Transcript of Hour 2: Friar Territory

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Against the Spread. Against the Spread.

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Olympic women's hockey. Tonight is United States versus Canada. The Canadians are without their captain, Marie-Felice Houlin. She's out with a lower body injury. That's a big blow to Canada. So I say go with the Americans who are a goal and a half favorite tonight against the Spread. Mike? Cancels spread. The lines move some, but I'm going to take the Miami Hurricanes plus one and a half. 7 o'clock tip ESPN tonight. Biggest game of the season, biggest home game of the season for the Miami Hurricanes. Letdown spot for North Carolina. Miami's got a tough defense, especially at the point of attack. Going Canes. Again, It's all spread. Give it that spread.

Roy, you took the US women's hockey team minus five and a half goals. What happened with that bet?

On the previous bet, I believe they did not cover. They scored five and the line was fired. That Swiss goalie is awesome. They should have covered that game.

They were pounding her with shots.

I think that she's had... In her last few games, she's faced close to 100 shots.

That was on me. Chris, I'm going to have to... Minor penalty to go for leaking confidence. No, I saw you looked at me out of the corner of your eye, pounding her. Get out of here. Just get out of here. You're leaking confidence. I'm losing people right and left. Jeremy is preparing a song. Tony has been banished. I have reason to be mad at Tony, okay? Because Tony was going to do the whole show today in Spanish and just forgot. It would have been funny him trying to talk to Zaz all show in Spanish, and Zaz not understanding anything. He said, Let's go out to Tony now. He's laughing. He's out there. He's at Dwyane Wade statue. He's chosen a symbolically ugly spot for his ugly performance today. I don't know what the sound is there.

It seems like he's buzzing, so let's get that.

All right, let's get that down. We'll come back to him. It's continuing with his ugly performance. We will get back to him as soon as we can. I wanted to-Oh, hold on.

The pressure washing the building.

So that's the pressure washer.

That is good.

That is great.

I thought that was a connection issue.

All right, so then we'll go to him with pressure. Yeah, lean in. All right, lean into pressure washing in the background. I am now pressure watching you feeling like you're going to fail here. Let's do a top five here. But you're laughing at the fact that you forgot to speak Spanish during today's show, correct? At a time of great proud cultural heritage.

I'm laughing at the start of the segment where Chris knew that he had said something that was going to reflect poorly on everything.

Excellent.

And that made me laugh. And then the Spanish thing made me laugh. But then right where they're about to come to me, the pressure washing starts. It's adversity, Dan, but that's what we do.

We push through adversity. You got to play in the elements. Yeah, Klausserman likes it that way better. Go ahead and give us your last top five of the season. All of this needs a good, vigorous power washing. I can't believe it started right when you were talking. Roy thought the audio was bad because of the nearby power washer. Any Oli, are you starting with number five?

No, we're starting off no Oli, it's just five. But this is the last one of the NFL season. So I'm going to have to find a new side hustle. And obviously, the NFL is my thing. We're going to have to maybe move forward, going forward after the All-Star break for the NBA into Tony's top five NBA edition. So that's a little something to look forward to now that the NFL is done. There's also a jet plane flying by, too. So we are against the elements right now. Dan, if somebody comes over and wants to take a picture of the statue, I have to let them, right? Just in case.

Yeah, or you can include them in your top five. If anyone stops by to get a picture of Michael Chickless in statue form, that'd be good.

All right. We'll start off with number five. I nailed the defensive TD call. I was looking back at the things that I said were going to happen two weeks ago, and I only nailed one thing, which was a defensive countdown. I missed the JSN one. I missed the Bad Bunny one, I missed both QBs to throw a pick. No, you got Vrabel You got Vrabel will be a coward on fourth and short.

You got that.

