Transcript of Hour 3: You See That FIU Story? (feat. Jessica Smetana) New

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Be there or be square.

I added that part.

No one's saying that anymore. When's the last time anyone said be there or be square anywhere in America?

A lot of things we're losing like that. Like nobody says up up your button around the corner.

Wow, that's true, Tony. Up your nose with a rubber hose.

Up your button around the corner.

Put it on the poll at Le Batard Show. Is anyone saying be there or be square anymore? I don't think we're calling people squares anymore. I, I think square went out as an insult in about the '70s, did it not, to call somebody a square?

Trying to cancel me?

Well, it's really offensive to round people.

That's why I know it. Jessica will be here in moments, and that draft party is going to be fun. Greg Cody is preparing his exactos. He's going to be with us on Thursday night. He is resting. It's the reason that he's not here. Can you guys get for me, please, some of that wonderful sound from the Minnesota game that was played late last night? Zazz couldn't stay up for it. His tablet and he went to sleep early, and so he didn't get to see how on The road, Minnesota beats Denver at Denver. And afterward, it was interesting on a couple of fronts. First of all, the best shot-blocking guard there's ever been is Dwyane Wade. And Anthony Edwards was bothering people last night because his athleticism is astounding. So the sounds that I want to get are not just of Anthony Edwards. It's also Jaden McDaniels saying after the game, he just was basically saying we kept attacking their weak defenders. And listen to the rest of the sound because you don't hear this very much.

He's offensively nice to really get in the rhythm tonight.

Um, go out to Jokic, Jamal, all the bad defenders, Tim Hardaway, Cam Johnson, Aaron Gordon, the whole team. Like, just go at them.

They're all bad.

Yeah, they're all bad defenders.

It looked like that.

I like it.

It looked like they were. That's how they got back in the game. You saw a team in Game 2 fight Like it was Game 7. Like at least 4 people crashing the boards. DiVincenzo out-rebounding guys that are way taller than him. Effort really showed.

It's a good rival— like it's a sneaky good rivalry, Wolves and Nuggets.

This might be one of the best ones we've seen in a long time.

They've met now 3 of the last 4 postseasons. This is the rubber match, you know, if you want to do it like that. But, uh, I like it. I like when these teams hate each other. Too much hugging and kissing in the NBA.

It is a sneaky good rivalry. A lot of the games are being played late in Denver and some people are missing them, but, uh, come compared to Denver, Minnesota has underachieved. This is, this is as good a unit— look, they— Minnesota struggled for years. They had the Kevin Garnett years, and Kevin Garnett, did he make a Western Conference final?

Yeah, when they added Latrell and Sam Cassell.

So one year he made it to the Western Conference Finals as somebody who was regarded at the time as the greatest power forward playing at the time and one of the greatest that has ever existed, and then Denver wins the championship. Denver's expected to win that series. Anthony Edwards' season this year has been a disappointment. They were supposed to ascend and climb, and this is a monster, monster test in the first round. But let's listen to Anthony Edwards as he talks about blocking shots. And he says it in a way that is not customary for the face of leagues to normally say things like this in postgame press conferences.

I just be watching Dwyane Wade clips. He was beating shit at the rim, so I just be trying to beat shit at the rim. That's all. Like, people come in the rim, if Rudy ain't down there, down there, I'm trying to beat that shit. I don't care who it is. So if you come down there and you see Fever down there, I'm going up.

So you're not thinking about—

I don't give a damn. I'm trying to beat that shit.

I really don't think that there's another superstar in sports that cusses that much in press conference. I mean, he's so clearly doing it on purpose, but no one else is doing that. He is the only one who curses that much in press conferences, and no one has told him shit.

Do you, do you see him as a superstar, or do you see him as face of the league? Because we were talking about the superstar, all-star, you know, debate earlier. I think I have Ant and Wemby face of the league side instead of superstar.

