Transcript of Local Hour: Bigger. Bigger! BIGGER!!! (feat. Mike Ryan)

So yesterday, professional critic Mike Ryan explained how it is that I don't do The Shadow Show well enough for his liking on whatever his visions were once upon a time for a Shadow Show.

Starting low again.

The thing that I always wanted The Shadow Show to be is like a private meeting we were having amongst ourselves that the audience could overhear how we actually interact as if we didn't know the microphones were on. That was the original intent of what The Shadow Show was supposed to be.

Lasted all of about a week.

That's how we talk to each other off air. We whisper. No. The way I imagined it is the following. You laugh, Roy. Because it's funny. Roy, but I'm very frustrated, okay? Because I'm going to let the audience in on what was the private meeting, which was the private meeting was just me sitting in the middle of the room, squatting, and then rising up my palms and just asking everybody in the room, Bigger. The game needs to be bigger. Then we fart out that intro yesterday. I'm like, No, bigger, bigger. What do you guys not understand about we've been waiting for this football game for 20 years in this town, pro or amateur? Biger. Everyone's looking at me. We're tired, Dan. The muffins are good. We don't want bigger. We just want to eat and watch the game. I'm like, Let's do a live stream. Let's do 24 hours straight like freedom, bigger. Everyone's like, Dan, I've got kids. We got practice.

You were muffins yesterday?

I want to do 24 straight hours leading to this game. Blueberry. Too late. I wanted to. Mike Ryan does, too. He's snorting the West Coast right now. Mike Ryan is... Do you guys understand? He said earlier this week with no self-awareness whatsoever, he's like, You guys think I care about UM football? Mario Cristobal cares more. That's a thing he said. I sure would hope so. Now he's running around telling everyone, Mario Cristobal, that meathead is a genius.

Well, have you seen his offensive line play?

He's the modern... He's in the- You don't watch the games, Dan. He's in the cult. That's right. If you watch the games, what do you mean if I watch the games? I'm watching all the games just like you are. Not for my box, you're not, Dan. Not moving and shaking with the UM women's basketball team fundraising Golden Cane. He's everything the country hates about Miami. It's a damn nice box he has, though.

Sure is. You guys been?

Me and Roy went once.

We got the invite for the Stanford game.

I genuinely don't know if there's anything that would make Mike Ryan happier, and he loved the Panthers winning, then the University of Miami winning this championship.

We got to talk about that. That's the best thing for the show, right? It's for them to make it to the championship game, but then to get absolutely violated. From a content standpoint.

By Indiana.

That's what we're waiting for.

How did that happen? The best story, yes, is Indiana dragging them like they did Alabama in the final.

I came back after our two-week break.

Actually, for the first time in a really long time, ready to root for Miami. I was like, You know what? It's cool for the show. It's the local story.

I care about Miami teams in general.

Mike broke that. Within about two hours of the show, I was like, Fuck that team.

Two hours? First segment.

Fake Break Him Show. Fake Break Room Show. Let's go. Fake Break Room Show. Fake Break Him Show. Biggest game in 20 years.

Mass kicks ass.

How does it rub you?

We put belt to air.

It rubs me beyond the wrong way. Fake Break Him Show. You think that your family would get a lot of joy from Milwaukee. So did we. Head to head. It's good.

Hello. Just having fun, man. And boom goes the Dynamite. Fake break, have a show.

Yeah. I'm not letting that story mess with My Glory, talking about how long, damn it, how long. History is gone. We are right here, right now.

And every team they thought was going to beat us is taking their ass home. Sorry. We're going to keep doing it until we land back home in our stadium for the national championship?

Bulk to hand. Bigger. Bigger. Bigger The biggest game in 20 years. This means more to Mike Ryan than any sports thing ever. I have to imagine even the Panthers winning multiple championships. I believe Mike Ryan, who's flown across the country, to be closer to the fiesta, I believe Mike Ryan would be made happier by the Miami Huracanes winning this football game and the next one than he would by any sports thing that's ever happened in Miami. Miami heat included, everything included. I believe he cares more about this than anything. I need this to be a bigger fake pregame show. I'm challenging this company right now to do freedom all over again right now today. What? 24 straight hours. Let's just go straight through right now, beginning today. Fake pregame show right up until the game, challenging Metalark Media live the entire way. Let's go. Right up until the game, and then watch the game together, and then go home for the night because Miami is going to play the next biggest game in 20 years, a pro or college in this town. The football games are the biggest. Miami wins championships in soccer. South Florida wins championships in hockey, plural.

