Transcript of Reacting To The Sperm Whale: "They Are Historic Losers" | Hour 3 New

The Bruins with another disappointing playoff performance.

The Boston Celtics eliminated.

This was tough to watch.

The downfall of Boston sports has arrived.

And the Montreal Canadiens stunned the crowd in Tampa Bay.

Friday the Bruins got smoked. Saturday the Celtics choked. Sunday night the Lightning croaked. A weekend Zazzlo loved.

Eliminations 3 days in a row.

For teams that Ceslo loves to hate, he's drinking tears to celebrate a weekend Ceslo loved. Bruins fans are stunned, 'cause the Celtics also blew 3-1. The Bolts once more are one and done. Who cares if the Cats and Heat weren't in the playoffs to compete? The last 3 days were such a Treat a weekend says the love.

Oh, I mean, drink it up, guys, right? Come on. What a weekend. Excellent job there by Streeter, right? That's a good song. The Cure. Love The Cure.

Cure or Pearl Jam? Who's better?

I mean, get the hell out of here.

He doesn't know anything about The Cure.

Cares about The Cure.

He does.

He doesn't like the more emo stuff.

Not—

I'm not saying like the emo genre, but the darker kind of sad stuff. He doesn't know anything about The Smiths. He doesn't know anything about The Cure.

Mike was so offended one morning.

Okay, so Mike Mike will play music sometimes on his little portable speaker here, kind of get the good vibes going in the morning.

Okay, fine, you know, good, bad, depending on Mike's mood, right?

Right. There could be a wide variance in the kind of music that Mike plays in the morning. And one day, like, it's someone playing— I don't know what the hell it is— and he was very offended.

You know the Smiths?

Yes, I know who the Smiths are. Do I know that song right there?

No.

Like, who cares?

He doesn't know any of the songs, whatever, Smiths, or any of the songs right there from The Cure.

This is like Dave Dameshek saying he can't name a, uh, Mariah Carey song. That was the most infuriating.

That is not the same.

I think, you know what, it's funny because the other day we were driving around, me and the boys, Jean-Claude Van Damme-eshiek and Hoover Dam-eshiek and the old man, and REM was on and I came back around to it and I said, what do you think of this song? To Jean-Claude Van Damme-eshiek, he said, I think it's pretty good. And I said it's REM, and, you know, maybe the greatest American band of all time, most influential.

Maybe not.

Well—

What'd the kid say? What'd the kid say?

He liked the song, and then I reminded him— Which one, Hoover or Jean-Claude? Jean-Claude, yeah. Hoover didn't have an opinion on it one way or the other.

How old is Hoover?

Hoover is soon to be 12, thank you for asking.

How's Jean-Claude? How old is he?

He's, uh, he's, uh, 17 years of age.

Okay, so they're in a good age of discovering new music and listening to things from back in the day.

Exactly, exactly. Um, and I was reminded of exactly what Amin just mentioned, which is, I know that day a couple few months ago that the headline was that an old man doesn't know Mariah Carey songs from the '90s. And my wife, when I got back to LA, postscript, I told her of this, and she too was stunned and embarrassed even. She said, "Oh my God, I can't believe— that's terrible you went on the air and said that." I said, "Well, it was the truth. I don't know, I didn't know the songs." So then she started playing some, and then we landed on one I did know, and I go back to my original opinion. My life has gone on just fine, and nothing would have been added to it by being a Mariah Carey advocate. Now, REM. The fact that this whole room didn't know anything about REM or appreciate REM is stunning to me. Mike Ryan knows maybe something, but nobody else even knew. No.

Tiny happy people.

That's—

I get it. Shiny happy people.

Dave, again, I grew up in Miami. What do I give a shit about REM about?

You can grow up anywhere and discover—

Very Boston of you.

But my point, my point is like, I'm, I'm from a different place in culture. Like, I've never heard of REM.

My parents—

who cares about The Smiths?

Again, also, you're a crazy person.

Well, I mean, at minimum, if us— if The Smiths come on, you should be able to immediately recognize it's them because of Morrissey, right?

I don't agree. I don't care about Morrissey either.

Morrissey at all. Do you know Depeche Mode?

