Transcript of Hour 1: Bad Friend, Worse Person, Great Fan (feat. David Samson)

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I am delighted to see David Samson. He is now clean-shaven. He We'll explain that in moments, I suppose. Nothing personal is the name of the podcast. Zazel, you were asking during the Shadow Show a not unreasonable question. It's a very exciting time in Miami, and David is still doing shows, and you've been confused how David is still... How why, I guess, David is still doing shows.

Always like talking to David. I like David a lot. Love hearing him talk about movies, TV, and all that stuff. And by the way, I think David's got some good movie and TV stuff today to share with us. But I am genuinely, I guess, I don't know, astonished that you're able to do the show because I get the whole idea that, hey, it's two hours. It takes my mind off the worst thing ever, and I could do something that I enjoy. But I know how much work you put into preparing for the show. And it's not just, hey, I'm showing up for two hours. You're We're still full on working, man. And I guess I commend you for it.

Thank you, Zaz. It's two separate issues that you're bringing up. One is that I want to show my children that I have to work, and not about the money, but about going on and doing work. And there's an expression, the show must go on. And it's the hardest thing to think about until you actually have to do it. And so I've really been trying, but there's moments, and you guys have been great. So thank you. Last week, I was supposed to be on with you guys, and I was afraid to get behind a microphone because my brain wasn't working right, my mouth wasn't working right, and I didn't want to embarrass the show or embarrass the audience. And so there's days when I cannot do it. And Metalark and Dan, thank you all of you. You guys have been truly supportive of everything. And we have a lot to go over today. I appreciate the opportunity. But Zaz, no, none of this is easy. Nor would I wish it on anybody.

Well, without getting to any of the specifics, because I do want to talk about plenty of subject matter that you've been very good on lately on nothing personal. But how to navigate. I asked the group here and you, how to navigate people caring about you, thinking perhaps that you should take a leave to take care of yourself and your family and mothering you that way. Am I stating something unpleasant when I say you and I haven't talked about any of this stuff? But all of us are concerned for you because it's too much, David. It's an overwhelming amount. You're a man who built a stadium. You're a man who ran seven continents in seven days, seven marathons. You're a very willful man. But What you're presently doing emotionally is too much.

It's too much for anybody, Dan. And so I need you guys, and I appreciate just being on a show and trying to do it. But yes, things have been going on in my head just differently now. I got into an argument with my daughter's doctor's last week because I was tired of sitting in waiting rooms, and I don't have a bad temper. I don't raise my voice ever. I'm much more just condescending and dry in how I get upset and manifest that upsetness. But I lost it in the middle of a waiting room with other patients. And I'm finding the lack of control to be incredibly difficult for me to handle and the lack of ability to make my daughter better is crushing. It's been four months. It was four months this week that when she got sick, and I can't do anything about it other than the ridiculousness that I do with insurance and with getting her treatment and care and all the other stuff and dealing with family and trying to help my two other kids who are suffering so tremendously. But my capacity ran out, and it manifested in a discharge of emotion and vitriol and bile in the middle of a examining room as my daughter was crying because she hadn't eaten and we'd been waiting around for so many hours, and I'm not proud of it.

On the other hand, the frustration that I'm trying to work through, and it's not content, as Pablo would say, but it is me trying to work through everything, is that accepting the reality of the situation turns out to be the hardest part. Understanding what you can't control and what can't get better, that turns out to be the hardest part. When you're Looking at someone whose life is forever changed and cut short, you're thinking to yourself, what do I do differently? So I'm examining everything, which is something I never did with you, Dan. I never did on the air. I never did off the air. I was very sure-footed in everything I would do, very cocky, and now it's just all gone. It's literally all gone. And that's been a tough one, Dan.

So Nothing Personal is the name of the podcast, and we will get to the content of the day and of the moment. But Honest to God, wherever it is that grief resides or people healing or trying to heal stuff-is where you'll find Dan.

Mike, by the way, not to be undone. Mike has been unbelievable in the last four months, but silent in the last three weeks.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

That's about. They're more important things, David. The hurricanes are in the I don't begrudge Mike that, and I love you, Mike, but let me just say, this hurricanes run selfishly.

