Transcript of Hour 2: Jason Stidham, Pablo Pascal, and a Muppet (feat. Brad Williams and Amin Elhassan)

This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stukas podcast.

Beck sets up.

Delivers downfield.

In our second, Jamal Isha and the Hoosers of Indiana are your national champions in football. We were still alive on the final drive. The hurricanes had managed to survive. Then in our own stadium, we just fell flat.

Still, it can't be denied that the U is back.

It's a bitch that we lost, but the U still back. Can't be our unit, it's a matter of fact. You can bitch all you want, we're still better than you.

And everyone but the Whoosh is from I U.

Come on, Carson.

Going deep.

Here These guys won 13 games this year. Got to a playoff for the first time in Miami history. The youth, the youth, the You're still back. Won the Cot Bowl. The You, the You, the You're still back. Won the Fiesta Bowl. The You, the You, the You're still back. They're the best thing that's happened to Miami in over two decades. Mike, you should know that I would have won back in just a few minutes all of those UM fans because the rant was going to make its return, and it was written, and it was going to slay, and now it is dead, never to be seen because an interception got thrown at the end. Brad Williams is going to be here in a second. I wanted to wonder with Greg Cody, because I think I can say this since football became popular. I don't believe there has ever been a Miami Dolphin head coaching hire with less fanfare than what it is that I saw yesterday because of the timing of it. You're talking about the biggest football game in 20, 25 years played in Miami, and the Dolphins are announcing their head coach then.

I don't think that it matters, but it is weird that you usually want the hope of, And now we got the new answer, and it just was buried yesterday.

Yeah, it wasn't voluntarily Gary. The Dolphins didn't want it that way. I was speaking with a Dolphins official in the press box last night, and what happened was, first of all, they had to fulfill the Rooney rule. They had to interview two minority candidates. Had they done that? They hadn't done it until the last one was at 4: 00 PM yesterday. They were late doing that. Before they did that, they couldn't hire anyone else.

The Hathley news came out right after that, I think, right?

Yes, exactly. And what else happened was somebody, I'm told, somebody who didn't get the job, leaked the news that it seemed like Hathley was going to get the job. So when it was then leaked to the media, then all the Schefter and all these reports come out, and then the dolphins, they have no choice but to confirm it at 8: 12 PM. In the middle of the first quarter, they're confirming. So it was a weird circumstance that forced their hand.

Oh, I didn't even- Oh, I I didn't even see that the Dolphins actually confirmed it, which would make sense because I was watching the football game.

Yeah, so were most people. It did not work out the way they wanted. Believe me, they would have liked to have announced it and introduced him later in the week, for sure.

It came off like a fart, right? Because my wife got the alert on ESPN, and she's like, Dolphins hire Jeff Haulezy. She's like, Is that a coach? I'm like, Yeah, he's a Green Bay packer's defensive... She's like, Okay, I lost interest. But everybody's asking me, Who is this guy? I'm trying to explain the nuance of, Yeah, he's a first-time head coach of defensive coordinator. The Packers' defense has been good. They got Michael Pars. But it's like, Nobody really cares.

It's loco, Dan, like you and Diana were talking about a little while ago, that the thing that seems to carry the day is who's good at PR, who's good in an interview. Belichick is not that. And more recently, Liam Cohen was a laughing stock in his introductory press conference, and so was nick Seriani a couple of years ago. So, yeah, it's loco that that would be the case. But you made the most important part, what I thought was a striking point yesterday, which is if they're going after a defensive coordinator in Miami, there's a more obvious name.

I mean, Chris Shula, to me, you hire that, you immediately create something that would have made a noise even during the Championship game.

It would have been a more popular hire. I'm not sure it would have been a better hire because we can't know how good Halfley is going to be.

We can't know, but all things being equal, as I think they are with young defensive coordinator Whizz-Kids, in terms of us not knowing how to do the analysis on the Mike McDonalds of the world before they get hired, where I only hear Mina Kimes and no one else celebrating that. As far as those things go, you absolutely win the offseason if you do the popular thing of going with the defensive coordinator who has a name that people have heard of.

