athleticism was something that Harbaugh was clearly unprepared for the entirety of the game.

Speaker 23 They never adjusted to to the way that Jackson Dart moves, and he evidently moves better than Russell Wilson because when Russell Wilson was in the game, because Jackson Dart was in the concussion protocol, Russell Wilson did not look like Jackson Dart did.

Speaker 16 Also, another argument for the Lord's time zone.

Speaker 11 Yeah, you got a team from L.A. playing in that one o'clock window.

Speaker 34 It's a great equalizer sometimes, often against the spread.

Speaker 23 What happened in the morning game, and I don't know if this happened to you guys again. It happens to me every year.
I forget at 9:30 a.m. that there is a game being played.

Speaker 23 And so it was Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 23 God almighty, DK Metcalf is a physical specimen.

Speaker 23 Unlike so many in the NFL, where he's running 80 yards beyond your secondary and then also at the three-yard line, looking for contact when your one guy does show up and does catch up, your one smaller guy.

Speaker 23 He goes looking for him in order to make the contact because he's such a beast.

Speaker 15 Can you imagine trying to tackle him?

Speaker 11 Not unlike Caden Proctor, DK Metcalf with 80-yard steam behind him, looking to put a shoulder into somebody.

Speaker 23 I burst out laughing at the end of that game at Carson Wentz trying to bring them back in the hurry-up offense and getting a delay of game. Like,

Speaker 23 what are you doing?

Speaker 14 It's been a while, Dan. Come on,

Speaker 4 when's the last time he did a two-minute drill?

Speaker 16 Good news. They're body clocks.
Say you just next week.

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Speaker 23 Did you learn that Schuyler Thompson was a Steeler after hearing he got mugged in Dublin? So

Speaker 4 he gets mugged. He has minor injuries.
Obviously, he's not playing because of another injury. But imagine the injuries sustained at the mugging.

Speaker 19 I mean, doesn't minor injuries mean he got punched in the face a bunch? Maybe.

Speaker 4 Maybe we don't know what they are. They're still investigating it.
But imagine the minor injuries, they had enough to say it. If he was playing that week, they wouldn't have said minor injuries.

Speaker 4 It just would have said nothing.

Speaker 30 And that's football versus being mugged.

Speaker 23 I would like to know some details about what happened there because getting mugged in Dublin seems like it'd be pretty awful. And I think football says minor injuries that I wouldn't consider minor.

Speaker 37 Exactly.

Speaker 23 If they were injuries on me, I don't think that I would describe them as minor, but I'd like more details.

Speaker 27 Were you saying getting mugged in Dublin, as a matter of fact, as a newsy tidbit, or out of all the towns that I'd possibly get mugged in,

Speaker 11 Dublin just seems bad because of caricatures and stereotypes that I apply to the general region.

Speaker 14 Such hooligans.

Speaker 23 It's hooligans is what I'm thinking of. I'm thinking Dublin just feels unsafe.

Speaker 26 Just a bunch of guys that look like Seamus.

Speaker 23 I thought of you, Zaszlo, this weekend because there is a football player that I believe has the same relationship with his kids that you have with your kids, where you're clearly not

Speaker 23 in control of the Zaszlo mansion.

Speaker 28 How dare you?

Speaker 23 Oh, I mean, your kid called you Sugar Tits. Like, what do you mean? How dare you? Well, it wasn't to my face.

Speaker 26 It was via text.

Speaker 23 Okay, but he called you sugar tits, and your kids, you know, don't mind fighting you, and you don't mind fighting them.

Speaker 23 Do you guys know who I'm talking about when I say there's an NFL player who appears to have the same relationship with his kids that Zaszlo does? I've seen this

Speaker 23 in the NBA some.