I'm so excited for Monday night to be done. Yeah, I can't be that fan. Because I want you to win and have it, but it means that you'll again be willing and able to reach out.

Yeah. No, I'll wear it. I'm a bad friend and a worse person.

Good fan, though. Great fan. Good fan, though.

You're a very good fan, and You're good at business. You're good at what you do. But talk about disappearing, Dan. Holy Christ.

Have you heard about Mike's new business? Mike, tell Samson about the new business that you built.

Hey, Canes Insight. Go ahead and like and subscribe. Official Canes Insight on YouTube. Business is a booming.

I just followed Canes Insight on Twitter because during the first part of the program today, you had promoted it, and I had not been aware of the YouTube channel or of the Twitter account, and now I'm a follower and subscriber of both. I love the work you do, but working in an extra phone call, I mean, jeez.

I'll get around to being a human being after Monday's game. I promise I'll be back, and I'm sorry. I'm spread a little thin here. What do you want from me, man?

You're spread thin.

David, as someone who understands the business of all this stuff, have you seen how obscene the ticket prices are for this game?

Yeah, but so what? I We get into an argument with people about this all the time. The ticket prices reflect what people are willing to pay. And I believe my 20,000 tickets went to Indiana, 20,000 went to Miami, which leaves about 25,000 for various other things, but their sponsors to deal with. It's always the same way. And people complain about Taylor Swift and about Springsteen, and they stand up and say, We're going to keep tickets at a reasonable price for our friends. It's horse hockey. If you can't afford the game, watch it, and that's fine. You get an experience with watching with people or watch it on your own. But of course, they're going to charge as much as they can as they should.

Where are you, David, on Rich Paul doing some of what he's doing as an agent that you don't generally DC, but he's also got an unprecedented client. And is it an unprecedented business, David, to be this affiliated and aligned with somebody who's your sports adjacent, but your business is tied to the legend of our time?

Yeah, unprecedented client. I don't know what you mean by that. In what way is he unprecedented?

Lebron James? Yes. Lebron James is the biggest thing that there's been in American sports for 20 years.

He has a type of power we've never seen an athlete have.

Since Malakai, Tony.

Yeah. So I think the power of LeBron James, you're watching it fade right now, as it should and as it will. And that's very normal to have happen. He's not anymore the face of the He's certainly not the best player in the NBA. He's not even in the top 10 anymore. And not to take away from the run he had, which was outstanding, but the run is coming to an end. But when you talk about an agent having power, what LeBron is more well known for than anything else, to me, is player empowerment. And that is what happens when agents also become empowered. But we've seen that in baseball with Scott Boris from the beginning of my career, 25 years ago. So I don't find any of this so outrageous. What I do believe is that we'll sit here five years from now and the type of power that you think exists with those two men will not exist that way.

How do you imagine the Lakers management hears Rich Paul on his podcast with Max Kellermann trading away their players who he doesn't even represent?

We ignore. We've had this. We've had agents who try to dictate who you're going to sign, who you're going to trade. They've got an unhappy happy player, or they've got a player on another team. They're trying to get out of this situation into a different situation. The amount of time a front office spends thinking about what agents say or do is so tiny that it doesn't even register on the time scale. I heard Tom earlier in the show talking about a vision board and playing in front of stadiums and NBA arenas. The vision board for a front office and for a president of a team, it's not agent-related ever.

But did you Did you not spend... I feel like you probably spent time when you were president of the Marlins with what Scott Boris was saying or doing, no?

No. It's only in media that I love doing that. And it's such a big content fountain with what a buffoon he is. The only thing we did with Scott Boris is one of my favorite things I ever did in baseball is every time we negotiated with him, we do it on speakerphone, and we would leave the room and just let him talk. And we had our assistant tell us when there was a pause and we'd come back in the room. But we would leave and go to in my office, which was next door to the GM's office, do other stuff, and then come back because it didn't matter what he was saying, and we certainly didn't care, and it certainly didn't move the ball. It was just a matter of when our owner would give in to what Scott wanted. That was the only thing we were waiting for. But yeah, this type of things with agents, they have an outsized view often of what their role is, and it only manifestsits itself with people like a Boris or people like a Rich Paul. Go back and look at an agent.

