This episode of a sports talk show mixes several topics. The hosts and guests discuss a Big 12 commissioner's departure, a report that a Miami Heat statue received a facelift, and the Christian Watson ambulance return in the NFL.
Fantasy football analyst Matthew Berry offers waiver wire advice on running backs and receivers for the coming weeks. The conversation also covers early voting in Miami-Dade County, NFC North rivalries, a tribute to Patrick Stewart, and a debate about movies such as Red Dawn and Crimson Tide.
Listeners hear light-hearted banter, though opinions and predictions remain the speakers' own views.
In this episode Jeremy Tashay, Matthew Berry
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Big, seismic breaking news in the world of college football.
Whoa, whoa.
Says this is going to make you happy.
All right, so I could use a little bit of that?
Yes. Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark is stepping away.
Okay.
Wow.
Okay.
He is stepping away, which begs the question: Miami's got an AD roll to fix.
Oh, no.
Let's build.
Let's build what?
Let's get Brett Yormark over here.
Get the hell out of here.
Oh, no. No, no.
That's great news, though. We managed to keep one Yormark away from the school down here, and now hopefully the other Yormark, he stays away from any schools in his future as well.
It appears that he's staying away from schools. How do you like that? Sign.
That's good news.
Sign the worst sponsorship deal in the sport and deuce out.
Awful. That's good news. Glad he's gone.
Jeremy, you've been you're walking around. You're all kinds of antsy. You're claiming you have some type of report as well.
Yeah.
What the hell is going on?
Yeah, I do. I'm I was doing some digging because I noticed there was a cover, a wooden cover over the Dwyane Wade statue over at the Keziah Center. You could see it here. I took a photo, and I started asking some questions.
Oh, yeah, look at that.
To my sources within the Miami Heat. And.
That's a two-by-four.
I yeah, I literally.
Something you like, you saw it and you were like, something's going on here.
What's going on?
Is it a box?
It could be the gobbledygooker.
I did wonder.
You know, if you come out of a box, you're automatically over.
I wonder what was going on here. And.
Nothing gets by you, buddy.
I have some.
Spit it out.
Some rumors that are coming my way. I want to head over there so that I can confirm.
Peace.
Go talk with some people in person, and I'll be reporting back to you guys in a bit.
That tint strap in the way?
All right.
It is.
All right.
See ya.
All right.
You can't take off your helmet, though. You got to be a full regalia.
I can't change?
No, no, hell no.
Look, we have a lot of fun.
Hell, no.
We have a lot of fun at Jeremy's expense. But he is a credentialed media member, and he covers the Miami Heat for Metal Ark Media.
That's right.
And he might be on the precipice of a pretty big scoop here. So.
Thank you.
Let's let's lift our pal up.
I think I need to.
You have to wear that, though.
You can't change, though. Yeah, you can't change.
You have to wear that.
You have to show everybody you're flat ass.
My ass isn't flat.
Go. See ya.
It was perfectly flat.
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I'm fine with that.
Matthew Berry. Matthew Berry. Matthew Berry. Matthew Berry.
Hello, Matthew.
Yeah, hi. Yeah, that was awesome. That was awesome. I woke up this morning. I said, I hope I get to see Jeremy's ass. And you know what? Sometimes dreams come true.
Flat ass.
Flat ass.
So flat.
No, it's.
Shockingly.
Really flat. I have to I got to admit to Jeremy, I'm sorry, but I'm kind of with the guys here. It's it's a fairly flat ass. I don't know if it's the football pants that are doing it, but honestly, yeah, there's not a lot of curvature there.
Got to work those glutes.
Feel like we're being hard on my guy here.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, guess what?
Definitely an iron horn situation going on, though.
I've got news for you.
What's that?
Take it away, Matthew.
Oh, all right. I thought you guys were going something all right, sure. Listen, week seven. In week number seven, Bo Nix scored a season high, 26.2 fantasy points, and 18.3 of them literally came on two plays. 70% of production was on a 62-yard touchdown run where Bo Nix was untouched, and then a 52-yard screen pass to R.J. Harvey, where Harvey gained 60 yards after the catch. If you want to believe, you do you, but I'm not there yet. In his first game back from IR, Jonah Coleman actually led the Broncos' backfield in snap rate and touches.
21% of his rush his runs so far this year have gained 10 or more yards for the season, Jonah Coleman averaging 4.9 yards per carry, R.J. Harvey at 3.6, J.K. Dobbins at 3.4. I've said this before, I'll say it again. Jonah Coleman is the Broncos' running back you're going to want over the last part of the season. In his first quarter against the Falcons last week, Caitlin Blackheady, 53% snap rate. He also got seven touches. He saw multiple red zone touches for the fifth time in his past six games. Yes, they aren't a buy this week. Yes, Chris McCaffrey is awesome, but I'm telling you, Caitlin Black has a role in this offense beyond just being insurance for Chris McCaffrey, especially given he's dealing with that hamstring injury.
