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trying to give up. his dolphin

2:01

information, get it out there before

2:03

the draft tonight, before we do

2:05

that, however, do you guys have

2:08

any interest in hearing Ed Orgeron

2:10

speaking French? The swamp creature, the

2:12

Creole creature, I see him all

2:14

the time down here in South

2:17

Florida jogging right on the beach,

2:19

he's always around shirtless. Let's hear

2:21

Ed Orgeron, since you all nodded

2:24

vigorously, let's hear Ed Orgeron speaking

2:26

French. That's always what he's wearing.

2:28

That's great. Since he retired and

2:30

left as a champion in disgrace

2:33

from LSU. Oh Miami! With a

2:35

whole bunch of crimes in the

2:37

rear view mirror, he's always either

2:40

wearing that or not even that

2:42

shirt as he jogs very red,

2:44

pink and kind of muscular, but

2:46

also a bit inflated as he

2:49

huffs past jogging off whatever he

2:51

drank the night before. I actually,

2:53

I have a bad feeling Greg

2:56

about your exactos tonight. Yeah. I

2:58

don't know if you're gonna get

3:00

that many. During the break and

3:03

after we talked to Diana I

3:05

saw some more reports come out

3:07

about like oh we're pretty sure

3:09

this player is going to go

3:12

here blah blah blah and I'm

3:14

worried that you publish too soon

3:16

and now I'm a little anxious

3:19

for you. I am I am

3:21

very confident in my first five

3:23

or six but but the problem

3:25

with that is that one surprise

3:28

has a domino effect but can

3:30

I hear the first five or

3:32

six? Yeah in order Cam Ward

3:35

Travis Hunter Abdul Carter Abdul Carter

3:37

Abdul Carter. will Campbell the tackle

3:39

to new england and mason gram

3:41

by far the best uh... interior

3:44

if we if we can let

3:46

you make some changes i'd be

3:48

will right now to publicly allow

3:51

you to make the changes and

3:53

then claim them as exactos tomorrow

3:55

because you don't do multiple drafts

3:58

but you already know that some

4:00

of your information is bad right

4:02

has changed what would you change

4:04

if you had a do-over right

4:07

now let's give you that do-over

4:09

well I'm not going to take

4:11

it because I don't change if

4:14

I were I'm very nervous about

4:16

as Diana said I'm very nervous

4:18

about Shador Sanders to the Saints

4:20

at nine so if you could

4:23

I would drop Shador Sanders. I'm

4:25

not sure if I would keep

4:27

Will Johnson the cornerback from Michigan

4:30

as the Dolphins pick at 13.

4:32

I think the Dolphins are getting

4:34

a little bit nervous that he

4:37

had sort of a down senior

4:39

year with an injury. His sophomore

4:41

and junior years, he was the

4:43

best DB in the country. He

4:46

would have been like a top

4:48

five guy. Absolutely. Chris Cody seems

4:50

to have better information in the

4:53

Cody family about what the dolphins

4:55

are doing. He too is a

4:57

journalist, as much of a journalist

4:59

as Zazlow and his father. What

5:02

are you reporting from your inside

5:04

sources? Now I've been thrown a

5:06

few names that the dolphins are

5:09

considering. I don't know if I

5:11

want to say the names, how

5:13

this works. Let me say my

5:15

first part and then you guys

5:18

can dig deeper. I'm confident that

5:20

the pick at the Dolphins make

5:22

at 13 will come from one

5:25

of two schools Michigan or Texas

5:27

Okay, so it's one of the

5:29

corners. Well, I'm I have a

5:32

list of five names and it's

5:34

all from those two schools that

5:36

I think that one of those

5:38

five guys will be a dolphin

5:41

I know maybe that's not going

5:43

out on the limb, but that's

5:45

what I'm reporting Right, but I

5:48

also have five names on my

5:50

list of players that they would

5:52

consider if available at 12. 13.

5:54

And those players are Houston tackle,

5:57

Calvin Banks, Alabama Guard, Tyler Booker,

5:59

South Carolina Safety. Nick Ammon Worry,

6:01

Texas cornerback Jade Barone, and

6:04

defensive lineman Walter Nolan from

6:06

Ole Miss. The last 12 seconds are

6:08

why I hate this week. What? They're

6:11

J&R. He's just reading names

6:13

poorly. I'm reading names that I think

6:15

the Dolphins... Just could possibly be. Reading

6:17

names poorly that he hasn't broken down.

6:20

I'm sorry I'm not perfect like you.

6:22

Keep an eye on. Really aspiring though.

6:24

Keep it on Mason Graham, defensive tackle

6:26

from Michigan, and Kenneth Grant, defensive tackle.

