Transcript of Hour 1: In Some Cirlces (feat. Andy Garcia)

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Billy was applauding there, even though I have found that Billy recently is anti-applaus. There's been a turning. I don't know what happened here. I have loved The Rock since college. I went to school with Dwyane Johnson. He was at the University of Miami at the same time that I was there. He's always been charismatic and kind, and I feel like everyone loved The Rock there for about 30 years. Over the last few years, some things have changed where not everybody loves The Rock.

He crossed Vin Diesel.

He got a- He got a But he got a 15 minutes standing ovation the other day for... What's the name of the new movie that he's in where you can't even recognize him? He's got so much makeup on that he looks like someone else. You wouldn't be able to tell from looking at Dwayne Johnson in his next movie that that's Dwayne Johnson.

The Smashing Machine.

Why did he get... So what was the 15 minutes standing ovation about? Was it just- His performance. What that movie was?

I mean, these hoity toity film festivals in Europe, they like to give 15 minutes standing ovation It was basically like someone got a five-minute standing ovation like 20 years ago, and now it's just, Oh, we got to be Tommy Topper every time. But the smashing machine, apparently, is right at the course. There were early screenings, and it was reported on that it It was just a weird experience. Everyone acknowledged that Dwayne Johnson had a great performance, but the rest of the movie was making fun of the genre itself. It seems as though the editor got in the lab and took that personally because now 100%, even though it's early on Rotten Tomat, and it does seem, we already know that Dwayne Johnson has secured a starring role in a Martin Scorsese flick. This is how this goes.

He wants to win an Oscar. He's doing 824. He's trying to do 824 stuff because he wants to win an award as an Oscar.

He's also lost 60 pounds recently.

He looks terrible. Oh, you heard that?

He looks terrible?

Compared to how he used to look, does he not look a little decrepit?

No, I think he looks fantastic. How old is he?

Is he decrepit? He's in his feet. He's my age. I went to school with him.

Yeah, he doesn't look great.

What?

He looks a lot better than the man. He doesn't look like The Rock anymore. We can't live in a world where The Rock wins an Oscar. Can we all agree on that?

Put her on the poll, Juju, at Levitard's show. Can you live in a world where The Rock wins an Oscar?

I mean, he's waiting Having everybody wait for him on set for hours on end, then he wins an Oscar, imagine what's next? And a 15 minutes standing ovation is a bit much, right? By 14 minutes, a bit much. You don't need to stand in a... Nothing is that good.

I feel like after a minute, I got it.

Yeah, exactly right. That's just about the Venice fans and the Venice Film Festival more than it is about the actual movie in The Rock, is it not?

A hundred %. Now, I know what you're worried about, him winning an Oscar, the acceptance speech. It's got to be a circus. Don't worry, he to speak because Adrian Brody is still on that stage.

Do you actually think he's going to win an Oscar?

Dan, will this get you to watch an award show?

Put it on the poll at Lebitard Show. Is anything so good that it deserves a 15-minute standing ovation.

It's just annoying. If you're even there, you have to be like, Who's the person that sits first to end the 15 minutes?

At seven minutes, somebody's like...

Yeah, because how do you guys all decide, Okay, 15 In 10 minutes, we're fine. Let's sit now.

That's on Dwayne. Look, I like Dwayne. He's done a lot for the University of Miami. Big wrestling fan. Character of the man. You got to tell some people after four minutes. You're like, All right.

He loves it. You just start leaving if you're the rock. The guy is packing up your stuff.

Please, I insist.

Are they even real glasses? Do we even know if he's wearing real glasses? All of a sudden, the guy can't see. Get out of here. I don't like it. I don't like it. Leave glasses to the ocularly impaired.

Chris, that's baller move to suggest that Dwayne The Rock Johnson should have left four minutes into the ovation and seen if they still went the 11 minutes as he- Come back from an encore. Beat the traffic. Just beat the traffic to get out of the whole thing. Just so you can give me some of the Back story on what this movie is, because A24 makes only good things. I shouldn't say only good things, but they are Mostly.

They're a tastemaker.

They're a remarkable studio. And the reason The Rock chose this story and this studio is because he's angling for I want to show people something as the tide turned slightly on what was not 15 minutes of applause, 15 years of applause that The Rock has been getting.

