Hour 1: No, It's a Bird (feat. Ron Magill)

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Speaker 7 Miami does care, even if we do not always act like it. So until midnight tonight, we'd like you to be a part of what it is that we're doing.
I know a lot of you don't listen to the show live.

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Speaker 7 I know Ron McGill will tell you that there are a lot of extraordinary people in our community who do do a lot of community-minded things to help.

Speaker 3 But rare among them over many decades is Dave.

Speaker 7 Dave Lawrence, the publisher, the former publisher of the Miami Herald. And what he does on this day for Miami is extraordinary.
It is exhaustive and it is not easy to raise

Speaker 7 $40 million from over 50,000 donors for things that people often don't care about, whether it's the arts or museums or an autism theater project or

Speaker 7 the Philip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science. There are any number of things in South Florida worth donating to.

Speaker 7 And one of them is Zoo Miami's Ron McGill's McGill's endowment, his substantive endowment that you guys, our listeners, have given more money to than anything.

Speaker 7 I don't know, actually, Ron, if you're involved with GiveMiamiday.org. Are you? You know Dave Lawrence, right?

Speaker 11 I know Dave Lawrence. I just, I've already donated to Dave in his honor.
Rita and I have both done that.

Speaker 11 And listen, guys, you know, like I've always told people,

Speaker 11 I love what I do, what I do with the animals and the endowment is very important, but there's no single animal life that's more important than a human life. And, you know,

Speaker 11 human aid needs to always take priority. And in this time and age, there's so many people that need help.

Speaker 11 So though I appreciate if you have anything extra, you can go to the Zoom Miami Foundation and donate for that.

Speaker 11 But, you know, if you got to set a priority, make sure you're doing things like for people like David Lawrence, who are really helping the core of our community.

Speaker 11 And at the end of the day, by him doing what he does, those kids, those families can hopefully grow up to be conservation warriors themselves.

Speaker 7 GiveMiamiday.org is where you go. Where you been, Ron? We have missed you.

Speaker 11 I appreciate it. I've been in Patagonia.
I did a one last trip with the family. You know, the two kids are now in their 20s and 30s.
And before they have, you know,

Speaker 11 married Suniba and others and they have careers taking off, I wanted one last trip with just the four of us. So I wanted to go to the end of the earth and I did that with just an amazing trip.

Speaker 7 I mean, you know, from glaciers and mountains to cliffs and beaches and elephant seals fighting in pumas, hunting and god it was amazing condors it was just amazing zaslow what would you like to hear as highlights from this trip when ron mcgill says a trip was amazing he's been all over the world and alleged to have seen any number of amazing things are you interested about what the most interesting or amazing thing he saw on this trip was or not really i mean the thing that hits me because i feel like i'm about to go through it with my older son like the idea that you are doing one last trip with just you know your family the four of of you.

Speaker 4 That kind of bums me out. Like, were you bummed out at all?

Speaker 11 You know, I wasn't bummed out. I would be bummed out if I wasn't able to do it, but I made it very clear to all the kids, listen, I'm paying for this.
It's out of my pocket.

Speaker 11 This is the last time you're on the payroll for a trip because the next time we go, I know they're going to want to bring their significant others and stuff. And I said, I'm not paying for that.

Speaker 11 I'm not paying for that. I wanted one last trip and appreciate it with just the four of us.
I think sometimes we don't do that enough. And we have always traveled together, the four of us.

Speaker 11 But like I said, you know, one lives in California now. One is working here doing a bunch of different things.
And they're all out of the house. They've been out of the house for years now.

Speaker 11 And I just, my wife and I just wanted one.

Speaker 11 Listen, I cannot overstate how nice it is to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner with just the four of us every day for two weeks.

Speaker 12 Ron, can you believe that Zaz has never seen March of the Penguins?

Speaker 3 What? Okay, that's not true. What rock are you living under, brother? Oh, my God.

Speaker 4 Ron, he's totally making that up. He never asked me, and I happen to have seen March of the Penguins.

Speaker 3 I don't believe him.

Speaker 5 I don't believe it.

Speaker 12 He's seen Happy Feet, and he thinks that's March of the Penguins.

Speaker 11 Okay, who narrates March of the Penguins? Zaz?

Speaker 4 A young Anna Paquan.

Speaker 3 Oh, no.

Speaker 11 No, absolutely not. It's Morgan Freeman.

Speaker 3 You're a liar. You didn't see the movie.
Oh, no.

Speaker 7 You didn't know the answer to that question.

Speaker 13 Oh, my God.

Speaker 7 He's being revealed as a fraud, a movie fraud here in front of us all.

Speaker 11 He's a movie fraud right there.

Speaker 7 GiveMiamiday.org, put it on the poll at Lebitard Show. If you don't know that Morgan Freeman narrated March of the Penguins, are you a movie fraud? Yes or no?

Speaker 7 And also at Lebetard's show, if you haven't seen Dodgeball, should all your movie opinions be disqualified?

Speaker 13 Ron,

Speaker 13 a week ago, a bird of prey landed in my backyard and I did some googling.

Speaker 14 I'm pretty sure it was a red-tailed hawk.