But Anthony Edwards said he didn't want to be face of the league.

I know he doesn't want to be, but he is.

What are you doing there? What's the distinction you're making?

I think this is like a Shark movie being in the horror genre. This is—

he's saying there's a level above superstar.

Exactly, which is face of the league, which is Wemby and—

but they're all— when you're walking down the NBA blockbuster, they're in the superstar aisle.

They are.

How's Jokic not like face of the league because he's not American.

He's a loaf of bread of the league.

He's the arms of the league.

Wembenyama is not American.

I know, but it's different.

I would love to hear you explain how.

Because Jokic doesn't—

xenophobia. No, he's French.

He is French. Which again, why? Another piece of the puzzle.

But he—

Wemby speaks the language better. He's more of a character than Jokic is. Jokic doesn't really care about being—

Wemby thinks he's better than him.

I think, I think he does think he's better than everybody else. I think Jokic is more of a character. Than, than Wemby. And Wemby is more charismatic. But Jokic is a great character in the NBA, but we never see it. He doesn't care. Like, he— like, what, what adds to his, his character is that he only shows emotion when he's watching his horses.

That's why he's a superstar.

His arms are always bleeding.

That's why he's a superstar.

He's Tim Duncan in terms of feeling like a personality character type, but even more cartoonish because there has not ever been a player in a league who's not James Harden. Who everybody is wondering how much does he actually care.

He looks unhappy to be there. That's not something that could be said for Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan was just boring.

So boring.

Joker, it seems like he hates being there.

It makes it unlike anyone else in the league, correct? It is a funny lane. If all of these were storylines and wrestling characters, this is a funny wrestling character. The guy going 40, 15, and 12 while yawning. While in mid-yawn.

I've put Brooks Koepka in the competition, in the same category of great at a sport, but it's like, it seems like he doesn't like it.

He's like Hancock. You remember that movie with Will Smith? He just hated being all-powerful.

I like this game of athletes who are great at their sport but seem like they hate it. I'm gonna get back to you with more.

There just aren't many. Like, you're gonna, you're going to have a hard time.

Every tennis player ever.

You're gonna have a hard time finding where you find great, great excellence, profound indifference. It's, that's why it's a great character. It's It's why what Mike is saying is so that it's a unique—

it's a lane unique to him because it is even different than Duncan.

It's like, no, I'd rather be with the horses. It's like at the very— there wasn't anybody who questioned how much Duncan cared.

Yeah, I mean, no one questioned— like, Jess can probably answer this. Verstappen looks like he hates being there, but no one questions how much he cares. With Jokic, people question that. He's excellent at it. But for Sapp, it looks like he's just lamenting being around any person.

But Jokic says he cares, right? He said as much like, I care about the MVP, I care about these things, I care about being great and winning. We are just putting that on him because of the way he looks, like he's got resting indifference face.

Jessica, do you believe that Jokic has resting indifference face?

I believe that Tony tightroping the lane of describing different cultural differences with guys from Europe is a really good spot for him.

Not the question.

Doing that.

Not, not, not the question whatsoever.

Wemby fan.

Obviously it is strange that you're already out on Wembley.

Everything is perfect, Dan. Give me something. Give me some sort of flaw. Give me some sort of edge. Like, what is he doing?

This is what we were warning against. This is the one year it gets to be fun. If he, if he takes down OKC, we all get to celebrate it, and then it gets annoying.

I also hate Angel Reese.

Oh, thank you, an ally.

Can't stand her.

Mike Tomlin, we had breaking news earlier in the show. We've got some more breaking news here as we talk. Billy Donovan is gone as the Chicago Bulls coach.

Uh, makes that Todd Golden story that was reported, uh, by Yahoo Sports, uh, earlier a little bit more interesting. That if Steve Kerr leaves, Todd Golden, uh, might have the inside track at replacing him.

Really?

