Hour 1: The AFC South Group Chat (feat. Spero Dedes)

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Dan doesn't make sense.

What the f

was that?

Dan is really weird.

Spiro is here, and Tony and Mike are very excited about that.

But just before we get to him, and I'm sure, maybe Spiro hasn't seen this.

I'd be curious if he has.

But when Mike mentioned Jeff Braum, every single time anyone mentions him, all I think of with Jeff Brahm is not grizzled football coach who

returns to Louisville heroically, it's XFL quarterback who played like two minutes after getting his neck just totally cranked and then gave one of the all-time interviews in the history of the XFL.

Orlando Rager led by quarterback Jeff Brom, 17.

The Orlando Ranger led by quarterback Jeff Brom.

17.

No, I'm sorry.

That's the wrong video.

We'll get that in a second.

Sparrow.

Oh, here it is.

Here it is.

No,

he's coming off to the sidelines.

No, this is a highlight package, which I'm appreciating.

Let's rock them, man.

You know what a sicko I am about spring football is I saw what was in queue.

I'm like, that's not it.

No, that's not concussed Jeff Braum saying, let's ride.

That's not it.

The Orlando Rage were so good that first season until Jeff Brom got hurt.

Then the LA Extreme came in in and Tommy Maddox ends up getting back into the NFL as a result of name.

Man, and they had the sickest jersey.

Look at those jerseys.

Look at those Orlando Rage jerseys.

He's a gurney on the field.

This video is not for long.

Because he was late on inside.

Yeah.

Vince McMahon says good shit.

For a guy to take a hit like that and then come back on the sideline to cheer his team on, that really was touching.

You know, I'm getting goosebumps not thinking about it.

Me too.

Yeah, man.

He was on the side of the house.

There he is.

Hold on.

Hold on, Snatch.

making that hit just six days ago well let me answer let me answer that question by asking you two questions one is this or is this not the xfl yes it is

two

do i or do i not currently have a pulse yes i do let's play football come on out of your hand jeffroll i'm taking the plus 13 and a half i'm sorry to say this God and that was before champion was back to being champion too those jerseys oh spiro you know what we're talking about right no brings back memories.

I missed the XFL.

How you guys doing?

Thank you for your maiden voyage with our show, Speedo.

It looks like a movie.

It's an unbelievable injury.

Like, his face was sideways, and he was concussed in a way that, no, this was not.

Where's his chin strap?

He's got a pulse.

He played six days later.

Spiro,

Tony, Mike, explain to the audience and to Spiro why it is that you love him.

Like, love him more than you guys love most announcers.

This has been percolating for close to a decade.

I think about seven years ago, I noticed that you got a lot of AFC South assignments.

You become basically the unofficial voice of the AFC South.

And while those games may not scream at you at the start of the schedule when the kickoffs begin at one o'clock, you're always a prominent fixture during the witching hour because this division is so competitive.

And let me just say, when you say Mo Alley Cox,

it's goosebumps.

I don't know what it is specifically about Mo Alley Cox being in the back of that end zone when Spiro Dides is on the call, but it's magic, man.

It's like

he is your signature player.

When I close my eyes and I think of an AFC South game, the soundtrack of it is Spiro Dides saying, touchdown, Mo Alley Cox.

Yeah, no question.

We just wanted to shout that at you.

Like, it's what I associate you with.

It's just that one four-syllable, beautiful name.

I guess our question is, do you agree, Mo Alley Cox?

I do.

Mike, thank you.

I just want to formally thank you for your support and your love over the years

and know that we do have one fan around the country who appreciates what we do in the AFC South.

We actually have a text group chat with my partner,

Adam Archoletta and Adidi and my producers.

The title of it is AFC South Crew.

Hell yeah.

All right.

It is our group chat.

I accept your invite.

Yes.

You will be getting an invite as soon as this interview is finished.

It is funny that to watch, Chris Myers went to my high school, and the highest he will get in broadcasting is, ooh, I get some of these games over here

because Jacksonville is where I have to go every once in a while.

You're expecting him.

For some reason, you guys were thinking you were going to hear him on the Raiders the other day.

We thought it was going to be Colts Raiders, which is when I close my eyes, I hear Spiro Dida's Colts Raiders 425 in the afternoon window, and I'm like, all of a sudden, I'm locked into that game.

Basically, Spiro, you should have investment properties in Indianapolis.

They must know you.

We do.

Arch and I do check real estate trends in Indianapolis and Jacksonville at the start of every season.