Speaker 3 Then

Speaker 14 for the next two days after that, my dog was afraid to go on the grass. She even went to the bathroom one time on my patio.
She never displayed that behavior before.

Speaker 14 She's since gone to the grass, but are the two things related?

Speaker 11 How big is your dog, Mike?

Speaker 13 My dog is a

Speaker 14 medium-sized whippet.

Speaker 3 Yeah, well,

Speaker 11 those are not the most courageous dogs to begin with.

Speaker 11 You know, that's why they're so fast. They're right next to the greyhound there, as far as their running capability goes, because they're used to being run after instead of running towards something.

Speaker 11 But having said that, it could be related. They could sense.
Listen, we're in the winter season now. As we get into the winter, more and more birds of prey are coming through here as a migration.

Speaker 11 You know, South Florida is kind of the funnel of the migration route into Central and South America for all the birds of prey that are now coming out of the north.

Speaker 11 So we're going to see a lot more hawks, falcons, kestrels, things like that now.

Speaker 11 Not that you're, not, not that that red-tailed hawk would have gone after your

Speaker 11 whippet, but I'm sure an instinct in the whippet made it aware of its presence and said, listen, let's be safe and sorry.

Speaker 12 Has you seen birds of prey?

Speaker 4 That's with Margot Robbie. That's Holly Quinn.
Of course, I've seen that. What's the matter with you?

Speaker 7 Look at that.

Speaker 7 His

Speaker 7 credentials are getting stronger. And so that's scent-based.
How rare is it, Ron?

Speaker 3 The bird did poop.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I was going to say, so the bird poops, and now the dog knows to be afraid of the area because the poop, the scent tells the dog that it's a meatloaf in the wild.

Speaker 11 Well, no, I don't think it's as much that. I think it was probably much more either visual or audio.

Speaker 11 because the hawks will constantly call and animals pick that call up all the time. Not to mention the visual.

Speaker 11 Remember, your dog has much better sight than you do, and they're noticing any kind of movement, any kind of different kind of thing in the yard. That's how they survive.

Speaker 11 So that's probably what it was.

Speaker 3 I don't think it's a good thing.

Speaker 7 But it's a threat. It's a threat, and the dog's a coward.

Speaker 11 That particular dog, yeah, it's not the most aggressive

Speaker 11 fighter of dogs. Let's leave it that way.
It's a very thin, very agile, fast-running dog, but not necessarily a fighter.

Speaker 7 Run because it's afraid because it's a coward.

Speaker 11 Are we just trying to label Mike's dog as a coward? That's exactly what they're saying.

Speaker 14 You did it.

Speaker 3 I mean, you did it.

Speaker 11 What I said was that that dog is not bred to fight. That dog is not bred to hunt.
And a coward. It is to run.

Speaker 7 From things because it's a coward.

Speaker 3 Okay. All right.
Stop.

Speaker 3 It's very rude. She's very old.

Speaker 11 Listen, I tip my hat to you for raising her.

Speaker 16 You did not tip your hat.

Speaker 12 Didn't even try. Ron,

Speaker 17 there's a house in my neighborhood.

Speaker 12 That when the birds come home to roost, they all sit on top of just that house.

Speaker 16 Why? It's a bad sign.

Speaker 11 Listen, that's pure speculation. I couldn't tell you exactly why that is other than is somebody putting bird feet out? Is somebody putting out seed?

Speaker 11 Is that house next to a fruit tree or something that provides any kind of source? Does it provide shade? Does it provide shade?

Speaker 11 For instance, when the sun is setting, does that tree provide a block from that sun setting?

Speaker 11 Or is it the other way around? As the winter comes around, is it a metal roof that can radiate heat that the birds enjoy? Or there's so many different reasons.

Speaker 12 It's like a planned community. So the roofs are all the same.
All of them have like fruit trees and stuff like that, but they always sit just at this one house. And I don't see them feeding.

Speaker 12 I don't see them swarming. They're just there chilling at the end of the day.

Speaker 11 It's hard to say.

Speaker 11 Probably one of the alpha birds, so to speak, may have picked that tree. You can go into the Everglades, for instance, and every night, all these egrets and ibis will come and roost on one tree.

Speaker 11 That looks like it's no different than any other other tree, but every night they come back to that same tree. And I don't know why that is.
You know, is it more protected from predation?

Speaker 11 Does it provide them with some kind of shade or barrier from wind or whatever? There's so many things, so many variables that it would be pure speculation.

Speaker 7 There's something about it. When we talk,

Speaker 7 the weather in South Florida is ridiculous. I've been talking to some of my friends who are in rain and snow.
Your weather friends? Shoveling snow, yes.

Speaker 7 Some friends from New York who are, yes, my weather friends.

Speaker 7 And what South Florida has right now in terms of weather is completely absurd. It's beautiful, it's why so many people are here.

Speaker 7 When a bird of prey is flying through here this time of year, how rare is it for it to grab a pet? A cat, a small dog, a small fart?

Speaker 3 A pet? Oh, oh.

Speaker 3 Couple. That's good.

Speaker 18 Yeah, yeah, good job. Good job.