Yes.

All right, well, all right, whatever. Lost?

No Mookie Blaylock?

How much do you know about Depeche Mode.

I know they do that song.

Sing one.

Oh, Jesus.

Yeah, I don't need it.

I don't need to—

I don't need to sing it for you.

Zazz, listen, you're already on top of the mountain, up on cloud nine like you say. I assume you were out, uh, you, you, you were bending the elbow till the wee hours because you look positively exhausted this morning.

Oh man, it's showing. I've been up since 3 AM today celebrating your weekend. No, no, my, my younger son, he's 14, school trip, school trip this week to D.C. Ooh. Going to the White House, doing the whole, the whole, the whole rigmarole.

You're going to the fight? Awesome.

No, that's in June.

And I had to have him at the school at 3:30 in the morning.

Oh, that's evil.

At the school!

Yeah, not wake up at 3:30, which would have been awful also.

What the hell kind of school trip would be worth it to have a dad to try and wrangle a bunch of children and they are under the cloak of night.

3:30 in the morning, I had to drop him off at the school.

What the hell? Unbelievable.

How could the rest of the trip be worth it? What's going on the rest of the trip to make it worthwhile to have them all there at 3:30 in the morning? The next 48 hours are destroyed by having to be up at 3 in the morning.

Well, that part's true. Like, I'm not gonna be able to recover this week. It's, it's going to have my entire rhythm this week thrown off.

Damn circadian.

Was that a 6 AM flight, I guess?

Yes, I think it was 6:30.

Oh yeah, on Spirit.

Brutal.

No, 3:30 in the morning drop-off.

That's a week ruiner.

And then it was, you know, I, I get back home, we live close to school, and I get back home, it's like, all right, I'll, I'll try and go back to sleep.

Nope.

What time did you go to bed?

I went to bed, I probably, I probably fell asleep like 11:30-ish, maybe.

Shortly there are flights. That would not disrupt the parents getting to work on time and everything else, but not wait, not having them there at 3:30 in the morning. Every human being involved in that experience had to be miserable. Every child had to be upset. Every teacher was upset. Every parent thrown out of whack.

And why?

My guess is that you had to do it because early flights probably have the biggest swaths of open seats so the kids can all sit together.

And maybe also early flights there's not a chance, much less of a chance of there being a delay.

Yeah, that too.

So you can get there. But, but still.

But that's also why I hate early flights, because the airport is full of rookies, class trips, and old people going to Chicago or whatever. It's like, oh my god, just get out of the way. Get out of the way for us seasoned travelers who know how this works. Don't line up as soon as they say, hey, we're gonna pre-board now. You sit down and you wait till they call your group number. Mine's won, by the way.

The highlight for me this weekend, Zaslow and company, wasn't any— wasn't watching. I'm an empath. I don't like watching other people suffer. Apparently that's where you and I split. I was delighted, I think, or maybe bemused, I'm not exactly sure. What do we make of at the Kentucky Derby, the horse that was favored until he got scratched, or she, I don't know, got scratched. The name of this thoroughbred A super fast horse, high end. The name of the horse was the Puma.

I'm—

why? On one hand, I love it.

The Puma.

I wish I was named the Puma. Lance Berkman. But also, I'm not a nickname. I wish my name were the Puma. I wish I were just the Puma Damashek. That would be cool.

Was Berkman the Puma or Big Puma?

I don't think he was Big Puma. I think he was Puma.

Okay. Just weird.

Chris drawing a blank there. He says, don't remember anything about the Puma with Lance Berkman.

It's weird that it's El Puma and not El Puma. So you're on to me about baseball, but I flipped the table onto you.

He was known as Big Puma, according to AI Overview. Also Fat Elvis.

Ah, that was my nickname for Jake Cutler.

Yeah, that one makes sense.

It never took off.

El— you're right. La Puma would make better sense, right? La Puma or El Puma?

Well, was it a filly?

Depends if it's a girl or boy puma.

Okay. Either way, I want to be the puma, but somebody else is already the puma and it's this thoroughbred. And then I wonder, did the horse have self-esteem issues? You're not the— like, and then I like the Sharks, that it's not enough. You're a shark. I don't know who defeats you in the sea. Maybe a killer whale. I don't know enough about the whale.