Speaker 23 Carlos Boozer's kids, when they were little, they are no longer little, they're going to make Duke very good good next year. But when they were little, they would come to NBA games

Speaker 23 wearing the jerseys of Carlos Boozer's sworn enemies. Joe Flacco's got disrespectful kids, man.
Like,

Speaker 23 they wear St. Brown jerseys yesterday.

Speaker 37 They're drawing pictures of Gibbs.

Speaker 28 Like,

Speaker 23 they're actively trying to bother their old man. They don't respect their old man.
They respect the old man's opponents too much. That's garbage.

Speaker 26 That'd be like in my kids. They decided to walk around in like Collie Coward shirts.

Speaker 35 What about me?

Speaker 16 Did you watch the two quarterback sneaks from Joe Flacco at the goal line?

Speaker 15 God bless them.

Speaker 29 God bless him.

Speaker 16 Father Time, 10-8 round.

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 29 Last game for Joe Flacco.

Speaker 23 Amino Hassan's going to join us here, and we've got an announcement to make with our beloved friends at Flanagan's in a second.

Speaker 23 But first, I'd like to revisit how Tony tried to say legally, illegally, and allegedly last segment.

Speaker 4 And Liam Cohen has been known to maybe steal illegal

Speaker 4 signs.

Speaker 4 I think I covered myself there pretty well.

Speaker 22 I think it's illegally, allegedly, it's a live program.

Speaker 30 Legal, legally.

Speaker 4 And Liam Cohen has been known to maybe steal illegal

Speaker 4 stealing signs.

Speaker 13 People can misspeak.

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Speaker 38 Well, what do people want?

Speaker 23 Amin El Hassan is got his weekend observations. I was happy for Amin this weekend because Georgia Tech remains in the game, remains relevant.

Speaker 23 I would worry that Brent Key does very well against the teams he's overmatched with, but against

Speaker 23 unranked teams in the ACC, he's got a 500 record because he plays down to Wake Forest. Wake Forrest gets a chance at the end of that game.

Speaker 23 And I wish more people did this in both college and the pros, but that's why they don't. Wake Forest went for two at the end of the game to win.
instead of tying the game.

Speaker 31 What a crap play, too, after like a 10-minute delay.

Speaker 23 Well, I don't think that most of the people listening to this realize that the University of Miami's first championship was won because Tom Osborne with an overwhelming Nebraska team went for two at the end of a game and season when, if he had tied, he would have remained number one.

Speaker 39 All-time balls move.

Speaker 28 Oh, but all-time loss as well because,

Speaker 23 okay, congratulations, Tom Osborne. Forever, you have balls, but you don't have a championship because at the end, you did some basic math that was wrong.

Speaker 23 You have to play for the tie if what it gets you at the end is you're the number one team automatically with a tie. That's crazy.

Speaker 23 What are you doing? I mean, why is it that you're holding your face in your hands?

Speaker 40 You just gave Mario Crystal Ball a new idea now.

Speaker 40 Hey, coach, if we go for the tie, we'll win. We'll be national champs.
Not ballsy enough. We got to go for two

Speaker 34 usually i'm not a fan of this kind of banter but this one's fair he would

Speaker 23 tom osborne is remembered for going for two in that spot and it was absolutely the wrong move but

Speaker 23 stupidly and stubbornly male because you want to point out to everyone i have balls but what i don't have is a championship yeah for that georgia tech wake forest i think it was the right move for that georgia tech wake forest game and uh look i'm a savvy veteran of uh the acc and its coastal division that is no longer around with us.

Speaker 31 You can kill the coastal, but you cannot kill its spirit or the idea.

Speaker 34 And the coastal comes for us all.

Speaker 13 The second an ACC team without top end talent starts feeling himself, that's when you fade him.

Speaker 4 Also, Dan, championships, yes, they live forever.

Speaker 17 But you know what else lives forever?

Speaker 6 Balls.

Speaker 24 You go, that guy had balls.

Speaker 17 He might be dead.

Speaker 4 Might have a championship. May not.

Speaker 30 Doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 Balls.