Speaker 3 Yeah, all right.

Speaker 11 Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 10 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 20 The elephant went into a 7-Eleven and bought a pack of cigarettes. But my question to Ron is this.

Speaker 10 Stugats.

Speaker 7 That joke didn't really land the way you wanted it to, did it? And we all just stared at it.

Speaker 3 It didn't land at all.

Speaker 10 This is the Don Lebatard show with the Stugats.

Speaker 7 Can you answer my question, please, Ron?

Speaker 11 It's very rare that a bird of prey will go after a a small pet. Extremely rare.

Speaker 11 Now, if you have one of these, you know, ridiculous, like teacup Yorkies or something like that, a little miniature chihuahua or something like that, yeah, a great horned owl,

Speaker 11 you know,

Speaker 3 a cat, a cat.

Speaker 11 No, no, I just don't see a bird of prey,

Speaker 11 you know,

Speaker 11 short of an eagle going after a cat, at least an adult cat. You know, kittens, sure.
Kittens could be subject to almost any bird of prey of medium size.

Speaker 11 But generally speaking, no, your pets, unless like say they're the extreme designer teacup breeds that could easily substitute for a rat, then you've got a problem.

Speaker 11 You know, anything from a rabbit size on down, absolutely, there's a, there's a, there's a certain risk there.

Speaker 7 Let me get to some video here. You are not an insect or bug expert, but you're always talking to us about how animals have an incredible strength.

Speaker 7 Now, I don't think this is AI, but this video here of a bug holding on to the side of an airplane, successfully holding on to the side of an airplane.

Speaker 7 Is that real? What is happening there with the physics of that as the speed of that should,

Speaker 7 those arms should not be strong enough to be Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible movies? What's happening here?

Speaker 11 Well,

Speaker 11 they can be strong enough to do that.

Speaker 11 You know, they have very fine little hooks, so to speak, on the ends of their

Speaker 11 feet, their legs. And

Speaker 11 though you don't notice it because it's so minute, glass does have a lot of little fissures in it that they're able to grasp onto that way. So that's not, I believe that's probably true.

Speaker 11 And I think eventually that thing just blew off. But it is pretty spectacular to watch it there.

Speaker 7 It did blow off. And did it blow off to its death?

Speaker 11 No, not at all. That can fly.

Speaker 11 That was the type of Katie did. And it basically has wonderful wings that basically opened them up as soon as it fell out of the plane and came down to earth like a little parachute.

Speaker 3 What a stupid question of Dan.

Speaker 15 No, it's a bird, you idiot.

Speaker 3 Oh, no, I'm falling. Oh, wait, I can fly.
Oh, I remember my nature as a bird.

Speaker 11 But also, listen, you know,

Speaker 11 in deference to Dan, it could have been an insect.

Speaker 11 A lot of insects don't fly.

Speaker 7 These guys are making it a bird. I thought it was an insect.

Speaker 3 I didn't think that. I didn't think that was an insect.
It was a bird?

Speaker 11 Katie did. It's an insect.
And to your point, Katie dids do have wings that are disguised. So you don't see them like you would see the wings of a fly or a wasp or a butterfly.
That's a bird.

Speaker 3 You can kind of see the wings kind of flapping a little bit in the wind there. Bird.

Speaker 11 There are insects that don't have wings.

Speaker 3 Listen, I don't know.

Speaker 11 I want to defend Dan here. There are insects that don't have wings.

Speaker 11 Having said that, had it fallen off of the plane, because of the size of the insect and the basically, you know, the resistance it would have in the wind and having an ectoskeleton, it would likely still survive a fall.

Speaker 14 It's like dropping an ant from the Empire State Building. They ain't just lands like Captain America would.

Speaker 3 Yeah. There you go.
The wooden bird rose in the mouth.

Speaker 9 I think that's a toucan.

Speaker 11 Yeah, okay. You also thought that, what's her name? Narrated March of the Pack.

Speaker 3 It was like John, the March of the Pack one.

Speaker 3 You have a lot of credibility, brother. I want you to be John Anthony.

Speaker 11 God, I'm missing a lot of the insights.

Speaker 7 No, his credibility is getting stronger now when he's answering some of Amin's supposedly difficult quiz questions.

Speaker 3 They're not difficult.

Speaker 7 With impersonations.

Speaker 12 They're not difficult. I'm just throwing those salt balls that this loser, this sucker, be swinging and missing on.

Speaker 11 Hey, guys, before we go any further, I want to let you know we finally got our two new lions in. So, if anybody's down in Miami and want to come to the zoo, our two boys are back out.

Speaker 11 The boys are back in town. So, lions are back at Zoo Miami.
Royalty has returned.

Speaker 3 That's awesome.

Speaker 12 That's awesome. Zaz, you ever seen The Ghost in the Darkness?

Speaker 11 Oh, that was a good one.

Speaker 12 Yeah, I know. Right.

Speaker 3 Did you see it, Zaz?

Speaker 3 Did you see it?

Speaker 7 Doesn't seem like

Speaker 7 it doesn't seem like Zaz saw it.

Speaker 11 That was a great film, Zaz.