They do, by the way. Killer whales, apex predator in the ocean.

A killer whale, apex predator, beats a shark. I was saying, but still, shark, pretty fierce itself. I, you know, I've seen some movies.

Got good PR, that's all, right? This guy put good PR.

I don't know if we want to argue that, but I— well, maybe you're right.

I want to argue that.

Okay, well, apparently someone jumped in, some PR expert said like, these sharks, not scary enough, let's make them, let's make them even scarier. You know how we'll do that? We'll call them tiger sharks. Yeah, it's not enough to be a shark, now I gotta be— oh no, no, I'm a tiger.

What do you find out about bull sharks?

You have to draw in somebody else to, to try and feel better about you. Same goes for the bull shark too.

It's like in Demolition Man when they call him Murder Death Kill.

You go, wow. The poom!

See that bird up there? That's a shark bird. But do the other horses go like, yeah, come on, man, we're horses. Well, let's have— you know, have some dignity. We're pretty good too, you know.

Let's not act like the whales don't do this either. Like, well, look at that whale. What's its name?

Killer?

Killer whale.

Okay, how about this one? I'm a sperm whale.

A sperm whale is— yeah, well, stay away from my game. That's an unfortunate one. Why do I have to be the sperm whale?

Well, you know why.

You know why.

You know why.

I'm not the sperm.

Why are you calling me the sperm? Why do I?

One time we caught you in the bathroom like, what? Hey, what's he doing? Like, oh no, no, no. Is that what it looks like?

Ah, sperm. That name will stick with you forever. Mr. Pink is complaining about the color he got. How come he gets to be a blue whale? He gets to be a killer. Why am I sperm?

No way.

No way.

I don't want to be the sperm whale. Make him the sperm whale.

You're Mr.

Pink. I like how the killer whale's real name is orca, and it's like, so he comes to school, he's like, "Oh, there's a killer whale, killer whale, oh my God," and then his mom picks him up, "Orca!" "Mom, don't call me that in front of my friends!" Oh, sperm doesn't care.

Sperm's mom named him sperm, so I don't think he has anything to puff his chest out about either. Or out of his spout on the top.

Is the puma a fast cat? I always think of it as like a powerful cat.

I don't know, but the thoroughbred named the puma, so it must be pretty fast.

Or maybe it's powerful.

Although, if you're gonna do— if you're gonna go down that way, it's sorta like if you're on The Price is Right and it's bidding on the thing, like you always go, like, if they— if the person in front of you goes $500, you go $501 and then you win.

Dick move.

It—

eh.

Dick move. You don't appreciate that move?

No, I do appreciate it. Still a dick move though.

Touché. Yeah, you're right. Taché. Yeah, I— do you— yeah, when they're handing those things out, are you the— you wanna be the— do you now one-up the Puma and go The Cheetah, right? Like, if you're racing against the Kentucky Derby on Friday night, you say like, change, you know, like change long shot horse. I'm changing. This horse's name is now The Cheetah.

I'd love to be named The Cheetah up until they do the drug testing. Then it's like, oh, different nickname please.

Yeah, right. Well, that's why you can't be— that's why no sports teams, I think, as we've discussed, there are certain creatures that are so loathsome that you can't even name your sports team after them. The Cheetah, because of the proximity to the cheaters, too easy to do. Can't be the Tapeworms, you know, nobody wants to be that. Nobody— can't be the Rats.

No, that's another one.

Yeah, but Snakes, you can. You find some wiggle room. There's no snakes. But yeah, you could be the Cobras, right? You could be the Pythons.

You can be a Rattler.

Rattlers. Oh, shout out to Arizona Rattlers. RIP arena football.

But there's no rodents. But you're not allowed to be any rodent, I don't think. I don't think you can be a mouse. I mean, you wouldn't want to be a mouse. Are beavers rodents? I think they are technically beavers because of the teeth. What defines something as a rodent is the length of the teeth and whether you wear them. That's how they keep their teeth sharp.

Is a wolverine a rodent?