Let me just stop you a second. You're feuding with Boris is well chronicled, but I want to ask the group because he dismisses Boris as a buffoon again and again. I know that that's been your viewpoint, and you've been articulating it very well for many years with a lot of details that would bring people to your side. But I don't think Boris's national reputation is of a buffoon, even though you're shouting it from the mountaintops. I believe you're one of the few who would say that, but you're also more informed as to why that's so. Zazlo, your general opinion of Scott Boris is?

Someone who's difficult to work with, most likely.

Okay, which is what an agent's job is to be, but also wildly successful and not a buffoon. Yeah, right. Not a buffoon.

Not a buffoon, someone who's very, very tough and gets what he wants.

So he doesn't ever get what he wants. He gets given what he wants. And there's a very big difference there.

It's semantics.

No, no. It's not semantics. It's like blaming. I would never blame a player or an agent for a bad contract. I don't blame Boris ever for the contracts that he gets for his players that are outrageous and don't work out because owners approve them every single time. An owner has to do it. And that's always been the mechanism. That's why you have such an issue with power and with the power dynamic of what it is to be an owner or a rich white billionaire. The fact is, it's that way because they do have the power. They are solely in charge of where their money goes. Agents are merely a vessel trying to get credit. Now, some of them are great guys and actually do have the best interest of their players in mind. But those guys are more the few, not the many. And just what Boris does, he just lies way too much to his players. That's the part that bothers me. And fans have this view. And again, we're talking about Rich Paul and LeBron James. What is it that you think the Lakers front office did when they heard the podcast? Oh, we never thought They love doing that trade.

They're mad. The Laker front office is being reported as mad at an employee that's at the center of their team and needs to not be messy. They're not happy that this is happening.

Is that a report?

Yes, It's been reported that Lakers management doesn't like that this is happening. Why would they?

Wouldn't you also think it's reasonable, David, for the player who's not represented by Rich Paul, in this case, Austin Reeves, to... Now, is he going to confront LeBron? Probably not. But he's probably He's thinking himself, Man, I wish LeBron's agent wasn't trading me.

You think that Reeves and LeBron would not have discussed inside a clubhouse this story? Of course they do. We would talk inside the clubhouse. The best place for these conversations is the food room. Where you've got four to five different areas where people are eating, and you've got people walking in between them, and there's TVs on in the background, a very little volume. Eating areas. And some of the best... Say it again. Eating areas.

It's an eating...

What are you...

Yes? Sorry.

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David, are you...

The screen, Dan, is so small. I thought that was Jesus on that candle.

It's Baby Jesus.

Oh, it is?

Well, but Baby Jesus is the nickname for Malachi Tony.

Or as Greg Cody- Oh, I thought it was actually Jesus.

No, as Greg Cody, you thought that Malachi Tony looked like actually Jesus? No, he just performs as Baby Jesus. You thought that that was Jesus, not baby Jesus for the Miami hurricanes.

Oh, now I see it. But you have to understand that, A, I don't have my glasses on, B, I'm on a screen remotely, so I didn't see any color. Although who knows, Jesus may have been black, but I thought that was actually Jesus Christ. He was.

I believe that that is outright racism, I think. No, David doesn't see color. Well, it might just be his vision, though. The funny part about that is it just might be that his eyesight is going because he's going crazy.

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David, there's a lot of entertainment news, and I don't know where to start on anything from the great business stuff you're doing on Sporting Class with Pablo Tori, where you've talking about how much television is going to change, what's going to happen when the Oscars go to YouTube, do people really understand what's about to happen in the splintering of television? There's a lot of ground to cover between here and the silliness of the Golden Globe, so go ahead, the floor is yours.