Speaker 11 You know, what was it about?

Speaker 4 The lion. It was about darkness

Speaker 7 was dark um can we get to some more video for ron migill here please let's see what we have here uh we are going uh let's see what we have here this is a buffalo charging a tourist or is this a shark okay this is a buffalo charging a tourist

Speaker 7 in yellowstone trying to get too close to bison and all of a sudden he gets charged oh wow surprise surprise natural selection brother natural selection all right let me see the next video that we have here is this uh okay this is a crocodile or is this a crocodile yeah this is a crocodile what oh no i think that's an alligator guys no i have i can't see the no it looks like an alligator but what's the fish tail why does it yeah it's kind of like a final what is why does that have why does that have a tail that's a fin

Speaker 11 that's obviously some kind of either genetic deformity or ai um

Speaker 11 but it's yeah it's it's just It's a deformity. It's very possible that the tail just splayed out and grew that deformity there.

Speaker 11 Or like I say, I don't know if I could believe anything I see on the internet these days.

Speaker 7 Okay, but let's believe that for the purposes of what we're doing on this show, let's pretend that everything we've got here is an AI, is not fake. So what is this? Why is this happening here?

Speaker 11 It's just a deformity. It's a genetic.
No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 7 Next, next up on our list.

Speaker 7 Tell us what's happening here as this cattle, I guess. What is happening with it?

Speaker 16 Cattle in Ireland were transported on a boat and dove into the water to swim to their grazing pasture.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I guess you can't bring that boat too close to shore.

Speaker 11 This is the first for me. I've never seen it.

Speaker 12 I didn't have cows jumping or swimming.

Speaker 11 Yeah,

Speaker 11 I've never, no, they can swim.

Speaker 11 That's not an unbelievable fact. You can see them swimming, but I don't understand the purpose of bringing in a boat and then making them jump out into the water.

Speaker 14 Can horse swim?

Speaker 11 Horses can swim as well. Nice.
Almost all mammals can swim.

Speaker 22 Well, they're transporting the cattle from Allen to Allen, and I guess they couldn't have docked there on that island.

Speaker 11 They couldn't dock the boat.

Speaker 3 Horses? Did you mean horses? You treat it like a battle. You guys have invited me.

Speaker 12 Is that easy to sea biscuit?

Speaker 11 Listen, I've ridden a horse while it swam. I mean, I've been on the back of a horse while it was swimming.

Speaker 3 While it was swimming with nothing below it, with nothing below its feet. With horse?

Speaker 11 Yeah, a horse.

Speaker 9 That's horse. Thank you, Ron.

Speaker 11 What are these, all of these juvenile?

Speaker 3 No, it's Chris Cody.

Speaker 7 No, it's Chris Cody. I think Chris Cody tried to make the plural of horses

Speaker 3 horse.

Speaker 7 and it's not the dumbest thing he's ever done.

Speaker 3 Thank you.

Speaker 3 I guess.

Speaker 3 That's like the bird.

Speaker 22 Welcome back, Ron.

Speaker 3 Ron, welcome back.

Speaker 7 We have missed you.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 3 Yes.

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Speaker 18 Give Miami Day is today, and they sent us a bunch of stuff to make noises.

Speaker 7 We is insincere.

Speaker 18 Thank you, Ron.

Speaker 7 We appreciate your time. Dave Lawrence.

Speaker 11 We are. Dave Lawrence.
Support Dave Lawrence.

Speaker 7 Take care. Genuinely happy to have you back.
And yes, I don't know

Speaker 7 how many of you in our audience know truly philanthropic people who,

Speaker 7 despite whatever the politics of the day are, are really just trying to be about the right things. But Dave Lawrence, the former publisher of the Miami Herald, has been a

Speaker 7 giant of a man in our community for a long time, doing a lot of things for people that a whole lot of other people do not care about.

Speaker 7 If today you are feeling any kind of generous with excess money, and I do know that these times are difficult for people and I also know that inflation is a total insanity that is making it very hard to give.

Speaker 7 So if you do not have money to give, I do not shame you for this.

Speaker 7 But if you have some excess money and you don't know where to put it and you want something that I'm assuming these donations are tax deductible and I'm assuming that this kind of giving is something that will cost you less than it might if it were not tax deductible.

Speaker 7 So GiveMiamiday.org is going on until midnight tonight. We will check on and check in with Tony again in a little bit here from Lone Depot Park.

Speaker 7 But please give if you can because there are a lot of organizations. You don't even have to look it up.
These people are doing good things.

Speaker 7 This is a good person that I know to be doing good things for many, many years in this community for a whole bunch of people that other people do not care about.

Speaker 7 And so I could not vouch for him more strongly in these terms as a giver to this community since I've known him.

Speaker 7 And he was my boss at the Herald a long time ago, and he was my brother's boss at the Herald. And in the name of my brother,

Speaker 7 the Perez Family Foundation is giving $10,000 to an assortment of the arts here in South Florida. But you can give to whoever it is that you want.

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Speaker 10 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 4 I've never stepped foot on that campus. If you told me right now your life depends on it, go to Santa Fe University and just

Speaker 10 take a picture.