Yeah. I also think it's fair to note Chris Shula has had fewer head coach interviews than Halfley. I mean, there's a reason for that. Halfley is a little bit older, I believe, a little bit more experienced at what he's doing. And there's a reason the dolphins liked him. My only hesitation with this hire is that I don't trust the dolphins. It's that nobody can know whether Halfley is going to be good or not, but you have almost 20 years of track record that the Dolphins aren't very good at hiring a head coach.

I got to meet him at ACC Media Days a few years ago. Nice. Here's my take. Certified, sweetie pie, super nice guy. Not very tall.

I don't like that. Short king. No, I need a solid walking. I need a guy about 6, 5 and a half.

You can't tell on Zoom.

Although Joe Philbin was tall.

Yeah, that's true.

Cam Cameron was as well. Yeah, he was. Sorry, Brad. Put it on the poll at Lebitard's show. Oh, shit. Is halfway certified Cutie Pie. Sweetie Pie.

Sweetie Pie. Where'd Sweetie pie.

Where did you get Cutie pie from? Transition. Sweetie pie. Speaking of short, last time, Brad Williams was on with us. What? You were mad last time. You were upset last time you were on with us.

Well, yeah, because you said, Keep it short. Now, I'm about to come on with you again to finally talk about a meaningful NFL team, an NFL team that plays football in January and into February. And then you guys are like, Oh, yeah, short guys. Don't trust them. Hate short guys. They can't coach. They can't be a leader of men. What do you know, Tony? You threw invisible footballs. That's your bona fides right there.

If I would have thrown real ones, I would have made the team, buddy.

I'm sorry. Is there not a pro athlete that you could tell that you could be better than in studio right now? No. Is there no one that can tell that you could back down? Holy God. I can't win on this show. It's just I try to come on, I try to bring a little flavor, and then you guys with the short bit. If that joke was any deader, it be related to Dan.

Brad, you have a new podcast, Jesus Christ. That's not the podcast. You're going to want to have to select the right microphone for when you're recording. Take it from an industry vet.

All right. Don't be short with him.

Again. What? Is it not picking up? It's got a green light on it. It's working. You sound tinny.

You sound like you're in a submarine where Check out Hyte and Babel.

New podcast Brad started.

I thought it was Jesus Christ. I thought the name of the podcast was Jesus Christ. That's Mark Norman's. From the way Mike Ryan described it. Jesus Christ.

I think you should have Mark Norman on the show to have him talk about sports. I think that would be better than Tony down the Miami game.

You are our Bronco's correspondent. You've finally been elevated. Congratulations on that. Stidham hasn't started a in 750 days and has started all of four games his entire life. How do you feel about the good news, bad news of you beat the bills, but now you've got a problem in it that you're not going to win the Super Bowl? There's no circumstance under which you're going to win the Super Bowl.

When the Broncos beat the bills, I immediately had to go on stage in Greenly, Colorado, and the news had not broken yet, literally, about Bo Nicks's ankle. I walk on stage in Greenly, Colorado Colorado, 1,800 people. Everyone's going crazy. Everyone's happy. And then when I got off stage, I literally had my tour manager and my opening act on the side of the stage going, You should look at your phone. And I thought someone died. I literally thought like, Oh, God, what happened? My wife? What happened? My mother? What happened? My kid? And then I get off, and it's much worse than that.

So explain to us the level of crestfallen. My guess is you probably not had something that felt exactly like that, where you've won the game against Josh Allen in dramatic and spectacular fashion, and then that is the worst news you can get, correct? There's no worse news than that.

That is the worst news. The only other way it could have been worse is if they said, Well, we've gone back, and since Bo Nicks broke his ankle, now we're going to make the Bills win so they can move on so there can be a team with a good quarterback. But I have hope in Steady. I have hope Kevin Jarrett did him. He's been in that for three years. He's been in the system for three years. He's the highest paid backup quarterback in the league. There's a reason why Sean Payton likes him. He is not Bo Nicks. Let's be honest, he is not Bo Nicks, but I believe he is a comparable backup up. And this is very similar to the 2015 Denver Broncos that won the Super Bowl, because Payton Manning had the planner fasciitis, and we had to win some games with Brock Osweiler that year to actually move on and get to the playoff. So eerily similar, defensive-centered team, not focused so much on the quarterback. So it's not great news, but I have some hope.