And it's been about 15 years of trying to get this movie made for Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Remember when Stugatz was at the fight in Madison Square Garden, barefoot standing next to The Rock?

He looks great there.

That was when The Rock said, Hey, we're finally going to make this movie, and then five more years pass. I mean, look how different Stugatz looks from that image. Stugatz still looked good then. From that image. This has been a passion project, and he's always known that he's capable of nailing this role. And by all indications, he has. I mean, he's worked very hard. He's not a bad actor by any stretch of the imagination. He's probably made some bad choices.

No, Batista, let's be honest with you. And by the way, 15 minutes standing ovation, that's nothing compared to wrestling crowds. He has to be like, This is the best that these people can do in Venice. This is so lame. It's a golf clapping. That would have actually- That would have to pace yourself.

If he stood on the back of his chair and started doing like... Yeah.

Thank you. The people's champion thing. Now, famously, when he's been coming out to WWE crowds, he still gets goosebumps, and he makes the camera see his goosebumps. I wonder if he does that move at the Oscars.

The crowd scream candy ass at him? No. Why is he even seeking these people's approval? Wow. What range he has. He went from playing a wrestler to playing an MMA fighter with a fake wig or whatever he has on. Get out of here.

Dismissing a It's just a couple of moments before you've seen it.

I will not see it. So don't think my opinion will change.

I'm already rolling my eyes at how long he's spending in the makeup chair every day.

Good Lord, enough.

Please get out of here, Billy. I know you have things to do. I know you have... I I don't know if you're going to be interrogated by police, but they stopped you in an alley yesterday. Yeah, that is so. You came in here-I don't blame them. Stressed. What were you doing in an alley?

I was on the phone, and I had a Bluetooth thing in my head, and I was just wandering about in an alley, walking circles on the phone.

As one does.

Yeah. Sometimes you just go for a walk and you're in the middle of a conversation, and you lose track of where you are. You just start doing circles. I realized I was in a closed off alley, and two officers came up to me on a golf cart, and they're like, Are you okay? I was like, Yeah, I'm good. Why? Why are you here? Were they meeting? What are you doing?

Were they officers on a golf cart?

Yeah, it's a weird vehicle. That's a weird squad car.

They seemed to be officers. Maybe they were security guards, but they had security that was very close to like... Was it one of those beach?

Beach golf carts that can go out on the beach?

No. No. A little ATV action? I could have probably outrun it, honestly. But they're like, What are you doing here? Sounds like these were mall cops. Well, look, it was here and I was like, Guys, guys.

Those are the MDC security cars.

It was. I was like, I work right there. I'm good. I had a backpack on. I'm like, They probably think that I don't know. I'm up to no good. I'm a drug dealer. Who knows what they think is going on here?

I The visual of Billy just sprinting away from them.

No, they also watched. I was like, No, I work in that building right there. I noticed they did follow me into the building. I don't blame them. Honestly, I liked it. I was like, Finally, someone thinks I'm dangerous. It was a rush. I felt like the rock.

Get out of here. I know you have to leave early. We're doing more show than we usually do on Fridays. When Chris Cody did his rock signature move there- There we go. It reminded me of a story The Rock told on Highly Questionable. When I asked him, I had told the story, as I've told before, of Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant flying to Japan together, drinking the entire flight. And by the time they got into the ring to have the match, there was a point that Hulk Hogan got body-slammed, and then Andre the Giant landed on him, and Hulk Hogan just shit himself in the yellow Hulkamania trunks because he was so embarrassed. And so I asked The Rock, What's most embarrassing moment in wrestling? And he's like, Well, I was on the top turnbuckle, and I had my fist up in the air, and when the pictures were taken, there was a boulder hanging out of the bottom of my trunk that represents one of my testicles.

Calling it a boulder is a move. He's the Rock.

He's the Rock.

I couldn't get away with that.

You're not called the Rock, Chris.

You are not. In some circles. No.

No, there's zero circles. You are called the Circle. Maybe a triangle. You've been called the circle more than the rock.

My wife calls me her rock all the time.

Okay. Nice. It's nice to know.

