Transcript of Hour 1: The Connect 4 Regional Friendly New

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See, you said something, Dave, and you didn't know that this was now about to… You wrote a check that maybe your ass isn't going to be able to cash. All right. Calling yourselfCash? A multi-time Connect 4 World champion.

So what is the cash? It's nice to see the game. It's like an old timers game. I'll I don't play a recreational game before.

We happen to have a monster-sized Connect 4 set.

Already gimmicky. We have it here. Are there any tuna sandwiches?

We have. Don't deflect. This is not about me. We have the Connect 4 That in the studio here with us where Dave Damosheck, world champion. I suppose it.

I suppose it. Where'd you go? You went to a tournament?

Well, my friends and I had a tournament. I wanted three years in a row.

Is it like Seinfeld, though? Where it's like, I choose not to race.

I choose not to race.

I just told you, I'll play a game of recreational. I want to play this? I retired last century, literally.

And he will face Mike Ryan.

I'll play the occasional game of recreational.

I want this to be like if it were being broadcast. You two are one of you is the play-by-play, one of you is the color guy, and these guys are playing. I want this to be like it's a real broadcast. I'll be play-by-play.

Consider me Apollo Creed showing up to fight Drago night. I'm showing up for an exhibition.

You're probably rooted for Drago, didn't you?

We're not playing competitive for you. This is going on your record.

Which one of us is the color guy?

I'll be play by play. You'll be the color guy. I'm the color guy.

Mike, I'd like you to go first. I'll go first. I want to be a gentleman.

Me and I'll take it. Well, is that normally how it's... How is it normally determined?

Well, Mike has already cast himself as the villain. We know where his head's at. He was given a tuna sandwich and attacked that person for doing it. So obviously, he's the heel here.

All right, let's do it. Mike's going first.

I need the players to really cut the chatter.

Let the broadcast-I might play blind. I might just close my eyes and see if I can do it.

Mike is the dark red piece. Dave is the dark blue. Dave is the light blue.

I might Kenobi this. I might Skywalker this. Mike is up. He goes right down the middle.

Got some chatter on the court right now. Dave Dabrashek, real confident in his ability.

Dave goes right above Mike. Mike now immediately to the left of his first move. Dave is going to block that attempt. Mike, right above his next move. So he had two in a row. Now, Dave has two in a row going up. Mike now has three in a row. He's going very fast.

You got to let it breathe so the color guy could come in with a sit down there.

Dave blocks that attempt of three in a row.

Pace has slowed down considerably after a fever start. You like to see the guys.

Mike's got to be worried here.

Mike's got to be worried for the double up three, two.

Mike's studying the board.

Tony giving hints.

Mike now has three in a row on the bottom. Dave blocks. Mike blocks. Mike comes in now. He's got two in a row, the third row from the right.

You see what Dave is going for here? He's trying to double build.

Dave now has three in a row right down the middle.

Don't give it away.

How do I give their lives away then? You can't do that.

Okay.

You're going to Just say, Dave, way to play.

Mike was looking around the board. What move should I make here?

That was insane. All right.

All right.

Just realized, play by play doesn't work for Connect 4.

You rarely see that where the broadcast gets in the way of the play on the field. There goes Dameshek.

Dameshek is setting up a lot of stuff right here.

Trying to recover after a massive blunder by my partner.

Mike studying the board for his move here.

This reminds me of a game back in '75.

You remember that one?

Yeah. Between old Joe Damoshek. Now, no relation, but he was one of the great Connect 4 players of the modern era, before the merger.

Everyone remembers that classic.

Almost a shot clock violation here.

Damosheck will not be duped by the trickery of one Mike Ryan.

But instead- Damosheck is playing chess right now.

He's setting up- Mike Ryan waves a Mutumbo, no.

Saying, I see what you're doing. The most obvious... Yes, it's obvious not to go there.

As he inspects the board, Zaz, do you like tuna sandwiches?

What exactly is Mike Ryan's strategy? Getting up real close to it.

Everybody knows the closer you get, the more serious is. When there's an exciting moment in a sporting event you're watching on television, everybody inches closer to the TV. That's because it's very serious. Everybody knows that, and that's the same thing that's happening right here on our board.