By the way, week two, Dave Damacek, week two was the last time Travion Henderson reached five fantasy points in a game. In the five games since, he's seen just 30% of the Patriots' running back touches. I guess there's value there if, you know, something happens to Ramon J. Stevenson, but that's about it with Travion Henderson. Last week, Dylan Sampson's first game back from IR. That same week, Quinchon Judkin set season lows in snap rate, 51%, and target share, 3%. In the five games that Judkins played without Dylan Sampson, he averaged a 13.6 target share.
Basically, Judkin's still going to get the early down work and the goal line work, but Dylan Sampson's going to sap a lot of that passing game value that we've seen from Judkins earlier in the season. And speaking of the Browns, in his five completed games prior to week seven this year, Casey Concepcion was averaging an average depth of target of like 5.3 yards, but in week seven, he had an average depth of target of 11.1. He's seen a target share of at least 20% in every full game he's played, but if the deep passing usage can continue the way it did last week, sky's the limit for Casey Concepcion.
Prior to that, they just saw this Dink and Dunk stuff that I didn't like as well. In the two games, since Caleb Williams' return, Colston Loveland is averaging a 30% target share, 19 fantasy points per game. He leads the position in utilization score. That is a metric that's proprietary to fantasylife.com, which is underlying data, which projects future fantasy performance. He's the number one tight end in utilization score over the last two weeks, and he's finished as a top five tight end in both weeks. And finally, in the three games since Mason Taylor returned from injury, he's run 35 more routes than Kenyan Sadiq.
In each of the last two weeks, Taylor's seen a target share of at least 20%. Look, I don't think Mason Taylor's role is big enough to be anything more than kind of a tight end two, but he is killing the fantasy value of Kenyan Sadiq.
Matthew, what should Jonathan Taylor fantasy owners be hoping for before the NFL trade deadline?
Well, I think the first thing they should be doing is grabbing Seth McGowan off the fan off the waiver wire, because I think there's a chance that Taylor gets moved, and then you're going to have the starting running back of the Indianapolis Colts. I don't know that there's anything specific you should be rooting for. Like, any team that trades for Jonathan Taylor is going to do so to make him their feature running back. And any team that trades for him, if they're winning, they're likely in a better situation than the Indianapolis Colts in terms of offensively, right? Again, Colts just lost Quentin Nelson off that offensive line with the trade to Seattle. So I don't think you need to root for anything, because in a world where he doesn't get traded, like, he's still going to be the feature running back.
He's going to be the focal point of that offense. He's awesome. I don't know that, you know, if he goes to a better team with a better offensive line, maybe the value goes up a little bit, but I don't know that there's anything, you know, like he goes from a mid-tier RB one to a super awesome RB one. I, you know, like, he's awesome regardless. It doesn't matter where he's playing.
Matthew, what do you think about you and I were both on Ameri and Hampton in the preseason. We both saw the potential of Jonah Coleman, but if you have a choice between those two going into week eight, are you really willing to flip the switch and bench Hampton in favor of Coleman?
Yeah, for sure. I mean, I just I thought you were going to say, am I really willing to dump drop Amari and Hampton to go pick up Jonah Coleman? And I was about to say yes on that. I don't know what it is, Dave, but for whatever reason, I'm with you. I think my biggest miss this preseason, and I certainly had my share of them, but my biggest miss this preseason was I was all in on the Chargers. I thought the I thought a healthier offensive line, an improved offensive line with the addition of Mike McDaniel, who prior to this year I thought was one of the best, if not the best run game play caller in the NFL.
I thought sky's the limit for Amari and Hampton. I thought Herbert was going to have a big year. I was all in on Ladd McConkie, and obviously, the Chargers have just been an unmitigated disaster. Could not have been more wrong on the Chargers this year. And so, look, I just, you know, Amari and Hampton is part of a three-headed committee because they're using Keaton Mitchell and Kamani Vidal quite a bit. He's part of a three-headed committee on a bad team. Jonah Coleman, I mean, like, the Broncos are a good team. Now, they need to get consistent in terms of what their running back production is, but yeah, man, like, I just Dave, let me ask it to you another way.
I don't know how deep the league is you're in, but assuming it's like a normal 12-team league, if Amari and Hampton was on the waiver wire in your league, are you trying to pick him up?
I hear you, but I also think you're. To a degree, obviously, in terms of touches last week, Jonah Coleman sort of emerged, but he's not exactly the guy yet in Denver. So you're sort of assuming that that's where things are tracking as soon as this weekend to put him in your lineup, even over Hampton, who has been a bust as a fantasy player and as a real player, I guess.
Yeah, I mean, I just I mean, just in general, like, ideally you're ideally you're not starting either guy, candidly, right? Ideally, you're sort of waiting to see for Coleman to emerge. But again, and the the adage of, you know, trying to go where the puck is going, not where the puck currently is. Like, Jonah Coleman feels like he is ascending, right? The Broncos' offense still needs things to figure out. Jonah Coleman is somebody that Sean Payton actively drafted. It's somebody that he's actively talked about, that every time Coleman's been on the field to the eye test, he looks like the best running back they have.