This is the biggest thing. Football is the biggest thing, and in 20 years, they have not mattered. Either team, not really, not like this. This is the biggest thing. Is Metalark Media going to rise to the moment? Because I'm in the meeting before the show. Bigger. Rise to the moment. Michael Irvaniji saying, Built to ask to all of you. All of you are like, I got to go take care of the kids. And then Zaz is like, I got to go to the Beach Bowl. I'm like, What? I'm like, No, livestream. Let's go. 24 straight hours. Freedom. Isn't this why we do this? We've been waiting 20 years. They win championships in South Florida. Plural. Soccer, hockey, and here it is, the biggest thing before the next biggest thing. You got me hype, Dan. No, but it's the time. You got me high. I'm ready to flip the table. Michael Irvin has been asking, It's the time right now. You don't get these chances. Miami has been waiting 20 years for this chance again. And tonight, they're favored. And I want to do right up until the game. Jeremy, make another open. Bigger. I'll make it bigger.

Bigger.

Debarkled it.

Mike Ryan has already landed at the Fiesta Bowl. I don't know what his festivities planned. I don't want to speak for him here, even though I did. This is bigger by how many miles on any championship that you care about?

This is the biggest. You were right. The Panthers, for personal reasons, was big, full circle, because that was my first job in sports. But this one, there isn't a passion that matches this. The only thing that comes close to this was my former love for the Cleveland Browns. That would have meant a lot, but I just took that passion for the Cleveland Browns, and I doubled up on my Hurricane's passion, put my money behind it, too. So, yeah, this is the biggest thing ever for me.

Whose grandma's house are you at?

You know better than anybody. This is an Arizona ass house right now.

It's an Abuela house.

You just said, put my money behind it. Now, you're somebody, wherever it is that you connect with these teams, spiritually, you bailed on Inter Miami because they gouged you. Financially, they were ripping you off, and so your emotional investment was lost somewhere in there because you cared about everything that was happening there. You've actually invested your money and your heart in what it is you're doing. There aren't a whole lot of people, Mike, traveling with the team.

Right. Well, I mean, the people that care, it's hard. It's expensive. That's what I've learned about the college football playoff is if you make it, it's expensive. And I just diverted those Inter-Miami funds to Miami Hurricanes Athletics because I wanted to be here one day, and we're here. I got to be honest, Dan, it feels a little surreal. Especially after losing to SMU. I definitely didn't think that it was going to happen this year and to be going down this run. It's very like, pinch me the entire time. Yesterday, I didn't really get to soak in the environment because of everything that was going on. It was like a crappy day. But today, I'm going to get fired up for it. I'm really happy that Miami's made it to this moment. It's pretty validating.

Acceptance speech right here. It was. Andy said, crappy day while in the middle of, yeah, okay, we're now doing the shooting white women in the face in Minneapolis thing.

Yeah, if I could, if I may for a second, because that's ruined everything for me. I'm around this country, and I know no Miami Hurricane fan wants to hear this. If they don't want to play this game today, I'm okay with it. Sports, the world paused during the George Floyd thing. And in Minnesota, we all saw a video of an American citizen getting shot multiple times in the face for moving their car, and our government is lying to us about it. And if this isn't a tipping point for all of us to stop what we're doing, I don't know what is. We cannot let this be okay. We cannot let life go on and not address what's happening right now. What happened last night was the sum of a lot of fears when we were talking with all this rhetoric about the previous election, and we're here. And things are happening so quickly that I think we're all struggling to to stop it because there's something crazy and new every day, this we cannot let happen. And I would really prefer if sports took the moment to acknowledge that like it has before. And even if it's just to rip the games away from you and force you to look at this and what's going on, do it, I would say.

I don't know why that conversation has been absent from the sporting conversation. I don't know what we're doing right now. Things are moving too fast, I guess. But last night was one of the worst days in American history, I think, and we need to talk about it like that.