Great turnaround. That's great, Chris. But we were talking about physique. I saw your belly button, though, by the way, when you did that thing. No. Let me tell you something. Did not deliver on expectations.

Mark Cuban is still going at Pablo. He's tweeted, Pablo, come on. You only pushed your side in the promos. Nothing you said made your point. You took lots of information provided by scammers who negotiated with someone not connected with Balmer and took them at face value. Just to be clear, still team Balmer.

Did Cuban listen to this episode, at least, because he was on it? Because very clearly, he didn't listen to the last one because a lot of the ground that he covered was actually covered in the previous episode. But there is a billionaires club, and those guys are in the same club. And while maybe the Mavericks would stand the game from something bad happening to the Clippers, I think if you have In this instance, like we alluded to earlier in the week when this Pablo Bomschild came out is...

Pablo.

Imagine other owners are going to start getting a little nervous.

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Don Levatard.

How are you, Captain Slappy?

Stugatz. Is this Chumbucket?

This is the Don Levatard show with the Stugatz.

I just want to ask you guys one thing about consequences here. If it cost how many draft picks to get Kawhi to Los Angeles, how many?

I believe it was five along with Shay and Danilo Golenari.

That wasn't the Kauai trade, right? No, that's Paul George. That was Paul George. That was the piece.

It was the whole thing. That was the whole thing together, right?

Yeah, but Kawhi, I just want to be clear because we're positioning it as that was a Kauai Trade. Kauai was a free agent.

Let me see the specifics of- The reason I'm asking you is just because the Clippers have gone from eternal laughing stock for decades to a team the last 5-10 years that has been vastly more relevant than it's ever been in franchise history.

But when we go back on whatever it is that happens with the Kawhi Leonard and Paul George trades or transactions that it took for the Clippers to become that, the Joe Smith salary cap fiasco in Minnesota, wasn't that five first-round pics?

Five first-rounders.

That that cost five first-round pics for the promise not written anywhere on, Hey, Joe, we'll get you on the contract next time. If this is proven, what is going to be the collateral damage on how many draft picks it cost the Clippers to just have Kawhi Leonard if the penalty for this is anything like what the Joe Smith penalty is, given that everyone says that this is worse if it's proven, then Joe Smith. Joe Smith, when David Stern was in charge, different animal. That was five first-round pics with Joe Smith and Glenn Taylor.

Yeah, it was a point just made by Mike. Glenn Taylor was suspended for a year for that as well. But even Mark Cuban, who was just going after Pablo for what said in the promos, in the meat of this podcast, when he ultimately says, Look, I don't believe that any of this is what you believe it is in terms of a smoking gun. If indeed it is true that this was all happening, it is way worse than what was going on with Joe Smith. He's done. It's They'll have everything revoked. I mean, if this is to be proven by the NBA that this is what was going on, the Clippers are going to be in trouble for decades.

It's pretty interesting to think about what all of this might cost them when anyone watching or listening to all of that at the time, and OKC winning the Championship last year, would have said, Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, yes, I need to do that if I'm the Clippers every single time. And if we look back at this and see that it costs the MVP of the League, Shay Gildas Alexander, and 10 first-round pics, or 12 first-round pics because you already gave up five of them, and whatever pics they take from you, OKC has already got because of these trades.

I mean, it's already in conversation because understandably, you're coupling the Kawhi Paul George thing because Kawhi flatly doesn't go there without Paul George. It's already one of the more disastrous transactions in the history of sports. If the end result is, they also he circumnavigated the NBA salary cap, and who knows what happens to see Ballmer in that franchise, it is number one with a bullet, the worst transaction in the history of sports. And David Samson is off the hook for the Miguel Cabrera trade. That's his angle to this whole thing. That's why he's sitting at that table, because he's like, Man, I'm off the hook here.

Pablo.

Should that be our new sounder when it's a Pablo?

Add some wind behind it.

Pablo. Hello.

