Hour 2: Amin's Taylor Hicks Story (feat. Shohei Petrovic)

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Speaker 11 In the time of NIL, we pay the money to obtain a regain to an out quick as a bunny with a team that Dan called the best in 20 years. With one loss, they all feed on Mike Ryan's tears.

Speaker 11 But screw the haters, Mike will still make the playoffs. You know what I'm saying? So long as someone loses and coughs, up there leading the ACC.
Because, oh shit, we no longer control our destiny.

Speaker 11 And Mike Ryan's saying I'm insane to complain. We got Bane, Mario's still building, and I don't know the game.
Hey man, don't believe everything's on the QB.

Speaker 11 He can throw four picks and blame the guys on his team. And it is fine, Mario.
Once again, got to a fourth quarter and blew another chance to win.

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Speaker 12 what we lost to Louva,

Speaker 13 I'm a loser, baby.

Speaker 5 Nothing new for Miami.

Speaker 13 So

Speaker 12 what we lost to Louva,

Speaker 12 I'm a loser, baby.

Speaker 5 Nothing new for Miami.

Speaker 14 I don't think that there are some college football stories that we're going to have time for today. I don't think we're going to get to Clemson losing to SMU.
They stick.

Speaker 14 I don't think we're going to get to Brian Kelly and LSU. I do think we're going to get to Florida and Florida State.

Speaker 14 But before we go any further, you, Greg Cody, realize how close you are to having to walk to Seattle, correct?

Speaker 10 I know in jest, I made that, you know, I made that bet.

Speaker 3 You know, we did find a Seattle and I believe Illinois, right, Jeremy? A little town?

Speaker 6 Yeah, it was a village.

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Speaker 6 So it was layered.

Speaker 15 Isn't the quarterback from Miami named Beck?

Speaker 16 Yeah, yeah, you get it.

Speaker 14 It's a very layered song about how they're losers in Miami.

Speaker 3 So you could walk to Seattle, Illinois, hypothetically.

Speaker 14 Can I get the sound here as Jeremy tries to torment us and I insist on bullying him? Can I get the sound of him reacting to Jane Levy calling him a boy toy?

Speaker 1 The pitch clock. Jane, thank you so much for taking the time to join me today.
For you, boy toy, anything.

Speaker 3 She makes me giggle.

Speaker 18 I love her. I'm not ashamed of that at all.

Speaker 15 You laugh like an anime character.

Speaker 15 You laugh like the Pillsbury duel boy.

Speaker 3 I love her leaning into the boy toy thing.

Speaker 14 We will get to Amin's weekend observations in a second, but I do believe that I have subject matter in front of me that is the only other connection point that we would have that I say rivals 90s baseball on something that everyone around here wants to talk about whenever it is present, and it is simply the old-fashioned heist.

Speaker 14 When there is a heist, everyone has the language of heist and they know that they want to talk. I don't know about whether it's Pierce Brosnan, Thomas Crown Affair.

Speaker 14 I don't know if it's the Italian job, whatever dumbass movie we enjoy around here because it's a heist movie, it's happened at the Louvre.

Speaker 14 The Louvre. I don't know the items that have been stolen.

Speaker 14 Mike has told me that there is a quick Cliff Notes version of the story that we have via audio here that will get everyone caught up very quickly.

Speaker 19 A group of well-trained and really organized thieves broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris and in a matter of minutes successfully made off with priceless jewels, at least one that once belonged to Napoleon's wife.

Speaker 19 This is not a new Ocean's 11 movie. This actually happened yesterday.
And what is even crazier, it was in broad daylight and the museum was open with tourists and security and, you know, people in it.

Speaker 19 The jewel thieves, dressed as construction workers, used an aerial lift to get up to a window.

Speaker 19 And then they had portable saws to cut through the glass of both the window and then the case where the jewels were on display.

Speaker 16 They made off with their haul on, are you ready for this?

Speaker 7 Scooters.

Speaker 11 It's so very French.

Speaker 19 Now, it would seem in their haste, they may have dropped one item, a crown believed to belong to Napoleon's wife, Empress Eugenie, which was discovered damaged outside of the gallery.