The underlying metrics support that as well. The Broncos need a spark offensively. The defense is there. Now, listen, it's a tough matchup this week with Kansas City. So, I mean, like, you don't love that matchup. Hampton's playing the Rams. Like, neither guy has a great matchup. So in an ideal world, you're not starting either guy. But if you're telling me who would I rather have over the rest of the season, like, we've got kind of a a seven-game sample of Amari and Hampton and the Chargers' offense just not working. And, you know, I think there's at least a chance that Jonah Coleman could. They're off the buy. Did the did the Chargers go into the bye week and did they fix some stuff?
Sure, maybe. Here's hoping. But I just I just feel we we have a bigger sample of it not working so far this year under McDaniel than we do. Sean Payton's always had a good run game where the Saints, Broncos, and so if Coleman can take that role, and I think he's going to, yes, I'd rather have him.
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Dan Le Batard.
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Christian Watson last night, huh? I mean, I was I was watching WWE, right? Wrestler gets taken out on a stretcher and into the ambulance, taken to the local medical facility. And by the before the end of the match, the ambulance returns and pops out of it.
We just saw.
Christian Watson.
We just saw this. Money in the bank.
Yep, that's right.
Give him an Evans.
That's right. I mean, that was WWE what we saw last night.
Yeah.
Broken ribs, coughing up blood, leaves in the second quarter, returns in the third quarter, catches a couple more passes. It was crazy.
Yeah. It's insane.
Yeah.
It's insane. And I haven't seen something shot cinematically like that in terms of a dude's return. He literally got out of the ambulance.
My God, that's Christian Watson's music.
Didn't take off the pads, didn't take off his shoes, didn't do anything. Just kind of hopped in and then all of a sudden hopped back out. You think when he got to the medical facility with the broken ribs, Dave, that they had to yank off the tight jersey and the big pads?
It's hard to get off, right?
How did they do that? Especially with cracked ribs, you got to move and kind of do all this kind of stuff.
I hope somebody is in Jeremy Tashay's ear because he's dealing with the same stuff as he goes to do some some big-time journalism right now in his football uniform. Yeah, that was that was, yeah, wild crap, obviously, to see that. It is funny in the same week, though, that there's this big CTA CTE reveal and what are these guys doing to themselves that we're celebrating this guy forcing himself back onto the field minutes after he's coughing up blood. I know we do this with hockey players all the time, but the NFL player, like Christian Watson, broken ribs, coughing up blood, returns the next quarter.
NFL players must look at NBA players and be like, you're just the softest. I mean, just the absolute softest.
I think a lot of players do that.
Just the softest.
Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I've ever seen someone get out of an ambulance and return to a game. That's a first for me.
Yeah.
And I got jacked up when I saw that.
How do they know how do they know to stand by to have the cameraman by the entrance because the ambulance is going to come back?
It was it was shot beautifully. And everyone should return from injury that way. Very dramatic.
Like, you could understand, oh my God, Christian Watson's running back onto the field. Nah, nah, nah. We got a camera guy waiting for the ambulance to pull back up.
Yeah. Do you think he got a cue? Like, there was a stage director? Not yet.
All right, go.
Go.
I'm not on Mount Pious about this. If Christian Watson wants to go back into the game, that's fine. It is weird given, like I say, the attention paid to the health of the players and everything else. Who which doctor was like, yeah, go ahead, man. Yeah, you're coughing up blood, but that's all right. Like, I'm willing to take the chance as a professional, as a doctor, that I'm going to put my name on this, that it's okay for you to reenter a pro football game and have people continue to run into your midsection, which has caused you to cough up blood. Right? Roy, did Roy did you mention the Panthers fired their defensive coordinator earlier this morning?
Yeah, the Carolina Panthers have fired their defensive coordinator.
Not the Florida Panthers.
I like how you have to clarify because we're a prestige brand, one of the original six.
That's right.
By the way, can I mention I was explaining this to my son last night. My younger son is we're watching the Panthers and the Packers last night. And and and, you know, he he mentioned, oh, you know, Florida Panthers. It's weird calling this team the Panthers. The Panthers, to Mike's point, the Panthers are a hockey team. All right?
Carolina likes to do this. They have a Hurricanes too.
I said to my son, I go, how about how about these people in Carolina? Can they stop stealing our names? Can they stop stealing our team's names?
I like this take.
Maybe because it's just maybe because whoa, maybe it's just because of how popular football is in America. But when you Google, like, something, Panthers, this.
Yeah.
I do it all the time.
Hate that.
It's all Carolina.
There was.
You have to say Florida Panthers or else you get Carolina. There was the Florida Panthers who debuted in 1993, and then Carolina got a football team, late '90s, I think it was, and they said, you know what? That team in South Florida, they got a cool name. We're going to take it too.
And here's the thing. They don't got Panthers in Carolina.
