Transcript of Postgame Show: You're a Meme, Walter

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I want to make people understand what this contest is because it is legitimately something that I've been wanting to do since the first time I talked to DraftKings. How do we figure out how to give people valuable things who care about the show so much that can wager on the show? We've finally gotten to be able to do it. That prize, I will tell you, as I've told you before, when we were at ESPN, that a lesser prize than that, actually, which was just go to a heat game with me and my dad, but not have dinner at Flanigan's with our show while being involved in our show. It's legitimately a $30, $35,000 prize 5, 10 years ago before the Internet.

So you're saying this is a million-dollar value, essentially?

I'm just saying that being able to spend that time with our show is something in the past that people have paid tens of thousands of dollars to do. At inflated prices, if we were still doing it exactly that way, I could argue it's worth a great deal more than that right now. That prize, if you get it right while betting on Stugatz's weekend observations.

Well, predicting.

Can I clarify one thing? You said October 29th weekend observations, just so we're clear, that's a Tuesday. Yes. So it's a Tuesday of Weekend Ops. Yes.

Got it. Tuesday edition of Weekend Ops, hopefully Stugatz is here for him. Hopefully.

We don't know if he will be, but it's a big prize. Mike, just cleaning up one thing from earlier in the show. Because you said, you yelled at us with a great deal of resentment, I had to buy into a different company in order to talk about FSU Week. #fsuweak, You feel like you have in the last, I'm going to say, six games, five games, totally changed the power structure in Florida State College football. Fsu was 13 and 0 not that long ago, now you're locking them and expect to win.

It wasn't popular. If you go back to last year's shows when we were talking about FSU, their CFP chances, it wasn't very popular for me to say they built their whole thing on a house of cards. They did very well in the portal. Mike Norvell didn't want to play Jordan Travis, and he locked in to having Jordan Travis turn into a player that, if the media had time to establish a narrative properly, considering the reasons they were held out of the CFP, should have won the Heisman over Jaden Daniels. Because the whole argument of keeping them out was that guy went out, and he totally changed that program, but they didn't have anything behind him. And it wasn't popular. Everybody was saying Norvell was a good hire, Cristobal was a terrible hire, ha, ha, ha, ha. Here we are, all the Florida schools, including the ones that were trying to get in the game are all really struggling. Some of them, in fact, Florida is probably in the best shape of all the others right now. I think college football is one of those sports where in the moment, you want to overreact. But in today's day and age, knowing how different it is and knowing how certain coaches go about things, you got to reserve judgment on some guys, and it's not popular.

Say, wait till year three. But Mario Cristobal has proven to be one of those guys.

In order to promote all of the things that we have going on, Izzy, I want to tell people pull, first of all, Mike, repeat to them again how it is that they can get some of your exclusive betting information because you have turned into somebody who is aggressively consuming information so that you can make smart bets and then hiding them behind your own personal paywall.

Well, it's just a bonus for the people that are kind enough to pay less than a cup of coffee, $2.99 a month on Twitter/X. Just a super follow for that. We've been having a pretty good full, really good full.

Also, to promote your other endeavor, you have bought into a company where you are more of a Canes Insider than you are here.

Can I just say this is my favorite postgame of all time?

I'm just getting started promoting some of the things we have going on around here. You have bought ownership in a company that is doing Canes-specific information for people who care about this the way you do. Tell people about that as well.

Thank you very much, Dan. I sincerely appreciate that we do daily content over at Canes Insight, D-Money and Peter Reeve do a fantastic job. We cover all the Miami Hurricane sports once a week. I'm on there, typically on Wednesdays. But this is a forum that's existed for a long time, and you know how closely related forum message board culture is with college football. It's some of the craziest of the crazy. Canes Insight has about eight million posts in its history, over 8 million posts. So yeah, I was lucky enough to join with that enterprise, and we're doing really good stuff. And again, it's not just for football, women's basketball, baseball, men's college basketball. It's very hurricanes-intensive, and I'm really enjoying it. And thank you for the opportunity.

Jess, why are you making faces?

Enough with the Canes. We need to talk about this Texas fan, Dan, that we've been wanting to talk about this kid all week. He went viral at the Texas game for just having the most magnificent head of hair. And now he's doing interviews. He's been in the Daily Mail. He did this interview with the Daily Mail on TikTok.

I looked like him in college, I would say. I had hair like that.

No, he did have hair like that.

I did. He did have hair like that. I think my original column photo. You guys could probably find my original newspaper.

I drew Devil Horn on that photo of Dan when I was seven years old.

I had hair like that. Before the internet. Very poofy.

Dan, this kid's hair is just absolutely outrageous. It looks photoshopped. He's having fun with this. So he went on this, did this interview with the Daily Mail where he talked about what he wants to do now that he's become an Internet meme, and that he found out he was a meme because all of his friends from high school were texting his high school Spanish group chat, and they were like, You're a meme. And he was like, What? Anyways, listen to what his big dreams are with his meme stardom.

Literally as soon as the game ends, I turn around to my friends, and they're all on their phones just in shock. And I'm like, What's up? And they go, You're a mean, Walter. I know Matthew McConaher was cutting players' hair. Maybe he can cut mine on the field. I don't know. Rave some money for cancer awareness. My grandmother just recently got diagnosed with breast cancer and then beat it. If I can get on to the Talk to a podcast, I think that would be a life goal. I could check off my bucket list.