He's leaning in. Damage it.

It's four He moves ahead on every move.

Yeah, absolutely.

Damosheck's got to be minus 220 right now.

I mean, this is like watching the Queens camp.

From Bishop to Rook 9, Dano.

Mike studying the board.

I got to bring that back.

For our audio.

Do not react on Mike's behalf.

The crowd is trying to lead him on. Is Mike an idiot? Someone in the peanut gallery just asked if Mike was an idiot.

Mike.

We're here at the Invitational Connect 4. Regional friendly.

I am so invested in this game right now.

It's a friendly that is going to go on Dave Damosheck's world champion record, though. Dave now has three- The middle row is The middle row is completely stacked.

Dave Dameschek.

Mike is up.

Curious.

Mike really wants to put it in that spot that will screw him.

What would you say the odds are right now in this game? We're doing live betting, I mean.

We're doing live betting on not Not our sponsor, but our own thing going on here.

Mike loses.

That's those three were just staring him in the face.

Exactly right.

Dave, you set him up with a double T trap on both sides.

He was out of his That's a beautiful double team.

Dave, we have Dave Damoschek for the post-game interview.

He has a mic.

You could probably stay with that. Dave, you wait right here, okay? Dave, what did you see? What led to that victory?

Yeah, just real proud to be an American right now and represent everybody from these United States. It feels real good to get one. Nice job by Mike there. He did his best. Felt for the double T. Today, it wasn't good enough.

Felt for the double T formation.

Now, Dave, how did you react to when it feel like you had a very straightforward type of victory that happens from a little negligence from your opponent, only for the broadcast to point it out to the opponent and then to get the block?

To be honest with you, it felt like the moment was maybe a little bit too big for my opponent here. I hope he learns from But in the meantime, it's always great to get out there and compete. As you can see, I employed the straightforward strategy. Cardinal rule, load up in the middle, group your your same colors and go from there. Played defense. It's always defense, much like it does in some other sports, can win championships and has for this fellow right here.

Now, Dave, did you know when Mike Ryan made his last move, were you setting him up? Did you know that that was where he was going to go? Because your final piece, you reacted really quick.

I knew the game was over before it began.

Dave, you've been off for several decades from competitive Connect 4 play. How's your body feeling right now?

I'm okay. I mean, listen, I just am not in a spot right now. Like I've said before, and I'll say again, this sport has given me so much. It would be disrespectful to reenter the fray and start playing competitive 4 again. That ship has sailed. I'm an old man, I got to tell you. It does feel good to get out there, though, and stretch out a little bit.

Thank you to Dave Damosh.

Everybody, let's give it up for our champion. Prevails once again. Mike Ryan, come over here. Mike, what do you believe was the turning point in today's match?

He got aggressive in the middle, and I didn't really have an answer for it. I knew I was on my heels pretty much from the moment that I laid that first piece. He really is as good as he says he is. I'm a little frustrated with how I gifted it to him, but the way the board was going, it was just a matter of time. I got smoked.

Now, Mike, you heard all the mythology surrounding Dave Damosheck. Was any of that playing a part in your brain as you were playing the game?

Yeah. No, he beat me before we started playing. I felt it in my knees. He's as good as he says he is. Back in the lab, it's going to be a long off-season. For sure. But I hope to get him the next time.

How do you bounce back? Will there even be a bounce back next time?

I'm going to try to pick somebody really stupid and get the boost of confidence there and then build on that success.

Get in here, Chris Cody.

Damn it.

Everybody, let's give it up for both competitors. Loser cleans up, by the way. Good game.

Losers cleans up. My favorite part is when you release them to the... Come on, release the mic.

I will say, too, I was trying to look at the board on the monitor, and it really created As you can see, it creates an odd specific challenge to play with two shades of blue against that giant monitor in the background. Yeah, not ideal.

Tricks your eye. Not ideal.

I mean, I was able to overcome.

I'm used to playing red and yellow.

It's red and black, I think, generally.