No, of course not. And then you got the the Carolina Hurricanes who who steal the team from Winnipeg.
Yeah.
All right? They steal that team.
No, no, no. Hartford.
Like I said, they stole the team from Hartford.
Arizona had Winnipeg.
They stole the team from Hartford. They got rid of the Whale, and they said, you know what? The Miami another team in South Florida, the Miami Hurricanes, we're going to take that name too. We're going to be the Carolina Hurricanes.
Yeah, they don't have Panthers.
Oh, no, the Thrashiers moved to Winnipeg, to be clear, but the Panthers, of course, as far as I know, the first Panthers reside in Pitt. The Pitt Panthers.
I don't know if I've tried that one.
You don't have Panthers up there either. The Pittsburgh Panthers. You don't have Panthers up there either. Panthers are an endangered species here in South Florida.
The Winnipeg Jets moved to Phoenix, which moved to Utah. The the mammoth is or are. Mammoth is or are the Jets.
Tricky. But the Thrashiers became the Jets.
Correct. And the Jets may still very well move.
But the Jets became the Phoenix Coyotes, who then became the Arizona Coyotes, who then became the Utah Mammoths.
No, they became the Utah Hockey Club. Then they became the Utah Mammoth.
But I think the Phoenix I think the Coyotes/Jets lineage remains is not Utah. I think they're their own entity.
Yeah. If Arizona ever comes back into the hockey league, they'll get that history back.
Yeah.
The Jets have the original history now as of this year.
I like when teams do that. I like that.
That's cool. That's that's that's that's cool. And they can take that with them when they inevitably move.
I think Zaz I think Zaz, it's a curious thing at least. I'm not sure if I like it. You know, Art Modell I used to always say. I like it. You know, he's the creep of all creeps. The team you understand in Cleveland, the pro football team that he buys is Paul Brown's team, and they are called the Cleveland Browns because of Paul Brown. Then Art Modell buys them, and he's like, "Hey, Paul Brown, you're out." He's like, "What do you mean? You're fired, man." Like, "Well, you can't fire me. The team's named after me." He's like, "Well, that's what I just did, man."
The one thing and then Art Modell obviously then moves them to Baltimore. The one decent thing I used to think was that he left the Cleveland Browns name behind. But what value does that even have? The real team, they won the the Cleveland Browns won those two Super Bowls. They call themselves the Baltimore Ravens, but they're the Cleveland Browns, which makes the existing Cleveland Browns, I don't know what. It's very confusing. No, no, but what what it means is, like, Bernie Kosar was not the quarterback for the team in Baltimore. He was the quarterback for the team that's in Cleveland right now.
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Tony, am I supposed to take serious the Green Bay Packers last night? The Panthers, they fired their def Carolina Panthers, who stole the name of the Florida Panthers. They fired their defensive coordinator. You you knew it was you know, it was common when Caleb Williams sonned Dave Canalis after week number one and after scoring.
He got a good defense.
56 points. Told him he's got a good defense. 59. Told him he's got a good defense. He sonned him. So defensive coordinator was fired earlier today. Am I supposed to take the Green Bay Packers serious? Because I don't.
I think so, right? We look at that division, and Dave, we've talked about it on Football America, like how good the NFC North is and, like, the Packers may be the worst team, but, like, maybe Minnesota, who's undefeated, might be the worst team. And the Bears are actually really good.
For the audio audio.
Say it again.
What do you got?
For the audio.
Oh, I got a dart.
He has a dart in his mouth.
Yeah, I got a dart in my mouth. It twigs the on my lips. Like, Dave would say.
A dart.
A nail.
A nail. A heater.
A heater.
A grit.
Yeah.
What do they call that in the UK, Zaz?
I'm not following too well.
Don't answer that. Zaz, don't answer that. I'm here for you. So with that, like, I think so.
Don't look at me like that, Roy.
Hey, let's not go down that road again.
Josh Jacobs, they really felt like getting him the ball, scored two touchdowns, had, I think, the lowest yards per attempt with all the attempts that he got with the yards that he gained, like 1.9 yards per touch, which is abysmal. Dave, I'm looking at this team. Like, I love their offense. Christian Watson with the broken ribs. That's going to be a little bit of a of a stop there. But at the end of the day, this is a great offense.
It is interesting, by the way, though, Dave, that in regards to Christian Watson, like, we're doing a whole investigation with Jalen Hurts, and rightfully so, whether or not he should have played. We we're just good with broken ribs, coughing blood. Hey, you can come back and play. We don't need an investigation. We're good to go. Very strange. Yeah, inconsistent, at least it would seem on face, but we must not. I mean, I'm I don't know, Zaz, if you're a doctor. I am not. But it seems weird that you would put it given the climate out there, like, yeah, the guy who's coughing up blood, that that's the story, is back on the field.