I am curious, as I do ask us to go legitimately now. I'm not joking when I say I want to be live here for a while, going up to this game tonight because I'd like to enjoy ourselves during perilous times, during times that we've been doing the song and dance every day around here, pretending that it's just about sports, just about sports, while ignoring some things that feel like beyond infringements on democracy, where you're just got a senile old orange turd talking about oil, oil, oil, and not democracy while bombing Venezuela and making a whole lot of people in a section of Miami really happy because, yes, Maduro is down, and that's lovely. That feels like communism falling, and it feels like America being right. But there's nothing going on right now with this country when the ICE agents and the military state police are sitting there shooting even white women from Minneapolis in the face. When this happened in Minnesota five years ago, we did protest in the streets because of a race thing. This is a white woman shot in the face. That's where we are on this. I also want to cover both things at the same time, though, Mike, because as David Samson goes through something very difficult, and you sat in for an hour today on nothing personal, did you talk about this?

No, no. We were talking about the Mon Williams and the transfer portal, which I was actually welcoming of that conversation, too. The Miami Hurricanes are proving to be one hell of a distraction, as you described a lot of the events that happened. And I think our show and the audience would note this, too. We stepped away from talking in about this, because I think we all collectively saw the value in being a welcome distraction and bringing levity back. I think our show, probably too much over the course of the previous years, tried to buck against what was happening, and it was a sacrifice for our show. And I think to a degree, we paid somewhat of a price. And we've had these conversations before the show, like, how do we want to talk about this? Do we want to be the bright spot in people's day? I think to a very large degree, Dan, we've done the right thing. We've tried to make people happy and make them laugh. But you see that video last night, and you see the disgusting statements from the people in our government that are supporting the actions of that ICE agent, this fake police that is not doing what-Not qualified.

We did it with fake news. Fake police, people who are not qualified to be shooting anybody in the face. They're not qualified to have those jobs.

I've never seen a group of people that are so welcoming and unwelcome to be lied to directly to their face. None of the stuff that's happening right now was what was on the platform of what they voted for. These are not violent criminals that were chasing down. There wasn't an invasion of Venezuela that was on the platform. How many times you have to pivot? Are you not embarrassed? There is a tipping point. And if it's not a woman trying to move her car away from a fake police, an unqualified fake police, and getting shot in the face three times for it, and then having everyone in politics on that side of the aisle gaslight you and telling you what you saw is not right, and that the victim here is the person doing the shooting, when are you going to face reality? This is a moment in time that I hope that all people meet. It's not on sports. I know I opened up with that. Sports is just a part of it. If people want to make a statement, I don't think this is a political statement. I think this is an American statement.

I think that people should take the opportunity to take a stand right now and say this is not right. That's all I can do. I can't go to Minneapolis right now and protest. But I have protested in Miami, and I have made my voice heard when I was fearful of something like this happening, something like this just happened. I do think that we need to take to the streets. I do think that we need to make statements. I do think that anybody with a platform should speak on it. And I do agree that there are times for levity, and there's time for laughter, and there's times for transfer portal, and there's times for the verbo fiestible. Maybe we can do all those things at the same time. But now is absolutely a time to use your microphone and say this is not right.

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They're just making excuses for this government. Okay. Well, so this is... Okay.

Yes. I'm sorry, this is not the CBS. No, no.

No, no. Cbs, of course. Look, I've been wanting to talk about this stuff for a while, and I felt a bit cowardly in not talking about some of it because this is a hugely interesting time in media. It's collapsing. Hollywood is collapsing, and mainstream media has already collapsed. It's already done collapsed, and now they're picking up the pieces. And of course, CBS, home to 60 Minutes, one of the great journalistic empires, is afraid of the Mad King, like run by the Mad King, and that's one network gone as he chases Kim and bombs Venezuela because there's a loon in charge, a loon that has a million deficiency, including trying to cover up an alleged pedophilia scandal that is in the middle of everything that we're doing. As the world burns and brown people are jailed and now white women are shot in the face by fake police. Yes, it's enraging. But the Fiesta Bowl tonight.

It's a huge game. 20 years. Yeah, big game. Yeah, boy. Look, I don't think there's many things that could lift my spirits, but lifting up that Burbo Fiesta Bowl trophy might help matters.

I'm not kidding you when I say I want the stunt of, this is what just happened in the meetings before the show, where I have to agree to livestream the national championship game, whether or not Miami's in it. And I'm like, no, I'd only like to do it if Miami's in it. I don't really want to do it the other way. And they're like, No, you got to commit to it now. And so if Miami loses tonight, I get the pleasure of being able to livestream a game I don't even want to watch.

