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[28] I do a podcast that's top 10 in the nation in TV and film review.
[29] It's called Cinepho.
[30] You might have heard of it.
[31] On Cinephobe, one of the segments we do is we read reviews from both the critics and the audience for the movies that we're about to review.
[32] But like your own reviews or the reviews of the movies?
[33] The reviews of the movies.
[34] So this week, for instance, we have dirty work, the Norm McDonald -Arty Lang movie from 1998 file, by the way.
[35] So before we get into breaking the movie down, we will read positive and negative reviews from both the critics.
[36] and the audience, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
[37] But Zach will always ask me first, do you want the positives or the negatives?
[38] And I say, I'm a glass -half -full kind of guy, so give me the positives.
[39] So I'm wondering, yesterday, as Dion Sanders walks in to his office after the thrilling Colorado versus North Dakota State game, and he's sitting with his assistant coach as the whole staff, is he wanting the positive reviews or is he wanted the negative reviews?
[40] Is it a glass half full kind of guy or the glass half empty?
[41] Stop being a pessimist.
[42] This glass isn't half full, it's half empty.
[43] The North Dakota State, look, a lot of respect to them.
[44] They're not just some team that you pay to come play you and you roll over them.
[45] This is a great team on the FCS level.
[46] And they clearly have a lot of confidence.
[47] But boy, let me tell you something.
[48] And when they marched down that field and scored that touchdown in the first half, I was like, damn, hold on.
[49] That was quick.
[50] I mean, it was a level of quickness that wasn't, wow, we came up with some really smart plays.
[51] It was just like, yo, we're just as good as you are.
[52] And I had to ask myself, is this North Dakota State being a great team that just doesn't get to compete on this level a lot?
[53] Or is this year two of Colorado, a lot of talk, really not that good?
[54] I mean, a lot of people assume Colorado's defense is not going to be very good this season.
[55] And that was an example there.
[56] They have Travis Hunter playing on both sides of the ball.
[57] And he is the best player in college football, bar none, better than anyone in college sports.
[58] He's great on TikTok, too.
[59] Good dancer.
[60] We're all going to die.
[61] Why is he going to die?
[62] He has specifics.
[63] He played like 8 billion snaps on both sides of the ball.
[64] Dog, you can't do that.
[65] The Shohei Otani of college football.
[66] except they hit you.
[67] Right.
[68] That's crazy.
[69] But, I mean, he's spectacular.
[70] But when you're given up over 100 yards more on the ground than you achieved yourself when you're Colorado and you're given up 300 passing yards and they're completing, what, it was 20 of 24 passes against your defense.
[71] Like, I imagine Dion's walking in and going, give me the negatives because I'm frustrated by this, even though my guys pulled it out in the end.
[72] You know who I felt bad for?
[73] There was a drive where the bison were on their way down and they were just about to, I think it was a third down, probably like the 15 -yard line.
[74] And then there was a late hit.
[75] A cornerback hit a wide receiver late on a bad pass from the bison quarterback.
[76] Cam, whatever his name is, I forgot.
[77] And I look up, I'm like, who did they throw the flag on?
[78] Who's the flag on?
[79] And then I look back and I see Sanders on the back of the jersey and I'm like, oh, it's the other son.
[80] That's not good.
[81] Extending the drive.
[82] And then they ended up scoring a touchdown.
[83] And I was just like, that's not good when he gets back.
[84] Because he's already lower on the pecking order behind Choudure, right?
[85] I don't even know his name.
[86] What's his name?
[87] Shiloh.
[88] Shiloh.
[89] The lowest one is in that.
[90] It's the one that works in the social media department for the team.
[91] That's the one.
[92] Like Dion has told us the rankings.
[93] He's told us the rankings.
[94] Shadur's number one.
[95] Or is the daughter's number one.
[96] It's not him.
[97] It's not Shiloh.
[98] And the social media kid is the last one.
[99] We don't even know his name.
[100] Yeah.
[101] Poor guy.
[102] He doesn't get to, he's unranked, unnamed.
[103] He's not poor.
[104] You know who I thought.
[105] Yeah, good point.
[106] You know who I thought you were going.
[107] going with, who I felt really sorry for, was for North Dakota State number 17, the cornerback, because there was a play in the fourth quarter, I want to say, and the buffaloes are, it's a goal line play, and Shadur tries to run, and he gets rocked.
[108] And number 17, just like, yapping, just talking, letting him know.
[109] I'm like, hey, this kid goes to a small school, but he's like, he's trying to let Shradra Sanders know.
[110] Like, you're not so tough.
[111] I don't care who you got, who your dad is, or whatever.
[112] And the very next play is that touchdown catch by Travis Hunter where he catches it behind the other dudes back.
[113] And, like, they tumble and I'm like, oh, please don't let it be that same kid.
[114] And he got them.
[115] I'm like, damn.
[116] He looks back and he's like, did he catch that?
[117] Oh, yeah, he caught that.
[118] Which means Shador was like, oh, you're talking shit to me. Got it.
[119] Where are you at?
[120] Over here, targeted.
[121] Now, I know he's thrown at Travis Hunter, which is a bit unfair.
[122] The safety blanket, right?
[123] Like, it's like Brett Favre, young Brett Farrv with Sterling Sharp.
[124] Just throwing Sharp's direction.