6:28

You understand why. There is no way

6:30

Mason Graham drops to 13. Put that

6:32

in the bank. No way nobody would

6:35

deposit that there's not a bank zero

6:37

chance I would go right into my

6:39

bank right now and say I want

6:41

to deposit May Mason Graham going higher

6:43

than 13 and they would say yes,

6:45

sir Where is he going or say

6:47

where you have him? He's going He's

6:49

going he's going number five to Jacksonville Zezz

6:51

you want to jay off with them?

6:53

What are you here? How many names you

6:55

got how many schools? Greg, do you

6:57

understand why I hate that? You

7:00

grab a couple of Athlon's magazines,

7:02

you read a couple of Shrager's

7:04

drafts and Mel Kiper's drafts, and then

7:06

you make your pets. It's draft day.

7:09

It's not like we've been doing this

7:11

for the last like three months, like

7:13

let us have a couple hours on.

7:15

We're not even doing this for the

7:18

last like three months, like let us

7:20

have a couple hours on. We're not

7:22

even like in the studio streaming. Like

7:24

in the studio streaming. still make

7:26

a magazine. Yes. Okay. I haven't

7:28

read Athlons in... 30 years. It's

7:30

not plural. I think it's Athlon.

7:33

Okay, whatever bad name. Then again,

7:35

I thought the athletic was a

7:37

bad name and that worked out

7:39

pretty well. I purposely, especially the

7:41

closer it gets to the draft,

7:43

I purposely do not read other

7:45

drafts because I don't want to be

7:47

overly influenced. Do I read drafts in

7:49

the buildup like a month ago? Of

7:52

course I do. And certain people I

7:54

respect like field Yates of ESPN who's

7:56

a guest on the Greg Cody show.

7:58

He's got some good Intel. respect him,

8:01

I read his draft, but mine are

8:03

different. Mel Kuiper and I have 10

8:05

of the same 32 picks, meaning 22

8:07

of our picks are different, so we'll

8:10

see. They're different, but I'm going to

8:12

go ahead and say that if they

8:14

were exactly the same, you'd change it

8:17

just so they wouldn't be. And you

8:19

think the odds of us picking 32

8:21

same... I'm saying he influences you. I'm

8:24

saying you don't sit out the kiper

8:26

information. I say you use it, you

8:28

use it discriminantly. I read a half

8:31

a dozen drafts that I respect, but

8:33

when it comes down to, I think

8:35

mock drafts are the most overthought of

8:38

process in sports. When it comes down

8:40

to it, you pick a team's draft

8:42

needs and best available at that position.

8:45

I know I'm in the minority on

8:47

this and I have been for about

8:49

10 years as this thing has grown

8:52

into a seismic event that is a

8:54

celebration of the sports fans love of

8:56

the transaction like I know that I

8:59

am largely alone in preferring games with

9:01

action tonight than the hope trafficking of

9:03

some team may or may not have

9:05

gotten better I'll find out in a

9:08

few months but I'll give you my

9:10

very strong opinions right now and none

9:12

of us will know anything for a

9:15

few months it's part of the reason

9:17

that I don't celebrate this the way

9:19

that you guys do. But the thing

9:22

that baffles me truly is I know

9:24

Mina Kimes to be someone who has

9:26

a wild diversity of interests and there's

9:29

nothing she cares about more than mock

9:31

drafts. And I don't get it. Like

9:33

it's just simply something that I have

9:36

no link to being attached to. Perhaps

9:38

it's because she enjoys the sport of

9:40

football and sports are fun. Hypothesizing where

9:43

a player who is fun to watch

9:45

and was very good in college playing

9:47

a sport that's fun to watch may

9:50

play in the pros and be fun

9:52

to watch is a fun exercise. Agreed

9:54

if I could watch them play tonight

9:56

and see if the team's any better.

9:59

But you're adding, you're seeing your team

10:01

add people. in real time and you

10:03

can get excited to inform people about

10:06

upside. It's the biggest sport in America.

10:08

College football is the second biggest sport

10:10

in America. You're adding guys from one

10:13

sport to the next. I get it.

10:15

It's like. You know, it's like sharing

10:17

lineup rumors for a music festival. You

10:20

just get pumped for it. That's what

10:22

mock drafts are. It's just all a

10:24

ramp to tonight. I think it's a

10:27

great night and trafficking in Hope is

10:29

the number one drug of sports fans.

10:31

It's what sports fans do. It is,

10:34

but I would just simply say to

10:36

you when I put them next to

10:38

each other in terms of my getting

10:41

what sports fans want from their content.

10:43

When we're talking about the love of

10:45

the transaction, Chris Haynes, speaking this strongly,

10:48

as I've heard no one speak, about

10:50

a star that I know will make

10:52

any team better upon arrival, this kind

10:54

of talk, I understand when this is

10:57

the hope trafficking. Will Janus finish his

10:59

career in Milwaukee? I don't think so.

11:01

I don't think so. You know, this

11:04

is going to be a pivotal playoff.

11:06

There's 2025 playoffs for the Milwaukee Bucks.