Mike, how do you feel about We talked about it right before you came on.

I think collectively, we're all rooting for Miami to win and then get their ass handed to them in the national championship game for the sake of the show, for the sake of content. What? No. No, that's the best-No. Yes.

I'm sorry, Amin. Has the show, over the course of its 20 plus years, not had enough of Miami sadness? Do you think that we need yet another heartbreaking loss? I think there's been a pretty consistent theme throughout the history of the Dan Levitard show with Stu Gats, and that's Miami Me and its fans and Mike are sad. They're pathetic. I think 21 years in, we can finally have a happy ending.

I think that's what's best for the show. I don't want to put this out there, but if we're just talking funiest thing for the show, it's like a Mario Blunder at the end of the championship.

Funiest thing for the show. Even better than get the has it. No, I like that.

You're not going to do better than that. He doesn't kneel at the end or something. I'll show you guys. I'll keep running up the score through the face mask of the other team.

He'll go for two, and one will do.

I'll show you what toughness is, and you cost you the champion, too.

Rest assured, I'll get the most enjoyment out of Dan hosting a corporate-sponsored livestream for Oregon, Ole Miss.

That's what I'll- That's what I'll- Listen, boys. No, with my father. Mike's been saying for years, my father's going to be the casino greeter right over there near the Freedom Towers because they're building the Trump library right here. My father at the end is just going to be welcoming people into the Freedom Tower for a token so he can go get some government cheese.

Guys, please don't treat Mike like he did me when the Panthers were off doing nothing on Edmonton. That was not fun.

Don't do that to me. But, Roy, it's a different strain of pain, right? He's right. We've celebrated the sadness of the pain for 20, but this one would be, Oh, this is a rarity.

They never really get this close, right? So close. No. Best four show content everyone gets to laugh at us is, No one will do better in their imagination than a Mario Cristobal coaching blunder at the end. There's nothing funnier than that. They haven't had that?

They haven't They've had that? They've had plenty of that.

No. They've had the one that they're talking about. There would be nothing funnier than them about to beat Indiana undefeated. You give me the funnier than them about- You suck.

I thought you met this moment with the right energy at the start. You're a Canes guy. Can we be happy? Can we have happiness? I'm not even just talking about the Miami Hurricanes and its relationship with the show. Can we have some happiness, period? Let me be happy.

So Yes, I will let you be happy now by pointing out again and again as you make an acceptance speech.

It was a validation speech.

You care about this in a way. When you're saying you are putting your money where your mouth is. Almost as much as Mario. And the N-I-L money and the business of it, you've become an insider on journalism stuff and sports stuff. And one of the interesting analysises of this game that I would say is the greatest advantage Miami has, I don't think there's a better than the one I'm about to say. I think Georgia in pass rush was like 120 something in sac rate, and they were bothering Chamblist. Miami 7, and it's the best advantage that Miami has on the field. It's the best advantage either one of these teams has, although Miami's running game against their inability to stop the run is also a secondary advantage. But Miami should win this game based on its advantages and will only lose it if they turn the ball over.

Yeah, Miami Miami should win this game. We had a pretty contentious discussion about it yesterday. I agree, Ole Miss does things that can bother Miami. I'm curious to see the matchup. I do think Miami's offense will be challenged to respond. They haven't trailed in these games, and I think that they'll have to rise to the occasion. But also, as I noted, Miami's played plenty of tempo this year. I'm pretty sure Julian Sayan thought he got that ball out pretty quick as he was watching Keante Scott run the other way with it. Miami can press you at the line of scrimage and those receivers. Miami can really nuke a lot of what Ole Miss does well. And while the coaching thing that Ole Miss has done has been incredibly impressive, it's one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. I can't tell if Philip Rivers playing football or Ole Miss's coaching staff navigating this Lane Kiffin thing is more impressive. But people need to realize in the college football playoff, they played Tulane and Georgia. Those are two teams already played in the season. They just had to microwave their game plan. They haven't seen anything like Miami, and they're going to find out today.

Mike, how different would you feel had Lane Kiffin not left Ole Miss if he was the head coach right now?

I can't lie, this situation helps Miami. I don't know how these coaches are navigating it, especially with the portal being open and having to worry about talent retention. You have quality control coaches that have never been in this situation, having to step up and coach position groups. I don't know everything that goes into coaching, but I have an idea of game day preparation, and I know what our side is doing. I know what our coordinators are doing.

