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GBBBBBBF- The Reunion

2024/7/12
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Billy:回顾了名为BBBBBB的播客,并分享了他三年来第一次在节目中加入"我不敢相信"环节的感受。他还讨论了EA体育大学橄榄球游戏、Mike Gundy的酒驾事件以及Arch Manning的NIL交易。 Mikey A.:参与了关于在奇幻选秀中选择跑卫还是外接手的讨论,并提出了一个关于在NFL球队中签约Fozzie Bear还是Animal的问题。他还参与了关于大学橄榄球季后赛和活体动物吉祥物的讨论。 Charlie Kravitz:分享了他对EA体育大学橄榄球游戏的看法,并讨论了Arch Manning的NIL交易。他还参与了关于大学橄榄球季后赛和活体动物吉祥物的讨论。 Charlie Hulme:讨论了Brian Dable与四分卫们谈话的片段,并分享了他对Drake May和Jaden Daniels的看法。他还参与了关于大学橄榄球季后赛和活体动物吉祥物的讨论。 Lorenzo Rodriguez:分享了他对Mike Gundy酒驾事件的看法,并讨论了Arch Manning的NIL交易。他还分享了他对活体动物吉祥物和大学橄榄球季后赛的看法,并介绍了他第七个和第八个"B":Smokey the Bear和Bronny James。 Stugotz:分享了他因为打太多高尔夫球而无法参加这次高尔夫锦标赛的原因,并表达了他想让自己听起来尽可能地脱离实际的想法。 Billy: This episode marks a reunion of sorts, revisiting a past podcast called BBBBBB and introducing a "Can't Believe It" segment after a three-year hiatus. The conversation touches upon EA Sports College Football, the Mike Gundy DUI incident, and Arch Manning's NIL deals, highlighting the complexities and controversies surrounding these topics. Mikey A.: Contributes to the debate on drafting running backs versus wide receivers in fantasy football and presents a unique question about signing either Fozzie Bear or Animal to an NFL team. He also participates in discussions about the College Football Playoff and live animal mascots, showcasing his diverse sports knowledge and playful approach. Charlie Kravitz: Shares his insights on EA Sports College Football and weighs in on the Arch Manning NIL deal, demonstrating his understanding of the game and its business aspects. He also engages in discussions about the College Football Playoff and live animal mascots. Charlie Hulme: Analyzes clips from the Giants' Hard Knocks, focusing on Brian Dable's interactions with quarterbacks Drake May and Jaden Daniels. He expresses his opinions on their performances and the decisions made by their respective colleges, revealing his keen eye for quarterback talent and strategic analysis. Lorenzo Rodriguez: Offers his perspective on the Mike Gundy DUI incident and discusses Arch Manning's NIL deal, demonstrating his awareness of current events in sports. He also shares his thoughts on live animal mascots and the College Football Playoff, and introduces his seventh and eighth "B's": Smokey the Bear and Bronny James, adding a unique and humorous element to the conversation. Stugotz: Explains his absence from a golf tournament due to prior golfing commitments, and expresses his intention to sound as out-of-touch as possible, adding a comedic element to the podcast.

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The podcast reunion starts with the hosts discussing their difficulty in staying on track and the initial 15 minutes of casual conversation before getting into the main topics.

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God bless football, Lorenzo. You stole my what's up. So I can't keep zapping. I thought you were going to keep what's up. I'm so confused. Are we what's zapping? Yeah, keep zapping. Bless zapping. No, keep zapping. God bless football, Mike Fuentes.

We talked right before this. It's a microphone. All right. Welcome to God bless football this week. So Stugatz is out in Lake Tahoe playing golf. And, uh, I thought it'd be a fun little treat to have a little reunion with, uh, some of our friends that we haven't done a podcast with together in a long time. And Charlie Kravitz, Charlie Kravitz, it's good to be together again. Puppets and Charlie Kravitz is in town. So it seemed like as good a reason as ever to do one. Um, and I,

I don't regret it yet, but I do feel like I will soon enough. It's early in the proceedings, Billy Go. Not for nothing, Billy, you threw it to me beforehand to keep this on track. And I'm going to tell you right now, I already bow out on that. I'm already out on trying to keep this on track. Let's just have some fun. Yeah, so here's what happened is we sat down.

Like 15 minutes ago. And we were supposed to get going and we've just been talking for 15 minutes. So I said, Mikey, I need you to do me a favor. I need you to keep us on track today because if not, we're going to be derailed very quickly because as you all know, this is God bless football. So we can't just be talking about Muppets or whatever it is that Lorenzo wants to be talking about. Even though he wants to be talking about those things, we can't be talking about those things because it's, you know, God bless football. So we have to talk about football. What if there's a football tie-in to the Muppets? Lorenzo, if you have a football tie-in to the Muppets...

Feel free to take this over. All right, so go look for a Muppet football thing or whatever it is you want to talk about. Guys, very exciting things. I have for the first time in, what, probably nearly three years, and I can't believe that we can get to a banner segment on BBBBBB. Mikey, here's something that I don't know if you know, and it's a confession that I...

I have to make to you, and I don't want to say it's a shameful confession, but it's a confession nonetheless. So, and I don't know if you guys know this, Charlie Kravitz, I don't know if you know, Hume, I don't know if you know, Lorenzo, I don't know if you know. I, this past season, we were doing Monday episodes of God Bless Football, and I created a segment in our Monday episodes of God Bless Football called Billy's

Big Board Bets brought to you by, and I did that just because the acronym was BBBBBB. And BBBBBB was the name of a podcast that we did together years ago, Mikey. So it was a subtle shout out to this podcast that we used to do along with Eliz. And the theme of that podcast was very early on, got off the rails, was baseball, big brother, baseball.

And basketball or something like that. Yeah, I think it was basketball. It was baseball, basketball. Basketball was two of the Bs. That's a cheat, man. It was baseball, basketball, and Big Brother because we had just finished wrapping up our ESPN's number one challenge podcast. And Big Brother season was starting, so we were going to do a Big Brother podcast. And then one episode in, no one watched it. And we said, you know what? Let's not. Let's just punt on that. And then we didn't really talk about baseball or basketball either. And it just became kind of like a general podcast.

So all that is to say, this is a little BB BB BB reunion today. And Mikey is going to be here along with us. And Mike Fuentes is here as well. But he can't talk because he he doesn't have a microphone. He has to push buttons. Yeah, he's doing the the working thing. So I can't. I won't stop Lorenzo from tossing to him. Exactly. Multiple times. Fuentes for democracy. What? Helldivers, man. Come on. Come on. What is Helldivers? Only the best game of 2024. Yeah.