Speaking of that, number four, Mike Vrabel did what Mike Vrabel does on fourth and short. Coward. Coward. For a guy who said he was going to cut off his own dick, you got to have balls I'm not going to say that. Well, you would only have balls if that were to happen because you'd cut off your dick. But to have those balls, you got to go for it on fourth and 1. Fourth and 1 on your 47, you know what you do? You get the offensive, come around, you say, Hey, we're going to kick their ass on this one play. Give me a yard for the rest of your lives right now. And you go get that yard, and maybe things would have changed, but he was a coward, Dan. Sending out the punt unit on fourth and one was despicable, diabolical.

Something that's not being talked about enough is that your reigning Super Bowl champion was also the most powered, filled coach there was in the league on fourth down. Didn't care for it, didn't need to do it, trusted his defense, wasn't somebody who did much of anything on fourth down, played scared the entire time and won the championship.

Yeah, but when you have that defense I think he has a stance to reason he trusts them a little bit more. Number three, Will Campbell. Wolf. We'll move that one on very quickly. There's nothing to say there. Wolf. That's it. Bad. Number two, Seattle was really the best team to wire to wire this season. We just didn't see it quick enough. That's the truth. All season, they were just beating teams, and they were like, Oh, wow. Seattle's good, huh? Oh, Seattle's decent. And then all of a sudden, they're winning the Super Bowl, not letting up. What was it? Ten straight wins. They didn't have a turnover in how many weeks in a row. Their defense played amazing. They were really wire to wire champs this season.

Number one.

Number one. Bad Bunny only got bigger after this amazing Super Bowl performance. Again, it's been politicized left, right, center. Everybody and their mother has something to say about the Hispanic, has something to say about Bad Bunny. The only thing that I saw is that the biggest artist on the planet got bigger, getting put over by the biggest league in the world in the NFL. So it's a very cool moment for his fans. It's a very cool moment for Bad Bunny fans that have been like me, watching him when he was just on SoundCloud in 2019, before the pandemic, before the albums, before all these things. And I was like, wow, man, wait a second. This guy has a sound that's so different in the genre to now see the entire evolution of what he's been able to do and then coronated on the biggest stage in American sports is super cool from a Hispanic point of view and from a Bad Bunny point of view. So as a fan, I'm very excited for what the future is because There's only up to go from here. He's already the biggest artist on the planet. How much bigger can he get?

Thank you, Tony. Appreciate it. And you chose a good spot. An ugly performance, but you salvaged today by going to the spot where Michael Chicklas is commemorated forever by the Miami Heat organization. We appreciate it.

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Dan Levatard.

I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public.

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I wanted to talk to you guys before I get to the NBA fights, because I do want to talk about the NBA fights. But when he mentions the idea that that halftime show was politicized, that word. You've heard me say before that, generally speaking, Hispanics, no matter which group you choose from, wildly grateful to be in this country, know very often what freedom or lack of freedom looks like. And so you rarely have issues with Hispanics appearing to you to be ungrateful for the opportunities this country provides. That's not something I hear a lot of. When Tony uses the word politicized for a guy who is doing that show in his native language, but is saying during it, God bless America, and is also celebrating the United States as part of the gratitude in that performance. You guys take speak English as a political stance. I'm not talking about you guys. I'm talking about everyone listening to this. Speak English is a political statement because it's not been a platform that I've seen that undisguised before. You might go immigration to be anti-Hispanic, but it's not speak English, mother bleeper. It's not quite that brazen.

When the President of the United States says that the country's language is English, then that makes it political.

Again, more subtle than speak English, even more subtle than what's happening right now, which is you just saw someone sing. The objection politicized is, speak my language. That's not a political position. Since when? Since when is it a political position? Hey, Hispanics, you're not welcome to speak your language and celebrate your language in this country, even though you come to this country, grateful. You often come to this country not having learned English, because any of us would have trouble right now if we were in China or Russia trying to get around. But Hispanics are generally, I don't believe that the people who are objecting to the lack of English here have any problem with the gratitude or humility of Latin people as a group for being in this country?

Is it speak English or is it speak English around me?

It's sing English. He speaks English. He knows English. He's learned English. It's just make me more comfortable because my psyche is so fragile that I can't endure for 12 minutes you trying to do something entertaining in your own mind.

