Transcript of Local Hour: The Cock Of The Walk (feat. Jarrett Stickem)

So Zaz is clearly struggling with the strain of his workload.

I don't think strange for me, but like...

Oh, boy.

He's got a bit of a speech impediment.

Didn't you want to know what were the kids doing?

And I don't know what his worst moment was just speaking.

The packers win or the bears lose.

But I think yesterday, he had his most embarrassing moment when we welcome in a new sponsor that we're thrilled to Everyone around here just loves White Castle and has loved White Castle for a long time. As part of his betting portion of the segment, he said that Mike Brown might get fired soon and take the nets over the Knicks, and then the nets lose by the score of, I'm not making this up, 120 to 66. 120 to 66. Has a team scored fewer than 66 points this year? The Heat have scored 70 and a half, eight times this year.

You didn't buy up the points. That's on you. The packers win or the bears lose.

So the nets were an 11 and a half point dog. I would have had to buy 50 points.

Oh, boy.

120 to 66. Please, Jeremy, tell me that there's been a game this year that has had fewer than 66 points scored by a professional team. I'll give you all of Europe and the G League as well. I'll give you high school basketball, 66 points is crazy.

I'll find all of that. Thus far in the season before yesterday, the lowest scoring game by a team was the Indiana Pacers with 78 points against the one seed Detroit Pistons. The Pacers, of course, are one of the worst teams in basketball.

The Knicks have never beaten a team by more points in their history. The fuck?

Can you explain yourself? You came on... I mean, we've got this great It's a segment featuring you. You're eating a delicious burger. You're rewarded with-This is a tasty burger. And you miss the point spread. Again, was 11. 5. Buy it up. And they lost by 54 points.

Oh, boy. Handled my business on against those periods.

How is that possible? On what grounds did you pick the nets? Why would you pick the This is the Dan Levatore show with the Stugats podcast. I see that the content companies in sports are struggling a little bit today on GetUp. It's Ken Harbaugh turning around in Year One, because nobody really wants to talk about Jerry It's Stidham, and there's one football game remaining that people are interested in the outcome of, I suppose they're also interested in the outcome of Bronco's Patriots, but you can't get me to watch that game. I don't want to watch anything. You can't watch.

Come on, come on. You're just not going to watch.

Come on, Dan.

I'm with Dan. I'm good. You're such a liar. Let me know how it ends.

You're such a liar. Sunday, three o'clock, everybody's going to be locked in Zas. I know you're going to be locked in because you like football, Zas.

Yeah, come on. Championship Sunday.

I don't want to watch the tattered remains of a quarterback in an injured league where the 49ers are now investigating the power plant next door because everyone's heard that Jared Stittam is going to start his fifth game and his first game in 750 some odd days.

You guys are watching football. I've lost my will to live.

I want to talk to you about the University of Miami stealing Duke's players, not just their quarterback, but now their fast, tall, wide, receiver. I also want to ask the audience and everyone in here, what is the best white wide receiver in the history of professional or college football in Miami? Because I don't know that we've had a great one. You've got some Brian Hartline, you've got you've got Wes But he only had one countdown here. He had all his scoring with the Patriots.

What do we do with Restrepo and Berrios?

They're Latin. They're the Latin category.

I mean, Barrios is more white than Restrepo. We can agree.

I I believe we can agree on that, but they're a different category. They go in the bunch of best Latin receiver Miami has had, college or pro. They are a different category. What can you tell me about Cooper Barcade? And what can you tell me about how mad Manny Diaz is about the fact that Miami likes some of his players and just takes them?

Well, I mean, these players just entered the portal. Hopefully, they pick Miami. I don't know what's going on there. There are people out there suggesting that Miami is the favorite. That'd be great because Cooper Barcade is one of a white wide receiver. A tall, fast, smart, electric white.

He's an exciting white?

He's an electric white. Over a thousand-yard season. Look at his highlights. Just search him on X. The guy is awesome, and he's Darien Mensa's favorite target. Now, the Mensa thing, not great optics, admittedly. They're suing Darien Mensa. There's a temporary restraining order.

Duke is suing Darien Mensa, their quarterback.