Hey, since this is game night, since this has turned into game night on the show, I'd like to give Tashay another shot at Tony and TNT here. But if we did Mr. Lister and they had to trade back on another category, what would thread the needle in terms of fairness? What does not advance- Vice Presidents. Okay, we can do one of those.

No, we don't have to.

What doesn't advantage either fella, as far as you know? You know them better, Zaz.

I think NBA. Yeah, they're both up on NBA.

They're both up on NBA.

Okay, make sure no one's looking at any laptops, and then we're safe. What would be a good category?

Why would anyone look at their laptop?

Or we can do musicals.

It's a fun one, yeah. It's a fun one. Blee covers? 19th century English literature. What do you do? I mean, what's a good call here? Nba category. Could go real easy. Could go like, as a, for instance, teams that have won the NBA title this century?

That one's way too easy. They wouldn't both crush that.

I understand why teams that are down in a series start to sweat a little bit.

How about this? This is too big to track, but I think you'd probably be able to do this with your brain alone.

What if it is- You got that good brain?

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Everything else?

Everything else.

Wearing clean underwear every day?

Well, that's just a personal decision.

Brushing your teeth?

Obviously smart, but not a rule.

Never PP on an electric fence.

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Players who have been a part of losing a playoff series to the Miami Heat this century? I know that's a big one, but I bet you that if you-Okay, let's say that one again.

So players- It might be too specific.

It feels a little specific. Players have lost to the Miami Heat in a playoff series this century, so we're not taking the '90s, starting from 2000.

I want to have a deep list that they'll both have a lot of answers for.

There's like a million players there. Yeah.

It might be too wide.

A thousand players.

Okay, how about this? Nba teams that have the color red in their uniform.

There's the music. Now, if you just tuned in, you know, whoa, there's a feud taking place.

Is that one good, Amine? Sure.

Red in their uniform.

Well, come up with another one. I like MVPs.

Yeah, I think MVPs. It's like Super Bowl losers. It's a very finite list.

Mvps I just talk about it.

Any NBA MVP, who is the awarding body that you're going off of?

The MVP. The person who gets the trouble.

The person who got the award.

Okay. This isn't Sporting News and all that.

Yeah, let's go with the person who won.

We're doing my personal MVP. The NFL was played by that Everything for a long time.

We're not doing that. We're doing MVPs.

So does Tony go first since he won?

You won. It's his choice.

I'm going to go with the current reigning MVP, Shay Gilles Alexander.

Nikola Jokic.

Okay.

Joel Embiid.

Yana Sante-Takumpa.

Why did you hesitate?

Creating drama.

Because once, if you have, that's what I was just talking with the competitors about during the break, it went your foe says the one that you had your brain, it really causes you to freeze up. You're really like, I can't think of any name in the history of people because he just took mine.

Tony's up. Lebron James.

Derrick Rose.

Check.

Going back to 2000.

You should be embarrassed going with Derrick Rose.

I I didn't-You should be embarrassed. I wasn't even going to say it.

Yeah, I wouldn't say it. Even if it came down to me, either say Derrick Rose or lose, I would take the L.

Because everybody knows that that was LeBron's MVP.

He should be embarrassed. Thank you. Bad week for you, Jeremy.

Steph Curry.

Check.

Steve Nash.

Check. He's going deep. He's already out. Kd.

Check.

Kurt Warner. Lyons.

So do I win? Say another one. Go ahead. Play the game. Kobe Bryant. Check.

It's starting to get hard now.

Kobe only got one, right? Yeah.

Only one now.

His running mate, Shaq.

Shaq.

Michael D. Only one as well. I'm going to go Magic Johnson.

Check. I was just about to remind you both that the sport existed before 1998.

Dave, just to give you an insight into my mind, what I'm going to try to do is look at the year and think of the MVP of that year. The problem is with the finite amount of time, it's hard to go through every single season. Okay, we got Magic. Check. Cap. Kareem.

Check. I thought you said Cap for a second.

No, no, no, no, no, It seems like the person watching Jeopardy on TV.

This is so easy. The pressure is what gets to you, friend.

There are several more.

It's literally every famous player in NBA history.