We've spent so many times, so many weekends there, and so many days there.

It's gotten almost comical at this point.

But I will say, seeing the Colts go now to this higher level, it's almost like seeing one of your children grow up to do like wonderful and amazing things.

So

we are enjoying seeing some of these successes of our babies go on and do great things in the world.

Look, the Colts might be too good.

I don't want them to get Nance and Romo assignments here.

This is not good.

You got to ride the horse that Brunja.

All right.

There is an official voice of the AFC South here, and now we have a team that appears to be AFC Championship caliber.

Spiro needs to be on these calls.

Get Nance out of here.

Yeah, I don't know if Nance and Romo on a Colts game sounds right.

There's something off with that.

I think I'm going to lobby my bosses.

I got to hear him say Mo Alley Cox.

I've never heard him say it, but it just won't won't hit the same point.

It is a great name to say.

You just punch it phonetically.

It's just one of those nice names.

You just enjoy it coming off your tongue.

Spiro, Spiro.

Spiro, Spiro.

Because

we love

Colts versus Jaguars.

This is the highlight of my broadcast career, fellas.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for making me feel funny.

Well, you, but as someone who's as good as you actually are, though, you do hear the music and what it is you do.

And as they make fun of you on Mo Alley Cox, it is amusing.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

No, make fun.

This is.

I thought they were giving me a compliment.

What are you doing, sir?

What are you doing?

Smear Open.

He's

teaching.

Guys, I got it here.

Ben just doesn't understand.

He's more of a.

yeah,

he doesn't get it.

He doesn't get our connection.

Daniel Jones, everyone in the league, when you hear them talking about him the way they are presently talking about him and presently talking about Indianapolis as best team in the league when we don't know who's good in the league, it's confusing to you?

I think it's like wonderfully confusing.

I mean, this is a guy who got beat up as much as he did in New York with the New York press and the fan base out there.

And it's just kind of cool to see him have a moment like this in the NFL.

Because look, say what you want about Daniel Jones and his shortcomings and some of the stuff that happened with the Giants.

The guy works hard.

You know, he stays out of trouble.

And I think he's a like teammate in

his locker room.

So I think to see someone

have a moment in time like this is kind of cool to see.

And who knows if it lasts?

Obviously, it's going to get tougher as the year goes on.

But I think when you have a running game and a player like Jonathan Taylor, Dan, in your offensive backfield and some of the other guys that they have around him, you know, who knows?

You know, it's just, it's one of those wacky years, and you guys were just talking about it.

I mean,

there's no dominant, unbeatable team.

And maybe this is a year that a team like the Colts can get into the playoffs and win a postseason game and see what kind of crazy things might happen.

Spiro, we know it was a whole story a few weeks ago with Tom Brady and the production meetings and coaches.

Are they going to give information?

Do you ever feel like the coaches are not being completely forthcoming with you?

I do.

I think some guys are guarded, Jonathan.

And I think that that comes across, obviously.

There's some coaches that are open books and that will answer any question you have in some of those settings.

And it is a different setting.

I mean,

we're in their facility.

We're in usually like a little meeting room, a conference room, and it's very casual.

It's very informal.

But as you guys know, there's some guys that are very guarded and measured in what they say.

And one thing I always found interesting is the older coaches that have been doing it a long time that seem to be looser and more kind of open to answering our questions.

And it's the young guys, usually,

not all the time, but it's the new guys, you know, the guys have been doing it only a couple years that are a little bit more measured.

And that's one thing that I've always found interesting.

The whole thing with Tom Brady, I think it was maybe much ado about nothing.

The one thing I will say that maybe I could understand how some teams would be a little,

would have an issue with that is that he's now a partial owner, obviously, of the Raiders, and

he's gaining access to guys who are potential free agents who may be coming on the market, and that that could give him maybe a little bit of an unfair advantage because it gives him a chance to maybe build a relationship with one of these guys.

And so that was one thing that was brought up that made sense.

But all the other stuff I thought was maybe probably blown out of proportion a little bit.

When you say, though, that the younger guys are more careful, I would assume that's because

they, as the young people, treat it even more as if it's an information business and they don't want you to know anything and the old guys are just more comfortable doing it old school.

That the young people think all information is important information, so why would they give you any of it?

Yeah, and I think that's a good point, Dan.

I think the other thing is, you know, they don't know who they can trust yet.

And I don't think that they've done this long long enough to know that, you know, we're not the local media.