Put it on the poll, please. Do you believe in Stitty? Because I really am having a hard time finding a comp for what happened with Sean Payton, where he's coming at the press conference. His players have left. He doesn't want them to learn from someone other than him that Bo Nix is out, so he feels the need to have the press conference that wrecks Brad Williams night as soon as he gets off stage.

Can we have Tim Tevo do a little Mr. Miavi over Bo Nix's ankle? Just something. Give me a couple of throws. I don't know. It was truly heartbreaking. I don't have a comp for it either, Dan. I don't know anyone that's gone that high to that low that quickly.

I remember Magic Johnson one time, they made it to the finals, and he had torn his ham string, and so he couldn't play in the finals, and then they got swept. But Bo Nicks isn't that, obviously. But if you're enthusiastic about the Broncos, your chances of winning the Super Bowl are now over. You can have your hope about this weekend in a home game. You're not beating the NFC team with this is your quarterback.

Well, at minimum, Brad, I think that Jared Stitt, I'm sorry for the pessimism. If you were to win this game, I do think Jared Stitt stands as the worst starting quarterback in the Super Bowl era. And I'm, sincerely, David Woodley, the late David Woodley from LSU in Super Bowl 17, 13. Trent Dilfer is often volunteered. He's the wrong answer. Rex Grossman deserves. Caleb Haynie, the comp would be, Caleb Haynie would have had to start that Super Bowl, Super Bowl 45 against Pittsburgh. 15 or so years ago because Jay Cutler tore his knee. It would have been... Had B. J. Raji not pick sixth, Caleb Haynie towards the end of that game, it would have been Rothsberger and Company versus Caleb Haynie. Yikes. I feel deprived as a football fan, too. Drake versus Bo would have been great. That was good info, though.

I agree. He said Super Bowl 17. That call.

Not that call. Caleb Haynie. The people are fighting back.

They want me to stay.

Dave should stay.

No, he's still got to go. You can be hopeful, but But my guess is you're faking it.

I mean, we've seen this before with Jeff Hostetler. He won a Super Bowl with the Giants. We've seen it with nick Foles beating the Patriots. Nick Foles had a great tweet, by the way, about how the Patriots notoriously come up short against backup quarterbacks. So I love that by nick Foles. So we've seen it before. It wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world. But yeah, hope is not- Wait a minute.

You're good with Foles saying, Come up short, but I say it, and you get mad at me.

He's not talking to me. I'm not standing next to nick Foles, and he's holding me up like a prop. He's not doing that, Dan Levatard. You have me on your show, presumably for my great football analysis, not for my microphone, but for my great football analysis. And then you immediately go to short jokes. It's ridiculous. And we broken bread together, Dan Levatard. You coming out. You come out to Los Angeles. I met your wife. Your wife is impossibly more attractive than you. I don't understand that. I don't understand how you guys have gotten two $50 million deals from DraftKings, and she can't afford LASIK surgery. I don't get this. But at the same time, he does not have me right next to him telling me the short joke. You have me, and you go right to the short joke. Lame comedy.

Hey, Brad, does your Beanie have a horse's mane on the back?

Yes.

It is fabulous. It is fabulous. That's amazing.

I kept seeing orange hair in the back. I was like, I know he doesn't have orange hair. What's going on back there?

This is my announcement that I am part of the Brony community. I'm now joining the Brony's. You knew he didn't have orange hair, Tony? You knew that?

I knew you didn't have orange hair, buddy.

For Brad Williams' tourdates, go to bradwilliamscomedy. Com.

Zaz, my dad and myself saw his show a couple of weeks ago.

Great show.

He's also got a new podcast, Hyten Babble.

Check it out.