Well, let me just start by saying, look at what we're doing now in the podcast. And a lot of attention came when several podcasts started going over to Netflix, because now the view of a podcast is no longer that it is only with a smattering of maybe a little video. The reality is that we're in a world where this is a TV show that you are doing. It's a TV show that people both watch and they listen to. Our job is to get to people wherever it is that they engage with content. And that means being on Netflix. That means having been on YouTube. That means being on DraftKings Network. It means being available wherever podcasts are. And that's something that has evolved super quickly. And what these new deals mean. Think about the Academy Awards. We always viewed that as broadcast television. It's on a network. Well, they just cut a deal, the Academy of Motion, Picture, Arts, and Science. The Oscars are going to be on YouTube. And people are saying, on YouTube, how can that be? Well, guess what? Youtube is just a channel now. It's another channel that we have where we watch stuff that has the freedom where you're not stuck with Greg Cody hardouts.

You're not stuck that you have to be done by 11: 00 or 11: 20 PM, and then your late local news is late. Those days are over. And so the job for us as content creators is to get to the most people we can wherever it is they are, because it's not like it was when Howard Stern went to SiriusXM, where you're expecting a huge influx of subscribers because you're following someone to a platform. And it happened early on with some podcasters. What it is actually is we're doing deals now, sometimes exclusive, some not, where we are trying for eyeballs, and the Oscars did the same thing. So it really doesn't matter other than NFL football. It really doesn't matter where you are or what your actual ratings are. It matters what your total audience can be. And one of the best ways to do it is through YouTube. And so I'm He's fascinated that the Academy Awards decided to do it, and you are going to see that happen. John Skipper said it himself, the Super Bowl could eventually even be a pay-per-view event. And that is real, and it's happening way, way quicker than any executive thought.

How quick. The Super Bowl on pay-per-view by blanket the fastest.

The Super Bowl on a streaming network within 10 years is almost a guarantee. Part of the new media deals with the NFL There will be an opportunity for Amazon or Netflix to have a Super Bowl. That's a guarantee. When you say pay-per-view, that means can you pay just for that event? And while you could argue that that has been a... Like, UFC, it's going away from pay-per-view by joining Paramount, I would tell you that the concept of buying a service for an event and then canceling Billy style, that's the new definition of pay-per-view. So I'm going to say within the next 10 years, you will see a Super Bowl that is, quote, unquote, pay-per-view.

Golden Globes.

I hope you're all watching the movies. They're not incredibly popular, and I don't know why. One battle after another, and Hamlet, and there's movies that are fully emotional and really smart movies. Marty Supreme has gotten a lot of attention, both negative and positive. The movie I want to review, I watched only because of Mike Ryan, and Amy Maddigan was going to win best supporting actress but got upset. But she is going to nominated for an Oscar, and those nominations come out a week from today. They'll be out when we do our show next week if I'm invited back. And it's just a great year for really, really great movies. The one I'm championing the most is called Sentimental Value.

Okay, cool. But the one that you're going to review is Zazlo Wepons.

What a movie, David.

I never would have watched it without my suggesting that I watched it.

Didn't you want to know? What were the kids doing? How did they go missing?

That's exactly right. That's exactly well put.

Here's my review of Wepons. It is not a horror film. It is a film where it is a character study in what it is to have influence over people's thoughts and people's actions. And the character that Amy Madigan plays, her name is Gladys, and she is some otherworldly person.

She's a witch.

Wait, she's what? She's a witch. I don't remember that from the movie. She's a witch?

She displayed the characteristics that of a witch.

She was able to... It's funny. I had her as some alien, not as a witch. An alien? I had her as the ability to do mind control over people and to turn them into through some action of putting something in... Wait, we can do spoiler. By putting a stick- Through a spell, David.

Through a spell. That's your classic witch.

Spells are witches. Come on, David. It's a class...

An alien dog.

An alien? Get her out. Aliens don't do spells. David, how do you watch this many movies and confuse a witch with an alien and not know what a spell is?

I did not have it. So you're saying the kids at 2: 17 AM were put under a spell. They were down in the basement in the kitchen because the witch died.

No, no, no, no, no, We weapons?

You just got on stream. You can't be doing that.

We weapons were released months ago.

You can't be doing that.

You cannot be doing that. David, not everybody watches a movie a day for many days for many years. Not everybody does that, and I'm guilty of this. We will bleep all of that. The point being that you have a grave misunderstanding. Stunning. That's a stunning revelation by you.

You think aliens do spells?