In Golden State. Yeah, I'm not sure how his off-court stuff will fly in the Bay Area, but there's apparently a relationship there with the, the Lakers. So Todd Golden would go, and then you got Billy Donovan.

Okay, I like that. UNC though, like UNC couldn't have waited.

You wouldn't rather have Billy Donovan?

No, UNC.

The reason why Billy Donovan is not with UNC is because UNC did not want to wait for Billy Donovan. Billy Donovan made it clear he wanted to wait till after the regular season and North Carolina wanted to move.

Look at Jessica smiling there. Todd, Golden State works.

I thought I made a good joke, but no one heard it.

Oh, Steve Kerr to the Bulls.

I got you.

Yeah. That was funny, come on.

Billy Donovan, if I put in front of him the choice North Carolina or Florida, which do you think he would choose?

Probably North Carolina. Just because he's already done it in Florida, it feels like a no-win situation, you know. I'd say North Carolina.

Because it would appeal to me to go back there if I felt like I was finishing my career. Billy Donovan, how old is he? He's another one of these guys like Quinn Snyder that is—

He's got to be early 60s, maybe 60, right?

But, but he's been a young coach for so long, or I think of him always as a young coach because he came in as a young coach, even though he's not young anymore. I'm not as sure as you are by that. Am I being an idiot when I wonder whether or not he would like the Florida job more than the North Carolina job, even though empirically, objectively, the North Carolina job is a better job?

And we've seen it before, like 20 years ago when he signed with the Orlando Magic. He liked being in Florida so much that he's like, I think I want to go back. Billy Donovan is 60 years old. So if he were actually in the playoffs, he would be older than Quinn Snyder.

Uh, Jessica, what did you make of the news that broke here that Mike Tomlin is going to NBC? I do believe he will be better than Tony Dungy at that job.

Um, I agree with that, Dan. I was— I don't know, there was one thing, Dan, that sort of like to me started the official Pittsburgh draft week, which was a video I saw this weekend of Todd Haley celebrating a win in the UFL, one of Pittsburgh's, you know, chosen sons. And the Mike Tomlin news sort of was like a nice like So here's Todd Haley. Well, it was described as— I don't know, I wouldn't call it twerking. He's like shaking his ass. But I was like, oh, they must have won the championship. No, they just won their first game. He was just really happy. So good for Todd Haley. But then this Mike Tomlin news, like, wow, this is like day 2 now of Pittsburgh Draft Week. I don't know what's going to happen on day 3. I'm really excited. Maybe we'll finally get the Aaron Rodgers I'm coming back slash I'm not coming back announcement. That would be nice to get before Thursday night.

Todd Haley coaching his second game for Columbus in the UFL. Had to coach the first one because their head coach was in jail, Ted Ginn.

Uh, there was a DUI there. I do think though, Jessica, I believe that I can say definitionally, factually, that if you put your hands on your knees and shake your ass, that is twerking.

That's popping.

We can all agree that's as close to twerking as Todd Haley's ever gonna get.

I don't know about that pineapple culture type of thing going on over here. I don't know, he doesn't— he does look different.

It I wish Greg were here. Feels like something Greg would know about. He's been on a lot of cruises.

Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Todd Haley also looks like somebody that would be chosen for a Cavaliers leaf-blowing promotion where you just blew a bunch of air in his face.

You see that guy in the crowd, you go get him.

But if you put your hands on your knees and you shake your ass—

I'm with you, Dan. He's twerking.

You're a twerking—

Not well, but he's twerking.

He's not twerking well.

Thank you for that clarification.

Oh no, it's up for me to decide.

All right, so then decide it, twerk queen.

I—

well, whoa.

Boricua.

You're talking. So there's a Puerto Rican guy in my building, to awkwardly change the subject, who whenever he sees Willow, because she's from Puerto Rico, calls her Boricua. It's very sweet. And I would have known how to pronounce that word.

Oof.

Unlike all the—

for you, Dan.