Speaker 1 Stugats. I would die.

Speaker 10 I don't know where it is. This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats.

Speaker 7 I'm a little uncomfortable by the amount of arguing that Amin and Zaz are doing and the number of ways that Zaz has been shamed today by Amin.

Speaker 7 So let's see if Zaz can find out if Amin knows about that. I don't really understand this game that Zaz has

Speaker 7 been playing, but it's something that Zaz

Speaker 7 has been grilling Amin about basketball, and generally Amin has known, but there have been a couple of times that Amin has not known. so let's see if you is the point to stump him here no it's just uh

Speaker 4 we all want to learn about what's going on in the association so I'm gonna find out uh you know if Amin if you know about that you ready Amin I'm ready Amin last night Zion Williamson decided to play basketball very rare occurrence all right he played last night Pelicans still lost they're awful you know about Zion Williamson I know about Zion Williamson I don't think he decided to play as if he decided not to play in other moments.

Speaker 12 He was been hurt. Again, another victim of the hamstring strain that's been going across the league.

Speaker 5 Look, he's hurt.

Speaker 12 Now, I think he is an example of someone that we can blame for some of his injuries for being out of shape, but this year is not one of them.

Speaker 12 This year, he came in to camp, the best shape of his career, and he got hurt.

Speaker 12 Sometimes shit happens.

Speaker 4 Zion Williams is a massive bust, right?

Speaker 7 Can that be declared now?

Speaker 7 Can that be declared over?

Speaker 3 I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 12 No, not until he doesn't play well, right? Because that's the part with him that's different from like Greg Odin, for example, is that when he plays, he's amazing. It's just he's hurt a lot.

Speaker 12 So I think until his play either drops off or he just doesn't play anymore, I don't think we can close the player.

Speaker 7 But they're such a nowhere franchise that it just feels like his bustiness has ended up just cratering them.

Speaker 4 Remember, they were one of those franchise. Remember the night that they won the draft lottery and they showed like the room and everyone was freaking out?

Speaker 4 and it was one of those deals where they got rid of the entire sales staff you know because you didn't need a sales staff

Speaker 3 to sell no i think not actually

Speaker 12 they didn't get rid of him the joke was like i don't know if we need a best sales staff but they did not kind of happen with the heat when we got lebron uh but anyway and now all these years later it's like that building's empty man yeah no the people in new orleans are pretty pissed and and it's finally hit anti-zion i think for the first few years people were like very protective and supportive now the fan base is like get this guy out of here because he never plays and we can't move forward as an organization also the early play of Derek Queen and Jeremiah Fears has given the fan base like a glimpse of oh okay maybe there's life after this all right it sounds like Amin knows about that Zion Williamson Amin

Speaker 4 the Sixers they lost the Toronto Raptors at home last night so speaking of playing Joel Embiid he never plays like he played a few games at the beginning of C he never plays you know about that Joel Embiid I know all about that also know about that Philadelphia 76ers who started hot and now are are a couple games above 500.

Speaker 12 Reality is starting to set in for them. And again, Joel Embiid, to me, a poor example of the use of the word decision.
That dude is legitimately hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt.

Speaker 12 And unlike Zion, he's been hurt since before he played a single game. He's had a,

Speaker 12 I think he's just got a bad body. Like the Pelicans, though.
The light at the end of the tunnel has come up between Maxie and Edgecombe. It's like, okay, maybe there's life after,

Speaker 12 excuse me, Joel Embiid.

Speaker 7 Toronto good or schedule the last 10 games?

Speaker 12 Toronto's good. Toronto's good.
You know about Toronto? I know about Toronto.

Speaker 7 I'm playing the game wrong. I'm sorry.
I ruined it. No, I wrote it.
You know about Toronto? No, you know about that, Toronto. You know about that, Toronto?

Speaker 12 I know about that, Toronto. Toronto's good.
Toronto, look, the Brandon Ingram deal last year was one of the most under the radar deals, but that was a huge move for them.

Speaker 12 It gave them a legitimate score to go alongside Scotty Barnes. They got great length across their perimeter.

Speaker 12 Mark West used to talk to me about this, like the concept of small ball, but playing big, big small ball, which is, all right, we're not going to have two traditional bigs, but all of our perimeter players are 6'7, 6'8, or taller and can handle and do multiple things.

Speaker 12 And I think Toronto is doing a good job. Don't do that, Dan.

Speaker 16 I care about you.

Speaker 4 Amin, sounds like you know about the Sixers and Toronto. The Oklahoma City Thunder, they beat Sacramento last night.
They are 15-1 now, Oklahoma City. Jalen Williams hasn't even played yet.

Speaker 4 The Thunder on pace to lose like five games this year. You know about that record 73 wins?

Speaker 12 I know all about it and the thing that makes them a great candidate to do this. Number one, their margin of victory is the highest in NBA history right now, right?

Speaker 12 Which would break with the Bulls were the 96 Bulls were the prior number one. But number two, because their margin of victory is so high, they're able to not have to play guys.

Speaker 12 So I don't hear anybody crying about Jalen Williams not playing. The reason why is because they go out there and they bust ass and they win.