That you thought the aliens were doing a spell and you had it being beyond supernatural, beyond the witch. You had it being extraterrestrial.

A hundred %. I'm processing this live as we're doing this. I can't imagine that... That's not a find because there are four people who have emergency bypass, and it's my family, and that's it. So sorry, I'm not paying the fine.

That's it. Fun time's over.

We can't talk-I'm not paying the fine.

That's fine. Nobody's fining you. Take it easy, man. Quit popping off. Quit losing control. You troll everywhere. Quit popping off. Manage your temper. Nobody fined you. Nobody fined you, and you're already thinking we're going to aggressively come after you because you're getting calls.

He's popping off.

You did pop off. He did pop off. Did he not?

Yeah.

I just said I'm not paying a fine. But I want to go back to weapons for one quick second. Are you telling me that everyone knows that Gladys was a witch?

He's definitely not saying she's an alien.

Not everyone. The distinction he's making is that however you feel about the end of weapons, you can have your theories. Not a many of them are going to be aliens. We're handling all of that.

Maybe I'm confusing it with Begonia, but I don't think I am. I just watched it, and that was definitely my take. And by the way, Mike, what normally I would do if it weren't for the hurricanes, all I wanted to do was call you after I finished weapons. But I knew that I couldn't because you would look at the phone and feel obligated to respond because of what I'm going through, and I knew you didn't have the time or the bandwidth to do it.

Well, thank you. That was mighty big of you.

It's good in these times, David, for you to give so much to Mike. Yeah.

Thank you for looking out for me. As you know, I'm going through a lot.

Nothing personal. He's got to defend me all over the streets of Miami.

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Nothing personal is the name of the podcast. Thank you, David. We have... Oh, Tony is popping in here. Hold on a second. Can we get the word for this? Tony's about to have, while filling his mouth with takes, Tony's about to eat the breaded meat that we have that is famous, the breaded ham that is... You don't say it very well in Spanish. Do you want to take a crack at how you say the word?

Is it a croqueta? C-reta? C-reta? No, you said-C-reta? Croqueta.

It's just a trademark, Dan Toss. Don't worry about it. Tony, what up?

What's up, Mike? I hope you didn't write my name down from the earlier segment. I didn't mean it like that. Okay? All right.

You're off the list.

How many... Oh, it's Pastelito. What do you have there? Patalitos, empanadas? What do you have?

Yeah, we got a plethora of things, Dan. We've got croceticas here, which are interesting here at-Hold on.

Can you do me a favor, Tony? Can you hold up each of these things and see if David can say what they are?

I've got this right here. These are pastelitos. I'm not going to say which ones, but can he guess what they are.

Well, I don't think you would have even gotten Pastelitos right.

It looks like a pano chocolate on the left and some cacahqui on the right. The thing I get at a Greek restaurant, which I can't remember, a Cornacopia pie or something.

Do you know what Pastelitos are, David? Have you ever heard of Pastelitos? All right, Tony, assume no ignorance. Assume nothing but ignorance and that he learned nothing while living in South Florida.

Yeah. Again, it's hard to learn in South Florida about Cuban things when you live in Broward. It's difficult. Relax. But it's okay.

Were you talking about a Spanish colpita? It really is.

Yes. Yeah, that's exactly what he was talking about. Kaki. Dave, just so you know, to the right here, the square one is patalita de guayaba, which is guava. Then the one to the left is guava and cheese, guayaba queso. The good stuff. That's the best one. That's the best one. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Dan, for the take, I'm going to do both croqueta and patalita de guayaba.

You're going to try and put it all in your mouth while doing the entirety of the take. Okay, I'm looking forward to this. David, bye. Thank you. Nothing personal is the name of the podcast. Check it out. He continues to do, not solo, because coca helps him a great deal. But they are running a guerrilla outfit over there where they're doing 2 hours of really strong content as often as they can. Nothing personal is the name of the podcast. Go ahead, Tony. What is the take? Are we in the AFC? Are we the NFC? Are we going macro?

We're going macro, Dan. Can I get some music? Can I get some nice NFL music or something like something juice behind me? Because I'm absolutely cranked right now. I've had so many shots of Cuban coffee. All right, well, then hold on. All right. I'm ready to go.