Good seeing you, Brad. Thank you for making the time. Always appreciate you enjoying insulting us and being inserted by us. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. Go, Broncos.

Go, Broncos. Shut them down real quick. We did shut him down because everybody wants the Broncos now to go away.

It would be a nightmare if they wanted.

Nobody wants that in the Super Bowl anymore. What do you think?

You want the Broncos to go away? You want the Patriots? You want the Patriots?

Honestly, yes.

I want a quarterback that's not Stidham.

You want Bill Will Simmons to just be talking about how this is the greatest Boston team of all time? That's fair.

He makes good points. That's fair.

That is a good point. But Stidham, guys, let's not lose the point here.

He's Rated Jr.

I'm telling you, everybody, listen up, cousin, that's what's going on.

Listen, I just want to say- What? That was my- Wild and Big, Wilson.

We got it. That was my world famous, Wilson. We got it.

I just wanted to quickly say that I think, and I don't bring this up because Brad Williams is on, I just think that was small of you, Dan, to send me off like that after what happened last night. I understand you're bitter, but small.

My guy, what is this? What is this, the trail? Is Lucy going to get me next? Lucy, do you have any short jokes?

No, the energy in here is really negative right now, and I just need...

There's a lot going on. See you later, Brad. It's always nice seeing you. Thank you for making the time, sir.

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This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugats.

Greg Cody, I have not heard enough from you today as the legendary sports columnist of the Miami Hérald after... I'm trying to think history of Miami sports, most debilitating losses, because the University of Miami now has two of these, and there's not going to ever be anything worse than you have the best roster of all time and you're losing to Ohio State, you think you've won and there are fireworks in the sky, and then there's a penalty flag on the field. That happened a couple of times last night, by the way, where there was a flag on the field all of a sudden to neuter what had been enthusiastic chasm. Your thoughts on, historically, where to put this in the history of South Florida, where we wake up this morning and you could feel a city a bit hung over, a bit sad from wanting to believe, wanting to daring to hope, and then coming up, forgive the expression, that short.

I think it's probably one of the one or two most heartbreaking defeats. And part of the reason is that UM had waited so long. Miami won his five national titles in an 18-year frame. It's been 24 years since. So that puts in perspective how long the wait has been. I think an analogy I would use is Dan Moreno's one and only Super Bowl in '84, where they got their ass kicked by San Francisco. We didn't know at the time he'd never go back to another Super Bowl, but that was crushing because Moreno was at the top of his game. He was going to be the guy who made the Dolphins a Super Bowl champion for the first time since the early '70s under Shula, and it didn't happen. And that was, at the time, very heartbreaking.

Okay, so that's an interesting comp, right? Because I do believe it would have hurt less if Miami last night had lost by four touch downs. It hurts less than that because you're right there. I know that the noise the next day would have been unpleasant. The game would have been less interesting. You wouldn't have been interested in the second half at all, and that was an all-time second half. But there's something cruel about that, right? Losing when you're that close, when there are pieces happening at the end that keep giving you this hope and you're watching the last few seconds thinking that the highest paid quarterback in the sport, somebody with seven years of experience is going to have his faculties about him, isn't going to have his ears ringing from a hit he took, a late hit that he took or an excessive hit that he took, and isn't right on the last throw of the game, according to himself by his own words.

Yeah, and if they lose a lopsided game, it's easier to rationalize the loss. It's easier to give Indiana credit. It's easier to say it wasn't our time. But the way they lost last night, that's going to haunt Mario forever, I guarantee you.

Maybe not viscerally true. In fact, retroactively, isn't the worst loss in Miami sports history, the loss in the Orange Bowl to the Patriots in front of Super Bowl 20? Moreno and company in the Orange Bowl had just beaten those bears. So on the fast track in the Superdome, it stands that they would have had a great shot at taking them down.