But yeah, the NFC North is wild. The Bears might be the best team. Obviously, Jeffrey Simmons landing there changes that defense considerably. In August, I was on the Vikings because I said Brian Flores in Minnesota is the only team with a defense in that in that division, and that'll provide the difference. Now things are a little bit different. I think this Detroit-Minnesota game is a huge one because Detroit makes themselves a legit, viable team to win the division with a victory. If they lose, though, I think they fall back and land in fourth place.
And Minnesota, for all the doubts and all the skepticism about them, have a chance to go in there. And guess what? I think they are going to do that. I think Kyler Murray turns a corner this weekend in Motor City and the Vikes win once again, and they stay clean.
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What's up to my boy Jeremy Tashay, who's sidelined right now? Cash money. What you got for me? Jeremy Tashay.
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I want to go back to what is sad news from earlier today. And that was Patrick Stewart. We learned yesterday that Patrick Stewart passed away, 86 years old. His final on-screen appearance will be in the month of December for Avengers: Doomsday. Probably the role, right? Is it the role he's most famous for? It's either Professor X or Jean-Luc Picard. I think Professor X is the most famous. Can we agree on that? Is that it?
Yeah.
Okay.
Tough day for nerds.
And I mean, has there ever been an actor who was more obviously suited for a role than Patrick Stewart and Professor X? Like, when they were making the X-Men movie, the first X-Men movie, which was like 26, 27 years ago, when they're casting Professor X, everybody knew it has to be Patrick Stewart. And they cast Patrick Stewart, and he was great. Has there ever been a more obvious role to be filled than Patrick Stewart as Professor X?
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL. That's what everybody said as soon as they saw Sarah Palin.
That's a good one.
I think Nick Cage as John Madden. Oh, wait. No, wait.
Boom.
Well, look, it's a major void that Patrick Stewart is leaving. All right, Professor X, he will make one final appearance in December in Doomsday. But look, you know, a door closing, maybe a door opening. And Dave Damishack, I would like to throw my name in the hat to replace the great Patrick Stewart as Professor X. Matter of fact, I want to act out a scene with you. I'm going to. That's terrific, Zaz.
I think you know what? You got to ask for things in your life. Good for you to stick your neck out a little bit. Look at this. Show your ass. That's right. I mean, Patrick Stewart, he's he's perfect for Professor X. I got the look as well. Look at this. I took my hat off. All right? I'm I'm going to audition here for Professor X. Look at this. I don't need to shave my head. You know, James Young James McAvoy, he had to shave his head. I don't need to shave my head. You're bald. Wow. I who knew? When did you go bald?
I'm rolling up ready to go.
Charles Xavier.
So, Dave, will you do a scene with me? Will you help me? Will you help me show my acting chops as I would like to audition live in front of everyone? Normally, great actors, they they they audition for the director in a little room. They don't do it on live television. I'm going to do it live. All right? Do it live. You ready? Dave, you'll do this with me? Well, yes.
Hot start.
Do you do you want to set the scene a little bit here? Okay. So let's do the scene where I'm going to be Charles Xavier. You're going to be younger Charles Xavier. So this is from X-Men: Days of Future Past. What a movie. All right. For my money, the best X-Men movie there is. So this is from X-Men: Days of Future Past. And you're you're young Charles Xavier, and you're you're, like, really down. You're you're an addict, you know? You're taking the drugs because you want to be able to walk because otherwise you got the spinal cord injury.
And I'm in the future, and I'm I'm in your head. And I'm telling you, hey, we we need we need your help. Otherwise, you know, to save us here in the future, you need this this scene, it's it's it's the hope scene. Okay? You ready?
It was a very easy plot to follow.
Yeah. All right. You ready? You ready, Dave? We can do this? You ready? Okay. I'm in your head. All right. Here we go. Is this what becomes of us? Eric was right. Humanity does this to us. I stepped on you. Start again. Okay. Take two. Here we go. Is this what becomes of us? Eric was right. Humanity does this to us. Get out of my head. It's not their pain you're afraid of.
It's yours, Charles. And as frightening as it can be, that pain will make you stronger. If you allow yourself to feel it, embrace it, it will make you more powerful than you ever imagined. I don't want your pain. I don't want mine. It's what makes us human, Charles. We have to be better than that. Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, it doesn't mean they're lost forever.
Sometimes we all need a little help. I'm sorry. I don't want your future. Please, Charles. We need you to hope again. Find what you were. How about that? Scene. Scene. How about that?
I was I was not enough Zaz.
No?
No, no. You needed to stretch boards out and do, like, your bit. Yeah.
So okay, you're giving me inspiration?
No, I'm saying, like, make it your own. You need to be the inspiration.
Give us more. Give us more.
Yeah. You know how Patrick Stewart was?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I mean, he's got a but but Professor X is a he's English, right? Okay, but it sounds like Mike Mike wants me to give my own interpretation. Mike, you want me to give my own interpretation of the character?
Yeah, I want to like, Patrick Stewart rolled out of bed, and he's just Patrick Stewart. Everyone's like, he's perfect. So I guess even, like, Dave's like, all right, I guess Charles Xavier is just like like a British guy now. Make it your own.