What is it? It's basically Starship Troopers. You're fighting big giant bugs and Terminator automatons with your boys, and you're doing it for Super Earth, for democracy. Fuentes knows what I'm talking about. Well, it's good you keep going to him so he can explain it. By the way, if you want more of Lorenzo, you can check out his Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Buzz podcast where he talks about all things Disney.

Please, if you're a vigilante lawyer out there, if you could just file a lawsuit or look into that on Lorenzo's behalf. Yeah. File a cease and desist. Even if it's fake paperwork, just track down Lorenzo's address, send him off something with official letterhead, give him a bit of a scare. We'd love that. Simple nonprofit salary these days. I'm not like you big timers doing big things on...

on your on your podcast mine is a passion project that I do with a friend off to the side there's no no income coming in no revenue we're not getting ad sales yet I'm not partnering up with a famous golfer I'm not with Stu gots it's just it's just don't mess this up for me people if you want to check out what uh Charlie Hume is doing check out the smiley show with smiley Kaufman

It's a great podcast. Yeah, sue him. He's got the money. Great podcast. Yeah. So anyways... That was actually a fun diversion. I was actually supposed to be in Tahoe this week with Smiley and would have loved to say hey to Stu Gatz out there, but...

You know, as it happens, instead I'm sitting here with you on God Bless Football. So even better. I was going to say, you say this is like a downgrade situation. No, no, no, no. My voice crescendoed up. I went to upgrade. Let me ask you a question. How is it because you, as I followed you on socials, and I'm not sure if the fans of the show followed you on social, but you seem to be playing golf every weekend around the country. So how is it that this is the one golf tournament you weren't able to make it out to?

It's because I played so much golf leading into this week that I couldn't possibly make it to yet another golf tournament. That is it. That I don't know if that makes sense or not. I just got back from Scotland playing 13 rounds of golf over the span of eight days. And yeah,

I did shoot a 70. My best score ever to par. Congratulations. A little two under at Kings Barnes. It's good work out there. Yeah, Smiley banned me from going to Tahoe. He's like, you were playing too much golf. You need to spend some time with your family at home. I'm doing this for my family. I have a new mission. It's to get some relatability to you, and I'm failing miserably at doing that.

Do you have any swing thoughts for the audience? We'll get to that later. So look, here's the deal. I'm actually, Billy, I'm trying to go in the other direction. I'd like to sound as out of touch as possible. Despite the fact that Charlie Kravitz is now Old Money Charlie.

Yeah, there's a double Charlie situation. That's official. That's happening. There's some confusion because this was Old Money Charlie on the Levittard Show years ago, and people think that that's Charlie Kravitz now that he's in town. Anyways. He is. He is Kravitz. All white people look alike to me. Okay. So I have an I Can't Believe that we can go to later today. I also have a list of USA Today's NFL offseason grades. I have SI's ranking of the 12 teams that could actually win the Super Bowl, and I saw that Bill Barnwell put out, and Charlie, you're friends with Bill Barnwell,

Love him. I saw that Bill Barnwell put out a list of, he's ranked the 32 teams based on running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends. So those are all things that we can get to. Also, Mikey A has a new game of more Mike Lee that you guys might enjoy. So I don't know if you guys want to play that. Maybe some college sprinkled in this time. Ooh. Okay. And Lorenzo. I like the sound of that. Lorenzo has told me that he has his seventh and eighth B's of the episode. So we'll probably get to that at the end of this episode. We're doing it. Bibbidibbid.

big this time around. Seven and eight B's. Wow. We're back. God bless football. Beautiful. Lorenzo, what do you make of Mike Gundy comments? Mike Gundy? He's a man. He's 40. Well, he's probably like 48 now. 56.

56? Yeah, Mike Gundy's 56 now. We're old, man. Billy, can you give us the headline on Mike Gundy? Because what I took away from that was basically said that he drives drunk often. Was I off base? Was I off base there? Thousands of times. Okay. So what ended up happening, Mike Gundy's running back.

was pulled over and got a DUI because instead of a .08, he was driving with a .10. When asked about this, Mike Gundy said, and I'm paraphrasing, I looked it up, I put it in a calculator to figure out his weight and how many beers it would take. I think he said it was three to five beers that he must have had. He's like, I've done that thousands of times and just gotten lucky.

And then he went on to try to correct himself later on. And he said that he's done things a lot of times. He's done thousands. He's had thousands of mistakes that he's gotten away with. And he tried to kind of distance himself from that. Lorenzo, your thoughts.

I was joking there for a minute, but no, no, Mike Gundy, you can't have road beers and can't be drinking and driving, period. I don't care if you if you can pass the sobriety test. Like, no, what are we doing here?

You were the one talking about being a man. I'm 40. Come talk to me. That's not very responsible for a man of 40 or 58 or 18 or 19. Like, no, no, that's a pretty vanilla take Lorenzo. I think you can do better than that. I'm not going to advocate for, for drunk driving here on, on, on any podcast. Cause that's what I believe. No, thank you. Thank you. Lorenzo for,

being responsible. Lorenzo also has his voice modulator if at any point Lorenzo wants to change his voice. We can go to that. This is a serious conversation, Bill. Well, no, not for this. I wouldn't say it for this. I'm just saying because, you know, for those people who are missing Zobot or ZJ or any of those, Lorenzo can make an appearance. You want to do my I can't believe for this episode? Can I ask Lorenzo a follow-up question first? Sure. You're probably our most...

passionate fan of the group. Passionate? Yeah. No way. You get, you have some hot takes about the teams you support. You get a little bit irrational. Um, Gundy's not suspending Ollie Gordon, who's his best player. He had 21 touchdowns on the ground last year. If you were an Oklahoma State fan, how happy would you be about that? Can you put yourself in the fanatic mode of that, of... You gotta, you gotta have some suspense, some slap on the wrist. Set your morals aside and become an Oklahoma State fan. If you played for, if you played for, um, where, so where'd you go to college? FIU?

The few, the proud. So if he played for FIU, how would you feel? He's the best. Some people think he's the best running back in college football. He could be a Heisman favorite this season. I'd slap him on the wrist. Got to give him something. What he said the punishment was going to be is he's going to make him carry the ball 51 times in the first game. There you go. Tough love.