All the hot dog people in Pittsburgh.

Yeah. Were you embarrassed by your brethren there the way that they did this?

Boricua.

Someone just said in my ear, embarrassed by you, Dan, which is accurate. I don't know who said that, though.

It was Luis Fuentes.

Probably Luis isn't here today.

I don't know if he's going fast enough for twerking. That is twerking posture, but the hips are not firing the way that you'd like. He might just be throwing.

Maybe he's booty dancing.

I think we have the— we have the perfect group to break this down.

I think he's trying to cross-cunti-ski.

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There was some funny video that emerged from the Virginia Tech game that we have not gotten to this week. And I, I was funny.

Well, not funny in the moment.

This is actually exactly what I wanted to talk about, Dan. Can't— is this a funny video? Because as soon as this video was on the internet, it is of a, a guy, um, skydiving into the stadium at the Virginia Tech game. Parachuting. I don't know. Yeah, I guess parachuting. Um, James Franklin's first, first game as the head coach is a spring game, uh, People were like, oh, this is, uh, this is hilarious, this is a great indication of what, uh, how this is going to go for James Franklin and Virginia Tech. And I was like, is this guy okay? This looks horrifying. So then thankfully he was on CBS News the next day and he, he is okay. He hurt his shoulder pretty badly, but he said that right as they were going down in the, in the parachute, um, there was this big gust of wind and it started putting him like straight at the people in the stands. So he decided instead instead of landing on top of a bunch of people— he's obviously supposed to land like in the middle of the field— instead of landing on top of all the people, he tried to steer onto the practice field next to the stadium.

But then another gust of wind came and he smashed into the video board and had to get rescued. And the rescue people didn't come for another 12 minutes or so while he's just dangling there with his shoulder all jacked up. So I don't know, it was kind of scary.

Once you're okay, it's funny.

For the—

that's kind of what I'm asking.

For the audio audience, he landed on top of the jumbotron. Jumbotron, but really crashed into the top of the jumbotron and then just stayed there sort of straddling it on his stomach as the American flag draped down the side of the jumbotron. And it could have been an unmitigated disaster. He was very fortunate to only hurt his shoulder.

That's what I'm saying. He, he crashed into the video board while trying to be a hero and not crash into a group of like 20 people in the stands. So really We should make him the head coach.

He should probably be honored at halftime, right? Like of the first game, just as a hero for not destroying half the student body.

Yeah, maybe.

It reminds me of a Marlins home opener one time. A Navy SEAL jumped out of a— what are you doing, reacting to the video? A Navy SEAL jumped out of an airplane while wearing the Billy the Marlin mascot outfit. And as he jumped off, the head came off. And so in a nearby neighborhood where kids were playing, you know, frisbee-ing in from—

traumatic.

Yeah, right. I mean, can you imagine? Like, it was—

could impale somebody.

Yeah, Billy the Marlin's head.

And so, and so I thought it was funny, and I went to go interview the Navy SEAL.

Did not find it funny. Found nothing funny about that. Uh, taking it—

that would be one way to go, being impaled by a flying Billy the Marlin head.

Did they ever find the mascot head?

Yes, I went and found it.

You found it?

Yes.

Where was it?

It was on the side of the turnpike near where some kids would have been playing.

Where do you keep it now?

I went looking back for it.

Should be in the Hall of Fame.

It's in an area where people found it. Yes.

You know, that's a fun game. What's the most dangerous mascot head? Just the head. I am—

I like this.

I am an Oregon Duck truther in that I believe the Oregon Duck has purposely lost its head in the last year to go viral. And if it happens again this year, I'll be the first one.

This is Zion Williams' shoe scenario where it like, it seems like a bad thing, but really it's a good thing. Zion Williamson, when he— when the Nike shoe exploded and Chris said it was a good thing for Nike.

I said Zion Williams.

He did.

No, that's okay.

That is. That is.