Did you see Mike Ryan crumble when the lights got hot in Connect 4? He wasn't ready for competitive level 4. Bill Russell. Check. Yeah.

Jeremy is reaching. That's not a ready. I think he's running low on names based off that one.

We're in the 1960s.

I mean, yeah.

There are so So many easy answers. Easy ones.

I know, but guys, when you're on this side of it, it's not that easy. When you're starting to think of it, you're like, damn, who played basketball ever?

So you're choking a little bit.

If there were an actual four-second clock on this, you guys would really already be done. Larry Bird.

Check. Russell Westbrook.

Check.

We need those chest timers. Yeah, they got to slap it like fresh.

I mean, it's a good thing I'm not on the buzzer because they would have buzzed by now.

Tim Duncan.

Check.

That was the next one. I hate when that happens.

Don't worry, there are a lot more. A lot. I know.

Relax. They're obvious names. It's not like...

It's so easy when you guys are looking at the list of MVP. Jerry West. That's all such. Jack. This game's easy.

Actually, no, hold on. Oh. Yeah, that's how it was. That was not an MVP. Wow.

Tony's so happy.

Wait, Tashay went... No, Tony went first. Okay.

Can I just throw some names from this century that you guys didn't even say?

East Dirk, I know, is one of them.

I don't think you said Steph Curry.

No, he said East Dirk.

We said Steph, we said Nash.

Dirk Nowitzky.

Yeah, no one said Dirk. No one said... Here's an easy one. Charles Barkley. He's only on TV every goddamn day.

Did anyone say Allen Iverson?

Did anybody say Will? Did anybody say I wasn't sure actually. No one said Wilt.

I was close to Wilt and I was close to Barkley. Was that magic? Yeah. Did anybody say Magic?

Yeah, he said Magic. No one said Oscar.

Look, did anyone say James Harden?

When the pressure is on, it's a different thing.

No one said Yannis.

Yeah, he did. I love how none of us were listening. You got mad at me for hesitating. Oh, yeah.

Wow.

Kevin Garnett.

I was on the big ticket. I was just about to say big ticket.

Tony had all he was about to say.

Karl Malone. Another one I was about to say.

David Robinson. George Michael.

The admiral.

George Miken.

I got to tell you, it's a little bit surprising that Jerry West never won MVP.

Yeah, that was just a- Not surprising.

He played in the air with incredible dudes.

I know, but they made him the logo.

He's the logo. And Jerry West is our logo. They just picked the picture and says, okay. And then people have to sleath later to find out that it was Jerry West. It wasn't, let's take our greatest player. All right.

You know what? I've officially had it. Amin has been throughout this show, may I say, a little bit of a no at all because he hasn't been put on the spot yet.

I think he's been the only normal one.

Let's change that right now. It's time for to pick up where we left off yesterday. Nhl player, prescription drug. Like I mentioned, because of the Scandinavians and beyond, a lot A lot of overlap on the Venn diagram of hockey players' names and prescription drugs that are out there.

Let's do this game before we get to our next game, which is Connect 4, but you can only make a move if you say an El Sayyung winner beforehand.

This is really coming together. Kershaw. Here we go.

All right. We got to wait for the music, right? Is there no music for this?

I don't think we had music for this one.

We had music. It was a fun music. I remember doing a damn music.

It wasn't this.

Rupa Hints. Rupa Hints. Dallas Star's Potent Centerman, Rupa Hints. Or, cirrhosis treatment, Rupa Hints.

I'm going to go... Let me walk you through my thought process here. The medications typically are not hard to pronounce. That Rupéhince sounds like a difficult thing to pronounce. I'm going to go NHL player.

I betrayed myself by giving it multiple pronunciations in one. Rupe Hints is the high flying centerman for the heavyweight team, the Dallas Stars. Roy knew it. That's the limitation of this game. I can't go to Roy.

You got to play it straight. I'm laying out, man.

You didn't do it the first time. I heard you laugh.

I thought it was just funny to me. How did you laugh.

Rupe Hints. That was a real giveaway. I wanted to put science behind it.

Yesterday, I almost threw a shoe at him because he said the answer as Chris Cody was being asked the question. Because I thought you were asking Siracivian.