Like we're not the local beat writer who maybe is looking to find that gotcha moment that I'm going to go write something negative.

We know that if we betray confidences, if a head coach tells us something about a player and we use that on the air, we're going to see this team probably two weeks down the road, four or five weeks down the road.

And if it's an AFC South team, as you guys know, I'm going to see them probably very often.

So

if I betray that confidence, they're not going to maybe even want to see me again.

So that's something that I think some of the younger coaches don't understand.

But eventually it's explained to them that, hey, you know, the CBS crew that's in here to do the game, this is not the local beat writer.

So I think most of them get it.

And I think when that happens, it makes for just a really nice, free-flowing conversation where we can get all kinds of good, juicy tidbits on the team.

Spiro, as the official, unofficial voice of the AFC South, tell us how good Cam Ward is going to be based on what you've seen.

What's his ceiling in the NFL?

It's a great question.

You know, he has these moments, as you guys have seen, where, you know, he just shows this crazy potential where he's running all over the place and he makes these throws that, you know, shows you the kind of arm talent that he has.

But now, you know, like we've seen guys with so many of these first-round high-draft pick quarterbacks, he's going to have to go through the trauma of a coaching change and everything that comes along with that.

Because the NFL, professional football is so different than all of these other sports.

A coaching change, it's not like it is in the NBA where, you know, a new guy comes in and everything pretty much stays the same.

In football, everything changes.

I mean, it's a new regime.

It's a whole new playbook.

He's got an entire offseason of preparing to play in a Brian Callahan-led offense.

Now he's going to have to completely turn the page.

Who knows what they do in the offseason?

You know, I don't think anyone thinks Mike McCoy is going to be the long-term coach there.

And so

how does he handle that?

You know,

from everything we saw, we had them, I think it was week two or three.

They said that he processes really fast.

He is very bright.

He's got a high IQ.

That lends me to think that he will eventually be okay.

But, you know, I just think that they need to make, I mean, these decisions that they've got coming up in the offseason are going to be vital and will go a long way in determining what kind of player he becomes.

Because I'll say this, the other interesting thing is we travel, we go into all these different NFL buildings.

You can very quickly, after just spending an hour, a couple hours there, seeing how they run their practices, seeing what the infrastructure is around these young quarterbacks, it becomes very quickly evident why certain teams have success and why other teams don't have success.

And I think Tennessee is at a crossroads right now.

They got to make some big decisions coming up.

Don Lebatard.

Greg, how's your birthday going?

I invented it.

It's going fantastic.

My wife and I are staying home tonight.

We're watching the debate on TV.

We're going to do something special for David.

David.

It's a nice day for me so far.

Stugats.

That sounds like not a super nice night.

The debate.

Old people love that shit.

Yeah.

That's exactly right.

Yeah.

That's exactly right.

Old people do love that shit.

And I'm old now.

I can't deny it anymore.

Now, this is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Spiro, correct me if I'm wrong and ChatGPT is wrong, but I remember remember this about you.

You went to Fordham, and I think you went to school at the same time Tony Reali did.

You guys called games together.

Yep.

That's a lot of Mediterranean energy on one broadcast.

Was Tony always like that?

Tony

was probably crazier when we were at Fordham.

He was a little wilder back in those days.

But yeah, yeah, Tony was a year ahead of me.

So we did a lot of Fordham games together.

A lot of traveling up to like Olean, New York to do St.

Bonaventure Fordham games and these wacky long bus rides.

So it was great fun, man.

And just to see him, I mean, never in my wildest dreams did I think that we all knew Tony was very talented, obviously, but he wanted to do games.

You know, he wanted to be a play-by-play announcer.

So to see him go eventually become

stat boy.

We're like, holy crap, Tony's on ESPN.

He's working with Kornheiser and Wilbond.

That was incredible.

And then to go to the next level and to have this crazy long-running show, man, it's just amazing to see.

And he's one of the sweetheart guys, just as you guys know, it's just incredible.

So

I hope he's doing well.

And I can't wait to see what he does next you shouldn't be on this cleveland miami game right

even though he does do a lot of afc east games also i i one time saw spiro at an unnamed uh resort over in fort lauder i'm not gonna say which one it was but i saw him at the at the coffee shop went up to him and my brother said hey spiro big fan of yours he said thanks man gave me a thumbs up and then kept going super lucky you remember that really you remember that spiro if i say the name of the of the resort you're gonna know wait in fort lauderdale so that would a couple years ago say it we don't want anyone to know where he stayed 15 years ago.