11:08

It's gonna be pivotal. You know, will,

11:11

if they don't get to the finals,

11:13

win the finals, or even make a

11:15

deep run, you can probably see some

11:18

wholesale changes going on in Milwaukee from.

11:20

You know you can go from coaching

11:22

staff from front office to the players

11:25

like it can be a pretty big

11:27

significant wholesale if Milwaukee Bucks don't make

11:29

a significant run this postseason. Could you

11:32

see them trading? Yeah, I could see

11:34

them going in a different direction and

11:36

yeah I can see I can see

11:39

that possibility if things go sour this

11:41

postseason fish. Eagles had a hell of

11:43

a draft last year. And it had

11:46

drafted players who contributed to the winning

11:48

of a championship, but it took six

11:50

months to get there after the draft.

11:52

This, when this trans- action makes an

11:55

appearance is instantaneously hopeful in a way

11:57

that I get more than I understand

11:59

what we're doing tonight. I don't understand

12:02

you're playing both sides. You literally... took

12:04

part in the hype for a transaction

12:06

while moments before lamenting the hype because

12:09

this is a player I know instantaneously

12:11

makes someone better I don't know anything

12:13

about tonight making anyone better okay but

12:16

that's on you there's not on me

12:18

no one does oh really well I

12:20

was super hyped about Baker Mayfield going

12:23

to the Browns and it ended up

12:25

working out until it didn't but like

12:27

that's what people that's what sports fans

12:30

do they watch guys in college they

12:32

say I think this guy's gonna be

12:34

really good and they'll get confirmation bias

12:37

one way or another, but it's a

12:39

way to get hyped. I'm not sure

12:41

that it's a competition though. Like we

12:43

can get hyped over the transaction where

12:46

you're making a trade or you're signing

12:48

a free agent superstar like you just

12:50

heard right there or we can get

12:53

excited about the hope that something like

12:55

the NFL draft or even the NBA

12:57

draft brings like I don't think it's

13:00

a competition. One thing I think is

13:02

that there's not much difference between somebody

13:04

speculating about Janus's future and somebody speculating

13:07

about who the Giants are going to

13:09

take it number three. It's the same

13:11

thing. in this draft because it isn't

13:14

a great draft because there isn't a

13:16

sure fire quarterback i think there's gonna

13:18

be a lot of drama tonight that's

13:21

unexpected when shadoor sanders start falling and

13:23

all of a sudden it appears he

13:25

might not even go in the first

13:28

round that's a huge story that's gonna

13:30

dominate the draft somebody's gonna take a

13:32

guy in the top 10 or 12

13:35

that nobody had going in the first

13:37

round. That's a good story. Travis Hunter

13:39

is going to be picked number two.

13:41

His dad's prison sentence was delayed so

13:44

he could attend the draft. That's a

13:46

human interest story that draws me into

13:48

what's going to get. I wonder how

13:51

much coverage that's going to get tonight.

13:53

Zazlow, it is a competition in this

13:55

respect. It's paperwork. It's accounting. It's additions.

13:58

I don't get it. Like dude, okay,

14:00

you don't like it. I love World

14:02

Cup draws. They're not playing the games

14:05

that night, but I get to know

14:07

what the games are gonna be. I

14:09

hate schedule stuff too. Okay. I'd like

14:12

to do anything. But I know that's

14:14

it's like. No, play the games. That's

14:16

the doing of things. All this is

14:19

front office transactions. Well, guess what? Give

14:21

us, give us Nick's Pistons preview then.

14:23

I'm ready for it. I like the

14:26

games too. Like, I like, I like,

14:28

I like the hype for the games.

14:30

I like sports. I like the fun

14:33

outfits. I like seeing the fans. I

14:35

like the music. Doo, doo, doo, doo,

14:37

doo. playoffs tonight and the NFL draft

14:39

will dominate it in the ratings, okay?

14:42

But that's a whole lot more about

14:44

the sport we're talking about as opposed

14:46

to the hope trafficking in the transactions

14:49

because if you flipped it and you

14:51

did a show with NBA transit, NBA

14:53

trades or NBA free agency is going

14:56

on at the same time an NFL

14:58

game, a game is going on just

15:00

like tonight, but you flip the sports.

15:03

The NFL game is going to crush

15:05

this transaction show that the NBA is

15:07

putting on. Everything except the decision, which

15:10

got 10 million fans a football type

15:12

of, and if Janice did that tonight,

15:14

if Janice did that tonight, it would

15:17

also be something that would rival a

15:19

football game. I would say if you

15:21

were combining, like, because the NFL draft

15:24

also often includes, we talked about Kirk

15:26

Cousins earlier, like there are these big

15:28

names that could potentially move, if you

15:30

basically took all of the NBA's transact.