I mean-Lions.

Yeah. Thank God he said Lyons.

Chris Chris Cody.

Shit.

Xarelto. 6'6 defenseman with the big shot from the point, Mammoth defenseman, Simon Xarelto. Or anti-blood clotting treatment, Xarelto.

I'm going to go with medicine.

Wow. We're two for two. Fifty-fifty. Good job there, Chris Cody.

It is Xarelto. You might have gotten one Zucrello.

One more. Yeah.

All right.

Zaz. Kiscali. Kiscali. Leef Center, already one of the best skaters in the league. Noah Kiscali. Breast Cancer Treatment, Kiscali.

I think it's Breast Cancer Treatment.

Wow. Three for three.

Nice.

I'm proud of all of you guys. This is a real streaker.

Jeremy was so happy. He didn't go to them. God.

One more for Tony.

I knew all those, by the way.

Ardam Zub. Ardam Zub. Sizeable Russian goal tender for the Ottawa senators.

Sizeable is a good way to describe a goal tender. Give me the medicine.

Ardazoobe or Kidney medication, Ardamzoob.

I was just offlining with a mean, and when you watch NBA basketball and hoops long enough and play-off long enough, you get a lot of ads for I've never heard of Artem Zube, so I think he's a sizable Ottawa goal tender.

Artem Zube is a goal tender for the Ottawa Senator.

It doesn't look like a goal tender.

It looks like a defenseman there.

Apparently, he also is a skater.

He can do it all. It's up there with Michael Jordan.

Either way. Either way. One more.

To Nord Davis.

Do Jeremy. You guys are on a great streak here. Jeremy.

Get the music back.

Connect me. Connect me. Flyer's tough and skilled winger, Travis Connect me. Or blood pressure treatment, Connect me.

Kurt Warner.

Blood pressure treatment. Tadam. You idiot.

You idiot.

Streak.

That's it.

He's down 3-0, by the way.

That's a good game.

Good job, everybody. Thank you. That's a good game. All right.

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Nothing in my willhouse, huh?

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Can I show you guys something that caught my attention yesterday on social media? So the There's a professional wrestler from AEW called Darby Allen. All right. That part's not important, but he is a big deal when it comes to wrestling. He's a very famous name. This video is circulating on social media where he is doing a podcast that apparently is also streamed. There's also video. But he's sitting in the back seat of an Uber or a Lyft, whatever, and they're taking to, I think, that night's wrestling event. You will hear the Uber driver is very, very upset with this interview taking place in the back seat of his car And he proceeds to throw him out of the vehicle in the middle of the highway. Give us a watch and listen.

Tucson for a W collision. We got this program going on. Can we expect to see Matt with- One second.

I hate to interrupt your AA or therapy session or whatever, but it's rude of you to be on speaker phone in someone's Uber.

Is it cool if I finish?

Look, man, I've been driving since 5: 00 AM.

I'm tired. Can you just put the phone up? It's a little rude.

This is like an interview. Yeah, we're on national TV right now just doing an interview here.

I don't care. I make $15 an hour. I don't care. Yeah, but you want five stars.

This is one star behavior.

Is this your AA sponsor or something?

No, it's not an AA sponsor.

I don't care.

Can you just put the phone away? I'm straight edge.

I knew what this face pain, this James Simmons saying, you're going to be in trouble. Yeah. That's one star behavior, sir.

And honestly, a lift driver would not drive like that.

I'm sorry, I'm not going to get to you.

Uber. Take me to the Tucson.

Yeah, Take them to Tucson so we can be doing a AEW Live here at.

Yeah, real fun, buddy. I'm over this. I'm getting out of my car now.

Hold on. Let me see.

We're in the middle of the highway. I don't care. Out, get out, out. Get out of my car.

We're in the middle of the highway.

See, lift driver, who do you deal with? Out, go.

Out.

And he's left standing on the side of the road in the middle of the highway.

All right, what team are you guys on?

What the hell? Fake.

The biggest thing I've seen in a long time. I don't think it's fake.

That's 100% fake.

I do not believe that's fake. 100%.