So

we were there for a Dolphins game.

You were there for a Dolphins Patriots game.

You were there with the whole crew.

Was this the diplomat?

It was.

That a boy.

Don't say it, Hoppit.

Don't say it, Hoffman.

You are going to know where Tony was.

It was 10 years ago.

No, it's not 10 years ago.

It was two years ago, but I'm protecting Spiro, not me by that.

This is part of the.

It's not a secret.

It's the CBS hotel.

That's where all the crews are.

Okay, so at the top, that's out.

Anytime Spiro's in town to cover the Dolphins, he's at the diploma.

That's why they can't send her the big game.

The security risk.

Well, you call it.

I do have a security detail.

It's a lot of autographed seekers.

You calling Dolphins Browns.

I'm sure you're going to do a great job with it, but this is the problem with the Colts being too good, man.

This is not my AFC South boys.

By the way,

I feel like a fish out of water.

What was the group chat like when Callahan got fired?

Was it popping?

Was it buzzing?

God, I came up with a bad one.

You know, honestly, we were a little sad.

I mean, we like Brian.

Brian's a good dude.

I mean, he's been great with us.

He was actually one of the few young coaches that would give us great stuff in our meetings.

And, you know, just for whatever reason, it just didn't work out.

So a little sad, to be honest with you, to see Brian go.

I think he's a good guy.

He's a really, obviously a really good offensive mind.

And I don't think there's any doubt he'll probably be an OC somewhere next year.

But,

you know, you don't want to see a guy lose his job like that, especially the good guys.

And Brian's definitely one of the good ones.

Mike, you didn't get what you wanted because he's just saying he gave us information in the meetings, and that's why he lost.

The other guys weren't giving him information.

He's got relationships with him.

Although I can assume that, like Liam Cohen, he speaks like Cohen.

he's a breath of fresh air uh when it comes to media availabilities uh spiro

you are uh famously greek um we can tell this by your name um so i i would like to run so like a culinary king of the mountain with you because uh i i'm part of the big greek family so i would like to know what spirodides thinks by process of elimination is the top Greek dish.

Will you indulge me here?

Yeah, wait, you're Greek?

No, I'm aired into it.

Big Greek family.

Okay, gotcha.

All all right okay we begin with dessert lukamatis versus baklava

uh baklava all right so baklava versus pastizio

well the one's a dessert i know i know we're playing king of the mountain though spiro that's a rule so um play the game come on pastizio pastizio you know how he pronounces it too pastizio versus iro

uh

pasticio pastizio versus souvlaki see it just depends what the quality is you know i'm i'm i would say probably

I'll go Souvlaki.

Souvlaki versus Musaka.

Oh.

Souvlaki.

I'm not a Moussaka guy.

Souvlaki versus Saganaki, which is just cheese.

Oh, I love that.

Oh, I love Saganaki.

A good Saganaki is very, very good.

I'm going to stick with Souvlaki, though.

Souvlaki versus Spanikopita.

Spanakopita.

Wow.

Wow!

That's the champion.

And look at this beefcake from Hofstra right here.

It's reali.

Look at these two guys.

And Reali was the one who...

What did I say?

Oftrah.

Jesus Christ.

That's got to be the worst haircut ever in the history of broadcasting.

Jesus Christ.

Sorry I made it.

No, my haircut.

No.

No, your hair is killing it, man.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

You've been doing this for a long time.

I look like Fawley D from Jersey Shore, Mike.

Yeah, it was so cool.

It was as a Mediterranean man myself.

It was really cool seeing you get your start really early.

Yeah, Mediterranean and got that olive skin.

You know about that olive skin Zaz?

You don't know about that.

I don't know a shit about that Zaz.

But Spiro has been doing this for a really long time his voice has been associated with the nfl he's still a very young man it was crazy that you got your break so soon that doesn't happen like that Yeah, I was very lucky.

Very lucky.

Well, I had the good fortune.

One of my college professors at Fordham worked in PR in New York City.

And so when he heard my tape at the local Fordham radio station called FUV, which

a lot of the pro guys have come out, like Mike Breen and

Bob Papa, Michael Kay, all those guys.

And so when he heard my tape, he said that he knew a lot of people in the business and he thought he could help me.

And he actually got my gig doing the XFL.

So that was like my first foray into the pro ranks.

And everything started from there.

It was a wild, crazy ride.

Spiro, when you're doing the tournament and you're doing, what, three, four games in a row?