But do I sound like an idiot when I say, Is this politics Or is this just politics of the day? Is this what politics has turned into? Because at no point in my life, as somebody who speaks English first, but had a household where my grandparents didn't speak English, there are giant swaths of Miami where you can live more comfortably in Spanish than you can in English all around Dade County because there are so many people here who don't know English. It's not because they're not trying to learn. There are other problems when come to this country and have to make a living when you used to be a doctor in your country, but you got to be a plumber here. Learning the language is not taking a course when it's hard, very hard to learn a language after the age of six. It's a very difficult thing. Most of the people listening to this do not speak a second language because of how hard that is, no matter whether you took it in high school or college or not. Am I being an idiot when I say, I get that it's the politics of the day, but it's been distorted so that this is also politics, so you could just wrap your hate or ignorance or your lack of tolerance in something else?

My own theory is that the language, the fact that he was singing in Spanish, only became as controversial as it did because Trump and Trump supporters led that feeling. Why did they do that? Because Bad Bunny is openly anti-Trump and anti-ICE. If Bad Bunny were a very conservative person who was pro-Trump and who had no problem with the immigration tactics going on, I don't think the fact that he was singing in Spanish would have nearly been the controversy. That would have been interesting. I agree.

For sure, it would have supported it.

I agree. Look at all the people that talk themselves into liking Kid Rock. I agree. If it were like Nicky Jam, I think it would have been received differently. But it still would have made some waves because it's a first song.

So K-pop? Not as many. If it had been K-pop- Even K-pop, there's plenty of English lyrics, especially with the ones that have crossed over over here.

There's big time English lyrics.

But if it hadn't been. I'm trying to think of what the parallel is for this because- To answer your question, this is what politics has become over the last 10 years.

If it were about policy, policy isn't exactly positively affecting American people right now. They're getting a whole bunch of stuff they didn't vote for, and they're talking themselves into it. What's more important is who finishes fifth in a swim meet. That's something that you can rally people around because you can divide and conquer. Then you make it about your culture, not about policy.

Am I too numb to this because I've been in Miami all of my life so that I underestimate what the reaction was, which is just to cloak yourself, cloak your hatred in something that people can get behind, which is, yes, I'm oppressed. I'm the threatened one because you're singing in Spanish. I'm losing my country. It's what I saying to you before about any conversation about inclusion excludes me as soon as you start talking about inclusion.

It was really a fascinating social study to watch Maga Cubans interact with this. A Super Bowl halftime because none of them were going on a turning point USA's halftime show. They love their bad money, too. And they're willing to overlook that because it's a part of their culture, too. They like it. And it was a wet But do they also get offended at what? I mean, they'd like to. And then I was privy to some group chats that were like, Well, he didn't wear a dress. That was fine. It's just some of the dumbest commentary that's possible because that's what works. Do you not see the position that we're in?

People were so dumb. I saw some of the images with him burning an American flag, wearing a dress. I don't think that picture is even real. I think that's a fake picture.

You're right, Zaz. It wasn't.

Yeah, but people think it is. They're like, See, this is what's performing our halftime show.

We had the first generation ever actually walk back the IQ standards, millennials to Gen Z. We're dumb. We're dumb. We're so dumb. Look who's been President twice. Look at the platform. It's not about policy. It's not about nuance. It's about like, they're trying to make boys, girls. Are you okay with that? No, I'm not.

So just getting- That's actually what it is.

That's exactly what it It's been 100% that.

Yeah. It becomes tell me that a man can get pregnant. Yeah.

No one's been inconvenienced by someone speaking Spanish in their everyday lives. I live in Miami, where you need to know Spanish to get around. I haven't once an inconvenience recently because I don't know Spanish. I can speak my language in the hardest part to just be solely speaking English in this country, in Miami, Florida. All these people... Like, Megan Kelly doesn't have people speaking Spanish to her. Megan Kelly doesn't have any reason to be offended. Megan Kelly probably hasn't had to speak Spanish in a decade and it hasn't affected her once.