Thank you, Dan. I was for a second, I was like, I feel like—

play it back.

He did. He did call it a burrito.

Rocky's mascot.

I don't know why you're attacking me. I'm just—

that's a good one.

I'm sitting here verifying facts and just trying to keep up with the general nonsense that's happening on this show.

Can you explain, you hornfrog?

Can you explain to me, Jessica, what it is that happened with the Cleveland Cavaliers and a playoff marketing motto? I don't know this story.

Yes.

Okay, so they, they deleted the post because I saw this in the middle of the night and I tried to go back this morning and find it and it's gone. So maybe this was a fever dream, but this post said, be the asterisk asterisk C asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk diff. So like, be the effing diff. I don't know, you know this whole thing about the diff, Dan? We've talked— I think we've talked about the diff before. It's short, basically The diff, the difference.

It's for those who can't count.

It's short for the difference.

You gotta have the F there.

So they've been doing this diff thing, but then they posted this tweet that was like, be the C diff. I don't know. Do you know what C diff is, Dan?

I don't.

It's like some sort of diarrhea, right?

Really?

C diff is called— it's Clostridioides difficile. It's a bacterium that causes an infection of the colon, the longest part of the large intestine. Symptoms can range from diarrhea to life-threatening damage to the colon. The bacterium is often called C. diff. So they posted be the C. diff on their Twitter and then deleted it after a bunch of people were like, yucky. And now it's gone. So maybe it was all a fever dream after all.

Why are you looking that way, Zaz?

Because that's not what they posted. Like, it's not at all what they—

I get what they're doing. They're trying to bleep the F word, but you got to have the F there. You got to give me the F. That's right. If I have the F there, I know exactly what they're saying.

Yeah, but it's not the Frieveland Cavaliers. It's the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Yeah, but make the F kind of tiny just so that we can get starting point, make it the size of that asterisk, right? And then you get the big C that's there and we understand at least what's going on. But otherwise, be the diarrhea.

Be the Carrie Underwood diff.

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Where do you have Jeremiah Love going?

I think the Probably the Commanders. I don't know.

A lot of smoke around that number 3 overall pick.

Yeah, but is it like the Cardinals actually want to take him or is it like the Cardinals are like, we want to take him, someone should trade up just in case?

Tough to tell.

Jessica, you are now a savvy veteran of this game, but when Mike Ryan asks you an important, important question like where he, where he's going, you can't have the Commanders with a question mark and say, I don't know.

You have to have a forceful opinion stronger than everyone else's on What I was gonna say, but I couldn't think of the word, was the floor is the Commanders. I think the ceiling is still number 3, whoever that team may be. But then I was about to say the ceiling is the Commanders, and then that wouldn't have made sense. And then here we are talking about North Carolina basketball again. The ceiling is the roof. Have you guys seen this FIU story, by the way, before I go?

Yeah.

What?

Oh boy.

Oh, there's one. A girl from FIU got arrested for saying Netanyahu blow up the school. I thought that's what you guys were talking about.

I, I'd like to hear about the pit bull one.

Nobody heard, nobody's heard that story.

Nobody's heard that story.

No. All right, you guys aren't watching, man.

I was definitely talking about the pit bull one.

Oh, that's old news. Dan?

Dan, you watch local news.

You're on mute.

You're watching on mute.

I'm just laughing at the fact that that just happened. Just all that— all of that just happened is what I'm laughing about. That you came in so confidently knowing the story that she was talking about, and it was pretty close to the opposite of the story you were talking about. I don't know if it's a direct opposite, but what is it that you want us to know about the way that Pitbull is feuding with FIU?

Oh, I thought you were going to ask Tony to go first.

I can confirm that this is an actual story and that now it is being alleged that FIU is a couple weeks away from a nuclear weapon.

From Channel 7, FIU student arrested for wanting Israel's Netanyahu to drop bombs on school event in arena. That happened a couple days ago.