15:33

all the free agency all the trades

15:35

the draft and put it all within

15:37

the span of three or four days

15:40

like this it might do well on

15:42

a random NFL weekend the NFL is

15:44

so much bigger not it's not gonna

15:47

happen on a playoff weekend right it

15:49

will and that's what I'm saying but

15:51

it's it's the combination of you're also

15:54

taking all of the best players from

15:56

a sport that we love in college

15:58

football and telling us what they're the

16:01

next state of their futures are going

16:03

to be so it's not just the

16:05

hope trafficking for the NFL it's if

16:08

you're a college football fan you're getting

16:10

to see where some of your favorite

16:12

players are about to start their careers

16:15

and that is exciting. The NBA and

16:17

the NHL playoffs last for two months.

16:19

They've just begun, no game played tonight

16:22

is going to decide anything, whereas the

16:24

NFL draft is a once a year

16:26

enterprise. They call it the off-season Super

16:28

Bowl because it is mammoth in terms

16:31

of interest, in terms of the intersection

16:33

of NFL and college football, America's two

16:35

favorite sport. It's going to be highly

16:38

rated for a reason. People adore it

16:40

and should. I'm looking forward to it.

16:42

Yeah, like also the WMA draft the

16:45

last two years over a million people

16:47

watched this year over two million people

16:49

watched last year. It's not just the

16:52

NFL. It's sports where you have hugely

16:54

popular players playing a college sport. You

16:56

want to see what they do the

16:59

next year. It's pretty normal, I think.

17:01

And it's about moments too. Like you

17:03

may not know what finished product you're

17:06

getting, but if the Falcons draft Michael

17:08

Pennix, after they just gave Kirk Cousins,

17:10

one of the biggest contracts at the

17:13

position in NFLicic event. in that sport.

17:15

And it's just a thrilling made for

17:17

television event and I understand you don't

17:20

know whether or not these players are

17:22

going to be good. You could say

17:24

that about damn near everyone in this

17:26

draft. But let's not pretend like fans

17:29

aren't right a lot more too than

17:31

we're giving them credit for. When the

17:33

New York Jets fans are booing the

17:36

pick of Kyle Brady because they pass

17:38

up on Warren sap, that's a moment.

17:40

That's also almost immediate confirmation confirmation that

17:43

this run office doesn't know what the

17:45

hell they're doing. I have faith that

17:47

there's proof of concept and they're doing

17:50

stuff that I like. Okay, and one

17:52

more reason to be optimistic. One of

17:54

the best man on the street things

17:57

Charlotte and I did at S.I. was

17:59

we went to a bar in the

18:01

village when the Giants drafted Daniel Jones.

18:04

It was a number six overall. This

18:06

fan, this poor Giants fan, he just

18:08

lost his mind on our live show

18:11

and it was so funny. And I

18:13

was like, I don't know, like Daniel

18:15

Jones, he had some. moments that they

18:17

beat Notre Dame last year I don't

18:20

know he was right he was right

18:22

and it was very fun and very

18:24

funny and he was I'm sure very

18:27

sad about it to this day but

18:29

yeah and Dan Will I be asleep

18:31

the minute the Steelers finish their pick?

18:34

Probably. It drags a little bit at

18:36

the end. And it's like, okay, do

18:38

we really need 10 minutes on the

18:41

clock for the Titans to pick? They've

18:43

been on the clock. That's going to

18:45

make me crazy. That makes me put

18:48

in the pick. But will I watch

18:50

it anyways? Of course I will. Roger

18:52

Goodell is going to step up to

18:55

the podium tonight and say the NFL

18:57

draft is open. And then they're going

18:59

to put a clock up there. I

19:02

need those 10 minutes for just the

19:04

Cal Highlights. Just to Dan's point, there

19:06

are some people that have gone too

19:09

far into the transaction space over the

19:11

games. The heat are not the only

19:13

franchise that had its fan base rooting

19:15

against making the postseason and having moments

19:18

that are game action. because they want

19:20

to hope traffic because they want to

19:22

think about the future draft pick that's

19:25

gonna come this year and start looking

19:27

at mock drafts and things. That's where

19:29

maybe we start moving forward in a

19:32

way that is too much where you

19:34

can have moments like Zaz and I

19:36

were talking about last night's game that's

19:39

this electric feeling as you're coming back.

19:41

Even if you get swept you have

19:43

the moment of the game where there

19:46

are some fans that would rather not

19:48

watch that and start hope trafficking. That's

19:50

where it probably jumps to shark. Which

19:53

of those superstars from the previously get

19:55

into this? Okay, and so you can

19:57

say, and the majority of people listening

20:00

to this can say there's clear entertainment

20:02

in that. I know I'm in the

20:04

minority. I just gave Diana Rusini an

20:07

hour to talk about this and we

20:09

do it every single year because I

20:11

consistently step out of the way on

20:13

what it is the customers desires are

20:16

here. But when you guys bring up

20:18

the examples of Daniel Jones and Baker...