I wonder what the narrative would be today if Bad Bunny had placated the controversy and sold a little bit of his soul by speaking in English between the songs, by maybe performing one song in English and the rest in Spanish. I'm glad he didn't, but it would have been very easy to quell the controversy.

I don't think so. This one's for Megan Kelly.

I don't know what. I don't think it would have. I think it would have been something... If you're going into this already angry, already aggrieved about all the things happening in America, you're going to find the place to put your outreach. But Before I move off of this topic, I just want the people listening. I believe that we are, as Hispanic, a thing as there has been in the sports environment when it comes to the sports media over the last 20 years. And I don't know the actual backstory when it comes to Billy and Mike. Mike Ryan Ruiz became Mike Ryan. Guillermo Gill became Billy Gil. My father was going to name me Gonzalo or Luis, my grandfather's name or his name, but decided to name his kids Dan and David, because during a different time, that's what we're doing to acclimate here and make sure that there are no issues on wherever it is. Our culture gets diluted because we're grateful to be here. We understand as we become Americanized, some of our culture is lost. My brother's dead, we didn't have kids. Whatever was left of Los Hermanos Levatard, the orchestra from Cuba, becomes Dan and David as part of fitting in here and being grateful about fitting in here.

I don't know how Guillermo became Billy. Mike, I don't know the backstory on how Mike Ryan Ruiz for a while was just Mike Ryan.

I said it several times. I was a child actor. I got typecast. I didn't speak Spanish fluently, and all I got offered were Spanish language rules because of my last name.

In my lifetime and around here, the parents are the ones who are having to do things. But in my lifetime, I'm here, I've never felt the hostility of speak English. Whatever that is, whatever's behind that on, Hey, Brown people, something about you is wrong. Even though you're grateful to be here, even though you're humbled by all of America's gifts and know that its freedoms represent things for you that aren't back home, I have not in my life felt what this halftime show became. Not in my life. It's not something... When I was a little kid in our neighborhood, it was stupid Cuban. But since then, in my adult life, the hostility of this is not something that I feel day to day.

Not even in the '80s, because Miami Dade County passed a law that all government business between 1980 and 1993 had to be done in English only.

So you didn't feel that- I lived in Broward. Broward was becoming homogenized first. My Cuban friends were in Miami. I was living in Broward County, which is where the people who have fled Dade County to Fort Lauderdale make Fort Lauderdale not quite as diverse as Dade County is.

Yeah, I'm sure your dad named you Dan to help you assimilate, but he was unintentionally forced You're insightful in doing that because if you were named Gonzalo today, you would be more apt to be stopped and interrogated because of your name, because of your background, right?

I don't know what my father might be subjected to in the present age of America, it seems to be okay with state militia running around disguising the proud boys. I don't think I'm immune to that. When I see what happens to Don Lemon and whatever passes for politics these days. I don't think it's safe to speak freely, whether I was born in this country or not. I think there are dangers now. Look, this is the first year of this shit. I mean, it's the fifth year, but it's the first year of what was promised in all of the secrecy of Project 2025, or whatever the hell the name of that project is, promised, yeah, be aggressive with all this stuff, never back down, never apologize, and just trample people with, yes, Kid Rock and his agencies need to be fed because divisions need to be fed.

The other thing is Spanish speakers are in a safe haven here in South Florida. But if you're having a conversation in Spanish in a diner in Montana, you're still going to get looks because you're speaking what really is a foreign language there.

This is why I'm saying, though, I must be numb to it living in South Florida. It's just been such a common part of my upbringing that there are different people here speaking different languages, and they're all from the same struggle poverty. Thank you for being here. We're grateful to be here. Most of them are... Some of them come from money, but the struggle is real for people who are fighting in this country just to stay in this country the way that our parents did.

And Miami is a melting pot. You don't even hear Spanish all the time. You hear French, you hear Portuguese, you hear German, you hear Creole, you hear all these different languages because there's so many people coming in from all different parts of the world, and you can be walking by somebody at the mall, and they're speaking a language you've never heard of. But it's so commonplace that you don't even stop and be like, Oh, what is that? It's like, All right, I'm moving on because it's like normal.