I don't think so.

Wolverine's an X-Man.

It's like a bear, right?

I don't know.

It's not a rodent.

It's a huge black man, isn't it? What are they talking about? It's a rodent.

All of your Kentucky Derby coverage right here on the Libertard Show.

And that concludes Our coverage of the Kentucky Derby.

The Puma.

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I say, yeah.

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Don't let me talk.

Doesn't matter anywhere, we could do it in Buffalo or Baltimore, either. You say you could do it where? Anywhere. Oh, whoa.

Oh, that's crazy.

That's crazy. That's crazy. He said he could do it anywhere. That's crazy. Murda, Murda, tell him.

Stugatz.

I had no idea Mean had that in his locker.

That might be his best. That's crazy. I'm not kidding.

That's crazy, killer.

It's two Americas, then you don't get it.

This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stugatz.

Amin?

Yes?

It's your time to shine. Let's get to the weekend observations.

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

Weekend observations is brought to you by Miller Lite. Legendary moments start with a light— Zazz! And damn! The two best words in sports! Game 7. So let's get 3 of them. What a weekend, huh? 3-1 leads! They don't feel safe anymore. If you gave me the choice of being up 3-1 or down 3-1, I think I'd rather be down. I sound like Joe Mazzulla. Speaking of crazy Joe Mazzulla, give me that Photoshop real quick. I worked hard on this.

Any moment now.

Okay, how is he not getting eviscerated across all programs? The guy decided to experiment with the starting lineup in Game 7 by starting Bayless Hyman, Luka Garza, and Ron Harper's less successful son. Be like Joe Jackson deciding to trot out Rebe, Tito, and LaToya for The Ed Sullivan Show. Also, hey Boston, it's legal to shoot things other than threes. It's allowed. You can do that. Fact of the day: Lakers beating the Rockets means LeBron beat a starting five that wasn't born when he entered the league in 2003. In other words, They literally had their entire lives to prepare and train to beat him, and they failed. Hey, Damashek, how about them Knicks?

Hey, credit to you.

Thank you. Kaz Raptors still hasn't started yet. Hey, there's Crazy Joe Mazzulla right there.

Wow.

He's like, hey, I got an idea for our starting lineup. What if I started Luka Garza? Baylor Shireman and Ron Harper Jr.

The one adjustment he's ever made. That was it.

Cavs-Raptors still hasn't started yet because the home team has won every game.

I hate that.

Skip Bayless returning to First Take. The band is back together. You guys not see this?

No.

Why?

Friday.

Really?

Skip, Stephen A. It's back.

Is it going to be in studio?

In studio.

That's a big deal.

You think you got Skip Bayless is doing the First Take on Zoom.

I thought you were saying permanently as a one-off. Oh, it's just a one-off or not every Friday?

I don't know.

I mean, what's a big difference?

You're looking for weekend observations to give you like news and details? I'm just making jokes here, guys. Also, I'm promoting my stuff. Cinéphobe episode 309, Sidekicks, starring Chuck Norris, Jonathan Brandis, Joe Piscopo and Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years. Wow.

Great flick.

Winnie Cooper, who is now a math teacher. Do you guys know that?

Yeah.

Joe Piscopo is— I don't know what Joe Piscopo is doing.

Is he still alive?

He's doing good work.

Oh no. Is he one of those?

Oh God.

All right. Cavs fans chanting USA in the middle of Game 7. Classic. I loved it. Any time there was any stoppage or whatever, when, when Max Struess got that flagrant foul for headbutting Scotty Barnes, they just start going, "USA!" I was like, "That's okay.

That's cool." We did it last year here against the Maple Leafs.

Connor McDavid. Fraud. Again, we need to cherish Greg Cody. We will. Tuesday and Wednesday this week, we will cherish this man because he called him when all you cowards are out there like, "He's the greatest thing we've ever known!" Shut up! Guy's a fraud. Fraud.

Wow.

You know who else is a fraud? Messi. Fraud. Choker. If you're a basketball player, he'd play for the Celtics. You know that, right? You know that in your heart of hearts. He'd be a Celtic, and Joe Mazzulla would bench him for Luka Garza, Ron Harper Jr., and Baylor Shariman. Jared Allen saved Donovan Mitchell and James Harden legacies, both. Hey, Zazz. Yeah, I mean, you went to go see a The Devil Wears Prada 2, right?