That's a tough look. It's a good arrest. Thank you.

Agreed.

Law enforcement.

So I, uh, follow this guy David who has this newsletter called FOIA Ball, and FOIA Ball, he, he does all these FOIA requests at different public universities regarding athletics, and it's really interesting. I mean, I— people should check it out. But he did a story that was, uh, a week, a couple, maybe like a month ago actually now, because a lot has happened since, um, about how Pitbull has not fulfilled the obligations of his FIU stadium deal. And it's been now kind of— it's picked up some traction among like FIU fans and some like FIU blogs. Was reading it in one of the— I think like Panther Now blog the other night. And, um, what he's saying is that when Pitbull signed— we talked about it on the show, I think in 2024. And this is where I miss Billy so much because he probably has the inside scoop on this. But Pitbull had this big stadium naming rights deal where he's going to give money to FIU for the stadium. And then in conjunction with that, he would write an FIU anthem and post about FIU. And so in this In this blog post, David, the FOIA ball guy, was saying that he hasn't fulfilled many of the things in his contract that they said he was going to do when he signed this contract.

And in response, FIU posted a long statement about it with a little pit bull and FIU logo at the top. And then they had a pit bull dinner with the president of FIU and posted like a million pictures of it online to be like, see, everything's good here. And it's very, very silly, but still no anthem, which I think is notable.

I have a couple of follow-up questions. Put on the poll, please. Do you follow this guy, David? And also, also, I want to just know the name of that Twitter account again.

FOIA Ball.

And so that's a fireball pun.

Like, is he doing Freedom of Information Act? You're a journalist, Dan.

I would have guessed fireball pun.

Say Drewski.

See, you know, it's a good pun. I actually—

well, I thought, I thought that it was tied to the pit bull story. I thought it was a funny— I thought it was a funny part.

Just a pit bull blogger. Yeah.

Uh, thank you, Jessica. Appreciate the time. Again, check out her weekly Notre Dame podcast, The Echoes, with Mike, uh, Golick Jr. What are you making faces about?

I mean, to be fair, that story was like a month old. Obviously, us being here in FIU country and Panther world, we knew that yours was more recent. So mine was, mine was from a couple days ago, from 3 days ago.

A little newsier.

A little newsier. It was on Channel 7 was all over the local news. I figure local newsmen like you guys would know. Roy, you're always on the local news beat. You and Dorky. And you don't hear nothing about FIU.

Huh? Nope. Not at all.

He's just looking for allies. Dorothy Boyd.

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She mentioned Oregon, and we were talking about the Oregon's quarter— the quarterback coach at Oregon, uh, has, uh, some unique, uh, things to say.

This is my new favorite coach. He was talking about what he does when he's looking for a quarterback since he is the quarterback coach and recruiter And I want to play this sound here and then we can react. But I just love this guy's strategy when recruiting quarterbacks.

Like, I ask him a question like this all the time. Hey, do you like chocolate ice cream or vanilla ice cream? Okay, the minute a kid pauses, I don't really want that kid, right? Because you need to have some type of conviction— right, wrong, or indifferent. Hey, so whether you like chocolate or you like vanilla, I don't, I don't really care. But if you sit there and say, ah, Coach, I don't know, I want— is it melted? Is it not? What's the brand? So on and so forth. Like, what is this kid going to do on third down? In front of 110,000, he's probably gonna think about it more than he should. He's not gonna have conviction.

What if I say swirl? Because that's my right, that's actually what I believe.

Well, soft serve?

I would fire him today.

Today?

That's why nobody wants you as a coach. You don't know what you're talking about.

This guy's a moron.

How's he a moron? He's talking absolute truth right there.

You're not allowed to think about something for a second? Chocolate or vanilla?

You're out of here.

Fire this guy.

That'll get you sacked. That extra second will get you sacked. Thank you, Dan. That second is the difference between releasing the ball for a touchdown and fumble going the other way.