Wait a minute. That's a happen to know. I know. He gave it as an I know, but that's a happen to know. That's even stronger than happen to know. Oh, my God.

He knows.

He happens to know.

Come, everyone.

Come and listen. He happens to know. He happens to know. Well informed. What do you know, wise Golden Cane? What do you know?

I know that our coaches have way more time to prepare for this game now. I don't know how much that helps. This is pathetic to say, and it really speaks to how many-I thought you knew.

I thought you just knew.

You said-No, I do know about the time that our coaches are dedicating to this and how it's impossible for Ole Miss to dedicate that same amount of time when they're flying back and forth to Baton Rouge. Well informed. That part is obvious. It's pathetic to say I haven't been around college football at this level in my lifetime as an adult, so I don't know how to read vibes. I thought Miami had a really good vibe and a really good intensity and a really good focus when I was around the coaches and the players over the last two college football playoff games. Hit the button.

What are you laughing about? What? Look at me, Louis. It was a look at me, Lou.

Of course.

Look at me, Lou. Why? Because he knows?

No, because when I was around the players and the coaches over the last couple of-No, Miami's got...

Miami's dialed. But I look at the other end, I look at the... The Ole Miss coaches put out a video of them playing baseball in one of the meeting rooms, and I don't even know if they have enough coaches to feel the baseball team. These guys are loose, but I guess I'll just play the result. If Ole Miss wins this game, I'll be like, They were just incredibly loose. That's a house money. They were We're unburdened by everything. But these people look awfully happy to be here, and they're not giving off respect the opponent nearly as much as Ohio State and Texas A&M did.

Oh, are you demanding respect for Mississippi as an opponent?

No, I'm not demanding respect. We will take it.

What is happening here? So wait a minute. What you're saying is the Texas A&M- If they play the game. Hold on. If they play the game, which I'm not so sure they should. No, I believe you said they shouldn't.

They probably We probably shouldn't be on the air right now. I shouldn't be doing anything. I should be home with my family and probably stocking up on canned goods.

And we should be broadcasting live from what is still a live free media center as CBS gets bought. Yes, in a little bunker. We laughed. That's not funny, Roy. No, this is funny, Roy. This is funny. We're in a bunker and we're going to have one of the few free microphones out there in four weeks when the fake cops start shooting other people. They're shooting the white women in the face. In Minnesota, it's a fake police. You can't have fake police. You can't shout, Fake news, fake news, fake news, fake news, while we're in the streets with George Floyd, Fake news, fake news, fake news, fake news. And that's a race protest. And then have this, what you have happening right now in America, which is not overstated to say the propaganda of the networks that are bought and paid for by this orange person and his powers that can't be taken away, that the country is under attack now when the white women in Minnesota are being shot in the face by fake police that aren't police that are only police because the white President who's senile and crazy and getting his crazy people crazier is saying, Brown people are the problem.

Get all the brown out of the country. Kill the black, get the brown out of it. Get it all out of here.

Yeah, I think the vice president yesterday said, America has a Somali problem. Look, let me try to focus. I know that a lot of what Dan said, if you're on the other side, you might view as toxic. All right, let's just look at this from the facts. We all saw that video. It ain't right. That was an American. That wasn't some violent criminal that crossed our border that you believed ICE was here to stop. That's not what was positioned. We all know over the last few months, that's not what they're doing. We've all seen the videos. You can politicize that. I think yesterday, we can all agree, maybe with the exception of Stephen A. Smith. That was wrong. That was really wrong. And what we think we are as Americans, if we want to honor anything that that flag is supposed to represent, we all got to unify and say, this has to stop. This is not right. And I'm not even talking about the act. I'm talking about how people are talking about it afterwards, saying that it's okay, gaslighting you, lying to your face about what you saw with your very own eyes.

That's That is wrong. Shooting someone in the face that shouldn't have been shot in the face absolutely is wrong. But for nobody to actually conduct an investigation, put the blame on this innocent murder victim and tell you that they were a domestic terrorists. Fuck that. Straight up. Everybody needs to come together and say, No, that is not okay. People need to lose jobs. People need to be held accountable. People need to say it's not right. Draftkings Sportsbook, the number one sportsbook for live betting, is turning up the stakes this NFL playoffs. Every Sunday, every DraftKings customer has a shot at over $2.