Speaker 42 Oh, Lance Armstrong.

Speaker 6 Ball. Ball.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 30 You know Ball, dude. I do know his.

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Speaker 46 Everybody was wondering. They was wondering, Hawk, when was your era? It was 2003.

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Speaker 23 Amin, are you ready to do the weekend observations?

Speaker 40 I am.

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Speaker 6 It is time for

Speaker 10 to share his game notes.

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Speaker 13 That's what Amin is bringing today, Amin.

Speaker 40 Thanks, Amin.

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Speaker 40 Dan, Dan,

Speaker 40 this weekend,

Speaker 40 a familiar sound boomed across the landscape.

Speaker 6 Can you hear it?

Speaker 40 That unmistakable whine?

Speaker 40 That uncontrollable sob?

Speaker 40 Because just like that,

Speaker 40 make no mistake, white people complaining about the Super Bowl halftime show is back.

Speaker 9 Yes.

Speaker 30 I had Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 23 Two Louis. Benito.

Speaker 40 How many people are going to be like, I don't understand what he's saying?

Speaker 40 Why doesn't he sing in English? This is America. Go back to Puerto Rico.
Oh, I can't wait for it. I can't wait.

Speaker 40 You know, the worst part is we have to wait months for that wine to finally come to a crescendo of absolute terror.

Speaker 40 Undefeated NFL teams.

Speaker 40 And then there were two.

Speaker 40 Should have been three.

Speaker 40 It's all your fault, Adonai Mitchell.

Speaker 40 Adonai Mitchell dropped what would have been the touchdown catch of the year.

Speaker 40 Then had a hold on what would have been the touchdown run of the year.

Speaker 40 Afterwards, he said, it stings.

Speaker 40 No shit, Sherlock.

Speaker 40 Chiefs versus Ravens.

Speaker 40 The rare must-win game.

Speaker 40 Between two championship contenders who are both under 500.

Speaker 23 That is rare.

Speaker 40 How many people found out Cooper Rush was the backup in Baltimore yesterday? Yep.

Speaker 40 Well, I learned that real time, baby. Me too.
Jackson Dart,

Speaker 40 a star is born.

Speaker 40 Why are there so many songs about rainbows?

Speaker 40 What's on the other side?

Speaker 40 Georgia Tech.

Speaker 40 Winning in clutch fashion and somehow dropping in the rankings.

Speaker 40 GD football

Speaker 40 brought to you by the haters.

Speaker 40 team of destiny

Speaker 40 hey previously undefeated LA Chargers

Speaker 40 you got a thort in your neck

Speaker 40 they just took one in the jugular Dan

Speaker 23 He punched someone he punched someone on a stiff arm the quarterback punched someone Zazzlo clutches pearls you all right it's enough with it stop boxing make a tackle

Speaker 40 hey Tony

Speaker 19 Hey, I mean.

Speaker 40 Thank you. You know what Jackson Dart has?

Speaker 6 It.

Speaker 40 That and balls.

Speaker 40 Mark Cuban

Speaker 40 praising Pablo's acting skills.

Speaker 40 When I did the entire episode in wardrobe and character.

Speaker 40 Disappointing.

Speaker 40 Micah Parsons,

Speaker 40 only one sack in his revenge game.

Speaker 40 Disappointing.

Speaker 40 Cowboys Packers ending in a tie on Sunday night.

Speaker 40 Disappointing.

Speaker 40 Top five disappointing things in sports.

Speaker 6 Whoa.

Speaker 40 OLI

Speaker 40 games that end in ties.

Speaker 6 OLI.

Speaker 40 Revenge games that don't deliver.

Speaker 6 OLI

Speaker 40 sitting next to an especially obnoxious fan.

Speaker 40 You know, you get to your seat and you're like, oh, I got to sit next to this guy.

Speaker 39 Yeah, that's brutal.

Speaker 14 It's always a guy. Number five.