It's not the same. You know what you're supposed to do on the play. Somebody asks you, what do you want to eat? Give me half a second to think about it. You're a moron.

Swirl.

The edge is coming around. You don't have half a second.

Also, I've seen Dylan Raiola play. He's got thoughts on ice cream.

When I'm choosing what I want to eat, you can give me half a second. All right.

Whatever Patrick Mahomes likes.

Good answer.

I do think, though, that when it comes to that sport, just— this is obviously a generalization, but the coaches do prefer the non-thinkers to the thinkers, just as a general rule.

100%. Offensive coordinators want someone to just execute their offense. They don't really— unless you're elite and can get them big-time jobs because they can just ride your talent, they would much rather have— it's why Jon Gruden had like 17 quarterbacks that were all like Bruce Gradkowski and Chris Sims in Tampa. He just wanted people to execute his offense.

I would say it goes a step further than that, though. Generally speaking, again, it's just— it's not just non-thinkers on the field. They also want guys who aren't thinking about too much stuff that's interesting to them.

Unlike that woke woman.

Away from the field.

But it's the only sport like that. It's such meathead nonsense. Basketball's not like that. Hockey, baseball, it's not like that.

So he just wants a quick answer here. I'm going back to this guy and that question. If I very quickly, I'm like, I don't like ice cream. He's good with that. It's just a quick answer. I can't have any time in between the question and the answer.

Zazzle, you seem pissed off about this.

Yeah, because it's dumb, and like, I don't want dumb people working for me. Like, if he really believes that, then like, it's just— I don't want to be around dumb people.

I do love the idea of it just being like, you walk in, sit down, hey, nice, oh, your parents, nice to meet you, alright, sit down, chocolate or vanilla ice cream? And then like, based off that, he like gets up, just like, alright, I've seen enough.

That's what I'm saying.

Also depends on the day, does it not? Like, I'm—

I like time of day.

See, that's my point. You can have that opinion, but you just got to be quick with it.

Mike, do you believe, speaking of quickness, because you and Tony are going to the races this weekend, do you think that FIU story will come up at Talladega? You think that Tony— not the pit bull story, not the pit bull one.

Do you think that you and Tony will be talking about the recent developments at FIU at Talladega?

No, not whatsoever. I don't think geopolitics is gonna come up in Talladega. It's the biggest party on the NASCAR circuit. Dan, did you know that you could fit the entire state of Vermont inside of Talladega's infield?

Wow.

This applies to Delaware as well. Not both states, you got to pick one, but you could fit either inside. Yes, dude, it's massive. It's huge. Holy shit, it's huge. Let's get into Gearhead, folks. Gearhead is presented by NASCAR, our fine partners over there. Good be taking care of us over at Talladega. Tune in to the NASCAR Cup Series at Talladega this Sunday, April 26th, at 3 p.m. Eastern on Fox. Guys, Tyler Reddick, he's got a winning record. This guy is destroying the Cup Series right now. And unfortunately for our favorite driver, Denny Hamlin, bad luck strikes again. It was at Kansas Motor Speedway. Denny Hamlin always dominates at this track. And nobody has worse luck than Denny Hamlin. Ware spins out, creates a caution. We get an overtime restart, which was thrilling. I don't know what it is about this track, Dan. Every finish at Kansas seems to be legendary. But now we turn our attention to Talladega.

Will Michael Jordan be there?

Tyler Reddick is fantastic at superspeedways. But one of the storylines going into this is Denny Hamlin. Firstly, You guys know Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. He was, uh, he's a co-owner with, uh, with Denny Hamlin, co-owner who races for Joe Gibbs Racing but owns this team with Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan very happy Tyler Reddick won. You would think Denny Hamlin would have some joy over this, but no, this video came from the race over at Kansas. Look at this. Number one, look at the size of those ham hooks.

Jordan putting his hand around Hamlin's neck, joking as he walks by.