Okay.
You're perfect for the role.
All right. I'm ready to do it. You ready, Dave? We can try that. Let me try that. I think I got I think I know. Okay. Yeah. You ready, Dave?
Yeah. Just do it like the back half because it was too long.
That is exactly right. He just. Okay. I'm going to pick it up from my second line. You ready, Dave?
All right.
Okay. It's not their pain you're afraid of. It's yours, Charles. And as frightening as it could be, the pain will make you stronger.
Yeah. Now, Dave, you punch it up the way that you do your Damishack thing.
I don't want your pain. I don't want mine. It's what makes us human, Charles. We have to be better than that. Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, it doesn't mean they're lost forever. Sometimes we all need a little help. I'm sorry. I don't want your future. That's weird, right? Please, Charles. We need you to hope again. Find what you were. How about that? Fried chicken and scene.
Yeah.
Much better.
Excellent.
Bravo.
Much more natural.
Roses throw them at you.
Much more natural.
Wow.
I don't want your future.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. We need you to hope again. Come on, Chuck.
That's what I'm talking about.
That's what I'm talking about.
Hey, that's what I'm talking about.
All right. I think there's something there.
I do. There you go.
I think there's something there.
Yeah. Much better.
Put my hat back on.
Much better. That was a good call.
Yeah.
That was a good call.
Yeah.
He actually thought he was going to audition.
That's weird.
Thank you.
Was I nervous going into doing scene work with the with the Thespian Jonathan Zaz? Oh, sure I was. But he gave me a playground, and he really took some chances, which encouraged me to do the same. I mean, that that was exhilarating for me. Born for this role. I mean, I was born you know, I had hair when I was a kid, so, you know, born for it. But you know, I was born. Born this way, dog. Yeah.
You know, I was thinking about UCLA's college football playoff chances, Dave.
Absolutely.
And I I think they get in with two losses. But when you consider the success that UCLA is having this season, and you juxtapose that with the kind of season that the Chargers are having, it begs a question.
Yeah. I like this.
Is this the largest goal between pro and college teams in all of football?
That's a good question. I don't I I don't get it. I don't know who you're showing off for with with this bit. I thought it was a keen observation I made five weeks ago that the Kings are maybe the best and the Dolphins are maybe the worst in their respective leagues. I I noticed that. You know, I'm I'm one of society's, if not society's, greatest empath. And I know that you guys are going through some stuff down there, watching the Dolphins week in and week out. I thought I made a connection there.
I apologize, I guess.
All right. All right. I got two Pittsburgh Steeler questions for you. Number one, did you like the black pants?
I didn't, ultimately. I I thought it was a bold choice. I was fine with it. I think the one thing I will say is that they did a nice job because I know you don't like that Pittsburgh calls its colors black and gold, and you consider gold to be metallic gold, like Notre Dame in New Orleans wears. But I thought that the black against the Saints version of gold looked a little bit better than the yellow of the Steelers' gold and the Saints' gold. Too long a name.
Yeah. It was easier on the eyes. Opens up a whole world of possibilities when they go all black, inevitably at home. I like that. Number two, is Aaron Rodgers all right?
He is all right. And like the late great Jerry Orbach says at the end of Dirty Dancing, when I'm wrong, I say I'm wrong. And I think to a degree.
He wasn't wrong.
What? Why he he was wrong? Jerry Orbach? No. Not not wanting his 17-year-old daughter to dance very sexually with a 30-year-old man. He was not wrong. We've been through this. I agree with you about that. Yeah, Zaz. Well, I think it was more about who impregnated whom. It was was more what he was wrong about. But yeah, I think.
Do what now?
Well, have you not seen Dirty Dancing there, Tony?
No, Dave. I've never seen Dirty Dancing. Only at Lacawatcha. RIP.
Well, listen, if you're going to open up the Swayze cannon, I encourage you, Nade the Man, that you really start with his action work, Red Dawn specifically and Roadhouse.
Oh, I've seen Roadhouse. I've seen the original Roadhouse when he rips his throat out. It's great. Dalton.
Have you seen Red Dawn?
I haven't.
Oh, you're going to love it. You're going to love it. The Soviets attack a well, they attack the US of A, but specifically.
All right. So they're the bad guys. Also, Aaron Rodgers is good. Or just hard. He's he's he's.
All right.
Let's get back to Red Dawn, but I just wanted a final answer.
Well, the thing with the thing with Aaron Rodgers is that's hard to sort of to sort of fathom or try to reconcile it. He's not good. He's not he's not he's not a good mobile NFL QB, but as a 40-something-year-old, he's vastly superior to anything we've seen anybody 38 or older, right? I mean, like Rothesburger 38, Peyton retires when he's what, 39-ish, Matthew Stafford. Now, Rodgers moves way better than any of those guys, and certainly better than Brees, Peyton, and and Brady did at you know, once Brady was into his 40s.