Are they opening against like a cupcake or something like that? Yeah. This one feels like the classic, like two quarters suspension against the cupcake. I think it's, you know, get on with our lives. I think it's South Dakota State, but they were undefeated last season. So not a cupcake. Not a gimme. Not a gimme. The Jackrabbits? Do you know that off the top of your head? I did indeed. Are you just flexing on the random college mascots that you know? We're on Stu Gatz's show. That's what we do. The Jackrabbits. It's our show.

Stu Gatz isn't here. Yeah, Stu Gatz isn't here. Okay. All right. All right. It's Billy's show, if anything. Nah. Me and Mikey. And Zoe, this is your audition to see if you want to be a regular on this show. And Fuentes when he can talk. Yeah, Fuentes can't talk today, unfortunately. When he's not playing Helldivers. Some of the fans may be happy about the Fuentes not talking situation, if we're going to be honest. But it's not for me to say. Guys, you want my I Can't Believe? First time in three years we've done an I Can't Believe. Please. Yes. Yes. Can't believe it's been that long. I Can't Believe. I Can't Believe.

that on Tuesday, after months and months of saying he wasn't going to do it, Arch Manning announced that he's going to be an EA College Football 25. I can't believe it. What was the size of the bag that they funneled to him? Who got to him, yeah. Yeah, yeah. How much money did it take, do you think? I think they were paying everybody like $600 or something is what they said. Right, but what did Manning get? How much did Arch really get, I guess, is the question here.

Mike Flanders is saying he got $50,000. I don't know if that's a report or that's his opinion. I'm going higher than that. Each player got $600 approximately, according to The Athletic, which, I mean, they have gobs of money. It's EA Sports, all right? They backed up the Brinks truck for Arch Manning. I don't know. Do you think that this is a thing that he demands a lot of money for, or is this a thing that him and his team are like, you don't want to miss this? Everybody is part of this. This is going to be a big thing.

People that don't even necessarily know you, let's say, because they're not big actual college football fans, but they're gamers or whatever, will play with your school and they're going to play with you. Like you're going to make it up as being part of this game and you'll miss the boat if you're not in it.

Did someone get to him and just be like, dude, you're trying to be too humble. Like you're trying to be like, oh, I don't want to be above the team because I'm a Manning. And they're like, no, just be part of this and just be part of what we're doing. So just stop it. Here's the thing that I don't know that you guys are aware of. But Mikey was there for this interview. So we spoke to Eli earlier.

I want to say like a year and a half ago. Thank you, Jabba Chamberlain. Yeah, we got him through Jabba Chamberlain, who was a regular on the show. That's a name I've not heard in many years. Jabba was a regular on the show. He'd come on every week. He'd make football picks. And he also was friends with Eli Manning. So he got Eli Manning on. We talked to Eli. And Arch, I think, had just committed to Texas at the time or was going back and forth, whatever. And we were talking to him about NIL because NIL had just started. And Eli told us,

that Arch was not going to be taking any NIL money. I was about to bring this up. He quietly started taking NIL money. Oh, he definitely did. After he got the good press. That was two years ago. Announcing two years ago. It was last April when he was at Texas for the spring game. He was like, won't be taking any NIL money. Zero. Zero.

Bill July signed his first NIL deal. Now it's rumored he's making more than Brock Purdy from NIL. So here's the thing that happened that you guys might find funny is that like – so Eli at the time, the way that he described the situation with NIL was, you know, we want him to not be worrying about all that stuff. Like go out there and prove it and earn his own money and not just take money because then there's added pressure. He already has a name. He already has that, right? So –

Eli was saying it as like, this is like a humble thing. He's not going to take it. And when the clip that he was on there, the clip that went out and like was a minor story or whatever, right, from Eli saying it, backfired because then everybody was saying like, this is typical white privilege. He's not taking money. Like it was kind of like a crazy backlash and it was actually negative towards him. Yeah.

That was fun. Those comments were fun. Yeah. Wasn't our best week. Are you guys going to play the game, right? I've pre-ordered the game. Of course.

Absolutely. I haven't played... I keep... I've actually been trying to get back into video games for the better part of a year and a half, and I just couldn't do it all the way. Although I did find my old PS2, playing a little Tiger 04. That game's a blast. But I'll say this. I think I'm coming all the way back for this game. Well, so here's the thing. The game comes out July 19th, but if you pre-order, you can get early access...

I believe July 16th. So next week, you can already play this game. And it's kind of like the talk of the sports, I guess, gaming world. Everybody's been so excited for years wanting this game. I'm at a phase that I don't have a gaming system that is compatible to this game. It's not coming up for the Switch, Billy. Yeah. So am I going to buy a PS5 or something to play this game? You are. No, I'm not. That's exactly what you're going to do. Dynasty. Dynasty.

Honest question. Can it live up to the hype? Like, it's just been so long and it's been talked about for so long that we're considered, Billy, I'm in the same boat as you. If it's not out on the Switch, I can't get it unless I spend $500 on a new PS, whatever it's up to. I didn't know Mikey was a Switch boy. Am I going to spend $500 on a game and it be worth it?

I just, you can't replace, I mean, just the feelings. Watching my boys in Carolina Blue running out of the tunnel at Keenan Memorial Stadium with the American flag in the front. I mean, that alone is going to be worth the price of admission. Like, I'm there for that. Now, I'll probably play it for like a week and a half and get bored and then get on with my life. Yeah. But,

That first week's going to be pretty electric. I feel like I'm just not... This is not... It sounds weird, but I feel like I'm not in a place in my life that I have time to just play college football all the time. That is my concern to an extent because if you remember the old 2014 EA NCAA football, as it was called back then, it was immersive. You had to recruit players. You had to keep them on the roster. You had to...

You had to build a program up from scratch. I like doing, as we mentioned, the aforementioned FIU, building them up from meager beginnings as Little Caesars bowl champs, make them national champs. But now you've got NIL factor in there. You've got a 12-game playoff system. Who knows how that's going to play out in the game.

You've got so many other wrinkles to it now that I don't know. I think it's going to consume our lives yet once again. I'm here for it. I don't have the time for it, but I'll figure out some way to do it. I'm excited. Bring me the mascot games too. I want the mascot game in there. If it doesn't have it, then it's not a NCAA football. As far as Arch Manning, by the way, he's going to get like –

If they didn't give him a nice little sweetheart deal to get in, they're going to give him all the perks, all the ultimate team cards. Like, you are the guy. This is your gold platinum card. That's so rare. Do it with a voice modulator. Yeah. Don't just change your voice. Arch Manning, this is your platinum ultimate team player. No, I don't like this one. I don't like that one. Hold on. What about Arch Manning? You're the ultimate team player. Nope, that's not it either.

Ultimate Team Partner Players!