Speaker 12 And so they have the luxury of bringing him along as slowly as they want. But I said the stat the other day about

Speaker 12 Chey Giles Alexander not having to play in fourth quarters, but yet still being able to score 30 points in a game. Pretty remarkable.

Speaker 4 All right, you know about that thunder. I mean, last night, Nicola Vusevich

Speaker 4 hit a shot at the buzzer for Chicago.

Speaker 3 The Bulls are fun.

Speaker 4 Well, they've won two in a row now after losing five straights.

Speaker 4 You know about the Chicago Bulls?

Speaker 7 The Russian? You know about the Russian?

Speaker 12 Vucevich is Montenegrin.

Speaker 12 And I know it's a joke, I know, but I just want to be clear because some dumbass will be like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, he's not Russian.

Speaker 12 Having said that.

Speaker 17 Is that what the dumbass sounds like?

Speaker 3 My teeth stick out when I'm dumb and I talk about things. I don't get the joke.

Speaker 12 But yes,

Speaker 14 two games in a row.

Speaker 7 You know who they beat before they beat Portland at Abuzza?

Speaker 3 Who?

Speaker 12 The Denver Nuggets.

Speaker 7 That was a fun game. Fun game.

Speaker 12 Chicago, like Dan said, they do play fun.

Speaker 12 They move around. They're cutting.
They're passing. And it's kind of like them, Atlanta and Miami, have all had this kind of awakening of like, we're going to play offense a little differently.

Speaker 12 Not so much give it to our best player and everyone get out of his way. And Josh Giddy is having a phenomenal year.

Speaker 23 I think I know about them Bulls.

Speaker 7 OKC discards.

Speaker 4 Sounds like you know about that.

Speaker 13 They're running the sport.

Speaker 12 They're running the sport. I don't know.
I wouldn't call Josh Giddy a discard.

Speaker 26 They got a good guy for him.

Speaker 3 How was that thing?

Speaker 7 I'm just saying that OKC has so much abundance that they can give you a player who can be your number one because they don't need him.

Speaker 15 There was that thing.

Speaker 2 Pete at Bolstomar.

Speaker 3 You see Bull Durham.

Speaker 4 Yes, I've seen Bull Durham. I got one more for you, Amin.
Okay.

Speaker 4 Jalen Brunson returned last night for the Knicks. They won a close game at the Mavericks.

Speaker 12 Bullshit, last minute call, last second call there.

Speaker 17 You know about that bullshit?

Speaker 12 It's bullshit, man. Bullshit.
Maverick should have won that game. That layup was good.
No Cooper flag last night. The first missed game of his career.
Or as Zazzo would say, he decided not to play.

Speaker 12 No, he was sick.

Speaker 4 If you're sick, you can't play.

Speaker 12 He was sick. So was Draymond?

Speaker 4 Yeah, he was sick that he couldn't play with Steph because Steph was out.

Speaker 12 Yo, Zaz.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 12 You ever seen Maverick?

Speaker 3 I have.

Speaker 12 Who's in it?

Speaker 4 Mel Gibson.

Speaker 3 Almost called him Tom Cruise.

Speaker 17 Mel Gibson.

Speaker 14 Yeah, how about that chemistry between Mel Gibson and Jody Foster?

Speaker 17 Off the charts.

Speaker 26 I know.

Speaker 4 I like when he wins the hand at the end of the movie. That was good hands.

Speaker 17 You know about that, James Garner? Spoiler alert.

Speaker 7 I would have said,

Speaker 7 I thought of,

Speaker 7 put it on the poll at Lebittard Show. Was Maverick a James Garner vehicle or a Mel Gibson vehicle?

Speaker 7 Because I honestly thought James Garner before Mel Gibson, even though James Garner was in the movie remake.

Speaker 17 At Lebaton

Speaker 7 Show on the Polls.

Speaker 3 The tip of the hat.

Speaker 7 I can't believe I did that, though.

Speaker 7 James Garner. That's a Mel Gibson movie.
That's where Mel Gibson became or started to become a story.

Speaker 17 Honestly, you ever watch a movie and like have sex already?

Speaker 12 Dan, Maverick is not where Mel Gibson started to become a star.

Speaker 3 I mean, lethal weapon.

Speaker 3 Hold on. That was a huge star.
Dan, you'll know movies, Dan.

Speaker 3 Lethal weapon.

Speaker 13 Oh, he became a star.

Speaker 3 Matt Matt Max, he became a star 15 years ago.

Speaker 7 I have a proclamation. You know who doesn't know about movies?

Speaker 3 Oh, no.

Speaker 3 Dan Levitto.

Speaker 3 Oh, no.

Speaker 3 These suckers belong together.

Speaker 7 It was a bad mistake. I just had never

Speaker 7 thought of him. Lethal weapon.
I never thought of him as a comedy person, but I was making Maverick the part that made him a my bad.

Speaker 3 My bad.

Speaker 14 You know, Mel Gibson, say what you will.

Speaker 7 No, no, no, don't do that.

Speaker 7 I don't understand how he's made a comeback. He's still making movies.
He's making, he's somehow, yeah.