Yep.

Does that mean there will be a Devil Wears Nada 2? You know what that Devil Wears Nada?

No, but maybe I should.

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Psychopath.

Get the hell out of my face. Speaking of hell, what the hell is George Sidano doing here? Roll the clip. Roll the clip.

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For the audio audience, I love you guys. I'm going to describe it. George Sedano in a bathrobe, sitting with his hands clasped. His hands are clasped in a bathrobe as he's sitting on a couch with like, what is that, brunch in front of him? Hollywood George. What the hell, Sedano? Speaking of hell, Art Bryles. Those are the weekend observations. Happy May the 4th to everybody. I got these Star Wars cookies. Look at that, little Stormtrooper, little Chewbacca.

Couldn't get over David Dennis Jr. not knowing the name to his favorite character.

So like, they were trying to ask me, oh, what was it? I was like, I don't know, Jeremy was talking to me in the middle of you guys talking about Star Wars, and then I, I heard Star Wars. Look, are you guys talking Star Wars? And then after that, I got no context clues. Thanks a lot, Jeremy.

No accountability for this guy.

You know what, you talk in the middle.

I'm trying to help. I'm trying to steer the conversation the next way. You were telling me a story about you going to the movies, and like, we were having a conversation about going There are times where Jeremy's talking back here and he's just like, you just want to say this right now, this is not helping anything, man. That's so not true.

Wow, you guys are at the Jeremy Show.

I was absolutely trying to contribute. I was telling him how the one time I snuck into a movie, because that's what we were talking about, we're talking about sneaking into movies, and then all of a sudden as Damashek was talking about that, Zazz decided to go, hey, what about Star Wars? So as we're doing the, the conversation about that, I'm telling him about the one time that I snuck into a movie, which would surprise you, right? Like me, Mr. Goody Two-Shoes. But you know what, the one time that I snuck into the— I'll tell you all about it.

You want it all?

I was invited by this girl, it was like middle school, maybe early in high school, and I was invited by this girl to go to the movies with her. And I was like, oh my God, this is so cool, I can't believe you're inviting me to go to the movies. And so I went, okay, I'll go to the movies with you. And then I show up and I see one of my best friends there, and I'm like, why, what are you doing here? He's like, oh, I'm going to the movies with this girl. And I was like, I was going to the movies with this girl. And I'm like, oh, I'm not about to be a cuck. No, but it was a group situation where she invited all of these people to go to the movies, and I thought it was a one-on-one situation. So me and my buddy are there, we're sitting in a group of a whole bunch of people, and we're like, this is so stupid. We're seeing P.S.

I Love You.

Why are we seeing P.S.

I Love You?

I thought we were going on a date. So We decide to walk out, we go to a place called Wings Plus, it was delicious, they had really good wings, really good hot wings, medium sauce on the side, you know, you can go with it. And then we walk back into the theater, we're like, alright, there's about an hour left of this movie, we don't see this movie, so what do we walk into? We see Alvin and the Chipmunks. It was great, really enjoyed sneaking into Alvin and the Chipmunks, and then we walk back into P.S. I Love You, nobody knew the difference.

That was the short version of the story he told me.

Haha. I mean, cut to the chase, this is a sports show nominally at least, give us the ranking, 1, 2, 3, that's what people want to hear. The Star Wars universe, the best, the best movies.

Yeah.

Oh, this one's easy, man. All right, number 1 is Empire Strikes Back.

Correct.

Number 2, for my money, is Return of the Jedi.

No, incorrect.

Number 3, number 3, it's my list.

He's entitled to his opinion.

And number 3, you're asking me as far as my viewing pleasure, right?

Yeah.

Like, even I've watched all of them from the back a million times, right? Right now, if you said, hey, you can watch any Star Wars movie, what do you want to watch? I'd say Empire Strikes Back. Oh, we ran out of that.

That's great.

I would say Return of the Jedi second.

Now see, that's wrong.