20:20

Mayfield and those people are people we

20:23

argued about on both sides of are

20:25

they good or are they not for

20:27

several years I'm not in a hurry

20:30

to start that before I have any

20:32

additional information on how good they actually

20:34

are about. I'm still fighting about that.

20:37

I'm still fighting about that. You're just

20:39

an asshole. I pay my rent. Pitch

20:41

clock is going to be in a

20:44

couple of minutes if you want your

20:46

baseball and don't want us to be

20:48

talking baseball. Just want Jeremy and friends.

20:51

Jeremy has buzz in his eyebrow and

20:53

it's pissing me off. You traffic on

20:55

fans all the time. Mike Ryan is

20:58

headed to Talladega this weekend in an

21:00

RV in a camper of some sort

21:02

with friends that I don't imagine is

21:05

going to smell very good. I'm going

21:07

with college Mike too. Oh no. Yeah,

21:09

College Mike, my man Ross, Nate. I'm

21:11

so excited for this. I've been, was

21:14

listening to Talladega by Eric Church. And

21:16

this is a super speedway. This is

21:18

the biggest, most dangerous race on NASCAR

21:21

circuit. They do it twice once here

21:23

during the regular season, once during the

21:25

playoff. I was texting with Marty Smith

21:28

yesterday because this is my rookie journey

21:30

over to Talladega and he said. It's

21:32

like Mardi Gras for Rednecks, that's a

21:35

direct quote, to which I said, I

21:37

thought that was Mardi Gras. But there's

21:39

body parts, beer, fast cars, apparently, where

21:42

I'm sitting right on the finish line.

21:44

It feels like Armageddon literally every time

21:46

they go around that track. So I

21:49

cannot wait. And I'm going to be

21:51

doing a lot of content up there

21:53

for draft kings. It was so kind

21:56

of helped me out. And it's presented

21:58

by NASCAR car. at Talladega Super Speedway.

22:00

Tune in Sunday, April 27th at 3

22:02

p.m. Eastern on Fox. Hopefully I get

22:05

in that gridwalk a little bit. I'll

22:07

be out there with a garage pass

22:09

and... We're hoping that Ryan Blaney's luck

22:12

changes. Remember when he was on with

22:14

us a couple weeks ago? He said

22:16

that it's entirely possible that he gets

22:19

hit by an asteroid on a final

22:21

lap and that kind of happened. His

22:23

engine blew out over at Homestead. His

22:26

luck has to change, but this is

22:28

such a dicey track. It's almost impossible

22:30

to predict what is going to happen

22:33

at a super speedway because there are

22:35

multiple big ones. Thank you, ma'am. And

22:37

I'm talking about the butts. I know

22:40

you're really excited about this. I look

22:42

forward to seeing what you produce for

22:44

Draft Kings. I am looking forward actually

22:47

to seeing what it is that Walter

22:49

Hawkins and Billy and Mikey-A do tonight

22:51

on YouTube as they go to the

22:54

place the draft isn't. It's not in

22:56

Green Bay where everybody is right now,

22:58

ridiculously sitting in the actual cold. It's

23:00

just stupid. Just go inside. Just nobody

23:03

needs to do that 10 hours beforehand

23:05

in order to show us you're in

23:07

Green Bay for the draft. We're not

23:10

going to be in Green Bay for

23:12

the draft. We're going to be in

23:14

Tennessee for the draft. Yeah, weird. It

23:17

is unusual and Walter Hawkins is there

23:19

and not the toothache of Stugat's, but

23:21

that will be on YouTube tonight. Before

23:24

we do anything else though around here,

23:26

I wanted to ask Greg Cody something

23:28

about something that he wanted to talk

23:31

about today because he was lamenting a

23:33

happiness report that ranks the United States

23:35

lower. than he's ever seen it ranked

23:38

in whoever it is that's measuring this

23:40

happiness report. Yeah, Oxford University in England

23:42

does this. They've been doing it, I

23:45

think, 20 years, not that long, but

23:47

you know, they measure, you know, mental

23:49

health and income and crime and all

23:52

these different factors. Whether it's legit or

23:54

not, I don't know, but Finland wins

23:56

every year. Finland, okay? But the United

23:58

States this year ranked lower than it's

24:01

ever ranked before. Which was 24th and

24:03

and I just find that interesting because

24:05

you know when I look around the

24:08

country and everything I'm happy Personally like

24:10

when I look at happiness through the

24:12

micro the draft is tonight Why wouldn't

24:15

you? I mean, I'm as happy as

24:17

I can be I'm fortunate, but when

24:19

I look at happiness through the macro

24:22

I See it and and I don't

24:24

want to get too political here, but

24:26

I'm not quite as proud to be

24:29

an American as I once was for

24:31

various reasons and I if that factors

24:33

into the world happiness report ranking america

24:36

lower than it's ever ranked like what

24:38

are they normally you're saying this the

24:40

lowest that they've they've ever been what

24:43

what what are they usually we've ever

24:45

been right yes i mean normally they're

24:47

in the in the ten to twelve

24:49

range or something like that because i

24:52

think the major industrial countries never rank

24:54

super high scandenavia dominates this thing. Why

24:56

did you say Finland the way that

24:59

you did? Yeah, what's Finland got going

25:01

on anyway? I don't know. It got

25:03

a lot of national parks. Great hockey

25:06

players, I'll tell you that. But why

25:08

did you say Finland with a derisiveness,

25:10

a disgust? I didn't know I did.