Something happened yesterday that I found curious, and it allows us for Evermore to close our Amari Cooper file. We had Amari Cooper on one time, and when we had him on, he was still at Alabama at the time. This might sound like it was a whole interview. We had him on, and I'm pretty sure that he said one word in the entirety of the interview, that we didn't do anything else with this. I think we got in trouble at ESPN for this, right? They were mad that we kept teasing Amari Cooper is going to join us. And then this was the entire interview. This is the best receiver in college football. He's a Miami kid, and he's been that for a while. Not a Miami kid, but the best receiver in college football. Amari Cooper with us on ESPN radio. He plays at Alabama. Thank you for joining us, Amari. Could you be in the NFL right now? What do you imagine you'd be doing in the NFL right now? Just dominating. Thank you for being on with us, Amari. We appreciate it. So it was two words. Thank you. Four words. Okay, it was four words.

It was just dominating, and it was thank you. So we can close that file. But it was curious, right? Most players who hold out just don't want to go to training camp and don't want to do any of that. Amari Cooper went to the Raiders and did football things, and then he retires yesterday. And it was an unusual timing. Usually, if a guy can get through training camp, he can muster what's needed to get game one. The guys who are thinking about retirement at Amari Cooper's age usually don't even get to training camp or get there the way Andrew Hawkins does for a couple of days and then says, You know what? I'm done with this. I can feel that I'm done with this.

It happened to Jerry Rice, too. He was getting through camp, and then he just decided, I'm not comfortable with the level that I'm playing at, and I don't want to do this to myself. I saw John Oates give an interview on... Well, everyone got excited, including myself, because Yeah, Darryl Hall and John Oates, they didn't bury the hatchet. They settled their lawsuit, and the natural question is like, All right, are we going to see these boys in the sphere? Hall and Oates reunion? Let's go. But John Oates gave an interview, and while he acknowledges that there are still issues between them, he's like, I'm not going to take shots at these other bands, but if I go out there and play this song and it just doesn't sound the way that it was intended, and it's a diluted version of this, I don't want to do I want the previous performances to speak for themselves, and I don't want people to remember us like that. I don't want to be one of these nostalgia acts. So maybe Amari Cooper is thinking that to himself. He's like, I made this team, but I'm not a big part of this offense.

And Amari Cooper does... That's not dominating. So you don't think there's going to be an Oasis type situation with John Oates and Darryl Hall?

They hate each other. They really hate each other.

So there's definitely a hatchet. I mean, there's so much money to be made. I was hoping so. But the added logic of I don't want to sound like that. The one that I've always hoped for that seems like there is never going to be any reconciliation is the Smiths. Coachella, famously, every year when Coachella has their blank slate and tries to set up their lineup, those guys are such a huge favorite pop guys. They're the biggest Smiths fans that there is. They always send out a blank check offer to Johnny Mar and Morrissey to bury the hatchet, and they never will. In fact, the news on this is Morrissey is like, I'm done with the false accusations about me. I selling my 50% stake in the Smiths. Someone buy it from me. I want nothing to do with this brand.

Every time we talk about this, I say, Get me the telephone number that is still live, because I called it three weeks ago for that Hall & Oats number. What is it? It's Call & Oats. Call & Oats. There's a telephone number that you call and that you get a choice of what song to play. It's still out there. It has not died because I legitimately called it for somebody three weeks ago. I want to get that number.

719-266-2837. Yes, it's in my contact list.

But the way that you said all of that made it seem like if John Oates went to Darryl Hall and asked for them to reunite, because Hall is viewed as the more talented one there, and I think he's got more disdain for Oates. Please press one to hear Rich girl. Please press two to hear man-eater. Please press three to hear privatize. Please press four. Yeah, that's what I would have chosen. Good choice. I think that if Oates went to Hall right now and said, Let's reunite, there's a lot of money to be made there. I think Hall would say, I can't go for that. No can do.

God damn it, Dan. Why did you come? Lyrx joke. Why did you do this to us?

Andy Garcia is going to join us. Thank God. Hold on a second. Let me see if I can find it on the machine so I can make fun of myself here. Andy Garcia is going to join us in a few minutes to argue with his son about the Miami Dolphins. I see Chris Cody is wearing his Miami Dolphins gear.

Game week, Dano.

You're expecting to win? You're expecting to be able to go on the road and win?

I would call this as important a first game as you could possibly have. The vibes are so weird right now that I just feel like if this game goes poorly, the season is going to go to shit. If they have a good game, we're going to have a good season. I literally think that their whole entire season just is going to be determined off the vibes of this game.