I think that was a meltdown. That was a real meltdown. 100%, huh? I don't think he's like that. I don't think Darby's like that meta.

What is the wrestler What does he have to gain by making that fake video?

We're talking about it now.

No, but he's a really famous wrestler. He doesn't need that attention.

Yeah, but we wouldn't be talking about him.

He's not like a famous wrestler because they don't know him.

I hope that's true. I'm with Amine. I hate to be so skeptical. It doesn't feel real. The performance of the Uber driver felt phony to me. Also, that was Mike Ryan's reaction when Zaz tried to hand him a tuna sandwich. Stop this car. Let me out. I'm not going to be a party to this. I feel like that, I don't know, the wrestler, that that guy also, if somebody said, I'm stopping this car, get out. But we're on the high Anyway, get out here. You'd be like, No, I'm not getting out. I'm not getting out of the car. I think Darby- No, I'm paying you for this.

From what I know of Darby, who is a bit of a vagabond and a bit of a daredevil, too. He recently climbed Mount Everest. I think he's chill about that stuff and is going from what is, I think, initially a bad look to him by the time the guy has his full emotional breakdown. Why is it a bad look to him? So you sent me this yesterday, and you didn't understand what the Uber driver's problem is. I don't. The Uber driver should not have acted that way, especially by the end of it.

Why are we doing this? It's like it's real.

What are we doing here? Well, because there are people that do this that don't understand it. Do what? They go on speaker when they enter an Uber or are in a public place, and they clue everyone into the conversation that they're having instead of putting on AirPods or a headphones. Okay, hold on a second. And that's very rude.

Hold on a second. I completely understand what you're saying, except he's not in a public place around public people. He's paying for a service, and he's on the phone while the service that he is paying for is being performed. He's not sitting at an airport terminal with people around him who have to listen to his conversation.

He's paying for a service. Zaz, you love wrestling on top of everything else. Forget about the wrestling. I'm just saying. Okay, so that's an element of it. If you were doing a show and you were interviewing somebody and the driver turned around and said, Keep it down. I don't like this. You should stop When you were doing this. Would you be like, This is pretty funny. It's going to hurt your rating. It's going to hurt your... You'd be like, What the hell are you doing?

You would go, What are you doing? I would handle just like the hustler. I would laugh. I would laugh.

I would go, I would joke with him. If I'm on an interview, I'm going to start inviting the guy. I'd say, Give me that guy. I'd say, Put driver on the phone right now, of course, you wouldn't just be like, Oh, this is a zany moment.

I don't know who those radio hosts are. I don't know what they are.

But what would your reaction be?

I would probably feel uncomfortable. Me, I'd feel uncomfortable because if I'm on live radio- Ajita?

I'd have a little bit Ajita. How mad a man is.

Because the live radio that I'm doing is being thrown for a loop, and I'm the one who's at the center of it.

But you would go crazy if the Uber driver interrupted your interview. I'd I mean, you would turn it into a bit, which is what you would do, right? I mean, I- Be like, Hand him the phone. Let me have some time with it.

I started to interrupt your meeting. Let me do that joke later the third time. Yeah, exactly.

It's the least believable performance ever in the history of performances That's why you can't get randos to do stuff in videos because-I love how you wanted to be Robert De Niro.

What do you think it looks like when an Uber driver who's been working since 5: 00 AM crashes out? That looks like a crash. You just start shouting.

It doesn't look like that.

Okay. All right.

Whether it's real or not. The shouting is the least part. It's the buildup. It's all of us like, I don't know if you're doing an AA meeting. You guys can't be this gullible.

The AA meeting is- It's the second AA meeting.

I want to believe all over again. You guys want to believe. He had already said it. Oh, my God, this happened. It's not happening, guys.

You're the one who thinks wrestling is real.

Trust me, buddy. The misunderstanding about the AA meeting is that when he's straight edge, when he's talking about being straight edge, that actually makes me think it's actually more real because he confused It's not going to use it for an end.

You can't be this gullible. Mike, you're a smart guy, man.

I'm not shifting the discussion from the initial behavior. It could be fake. We're talking like, You remember that show on ABC? What would you do? That's a conversation that I'm interested in because Zazlo over there thinks it's totally fine with Zaz is totally wrong.