Okay. Yes, I understand. It would have been good to tell Chris that before he started shouting F words into the sky because you're telling him right now live to hurry up and get you better music than what he had. He had just the Latin stuff ready for you. There we go.

Sure. Yeah, no. The thing is I can't talk to Chris. The only way I can talk to him is over the air. So here we are. I'm sorry for listening one and a half speed, but we are cranked right now. How are you doing? Good to see you out there. All right, Dan. So we're going to do a big macro point. And the way they have the croquettes here are not cylindrical in shape. They're more pair-shaped, which I thought was very interesting.

Whoa, wait a minute. I don't think that's a... Wait a minute. Hold on. Let me see what you've got there. Yeah, I agree. The croquette. Wait a minute. Tony.

It's like a chicken wing. Wait a minute.

I know.

They're bowing that thing? Wait a minute. No, that's what they gave. That is a chicken wing. I agree. Tony, wait a minute. This didn't just happen. I agree. Tony, this did not just happen on live television. Hold on. Let's whisper. Hold on. I agree. Hold on.

A I agree. Because when they brought me la croquetica, I said, Etas son croqueta. And she was like, See? And I was like, Etas son paparrelleno, no? And she said, No, no. These are croquetas. So what I did is I took a bite of one, and it is a croqueta. I don't like the shape. But I'm not going to complain. I'm here in their establishment. The coffee has been very good, as you can see. Los patalitos, I don't know, but I'm going to try the croqueta and see what the deal is. I'm going to do this for you, Dan. I normally wouldn't eat this. I normally wouldn't eat this, but I'm going to do it for you, okay?

Okay, Tony, I don't mean to. I really don't. This is live, and we like to celebrate our Miami establishment. But I have a legitimate controversy in front of us right now, and I don't think a croqueta can be shaped that way and still be a croqueta. I may have it wrong. You guys have been accusing me on show of not being Cuban. You said my dad yesterday, and this was fair, he forgot about Fidel and Elian. My father, we've been living in a bubble for a while here, separated from our community. I believe that that as a croqueta is to any generation of Cuban. Just the shape of it. Do I have it wrong?

No, you are 100% right. When they dropped this off, I was appalled and disgusted. I'm not going to mince words here. Like the mince meat in this croqueta, I'm not going to mince words. I wasn't happy when they dropped this off.

It doesn't mean that it can't be tasty, though, right? It doesn't mean that it's... Sure. Okay. Let's go ahead and do this.

Okay, here's the thing. Yes. Really quick, really So on that point, when you make them this shape, it makes it difficult for the consistency to be the same because as you make it, it gets more cocina on the top and less cocina on the bottom because of the weight distribution of the croqueta, which is why you have the cylindrical shape where it cooks evenly, thoroughly.

Tony, this strikes me. Look, I do not mean to do this to an establishment of high order here in Miami with a reputation that has been earned as a maker of good food. I I don't mean to do this live. However, you are in receipt of what I believe to be an amateur croqueta that is not going to be able to overcome its deficiencies because it looks the way it was cooked, and that's not the way to cook it.

Thank you, the restaurant, for allowing us. Which is why if you want... That's why I didn't want to... Look, it is what it is. We're here now. That's why I have a patalito guayabe queso ready to go. If we want to use this in instead of the croquetas.

I'm ready to do that if needed. Are you uncomfortable about what just happened?

It feels like we're bogged down here.

I'm very comfortable.

Let's just do it.

We should probably also give Edwin James the telestrator.

Do what now?

Do what?

Come on. All right. I'm going to sacrifice. I'm going to sacrifice. I'm going to do it. Okay? I'm going to go for it. I'm going to do this.

You've mentioned that.

Yes. Which, again, we We don't know if it's a croqueta. So here we go, Dan. You ready? Put the croqueta in your mouth.

Give us the take.

Okay.

Down the hatch.

The whole thing? Yeah, the whole thing. You got to give it a take.