This is a must-win game.

We did that earlier in the week.

Billy I think it is. Billy and Greg have said this. Did you get that Big Mac stuff? Did you end up doing anything? Because I ended up talking to Big Mac in the carport about the Dolphins this season. And what he said was, if they win this game, he thinks they're going go 15 and 2. And if they lose, the season's over. Oh, wow.

So he agrees. And as an impartial, I look at this game and I see a couple of 8 and 9s cutting it up.

That's the argument I've been making to people when they tell me, I think this Dolphins... This game sucks, bro.

Oh, it does. I'm not saying it's a great game, but I- There's zero juice to this game. No, but from a Dolphins fan perspective, there is. Like last night, the Cowboys, they lost that game. I feel like it's not all crumbling there. Whereas if the Dolphins lose, I just think It's so broken. Tyreek will go off, fly off the handle. It's as important as game one can be.

My expectation is by game six, you'll be saying this is as important of a game six as there can be because it could go either way because they're going to be hovering around exactly where they are right now, 500.

It's one of my favorite things that the lower half of the league does and the lower half of the league's fans do, where Dolphin fans are like, Colts aren't any good. And Colts fans are like, Dolphins aren't any good. They're looking at you like it's a mirror. It's the Spider-Man game. We got to beat the Dolphins.

Can't it be we're saying we're average? They're average, too.

Mediocre.

That's what I'm trying to get you to admit, so I'm glad.

I've never said that these are two good teams. I just do think that the Dolphins season can go in two directions, and I think that it's so fragile right now that a bad performance in this week one could-9: 08 or 8: 09.

That's what's on the line. Two different directions. That's what's on the line. Big one.

But Big Mac is saying that the two directions are 15 and 2 or 2 and 15.

He also told me this morning to let you know that he guaranteed the Eagles would win last night, and you can let Mr. Lepetard know that.

He did guarantee it, but man, I thought of him last night as that was happening. I'm like, That guarantee is not going to mean something here if CeeD Lamb catches a couple of balls.

I had a fun interaction with him this week because he was up away. Sometimes he's out where I can walk right by him, and sometimes it's a 50 feet away wave thing, and I just like, What's up? He goes, Hey, what's up, Billy? I mean. And as I kept walking, he just called me Billy and then realized I'm not Billy, and then he just tailed off with it.

He's going to hear this.

No, he knew it. It was funny.

Did you guys have any thoughts on the report of Bill Belichick banning Patriot staff from North Carolina scouting and practices.

This is a mess. I'm so happy you won Gasbag of the Week, and none of that fell on me because I knew this was going to be bad from the start. This is a mess. Mess. And he's just got the weird girlfriend thing around, too. It's just all bad.

Speaking of messes, I meant to tell the audience and you guys, because some of these... Still, after 20 years, I still leave here some days with a bit of a film on me on how it is that I could have been better and not fallen flat. And what we did yesterday with that Mickey Harrison interview that didn't please anybody, because I assure you that the heat weren't happy about that interview either. I say that without even having talked to anybody about it. The amount of failure in that when we could have done a really good five minutes, if we had just asked 40 super fast true or false and yes and no questions to actually abide by the five-minute restriction, I have not been able for 24 hours to get any of that off me. I've still got it on me today, even though the football season has started. Even though Pablo has got the biggest hit podcast that there is, not just in sports right now. He is just crushing it. I've got to imagine The Athletic has never had anything downloaded the way that that was downloaded, and that's your first episode. It's the first thing you're doing for him, and that's where you're placing the expectations.

Very high, low feeling for me yesterday.

We've heard confirmed, not sure exactly where it stacks, but one of the biggest podcasts in the history of The Athletic, which is saying a lot because David Warnstein is on that network. There's been huge soccer stories, huge transfers.

But as a debut, though, to come out of the box with a story you've been holding for seven months.

And you did that shit interview with Mickey Arison. Yeah.

I thought it was perfect.

Yeah, I bet you would.

You really held his feet to the fire.

If I just snuck in a Saudi Arabia question, just one. Dan Lebetard.

We got to go back out there. That was big. Wake Pick him up.

He doesn't want to be bothered anymore. Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that as a result. He needs something that happens. You can see him mother-effic.