25:13

It felt like you were like Finland

25:15

shouldn't be happier than us. I love

25:17

Finland. Finland doesn't have, have you ever

25:20

been? I've never been. What do you

25:22

know about Finland? You know, they produce

25:24

great NHL players. So nothing? I think

25:27

they lead the league in most hot

25:29

tops per capita. I think they love

25:31

their hot tops there. Markov. I would

25:34

actually, I'd love to go to Scandinavia.

25:36

My wife is like, no, no way.

25:38

I've also mentioned Japan. She didn't want

25:41

to go to Japan. She's got very

25:43

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28:53

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depends on it, go to Santa Fe

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University and just just just take a

29:00

picture. Stugats. I would die. I don't

29:02

know where it is. This is the

29:05

Don Liberat show with the Stugats. I

29:20

have so many questions for this man.

29:23

I don't understand how it is. He's

29:25

at the center of the Broncos decision-making.

29:27

I don't understand why he's in Green

29:29

Bay and will be a centerpiece at

29:32

tonight's draft. A centerpiece, that's not nice.

29:34

And I want to also ask him.

29:36

Also not accurate. It is accurate and

29:39

we will talk to him about it.

29:41

I want to talk to Brad Williams

29:43

about his feud with Zazlow. and Zazzlow

29:46

and once I added Zazzlow to the

29:48

group chat I everyone caught a vibe

29:50

and Brad kind of took him out

29:52

and I've been waiting for this story

29:55

there is a long beef between the

29:57

two. Hold on Brad. Zazlow, what is

29:59

your side of things before Brad eviscerates

30:02

you and wins this discussion? Okay, I

30:04

have no issue with Brad. I like

30:06

Brad a lot. I consider Brad a

30:09

friend at this point, but I did

30:11

do something once that I... I guess

30:13

I regret. Okay, I made a scene

30:15

at one of Brad's shows, like a

30:18

legit scene. Oh no, Brad, Brad Williams

30:20

comedy.com is where you go for dates

30:22

and tickets. He's joining us from Green

30:25

Bay. What was this scene? Was he

30:27

heckling you? What happened, Brad? All right,

30:29

before Zaz makes it sound like he

30:32

was the ideal audience member. He was

30:34

not, by the way, welcome to my

30:36

lovely hotel room in Green Bay Wisconsin.

30:38

I'm glad I cleaned it up for

30:41

you guys. Either way, Zaz was in

30:43

the audience, I'm on stage doing my

30:45

show, and then, is this the version

30:48

of the show where I can curse?

30:50

Yep. Okay, so, I'm just doing my

30:52

set, and then all of a sudden,

30:54

from the audience, you just hear the

30:57

loudest person ever, just yell, will you

30:59

shut the fazlow? in the middle of

31:01

my show, screaming, will you shut the

31:04

fuck up? And uh... It is quite

31:06

the feat when you pull focus from

31:08

a dwarf telling jokes. That is quite

31:11

the feat. So yes, he's right. All

31:13

right. Here's... I cannot deny. Although I

31:15

will say it wasn't will you. Okay,

31:17

I wasn't asking a question. I was

31:20

telling. All right, there was no will.

31:22

It was shut the fuck up. All

31:24

right. And so here's what happened. So

31:27

here's what happened. So here's what happened.