Yeah. So He has a temporary restraining order from going to another school. He was officially entered into the transfer portal, Cooper Barcade. It was reported that he had resigned with Duke in December. I don't know, something like that's going around that place. I'll sit down in that chair, Manny. Enjoy it.

So the stealing of players, and if you want somebody's players, this is chaos time in college football, the business of college football, agents running things with very few rules.

It's not all puppy dogs and ice cream, though, for your Miami Hurricanes, they are dealing with the most devastating loss of our lifetime. Also, Pringle entered the portal last night, and not the only running back I expect on Miami's roster to enter the portal.

It's not the most devastating loss of our lifetime.

I like him. He's quick. He offers them an option they don't particularly have at running back, although Fletcher did run away from Indiana's secondary. I do need to say something- They didn't trust his pass protection in the college football playoff. Fletcher was in for pass protection and whift badly.

Just one, yeah. It was so out of character that you noticed, but he's one of the best pass-blocking runningbacks I think I've ever seen at Miami.

And for those of you who think we are homerific about these things, we were telling you that everyone says that Fletcher is a model character. What do you guys do with the information? Because a lot of people out there only have the video and information. There's a UM player, and he's taking a swipe at an Indiana player, and we were explaining to you, Look, that's hugely out of character. Something had to be said there that was bad. And then Mike Rumpf reveals after the game that the Indiana players said something about the death of Fletcher's father. I think everyone listening to this, if I give them that piece of context, all of them say, Yeah, if you get hit there, you deserve to get hit there, if that's true.

The way that he backed up suggested that he did not want that smoke, and he also knew that he was in the wrong. Also, there has not been a denial yet from Indiana as it pertains to that. Mark Fletcher's dad died recently. He texted him before every game. Mark Fletcher was very gracious in defeat to Fernando Mendoza just moments before, obviously an emotional time. Mark Fletcher is the unquestioned team leader of Miami, and that dude definitely said something. I did not need to know the report to know that whatever that guy said, he probably had it coming because it was Mark Fletcher.

Yeah, I choose to believe Mike Rumpf in that spot, especially because everything that we've heard about the type of kid Mark Fletcher is. It'd be nice to get some evidence, someone else to also say the same thing as what happened, but I choose to believe Mike Rumpf in that spot.

But when Mike says that the Indiana player did not want the Rumpf smoke, I say it's because Rumpf is wearing a... I'm sorry, did not the Fletcher smoke, it's because Fletcher was wearing a helmet and the kid in Indiana was not. That's never stopped anybody, Dan.

Come on, how many people are throwing puncher with their helmets on?

Yeah, no. He wasn't afraid of getting headbutted from Fletcher. He was dodging those fist.

The kid also from Indiana then went on Twitter after the game and was taunting Fletcher still.

Yeah, he was pointed at his ring finger in that moment, too, and did something similar on X.

There was clearly something that built up during the game. There's no way that just out of nowhere, right after the game, the kid decides to randomly say something about Fletcher's father. I'm sure something was going on throughout the game.

He texted his father, Every game, I love you. Be with me every game. That was a public thing that was also celebrated in this game and previous games as the story of Mark Fletcher.

What's the word association with punch thrown after a game? Is it Trent Williams, Richard Sherman?

I always think of the Garrett Blunt.

Oh, that's a good one.

You won the game. Punch thrown after a game. I got to think about that for a second.

I go to Trent Williams. I love that video.

Garrett Blunt one was cool.

That's always the one I got it.

We're in a good moment for Zaz this week. Thanks.

Trying to build back up.

Chris Cody, can you do me the favor of finding Mad Dog? This was celebrated yesterday. Mad Dog was trying to say the name of Jared Stittam.

I haven't heard this yet. I'm excited.