Speaker 3 My lady gives off AI.

Speaker 10 Why do daylight robberies always happen in broad daylight? Why isn't it ever just daylight?

Speaker 6 What's broad about it?

Speaker 10 It's daylight.

Speaker 14 That's your takeaway from that story?

Speaker 10 Also, hey, Louvre,

Speaker 10 how about a little security? Like, is anybody guarding the jewels? What's going on here? It's got to be an inside job.

Speaker 6 Somebody who's working on the job.

Speaker 20 Wait a little, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 6 Wait, wait, wait, was in on this.

Speaker 9 Time to throw away the journalistic credibility and get reckless.

Speaker 17 I know what makes sense.

Speaker 9 There is something we like to call reckless speculation.

Speaker 14 You're good.

Speaker 2 Inside job.

Speaker 15 Inside job. I hate to correct the eminently credible New York Post.
It's actually Napoleon III's wife, not the original Napoleon.

Speaker 14 A royal crown was stolen and just left in the alley.

Speaker 15 The crown jewels were stolen. The crown was left behind.

Speaker 14 But the crown was just left behind, so this is an old-fashioned heist in, as they said, broad daylight, not just daylight. Are there any other details that we need here?

Speaker 6 She said priceless there.

Speaker 3 That seems pretty worthless.

Speaker 18 It's true.

Speaker 6 The crown? There's no price on it?

Speaker 14 Well, they're going to be hard to resell, I would imagine, right?

Speaker 14 Like, there's only one of its kind I don't know how you pawn this stuff I don't know how it sells on the open market not gonna surprise you I'm not an internet hold on thief.

Speaker 15 You you don't know How many movies have you watched Dan Levittard? Yeah, it's a fence you go to a fencer. Why is he called a fence?

Speaker 15 I don't know, but they call him fencers and he goes and the first thing he does is he pulls out the little monocle thing and he looks at it and then he lowballs the shit out of the heisters and the heister's like come on claude you told us you would pay us big for this like yeah but the heat is too too hot right now you got to sit lay low for a while and then claude kind of comes back with an offer that's good enough because they need enough money to get to Mexico.

Speaker 15 Once they get to Mexico, no extradition.

Speaker 10 Claude's no dummy.

Speaker 14 Ocean 11,

Speaker 14 Ocean 12, these are the most famous versions of these movies that we love. But this is in real life.
This is a heist. It sounds less romantic than you would think if it's in broad daylight with saws.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 10 And plus the three thieves supposedly were wearing ski masks. So how does...

Speaker 14 That's not true. They were dressed as construction workers.

Speaker 7 Construction workers.

Speaker 6 No, but they had ski masks on, which which is all the weird stuff.

Speaker 14 There's video everywhere is the problem.

Speaker 20 Everywhere.

Speaker 6 It's going to be hard.

Speaker 14 I don't know how. You can't get away with something like this, right?

Speaker 16 We'll see.

Speaker 6 No, they won't get away with it.

Speaker 13 We'll see.

Speaker 15 Do we have any suspects who were in the area at the time that we can kind of shorten the list to?

Speaker 14 This is not possible to pull off in the modern age. Is it not? The heist might be, but you will be caught and you will not be able to sell them.
Right.

Speaker 10 How many hundreds of video cameras are there in the Louvre? I mean, you don't get away with this. They will be caught.
Especially because it was an inside job.

Speaker 10 So one of them is connected with the Louvre. So they will be caught.

Speaker 14 We're speaking with an expertise I don't believe you or I have.

Speaker 6 In a matter of hours? Yeah, in a matter of hours.

Speaker 1 No, in Greg's defense, it really doesn't make any sense to have this happen without an inside job because it's never happened before.

Speaker 1 Why would they be able to do this now? It makes no sense unless there was someone who was in the area that hadn't been there before.

Speaker 15 Thank you, Billy. Guys, these heist teams, you guys are still focused on who actually grabbed the jewels and ran.