Speaker 23 Always a guy, too.

Speaker 40 Always a guy. Always a guy.

Speaker 31 Well, wait till a little bit of a bunch of people.

Speaker 11 He's like a baseball lady, too, right?

Speaker 4 She took the ball from the kid.

Speaker 9 Yep.

Speaker 40 Obnoxious fan. Number five.

Speaker 40 Games that are not available due to blackout rules.

Speaker 40 Sit down, you're ready. You're like, all right, let's watch this.
And they're like, no, not available in your area. Disappointing.
Number four,

Speaker 40 watching the game with an inquisitive casual.

Speaker 40 You guys know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 15 Yes.

Speaker 23 Dad. You reached the room on that one.
They all made faces.

Speaker 4 So the yellow line, you have to go past it, but they don't see it.

Speaker 20 Hey, son, any upsets in the league?

Speaker 14 Shut up, dad.

Speaker 32 Happy birthday to him.

Speaker 23 Damn.

Speaker 6 71st birthday. I can't.

Speaker 30 I'm just like that.

Speaker 15 I'm not doing this upset thing.

Speaker 37 Happy birthday to him.

Speaker 7 I don't care.

Speaker 28 Good luck.

Speaker 40 Number three, most disappointing things in sports. No Wi-Fi on your cross-country flight to watch the game.

Speaker 23 Two better than that.

Speaker 40 Just sit there in the proverbial dark wondering what happened.

Speaker 40 Number two,

Speaker 40 not being recognized for for your method acting during an investigative report on capture convention.

Speaker 40 And the number one most disappointing thing in sports:

Speaker 40 your parlay not covering because the jackass couldn't hold on to the ball. Just cross the goddamn finish line.

Speaker 41 Just hold on to it.

Speaker 23 Why you got to hold it out?

Speaker 40 Jags

Speaker 40 took that ass.

Speaker 40 Mets,

Speaker 40 Typical.

Speaker 40 Haynes King.

Speaker 40 13th game with the passing and a rushing score.

Speaker 40 He's fun, man.

Speaker 40 Best rushing QB in the nation, Dan.

Speaker 5 I don't think that's accurate.

Speaker 30 Funnest, though.

Speaker 15 Most guts and guile from a rushing quarterback, no doubt.

Speaker 40 Hey, Mike.

Speaker 40 You know what Haynes King has?

Speaker 7 It.

Speaker 6 That and balls. Balls.

Speaker 40 Haynes King.

Speaker 40 NIL deal with Haynes underwear.

Speaker 40 Collision course.

Speaker 40 Look who we got our Haynes on now.

Speaker 40 His balls.

Speaker 40 Finders fee for me.

Speaker 40 Wake Forest.

Speaker 40 You take a shot at the king.

Speaker 40 You best not miss. That one goes out to Tom Haberstro, who had the gall to have a video edited and ready to drop as soon as he thought the upset would happen.

Speaker 31 Wake Forest Proud, Haberstro. Wake Forest Proud?

Speaker 40 Yeah, he had to slink back into his little hole.

Speaker 23 They haven't been any good since Riley Skinner, since my beloved Riley Skinner.

Speaker 40 Not since Rusty LaRue threw like 400 yards in football and then dropped 40 on Georgia Tech in basketball. One of the greatest one seasons of college sports I've ever seen in my life.

Speaker 40 Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve

Speaker 40 suspended for a quote, aggressively pursuing and verbally abusing a game official in the court and then failure to leave the court in a timely manner upon her ejection.

Speaker 23 Not the quotes afterward. Not the quotes afterward?

Speaker 28 The quotes afterward were almost as bad as that.

Speaker 40 Shame on the WNBA, Dan.

Speaker 40 Suspension?

Speaker 40 Playoffs?

Speaker 40 Come on, man.

Speaker 6 It was insane behavior.

Speaker 35 It really was.