Had a hard time saying the name of Jared Stittam. I am in no position to mock people for their names saying. I'm getting a lot of names wrong. I was talking to Cornheiser Yesterday, he's like, I'm getting so many names wrong, but not as many as Wilbon. Wilbon is getting more names wrong than I am. Bo Nix, in the history of football, 27,000 players, the shortest name in the history of football is Bo Nicks, five letters, a totally irrelevant fact for you that I'm guessing that you guys did not know. But in this game, the Broncos are a five and a half point underdog. And since 1970, since the The AFC-NFC format, 112 conference championship games. The home team has never been this big of a dog in the home game. Never. Really? Five and a half point dog is the biggest point spread that a home team has ever had because nobody knows what to do with the analysis of the Patri's defense is good. Look at how they made C. J. Stroud look. What's going to happen with a quarterback who's played four games? I know Diana and others are telling us, Well, Stidham knows the offense, and Sean Payton is going to have his guys ready.

I actually expect it to be close just because football and home team, but I don't know how you analyze the point spread on this game. I also don't trust Zaz with it, given his most recent work with point spreads on behalf of White Castle, where he told you to take the nets last night as an 11. 5 point dog at the Knicks, and they lost by 56.

I bet, boy. I bet my Castle.

Buy up the points. That's not on me.

You told me to bet I've got a quibble here to take up with Chris Cody.

I heard him muttering yesterday during lunch. He's like, Death taxes and Mediterranean food. He was complaining. Not complaining.

It happened again?

That's my favorite dish here.

It's just a lot. I love Mediterranean, too.

I love tzatziki sauce. You know about that, Jairo?

Come on. I was planning on never eating again. Then I saw that Mediterranean, and I'm like, Okay, this will be the last time.

We have different styles, though. There's some that come with a big bond. They have a bunch of different meats. There's one that has a brisket that's fire. I'm back on Mediterranean.

I just don't understand why Chris doesn't bring his own lunch if he's worried that the free Mediterranean food- Have you seen the sad lunches Jeremy brings?

I'm not doing that. Don't talk to me about sad turkey sandwiches. Come on. What have you I'm extremely sad. Wheat bread, dude.

No, it's not wheat bread. It's multi-grained.

The visual of just whatever that bread is, I don't care what's underneath there. I look great. I look great. It's so sad. I don't care about my sad sandwich.

Mike is looking at you. Mike Mike is looking at you that way because of how hard it was for you to get broadcasted words out of your mouth from under that beard. He is Will Farrell from the Cowbell Skit on Saturday Night Live.

What the hell is Tony doing? He just looks cool.

Cuck in the walk, baby. That's Bruce Dickinson. Bruce Dickinson. He's got a FIVA.

That's a great costume.

Thank you, buddy. Are you Christopher Walkin?

Say it, baby. Hispanic Walkin?

I don't know that I was ever more surprised in a music music video than seeing Christopher Walkin dance so well, classically trained dancer. It's a Fatboy Slim video, right?

Yes, weapon of choice.

Him dancing was just a wonderful reveal that I did not know that he had in his arsenal, where the whole video is Christopher Walkin dancing, coming down an escalator. I don't know if I've ever been as surprised by a cameo performance in a video.

That's the whole video, right? Him dancing.

It's just him dancing. Put it on the Poll at Lebitard show. Paul Simon did this with Chevy Chase, using celebrities for cameos, but I just have never seen something in a video that surprised me more than seeing Christopher Walkin dance well. Put it on the Poll at Lebitard show. Would you have had any idea that Christopher Walkin danced well before seeing him dance in that Fatboy Slim video? He danced in the King of New York. That's a good movie.

Excellent movie.

I want to ask you about what's going on with Yannis. Let's play the sound here. They lose last night to a banged up Thunder team at home. Yannis walks past Doc Rivers, ignoring him. I am going to have some trouble with Doc Rivers' legacy as a coach, as a guy who always loses game sevens. What's the trouble? Well, what do you say about him? He's not a good coach. I mean, he's got an awful lot of chances with an awful lot of good teams, and he's a champion. And you're just saying he's not a good coach, and he's a champion.

The champion. They were like the worst team in the league in 2007. And then because Kevin McHale and Danny Anger are buddies, they acquire Kevin Garnett, and all of a sudden, Doc Rivers is a champion. Give me a break. Not a good coach.

I'll get to that in a second, but you just mentioned 2007, and it just reminded me of that Gator team that won the Championship right after 2007 and 2008. You guys want to guess how many players on that roster were arrested? Urban Myers, champion Gator of 2008. Do you guys want to take a guess at the number of players on that roster who were arrested?