Speaker 15 You got to remember, there's other elements there's guys are on lookout there's guys who are acting like they're tourists going around taking pictures with their wife maybe they're you know down the hall literally uh where is it up literally down the hall the mona lisa so a lot of people that's the most popular thing there so you got a bunch of people taking pictures by the mona lisa like hey i'm on vacation here um where are you i'm from florida oh i'm an american and then you do that like oops i spilled my latte Everyone pays attention.

Speaker 15 That's when the construction workers come out, grab the sub, get back out. Now you know what they do?

Speaker 6 Unzip.

Speaker 15 They take it off, put on like sunglasses, maybe a camera. And now we're on scooters and now we look like tourists.

Speaker 6 Come on.

Speaker 14 It's pretty good the way that you've got the heist handled.

Speaker 14 We've also established before today's show that any one of us, if we were wearing a vest of some sort and had a ladder under our arm, we would be able to get access to just about anything we wanted to.

Speaker 15 This is the greatest proof of our theory ever. Four guys, at least, maybe more, could be also women.
Don't want to discriminate here because women can be dual highs too.

Speaker 15 If you saw Ocean's Eight, was that the one with the all-women crew?

Speaker 20 Yeah, or Stan calls it Ocean 8.

Speaker 14 It's one word, Ocean8.

Speaker 21 It's a verb.

Speaker 15 So you do this, you get the stuff, and then you get out of here. They proved it.
Our theory is correct. We should start going to games now like this.

Speaker 14 Super Bowl, here we come.

Speaker 14 Are you guys in agreement that Greg and I, who are not professionals, are armed with any information whatsoever other than watching and listening to movies of this kind, when we say with confidence these people will be found shortly and these are not things you can sell as if he and I are running in international black market circles.

Speaker 14 You guys agree with us or disagree on that? Like, there's no way you can just steal a crown jewel and then it's not retrievable, right?

Speaker 14 What is the like I know the screen painting in Norway was stolen one time, but the most the most famous of the heists that was international

Speaker 14 in nature that secured the greatest thing that has never been restored. What is represented by the greatest of

Speaker 14 the heists?

Speaker 10 I would say

Speaker 10 Denver winning that game Sunday over the Giants.

Speaker 6 You know what? Well done.

Speaker 14 That's pretty good right there.

Speaker 10 I'm here for you.

Speaker 6 Usually.

Speaker 18 Damn late.

Speaker 20 The best heists ever, you've never heard of.

Speaker 14 Of the most valuable thing ever stolen?

Speaker 20 Never heard of it. Because oftentimes, if you watch National Treasure, you put like a perfectly great replica in its place.
You don't even know it's stolen.

Speaker 3 I'm seeing in 2016, $70 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen.

Speaker 14 Yeah, not really what we're talking about. Boring, not exactly something you make out a documentary or a movie out of.

Speaker 14 The great heist of just, you know, I had to click on my computer and stole a bunch of, you know, currency that was electronic.

Speaker 15 The Mona Lisa was stolen 100 years ago.

Speaker 14 Zaz went and saw the Mona Lisa here recently and called her overrated and small, I believe.

Speaker 6 How recent? Hmm.

Speaker 14 How recent was it, Zaz? Weren't you just?

Speaker 20 I was there a few days ago.

Speaker 14 You were at the Louvre a few days ago. It was what? Like four days ago?

Speaker 2 Five days ago?

Speaker 6 I was there a few days ago.

Speaker 10 Interesting.

Speaker 20 Mona Lisa, very small.

Speaker 18 Yeah.

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Speaker 14 let's uh let's go ahead and do Amin's weekend observations I almost slept there yeah that's fine I'll wait for I'll give you another one the Pink Panther diamond I mean that was that was a big one and they were eating hempogills not a real diamond I love an off my oh shit for him

Speaker 9 it is time for

Speaker 9 to share his game notes No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy

Speaker 15 weekend observations is presented by Miller Light.

Speaker 6 Dan,

Speaker 15 we questioned if the end was nigh. We saw the writing on the wall.
We read the tea leaves. We did our own research.

Speaker 15 But last night, against a Falcons team that was riding high off of Wynne versus Buffalo, he put up 200 yards in rushing and receiving and two TDs.

Speaker 15 Just like that. Make no mistake, Christian McCaffrey is back.

Speaker 14 That's nuts, isn't it?