Speaker 40 What's insane behavior?

Speaker 26 Did you see her getting in fans' face and telling them to F off after the game?

Speaker 40 Zaz.

Speaker 40 Should she be fined? Absolutely.

Speaker 40 Reprimanded? Absolutely. Community service, whatever.
You can't suspend her

Speaker 40 for a playoff game. Yeah, you can.
An elimination game.

Speaker 14 Yeah, you can.

Speaker 19 Her behavior was ridiculous.

Speaker 40 I've never seen that in the history of basketball on the pro level.

Speaker 40 I can't speak to the other sports, but maybe you guys know.

Speaker 40 Her playoff game?

Speaker 40 Because she said mean things to the refs i mean she called for a change in leadership after the game that's what she did i thought that's what she was suspended for i thought that's what she was suspended for find her into a ground dig a hole and put fine money make her work for free for the rest of her life you cannot suspend her for that no not in the playoffs

Speaker 40 here's a fun venn diagram

Speaker 40 People who saw the latest episode of Peacemaker and thought to themselves, what a wonderful world that would be.

Speaker 40 And people were complaining about a Super Bowl halftime show.

Speaker 40 The people who watch Peacemaker will know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 40 Geno Smith.

Speaker 40 Seven INTs in four games. He's been terrible.
Look what they did to my boy.

Speaker 9 Damn.

Speaker 40 Boy, Gino, man.

Speaker 40 I don't think he has it anymore.

Speaker 40 There's a ball.

Speaker 40 well you have to throw seven int's definitely not playing scared

Speaker 40 have you been half asleep

Speaker 40 and have you heard voices

Speaker 40 i've heard them calling my name

Speaker 40 sean little of msg networks

Speaker 40 unabashed bears fan

Speaker 40 in the building for bears raiders

Speaker 40 dressed like a doofus

Speaker 40 while heckling what can only be described as janice from the muppets can we roll that video, please? Of Sean dressed like a doofus, heckling what can only be described as Janice from the Muppets?

Speaker 40 We go five, four,

Speaker 40 three,

Speaker 40 two. I'm moving on.
Raiders.

Speaker 15 You know what a mean has toss in a video during weekend observations?

Speaker 6 Balls.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 23 I do.

Speaker 40 You know what else I have? A text message saying, hey, can we have this uploaded? I'm going to do this in weekend observations.

Speaker 40 With a thumbs up. There it is.
Hey, there it is.

Speaker 40 There's Sean dressed like a doofus.

Speaker 40 He's staring down, and you're like, who's he staring down? And then we get a look at who he's talking to. He said, it's getting spooky in here, is what he's saying, I believe.
And then there you go.

Speaker 40 Janice from the Muppets.

Speaker 6 That is perfect. Wow,

Speaker 23 that is a lot of head.

Speaker 6 Incredible reference.

Speaker 6 That is unreal.

Speaker 27 I didn't know who exactly he was talking about until I saw the video.

Speaker 24 And I'm like, surely I know the Muppet now.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Here you go audio audience. You know Jennis is

Speaker 40 Raiders

Speaker 40 Worst home field advantage in the NFL

Speaker 40 Dan calling Puka Nakua Poka Nakua

Speaker 40 and nobody on the show catching him on it.

Speaker 11 Allegedly.

Speaker 14 We can misspeak

Speaker 34 although you did just give Greg Cody a new song idea, the Poka Nakua.

Speaker 40 Well Mike, Puka Nakua

Speaker 40 is an LA Ram.

Speaker 40 Polka Nakua

Speaker 40 is Weird Al's favorite LA Ram.

Speaker 31 We need to get in the lab.

Speaker 27 All right, Hee Haw 3, you have been tasked with making the Polka Nakua.

Speaker 40 Virginia fans rushing the field.

Speaker 40 Making the Jamokes on the Lepatard show concerned.

Speaker 40 Please. Not all of us.