If you ran out of that, the third, I would say Rogue One. Those are my favorites to watch. Obviously, the first Star Wars movie, Episode IV, it sets up the entire universe of characters. I have a lot of respect for it, but in terms of my enjoyment, now that I know all these characters forwards and back, those are the 3 movies that really I enjoy because it's all about the transition and the growth of the characters, whereas Star Wars is just introducing us to characters.

Hey, why didn't— in all those weekend highlights that you just ran through, did you— well, I'm calling them highlights and lowlights and otherwise. Well, how did it not come up that a Major League Baseball team— has anybody ever seen this happen? On Saturday, the Cincinnati Redlegs walked 7 straight batters. 7 straight batters! It was insane. I was watching it live. The first batter struck out, and then 7 straight walks. There had not been a hit in the inning. No one had contacted the baseball yet. Had put a ball in play through 8 batters and 3 runs were on the board. It was the single weirdest— I've never seen anything like that in the baseball world.

Well, and part of the problem, like, baseball has done a really good job being super progressive over the last few years and, you know, adjusting to the times and improving the game. But in that spot, you got a pitcher who can't throw strikes, like, all right, but he's still got 2 more batters to go. You can't take him out yet. Like, that's kind of where it hurts you, right?

What was weird about that was they— the starting pitcher gave up 5 runs in the first, and And then halfway through the second inning, roughly, they're like, well, we can't leave him out there anymore. Let's go get him. Then they put— they replaced him and they're like, oh, this guy can't throw strikes either. It was just insane. It wasn't even a bunch of full counts either.

I was—

I saw the sped-up version. There are a lot of 3-0 counts, just 4 straight balls.

Don Lebatard, you don't remember the idea?

I was probably like, that kind of thing, something.

Okay, no, the home run call was that kind of swing, that kind of thing.

Stoogatz.

Oh, it's a good call.

Thank you. And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it. Like, you're not tailoring it to a particular name. Correct. You know, all that jazz.

You know, you don't gotta do that.

Oh, that would be a great call. That kind of thing. Swing, that kind of thing. This is the Don Levitar Show with the Stoogatz.

So speaking of baseball, we should mention this morning we got some sad news in the world of baseball where he had retired last year, but the very longtime New York voice of the New York Yankees on the radio, John Sterling, he passed away. I guess it was last night. I think that he stepped away whenever it was last year, 2 years ago. He likely may have had some health issues. He was 87 years old, like he was working the Yankee games well into his 80s. Tremendous.

Uh, and I mean, he's old enough to remember World War II. Yeah, that's— I mean, like, as a child, obviously, but still, that's pretty old.

Yeah.

And so John Sterling passes away, and I mean, very famous, great, you know, home run calls and a lot of funny moments. So let's honor him a little bit. We got a great John Sterling montage here.

And the pitch hit in the air to deep left. It is high, it is far, it is gone! It's a grand slam! Non dimmi Manticar, that ball sure traveled far. Giancarlo. Gio Ascella, the most happy fella. Oh, he's the most happy fella. Over the high wall and into the monster seats. Romy, my homie. There's a drive deep left center field. It is high, not as far. That has got gone! It's Glaber day! Glaber Torres powered one into the last row of the monster seats in left center, and like a good Glaber, Torres is there. Here is Judge. Here's the 2-2. Swung on and hit in the air to deep left. That ball is gone! A Judgey blast! All rise, here comes the fudge. Here's the 2-1 to Gardner. Swung on, hit in the air to deep right. That ball is high, it is far, it is gone! Oh, let the Gardy party begin! And they're on their feet. The pitch, swung on, hit high in the air, deep down the left field line. It is gonna be gone! He's done it! A long high drive down the left field line, just there for a 3-run home run.

Alex Rodriguez —has made Major League Baseball history, the youngest player ever to hit 500 home runs. An A-bomb from A-Rod!

That's the best one, right? That's the classic from John Sterling, an A-bomb from A-Rod. I feel like that's the best of his home run calls. But now that we, we honor John Sterling, who deserves every bit of it, let's, let's have a little bit of fun. All right, and here is John Sterling just gets hit with a foul ball.