I mean, it's going to be so hard, right?

Crazy.

Yeah, the first day of the tournament is probably the most taxing experience that you could have doing this because, you know,

it's not only the amount of games, but it's also the fact that, like, you want to, this is like the big moment for these players and these teams.

So, you want to, you know, you're studying, you're preparing like around the clock leading up to that first day of the tournament.

So, you've got like the mental stress of like wanting to do these guys justice and to give them their proper due.

And so,

it's unlike any event, any

assignment that any of us get, any of us that are fortunate enough to do the tournament.

And

it's great.

And now, to add to the craziness, my partner Jim Spinarko and I, the last couple of years, have done both nights of the first four in Dayton.

And then we, so

it's the multiple games Tuesday, two games Wednesday, get on a plane, go to our first round site, and then four more games on Thursday.

So

it's pretty bananas.

And

I just got to get sleep, man, that week before the tournament, because you know you're going to be catching like an hour or two if you're lucky.

Last question before we let you go here.

In terms of the runs that you've been associated with, whether it's multiple Laker championships or Lynn Sanity, like what do you regard as the highlight of what it is that you've been around where you're getting the most goosebumps because you get, you're like, you can't believe that you've arrived in a place.

I don't even know how old you would have been during Lynn Sanity, right?

Yeah.

Man, Lynn Sanity got, you know, 2012, so I was probably 30.

maybe 35, 36.

That, that, Dan, was crazy, just as like this little brief, sustained run.

But I think when I'm at the end of my career and I'm thinking about like the big moments, it's probably going to be the run with the Lakers.

And just

because.

I thought it was a touchdown, a Mo Alley Cox in the back of the head.

That's number three.

That's number three on the list.

But like to just to be, to experience the NBA Finals at that young age was wild.

But then for it to be Lakers Celtics, you know, the ultimate rivalry in the history of the NBA, and to experience it twice,

to experience like what the fans were like throwing rocks at our bus, getting in and out of the arena, shaking the bus as we were coming out after they had beaten us in

2008.

All of that stuff, man, it was just incredible.

Just like to be behind the curtain when they eventually won it and to be at the championship.

Because you see these teams celebrating championships in the locker room as a kid.

Then all of a sudden you're in that locker room and then you're at the post-game celebration where

everything just is

just incredible.

So to experience all that stuff with Kobe and Phil Jackson and all those guys was

quite something.

Now, typically, Dan likes to pretend this is a piano bar, but you're not on a Colts game this week.

So,

I have a request.

Can you give us a faux Ali Cox?

Just for your boys, one last time here in the back row that love the unofficial voice of the AFC South, can you call us a faux alley cox touchdown in the back of the end zone?

You ready?

I don't know.

Oh, my God, he's going to do it for us.

It's going to be a third and 10.

Indianapolis down six with 27 seconds left daniel jones from the gun takes the snap drops back rolls right he's got a guy back corner of the end zone fires and it's caught mo

alley cox yeah and the indianapolis colts in front are gonna win it on a last second toss the tie and again it's mo alley cox well they need the pat yeah they gotta kick the member

oh no they do need a patient

he blew the call

Why he's doing Brown's game.

You guys are sticklers, man.

Well, just the next time the real thing,

that's why I'm the AFC South.

I blew it.

The next time the real thing happens, put a little extra on it.

Your boys will be listening.

I will.

I will.

Thank you, Sparrow.

Appreciate the time.

Thanks, guys.

Thank you, Ospero.

F Catisto.

Because

games we love.

Colts vs.

Jaguars.

Don Lebatard.

Jez, you can't talk about double-digit national titles when every single call of you winning the national title sounds like this.

Oh, there's Chubby Jacker running down the sideline.

The audio.

That's not true.

Yeah.

And there's a World War II veteran pitching into another white guy, and he avoids another white guy.

Oh, my God, not a name.

The fighting Irish have done it again for the eighth time.

They're playing white people.

Stugats.

Chubby Checker.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

He's black.

He's black.

And I was really, yo, what's why he named Chubby Checker?

I think I'm like, I'm sorry, man.

I'm improv in here.

This is a pretty cool rhythm.

Why is this?

Chubby Checker running down the side of the bus.

He spells it differently.

All right.

His name is Chubby.

Maybe you didn't hear me correctly.

His name is Chubby Checkers.

There's an S at the end.

I feel like that should be the largest of five.

Yeah, Chubby Checkers.

Yeah, it's Chubby Chuck.