Speaker 15 CMC.

Speaker 14 It's just crazy.

Speaker 14 He's just like seven functioning bones.

Speaker 15 I can't bring myself to trust anyone named McCorkle.

Speaker 14 Put it on the poll at Lebittard Show. Can you bring yourself to trust anyone named McCorkle?

Speaker 15 Even though they blew a 19-point fourth-quarter lead, I'm happy the Giants finally got their QB. We'll be putting a dort in the league's neck for the next decade.

Speaker 10 Yes.

Speaker 18 Yes.

Speaker 21 Pull.

Speaker 15 Tuatunga Tunga Vailoa. 12 of 23 for 100 yards.
Three INTs. Sacked twice and benched by Mike McDaniel

Speaker 15 in a whooping at the hands of the hapless Cleveland Browns. Greg, stay strong.
I feel a second half push coming. Diamond hands.

Speaker 15 After the game, Tua spoke to the media. And he said, quote, I'm definitely not happy about my play this year.
I feel like I'll have French toast with a side of aluminum roofing.

Speaker 15 Unleaded, Unleaded, please. Ladies and gentlemen, Kaiser Wilhelm and the Beach Boys.

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Speaker 15 He has CTE, Dan.

Speaker 15 Not the fun kind, but I try to make it fun.

Speaker 15 Mike McDaniel addressed the media about the benching of Tua with all the confidence of Chris Rock requesting lingual contact with his testicles.

Speaker 15 You guys remember that bit?

Speaker 6 Excuse me, I mean,

Speaker 15 excuse me, I mean, could you uh could you uh please uh

Speaker 15 good god, I haven't seen anyone stutter that much since Ben Stiller started as Tug Speedman starting a simple jack.

Speaker 14 Couldn't be made today.

Speaker 15 Reuben stuttered.

Speaker 6 I'm sorry. Yeah.

Speaker 6 2004.

Speaker 7 That's my kind of humor.

Speaker 15 Reuben Stuttered was this guy from American Idol. Damn, right, he was.

Speaker 7 I remember.

Speaker 6 He's like, I don't remember.

Speaker 15 Shout out to Taylor Hicks, man.

Speaker 6 That dude is cool. That dude is cool.

Speaker 15 Let me tell you something about Taylor. Okay, I'm stopping weekend observations for a second to tell you my Taylor Hicks story.
I'm in Vegas.

Speaker 15 I'm I'm at the club at Caesars with one of my buddies' assistant coach. His buddy works as a manager at this super extreme nightclub.
Takes us to a cabana which oversees the whole dance floor.

Speaker 15 We go there. The cabana to our left is Carmelo Anthony, and I want to say Chris Paul and some other NBA guys.
We're like, whatever. The cabana to our right is Taylor Hicks.

Speaker 21 And he's singing word for word. I don't know that.

Speaker 21 To walk a flaka.

Speaker 15 Oh, let's do it. And I was mind-blown.

Speaker 15 And my buddy buddy was like you know what anyone else in the world would have been like carmelo anthony and chris wall and we're like the guy from american idol kind of looks like mark cuban when he's saying leave on it changed me oh my god all right back to weekend observations 14 carries 120 yards and a one touchdown if a running back put up those numbers what would we say zaz

Speaker 15 pretty good yeah pretty good right If a QB put up those numbers, we'd say he's Haynes King.

Speaker 15 Best running quarterback in the nation. Let's go, Jackets.

Speaker 14 we cracked the top 10 you grounded duke to dust in the fourth quarter with your offense

Speaker 15 with his legs this guy's amazing i i can't believe the nation isn't enthralled by haines king they're late arriving to one of the fringe schools but the fact that he's winning games like that that guy should be in the heisman conversation i'm not kidding yeah of course yeah he can take beck's place they almost lost wake forest they probably should have yeah but you know why they didn't haines king there you go you know what he has moxie and Guts.

Speaker 15 Balls is the word we use this for.

Speaker 14 But also, Wake Forest went for two and shouldn't have and could have won the game while Haynes King was on the sideline.

Speaker 15 How many yards per carry do you think he averages? Carry Underwood. There you go.
Thank you.