I think it's in the '40s.

It's '41. It's a third.

Roy's guess was eight.

That's how you played a game.

A third of the roster. Yeah, Zaz really did undo my ability to do anything with it. We've got to teach him how to do this.

Are these individual arrests or 40 different people got arrested?

That's a good question. It is 41 players. It's a third of the roster was arrested.

How wild is it, though? All of those who are arrested and Urban Meyer still allowed to be on the team. But Urban Meyer told Cam Newton, Listen, you got to get out of here. It's too much way you're doing it.

Stole a laptop? You got to go.

You can't be here anymore.

I mean, 41 is a staggering number. None of it covered in the Netflix documentary that was about that championship team. Just ignore there was a murder in the huddle, 41 arrests. Let's just celebrate. Thibault put a halo over the huddle, and that's all that matters.

To be fair, he wasn't a murderer yet.

That we know of. That we know of. Thank you, Roy. That's an important factor, though. A good bit of which one? That we know of? That we know of. Or that he hadn't been arrested yet?

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Let's go ahead and play the sound of Mad Dog trying to say Jared Stittam.

But you have confidence in Payton getting the most out of the, out of the quarterback in this ball game here.

Stick him in this game on Sunday afternoon against the Patriot.

You can tell there's a five-second buffer there where he's looking for the name.

He's trying to find it, yeah.

I love him.

But he have confidence in Payton getting the most out of the quarterback in this ball game here, stick him in this game on Sunday afternoon against the Patriot.

Stick him for me is word association, Lester Hayes. I always do Lester Hayes used to cheat by just having a glue on his hands as a defensive back. Miami could have used that, incidentally, against Mississippi. Could have used it actually against Indiana.

In the national championship game when they had that pick six.

Against Indiana as well. But here, let me play the sound here after the game. The Bucks lose, Yannis But Yannis' Bucks are now 18 and 25. The idea that Yannis is going to be on a team that doesn't make the playoffs is asinine, okay? In the Eastern Conference, it's asinine that Yannis would be on a team that's 18 and 25. Here he is after the game losing by 20 to a shorthanded Thunder team. Here's what he has to say.

We're not playing hard. We're not doing the right thing.

We're not playing to win. We're not playing together.

Our chemistry is not there.

Guys are being selfish.

Guys are trying to look for their own shots instead of look for the right shot for the team.

Guys try to do it on their own.

The last six games, five of them feature the fewest shots that Yannis has taken in a game this season. Can you guys just freeze for me real quick the size of his hands when people, if anyone's wondering how and why it is that he is so good at basketball? I know that we're used to these guys being freakish creatures, but do any of you have a hand that's larger than the entirety of your head? He could palm the entirety of his face and be holding the on top of his head because of the size of those hands. You're trying to get me?

Yeah.

You can tell who got bullied in high school. You pushed the hand into the face. Yeah, you pushed the hand into the face once they do that. Classic move. I was cool.

Zaz, what do you think of the fact that Yannis is drowning in Milwaukee. Ask for the trade.

Just do it. Just ask for the trade.

But why not do it without asking like he's doing? Because it doesn't work.

Because it doesn't work, but Also, I don't think that anyone is going to be upset with him when he asks for the trade, especially because it's a big deal that they did win there. It's not like with Damian Lillow. It's like, Man, but what happened? We didn't even win. Yannis won, okay? This has been a mutually beneficial relationship. I do think the place where people are going to get angry with Yannis is if this stuff keeps going on. It's the talking about the other guys are selfish. It's the, I would never ask for a trade. The team, it's up to them to do whatever they want to do, whatever stuff that keeps coming up. That's when the tide is really going to turn on Yannis. Just ask for the trade. Just do it. Just ask for the trade.

The passive-aggressive nature in which he does these things is not indicative of the star that he is. There's been lesser stars.

This is beneath him, man.

There's been lesser stars have been like, Get me out.

What do you mean? Come get me. What do you mean? He's doing the right thing here. To who? He's not being the jerk that's Get me out of here.