Speaker 7 Only one of them. Only one.
Football we've established. Football for him.

Speaker 26 I'm not going to apologize.

Speaker 4 No balls.

Speaker 40 Hey, Zaz.

Speaker 40 Celtics fans rushing the court in the 80s would like a word.

Speaker 26 I'd like a word with each and every one of them, too. You let them know.

Speaker 40 As scary as it must have been for Florida State players, being swarmed instantly by drunk college fans.

Speaker 40 It doesn't hold a candle to Laker players.

Speaker 40 Being swarmed instantly by drunk adult Boston fans.

Speaker 40 Moments after being serenaded with the N-word for over two hours.

Speaker 40 Dan!

Speaker 40 a few weeks ago I asked you a question.

Speaker 40 What do you reply to a GT alum who's asked you what's the good word?

Speaker 6 I don't remember. Do you remember?

Speaker 23 No.

Speaker 40 It's pretty easy Dan. To hell with Georgia.

Speaker 40 Speaking of hell, Art Bryles and the rest of them dogs, send them all down there. Those are the weekend observations.

Speaker 42 We are throwing a Miller Light watch party for Thursday night football Dolphins versus Ravens October 30th at Lanigans and Kindle. That's Kindle Drive

Speaker 42 and Southwest 127th Avenue.

Speaker 24 They are holding a Halloween block party.

Speaker 42 They also have a costume contest where you can win $1,000. So that will make Dan have you as a costume kink.
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Speaker 39 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 12 Again, started on the breakfast flan.

Speaker 23 Oh man, I've been singing a song to myself all morning long.

Speaker 41 Breakfast flannel.

Speaker 39 Stugats.

Speaker 31 Have you never heard the breakfast flan song?

Speaker 7 Hit me with that.

Speaker 47 Okay.

Speaker 23 I wish I had some breakfast flant.

Speaker 23 Breakfast fun.

Speaker 23 Where can I find a breakfast like that?

Speaker 10 This is the Don Lebatar Show with these two guys.

Speaker 23 It is a official block party. We are going to take a block of South Florida and we are going to make it our own with our friends from Flanagans.
We have not done one of these in a while.

Speaker 23 It may not be a good Monday night game, but it will be a good party because we enjoy those and Flanagans and our friends at Flanagans always do well by I can guarantee you it won't be a good Monday night.

Speaker 24 It'll be a terrible Monday night game. Because it's on a Thursday, TNF.

Speaker 23 Okay, my fault. Regardless, it's going to be bad football like tonight's Monday night football game.
Can you play the Polka Nakua song or the inspiration for what will be the Polka Nakua song, please?

Speaker 23 That's a really bad lyric. Amin, I've got some basketball questions for you as basketball opens.

Speaker 23 What do you think is going to happen with the Clippers today now

Speaker 23 that Pablo has dropped another Pablo on them? Tom Haberstro has some good ideas here, doesn't he?

Speaker 40 So, Tom Haberstro has the most brilliant idea the the Clippers should do. Obviously, it would look very, very much like an admission of guilt, right?

Speaker 40 But what Tom suggested was, you know, you're probably going to lose picks over this. So, why don't you just trade those picks right now?

Speaker 40 They've got two first-round picks that they can trade plus a pick swap. If they do it right now, go all in on someone like Zion or whatever, then the league can't dock them for those picks.

Speaker 40 Yeah, like you just got to have to keep waiting. So, this is the time their picks have value for a limited amount of time.

Speaker 40 And obviously, once they get traded, the team that acquires them can't be like, hey, NBA, that's messed up. You can't take the picks away from us.
We're the ones. We gave up a player for that.

Speaker 40 If I'm the Clippers, full throttle. Go ahead, go get somebody.

Speaker 23 What do you want to hear today? What do you think that media day is going to be like?

Speaker 40 A lot of no comments, a lot of boring answers.