Let's talk about that part before we get back to the real- I'm with Zaz.

The fun move is to insist on not getting out. If you want to make the best thing, and by the way, I'm with a mean, it's fake, but the best result is, if you faking it even, is to refuse to get out and see where that goes.

We'll get back to that part in a second. Let's go to the other part where I don't think that the driver has any right to ask him to get off the phone in that spot. Okay.

The place where the driver is right is, to me, headphones. He doesn't need to be hearing the entire interview.

You think if he had headphones on, the driver would have been okay with it?

I think it would have been different. I'll give you putting it on speaker is a little rude. Putting it on speaker- But it is not rude enough to be attacked the way that guy was.

That's why I mean things. It's fake.

Guys, there's a video I want to show you guys. It's totally real. It's a guy, he comes up to a girl, says, Can I get your number? She says, No. Then he gets in a Lamborghini, and then she walks up to him and said, Oh, I'm sorry. Can I give you my number? He said, No. You said no to me a few minutes ago. Then he drives off. Then people comment underneath, That's what gold diggers get. It's totally real, just like this video.

I'm not getting bogged down on that. To me, I see your point.

I'm not getting bogged down in like, What would you do? What would I do in a fake situation that never happens? I wouldn't do anything.

What would you do in a real one?

It's not real.

What would you in a real one, though?

A real one of what?

That situation. If you went into an Uber, you were on speaker.

If I'm on speaker and my Uber driver starts yelling at you.

And would you get out? Because these days are different. If that guy starts acting on Hinge the way that he did, and he's telling me to get out of this car. I'm probably getting out of the car because this guy's crazy. I don't know this person. I don't know what they're capable of.

And if it's all a bit and he knew the guy wasn't going to actually shoot him or do anything crazy, he would have engaged me. He actually got out right when he was asked to.

If an Uber driver, a cab driver, or Lyft, whatever, said, Well, I don't want you talking in my car like that. What you would actually do is say, Well, this won't stand. I've been telling your bosses about this. Can I speak with one of your bosses? One star. This is what you do. Not one star. You are not going to continue. You don't like making $15 an hour? You're not going to make that. Once I get this to the head office, you can't tell me as a passenger in your car, I'm not allowed to speak.

I'm actively losing brain cells having to explain this, but I I would say, All right, well, then we can get off at the next stop. You're not going to drop me off. Just drop me off at a gas station or whatever, and I'll get out. And that would be the end of that. And then I would do all the other things to make sure I've ruined this person's life forever because they asked me to get off the phone, off the speaker phone, Which, again, does not happen.

They ask you to get off the phone. You want to have on speaker phone, whatever. What's the time when you go into the Uber and that guy's on the phone? He's on the phone for 45 minutes, and I don't want to hear him talk.

It's a knock-off.

What am I doing?

By the way- Hey, buddy, can you end your It's the same situation.

It's rude, but I'm not going to say anything to him either.

But why is he entitled to have me not on the phone? But he's going to be on the phone for 45 minutes.

The last time I flew from Miami back to LAX, this exact thing happened. The guy in the row behind me was loudly talking on speaker phone. That's unacceptable. Just the one side. That's unacceptable. Just the one side. And I got fairly close. I'm pretty mouthy about these things out in the wild. I'll call strangers out. I'm like, What are you doing, man? Really? I like doing that. Yeah, I have a lot of fun. You like doing it? Yeah, I like to live a little dangerously, even though I'm a gigantic coward. I like mouthing off to people.

I like calling out my friends when they fall for dumb internet videos.

It's just all over the internet and no one seems to be calling you dick.

Because everybody is dumb and they want to believe.

They want to believe. You're really putting yourself out here. What if we find out it's real? It's not real.

It's not real.

It's not going to be proven real, Chris Cody. But yes, that makes the list of most obnoxious behavior out in public.

In a waiting room watching something on speaker. In public.

People like doing the grocery cart thing, not returning your cart to the stack. I agree with that. That's not the greatest violation. This would be on the list, though. Yes, Tony.