Yes. Also, question for you all. What happens if Arch Manning is not the highly touted talent that he is being touted, like being promoted to be, right? He's a bust. If he becomes like a, if he becomes a somewhat mediocre college quarterback, a Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow was like one of the best quarterbacks in college history. Well, all right, I'm saying, but not a full quarterback. Change your voice for these questions. Heisman.

So how about this? Do a burning five questions. For like five years, six years. He's red shirting. Six years? Hold on. Zo, Zo, Zo. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Change your voice and have like Zo's burning arch questions. Yeah, yeah. What happens if Arch Manning stays for like five, six years at Texas? Just collecting a paycheck, getting NIL money, and you know, just sticking around because the pros, he's not going to do it there. He's not going to succeed there.

he's a tim tebow right what do you think i feel like i'm on the intro of like a bad rap song or something like we're like this is we're about to hit it the beat's about to drop and uh we're about to hear some like you know bubbly sound effects in the background god bless you so you think he's going to be like a miss like a bo nix yes yes what happens like i mean but what happens here he's just going to be there he's going to collect 12 pick bo nix yeah i mean

He's got a lot to live up to. Is he rated higher than the starter at Texas? Quinn Ewers. Ewers? No, I don't know. In the game? Yeah, do we know what the game ratings are yet? I think Quinn Ewers is like the fourth or fifth highest rated quarterback in the game. You know who the highest rated quarterback in that game is? Who's that? Arsene Beck. Shador Sanders. We got a real Bronny James situation going on with the player ratings in this game.

Shadur Sanders is the highest. I'm returning to the game. I want a refund. So this article that I'm looking at was written one hour ago, but Arch is not on here yet, or at least he's not in the top eight that they have here. So I see Shadur Sanders, Carson Beck, Quinn Ewers, Dylan Gabriel, Jalen Milrow, Jackson Dart, Jalen Daniels, and Caden Salter.

Jackson Dart's an incredible quarterback name. He's throwing darts. Yes. He's got quite the vibe, too. I think he's got long hair with a little blonde streak on one side.

He's got a very – it's very strange seeing a Southern California vibey guy playing for Ole Miss. Well, didn't he? He went to USC first, right? He did. He did. He transferred out of USC. Yeah. Zoe, did you find any Muppet football connections that you wanted to get to yet or not really? You got to expect better of me. Well, I mean, you had like three or four days notice that we were going to do this. I don't know exactly what you have prepared. I've got a list of football players who have appeared alongside the Muppets. Oh, how many do you have? Hmm?

Well, we got a lot of New York Giants. How many do you have? Cole Banks, Terrell, nope, that's the Bronco. Mark Ingram, Sean Lendetta, all appeared on Sesame Street. You got Tiki Barber, who showed up on season 40 of Sesame Street. Drew Brees, Reggie Bush as a New Orleans Saint. Lavernius Poles, also a Sesame Street fan.

Slow down. Terrell Davis, Tony Gonzalez, Ben Graham, Mean Joe Green wasn't on Sesame Street. He was on a thing called Muppet Magazine. I didn't even know that existed. Gotta look that one up. So was John Matuszak of the Raiders.

And, oh, the Man Genius. The Man Genius was on Sesame Street. Not a player. Muppet Magazine was a magazine. Did you read Terrell Davis there near the top? Did I hear you say Terrell Davis' name? Correct. Remember Terrell Davis? Terrell Davis was sick. Yeah.

Pro Palomalu did a little feature with Elmo about hair and sock puppets. He built a little sock puppet of his own. Jason Taylor, Hall of Famer Jason Taylor, when he was with the Washington football team. Oh, that sucks. What? Season 39 of Sesame Street. How about that? So you know who was on the cover? Also, the Muppets were co-hosts. Sorry, the Muppets were co-hosts of Monday Night Football, if you remember correctly, a season or two ago. What? Mm-hmm. The Muppets...

The Muppets were on Monday Night Football. Two seasons ago? True Disney synergy. They crammed them down the rest of America's throats. Who were the commentators? What's that? Who were the broadcasters? I believe Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy made appearances in the booth. I meant adult broadcasters. Human beings. I don't remember these things.

I know they went down to field with Gonzo. I think Gonzo the Great was down there. Fozzie was doing like... There's no way Joe Buck was tossing to Fozzie. That just didn't exist. This was pre-Joe Buck. Joe Tess might have done it, though. That sounds like a Joe Tess. And now we go live to...

Beaker and Bunsen Honeydew. That's actually not a bad Joe Tess. That's pretty good. Did you see Joe Tess? Sort of football related is now a WWE announcer as well. He's added that to his resume. That, Holy Moly. The Coachman Rowley Moly. Yeah. Is Holy Moly still on TV? I don't think so. It's still going? I don't think it is. It's a good show. I think it's on Netflix. Is it? Yeah, but those are like reruns, right?

I don't know. Holy Moly actually sent me one of, not me, but I ended up with it, sent the show one of the best promotional gifts ever.

that they send. So when shows are coming out or whatever, they'll send you like, here's a mug or whatever with our logo on it. I actually get all the time, and Lorenzo has become the greatest beneficiary of it, is I will get almost annually the Simpsons promotional material before their Halloween episode because I think that that's like their season premiere every year. And what always ends up happening is...

I don't think I'm even allowed to say this, but like I will share it with Lorenzo because I know how much the Simpsons mean to him and he's in the media. So I look forward to every October because of the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror. But I also love the little, it's like Christmas in October because Billy Gill sends me all these wonderful promo gifts. This one was a clipboard. He's a member of the media.

with art simpson's like x-ray on it okay put that away and uh and it comes loaded with candy i don't gonna get in trouble saying i gave you that it could be it's mailed it's shipped i don't know how so you know who was on the cover of the fall 1984 uh cover of muppet magazine take a guess 1984. no hollow notes no oh good good guess

It was Mr. T. We would be here all day if I continued that. With who? Who was he alongside? He was there with Fozzie Bear. Oh, no. He was there with Animal and Kermit the Frog. I would have put him next to Sweetums, the big guy. Okay.

See, I know the deep cut Muppets. Sweetums is the big guy. Oh, hey, everybody, that guy. I want to see Mr. T, Sweetums, Colabo. Which is a reminder, by the way, send us stuff. Oh, yeah, send us stuff. That's another segment we do. Send us stuff. It's been a while since we've done this. Send us Muppet stuff.

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I feel like a recurring thing. Maybe you can come on, you know, next week or the week after you can talk some tape with you and Stugatz is back. He'll ask you to make him some, you know, golf tee times or whatever. He'll get some favor out of you. You can watch golf tape too.