Speaker 40 Look, they've learned their lesson because over the course of this, and you noticed this earlier in the show, Dan, they used to be real bold with their responses.

Speaker 40 Provably false was the first thing they ever said when these allegations were presented to them. And as time goes by, they get meeker.
And now it's like this whole victim.

Speaker 40 We got scammed, even though he donated $1.8 million to the scammers charity like in December of 2020.

Speaker 40 They have completely curled up into a ball, into the fetal position, and trying to protect themselves by any means necessary.

Speaker 40 I'd be shocked if the marching orders for everybody in Clippers Media Day today wasn't either no comment or the NBA is investigating this, so we're going to have comment when that investigation is complete.

Speaker 23 Right now on my screen, Cam Newton in an absurd hat with his tie tied poorly is arguing whether he's more concerned about A.J. Brown or Saquon right now.
They've won 20 of 21.

Speaker 23 Like,

Speaker 23 how could you possibly find concern for the Eagles? Like, they're on a run that's dynastic that hasn't been in the sport in 20 years since the Patriots were out there. Goodbye, Flanagans Cup.

Speaker 23 It was a pleasure seeing you. We are a big fan of all things Flanagans around here.

Speaker 23 And Roy, I'd like you to also please give out that information again on what that watch party is, what that block party is, because I want people to have correct information.

Speaker 23 on what it is that Flanagans is going to be able to provide for people to be a part of, because we are going to pay for somebody to be at this party with us.

Speaker 42 Yeah, it's a Halloween blog party. It's going to be at the Flanagans on Kendall Drive and Southwest 120 27th Avenue on October 30th.

Speaker 30 That's Thursday night football dolphins versus Ravens.

Speaker 42 You can win $1,000 in Flanagans costume contest as well.

Speaker 30 So we will all be there.

Speaker 15 Deep in the heart of what A-Rod called the hood.

Speaker 30 That's an absolute home game for me and Mike. Home game.
By the way,

Speaker 4 Amin, I wanted to bring something to your attention. I want to start something with you every time you come on the show.
I want to call it 20 CB Hall of Fame. Uh-huh.

Speaker 4 So I'm going to bring you a idea, a concept, something from the 20s, from the 20th century. And I want you to say Hall of Fame or not Hall of Fame.

Speaker 24 And I'll get to the movie further down.

Speaker 4 I'm going to spice this up. It just had the idea just occurred to me right now.
Amin, 20 CB Hall of Fame, Mimes.

Speaker 40 Ooh, okay, here in America, Hall of Famer for sure. In Europe, alive and well, baby.
Still? They are still active.

Speaker 6 Really?

Speaker 40 You know, you got to retire to be in the Hall of Fame, and they still out there, man. They still playing home games in Paris and London and Rome.
And they're putting up numbers.

Speaker 4 The European tour for the Mimes are still around. So who are the Mimes for?

Speaker 20 What's the demo who's like, you know what?

Speaker 6 I like this.

Speaker 9 It's cultural.

Speaker 30 It's cultural.

Speaker 16 It's for tourists.

Speaker 34 Like, if you're, especially in France, where we can all agree this is the mime hub, put it on the poll.

Speaker 13 Is France the Mime Hub?

Speaker 17 But you know how this green cup from Flanagans is cultural to Miami?

Speaker 34 That's what mimes are for France.

Speaker 40 Mike, you know this?

Speaker 40 They like to do, instead of the regular mimes that are just in black and white and doing the I'm in a box thing, the Paris ones like to spray paint themselves like in metallic paint and then act like robots.

Speaker 40 And then you put on give them money and they go,

Speaker 40 and that's it. And then they'll hold this pose until someone gives them more money.

Speaker 23 Adam Silver's talking European expansion ostensibly so that they can have more mimes in their life because they're kind of endangered here. What do you make of that?

Speaker 23 I mean, are you pro basketball NBA European expansion?