No, that's what Chris Cody does.

He doesn't. I put my shopping car back. Don't worry. You do? I do.

Now? Yes.

Many years ago, I... He did a thing. He was being the thing. No, my thing is, and I stand by it, what you just did, the outrage people. I think you see a lot of shopping cards out in these parking lot. You got to shame people. My take was, I don't think it's that big a deal, and I think a lot more people do it who rail against it. I was more just defending- It's not a felony.

Thank you. It's a crime against your fellow human beings.

It creates jobs. It's a fellow. It creates jobs. There's people who to go get those cars. I'm trying to think of a situation- Does it change your opinion?

Hold on a second, Jeremy. When 3. 4 million million, follow or count, Newsweek has linked to the story.

Oh, my God. Everyone gets stupid. National Choir has been in publication for my entire life. National Choir is a step too far.

You think Newsweek's editorial board saw a video that's going viral and said, Guys, let's have a meeting. Let's send our reporters dispatch out there. Send I'm the best guy on.

Get to the bottom of this. Amine has me wanting this to be real so bad.

Or the social media team just like, This is viral. I want to be viral, too. That's how this shit works. I got to explain the internet to you people. You all don't know how this works. You think people are fact-checking before they retweet? That what you have? You got the head of news week out here, like, Get me the best and brightest on this wrestler.

Man, I want this to be real.

On this way to Tuso on. I think you're going to be wrong, Amine.

All you had to do was just hang out, but instead, you became the craziest one on that side of the glass.

There's three minutes left. This is the thing that drives me crazy. Every single... It's like the other day, there was a thing that said, Scott Foster, NBA referee, suspended for three missed calls of goal tends in the Lakers Celtics game. The way that shit went viral, and I'm like, he didn't even wrap the game. Nobody took five seconds to even think, is this real or not? It's just, oh, it's real. Let me react. Let me be in the place because I want to react to the place. I want to talk about Uber drivers who tell me to go off speaker phone. Has anyone here ever had an Uber driver do that? Everyone raising their voice.

Everyone pointing fingers, disagreeing.

Guys, way to end the week. That's right. Against the Spread.

Against the Spread. That's right. Against the Spread is presented by DraftKings. Draftkings, the Crown is yours. Roy, what do we got?

Sabre's Panthers. Tonight, the Panthers are In favor of one and a half goals.

I'm trying to go.

The Panthers have beaten the Sabers in eight straight games, following a win in the previous game. But the Sabers have covered the truck line in the last 12 games where they were underdogs. That streak is getting broken tonight. The Panthers are going to win by two or more tonight. So go with the Panthers against the spread.

Mike, what do we got?

This afternoon, Saudi Pro League, soccer. Al-hilal love the roster moves that they made. They were clearly the cream of the crop in the Saudi League. I'm going with Al-Hilal against Al Shabbat minus one and a half, taking Al Halal.

Sables play last night, Roy?

The Sabers, no. The Maple leaves did. They lost to Tampa, but the Sabers didn't play last night.

Well, then give me the sabers.

Let's end on a fun note here. Go ahead, Jeremy. I'm sorry.

I was just trying to create another situation where you're saying, Oh, they're performing a service for you. And so in turn, they have to be trapped with you listening to you on speakerphone. But I have to be trapped with him speaking on speakerphone. What about a black car service? If I'm paying to drive me somewhere, I can take a call in the back seat. The Uber driver? Let the hate flow. Yeah, I can take a call. Okay, if you were getting your hair cut. I'm not saying it's maybe a little rude, but it's not. It's super rude.

Call me the name.

That's all it is. That's no way.

That's all the time. That's no way. That's the way doing something like that job and that you feel entitled to reprimand the people that may or may not tip you. There's going to be no way that you would do that. That's where you're right. You would have to be completely unhinged to do that. And that is the puncher's chance, Mike Ryan and the people who believe this have here.

Beach Boys was a good call.

Bartom Zube.

I mean, will you track the rest of today as to whether or not this is real or fake?

I shant spend a single calorie on this BS. This is dumb, and I try not to burn my energy on dumb things.

It's going to be great when it's real.

Great tone.