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No, I mean, this There's a level of... I'm listening to you guys talking, there's a level of almost like naivete I'm hearing from you guys. Now you think it's been happening. This has been happening not by fake police, but by real police. To citizens, but citizens that aren't white women. But now it's like, Oh, my God. I'm like, yeah. Every time you push an inch of a limit and no one reacts and no one pushes back and no one really stands in solidarity, they're like, okay, we can say that it's gone too far. This is what happens. And so this is the next logical evolution, which is people who aren't even ordained or law enforcement officers are allowed to do these things in the name of the great dictator. Hey, maybe we could change the Constitution. We'll run a third term. Hey, maybe we can invade a country, regardless of how bad it is over there, without any congressional approval. There's a whole list of things you have to do before you can declare war on a country. Before you say, Oh, it wasn't declared war. We're arresting him for drug trafficking. Well, then why did the president say, We're going to run Venezuela?

At that moment, you have just Just announced, We annex the country. We...

Military operation. Or pardoning Honduras for an assortment of similar faith.

The hypocrisy aside, I'm just saying when you do a military action in a foreign land, saying it's under the auspices of law enforcement because this guy's a drug trafficker. Then you announced the successful operation was saying, We're going to run Venezuela. Ladies and gentlemen, that's not law enforcement. That is imperialism.

And for oil. It said flatly, no oil. It said several times, We're doing this for Venezuela's oil, never mentioning democracy.

Secretary of State says, We're going to set up an account and we're going to sell the Venezuelan oil and we're going to get the money, and then we'll pay Venezuela to help them. Guys, I don't understand. If we just call it the East India Tea Company or whatever, maybe it'll be a little bit more imperialistic, but it is imperialism. But all of this is complicit because for years and years, and this is why I say it's not a partisan thing. There's always been parties, and for the last however many years, Republicans and Democrats, and they're at each other's necks or whatever. But there was a process in a decorum, which this is done. Decorum just in terms of, hey, how we speak to each other. Process in terms of, there were rules that we're all following.

No, polite Polite Society is dead. Forget polite society.

There were rules. Polite Society. Polite Society is the unwritten rules that we all follow. You don't say, Fuck around and find out on national TV because it makes you seem like a big tough guy. That's just not appropriate. But besides that, there are rules to how this stuff gets done. Constitutional rules written years ago by the framers because they envisioned the world where the leader of this country could just do whatever the hell they wanted, and they didn't want that. What we We have now is this because it has been complicit. Everyone's complicit with it. Yeah, go along with it. Yeah, I know. He's on our side, so who cares? The number of people I got to hear about, Oh, Venezuela is so bad. Yeah, I didn't give a damn about no Venezuela. You didn't care. Now you care?

To Amin's point, think of it in sports terms. You have a winless team. Everybody wants to coach out. There isn't brand loyalists that say, No, this This is what I wanted. People in sports have the awareness of, Well, our plan didn't work out, and we must change it. A lot of what's going on right now, not just a Venezuela thing, because maybe you can find some campaign stop where he talked about Venezuela, and maybe some campaign stuff about Greenland. But Colombia, Honduras, Cuba. We're putting out propaganda from our social media saying, This is our hemisphere. We're straight up imperial. We're threatening to take military action to fellow NATO members. What is this? He wouldn't have won the election talking about these things. Nobody would have said this was okay.

Mike, what did he talk about when he won the election? What was the thing that he was really talking about all the time?

America first, no wars.

Number one and number two, economy.

Economy. The thing that's in the shit are. What? If you're on that side, and also, let's not forget, releasing the Epstein files, you're literally getting almost none of the stuff that you're asking for. How are you waking up, sucking that down? He let you down. Depending it, it's humiliating.

If you voted for him, he's letting you down. He don't let me down. He's doing everything What the fuck I thought he was going to do.

Be pissed with us. This is all bad. You should agree. You're also not getting what you wanted. There's a whole bunch of people in this country on both sides of the aisle that are getting a whole bunch of crap.

I knew you were going to get that wrong. I knew you were going to get the timing on that wrong. You could have done it a second earlier. I just gave me 20 years. You could have stopped him at the right time, but you blew it. You cut him off.

I was making a good point, I felt.