Speaker 4 My people are forgiving.

Speaker 14 Doesn't like Lucky J's.

Speaker 7 Jeremy, can we get from yesterday's show? I just want to get an assessment from you and an assortment of thoughts.

Speaker 7 I'd like to start a segment that more regularly critiques the show from the day before.

Speaker 7 I'd like to get imaging for this.

Speaker 7 I would like somebody to be an ombudsman for the day before, what it is that we did incorrectly, where it is that criticisms reside, because I suspect while you were listening to yesterday's show, I could just imagine you screaming because of whatever it is that Mike Ryan had to say about the University of Miami.

Speaker 7 We've spent a lot of time there over the last couple of weeks. We're going to spend a lot more time there, I suspect, there through the holidays.

Speaker 7 But do we have imaging for this or we're just going to start it cold, a cappella? We're just going to do it a cappella?

Speaker 3 Yes, it's me.

Speaker 2 There's no imaging for anything like that. But speaking of Mel Gibson, Dan, careful.
You started the show yesterday by criticizing the cream cheese usage of Jonathan Zaszlo and Ethan Badowski.

Speaker 2 I'm just going to say, careful. Couple lucky Js over there.

Speaker 14 So, you know, let's just be careful on the cream cheese.

Speaker 7 The breakfasts have gotten skimpier here because our cream cheese budget is excessive because of how Ethan and Zaszlo are eating.

Speaker 15 So you're just going to double down on it.

Speaker 12 Yeah, I'm with Dan.

Speaker 7 They keep eating all the billion cheese.

Speaker 12 They keep controlling the amount of cream cheese we have here. What do you mean they?

Speaker 7 Are you two not the two who have been eating all the cream cheese?

Speaker 3 They're the Jews who have been eating all the cream cheese.

Speaker 5 Does Dan know?

Speaker 16 I don't think he knows.

Speaker 5 I don't think he realizes that.

Speaker 3 Oh, my God. He doesn't know.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 So uninformed.

Speaker 13 Oh, my God, he doesn't know.

Speaker 9 I think Tony was right.

Speaker 2 Wemby wouldn't be good at softball.

Speaker 12 You guys are ridiculous. You're ridiculous if you believe that.
The dude can do the splits.

Speaker 2 No, no, no. I understand that, but it's really difficult to bend as quickly as you need to do to John Crawl.

Speaker 2 No, but he's short and stout.

Speaker 3 That's better.

Speaker 7 Poll at Lebertard show.

Speaker 7 If you can do a split, does that automatically make you good at softball?

Speaker 2 It's not about athleticism.

Speaker 3 It's about being near the ball. Would bend toward the ball.

Speaker 16 Would Wemby be a good first baseman?

Speaker 3 That too. That too.

Speaker 2 I mean, he'd be good at catching the ball thrown at him, but I don't know about fielding ground balls.

Speaker 7 He'd make a double play.

Speaker 7 He would field the ball at second base and be touching both backs.

Speaker 12 Just reach across.

Speaker 2 It's like 60 feet and software. Interesting.

Speaker 14 How do you think the segment's going?

Speaker 2 Dan asked

Speaker 2 if the kids would put Eddie Murphy up there with Richard Pryor as if the kids know who Eddie Murphy is even.

Speaker 2 You know my brother, who's like a full-grown man? He was born the year Shrek came out.

Speaker 3 Damn.

Speaker 5 That's how old.

Speaker 2 Eddie Murphy is.

Speaker 7 So they don't know Eddie Murphy?

Speaker 5 Not as a comedian.

Speaker 12 They know him as Shrek, the donkey.

Speaker 16 They know him as Donkey.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 2 He's making waffles.

Speaker 3 Waffles.

Speaker 14 Loves a parfait.

Speaker 2 But, Dan, that idea that you had about watching old sports moments with kids, good idea.

Speaker 14 It's a really good idea. There you go.

Speaker 9 Not even a criticism. That's a really good one.

Speaker 2 We asked who ruined their legacy more, Ben Stiller or Bill Belichick?

Speaker 9 I mean, Stiller.

Speaker 3 Loser. Nepal Baby.

Speaker 5 Wow.

Speaker 3 Father's the GOAT, and he was just like out here in the world.

Speaker 1 Definitely Belichick.

Speaker 2 Marcus Jordan. Scrotum Face.
Good insult.

Speaker 7 I was surprised RFK didn't make an appearance on yesterday's show.

Speaker 14 I didn't want to touch that one.

Speaker 3 And lastly,

Speaker 2 there was an argument made that there's a world where Ole Miss should miss the playoffs if Lane Kiffin were to leave, while our show spent the overwhelming majority of two hours of the show arguing that the only thing that should matter are the games on the field.

Speaker 2 And I just don't understand sort of the backward line of thinking there because

Speaker 13 I am fully

Speaker 2 about Mike viral decontextualization right this is classic no I was just asking the question I wasn't telling you what to think sure okay so that being said though the last observation Mike's totally right about everything it is a TV contrivance it's the SEC college football invitational where all they do is invite the teams that they care about they've been doing this for a decade and all that really ultimately matters is their bias against the free state of Florida.