It sounds like a college football name.

This is the Dalebatar Show with the Stukats.

Jeremy has been cooking in the other room.

He badly wants to talk baseball.

I like this version of JT.

He's been warming up the entire game, trying to get in the game.

We have not allowed him in the game.

So, Jeremy, go ahead and give me whatever thoughts you have on last night's baseball games.

You know,

pitch clock and in other places, you have a very confined space here to talk baseball.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Dan, he was spectacular.

And what he taught everyone once again is that throwing strikes is really all you need to do as a pitcher.

Mix quadrants, up, down, left, right.

Stay in the zone, give the team an opportunity to hit, and great things happen.

He was dominant after Blake Snell was technically better the night before.

Complete game, three hits.

It was insane.

Dodgers are unbelievable, Dan.

Yeah, that's part of the problem.

Greg is now officially in the mode where the only thing that he's interested in is baseball, in baseball, I'm guessing, would be: will the Dodgers lose?

Why are you, what's happening?

Did you get bored by Spiro?

Like, what are you doing?

Why are you laying so much?

You just pulled the mic lower.

He's creeping lower and lower.

His leg is killing him, guys.

He has it up.

Yeah, my leg is hurting very much.

Roy?

Roy's asking if you want an ice pack.

That'd be great, actually, if you got one um no no i thought spiro was great dodgers against mariners is my ideal world series as long as you can guarantee me a mariners win nobody outside of la wants to see the dodgers win again nobody except in canada wants to see the toronto blue jays win milwaukee is a popular cinderella type team but nothing like Seattle with the dumper, big dumper.

You got to have it.

We're a Mariners nation right now.

Okay?

We are, that is America's team, the Mariners.

They have to beat the Dodgers because right now the World Series matchup is foregone.

Foregone?

It's a foregone country.

You can't do that in baseball.

You can't do that.

It's not like the Dodgers.

You can't do that in baseball.

Yeah, you can.

Thank you, Roy.

Can I get a.

Roy, that's kind of half-assed.

You can't just give them a.

Can I get a Miller line?

Yeah, you got to put a towel around that at least.

I mean, Roy, but you got to put it on Miller line.

I didn't think anybody heard me.

Oh.

That was good analysis, Craig.

Thank you.

Mark my words.

If it's not a Dodgers,

I almost said

Mariners World Series, I will walk from here to Seattle.

But only if I get my knee.

Only if I get my knee rest.

How long are you?

Mariners are like minus 650.

Craig.

Craig.

All right, it's a bet.

And if not, Dan has to do it.

That's right.

I mean, no, if not, Dan has to buy you a white Camaro.

Right.

That's right there for you.

Where are we on that?

Where are we on the white Corvette?

You got to get me a Vin.

I'll do it.

Vin Scully.

That kind of Vin.

Thank you.

Man, I'm beaming from Spiro.

Dude, he's so

thrilled.

That was a thrill.

I can't believe you saw him years ago.

In person, man.

And the diplomat, and you didn't tell me.

Me and my brother were there and we're like, dude, I think that's Spiro Didi's.

And then he turned around and we were like, oh my God.

Oh, my God.

It's Spiro Diddy.

We were like, we kind of have to give him a thumbs up.

Spiro, big fan.

He's like, thanks, boys.

We should have.

Let's have him on again and have Rialey on.

That'd be nice.

A little class reunion.

For Hofstra.

For Hofstra, as they like to put it.

You're on one today.

Yeah, yeah.

Your fault.

The thing that I wanted to ask Zaz, okay, because I've been asking Chris Cody for a couple of hours now to get me the sound of Billy Ripping Europe.

It's a Suey Award winner, and I wanted to get to some of Zaz's stories from Europe because I cannot think of anyone in our world more ill-equipped to appreciate the finer points in Europe.

And we've got two Cody's around here and a Billy than Zaz.

I have that sound for you, and I will play it in a second.

I want to update you, DL, that it would take approximately 60 days to walk from Miami to Seattle.

And just to be clear, that's the end of my bullpen outing.

That was the full extent.

I want more music.

Did you want to give us more baseball?

I'll trade you a baseball 30 seconds for every bit of music you make that Billy deems worthy.

I'll do it in 58 days.

I like that guarantee.

Yeah, 58 days.

Yep.

Not 60.

I'm going to be racewalking like an Olympian.

Mm-hmm.

You are one.

I know.

Thank you.

I know that racewalk thing.

I can do that.

Yeah.