Can we bother? Are we bothering you right now?

Turn on your microphone, Greg. My microphone Bones on. Stugats.

Paint the scene.

The paint the scene is I got to go to work. Good night.

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugats.

I am very excited about this because this is my mother's favorite actor. I'm a little creeped out by how much she likes him. He's an abuelo, but he's also a sex symbol, and his son is more handsome than he is, and he's performing in Miami, September 12th. He's a DJ, and they're perpetually arguing about the Dolphins. So I will simply start here. Andy Garcia, Forever hopeful, the Optimist. What are the Dolphins going to be this season?

Super Bowl chaps.

I Neil. But what is that? No, you can't be serious.

I think we're going to make the playoffs this year.

Andy, you're always hopeful and you're always wrong. We're going to get to the playoffs and get to the Super Bowl has not had a payoff victory this century.

I understand. I was there when Joe Auer returned the opening kickoff in the '60s. So I understand the entire history of this team. I was there with Moreno. I was there with Darciula. I was there with Bob Greasey. I We're there with Larry Zanca. And I understand. Having said that, I like the team. I think we have a stronger offensive line. We got weapons. If people stay healthy, I think we have a good chance at the playoffs. And once you're in the playoffs, anything goes.

Andy, they've been drafting offensive linemen and haven't been able to block anybody for 25 years.

Don't get started about the draft. Don't get started about the draft. Because we didn't draft Lamar Jackson when we didn't have a quarterback. We didn't draft Aaron Rodgers. We didn't pick up Drew Brees. There's a whole history of maybe some bad draft choices when we needed the different people.

That we can agree on.

That we agree on. How you not drafted Lamar Jackson when he was there as a potential? This guy was an untouchable quarterback in college. Nobody could touch him. It was like playing flag football. You couldn't put your hands on him. You got to draft that guy. He can turn your franchise around.

Especially when you have nothing to lose as a franchise at the point we were at. And it was, I think, Tana Hill was on the last year of a contract coming off the injury. And even if he was a dynamics backup for a while, then you have 20 plays for him, but you can't touch him, how do you not draft that guy?

Now, what happened with Lamar Jackson? Now, you're getting into the spirit. Now I'm seeing some of that Latino nativity that they could have drafted Lamar Jackson. Now the optimist finally sees that 25 years of failure make it so your assessment of the cornerbacks, for example, this year is what, Andy? You certainly can't be positive about their defensive backplay this year.

Recently, we picked up a couple of guys, some vets, I think Douglas Wright came on board, maybe.

You're feeling positive about even their cornerbacks. There is nothing... Your greatest criticism is they failed to get Lamar Jackson, but everything else is sunshine, rainbows, and fairy tales.

Like I said, I'm always optimistic. I think that's one of the situations in the defense that will remain to be seen. But we have a very strong defensive line, which obviously helps the safeties and the cornerbacks and protection. If we put pressure on the quarterback.

I can see the look on Bones' face. He doesn't want to disrespect his father publicly. He doesn't agree with this.

I mean, I got the death chart right here in front of me. Yeah, my dad is right. If our defensive line can stay healthy, which it is Chopp Robinson, Bradley Chubb, Zack Seeler, Kenneth Grant, the rookie.

Judon will be a pass rusher, too, for them, and Jalen Phillips. But stay healthy. They've been hurt.

If that group goes down, God forbid, we don't want any of that to happen. But if that group starts to crumble a little bit, then you got Storm Duck on the back end getting tossed into cornerback one. I'm not sure a lot of people right now know who Storm Duck is. I don't think he's a household name, but it's really interesting what's happened with our DV room. We just brought in Minka Fitzpatrick again after letting go of him. That just goes to show some of the dysfunctionality that has happened with the Dolphins.

Well, let me ask you this, Andy. How do you feel in general about Chris Greer, the job that Chris Greer, the general manager, has done?

I like Chris. I like Chris. He's a friend. I would say I don't have the complete knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes to be able to criticize moves, because sometimes there are factors that we, as fans, don't understand what's going down.

How does the Garcia household feel when two of us now outside of the pocket and in the open field?

We scream, No, No, no, no. Go down, slide. Throw the ball away.