To who? You think they're going to trade him if he doesn't say, I want to be traded?

I just can't believe we're crushing him for being the good soldier. He's clearly unhappy, but he's not saying the public... He's doing what we would want our athlete to do.

But he's saving face for who? That's my question.

He's not being a good soldier, though. He's not.

He can't win here. If he's like, we're... He is ripping his teammates. He's ripping them. If he's requesting the trade, we're going to rip him for that, too.

No, I don't think so. I don't think so.

I think we're talking out of both sides of our mouths here. I think at this point, Chris is actually the example of why Giannis is doing this. He's game after game after game. They've lost four out of five. Each time, it's a different thing. Now it's, Hey, my teammates are being selfish. They don't know how to win. Maybe it's because we're young.

What's he talking about where I'm not beat? Maybe I need to ask to shoot more? Like, really?

Well, he's saying, I've never had to be the guy who commands the ball. My teammates have been smart enough to know how to get me the ball in the right position. He specifically references playing with Chris Chris Middleton and playing with Brook Lopez and all of these different guys who knew what his gravity could do. When he's just banging along, that's when they're winning a championship.

Give it to him, baby.

His teammates are no longer champion Druholode and Chris Middleton. Now it's Kyle Kuzma and Miles Turner.

Might be the worst walk in history. Give it to me, babe. He said that the teammates are trying to put the game on their backs. Hey, they're trying to go win it one at a time. It's surprising to see him talk this way, but I I think the reason I said Chris is the example is right now he's saying, Oh, we'll kill him if he eventually is requesting a trade right now. Well, the more you hear him explaining why he should be requesting a trade, and the closer we get to the deadline, then maybe with a week or two to go, he finally puts that in, and people like Chris who have been following the saga go, All right, man. Well, he tried. He tried to call out the teammates. He tried to be the good soldier, but I guess at this point, he has to do it. If he had just requested the trade before things started to fall off tracks, maybe people wouldn't react as well. He cares about saving face with that city the same way that Damian Lillard did. He cares a lot about Milwaukee.

I'm the cock of the walk, baby. Listen, here's the thing. Milwaukee is doing this weird thing where they're like, No, we want to actually be buyers at the deadline. It's like, No, your team sucks. What you need to do is get rid of Yannis and then reload. Thank you. Give it to him, baby.

You're walking. You're walking. You're walking. A Hispanic, Christopher, we're walking. Christopher coming on.

I like how bad it is.

It's so terrible. He's not even just talking. He's just so mailed. I'm the cock of the walk, baby, is all he's got to the impersonation. He throws a baby on the end of things. That's not making it.

Look at how it usually talk anyway.

But Christopher Walkin is, according to people who do impressions, One of the easiest impressions to do. Even Stugats does a Christopher Walkin. I got a fever, Dan. And yours is truly terrible. Yours could not be worse. Please stay in character, a method actor throughout the entirety of the show.

Say it again, baby.

You guys are with Zaz that Doc Rivers is just a bad coach? I mean, he's got a lot of game seven losses. He's got a lot of historic bad on the end of season.

Are you asking if Doc Rivers is a bad coach?

He's a champion.

Who cares? So is Frank Vogel.

Okay, so who's the worst coach ever to win a championship? Or who's a coach that wins a championship that just has a terrible reputation?

Les Miles, very Switzer.

Les Les Miles is pretty good. Les Miles was eating grass on the sidelines.

That guy is dumb. And Google him, more than just dumb. Bad guy.

I don't like calling people dumb.

I'm good calling Les Miles dumb.

But I thought it was sufficient to say he was eating grass on the sidelines. I think that he would pick up grass and eat it. I think that's sufficient.

Do you have the oil spill sound from Les Miles? All right, you don't want to call him dumb. That's all right. We'll just let the sound speak for itself.

I don't like calling anybody dumb. Oh, no, this guy's dumb. But yes, Les Miles, at one point, was indeed asked to comment, and you shouldn't ask coaches about everything. They very often don't know a lot about things outside of football, but some of them try to fake it when they are asked about things outside of football. Since you got to Louisiana, first you had Katrina to deal with, now you got the oil spill working its way to you.