I think he's already forgot his Olympian joke.

No, I get it.

I'm Olympy in.

I'm a limp Ian.

Yeah.

Greg, why would you make the bet that if this happens, if

the Toronto Blue Jays, who have been very good all season at offense, win four out of five games, that you will be walking across the country on your bad knee to Seattle.

That's an asinine thing for you to say.

Or the Brewers, because I think he said that it's going to be the Dodgers and the Mariners or he has to walk.

So two different things could mess this up.

Yeah, no, no, they won't.

That's my assuredness, my confidence that it's going to be an L.A.

Seattle World Series.

You know, it's in the stars.

It's done.

Okay?

Bet it.

Bank it.

Bet it, bank it.

Mark your words.

Book it.

Bet it, forget it.

That's right.

Go ahead and play the sound, please, of Billy Ripping Europe so I could get Zaz's thoughts on Europe.

Europe sucks.

I don't know if you're aware of this.

Like, we keep saying, like, well, in Europe, this would happen.

Europe is terrible, which is why all of us left Europe.

That's why everybody's here in America, because everyone decided, you know what?

Europe is terrible.

Like, the English decided, the Spaniards decided, the Italians decided.

Every single person came together at one point in time and said, you know what?

We may not disagree on a lot of things, but we can all agree.

Europe sucks.

Let's just jump on this boat and see where it takes us because we can't be here anymore.

Because Europe, again, terrible.

No air conditioning.

Everything is old.

Horrible.

All they do is try to steal American culture and then tell you all of their old crap is so great.

Europe, terrible.

And it takes forever to get there.

Forever to get there.

If I'm boarding a plane for eight hours, Europe better not be where I'm landing.

I'll tell you, you're pretty spot on there, Billy.

All right.

Now, I'm wearing this beret right now that I got from Paris.

I got it right on the streets there a couple days ago because, you know, I mean, it looks good at me, Dan.

But besides that,

Europe, what's going on there that's not going on in Cooper City?

Let me tell you a couple things that I noticed there.

Number one, in order to watch any sports, and I don't understand, they only do soccer there, apparently, like NBA, NFL, NHL.

They're missing out on all their good things, all right?

Their time zone sucks.

It's not a good time zone.

Getting there is terrible.

But here's the thing.

In order to just watch anything, because I did watch a little bit of football last weekend dan i had to get a vpn you know what a vpn is i don't that's like the thing you put on your phone and it hides your location so you could watch you could stream whatever you want sports you know like you normally do on your phone how is that even legal i don't know come at me bro what i did may have been illegal but i had to order a vpn so that i could watch the sports you don't have to order it it's already built in your phone i feel like tc knows about vpn all right like i said couple guys like like i said come at me bro i'm not scared all all right?

Do what you got to do to watch sports while you're there.

And here's the thing.

All these tours, man, fuck multiple.

Billy, multiple.

What?

You said the F-word.

No, no, no.

He didn't say it.

He goes, fuck.

Someone did it.

It sounded like

all these tours, multiple five-hour tours.

I was going to say five.

That's what happened there.

Multiple five-hour tours.

Five-hour tours.

Terrible, Jay-Z.

Five-hour tours.

Juliet got lost on one of those.

And the walking.

It's too much walking.

There's steps everywhere.

what's with all the steps going up steps and down steps whatever happened to just flat land you're paid triple places and you know all the the the the the floor the like the concrete is it's uneven you know cobblestone can we put cobble

nobody was ever walking on the street saying you know what i'd love right now some cobblestone how about asphalt where'd that go

who cares can i ask you zion have they ever heard of benjamin franklin because he invented electricity, as I understand it.

And they have their own outlets over there.

How about you respect the guy that invented electricity, Benjamin Franklin?

Right, I got to go buy all these different kinds of outlets.

And because we went to London and to Paris, I got to get a London type of outlet and then a Paris type of outlet.

What are we doing here?

Give me one outlet that works everywhere.

My God.

You know about that channel?

Nah, man.

I never heard of that.

Chunnel?

The hell is that?

A food?

What is a channel?

Sounded like you said the F-word says.

I definitely did not.

FCC issue.

You said channel.

The telephone number, if you want to do boldest take with us, is 305-486-GATS, 305-486-4689.

Oh, the plane ride.

I heard about this.

So listen to this.

We'll get to Boldest Take in a second.

Zaszlo on the plane gets creeped out, filled with anxiety by the movie.

Paul Rudd with Tim Robinson.