It is kind of remarkable what Rodgers is doing. That doesn't mean, though, that he that his ability to move around is an actual asset to the Steelers. He did make a couple throws outside the pocket, though, against the Saints, though, that that surprised me. You guys like movies?
All right. Yeah. I like movies.
I wanted to hear about Red Dawn.
Yeah.
I mean, I think he laid it out for you.
Did he? What did he say? Because we got caught in the Aaron Aaron Rodgers crossfire. So I was just trying to pick up.
Well, you see, you see, the the Soviets invade, and then some teenagers, they flee to the hills.
The Soviets are the bad guys.
That's right. Yeah. And and the the teenagers are the good guys. But they band together in the woods and improbably forge a a sort of rebel force that attacks and unleashes assaults on the Soviet soldiers to try and save their town. And I mean, then about halfway through the movie, Power's booth, his plane crashes, his jet crashes, and he absolutely steals the picture. It's a real listen, Tony, do yourself a favor this weekend.
Red Dawn. You'll you'll you'll thank me after the fact when you return from Cloud Nine.
Tony got mixed up here with Red Dawn and The Hunt for Red October. And Crimson Tide. Another good summer movie.
All right. All three movie. Triple Header, Zazlo, Mike Ryan. Rank those movies. That is a tough trio of pictures to say which is the best. I'm going to go Red Dawn.
Oh. I have that at the bottom of my list.
So what? It's Red Dawn, Hunt for Red October, and.
Crimson Tide number one.
Crimson Tide.
Crimson Tide number one.
I have never seen Hunt for Red October. I know it's.
Josh.
I know. It's embarrassing.
Just one.
Just one.
Just one.
I know.
Just one ping.
One ping. It's embarrassing.
Just one.
But I ask, you know, everyone likes movies. Does everyone else like popcorn?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. I see what you're doing.
Yeah. So in the month of December. Zazlo should audition Mike Ryan for for the for the Hackman role in Crimson Tide after what we learned this morning, right?
Yeah. Because he was he was a racist.
So Dune 3 is coming out in December, and this is a new it's a new thing, right, where the these big high-budget movies, they come out with their own souvenir popcorn, all right, holder. You know, not just there's souvenir buckets. So look at this here.
This thing likes the party.
What the hell is this?
Oh, you know what it is.
What is that?
Little meet in the middle situation?
I'm like, so I I have to stick my hand in the wormhole?
That's right. Little 246.
Which one's the front? Which one's the back? To get the popcorn, like.
Little 246 DP.
I mean, it's it's one thing for me to go and see, you know, Masters of the Universe to go see He-Man and to buy Castle Grayskull. Of course, I'm going to do that to eat the popcorn out of. But what what am I doing here?
The opposite of Lady and the Tramp. That's what you're doing.
Right?
Look, leave it to Dune, which started this whole craze of popcorn buckets you can stick your penis into.
That's right.
And they decided, what are we going to do now? Because everyone expects something special. And what they did was.
Oh, hello.
Yeah. Like, let's let's lock eyes and you have one friend.
Or let's both close our eyes and let's just feel.
Yeah. Just like, you just keep your eyes over there. I'll keep my eyes over here. I'm doing what I'm doing. You do what you're doing.
Oh, did you poke me?
Yeah. I have news for you.
Never saw Hunt for Red October.
I know.
Shock. I promise I'm in there.
I know.
I promise I'm in there. Do we have any idea how much this is, how much it costs? Because I remember when we looked up the Castle Grayskull, it was like 60 bucks.
Yeah. You could have sex with that.
Comes with extra butter.
Yeah, it does.
You're going to buy it, right? But there's there's a single there's a single one, and there's a double. You get just the single popcorn.
Depends how you like the party.
Yeah. I don't know, man.
You're a single guy, I think.
You think I would go with just the single?
Yeah.
I'm a double man.
I mean, depends. How adventurous were you at Santa Fe?
You don't need someone else either. You can have fun by yourself with that thing.
Yeah. Go on.
In one end, out the other? That's weird, right? That's weird, right? Looks injurious.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Wait. In one, out the other?
Wait. How do you do that?
Think about it.
How do you do that?
That.
How do you do that?
I think we're talking about different things. I was talking about banging it.
I I think he is too.
Think about it, boys.
How does his go in and out?
That's not how anatomy works. Oh, you just like.
Look at me.
You switched.
All right. I'm seeing it.
Look at me.
I'm seeing it.
In one end.
In the other.
How does it how does it it curves tremendously.
I think you're good at this.
Tremendously.
I'm all right?
Yeah.
Sneaky good.
Sneaky good.
Fist me. I think what just happened, a bold bold statement. I think what just happened with Chris Cody is worse than what happened with Zazlo.
Yeah. You've now had the weirdest performance of the show today.
That was worse.
No, that's not true. You were racist.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're not getting rid of the fried chicken, Roy. Don't worry, all right?
Holy cow.
I wonder if that's I wonder if that's going to be in the club.