But it wasn't for the Championship. It wasn't for everything with a minute left. I'm really having a hard time outside of the Ohio State Fiesta Bowl, which obviously, if you've got fire... Oh, that's a good one. That was in the-J. J. Barreya. Now, granted, first round. It's first round, but it's your rival. You know the team's going to be broken up, the ball bouncing on the rim. There's a certain cruelty to the heart break by being that close. And there were so many plays yesterday that the result is an inch, a back shoulder throw that's just in bounds, a couple of third and ones. Malikai Tony, before the block punt, he got to fourth and one. He needed another yard to make that not a block punt. There were seven things in that game last night. If they go a different way, we're having a different conversation today.

And all the things worked out for Indiana, and that's been their forte all season, which is why they had one of the greatest seasons of all time. I would say, Greatest. Been doing this for 20 years. And the only other time that I felt like today, which was I don't want to go to work and talk to people and have them go at me, was when the heat loss of the Mavericks. Jj Great and them boys. Because we were so like... It was us against the world. Yeah, we were the heat show there.

But they were never really in that game 6.

You never felt it that night.

But in the series, though. D.

Wade had that shot go off the back iron there, and we blew Game 5. They were shadow boxing.

It was a shell-shocking experience, and it was super embarrassing. This wasn't so embarrassing because Miami had a great season. It wasn't embarrassing at all. No, but it hurts. It still sings. I don't want to be here.

It can sting, though, but I think I have it right when I say there's zero shame in it. I don't even know if today there is anywhere that I could tune in, even into the most negative parts of Miami, and hear people that we need to blame in situations that feel helpless, that hurt. There's usually just a great need to blame. I don't think you can fairly blame much of anything that the hurricanes did last night. You're quibbling with hair splitting. There's no shame in losing to that team that way.

I mean, we gave up a punt block for a touch on them when the opposing team was in safe coverage.

Okay, but they weren't going for a block. They had a false start on second and one when they could have won the game by quarterback, sneaking it, won the season.

Yeah, but we lost by six, and that was seven.

I think it would be cruel, literally cruel, to blame the hurricanes as the main emotion Coming out to blame Carson Beck, even. I think they had a great season, and I think that should be prioritized. If I were a Canes fan right now, I would feel really good. I would feel a trust in Mario Cristobal to work the portal again, and I would feel like the U was back. You don't have to win everything to be back. If you get to the college football player for the first time and you plow through three good teams to reach the championship- Cristobal fixed it. He fixed it.

It's the It's a second worst loss in Canes football history.

It's not going to top the Fiesta Bowl in 2002.

It's a second worst Canes loss in their football program's history.

It's worse than anything, any loss from the Marlins.

Worse than George Teague? Well, that's the other one that I would throw up there.

But yeah, I think this was worse. What about Vinnie versus Penn State? I would think that that would be one or two in the fatigue.

That one's a good one. See, that one's an excellent one. That one's excellent for all the same reasons except for in that game, everyone knew Miami was better. Jimmy Johnson knew Miami was better. Jimmy Johnson still haunted by that game because he wouldn't stop throwing the football, and it was his fault.

That's why you're sick. But that's why you're sick about it. When you're supposed to win and you don't, that, to me, seems like it would hurt much worse. That's a good one.

It's worse than any Marlins loss. It's worse than any Panthers loss.

I think it's worse than any Dolphins loss. I do.

The heat have a couple that you throw in that range, too. It ranks pretty high among our sports history.

You say, let's go in the way back, way back, Ben. Is it worse than When the Dolphins losing to Kellen Winslow senior's chargers-Was that divisional round? In the Orange Bowl, when they convert the hook and lateral and Kelen Winslow blocks a field goal, is it worse than... Do you remember? We're going back aways here.

Yeah, I was there.

Is it worse than that?

I don't think it is because that's not a championship game. See, I put the stakes of last night in a whole different category. That's why a first round heat playoff loss that you alluded to earlier, I don't put in that category. Last night was for everything. Last night was for history. To be that close and denied, I think, is a whole different level than anything that proceeds it.

If it matters, Dan, the Dolphins lose in Cincinnati in the freezer bowl, same as the Pretty Boys from SoCal, the Chargers did the following week against Ken Anderson and company. Was it the divisional round that Dolphins lost that game? It was. It was in that crazy year, strike the strike year where you had the Super Playoffs or whatever they called them. Very strange, but entertaining.