The sessions have a really good Super Bowl defense, where the problem is around multiple calories, I don't see that it could be as good as they originally shot. Right? Cribs can do the same thing. The guy's putting them in the other side. Let's go. I had someone that got to win the Super Bowl, but I don't think that's the case. Hold on. Give me a sec.

Have we done everything in Miami?

Yeah, we have run in Miami.

It feels like we're running out of stuff.

The best thing to do is look at the coaching that goes between the Reims and the bears. Because I think they might be the best two coaches left in the NFL. I think that's it. This is tough, Dan.

Tony, that was excellent. You have really starred this week, okay? You have done good journalism this week. You are a one man only indeed, buddy. You are everybody- Good job, Tony. We're still just... Morrow from campus. We're still just getting started. We're building up to this Live stream on Monday. Thank you, Tony. Excellent work. We'll see if La Casa de los Trucos is open later. We'll send you over there. You know I'm obsessed. Thank you. Good talking to you. That's excellent work by him. How We have not talked very much professional football because we've been consumed with the local professional team. Harbaugh, Giants. Yeah. So that happened quick, not surprising. And I guess everybody would just say, That's probably pretty smart on both sides. Young quarterback, that's the best of all those stinky jobs. They're stinky jobs. And unless you have a quarterback, they're stinky jobs. And Mike Tomlin is out now.

Baltimore job is a good one.

The Baltimore job is a good one, historically, but I do worry that you burn through an MVP body like that, and all of a sudden, you take away his running skills, and you get a more limited quarterback that doesn't get to the playoffs or maybe gets hurt, even as Derrick Henry is still miraculously. I don't even understand that. Do any of you understand that? How is that possible, physically, in that sport for Derrick Henry to be had at a bargain price? Derrick Henry to be well exceeding his value at every turn? We yell at him when he has three fumbles, but Derrick Henry deserving to be in these playoffs. How is that possible? Anyone have any physical explanation listening to this for Derrick Henry's existence as a human being, being someone who came through the SEC with that many carries, and then Baltimore is still a good job, Zazlo says, because Derrick Henry is back there?

Zazlo says a lot of stuff, and sometimes not well. Hit it.

You want to know what were the kids doing? That's It's definitely edited. There's no way through it. Not at all. Not even a little bit. I tolerate the playing of the clips when you're having a go at me. Fine. But not when you're doctoring the clip.

You're trying to say, I got to find out why those kids are leaving the house, right?

Tell us what you were trying to say, Zazlo. No one's doctored this. Hold on, Chris. Don't play it again. Zazlo, this is unbelievable.

You got to find out why the kids went missing. Shit, do you want to know what were the kids doing?

You got the point. I don't think. You tell me what the point of this is.

You're telling me you heard that and you didn't know what I was asking? Shit, do you want to know what were the kids doing?

That is not edited.

I actually knew what you were trying to say because it's a saying. And the fact that you tripped over one of your catchphrases is nuts.

Zazlo, how is it that you birth this This pathetic Rick Flair?

Shit, do you want to know what were the kids doing? What did I call David in the beginning?

I don't know, dude. What's next?

One more time.

Shit, do you want to know what were the kids doing? I think I called him Shitty.

Tell me what.

He's playing again. I didn't catch it.

Shit, do you want to know what were the kids doing?

Yeah, maybe it was supposed to be shouldn't.

Zaz, though. Put it in the Zaz translator and you tell take us through, this is a good place for the telestrator.

It sounds like me doing fake him.

Shit, do you want to know? What were the kids doing?

What were the kids doing? What were the kids doing?

What was it? Explain to us. Break it down.

The first part is definitely, for some reason, I said, Shitty. Shitty, you want to know? Shitty, you want to know? Shitty. Pause.

Wait, so we're starting in professional broadcaster. Yeah. Okay, can we- Shitty, you- What's the context that everyone needs to know if you're just picking up the show here?

David was about to review the movie Weisons, and he did not want to watch it other than Mike Ryan putting him onto it. Shitty, you want to know what were the kids doing? I'm saying there, David, didn't you want to know what the kids were doing? Shit, you want to know what were the kids doing? See?

As much as you killed it visually, it's been a bad week for you, audibly.

The packers win or the bears lose. Man. Jitty, you want to know what were the kids doing?

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