Yeah, that's Andre the Giant, Bob Eucker type. You, you Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls, very big compared to like a Denny Hamlin type. So Denny Hamlin doesn't like that, not happy with that. And on his podcast, which has gotten Denny in trouble numerous times, on his podcast he said he was talking that shit to Michael Jordan, saying that I'm gonna win this race provided nothing crazy happens. So that was Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls taunting Denny Hamlin, and Denny Hamlin not having Well, let's talk about a couple of things here, uh, very quickly.

One, the size of Michael Jordan's hand. Do you realize that what Mike Ryan just said, that with one hand it looks like Michael Jordan can get a single hand around the entire neck of Denny Hamlin, front and back? It feels like he can— his hand is big enough to palm the skull of Denny Hamlin easily, like the entirety of his head. That's, that's one thing. But when you said Denny Hamlin, uh, is unlucky, for those of you who do not know, while searching the home of his parents that had burned down, claimed his father, tragically claimed his father and injured his mother, he himself got injured while roaming around that house. Uh, he, and on top of that, he been wildly unlucky when it comes to the results, where you're not even looking at it and saying this doesn't have anything to do with his skill, this is not about choking, this is just— it's clearly this man is—

it feels a little bit cursed.

Yes, he does feel cursed. He's the Buffalo Bills in sports. While he is one of the most historic accomplished drivers in the history of motorsports, he hasn't won a Cup Series. And just last year, horrific mistake on the pit cost him, uh, the Cup Series championship in a race that he was dominating. But right now, uh, Denny Hamlin is in a full-on beef with Kyle Busch, another legendary driver that's kind of fallen on hard times, hasn't won a race in a very long time. Denny Hamlin's podcast, which is a must-listen if you're at all curious about motorsports because he is uncommonly honest and gets himself in way too much trouble because he just answers questions about the sport and other teams. Other drivers don't like it. He basically was asked, why is Kyle Busch struggling so much? And he's like, well, Kyle just can't get speed out of these Next Gen cars. He's talking that shit to Kyle Busch. Kyle Busch went on Sean Hannity's podcast. It's a thing that happens. Maybe they talked about Netanyahu some there. All right. And he's like, look, I don't know why this guy's talking about me. He's calling me washed.

You have to keep in mind, he took over for me at Joe Gibbs Racing. I was the number one at Joe Gibbs Racing. The reason why Denny Hamlin's having all this success is because I left. And he's threatening revenge. So Talladega, probably gonna be spicy. There's a superspeedway, cars are going at 190 miles per hour. That— wait till you see the bank on this track, it's massive. You, you have no idea what you're in for. And it's a great party, but it's going to be a a random race, superspeedway racing, you're always flirting with the big one. Tune in on Fox.

So the middle of the infield is Vermont.

Yes, it's a—

so I can't walk from one side to the other?

No, you need to take the trams. You can fit like 14 college football stadiums inside of it. It is just huge. Like, you have no idea what you're getting into.

Delaware, Rhode Island, walking it.

I hate those places.

Not both of them. Uh, we mentioned this earlier in the show, and I just wanted to mention it again because Pablo Torre continues to do fantastic things, bored by his own awards. Uh, here is Alex Jones going after Pablo Torre.

They haven't even had a court hearing. He's on podcasts announcing he is now the owner and they're now in control of the studios.

Where are they? I don't see them.

If you go to the X feed, you just type in Alex Jones on you, it shows the feed, and he's in a podcast today. The same Ben Collins is on a podcast and it's all over the news. New York Times, Newsweek, everywhere.

CNN.

Saying that he now owns Infowars and now is in control of these studios where I sit. This is what the left do. They try to silence you, then they misrepresent who you are. They're body snatchers, they're skinwalkers. They literally take your skin. This is going to backfire big time, folks.

The last 10 seconds, Alex Jones is shirtless for some reason.

He looks decent, looks better than I thought.

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