Swing video. That is true. A lot of different tape you could talk about. I've been grinding a lot of that tape lately. Gotta grind the tape. You watch your own golf tape? Have to. Do you? Have to. Must. You're a golf guy now, right? I'm terrible, but I love it. No, no, no. He's got a great swing. When are we doing our golf foursome that we've been talking about for years now? Mikey A., let me loop you in on this golf foursome that Lorenzo would like to do.

Lorenzo wants all of us to go to him and play golf with him in Buffalo. Great courses, great weather right now. He also told us about this. That's awesome. I assume he's buying the flights. He's doing none of that. Also, I forgot the part where I mentioned I have a nonprofit salary these days. That's not true. You,

We have old money Charlie who's down there in Miami right now with Billy who can afford it. You've got a modulator. Excuse me. You've got a modulator. You do have a modulator. That sounds money to me. That it took about six years for you to figure out, but you have thankfully figured it out. Or not thankfully because it was more fun when you couldn't figure out what you were doing. But you have multiple sources of income. You're also a wedding DJ. If people want to book Lorenzo to DJ their weddings in the greater Buffalo area, reach out to him. And from what I hear, you're a Trivia Night host free agent at the moment. Yeah.

And a rampant copyright infringer as well. That's true. DJ Boogeyman, so on the ones and twos. Hey, everybody, get on the dance floor. We're going to play a solid hit from the 70s. YMCA with the Village People.

You got to say we're throwing it way back. Can I? We're setting the clock way back. Wait, hold on. This is actually great because, Zoe, I don't think you know this. Mikey used to be in the wedding industry as well. Oh, yeah. Get out of town. Professional dancer. Mm-hmm.

I'm not kidding. I don't know why you're laughing. Wait, really? Really. Put your DJ voice back on so we can coordinate here. So, Mikey, you would agree with me. Being a DJ, if you were told that you can't dance at a wedding, that's torture for you. You're a dancer. Dancers like to dance. I look forward to weddings because I like to get with my missus and we just cut a rug on the dance floor. Yeah.

24 karat magic comes on, we're there. Valerie, we're there. If the music is not on par, we're not there and it's a horrible wedding. So being a DJ, you're providing the dance groove, but you can't dance yourself. The alcohol and the DJ make the wedding. That's right. The most important vital parts to any wedding...

People care too much about the food and the cake. No, no, it doesn't matter. Alcohol and DJ make the way. You need to find a Mikey for your situation, Zo. Yes, you do. A Mikey situation. Mikey, yeah. So what Mikey would do is he would go with the DJ, and I believe you would get the dancing started. You were the crowd, the party starter? I was the guy, yeah. Love it. The hype man. So what would you do? The hype man. How would you hype up Mikey to then hype up the crowd, Zo?

Well, I have a technique that I would employ because I too was the wedding hype man. I believe I'd gotten rave reviews from both Charlie Hume and Billy Gil's weddings. Like, hey, who's that guy on the dance floor? That guy was, he was sweaty as hell, but he really knows how to party. Did you make them play Baby Shark at Billy's wedding? Yeah, after the last song. I can't all be straight hits. After the last song. Also, people love Baby Shark. When you're at a wedding...

When you're at a wedding, then you consult with the DJ, like, what do you want the first dance to be? I would never play Baby Shark. What would be like a non-whatever? And then they're like, what do you want the last song to be? Like, that's like a last song, whatever, and you give them the last song. So we gave them the last song, the last song played, and then all of a sudden Baby Shark starts playing, and Lorenzo's in the middle of the dance floor, the happiest boy I've ever seen in the world. He was so excited. And your nephew, I believe, was thrilled about it.

Yeah, there was a child there that was very excited about it, too. I mentioned it. It was right during the Nationals run for the World Series. Which meant absolutely nothing at my wedding. That was their rally song. Yeah, but you lived in Washington, so it meant something to you, but to no one else at the wedding. You're a baseball fan. You should know this. You should appreciate good rally songs. No, I was aware. And my...

in my rehearsal dinner in Washington, we had like a, a banjo artist, whatever you call that. And Lorenzo was out like grabbing people and like, you know, just pulling people from the crowd and dancing with them to the point where I had numerous, numerous family members asked me if he was like paid entertainment. Like if he was, if he was with there with the banjo person, um,

And it was, yeah, he was delightful. I was pleasantly surprised. My wife had visiting family from Spain ask me who Lorenzo was at the party. And then my wife, when we were on our honeymoon, we were looking at pictures and videos and said to me, I feel like we were at Lorenzo's wedding. Whoa. Well, like we just threw Lorenzo a party. I feel like we were at his wedding.

First off, I didn't have a very mild, very intimate wedding. So, yeah, I like going to weddings, man. Yes, you did have a – He loves love. You had an intimate wedding, but that doesn't mean that you then make my wedding yours because you chose to have an intimate wedding. No, I did no such thing. I still have – Billy, I still have our photo booth picture of all four of us up on our refrigerator. You're welcome. I actually happen to love both of your weddings. I thought they were very tasteful, very nice. I've only been married once.

- What? - Well, you and Charlie. - Oh, gotcha. - What's both?

We're still waiting on the other nutshulls. A little pressure on Old Money Charlie over there. Yeah, Old Money, come on. You got the money, you got the cash. Charlie, I told you this off air, but I saw a comment on YouTube that was like, wow, Old Money Charlie looks like shit now. That was so funny as they just didn't know the difference between us. I think you look great, Kravitz. Mikey, you've failed us. You've gotten way off track. You want to play more Mike Lee? Sure. Sure.

I'll just get right into it. All right, so this is the way, guys, for those of you who are new to the proceedings in the audience and for the Charlies and Lorenzo, this is the way more Mike Lee works. Mike, you will give us a scenario, and then we tell him which one of those two options is more Mike Lee. Somehow I think Lorenzo is going to answer first and last. Yep. All right, so we're going to start with you, Charlie Hume, then. Okay. Who are you more Mike Lee to draft first in your fantasy draft, a running back or a wide receiver? Ooh.

This is a good question because I feel like it used to be there was there was PPR and non PPR. Shout out Allison Turner. But then there's this like this trend that's happened in the last couple of years, this half PPR thing that's going on. I don't quite know how to feel about it. I feel like that half point.

I'm usually most inclined to go receiver because most leagues I play in are the PPR, but with the half PPR thing and the general scarcity of good running backs, I think I might now lean in the running back direction these days. Dolly?