I missed the joke because they were counting down in my ear. I didn't hear anything that you guys were laughing.

I was going to make a joke that he's like, I bet you he's going to want to be on Talk to a, and he actually said that that's a dream of his. I love this kid. Raze money for cancer, or I'll go on the Talk to a podcast.

Why not both? He was wearing the same shirt because you have to when you're famous for three seconds over one thing. Put up on the screen, please, my original column photo. This isn't actually even the one that I was thinking of, although this one's pretty good as well, I would say. Not close. I have another one that's even poufier.

How old were you in this photo?

Early 20s, I'm going to say. No. You think I look 30?

You look younger now than you do in that photo.

So you have me being how old-. We have a couple of other things.

That's an old 20. I'm Sorry.

To promote here, one of them- Young Dan, taking straight. I don't understand what's happening.

Old Dan, getting complimented. How about that? Okay, yeah.

It was the '90s.

Wait, was it? Hard living. Pre-internet. Again, this is the one that I was thinking of, although I guess I got my hair cut a little bit shorter there. What are you doing in that picture.

You look like you're hiking a football.

Why are you so help-in on out poofing this guy?

That's what I looked like when I was in high school and college. He's got the Blanche Deverot.

Is it one of your lifelong dreams to go and talk to Oh, you should do that, though. I should do that. Seriously, in terms of audience acquisition.

You should have her on South Beach Sessions. We could use the rub.

What happened to your dimple?

Thank you for mentioning South Beach Sessions. It's one of the things that I want to promote here in a very promotional postgame. Another one is the pitch clock, which Jeremy has done a very cool job with. I'm looking forward to hearing what he has to say about this World Series because he's the only one here like me who actually cares about baseball. The rest of you are embarrassing.

Wait till you hear the basketball show we cooked up, Shotclock.

Coming your way soon, Dano. You and Jeremy have an offshoot brand of just various clocks. Tick, tick. Now we do. South Beach Sessions, the reason that I was in California for a week on top of other business is because we are fortifying the South Beach Sessions property, and I really enjoyed everything that we did in California. We have so much material that I interviewed Pat Reilly for two hours this week, and we're not going to be able to play it until after the season. What? We've just got a lot of different stuff that we've gotten done over the last... I'm going to get criticized whenever the Pat Reilly thing does run, because I'm not going to ask him any of the hard questions about why they're 9 and 31. And Jimmy Butler set fire to something in the locker room. People are going to say it's a soft interview. It's because it was done before the season and because we did so much in Los Angeles. But one of the things that we did in Los Angeles is we sat down with Skip Bayliss, and that's going to come out at 2:00 today on YouTube.

I'm going to give you a clip because how do you guys think the first thing my wife said to me as I was leaving the house to go do it is, You've talked a lot of shit about that, dude. I thought you didn't like him. Why are you talking to him? She was asking me. She doesn't know anything about anything. She's like, But I've heard you. You don't talk shit about like that about anybody. And so people are surprised, I'm going to talk to Skip Bayliss. How do you guys imagine that's going to go? When When we get together, because I'm not going to hide from what I've said about him.

I didn't know that you were interviewing him, and you sent Bayliss to me in a chat, and I thought it was Rick Bayliss, the celebrity chef, which is actually Skip's brother. But I thought it was far more likely that you'd be talking to a celebrity chef than the Skip Bayliss. Then I saw the photo on social media, in which you guys were... Actually, I saw somebody do a head swap, which was pretty funny. Wait. Can you send it to me? Yeah, I can send it to you. I was shocked that it was indeed Skip Bayliss because, yeah, you've talked some shit.

What are you expecting? Are you expecting fireworks?

I hope you fight him in the show. You just say...

I'm expecting Skip has no idea that you talk crap about him.

I'm expecting you say Bayliss to him at least once.

He does know I've talked shit about him. Really? Well, one of the things that I'm trying to do with South Beach Sessions, because we talked to Jim Rome as well, I want to understand how people became who they became. How did this happen, that your 72-year-old sports take guy who gets all his identity out of, I've got to beat you in a sports argument? Here's one of the exchanges. All of this will be out later today. I found it illuminating how he became the guy who chases LeBron James across 20 years because Daddy and mommy really didn't love him and we're drinking way too much. So he hidden the sports identity of, I'm going to be sports take guy. I've been pretty critical of you and debate culture and Steven A. Smith. I don't know how much of that has gotten to you. I don't know how you feel about how much of that has gotten to you.

A bit through Steven A, who you have grilled about ruining it all for all of us. Wasn't that your- Contaminated it in a way that made the athlete a little less human than I would like him to be.

But you guys also created a path for me where I was able to zig where the zagging was because I became a player apologist, someone who was viewed as a player apologist, Because I was less critical of the athlete than you guys were. And there's great money to be made in everything that we're doing. Some of it feels like professional wrestling. I know that you don't feel like a wrestling character.

No, I am completely the opposite of a wrestling character in that to a fault, I'm as authentic and real as you can get. And it took Steven A. A while to grasp the fact that while I loved him, I genuinely wanted to beat him every time we argued sports. It became known as debate, your least favorite word in the culture. He realized over time, I'm as real as you can get to my core, that I take it very seriously, way more seriously than I take myself. But if you challenge me with the little red light on across the desk from me, I am going to fight you to the death, to the TV death.