31:29

I see him on there. I've seen

31:31

Brad several times do his act and

31:34

my wife and I were at the

31:36

show. We're sitting, you know, we're sitting

31:38

toward the back and one of the

31:40

couches. And there is a really loud

31:43

man who is behind us with a

31:45

couple of women. They've been oversurfaced. served,

31:47

they are clearly drunk, and They are

31:50

loud and my wife, I don't know

31:52

if you guys are like this, but

31:54

if you're out with your wife and

31:56

you get any kind of sense, it

31:59

could be unspoken that she is not

32:01

enjoying herself, that she is bothered by

32:03

something. I can sense it and it

32:06

ruins my night, all right? And so

32:08

I could feel the buildup. My wife

32:10

is getting agitated at the people who

32:13

are being loud and disrespectful to Brad,

32:15

but people are being loud behind us

32:17

behind us and... Eventually it's growing and

32:19

it's growing and I go from zero

32:22

to a hundred. I'm a calm dude

32:24

But when I get upset especially in

32:26

this case where my wife is bothered

32:29

I don't mess around and it got

32:31

to a point where I turned around

32:33

and I yelled for everyone here Shut

32:36

the fuck up Brad, were you hearing

32:38

the previous people or did you just

32:40

hear Zaz ruining your show? I just

32:42

heard Zaz ruining my show. I did

32:45

not hear the previous people and just

32:47

to be clear, Zaz is making his

32:49

wife the Jada Pinkett in this scenario

32:52

where it's like, Will was sitting there

32:54

like, I don't want to slap Chris

32:56

Rock, but my wife's uncomfortable. So let

32:59

me go assault one of the best

33:01

comedians ever. So Zaz was sitting there

33:03

going like, I don't want to ruin

33:05

the show, but my wife's uncomfortable. So

33:08

let me go ruin the show. And

33:10

so Brad's immediate reaction, because Brad can't

33:12

see the lights are in his face.

33:15

He can't see the crowd. Certainly cannot

33:17

see the back of the crowd. And

33:19

all he hears is me yell. He

33:21

doesn't know it's me. Can you not

33:24

do this again? No, no. And so

33:26

Brad. Me? Shut the fuck up? And

33:28

so then I realize what just happened

33:31

and the security comes, they kick the

33:33

people out. But here's the thing. I'm

33:35

like mortified now because I didn't realize,

33:38

oh my god, like I like Brad

33:40

and I feel like I just ruined

33:42

the show. You didn't realize you were

33:44

loud? Yeah. And so the show ends.

33:47

Now, the show ends, okay, I'm still

33:49

embarrassed, I feel really terrible, and Brad

33:51

does meet and greets after the show,

33:54

all right? And I'm like, I can't

33:56

even handle it. I feel so terrible,

33:58

I have to go wrap myself out.

34:01

And so I run up to the

34:03

front of the line, I just skip

34:05

everybody. I run up to the front

34:07

of the, I can't hold it in

34:10

anymore. I run up to the front

34:12

of the line, and I grab Brad,

34:14

I go, he's happy, he's happy to

34:17

seem to seem to seem to seem

34:19

to seem to seem to seem to

34:21

see me, hey man, hey man. That

34:24

was me who yelled and interrupted the

34:26

show. I'm so sorry, but they were

34:28

being really rude. I feel really terrible,

34:30

but it was me. I'm so sorry.

34:33

I'm so sorry. And he, yeah, so.

34:35

Do me a favor to ask, can

34:37

you do the same thing at Pearl

34:40

Jam? Can you do the same thing

34:42

at Pearl Jam? When? Any better is

34:44

going on a rant in between songs

34:46

about, you know, current tariffs and other

34:49

political beliefs that he has. Can you

34:51

just scream out as loud as you

34:53

can? Will you shut the F above?

34:56

Don't do this again. We've got kids

34:58

in the room. I regret giving you

35:00

guys permission to curse. I have a

35:03

couple of other questions, including how it

35:05

is that you ended up at the

35:07

table with the Denver Broncos tonight. But

35:09

before we get to that, I want

35:12

to know, because we're talking about the

35:14

Tush pushush, of things saying that Mike

35:16

Leach once suggested the idea of using

35:19

a little person in football because you

35:21

can then hand him the football in

35:23

short-yarded situations and just flip him over

35:26

the defensive line. Have you seen this?

35:28

Have you heard of it? Do you

35:30

believe it? And is it something that

35:32

would clearly work? Not only have I

35:35

seen this red post, but... I was

35:37

firmly aware of it and last night

35:39

at the NFL draft me and a

35:42

select group of fans got to have

35:44

a sort of private press conference with

35:46

Roger Giddell and they took questions from

35:49

the audience and there is video currently

35:51

on my Instagram me asking Roger Giddell

35:53

this very question. I asked the commissioner.

35:55

of the NFL, you know, you're banning

35:58

the tush push push, how about we

36:00

make it legal if we throw dwarfs

36:02

over the over the offensive line in

36:05

to the end zone. Roger immediately hired

36:07

me. I believe I am now a

36:09

full time. active member of the Denver

36:11

Broncos, if this whole stand-up comedy thing

36:14

doesn't work out. I mean, Hollywood's not

36:16

hiring us. There's no dwarbs in the

36:18

Snow White movie. So we got to

36:21

do what we can to find work.