Let's let's just.
Tony called it a play on.
I did. I was trying to help you, buddy. When Dan comes in on Monday, let's remember to recap the Friday show. We just got one soundbite.
Zaz won't be here, but we can recap.
Yes, right.
Anyway, fist me, Zaz. So tonight, huge night locally, right, for our sports teams. We got a lot to watch. There's a lot going on. We got the Panthers tonight. They're back at home. They never play at home. It's only the fourth home game of the season, and it's game number 14, I think, right? And you got the Heat. You know about that NBA Cup? That's right. Tonight's the NBA Cup.
Oh, the Emirates Cup.
Heat Pacers.
That's a former finalist.
All right. So can we can we get back-to-back wins, start feeling a little bit better about our team?
Are you going to go to the Panthers game or not?
No. I actually have to work tonight. I'm actually on ESPN tonight. Yeah.
Halliburton's out. Yeah.
Halliburton's out. Yeah.
Oh, so that's a break?
Yeah. No, it's Tony asked if the rays extended the series to six.
Oh, that's what it was.
Yeah. That's why I was a big Rays fan the other night. Oh, what a stupid team.
Yeah. You sure you're still on the schedule after the show you've had today?
All right. Let's not talk about that anymore. But Jeremy Tasche has some kind of news for us, so we told him to get to stepping and do whatever you got to do. So our our Metalark Media, Miami Heat beat reporter is Jeremy Tashe. And from the looks of it, you are out in front of Kaseya Center. Jeremy, what is going on?
I can officially confirm as of 11:08 a.m. Eastern Time that the Dwayne Wade statue has gotten a facelift. This is extremely Miami of Dwayne Wade. But if you look, this is a new look for the greatest player in Miami Heat history. He actually looks like the 2009 version of himself. You'll notice the trim from the barber on the facial hair. You'll notice the way that the jaw is slightly smaller.
He got a little bit of a a a jaw reduction, sort of the anti-trend of right now. Jaw reduction for Dwayne Wade. And now the This Is My House Dwayne Wade statue outside the Kaseya Center officially actually looks like Dwayne Wade. I exclusively have that report. Again, this was as of 11:08 a.m. Eastern.
Is our cameraman laying on the floor?
All right. This is.
Tip your toes.
This is a really big deal, actually.
This is huge.
This is a really big deal. So, Jeremy, are you telling me that and I could see it right now. It is a new head on the Dwayne Wade statue.
This is crazy. This is monumental. The Miami Heat have admitted they're wrong about something.
It's a new head.
Monumental for the monument.
On the Dwayne Wade statue, which looks like Dwayne Wade now. And this was not something that.
We'd like to zoom in.
Any of us knew was going to happen.
That's a great jaw right there. No, it looks totally different.
No, nobody knew this was happening.
What happened to the old head?
It's on ice.
I don't know what has happened to the old head. I'm going to work on confirming some reporting there. But.
Get me that old head.
Yeah, I want that.
Bring me the old head.
Let me see Jeremy's act.
Yeah. No, this is a grail now.
Dave, you know, like, we got we got to get the old head.
Yeah, we got to get the old head. Get the old head, Jeremy. New assignment. Get the old head.
All right. I'm sure they'll give it to us.
I'll work on getting the old head, but this is a big deal, everyone. This is my exclusive reporting. The first news I have ever broken as a member of the Miami Heat and my sources can officially report that the Dwayne Wade head is new.
I'm hearing the same thing. All right. He's working.
This is this is a big deal.
That's great.
This is very big news.
Oh, it looks so much better.
It does. It looks so much better. So.
They still have Miami. He was wearing L Heat when he did that. I don't like that.
Now, do we know, Jeremy, do we know if the the Heat have not told anyone that they were doing this? They've done this clearly in secret. Is there going to be like.
They did this in the in the in the middle of the night. The the height of secrecy. I believe after my confirmation here, this should be posted to social media by the Miami Heat. I confirmed with my sources that they are going to be unveiling this later today. But it's the exclusive report of Jeremy Tasche of Metalark Media confirmed through multiple sources within the building with the Miami Heat before it was revealed to the general public that Dwayne Wade has gotten a facelift.
Sunset know how to first.
There it is. So the Miami Heat tweeted out, quote, "It may be my likeness, but it will always be our house." And then it says a closer look at the enhancements to his statue. And yeah, it it looks like.
Beautiful.
Dwayne Wade now. This is a big story.
How many times did ESPN.
Everything ESPN could have hoped for.
Tashe, do you have any information about how many other facelifts have ever been done to a statue before? I seem to recall Cristiano Cristiano Ronaldo got one what, about five, ten years ago. Is that the that's the only one I can think of.
To my understanding here in the 305, this is the first ever facelift for a statue. It's number 3 trillion 800 million.
They got three minutes 12.
2025 of the city of Miami.
Open it.
All right. Well, Jeremy, that is excellent reporting from you. You are the Metalark Media, Miami Heat reporter.
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