I'm just wondering how that's going about, what that's impacting you all, and what situation you all are facing.

The impact is more of a Anything along the shore and those issues. They're very serious issues in there. The impact is on what is the natural resource of our country. But I don't know exactly to what extent it's being handled well and managed or mismanaged. I have no idea. The only thing I know, it's very sincere, and it affects more than Louisiana. It affects the ocean.

Say it, baby.

Very sincere. Mark Stein says, quote, word is that Miami believes it will be firmly in the mix as a legit trade destination for Giannis Antetokounmpo if he actually becomes available. And he also says that the heat will not make smaller moves like Ja Morant if it in any way impacts the ability to get Yannis.

I talked about this, I think it was before the season started, right? That in the offseason, there had been communication between Giannis' camp and the heat. And it was conveyed that if we get to a place that this is not working, Giannis is interested in Miami. That was conveyed to Miami from Giannis' people. I said that before this even started.

You did. You also said there's an opportunity maybe that the Ja Moran-Jiannis thing could be a combo package. But word around the league is nobody wants Ja. There's nobody willing to make a substantial offer to Memphis for Ja Moran. It's like, All right, now you're saving all your assets for the one big fish when he decides to make the trade request known.

Yeah, I think things have changed in the NBA when it comes to these big trades. I think it's quite possible that you're going to see you only have the huge packages for guys like Giannis, when you have guys like John Marantz, who, listen, by all accounts, a really good player. But I think teams, I think there's going to be a change in the league where you're not going to have these massive blockbuster trades. And I think we're seeing it with John Marantz.

It's hard for me to believe that nobody wants a job, but I was also stunned the other day when Mike Dunlevy, the general manager of the Warriors, said this about Kaminga. Yeah, I think as far as the demand, I'm aware of that.

I think in terms of demand, when you make a demand, there needs to be demand on the market. So we'll see where that unfolds.

When you make a trade demand, there needs to be a demand in the You're going to keep doing that, aren't you? All right, very good. That's what it calls for, baby. All right. Yes, good. I'm glad that you're- Did Les Miles say something?

You wanted him to say it, right? I told him, Say it, baby.

Don Levatard. No one else here is willing to do a Trump or a Biden.

That's not true, Dan.

Okay, Tony, you can catch- We have a thousand impersonations. That's not bad, man.

That's not terrible. That's not terrible.

Pretty good.

Stugatz. Yours is terrible.

You just got to get a little redder, a little pinker. You're right there, man.

Yours is not. You're biting me. What do you mean?

His is good, Dan. That's actually not bad. His is good. That's not terrible. That's not terrible. We got to come together.

A little Southern twang there.

A little George Bush in that one.

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugats.

Roy, how do you feel about the fact that Jonathan Zaslow, who once ended a vacation early to support the Panthers because his team needed him and he flew back into town. Drove. Drove, excuse me. Well, you flew down the highway to get back to the Panthers. Get in the car. We're going home. He is officially, it was unofficial before, if you sensed it, he's officially worried about the Florida Panthers. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't blame him. I mean, the Seth Jones injury is worse than we thought. He's missing the Olympics now. And even the K'Chuck return, that bump didn't exactly do well for the Panthers as they lost to the Sharks. So yeah, I understand why you're worried, and it's going to be a They're going to have to work hard to get- But wait, are you worried?

No. Okay, I knew it. I mean, Roy also wasn't worried when we got to game seven. Does he worry about anything? I am worried, though, Dan. I am officially worried. We are well past the halfway point of the season. It's 34 games remaining. The Panthers are five points back of the wild card. All right? Forget getting top three in the division. That ship has sailed. They are five points back of the wild card. And it feels like we're getting to the point where this is going to be just a lost season, where they have not been able to recover from all of the injuries. Like Roy mentioned, Seth Jones now, who has not played in several weeks since the Winter Classic, he is now going to miss at least through the Olympics because they just replaced him on Team USA. Look, Kachuk is back, which is great. You're not training camp, all right? This is going to take a little bit of time for him. He It's going to be 100%, but it's going to take some time for him to get back to be in Matthew Kachuk. Marshan is still out. He should be back soon.