Yeah, that was the Woodley Super Bowl.

That's right. A. J. Dewey.

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There is, actually.

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It's time now for Amin's Weekend Observations.

It is time for Amin to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my voice. Amin.

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Hard times, Daddy.

I know.

Who could have predicted it would be a busy show yesterday? I I wonder if we could have saw this coming from, oh, maybe more than 20 minutes before I was supposed to go on.

Do you have the right microphone selected? I don't know. Happy MLK day.

Happy MLK day indeed. Now, Jeremy's got me in my feelings. Is my microphone selected?

You sound better right now. You sound a little bit better. Not much. Dave, we'll have to come back on this super playoff. All right, here we go. Oh, that's much better. That's much better. So clean.

Dan, full disclosure. I watched nothing but NBA basketball all night until halftime of Heat versus Warriors. Then I flipped on the Canes game just in time to see the game ceiling drive. Chris Cody. How close were we to the prophecy? Canes down six. Marching down the field less than a minute ago. I sat there saying, Holy shit, it's going to happen. They're going to score to tie the game, and Mario is going to go for two.

Roy would have said that. So close.

This is all Dan's fault. Bronco's Bills. A thriller. How about that Mims Junior catch? You guys didn't even talk about that yesterday. Now he knows what housewives and girlfriends all over the world feel when they roll over and get poked in the back. Mims, this is why I'm hot. Zaz looks like a line cook at a Waffle Waffle House in the Redlands. That joke was from yesterday.

That's pretty good.

Bandana.

That's great.

A mean spin down on the Redlands?

Yeah, the Redlands. Specific Waffle House. You don't get this in Metro Miami. Josh Allen, channeling his inner Patrick Mahomes with that scoop throw under pressure. Now all he needs is an annoying wife and an even more annoying brother, and he will have come for all of Mahomes' stuff. Well, in a Super Bowl, I guess. Nothing says NFL playoffs like Jason Statham. Stittam. No, Jason Statham. I don't know if you saw the intros. Jason Statham was doing intros.

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Misconnection. You are the guy in all white who locked the eyes with me. I was Carson Beck with 44 seconds to go. Niners. Should have forfeited immediately after the Shahid kickoff return for a shutdown. Wasted everybody's time. Congrats to the NFL in coming out and taking a stance for genocide. Eagerly awaiting their Pay the Teachers, Even Less campaign. You guys see that? They fined my boy because he had to stop genocide on his face? That's a finable offense. Stopping genocide.

Personal message.

Dave Damosheck was born a Muppet. Afcon is over.

What in hell? What the hell? What the hell just happened here?

What games? What games? Tell me he's not a Muppet. The way he talks, the way he moves around, the voice.

What's going on here? Let me see your eyes. I get on an airplane and fly across this country to have a nice conversation with people who I thought were enjoyable, and now this.

Hey, Lucy. Hey. Afcon is over. Going to miss my dad screaming at people to pass the ball. Congrats to Senegal. Big time win on hostile ground. I don't know if you guys saw this, a lot of shenanigans going on in Morocco. Sadio Mane, class act. Rip to Danny Benavante. Very funny local who passed away recently. You will be missed. Actor, activist filmmaker, Jesse Williams, has a new documentary on Hulu about how Dr. Martin Luther King was an avid basketball player. He's out there getting buckets with a shirt and tie on wearing hard box. Now I want AI to simulate a massive one-on-one tournament of historical figures. Can you imagine MLK crossing up Trump?

Oh, Abe Lincoln would be great in the post.

Oh, yeah, especially with that hat.

How about Obama hitting Fidel Castro with the step back? Then he finds Bernie Sanders on the wing for the wetter. Tony, would you play against MLK one-on-one?

Five, seven. I mean, I'm dominating MLK in the post. Sorry to say that after MLK did, but I'm just saying. He made me a foot taller, almost.