Friendship, makes Zaslow so uncomfortable.

It's just total, it's comedy.

And Tim Robinson is doing, he's got the new show on Max, the chair company, where like he's the hottest thing as the world's most awkward comedian.

I had never seen any of his stuff yet.

Yeah.

Oh, really?

No, no.

Like, I knew what I was getting into, but I had never seen any of his stuff.

Yeah, he's doing comedy differently than everyone else is doing it.

But in this particular movie, why did it freak you out on the plane?

So I'm like, okay, I'm going to watch this movie, Friendship.

You know, I have like 40 hours to kill on this plane so I put on the movie and I gotta tell you from like a minute in I didn't know if I was gonna be able to watch the whole movie like I it gave me ajada I'm with you I had anxiety right from the get-go now I will tell you I enjoyed the movie I liked it a lot but the entire movie I had Very very bad I get secondhand embarrassments really easily even if it's not something that's real in front of me if I'm watching a TV show or a movie like I want to run and hide I don't know I I have a hard time handling it.

And this movie was like peak for me.

I had Ajita the entire movie.

So it gave you anxiety a little bit.

A lot of anxiety watching.

Well, I have a top five anxiety-inducing film.

Oh.

O-L-I, Whiplash.

That movie is camps.

Can I ask you something about Whiplash?

Is the teacher played by J.K.

Simmons, is he a good teacher?

Or is he a bad teacher?

He's a bad teacher.

He is?

He's a bad teacher.

Got the best out of his student.

He hit the guy.

He got fired.

He hit him.

Wow.

Really?

You're supposed to get the best out of your student.

But really, abusively.

He got it out of him like

the reason.

It's not my tempo.

Just a question.

I feel like I'm listening to the big dog talk about Jonathan Gannon.

He hit him.

Oh, a lie.

Just on that movie, I thought the whole reason for the anxiety is because they were basically, J.K.

Simmons was going for maximum abusive.

That's why it made you anxious.

He was one of those single-tier criers, you know.

J.K.

Simmons, Voice of the Yellow Peanut, M ⁇ M.

That's right.

That is right, Greg.

Good job, Craig.

That was a three facts jack on the Greg Cody show recently.

Thank you.

Really?

OLI?

Don't breathe.

Do you know what this movie is?

It's a horror movie.

I haven't seen it.

It's about, you know.

Not breathing.

No, don't breathe.

Don't breathe around him.

You can hear him.

He's got really good hearing and also might inseminate you.

Creepy.

Oh,

Last OLI, The Lighthouse.

Well, that's Will Defoe, right?

That's an OL.

It's a Christmas rom-com.

It's awful.

It's awful.

It's an awful movie.

It's a great crawl around in your skin.

No, it's a great movie, but only if you want to feel unpleasant.

Like, you have to be craving

to feel unpleasant.

No, this is who wakes up and says, I want to feel unpleasant.

Some people.

Dan, I've never seen the movie, but the synopsis is basically a pahuso lives in a lighthouse, right?

No, it's a Christmas rom-com.

Number five,

buried.

That's a good movie.

That's a good movie.

That is great.

It's a lot of agita.

Yep.

Number four, Requiem for a drink.

I'll never watch that movie again.

The Heroin Arm?

Please.

They should rename that film The Heroin Arm.

They should.

That is.

Put it on the poll at Levantard Show.

Should Requiem for a Dream be renamed The Heroin Arm?

Number three, Bo is Afraid.

That one was really good, too.

This movie's about someone that suffers from anxiety and it puts you in their shoes.

Number two, Uncut Gems.

Yeah.

That movie's just one big panic attack.

It is.

And number one, The Coffee Table.

Still haven't seen the coffee table.

Still afraid of the coffee table.

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Want to see a three-man cage match?

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Go.

Hey, Dan.

Keep the Carolina Panthers name out your f ⁇ ing mouth.

A four-day work week is more exciting than a three-day weekend.

We need to start treating the uprights in football like the fair poll in baseball.

If you clang it against the upright, good job.

Three points to you.

I always thought CVS stood for convenience store.

Kim Scatabu and Jonathan Taylor should switch names.

Patrick Mahomes is to Mario as Josh Naylor is to Mario.

This is me or is anyone else uncomfortable drinking soda after you guys shamed everybody with a soda drinker's body?

If I was trapped on an island with Pablo Torrey, I'd swim.

This is my limited fake Dan Campbell.

Man.

Come on.

I like the Panther's observation.

You piss that guy off.

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