The Duke? I'm going to go with a wide receiver because I've drafted a running back first in the last two drafts and it's always burned me. So I'm going to go wide receiver this season. It also depends what pick you have, right? But that's like a whole other thing. Well, this is if you have the first pick. The first pick? Mm-hmm.

Who's like, is Christian McCaffrey the undisputed? Is he kind of still the guy? Some people are starting to climb on Bijan. I'm looking at an unnamed fantasy rankings for 2024, 2025. Mr. Christian McCaffrey is top of the list overall. Did you call him Mr. Christian McCaffrey? The next running back is Bijan, Mr. BJ Robinson, at seven. There's...

Six, five, no, five other rivalry years before him. So I'm all about the running backs right off the top. Have you seen the drop off after like the 10th best running back? It's slim pickings. And the more and more teams that go to committee, you have to go running back. They're hot commodities. That's my method.

I don't agree with whatever Charlie Crowett said in the break that I only draft based on bye weeks. That's absurd. Although you should look for it bye week because you're going to have a bad time if you have too many on the same bye week. But running backs. It sounds like you do that. Sometimes I do double running backs. It also does help when you have a farm system of your wife's players on her fantasy. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Yes.

Yes, yes, yes. I forgot about that. Bring it on, dude. Who's derailing the show here? Should I jump to running back or wide receiver first? Why not both? This is one of the greatest fantasy controversies of all time. When Lorenzo and Sarah try to rig the league and then subsequently try to gaslight us into thinking that we were being mean to them.

Oh, yeah. Unbelievable. You all are bullies? You are the bully. Hold on a second. Not enjoyable to play fantasy with. Time out. You were not enjoyable to play fantasy with. Me? Time out for a moment. You bullied E-Liz, Lorenzo. Time out. The nicest person ever. Time out. For E-Liz, really. Time out for a moment. Mikey, this is what happened. We had a fantasy... Impartial ruling here. This is what happened. We had a friends and spouses fantasy league that was going on. Sure. Awful idea. And...

We had a friends and spouses fantasy league that was going on. It was us. It was our friend Allison. It was her husband. It was all of our wives. There's a couple people in it, right? So what happened was is like any fantasy league, we're just kind of like talking crap to each other the entire time. And then some people's spouses were taking it more seriously than others.

Not to say who was, who wasn't. Some people were taking it more seriously than others. Some people were trying and some people were just existing to gift their spouses all of the best players in the league. And what happened was... This is awfully rich. This is just lies. There's a waiver. I haven't even said... There was a trade proposal. I have yet to say a single thing, so I don't see how you can say there's been any lies. Not a word has been said. What was the trade proposal aspect of it?

Allison Turner's husband tried to trade Lorenzo for Justin Fields. Yes, Justin Fields was picked up. This was Justin Fields' first year. It was the year that he had all the big running games. Halfway through the year, he was like QB1. Yes, exactly. But the first half of the year, no one rostered him, essentially. So Lorenzo, who was in last place, rostered him. Lorenzo rostered him because he had the first waiver wire pick.

But wasn't playing him, if I remember correctly. Oh, it was me that was down there at the bottom. Excuse me. I needed to do something. Excuse me. I needed to shoot my team in the arm. Excuse me. You had him benched. You weren't playing him. Yeah, because I wanted him for trade value. Excuse me. You turned down trade value to give him that. Who'd you trade him to? My wife. For nothing. In exchange for nothing. No, not true. Not true for A.A. Ron.

And who else was... He made the trade for nothing. He turned down legitimate trade proposals. And this was also done... And he subsequently admitted, and he will now say that he didn't admit this, he subsequently admitted that the only reason he picked up Justin Fields is because his wife's waiver wire order was too low to actually get...

Justin Fields. So he picked up Justin Fields, immediately traded Justin Fields to his wife who couldn't pick up Justin Fields. And then denied all of this wrongdoing. And called to yell at us. He didn't tell us that his wife was also on the phone. Correct. Called to yell at us on speakerphone without us knowing that his wife was on the phone with him. And then made a whole thing out of it. It got to the point... You started making names. Excuse me. You started...

It got to the point that our league commissioner said,

was threatening and was so flustered and frustrated with this situation that our league commissioner was a moment away from deactivating the league in the middle of the season. So there's literally two ways. Which would have been the absolute best ending to this story. There are two ways to ruin a fantasy football league. One is to have a league full of zombie owners where no one checks the league, which is fine because we're all friends. It doesn't matter. It's just a banter anyway. The other way is to collude and make it not fun. With your wife. But,

With that said, this is the greatest content possible. So you colluded, ruined the league, but gave us great content. Listen, it was bound to happen. If not me, one of you would have traded with your wife and then we'd be like, oh, you guys are colluding. You guys wouldn't have crossed anyone else's line. No, and what ended up happening is Charlie ended up playing his wife in the championship and they took home the money for first and second place. So it didn't even matter.

And he ran his wife's team. I did not. I did not. I didn't know such thing. No one cares. We're playing. Guys, respect more Mike Lee. You ran her team. Guys, respect more Mike Lee. We're playing more Mike Lee. Mike, can we get a ruling? Is it still more Mike Lee? Can we get a ruling? The league was also disbanded after the season and we never played in a season. I don't think I like more Mike Lee anymore. This game is very. All right. How about if I bring it back for you for more Mike Lee? Okay. Please.

Okay. More Mike Lee to sign with an NFL team. Fozzie Bear or Animal? God, why are you humoring him? See how I did that? You know what? It's got to be Animal, right? I mean, Animal's an animal. I mean, you could line up Animal on the edge.

He's going to be tough to be coachable. That's going to be the biggest hurdle. He comes with some character issues. You've got to figure that piece out. A lot of penalties. A lot of penalties. Unsportsmanlike conducts. I would also think that Fozzie would be not the best to be coachable either.

Fozzie seems like someone that's hard to get things through to Fozzie. He's on the line for me. He's in the trenches. Fozzie is or Animal is? No. Animal is pass rushing. He's coming in. But hold on. This isn't a Muppet League. They're playing against NFL players. So Fozzie will be on the line. Obviously.