Ja Morant, 24 and 13 in London. Greatest infomercial possible. Shout out to Jerry from the Tire Shop at my local Costco. You're a real one.

Yeah.

Tonight's a big game. You guys know how I know tonight's a big game?

How's that?

Because master Tisfazione is in studio. Oh, wait, that's from yesterday also. Sorry. Some of these are pre-arranged. Where's the new material? New material. Here we go. Shout out to the cameraman who put a Bell of Danger on the screen in the middle of the fourth quarter comeback. No doubt a discerning gentleman who's a fan of great titles like pure taboo, Kink University, and Anal Destruction 4. Anyone a fan of Lesbian Hospital Affairs? That's a good one, too. Who is she? Yeah, who is she?

I don't know who Zaz was asking this morning.

Who is she?

Greg. Cinephobe episode 296, Dead Man On Campus, starring Mark Paul Gossler, a. K. A. Zack Morris from Saved By The Bell. There she is. Who is that? Allison Hanigan, a. K. A. One Time In Band Camp from American Pie. A young Jason Siegel, miscast as a jock with an anger problem. Did you guys have that rumor in college that if your roommate dies or commit suicide, you get a 4. 0? No?

I'm sorry, I was laughing because Greg Cody just said at the mic, After Chris told him who that was. What just happened there was my own private show.

The star of lesbian and hospital affairs.

I'm an innocent.

Keep up. Anyone delighted that Jimmy Butler towards ACL is going straight to hell?

I thought you looked. Yeah, Mike Ryan.

You, not me.

Speaking of hell, Art Bryals, those are the weekend observations.

Going to hell. I've been in hell.

Thank you, Amine. Nice seeing you. I'm sorry that we did the poor planning thing and inserted you yesterday.

I was inserted today, minutes ago, even.

Pablo Pascal, as a Muppet, is with us here in the corner. Kermit.

Who's Pablo Pascal?

Pedro, excuse me. Football America. Football America- Statham thing threw me. Is Monday and Friday. This Super Playoffs that you were speaking of before confused a whole lot of people here. I don't know what the Super Playoff- There was a strike in '82, and so they expanded the playoffs to eight teams, a conference, which was wild stuff.

So So just looking at the game, I'm sure you don't care about the match.

So it's just what we have now, basically.

They call it the Super Bowl. They called it the Super Bowl tournament. I don't know why they attached that name to it, but they did.

Does Greg Cody have any recollection of this as our local historian? We had a few instances on our recent episode where Dave was in, and Dave just goes into the old, You remember this Miami game?

And my dad is just nodding along, and you can tell that he's not really following the specifics. Well, for you guys, noteworthy is that the Dolphins got the rematch against the Chargers after the Orange Bowl, the battle of the Bavarian kickers. Uwe von Schamen losing out to Rolf Banerska in '81, but in '82, you guys house him. He's making this up, right?

No.

In '82, there was a strike. They had replacement players for much of the season. It was an eight-game season. The Dolphins' replacement quarterback was a guy named Kyle Mackey, and somehow they wound up going to the Super Bowl after an eight-game regular season.

Well, I'll tell you what I want. I think he had five career interceptions. A. J. Dewey had three in the rainstorm off of Dick Todd's right arm. That's right.

I think that was a 14-nothing win over the Jets.

It's Richard Todd. No one called him Dick Todd But also- I just did show. I did. I did. Lewis, do me the favor, please, of just putting up before the end of the segment here, Rolf Banershka, because he just mentioned Uwe von Schamen against Rolf Banershka. The best fact that I've got for you on Rolf Banershka, who later went on to host Wheel of Fortune.

What? You beat me through it, Dan. I'm not kidding.

I got a camera on Louis trying to spell Banershka.

He's like, I can see his mouth.

Banershka. Five seconds. Was Sajak on strike? How did Ralph Banerska become Wheel of Fortune host?

He outdid Aaron Rodgers. Aaron. Yeah.

Wow.

Hast du den gesehen?

Ey, das ist ja der absolute Wahnsin.

Einfach nur perfekt. Nice. Manchmal merkt man sofort, dass es passt.

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