Speaker 15 I've been all around this country. Something I can confirm is uniquely Miami.
CVS IMAS. What's the mas?

Speaker 15 Is it those?

Speaker 15 I'm serious. Like, Dan, you say, oh, this is uniquely Miami.
We're like, Dan, this happens everywhere. I swear to God, not in LA, not in Arizona, not anywhere with a strong Spanish population.

Speaker 15 Have I ever seen CVS? Imas. Yes, Imas.

Speaker 14 Or that means like you can get like a Santeria ritual in the back if you're.

Speaker 15 Can you? Because it looks like the same as a regular CVS to me. I walked around.
I was like, this is just CVS.

Speaker 20 They just play my mouth there.

Speaker 6 It's a playlist. That's right.

Speaker 20 It's the difference, honestly.

Speaker 15 Bijan Robinson. Kajuka Sumo wrestler in a phone booth.
See, a phone booth, Jeremy, was this thing thing back in the day in the 20 CB.

Speaker 15 You have to, like, when you make a call, you didn't have cell phones, you have to use landline, so you put a coin in.

Speaker 6 What's a landline?

Speaker 15 Well, okay, so it's like a phone that has, like, a wire attached to the wall.

Speaker 1 But then you can't take it anywhere.

Speaker 15 No, it stays put.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 6 All right.

Speaker 6 No, it needs the music.

Speaker 20 Superman also, you said.

Speaker 20 Okay.

Speaker 15 No, I like it when the music goes.

Speaker 20 Take his costume off. It's a misnomer that Superman would change into a costume.
His costume is actually Clark Kent. See, the real Superman is Superman.

Speaker 5 It's Cal El.

Speaker 15 Hello, where? To the person on my flight who refused to switch seats with someone because you don't like the number five.

Speaker 6 Get out of here. You miserable f.

Speaker 6 Get out of here. I swear to God.

Speaker 15 Gets asked, hey, me and my boyfriend are over here. Can we switch? They're in row three.
He's in row five. And the lady is like, I don't like the number five.
Oh, come on.

Speaker 20 That was her whole thing.

Speaker 15 I gave away her gender. Shit.

Speaker 15 Joe Mazzullah made his coaching staff play versus Celtics Media. They won 57-4 and made a big deal about it across all Celtics' official social media accounts.
As if that proves some sort of point.

Speaker 15 Maybe if you didn't measure yourself against washed-up former D3 athletes like Jay King,

Speaker 15 you wouldn't blow multiple 20-point leads in the playoffs. Oh, no.

Speaker 15 NBC running promos for Michael Jordan segments called Insights to Excellence.

Speaker 3 Goosebumps.

Speaker 8 So is he going to be on tomorrow?

Speaker 6 He's going to be, right?

Speaker 15 He's going to be on on opening night. Okay.
Special Special segment. Him and Mike Tarico.
Insights to excellence.

Speaker 6 Okay. Come on.

Speaker 15 Tell me you won't tune into that, Dan.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 6 There you go. Michael Jordan Sparks.

Speaker 15 There are 83 players on opening day NBA rosters who were born after LeBron made his NBA debut. That's depressing.

Speaker 15 FIFA cracking down on ticket scalping. By forcing resale of tickets to their own ticket site,

Speaker 15 then charging 15% commission to the seller and 15% commission to the buyer. That's not just a heavy play.

Speaker 15 It's a bicycle kick from outside the box in extra time of a World Cup final game with a get-in price of $15,000.

Speaker 15 It's crazy. Like, this is the high...
Prior to this World Cup, Dan, you could only resell for face value.

Speaker 15 You couldn't like price couch.

Speaker 15 FIFA said, we're going to get rid of all these scalpers. You only do it on our marketplace.
By the way, no limits to what you can resell for.

Speaker 6 Why?

Speaker 15 Because they're getting 15% on both sides.

Speaker 7 Ouch.

Speaker 15 Unbelievable. I'm debuting a mini-segment called Missed Connections.

Speaker 20 It's almost like FIFA might be corrupt.

Speaker 6 Oh my God.

Speaker 15 Pablo Torrey finds out.