Speaker 2 They don't like people here. They exclude teams from Florida.

Speaker 2 It's a bias against those of us living in this free state. Our great governor, Ron DeSantis, needs to step up on behalf of the little guy and get Miami to the playoffs.

Speaker 2 And if not, they should maybe consider, if they're not invited, claiming a national championship.

Speaker 3 There it is.

Speaker 2 If they're not given the opportunity, that's what they should do. Now, have they won all their games? No.
You probably should win all your games if you're going to claim a national championship.

Speaker 3 That's how you do it. But

Speaker 2 they have an opportunity to be excluded from this thing that is clearly just a TV contrivance. And And I don't think it's right either, Mike.
I'm with you. I'm hearing support.

Speaker 2 Why? Because I'm saying the same things Mike says.

Speaker 14 It feels like support.

Speaker 7 The thing,

Speaker 7 get the, I need your support from Greg Cody there.

Speaker 7 The thing that's not being talked about, and perhaps you guys can clue me in on this because

Speaker 7 it's a giant business, and a few weeks ago, they had a different spokesman giving different reasons for why Miami isn't Notre Dame.

Speaker 7 Paul Feinbaum is now on Miami's side and talking emotionally with his hands a lot in defense of Miami, which is not something I have seen very much of over the years.

Speaker 7 But is anyone covering or talking about it's Mac Rhodes, right? Like they just changed from that guy to the wet sock who came out a couple of days ago and was saying what he had to say.

Speaker 7 And so now the voice of, hey, somebody's coming out in public on behalf of a giant business once a week, okay, as a spokesman. Giant business, different than the guy from two weeks ago.

Speaker 7 Hey, wet sock, can you explain this to me? Okay, yeah, I'm the Arkansas athletic director. Let me give you the explanation.
What happened to the previous guy? He was less of a wet sock.

Speaker 7 Is this a made-for-television event or not?

Speaker 7 When they changed voices and faces on who's going to explain the business of this to me, as you 12, as you guys decide who are the 12 teams and you're just going to make it up on behalf of this giant business, is anyone reporting like why they changed those two things?

Speaker 14 Well, Mac Rhodes took a personal leave of absence. If you run a Google, it's not the prettiest situation that he was dealing with.
And I know Wetsock didn't ask for this job.

Speaker 14 It just kind of landed on his lap unexpectedly.

Speaker 13 Okay, that's all right. Understand you're not ready for the cameras.

Speaker 14 Not only did he open up a world of hypocrisy, but the criteria specific to Miami also changed.

Speaker 13 When Mac Rhodes was there, we'd like to see a little bit more consistency from Miami.

Speaker 14 Two weeks ago, absolutely.

Speaker 5 I agree.

Speaker 3 Offensively.

Speaker 14 Yeah, offensively, they needed to fix that. Now, two weeks later, Miami has their second best offense in the last 20 years, and that discussion's out the window.

Speaker 17 Now it's about Miami being in a different tier. No one knew about this tier thing before, but that's how they avoid the head-to-head discussion.
Who's in charge of the tiers?

Speaker 14 Because Miami is just three teams away from Notre Dame. I feel like that's close enough to have a head-to-head discussion, but apparently not.

Speaker 13 Apparently not.

Speaker 13 The tier that Miami is trying to get to apparently cuts off right at Alabama.

Speaker 21 And a huge talking point was, hey, why is Alabama behind Notre Dame?

Speaker 13 Alabama, because they rig it, has four ranked wins because Tennessee and Mizzou should not be ranked, but whatever. They have

Speaker 13 a huge thing on their resume that says they've beaten four ranked teams.

Speaker 9 Why is Alabama behind Notre Dame? So they can avoid the discussion.

Speaker 21 Same reason why Utah's there. Same reason why, well, BYU, I think it deserves to be even higher than Notre Dame.

Speaker 13 They rig the entire system. They reverse engineer it with the bottom of the rankings because you don't care about Team 26.

Speaker 21 You don't care about Team 27.

Speaker 9 We just cut it off hard at 25.

Speaker 21 And that's how Arizona State gets to be 25 in the only goddamn poll that it matters.

Speaker 13 Watch them not rank the winner of SMU Louisville.

Speaker 3 He's rigged. Watch them not do that.

Speaker 2 All a giant conspiracy against Miami. He's right.
It's a made-for-TV event and nobody thinks that the U should be there.

Speaker 2 And to those of you who are looking at me and saying, like, why would they rig it against Miami? It's a you thing. You wouldn't understand.
But Mike is right.

Speaker 2 When he says the lunacy is out there for everyone to see and the normies are waking up. Incremental games.
They're starting to feel the heat. And now it's back in the team's court.

Speaker 3 When he says that on Twitter, he couldn't be more right. That's right.

Speaker 17 I know you're yanking my crank here.

Speaker 13 I'm supporting you.

Speaker 14 I appreciate even your fake support.

Speaker 4 I don't know what's going on on Twitter these days.

Speaker 14 You just bought a G-Wagon thanks to crypto.

Speaker 11 I need your support.

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