But imagine, though. I live in a tourist center, so I'm surrounded by all sorts of languages that I don't understand. Imagine me running out in the street, Hey, speak my language, or speak one of my two languages. What is it? Play your music. I don't want to hear your cultural heritage celebrated for 13 minutes as a break while Klauserman is walking his dog because half time's a break. I can't buy- I didn't like that from Klauserman, by the way.

He should have sat there and watched that. He would have listened to if it was Bruce.

Zaz- Didn't you find it weird, by the way, that he didn't take a moment at all to go back and watch it on the internet?

Yes.

He still hasn't seen it. He's in a log cabin, he says. Plus, there was 20 minutes between the end of the half and the start of that concert. We had to get McCordy's thoughts on Will Campbell getting his ass whipped for three seconds.

I think it's the only thing McCordy said. Getting his ass whipped. Will Campbell's getting his ass kicked.

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I'm sorry.

I just He had a Med in his headset, haven't you been to all of them, too?

It sounded like you were speaking a lot. My bad. Totally on me. That's 100% on me.

Stugatz.

But that goes without saying that it couldn't have.

Well, now he said it.

He didn't say it. He said it again.

Greg, why? Greg. My apologies. Greg. Why? Greg. Yeah. Greg.

He apologized.

Greg. Sincerely.

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugatz.

The fights last night and over the last couple of days in the NBA. I know that Shaq said very recently that he couldn't name Three Pistons. That is the most physical team in the league. I'm a little bit stunned to see somebody trying to reinvent the three-point NBA with, No, we got Isaiah Stewart, and we're going to kick your ass, and we're going to be super-physical. Like, Nicks, beware, Karl-Anthony Towns is going to get super-physical when Detroit starts playing basketball, trying to take things from you. They fight with Charlotte, and Charlotte's better now. Charlotte is feisty. Sneaky decent. A sneaky decent team. Detroit won last night in Charlotte. I When I say, Isiah Stewart comes off the bench. That's going to be a big... You're not allowed to do that anymore. That right there is going to get a giant suspension for Isaiah Stewart. Sees on what Greg is saying and reacting to, and then ask him, Why is it different than hockey I've done enough race this hour. That's a point. I don't think that I should be doing any more of that. It's not political, it's race.

My favorite is Duncan Robinson during this fight. Where is he?

Just on the outskirts. Indifferent. Wildly indifferent.

At one point, in the middle of the fracas, he just turns around and rolls his eyes. He has no interest.

But look at him in the middle of that. Watch right here.

You see him pop into the screen and he's just like, Guys, you could tell with his face, he's like, Guys, come on. Look at him right there in the back. He's like, Oh, no.

He'd been to practice with Jimmy Butler before he knows. That's literally a Tuesday.

Beef stew is going to get 10 games.

Isaiah Stewart is somebody that they're not making a lot of those anymore in the NBA. A guy who will come off the bench and everyone knows there. Everyone involved there on his team and the others know, Oh, this is like Steven Jackson. This is the guy everyone knows. Once his hands come out, nobody wants any part of those. We're not doing very many of those anymore. The villains in that sport are Dylan Brooks or Draymon Green. It's mouth stuff. It's not somebody who'll come out here and kick your ass and nobody actually wants to mess with him.

I mean, he's standing on the bench. He wasn't in the game.

He's standing on the- He's got his warmup on in the video. He's got his warmup on.

He's standing on the bench, and then The altercation begins and he's just like, Oh, it's time to fight. And he runs out there.

He's like, Duncan, you got this? No. All right, I'll come out.

It wasn't like he went out there and a few seconds later, someone tried him. No, it's like, Oh, it's time to fight. And he runs out onto the floor and fights.