Speaker 15 Debuting a new mini-segment called Missed Connections. You were the cute blonde at the supermarket mopping on aisle 5.
I was the guy who dropped a family-sized jar of kosher dills.

Speaker 15 Are brands paying more nowadays or are celebrities more desperate?

Speaker 15 Why are Zoe Saldana and Jeff Bridges doing commercials for cell phone service? That really pisses me off. Like,

Speaker 15 the guys from Scrubs, okay, you guys were famous once upon a time. Now you don't have a lot going on.
You can do these ads. Fine.
That's normal.

Speaker 15 That's what we've always grown up with in terms of commercials. Now we're getting like Hollywood A-listers

Speaker 15 doing like regular ads.

Speaker 14 You're right about this. I don't believe enough people are talking about this.
There are all sorts of movie stars who used to be movie stars who are cashing out in a way that is beneath them.

Speaker 15 They're still movie stars. If they used to be, I'd be fine, but you're still a movie star.

Speaker 6 Bradley Cooper's doing Uber Eats commercials? I'm saying back

Speaker 14 when we had movie stars as a traditional construct is what I meant. Like now they are commercial pitch men for whatever.

Speaker 15 It's like whenever I see them doing like paid for reads on podcasts and stuff, like, you're too rich for this. You're too famous.
That's for us, the D-listers.

Speaker 15 Jesus, leave some scrums.

Speaker 6 Crumbs. Miller Light.
Yep.

Speaker 15 M. Night, Shyamalan, Nicholas Sparks are collabing on a project.
And now I'm wondering if AI-created scripts and movies are such a bad idea.

Speaker 15 Did you know that early on, M. Knight was supposed to do the film adaptation to the notebook? This is a true story.

Speaker 6 Get the hell out of here.

Speaker 15 I heard it on NPR. Said he was.

Speaker 14 That feels like a weird happen to know. I heard it on NPR.
Like, you just hit that as the verifier. Like, I heard it on NPR.

Speaker 5 This is a fact. Yep.

Speaker 15 After me. They interviewed them.

Speaker 15 and he said like actually i i got to work with nicholas early on because i was supposed to do the film adaptation to the notebook and then the studio went in a different direction my question is what do you think the twist would have been had he gotten his his way

Speaker 15 ryan gossin goes to world war ii to fight alongside the nazis

Speaker 13 yeah

Speaker 15 can't wait for american sports 25 years from now when there's a shit ton of athletes across all races and ethnicities named shohei

Speaker 15 top five shoheys in sports 25 years years from now.

Speaker 21 Oh, wow, okay.

Speaker 15 OLI

Speaker 15 Shohei Petrovich, MLS striker.

Speaker 15 Except he'll say it's Petrovic.

Speaker 15 Dumbass.

Speaker 15 OLI Shohei Fontaine Jeffries, starting point guard in the WNBA.

Speaker 15 Number five, Shohei LaFleur,

Speaker 15 NHL Goli.

Speaker 6 Number four,

Speaker 15 Shohei Valenzuela,

Speaker 15 Golden Glove shortstop in the MLB. Number three,

Speaker 15 Shohei Friedman.

Speaker 14 MLB pitcher.

Speaker 15 Struck out 12.

Speaker 15 Number two, Shohei Abdul Rahman.

Speaker 15 MMA fighter.

Speaker 15 And the number one Shohei in American sports 25 years from now. Shohei Shyamalan Jenkins.

Speaker 15 Wide receiver for the Chiefs.

Speaker 14 It's a good name.

Speaker 6 Shohei the money. No, thanks.

Speaker 15 There was a heist at the Louvre this weekend. That's the museum Zaz went to to go see the Mona Lisa.
It took four minutes and happened during business hours. I know what you're thinking.

Speaker 15 How could that happen? Who was guarding the Louvre? Turns out it was Rudy Gobert. But the heister just ran high, pick, and roll the whole time, Greg.

Speaker 6 So.

Speaker 15 Top five things. The Louvre heist was almost faster than, almost faster than.
OLI. Me at any blackjack table ever.

Speaker 15 Doesn't matter how much money, doesn't matter what the minimum bet is, within like three and a half minutes. I'm done.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 I'm horrible at Blackjack.