Now the 3-2, swung on, a pop foul back here. Ow, ow, ow! It really hit me. I didn't know it was coming back that far.

It's unbelievable. I've never seen—

wow!

Oh, well then I want you to watch it again if you've never seen it. Let's play it again. He gets jacked up right in the face.

Now the 3-2, swung on, a pop foul back here. Ow! Ow, it really hit me. I didn't know it was coming back that far.

There's an old man, he got jacked in the face with a baseball.

Amazing. And let's also look, he had so many incredible home run calls, so he was not perfect. And here's one that he flubbed. Here's the 1-0, swung on, there it goes, deep left center.

That ball is high, it is far, it is gone. But caught at the wall, caught by Tapia. Boy, I thought that was gone. So Stanton got close, he sent Tapia back to the wall to make the catch, and the Yankees come up just empty. That would have tied the game.

Kick save and a boot. There you go.

But God, so, uh, a legendary career.

Yeah, I can tell that you got— Zazz in particular, when you talk about— actually Mike Ryan sometimes— when you guys talk about the local voices that that tell you about what's going down with you, with your teams night after night and year after year. I— it's one of those things. Sterling transcends New York City because New York City has a way of doing that. But I don't know if there's anything more significant to a sports fan than the play-by-play guy that you listen to. And especially in baseball, it really is in a lot of ways more— it's a deeper relationship than you have with any— than rooting for any of the players, right?

I mean, look, he's not our local guy, but but I, I mentioned this a couple weeks ago when we talked to him, and I have personally told him as well, Sean McDonough, you know, voice of the NHL on ESPN, his call of Game 7 of the Panthers, like his final call, is a massive deal to me because, oh, he nailed it, just a perfect 10. I just got goosebumps just thinking about it. He nailed it, and I've told him to his face several times that how important a role he played for me with that memory because he just, you know, it's a perfect call. So yeah, the play-by-play guy means a lot to you if you're a sports fan.

Does everybody know Mike Lang? Yes, of course. Scratch my back with a hacksaw. Yeah, all that kind of stuff. Great balls of fire! Mario Lemieux scores! All that kind of stuff. He is as essential to my fandom as even just, I mean, this side of Mario Lemieux, the, you know, Bill Hillgrove calling, uh, Pitt sports and the Steelers and all of that. Yeah, you know, I think that, that, that's like I say, my memories as much of watching games are about driving around with the old man looking to see, even out of Pittsburgh, to see if we could get a signal in whatever town we were in to listen to the Pirates at night. Those memories are as important as, you know, watch— remembering who the player was who hit the home run or otherwise. Inarticulate description of great articulate voices. Just gets jacked right in the face with that ball.

Ow! Ameen, I saw earlier something that you are very fired up about today. Your homegirl, not from Star Wars, that David Dennis Jr. couldn't remember her name, your homegirl, Raygun, was back in the news.

Okay, so if you guys don't remember, Rae Gunn was the Australian breakdancer who captured the hearts and minds of the internet. And by capture the hearts and minds of the internet, gave us endless levels of entertainment by how bad of a breakdancer she was. It was the breakdancing Olympic debut, and we're waiting for all these incredible dancers. I— my money was all on the Philippines, and I lost all my money there. But like, I was like, okay, and then here comes this girl from Australia. Like, you know what, the breaking culture is global. So what, she's from Australia? She's probably good. She does look a little bit older, but maybe she's, you know, okay, like she's got the spirit of the youth or whatever. And she goes out there, she embarrasses herself, and we all laughed and had a great time. So she goes back to Australia, and I've been deep on Australia Reddit, guys. I mean, what does that mean? Well, like, you know, there's subreddits for all types of topics, right? There's a Star Wars subreddit. I, I subscribe to that. You're involved in that. There's a Bar Rescue, uh, subreddit. I'm involved in that.