What does it sound like? Can I grab the inner thespian in you and see if I can summon what it feels like to be sitting next to Andy Garcia at his angriest, what he's spitting at the screen? What does that sound like?

Well, to me, it's like, who the fuck are you? Look, there's a guy open in the corner of the end zone? Who the fuck are you throwing to?

. Right. It's got to go Spanish, too, right?

But no, because depending on who you're screaming at, they don't speak Spanish.

Oh, I see. Oh, I thought the emotion would get so high that you're just screaming curses, but you want to be heard by whoever it is you're screaming at.

Through the TV. I'm screaming at a TV in Los Angeles, you know what I'm saying? Trying to get them to listen at Hard Rock.

I just go to my room and lock the door. He does.

He does. He goes, if If things are going bad right in the first quarter, he says, I'm out, and he goes upstairs, and he probably watches it on a TV by himself. Oh, really? In the second half, he'll come down where we've gotten back into the game, and he craws back into the theater, the screening room.

So is it frustration with the team, with your father?

Sometimes the energy is already very nice in the household, and I don't want to ruin it with the pain that I'm feeling.

Andy, what would you say is the most hurt the dolphins have ever left you after a single game where you are just really feeling it, can't sleep at night because one of them got away?

Wow. There's been so many.

I know. Rolodex.

I feel like you're reticent because you don't want to be publicly before the season, not hopeful, but your father is delusional and doesn't learn anything from 25 years of scars.

Exactly what it is.

Exactly what it is.

Okay, I'm glad we hashed this out. I'm glad we talked about it. We'll continue couples counseling, I hope, on whatever it is this Dolphins season is. Jolene Soundroom, September 12th. He is a DJ, and we will be playing his music here at some point. Andy, give me a prediction against the Colts. I want to hold you to it.

It's a win. We're going to win. I don't have a score. I don't care about this guy. We can win three. You have a score. 27-10.

Really a blowout over Daniel on the road. Okay. And Bones, your thoughts here? You can be hopeful and optimistic for me. You know what?

I am going to say we will win, and I'll tell you why. I don't think the Colts have a lot of firepower against us right now. They don't have a lot of weapons on offense. So if we can get rolling on offense, we are playing indoors, which is a huge plus for us, as we know. And I do think it's a win if we can get off hot, get our playmakers the ball. So I think 27 to 20.

I mean, you're pretty close to agreeing there. I'm going to have to work on this, see if we can get a little more disagree.

We're always 10 points apart, man. So we're always 10 points apart.

27 to 20. I think it's a dub. But the next couple of weeks, I don't know.

What about You're confused, old Lord of intelligence, football intelligence?

I mean, I've just been beaten down by what it is that I've seen, and I don't dare to be hopeful with a quarterback who can get hurt, more likely to get hurt. I don't often say something like this, but more likely to get hurt if you were gambling on it than any quarterback in the league, even though all that stuff is random. It's such a flimsy foundation to be able to hope that that guy can stay healthy and produce throws in seconds all season and won't get hurt. I've seen it a couple of seasons where I'm doing shows where I'm worried about the man's health and whether he should retire with the next time his head gets hit.

This is true. This is true. That's why he's got to be very careful. The O-line has to help always in that situation. But listen, people sneak through a good O-line. People do sneak through, and you got to be smart enough to just lay down and play another play.

Dan, I missed your prediction.

I think they're to lose to the Colts on the road.

Jesus Christ.

Daniel Jones, you really think we're that bad?

It's not that I think that you're that bad. It's that I believe that you're about the same as the Colts, and the Colts are at home. I don't think the Colts are as bad as you guys think they are.

Wow. So you start the season with a loss. This is how you start your season with the Dolphins. They're going to lose the first game.

I am an asshole. It is obvious to everybody listening. I will put myself in the penalty box sent there by Andy Garcia and Bones.

Minor penalty, two minutes. Peste, tremenda, come a mierda.

Tremenda, come a mierda. That is a terrible start to the season by me. Gentlemen, thank you for your optimism. Thank you for your hope, and thank you for your time.

We love you, Danny.

Appreciate you, Dan.

All right. Fins up.

Fins up. Fins up.

Do it, Dan.