Speaker 15 Number five, minutes per game Bronny will average this season.

Speaker 15 Just a hair under four minutes. Number four,

Speaker 15 Meon Prom Night.

Speaker 15 Just a couple hairs under four minutes. Number three,

Speaker 15 Miet Ninja Warrior.

Speaker 15 Number two,

Speaker 15 Miet Ninja Warrior the second time.

Speaker 15 And the number one thing that the Louvre Heights was almost faster than the canes reign at number two

Speaker 14 home game unranked opponent yeah four ints mike what the hell happened man yeah speaking of hell are brials those are the weekend observations thank you amin amin will be at the watch party with us in kendall greg cody is not yet confirmed but i urge you to make plans to be with us that night it's going to be a good deal of fun

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Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 7 You know, I'm a married man.

Speaker 17 I don't cheat on my wife, despite that gratuitous line in Back in My Day.

Speaker 7 I wish you were here, my wife.

Speaker 17 I really miss her.

Speaker 17 No, I don't. That's the thing about being married.
You know, you're not allowed to say, I don't miss my wife. I've been gone two days.
I haven't been gone long enough to miss my wife.

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All right. And then, you know, I'm I'm going to see her in two days.

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Speaker 14 The college football stories of the weekend, more, I'm going to say regionally, even though Billy Napier being fired after a win is unusual, but they look so impressive against Mississippi State, and the money's gotten so high.

Speaker 14 You're talking about $2 million of private equity in the Big Ten and the SEC is the most competitive. This is how it's going to be now.
You can lose your job after a win.

Speaker 14 You could lose your job if simply Florida whiffs the smell of, no, we're better than Mississippi State, and we've got to prove it in a way that makes us something that feels more like it belongs with Oklahoma and with Texas.

Speaker 14 And again, at the top of the standing somehow, Alabama gets a pick six, a 99-yard pick six, and Alabama somehow lost to FSU.

Speaker 14 Somebody explain to me how FSU goes from swamping Alabama, winning by two touchdowns, to going to Stanford and losing when Stanford is as bad as there was in Division I.

Speaker 14 Somebody explain it to me, please. I don't get it.

Speaker 20 SEC is not that good.

Speaker 8 You don't think Alabama's that good?

Speaker 20 Alabama looks like a different team, but we're also taking the results. But they got their asses handed to them.
by FSU. You can say they were underprepared, but we just forget about all of that.

Speaker 20 It's a terrible loss. But this is the SEC branding.
You have a team like Tennessee whose best win is against Mississippi State, ranked ahead of teams like Louisville and USF.

Speaker 6 Good loss is better than good wins, Mike.

Speaker 20 And that wasn't even a good loss, Alabama.

Speaker 5 They got their asses in the water.

Speaker 1 It's a team in the brand name.

Speaker 14 What's funny about what they're saying, Zaz, is what just happened to Billy Napier at Florida is basically this.

Speaker 14 It's condensed, but it's basically this. Everyone in the SEC is competing for the big dollars.

Speaker 14 And if you do have a bit of a coaching and NIL edge, you too can be Vanderbilt or Missouri or one of these schools that's now competing at the top of the SEC when those were never allowed to compete.

Speaker 14 Never mind the top of the SEC, they've always been the doormat.

Speaker 14 So when Florida is merely a little bit better at home than Mississippi State and loses to South Florida, and Vanderbilt and Missouri matter now. They can win any weekend against Alabama.

Speaker 14 Everything at the top end of the SEC is they're all throwing money at it because it's never been easier to get to the top of the sport if if you have $20 million.

Speaker 14 If you have $20 million that people have an expendable income, you could be Vanderbilt or Missouri or Texas Tech or one of these other schools buying your way right to the top of the game.

Speaker 14 And Florida's behind now because Florida had the head start. Florida has the tradition, has the history, has the expectation of excellence, but now they're officially behind.

Speaker 14 And Billy Napier, you're out on your ass because that's not good enough. We did better with Dan Mullen.
That wasn't good enough because Florida's standard is not where Vanderbilt and Missouri's is.