36:23

And this is what we're doing. This

36:25

is a glitch in the system. I

36:28

can get you five yards to carry

36:30

this way, and that pays in the

36:32

NFL. They cannot allow this. Why was

36:34

your question so long to Giddell? just

36:37

go in there guns and blaze it,

36:39

you gotta set up the bit. So

36:41

I wanted to make Godel comfortable and

36:44

have him thinking that I'm asking him

36:46

about the push push when he thinks

36:48

I'm digging, that's when I'm zagging, and

36:51

that's when I ask about the Mike

36:53

Leach thing. So you don't think you

36:55

set up the bit simply by standing

36:57

in front of Godel, huh? You thought

37:00

it needed more setup than that? No,

37:02

he doesn't know that I'm a comedian,

37:04

he sees a dwarf and a John

37:07

L.A.W. Jersey stand up, he's probably thinking,

37:09

all right, they gave him Make a

37:11

Wish Kid some tickets, so that's what

37:13

he's thinking. So then I have to

37:16

actually show him the bit. And Godell

37:18

and I exchange numbers, I can now

37:20

text Roger Godell. I believe I'm invited

37:23

to an eyes-wide shut style Illuminati party

37:25

next week. It's going to be a

37:27

blast. How did you end up at

37:30

Denver's table tonight and how active are

37:32

you going to be? Are you going

37:34

to shut the bleep up or are

37:36

you going to be giving helpful tips?

37:39

I ended up at Denver's table tonight

37:41

because I am a I'm a C-list

37:43

celebrity and if you're going to be

37:46

a C-list celebrity, choose an NFL team

37:48

that doesn't have a lot of celebrity

37:50

fans or at least vocal celebrity fans.

37:53

If I was a Chiefs fan, I'm

37:55

like 12th and lie. behind the ninth

37:57

lead in modern family. But I'm a

37:59

Broncos fan. So it's like me and

38:02

Angela from the office. And that's about

38:04

it. Are you excited about tonight in

38:06

terms of a sports perk? Because you

38:09

really have been adopted by the Broncos

38:11

fan base, by the Broncos themselves. You've

38:13

been on the Jumbotron dancing. It's got

38:16

to be a bit surreal to be

38:18

at the center of all this. It's

38:20

very surreal and I'm very excited. I

38:22

believe multiple mock drafts have the Broncos

38:25

choosing a running back in the first

38:27

round. Omarion Hampton from the University of

38:29

North Carolina. I'm really excited about that.

38:32

I think he's a son of a

38:34

running back. Comparisons have him to like

38:36

media Jonathan Taylor. He's got a lot

38:38

of speed, got a lot of size.

38:41

I think he's an upgrade from Javante

38:43

Williams who the Broncos traded to the

38:45

Dallas Cowboys. So I'm really excited about

38:48

that draft and get some bonics, some

38:50

more offensive help. But yes, I have

38:52

been adopted by the Broncos and I

38:55

am stoked about it. Any Green Bay

38:57

observations? Is that a place that you've

38:59

been to very often? I have, I've

39:01

been here multiple times, but this time

39:04

because the draft is here, they greet

39:06

you at the airport with cheese curds.

39:08

It's amazing. They hand you a bag

39:11

of cheese curds when you get off

39:13

the plane at the airport. I was

39:15

on my flight, I was sitting next

39:18

to Ronde Barber, which we both walked

39:20

off the flight at the same time,

39:22

which had to be very confusing for

39:24

anyone who was watching us get off

39:27

the plane, like seeing Ronde Barber and

39:29

then me right next to them. They're

39:31

like, well, this is a new category

39:34

on Ford. It's actually

39:36

not that new. He's a friend

39:38

of the show comedian Brad live

39:40

on tour. You can see him

39:42

live on tour and you can

39:44

go to Brad Williams comedy.com for

39:46

show dates and tickets. Look forward

39:48

to seeing you tonight. Enjoy yourself

39:51

Brad. Always nice seeing you. I'm

39:53

sorry Brad. Hey, it's all right

39:55

Zaz. Let's put it to bed

39:57

and let's just have a Miller

39:59

light together. Excellent. and you know

40:01

not a lot of carbs I

40:03

think it's like 96 calories no

40:06

big whoops so and brood right

40:08

here in the great state of

40:10

Wisconsin so I'm really excited about

40:12

the track thank you Brad good

40:14

talking to you I just want

40:16

to foul up Zaz's mood right

40:18

now Zaz was predicting a Miami

40:21

heat victory last night he was

40:23

very confident and this is a

40:25

stat from Tim Reynolds okay this

40:27

is The heat last night had

40:29

112 points, they had 16 threes,

40:31

they had better than 50% shooting,

40:33

and they allowed less than 50%

40:35

shooting. In playoff games all time,

40:38

when those things were so, NBA

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teams were, 90, I'm sorry, 76

40:42

and 0, and the heat with

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those numbers all time were 45

40:46

and 1. And they lost. The

40:48

heat played their game. I mean,

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I know that Andrew Higgins and

40:53

Bam weren't good. They played their

40:55

game and the Cavs beat them

40:57

anyway because they made more threes

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in a second quarter or in

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a quarter than any team has

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ever made in the postseason. Yeah,

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all those numbers are cool, but

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when the other team shoots 50%

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from three and breaks a record

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in the second quarter, you're probably

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