You guys do realize, though, that Isaiah Stuart is of a generation now. We're generation enough removed from how it is. This has been scrubbed from that sport. That guys do not come off the bench anymore because the consequences are so severe. Isaiah Stuart did not give that a thought. There was not a thought of a consequence. Nobody else is doing what Isaiah Stuart is doing there, which is like, Oh, there's a fight. Let me go get in this right now. Everyone knows Amari Stoudemire helped cost Amina Al-Hassan's Phoenix Suns, but a generation doesn't know that. Isaiah Stuart's generation doesn't actually know that... Is that right? Do I have that correct? That Malice in the Palace is so long ago now, and The NBA has so successfully scrubbed out the fighting because you couldn't have Nick's heat, Alonso Mourning and Larry Johnson. We can't have Jeff Van Gundee on the calf of Alonso Mourning anymore. This has been scrubbed out. Isaiah Stuart doesn't Actually, he knows the rules, but he might not be of a generation that understands that you cannot do that anymore because it seems like everyone else understands it.

He's 24 years old. What year was Malice in the Palace? '04. He was four years old.

That's funny, though, because everyone else knows not to react that way. Even in the middle of that fight, you don't see anybody else coming off the bench because the penalties are so stiff.

Everyone else is standing there still. He a beeline.

Time to fight. I've seen this happen four times in the last couple of days in the NBA, where there's Oh, this looks like it could be like a Scrum Scrum.

There were two fights last night.

Yeah, and there was one on Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday, Clippers Timberwolves. Guys had to be separated. And you thought, Is somebody about to throw a punch here? I like that.

I don't think, though, that in any of those games, you had an Isaiah Stewart situation where somebody was throwing caution and consequence to the wind. You cannot come off of the bench.

The league will really make an example of that guy. I'm interested. Not only the suspension, but I bet he will be fine six figures easy. Well into six figures.

I think he's going to get 10 games. And 10 games for a guy like Isaiah. Remember, that's 10 missed game checks.

That's millions of dollars.

He's going to lose a lot of money. I think he's getting 10 games.

Why does it feel different?

I'm looking here, and I don't know if it's an unsubstantiated report, but I'm looking at 25 games without pay right now. Whoa.

Where are you seeing that?

Ask Greg.

Full court.

Is it Sharms, Tarania?

No, it's full court.

Third of the season.

It feel different. Why does it feel different than hockey, Greg?

Black and white, Dan.

Yeah. Beef stew is a great nickname. He likes his beef.

It's in the in his stew.

Gabe Vincent's a Hawk? Yeah, he got traded. Good to know.

Deadline move. Yeah, the linkers waved him. Lebron says they're not a champion.

Can this be a real quote? I think this is a real quote. Can this be a real quote from Isaiah Stuart when he was asked why he came off the bench? He said, You're not expecting me to stay on the bench. The F I was drafted to Detroit for. That's a video.

No, there's a video of him walking underneath the tunnel, walking out and saying that.

The F I was drafted to Detroit. How do you feel about how you read that?

Not that good.

You had it nice. All it needed to do was be read correctly.

Yeah, the ball was on the tee.

It was right there for you. Do you want to give it another crack? I do.

Okay. Can we pretend the last minute didn't happen? You're not expecting me to stay on the bench. The FL is drafted to Detroit for.

It's a little bit of a tongue twister.

All right? Can we acknowledge?

Do you want to try it again? Because it doesn't seem like you I know there's now pressure on this, but the- I don't feel pressure. Okay, you don't feel pressure? I welcome it. All right. I thrive in it. Wow. I have very little proof of that.

You're not expecting me to stay on the bench. The F I was drafted to Detroit for.

It's a Detroit for. That's what it was.

Minor penalty, two minutes for tripping the entire show. At least I don't claim to hang out with people who ripped the crust off their pizza slice.

There's no way that is real.

He even screwed that up.

Yeah, he screwed that up.

He's going to feel that one. All sins erased on the show. Thanks, Zaz. No, that's true.

Oh, man.