And by the way, here's the Science of Bar Rescue podcast. We interviewed Ali Torres. Who's one of the experts, great mixologist. She's on the, on the show this week, so check that out. But yeah, Reddit has a lot of subreddits. They got an Australia one, and in the Australia one they're talking about Raegun, who got fired from her job. She is stretching. She got fired from her job as a university professor. Yeah, this woman was teaching at a university level about breaking culture and stuff like that, right? And so you say to yourself, well, surely they fired her because, hey man, you embarrassed us, whatever. Like, no, male, several years. Turns out she was insufferable. Like, in Australia, they expected her to do the talk show circuit, everyone have a good laugh. Oh, that was fun, that was real funny, whatever. Uh, the internet made these memes. Oh, we'll show you the memes. And she was not having any of it. She wasn't a good sport at all.

And so now that—

so she was taking it all serious, very seriously. And now that she got— which, by the way, she should have known, hey, I suck, man. Like, why am I even here? I have to assume Australia had somebody out there who's a better dancer than her.

Well, I, I had read that she had rigged the competition, rigged the qualifiers.

Yes, I remember that too, Zazz. So she does— not a particularly pleasant person. So she gets fired. In Australia subreddit, they are pleased. They're like, good riddance. And I was like, oh really? Because I was just like reacting to the story, like, oh, she got fired, what happened? And all these people were doing a victory lap, like, she's Terrible, terrible. And I just thought to myself, who's someone that we would universally celebrate them losing their job? Like someone we know?

The Boston Celtics.

Oh, sorry. Oh, that wasn't on air, was it? Okay. Does it have to be someone we know? Uh, no, just someone like, like, like that. Someone who is a celebrity that everyone seemed to love, and then like we find out, oh, this person's actually terrible. Good riddance. Scott Jennings. You know, you brought up Scott Jennings 300 times.

I mean, that clip is just spellbinding stuff.

Well, set it up. I'll be honest with you, I saw the clip over the weekend, I had no idea who Scott Jennings was.

I'm like, who is this guy? If we have it, I mean, he's, you know, everything obviously, it's not, pardon the interruption, although it is a fascinating thing. Crossfire. Where did, how did we get to this place? Where we are politically and otherwise in these United States. And I think that you can point rightly at crossfire begets pardon the interruption, you know, well-intentioned sports back and forth, but pardon the interruption really lands on Tony, if you take this side, Michael has to take the other side, and it turns everything into a binary conversation, which it kind of already is, but you really have to lean into it, and what you think What you actually believe is secondary to— to— to— we can hear you, I mean. Yes, the— it's secondary to what will create the hottest sort of back and forth, the most contentious sort of binary conversation, and everybody becomes good at rhetorical argument whether or not there's actual meat to that side of the argument. And that begets Scott Jennings, who sits there with a deeply unpopular guy trying to defend a deeply unpopular war. And it all— and plus he's got some stuff, speaking of online rumors and everything else the last couple of weeks around Scott Jennings.

And so he's probably already a little, little, you know, nerves are a little frayed there and otherwise. And then a 23-year-old kid, okay, Dan, just start arguing the other side of the equation, gets into Scott Jennings. And this is his response. You're making condescending remarks because you can't defend the fact that this war is not going your way. Wait, one more time. Not going your way. Name one political concession. Name one political concession. Hey, hey, whoa, whoa, honestly, I'm not gonna have this guy's finger in my face.

Everybody, everybody hang tight, okay? Now, everybody calm down.

Oh wow. What is he? Is he schizophrenic? I think maybe because on one hand he's Johnny Tough Guy. Get your hand out of my effing face. Don't fire me, please. Please, I can't have it. He put his— you saw, you all saw it. He put his hand in my face. And where it comes from, it seems to come completely out of the blue too. He's smirking, he's laughing, he's condescending to this kid, and then all of a sudden, apparently out of nowhere, get your hand out of my effing face. Please don't fire me, CNN. What do I do? He keep put his hand in my face. I can't have it. I can't have it. Wild. I found that, like I say, spellbinding.

I'd like to apologize to everybody for— not for leaving my mic on and then you hear me workshop, perdona la interrupción, with Tony and Mike. No, for asking Damashek to throw to the video because, man, I thought Dan was bad at this. You described—

I was about to compliment you on saying that the Knickerbockers were the best bet in the East instead of the Celtics, but now I'm not gonna do it because you don't deserve it. Get your hand out of my effing face. Scary every time.

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