No Kulikov, no Noshek, no Gajevich. It gets to a point-No Barcov. No Barcow. No, but we knew that. And Bobrowski, by the way, who I love, is actually having a career war season. All right? So it gets to a place where I think this is a problem.

Five points out of the final playoff spot. I'm alive again. The Panthers This, we are back.

They spent three decades there.

This is us.

How about a league rule? If you win back-to-back championships, you get to go in the playoffs next season. I don't hate that. Last payoff spot, you get it.

I don't hate that.

Like Champions League? All right. They won previous season I'm going to put them in.

But by the way, it's not just five points back of that final playoff spot. Oh, they also have to jump five teams to get there.

Put it on the poll at Lebitard Show. If you've won back-to-back Championship, should you get an automatic birth in the next playoffs? Because Chris, Cody, just like, wandering over and just changing the rules to everything.

I honestly could use a break. I'm tired, man.

From caring? You need a break from caring and hurting?

These playoff runs are exhausting.

Well, he's probably tired because he carried the program on his back. He's the reason they got there. Oh, you mean a break just from them? From caring. I thought he meant a break, just let us in. No, you were just like, no, I need a break.

He just said from caring, from paying attention to games. He just needs a respite from pouring his heart into things.

Why is Jeremy such a little asshole?

Jack's shit over there.

Why is he such a little asshole?

More cowbo, baby.

No one likes you.

It's a good costume. That's heavy-handed. You know what? That's not. You're going to have to get out of here on that. I'm sorry. No, I'm going to get... No, why would I get Jeremy out of here? He didn't do anything. We actually need more cowbo, baby. Minor penalty, two minutes. Personal foul.

Personal and foul.

It's too bad, too, because I was about to celebrate you as GM of the Year for your work with the cyclones in Highly. Jeremy, I wasn't kicking you out. I was kicking Mike out. I'm not kicking- Come on. No, I'm kicking Mike out. Jeremy didn't deserve that. He didn't do anything to deserve that.

I'm not following that shit.

Just get out of here, Mike.

Can I do a top five when I come back?

Sure, but you're going to have to leave here for two minutes. What is your top five going to be? So that you can tease people, so that time spent listening increases because people can't get enough of Mike Ryan in their lives.

Top five badass plays from the Canes season, baby.

If you want more Mike Ryan, Canes Insight is a place that he has helped found that is growing and has a lot of portal information. If you want to follow the momentum of this University of Miami season with fresh information, Canes Insight is where you go. You guys saw on espn. Com, this LeBron, I'm going to call it the LeBron story, but it's about the Lakers infighting. For those of you who don't know, this has been a problem since Jerry Buss died. The kids fight over the ownership of the franchise. The reported details in this story, unsurprising interestingly, are that the Lakers were fed up with the amount of power that Clutch had, were fed up with LeBron's ego, were trying to think about how to trade him, and begrudgingly extended him just because they didn't want the optics of not extending him. What did you think was the most interesting thing in that story on espn. Com?

The LeBron and Clutch stuff was the only thing I cared about, because if I'm being perfectly honest with you, this story to me was so annoying. I hated this story. I couldn't keep track of all the siblings. It's six siblings, and all of their names start with J. It was Jessie, and Johnny, and Jimmy, and Jeanie, and Janey, and Joey. How do we feel about that?

So you did keep track of all the names.

No, it got to... I kept having to scroll up. Oh, that's this sibling. I couldn't keep track of it, Dan. And eventually I said, F it. I'm not reading this I couldn't get through it.

But does it matter that you have a reading comprehension problem? The six kids have a problem. It doesn't matter who's being quoted. You don't know any of them anyway other than Genie. So it's just the six siblings are fighting succession style.

I didn't like this story.

Okay, that's your commentary on it? You just didn't like the story.