You did see him say,. But you were just sitting there. You waved everybody off and you're like, I got it. I got biggest game in 20 years. I got it. I got the timing on this. And then you couldn't get your timing right with Mike. But it is a giant game.

It is. It's huge. And maybe we went in and host a natty, and that'd be great.

Mike, this might be just a figment of my old age, right? But I remember the last time Miami was this good, everybody on that team was famous. I'm talking about famous in the moment. Not years later, we, Oh, I can't believe those guys were all on the same team. In the moment, we're like, Wow, these guys are all famous. If you ask me to name University of Miami players right now, and again, this might be just because I'm old and I can't pay attention to I know Carson Beck.

He's infamous.

That might be the only name I can name.

Hold on. Amin's coming into this with the expertise of Georgia Tech football fan who really cared the last couple of years about Haynes King and is amused by an entire system that produces Duke, wins the ACC Championship Game. Haynes King is probably the best quarterback in the conference, and Georgia Tech collapses at the end. And now Miami plays for a most improbable of championships. It sneaks up on you a bit because there's never been a champion that has also lost to Louisville and SMU before the year. That's not something that's happened before.

I talk to people about this stuff, and someone made a really good point about you mentioning the loss of Louisville and this being potentially the first two lost champions since LSU, and it's a historical outlier. I also don't think you can find many champions that would have 14 wins. But I think parity has come to this sport, and you need to look at this sport more like the NFL. Gino Smith, Pete Carroll, they went to Foxborough and beat the New England Patriots week one. Their season wasn't over. I think that you need to look at the regular season in college football in this new age of parody more like the NFL than you used to.

That was a weird game. The Raiders beat the Pats week one. It's why I haven't believed in the Patriots since. If you ask me for any of the numbers, you can give me all the metrics. I keep expecting them because their players are injured, the linemen are injured. I expect Drake may to not actually be the next great thing. Are you kidding me? The Patriots got another one that fast? No, it can't be that fast. The reason I'm saying is, Pete Carroll dragged your ass. He dragged your ass in New England week one, held you to 10 points. I watched it.

But in the NFL, we pay extra close attention to how well teams are playing at the right time, peaking at the right time. There's that cliché, you want to play your best ball at this time of year. And for whatever reason, we can't program our brains to do that because of what college football used to be. We still think that Miami is the team that lost to Louisville and SMU when, like the NFL, there are bumps in the road, they can learn from it, and they can find their form, and they have. They're peaking at the right time. I think How has sports changed, and I think that media is struggling how to apply the logic, which is the sheer absurdity of the CFP discussion.

Okay, Mike, you're right about this, and you'd also be right if you said the following, okay? Did The Navy win its last bowl? Did Navy beat Oklahoma at the end of last year because the Navy team I watched this year was as good as any I've seen. They beat Memphis, they beat South Florida, but they won a bunch of close games. And so no one will ever believe that Navy is playoff good. That Because there have been too many years- It was a couple of years ago, I think, the Navy team that beat Oklahoma. But no one's ever going to believe that Navy is going to be play off good, even though this was an amazing Navy team this year, and the wins over Memphis and South Florida were legitimately impressive. So last year, they went 10 and 3 after beating Oklahoma in their bowl game.

This year, they were 11 and 2. Their two losses were at North Texas and at Notre Dame.

And they got crushed by Notre Dame, and that's part of the reason. But I only bring up the point for this reason. Nobody would consider Navy... You can make the argument the Navy was better than some of the playoff teams. It would have beaten James Madison. You can make that argument. It wouldn't be very hard. But when I look at also, what's happening with the SEC is that there's this assumption that Alabama and Georgia would be Alabama and Georgia just because you've seen Alabama and Georgia in those uniforms look like that for 10 years. And that defensive line was terrible this year. There are only 136 teams. It's 126th in pass rush. Georgia won championships because I had NFL guys on the defensive line. You're loving the uniform terms, Alabama and Georgia ain't that. Indiana just showed you what Ohio State type football does to Alabama, runs it into the ground. So what Mike is overseeing over here is in the new system of investing your money, Miami is very close to having the best thing most probably to win, even though its offense is the worst thing remaining, statistically, because it can also beat you with its offense tonight.

It just hasn't had to do it so far. It's why Mike's this confident. He knows if you can beat Ohio State that way, you can do that to anybody. You're good enough to do it to anybody. We're not going to talk about the Edward Cabrera.