Speaker 40 Well, then a lot of people have been complaining, why is Adam Silver talking about you? No one wants European expansion. We want expansion here in North America.
We want 32 teams.

Speaker 40 And the reason why we're probably, if we're going to get expansion, it's a long time from now, is because when you talk about expansion here, you're telling 30 NBA owners, hey.

Speaker 40 You guys want to take this pizza pie and divide it up into 32 slices now? To which most of them say, hell no, I like my slice. I don't want a smaller slice.

Speaker 40 But when you talk about NBA Europe, we keep our same slices and now we're adding a new pie that we're dividing up 30 ways or 40 ways or however many ways.

Speaker 40 It's extra money versus reliving up the money we already have, which is why Adam Silver is always beating that drum. It's a drum that he inherited from David Stern.

Speaker 40 David Stern was very big on European expansion. They love to point out, hey, it's the same from London to New York as it is from New York to LA.
All that stuff is

Speaker 40 just

Speaker 40 because they want to get a foothold on the continent and be the premier league there as well as the one that they're running here.

Speaker 13 What do you make about early conjecture and reports about what that might look like?

Speaker 11 A handful of franchises that are basically made out of thin air, which may look like a traditional NBA model, but then also leaving room for some of the established brands out there in Europe to play their way into this.

Speaker 40 Mike, the plan is to have those established brands. They want Real Madrid.
They want Barcelona. They want Finerbachi.
They want Olympialcos and Panthonaikos.

Speaker 40 They want those tentpole organizations that right now are in a multi-year deal with IMG that handles all the marketing and business for the EuroLeague.

Speaker 40 But make no mistake, the NBA wants those blue bloods involved, and then they can fill in with either smaller existing clubs, maybe some of the ones in Germany and Italy, or...

Speaker 40 Like you said, ones from Thin Air. But again, the league is more about expanding the brand than it is literally adding more teams.

Speaker 26 I mean, what do you hear about LeBron trying to start a league out in Europe?

Speaker 40 Yeah, so it's not LeBron. I've talked about this with Dan before.
It's Maverick Carter. And we have to, as adults, be able to separate between when one friend does another thing.

Speaker 40 It's like Zazzlo Show 2.0 being on the podcast on the Metal Arc Network and people saying to me, hey, I mean, or Dan, hey, great job with the Zaszlo show. I was like, no, no, that's not me.

Speaker 40 That's Jonathan Zaszlo who's doing that. So

Speaker 40 having said that,

Speaker 40 Maverick Carter and the people he's involved with have some interest from deep pockets in the Middle East. And we know those pockets are endless.

Speaker 40 They have lots of money to spend and they don't know what to do with it. And so this is a nice idea as far as starting a new professional league.
I believe there's room for it.

Speaker 40 But Zaz, will it rival the NBA? Absolutely not because you just have a

Speaker 40 70-year plus head start, plus all the money and all the sponsorships and all the talent. And no one wants to grow up here thinking about, ooh, one day I'll be playing for the Riyadh

Speaker 40 Red Dragons or whatever.

Speaker 23 30 seconds or less. What's going on with Cinephobe? What are you doing this week?

Speaker 40 Oh, Dan, we're doing a fan favorite this week. We're doing Pootie Tang.
Right? The Chris Rock show segment that expanded into a full movie, which was, by the way, written and directed by Dan.

Speaker 40 Do you know who wrote and directed Pootie Tang?

Speaker 23 I do not. I know that Bob Costas was in it, but Zaszlo knows.

Speaker 26 Louis C.K. Yeah.

Speaker 40 Louis C.K. wrote and directed Pootie Tang.

Speaker 6 I saw that movie in the theaters.

Speaker 40 Me too. Your movie theater sells pickles.

Speaker 23 See you later. I mean, good talking to you.

Speaker 40 How much do they cost?

Speaker 26 Yo, it's $2.99, Dolly. That's a good deal.

Speaker 14 That's a good deal.

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