He caught him off, Mike. Let's get a chair, man. He actually shouted it over his left shoulder. He's like, I got the killer. I wait till the off mic, this mount is going to get him, and he couldn't say that clearly either. He is headed to Vegas with his wife, look, Tony. Look how much- Baloney. Zaz, I don't think you understand how difficult it is to have the show Tony's Head today and to enjoy how poorly you just did.

I'm really fake.

Let's do it. Let's do it. Tony wanted it done hours ago.

Listen up.

Time to think fast. Is this a real or fake podcast? There's a reason I'm so prepared for this segment. You're welcome.

I'm not sure. It was obvious to us you were trying to speak privately and quickly to Chris and hit the wrong microphone instead told the audience, real or fake, and it had no context. I don't think the majority of the audience noticed what the nature of your mistake was, which is that you were speaking into the wrong microphone after forgetting to start the show speaking in Spanish.

Yeah, you know. Again, Zaz messed up on the way out. Who cares about what I did?

Lots of podcasts these days. Lots of podcasts hosted by celebrities and athletes. So many that you don't know what's real and what's fake anymore. So I'm going to read you some podcast. You tell me if it's a real podcast or a fake one.

It's been a great game, and I'm not good at it. And the worse I am at it, the better that it is. Greg Cody, you fancy yourself good. Greg Cody, actually, I should say, right before we get to this, actually ended that segment with his wife saying off air, I don't think of myself as a stubborn person.

I honestly don't.

Well, this one looks funnier than it sounds. It's called Friar Territory, and it's hosted by former Padres, Mike Cameron and Heath Bell. Friar Territory.

I thought you were going to say, Hosted by former Dolphin receiver, Irving Friar.

That's what I thought, too.

Yeah, but the Padres are called the Friars, and fair territory is a thing in baseball, so it looks really funny. It doesn't sound as funny. Friar Territory, Mike Cameron, Heath Bell, real or fake? That's fake.

That's got to be fake. That's got to be fake. Heath Bell didn't like the media. I mean, he was colorful, though.

Zaz, would you like to venture a guess? Would you like to turn on your mic?

Turn your microphone on.

See you, buddy. Oh, boy.

Long flight to Vegas. Two minutes for tripping the entire show. Gentlemen, that is a real podcast. In Friar Territory with Mike Cameron and Keith Bell. Soup to nuts with Dave Campbell. Soup to nuts. Campbell's soup. With Dave Campbell.

All right, do me a favor video. Find a photo of Dave Campbell for the people who do not know who Dave soup Campbell is. But the lasting image whenever anyone mentions his name that I think of is him, Radisson Pool in Bristol, Connecticut, 2: 00 in the afternoon on a Wednesday, a cigarette in one hand, and one of those tanning silver things under his chin, leathery. I don't think that's real. I don't think he's still doing this stuff.

He's 84 years old. Soup to nuts. I think it's real. Real podcast? No. You think it's real? Yeah. It is a fake podcast. I made it up. It should be real. Next one, Off the Edge with Cam Jordan.

That is not Dave Campbell, I don't think, folks. I'm going to say that's a different Dave Campbell.

But I don't doubt that it comes up when you Google Dave Campbell, basically. Football. I assume that's what happened there, but that is not Dave soup Campbell.

No, but he's holding up a football book, so he's not Dave soup Campbell.

Off the Edge with Cam Jordan, real or fake.

I'm going to say that is real. I'm going to that he likes his media, and I'm going to say that's real.

I say fake.

That is a real podcast. Next one, Ear Candy with Michael Olawa Candy. Oh, no way.

Wow. They can't look like on your mic.

I'm not sure that Michael Olawa Candy I spoke great English. Is that- Wow. Slippery slope.

My day's looking better.

I don't remember.

Is it a real or fake podcast?

Minor penalty, two minutes. Accidental racism.

I'd say real.

That is a fake podcast. Michael Olaacandy does not host a podcast that's called ear candy. Finally, say what needs to be said with Asante Samuel.

That's real.

I'm going to say fake again.

That's real. That's real. It's real.

What did I blow that? You stick in this game. I was one for five.