I found it fascinating. The sibling dynamics, it was like reading through a script of succession. It really genuinely felt like I was seeing how this type of thing with these wealthy people who are gifted this opportunity to have wealth, by the way. They work hard. It's their father who bought this franchise and built it into what it was. Now, he was literally with them, trying to put the succession plan in place before he died. It's all for the point that there wouldn't be this level of backstabbing. Then in the time since, they've all seemingly backstabbed each other. The two younger siblings who are Jerry Buss' kids but have a different mother have had this exclusion. Genie Buss told one of them that he should never have been born. That was within this story. And you don't find that interesting? I found the entire saga to be fascinating. From our perspective, I can understand where the most interesting thing that stands out is how she felt about Clutch, how she felt about LeBron reacting to the Russell Westbrook trade, and then trying to wipe his hands of it because she clearly made the trade just to try to appease him.

But the saga of the Buss family was fascinating to read. The reporting was amazing.

I would have been able to find it interesting if I could have followed along with the story.

So blame Jerry for naming his kids all with J. Yes.

I couldn't keep track.

My brother's name is Jason. Jeremy Jason.

There's two of you. That's six of you.

It's also pretty difficult. My parents get it wrong all the time.

Keep track.

Can you do me the favor, please, and find out for me how many of George Foreman's kids were named George? I think he named his daughter Georgette as well. I don't know if it was seven. That's aggressive. I understand giving all the kids names that start with the same letter, but naming all of the kids George in a household where mom has to call out for somebody and everyone turns around when she says George, that's a real insanity and an enormous ego that wants the legacy of telling everybody there will always be George Foreman.

All right, so there are 12 children. All five of his sons are named George. One of his daughters is named Georgetta.

I think Deon did something similar. Does Deon have boys named Deon? Because he does have a girl named Deandra as well. Although my favorite name game when it comes to any of this stuff is that Dennis Rodman was one of 19 children, and his father was named Philander. You can't do better than that. That is the best that you can do.

There were nicknames to keep the George's all separated. You had George Jr. But then George III nicknamed Monk, then Big Wheel, Red, and Little Joey.

Time now for Mike Ryan's top five most badass plays from this University of Miami season. Any O-L-I's?

Yeah, OLIs. Visual accompagnment for the top five, but O-L-I's, you got to crack the top five to get visual accompany meant. We begin with Malik Haitoni mossing that Pipp player on that fourth down for crucial style points. And we got... No, no, no. That's O-L-I. That's Olai. We got Mark Fletcher, also Ola, College Station, duo to the outside, beast mode run, huge to put Miami in position for a go-ahead score. Also Ola, Marty Brown running into the pile, pulling it outside and going to the house, all to be incorrectly taken off the board against Florida. And the final Ola, Hakeem Mesador, week one against Notre Dame, sack in the quarterback and then doing the leprechaun pose.

I can't believe Mendoza didn't fumble on that strip sack that Messador had in that game. I don't know how that ball didn't come out of Mendoza's hands.

Number five, how the hell did Ruben Bane end up with the ball, the interception, big time pick against Notre Dame, one of the season's best games and most pivotal. In retrospect, ball bounces off of Keante Scott's foot. Ruben Bane gathers it. Badass.

It's like the trailer play, baby.

Number 4. The 14-yard pile push in Glendale. Oh, God, let's go. Number three, Mota Ray dying for our sins in College Station.

That poor guy. Man, was he unconscious? Are you conscious at the goal line there at the end?

One of the enduring images of this season was Bryce Fitzgerald intercepting that ball the very next play, and Mauteré being held up by a trainer, having to be stopped from going on the field to celebrate. Motaere, great came for that play. Number two, Keante Scott, the pick six.

That's number two?

Talking that trash in the Ohio State. That's not number one? That's not number one? On the way there. And then the Jim Thorpe Award pose in the end zone. Goosies. That's when you knew Miami was going to win that ball game.

That's when you knew Miami would be the runner up this season. Yeah.

Number one, one of my favorite calls of all time, Mark Jones on the call. One of Miami's best performances of the regular season, a game people were nervous about against C. J. Bailey and NC State, Jacobi Thomas interception, running it back to the house, pointing at the quarterback that threw it. And Mark Jones says, Jacobi Thomas looked at his wrist and said, I got time today.

Wow. Hast du den gesehen? Ey, das ist ja der absolute Wahnsinn.

Einfach nur perfekt.

Nice. Manchmal merkt man sofort, dass es passt.

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