So you think Fozzie will stop someone on the line? Fozzie is a bear. And a puppet. Fozzie is a bear. A dancing bear. He's literally a dancing bear. Yeah. Is this like the live action version of Muppets? Like, is Fozzie an actual bear? Does that change my answer? Nope. Nope. That's not how Muppet rules work. Muppets are always in the real world, people. That's not how Muppet rules work.

work like have you not seen muppets take manhattan muppets the muppet movie muppets christmas carol so upset i asked this question yeah they're just they're just there they're part of our world people wait this is this is a good question why should we explain this should there be should there be like a meta like live action version of the muppets absolutely even though they exist in the real world so they'd be like another muppets movie where they where they're like real life approximations of what they are as muppet cartoons the hub i think i'd watch that human puppets

Like a real frog for Kermit? A real pig? Zoe, who would you pick? Oh, Animal. Animal. You also screamed at Charlie for doing that exact same thing. That's what we do. I want to make sure he's sure about his answer. I, too, think both. I mean, Fozzie Bear, good mechanics, very big build. Do we have another more? Do we have another more, Mike Lee? I have one more, Mike Lee. You ready? Yes.

More likely to make the college football playoff their first year in the new conference. USC, Oregon, Washington, Texas, or Oklahoma? Let me write these down. USC, Oregon. Oregon, Washington. All of those three went to the Big Ten. Texas and Oklahoma went to the SEC. Who is more likely to make the college football playoffs out of those? Out of those? Multiples can make it.

Yeah, but who's the most Mike Lee? I like USC's chances. Ah, USC? You got to go play some Big Ten away games when it's cold? Get punched in the mouth? I don't know about that. If they do it, they're worth going to the playoffs. There's 12 teams this year. Kravitz has something. Kravitz has something. Yeah, I want to hear Kravitz. I was with Charlie Hume there. Soft, soft USC Pac-12 team going into the big house. Candy ass. No shot. Candy ass. With that said, I'm picking Oregon.

I love Oregon. I love that pick. Because it is cold. It's cold up there in Oregon. They're going to do great. Yeah. I mean, the Big Ten's not going to know what hit them when they see all those points. Yeah. Plus, they've never seen uniforms that flashy in the Big Ten. Ever. Chrome helmets against Ohio State and Michigan. It's going to be mind-blowing. Big noon start. Big glare off the helmets. The other team's got no clue. They can't see anything at all. The idea of passing on first or second down. It's going to be mind-blowing in the Big Ten. I'm starting to fall in love with Oregon. Yeah.

Yeah. You brought up being a soft team for USC, and you brought up the weather, but they also play Oregon. They also play— Lorenzo, did you watch USC play last year? No. USC does not play defense. Or have an offensive line. Other than that, they're great, though. Lorenzo, now you say your piece. They got— Ooh, Oregon-Iowa next year. That's going to be fun. This argument is, they got—

Who do they got? I just petered out. I have no idea who's on the USC roster. I just like their, I like the V for victory. The Trojans go Trojans. The guy that comes out and throws the, like the, the, the, the, no, that's Lance. That's the, that's the Trojans. Tommy Trojan, the Spears Florida mixed up with the Florida state guy. Golly Lorenzo. No, it's Seminole.

Yeah, but he does the spear into the field. There's a spear. My college rankings are based on their mascots. And you don't even know the mascots. He likes a big buffalo. I meant a Trojan with a sword, not a spear. What are your thoughts on Ugga? Yeah, what do you think about Ugga? Actually, I have an important question for you, Zoe. So you are a fan of Muppets and Puppets. How do you feel about live animal mascots? Love them. I love the aspect of danger that comes with them.

Sure, others, and ask Ron McGill, I'm sure he hates it, but I love the fact that you got a freaking tiger on the sidelines just waiting, just salivating, seeing everybody walking by. There's no tigers. Actually, Mikey the Tiger, I think, is no longer sideline. But, like, you got Bevo.

a freaking bull just like waiting to just trample people. You got a bulldog that thankfully is pretty tame, but I mean, yeah, it's part of the chaos and anarchy of college football that there's live animals on the sidelines. Lorenzo Rodriguez, if PETA is interested in contacting you. Nope. No more lawsuits. But Mike Gundy can't have three beers. Huh. Interesting. Very inconsistent from you, Lorenzo. Did you expect anything else? For the record, Mike the 7th is still around.

Yeah, why'd you kill that dog? Yeah, but he's not on the field. They have him in a cage off field, right? Does he come on? Do they bring him back onto the field anymore? I thought they stopped doing that. Okay, we can talk about this on our own time. Guys, do we have anything else before we wrap up the episode this week? Lorenzo, you still have your 7th and 8th Bs. Charlie has a serious football question, and Charlie Hume wants to talk some tape. Talk some tape. Yeah. You want to talk some tape?

Let's talk some tape. This is a football podcast after all. So I've just been seeing this on Twitter, all these videos floating around. I guess it's from the Giants being on hard knocks, and they have Brian Dable talking shop with all these quarterbacks. I saw one with Jaden Daniels. The one that piqued my interest, of course, is the Tar Heel was the Drake May snippet. It was making a lot of fan bases regret.

Not taking my guy earlier. I don't know how many... I mean, I guess it really was only a handful of teams that had a chance to. But Kravitz, you saw this. These clips are electric, right? I'm a Commanders fan. So I am the target audience. And I had a wave of dread watching that clip and the Jaden Daniels clip. You had Drake May immediately...

Break down, audible, on the board, know what to do against man coverage. And when it got to Jaden Daniels, he redrew the play and Brian Dable asked him where to go with the ball. And he was like, I'm just going to throw a touchdown in that play. Dable was like, oh, good answer. But it was really, I don't know where the hell I'm throwing the ball. That play was the answer. Yeah, Drake was done a...

True disservice by the North Carolina. Well, how far do I want to go score certain on this? They really and truly like Drake May should have won the Heisman and made the college football playoff both years there. And he was let down in a number of different ways. So, Drake, we're sorry, but you're still the greatest quarterback in school history. I have a big bone to pick about the Heisman, too.

I don't think it's the spirit. I thought Marvin Harrison Jr. should have won it this year. But I don't think it was the spirit of the award that you had Jaden Daniels and Bo Nix. And I can't remember who the other third really. Oh, Michael Penix Jr. as the top three candidates, all of whom shouldn't have still even been in college football. It's not the spirit of the award. It's not the most outstanding sixth year college player. It's wrong. I like that. It's a good take.

Does Zoslav have his headphones on? Oh, sorry. I was preparing for the 7th B. Sorry. You don't have it done? Well, there's an added component. Can I ask one follow-up from the Dayball thing? Yeah. It hasn't come out yet, but he swears he could run a sub-7 second 40. He lost a lot of weight, didn't he? He was also a college safety.