Speaker 10 Well, they gave Billy Napier three and a half years and his combined record is 22 and 23. You don't do mediocrity if you're the Florida Gators and the buyout doesn't matter anymore.

Speaker 10 It doesn't matter how high it is. Front Office Sports reported today that the nine firings so far in CBA in the top level, the buyouts have totaled $116 million already this season.

Speaker 14 Oh, but it's mattering in Tallahassee. You can't.

Speaker 20 The buyout is absolutely mattering in Tallahassee.

Speaker 14 You can't go. Greg, you cannot go from the weirdness of we were atop the sport 13 and one, quarterback away, our quarterback gets injured.
The next season, we're 2-10.

Speaker 14 And then we're good enough to beat Alabama, but then we go to Stanford, not just Stanford, Pittsburgh.

Speaker 15 FSU is weird.

Speaker 14 FSU, whether the SEC is what Mike says it is or not, you win at home against Alabama by two touchdowns. You're going to get everyone's attention.

Speaker 8 I don't have a good way of explaining what's going on with FSU because I understand they didn't play anyone great those next couple of weeks after Alabama, but that FSU team, like it looked like they were back, you know?

Speaker 8 It looked like, not the team two years ago that went undefeated, but they looked like a legitimate team. And then, I mean, this weekend, you lose the way that you did out there? And

Speaker 14 Jeremy, please get for me the game logs on Stanford this year because I don't think it was late at night.

Speaker 20 And he's favored by 30 points against Stanford.

Speaker 14 What happened late in that game, FSU? It was a late game, okay? And all of a sudden, you have no offense that FSU can get against Stanford.

Speaker 14 But when I give you the game logs on Stanford, that program's in disarray, but Andrew Luck, the GM, asked someone for $50 million and got it.

Speaker 20 Beautiful job by me.

Speaker 14 Asked someone for $50 million as a donor to Stanford, and that gets you in the game now. Do you realize the market inefficiency that someone that Andrew Luck just exploited?

Speaker 14 Wait a minute, I can get in that game for $50 million if I know the right person. I can actually run an athletic program that competes.
What he inherited post-David Shaw is how bad a team is this?

Speaker 1 This team this season is 3-4.

Speaker 3 They lost at Hawaii by 3.

Speaker 1 They lost at BYU 27-3.

Speaker 1 They won at home against Boston College by 10 points. They lost at Virginia by 28, 48-20.
They beat San Jose State by a point at home and had just come off getting crushed by SMU 34-10

Speaker 18 before beating Florida State.

Speaker 6 How do they do that?

Speaker 1 Welcome to the Gus Malzon experience.

Speaker 20 Mike Norvell last won an ACC game when he was 42. He's 44 now.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 20 This is, you know,

Speaker 20 after

Speaker 20 they said the ACC wasn't good enough for them and demanded a new salary, a new revenue share structure because they were the class of the conference.

Speaker 20 And then they haven't beaten anyone in the conference since.

Speaker 14 What is his buyout again? I'm sorry, Norvell, because this is the game that we're playing now in the state of Florida.

Speaker 14 It's a business game. Do you have $20 million to get into the game? Do you have the money to buy James Franklin's $50 million?

Speaker 14 Like, you understand that this is welcoming all the local car dealers to help us fund our program so that we can have a 50 million.

Speaker 14 Look, the Ohio State roster, it was viewed as all sorts of expensive. $21 million in sports isn't that expensive.

Speaker 14 They could sell that with some well-placed concessions and merch.

Speaker 14 Like, the sport is a giant thing, and the amount of dollars that we're talking about that buys out James Franklin now, $50 million is not that much.

Speaker 1 Mike Norvell would be owed about $55 million.

Speaker 1 Gus Malzon, the offensive coordinator, would get another 3.6. Tony White, the defensive coordinator, 2.6.

Speaker 20 Yeah, I've seen pretty high estimates for what that buyout would take for the entire staff. And look, boosters have to pay for these buyouts, even in today's NIL age.

Speaker 20 So they have to pay for NIL and the buyouts. And FSU does not have the same kind of base that Florida has.

Speaker 20 Nor do they have the SEC money.

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