Am I wrong to think it's ridiculous that he would run over a 7'40"? If he played safety in college? Yeah, 7 seems really slow. He is 49. Has he had any significant surgeries on his legs or anything? I don't know who I think would have the answer to that question. Just kind of throwing it out there. Just Google Brian Dable knee surgeries. Yeah, okay. Thank you. Thank you, Charlie. Yeah, got you covered, bud. Yeah.

I think he could go sub seven pretty easily. I think he might go sub six. What does Rich Eisen run when he's in his suit? Maybe six two even? Yeah, I thought it was like a six or a seven, yeah. Yeah. Rich Eisen's 40 time. Oh, okay. It fluctuates. So I have in 2017, it was six two. In 2018, it was five nine seven. In 2019, it was six flat. In 2020, it was 5.98. Okay.

And I don't know why. So if he's running five nines, Dable has to be around there. I think he's selling himself short. Sub six could be the goal. Last season, I know, I guess Eisen's getting slower with age. In 2023, he ran a six two. Yeah, Dable's going to be quicker than that. I want to see Dable run it in the official combine uniform. Hmm. Hmm. All right. So it's your time to shine, buddy. Seventh B and eighth B. Wow, boys, it wouldn't be a B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B.

foray here or outing if we didn't have a seventh hold on a second before you go any further uh mikey how do you think this went today we have one minute left um well i mean i thought it was pretty good i thought we went off the rails a little bit a little bit i probably should have stayed away from that muppet question it's okay seconds yeah here we go sorry 50 seconds seven this is not enough to honor the seven we'll take it pretty good seventh and eighth b seventh b is uh it's the bear

And no, I'm not talking about hit Hulu shows. I'm talking about a very special bear. Anybody? Anybody? Fozzie Bear. Chris Felica. Not Folly. Nope. Golden Bear. Nope. Great bears, though, but you have 50 seconds. Remember, only you can prevent forest fires. Smokey the Bear.

Smokey the Bear is 80 years old this year. Wow. Started in 1944 as a public service mascot. Some don't know the history of Smokey the Bear, but in 1944, what were we in? World War II. And there

There was an unfortunate fire that started as a result of 9,000 hydrogen balloons that were sent over from Japan and started a fire. Unfortunately, there were some casualties, but a big, big preoccupation in the United States about fire prevention. And who do we bring in? None other than Bambi. Bambi was first the face. Bambi the 8th B?

That's another B. There you go. Bambi's got two B's in B. You can just take care of both of them. Bambi was the first mascot assigned to tell people about stopping their forest fires and just fire prevention safety until the Disney contract expired. And then in came the creation of Smokey the Bear. There was a fire in New Mexico in the 1950s, and the lone survivor was this little tiny cub who became Smokey.

Wait, I was going to ask my tee-off question after that. As far as pitchmen and pitch animals, is Smokey's on the Mount Rushmore for sure? No. Who else? Not even close. No way. All right, give me. I mean, Flo from Progressive is definitely on there. Smokey is a top four mascot of all time. Yes. Not a chance. He's saying pitch persons or animals. Pitch beings.

pitch tony the tiger tony the tiger is got is like your a1 yeah that's first round mickey mouse tony the tiger toucan sam what is mickey mouse pitching oh no disney awful no you have a podcast bibbidi bobby buds yeah he doesn't need to pitch them so where's the beef lady so it's a good one mikey a where's the beef hmm flow ronald mcdonald the bear yeah ronald mcdonald yeah

Mr. Clean. There are these people. Mr. Clean. Mr. Clean is a... What about the Michelin tires guy? That's a great one. The Boudwiser frogs. So not even close to accurate. I'm not sure Smokey is top 20. Not even close to top 20. Can I ask you, what is Smokey's product?

He's alerting you to the dangers of fire. The prevention of forest fires. Awareness. That's not a product. He's selling you awareness. Yeah, safety. He's more of a cautionary tale. A green environment, healthy and free of wildfires. Is Smokey at Mount Rushmore a bear mascot? No. I don't think so. Let's get into that one. Top bear mascots. What other bears are there? What about the golden... The golden... The golden graham bear. Berenstain bears. Golden graham bears.

Berenstain Bears. A lot of people misspell Berenstain Bears. Yeah, that's true. No, don't do that. Don't get us started on that. Don't get us started on that one. Ooh, Gummy Bears. Gummy Bears. But who's the pitch bearer for that? Gummy. Care Bears. Ooh, Care Bears. Yeah, that's true. A lot of bears. Anyways, what's your eighth B? This is... Oh, this one's not as...

Not as fun as Joby. It's not as Joby. It's Bronny James. Enough of the coverage, man. Enough Bronny James stuff. I saw a headline the other day on the main page that Carmelo's son thinks. Way to pick a great one to go out on, though. Really strong one. The Cola Polar Bear. I should have gotten. Oh, that's a good bear. That's a good bear. Coke Polar Bear is a good bear. Great bear. Yep. Great bear. I should have started with Bronny and my rant on Bronny. What about Winnie the Pooh?

Oh, he's a bear. A lot of people forget that. Who is a bear? Yeah. Not Tigger. He's just a Tigger. Well, he's a tiger. He's the only... No, he's not a tiger. He's just a Tigger. Okay. The wonderful thing about Tiggers are Tiggers are a wonderful thing. And he goes at the end, I'm the only one.

Do you have a voice modulator for Tigger? I don't. I wish I did. I got to train like the AI machine thing. You can replicate voices. That's my next. Whose voice are you going to replicate? I don't know. Maybe old money Charlie. To do what? Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse. Good bear. Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Somebody suzo. Yogi Bear talking about wildlife. And Boo Boo. And Boo Boo. Both of them probably more well-known than... Who was yours? Smokey. Smokey. Smokey. So on the way out, do your DJ voice and introduce Mikey. Stand by. All right, good. Wait, which? Mikey A or Mike Fuentes? Whoever you want to. Yes. Both of them. Both of them. Yes. They're both tired of you. They're coming out. They're coming out together. Yeah. Ooh, yeah.

A man known for his hell diving experience and number one in the Super Earth rankings, Mike Fuentes! Dropping a hell bomb on this dance floor. I don't have that drop, sorry. I can't do it. I'll do my own bomb effect. And then Mikey A. And backing him up with his sick dance moves. What happened? Mikey A. Well done. I'm hyped. That's great.

Zoes for hire if you want to make your special day. You need some money because you have to pay for a lawsuit pretty soon. No, please don't do that to me. Bibbidi-bobbidi-broke. Is there a minute left like four hours ago? I have kids. A coach who knows the game can teach their team how to improve. But one who genuinely cares about each player can inspire them to win.

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