[125] Something good's going to happen.
[126] But I just, the guy got up in the look on his face.
[127] I was just like, damn, bro.
[128] You were about to be that guy.
[129] They got you too.
[130] He was about to be that guy coming back home.
[131] Like, yeah, I'm the guy that told Shadur to go F himself.
[132] And then it's like, yeah, you're the guy that Shador picked on the very next play.
[133] Unbelievable.
[134] As of 2023, the rankings were Dion Sanders Jr., bossy Sanders, Shiloh Sanders, Shadur Sanders and DeAndra Sanders But then in February of 2024 on Shiloh Sanders's birthday Dion posted on Instagram and said happy birthday to my favorite favorite son Shiloh Sanders Shadur not at number one which is an interesting spot in the power rankings Interesting I don't know about these rankings Yeah I feel like there's a little bias going on Bossy should be a little higher All biases aside rank the Sanders kids Tony go Shadour number two Okay Bossy number one Clearly Deon Sanders Jr. Is that the social media one?
[135] I think Dion Jr. is the social media one But I thought he was lower.
[136] He's got to be lower.
[137] Shiloh's a safety.
[138] Yes.
[139] And then...
[140] Shador's the quarterback.
[141] Chris learning about the Colorado 101.
[142] Here we go.
[143] That's all I got.
[144] Me too.
[145] Those are the only two sons to play for the team, by the way.
[146] By the way, oddly enough.
[147] Me too.
[148] That's all I had.
[149] I'm not going to lie.
[150] I got confused for a second because I saw a I saw Sanders had rushing yards.
[151] I'm like, oh, there's a running back, but that's Shadour.
[152] Yeah, so that's the quarterback.
[153] It's really good when you have the best player in the country, basically, and Travis Hunter, where it's like, all right, you're going to go stop guys on defense, but then we're also going to throw you the ball 14 times on offense.
[154] It's like, nah, you're good.
[155] You know what?
[156] You know what?
[157] Number one, Sanders kid.
[158] You know what?
[159] Dion always says, it's like your son of me. Travis Hunter's number one.
[160] Bossy, you're now number two.
[161] Shadur 3, Shalow 4.
[162] Dion Jr. Man, if you out here with Final Cut Pro, I'm sorry, man. And you wear the Dion Sanders name?
[163] You're the junior.
[164] You're the one.
[165] You're the one.
[166] You're the chosen one.
[167] It'd be funny if they had a punter named Mark Sanders.
[168] There's just like a white guy.
[169] White guy.
[170] But he goes to Thanksgiving dinner with him.
[171] He's got to watch him and Shadour.
[172] They're like, I got him with like his shirt tucked in.
[173] Just kind of awkwardly there.
[174] Like, my guy's waving.
[175] No, but like, is this proof that Colorado again are going to just disappoint everybody or how are we processing this?
[176] I mean, I think the expectation was that they would just be an average team this year.
[177] I don't think anybody anticipates.
[178] They have two of the better players in college football.
[179] They have between Travis Hunter and Shudder Sanders, two of the top three NIL leaders in college football, I believe.
[180] They're great.
[181] But in college football, you can only be so great with two great players.
[182] and I think the expectation was that they'd be a middle of the road to lower tier Big 12 team this season and maybe could surprise people.
[183] Even after that win, they are the 11th best odds to win the Big 12.
[184] Out of 16, by the way, that's how many teams are in the Big 12.
[185] What happened to just having a fun team?
[186] Right.
[187] Well, they had that.
[188] They're a fun team.
[189] They had a fun big 12.
[190] Sure, but like, that's the thing.
[191] They were fun until they weren't fun.
[192] I'm not saying you have to be the best team in the country, but you can't be a 500 team that's fun.
[193] Not in football, not in college football.
[194] I don't know, man. Texas Tech had a lot of years being 6 and 6, 7 and 5, and being one of the most entertaining teams in the country because they'd score 60 and give up 50.
[195] And the hope would be that maybe that's what happens here for Colorado this year is their offense is electric, but then they're giving up a ton of points.
[196] So all game long, you got to do Sanders throwing for 400 yards every game.
[197] What is the end game for Colorado?
[198] Like if they try to win national championships, then they're not where they want to be.
[199] No, Dion's going to try to graduate.
[200] You just want to be in the headlines?
[201] I mean, you're here.
[202] Dion's trying to get his kid in the NFL, Travis Hunter in the NFL, Shiloh in the NFL somehow, and then leave.
[203] Deion Jr.?
[204] Maybe.
[205] You mean leave for another bigger school?
[206] Or just be done with coaching.
[207] Go coach the NFL.
[208] Oh, he wants.
[209] Go follow his kid.
[210] There you go.
[211] There you go.
[212] Yeah, Football Illuminati coming soon.
[213] The other thing I was thinking about while watching that game was last year, what we talked about a lot is like, wow, look how small Colorado is compared to like, actual football schools.
[214] So I thought like they were, this year they're going to upgrade it.
[215] And I'm watching yesterday, and I'm like, they don't look much bigger than the North Dakota State kids.
[216] They still look small.
[217] It looks like a thin offensive line, which is kind of a point where you can look at and be like, all right, the big boy teams, the Alabama's, the SEC level programs, Michigan who just won a championship obviously, have monster offensive lines.
[218] And then I look at Colorado's offensive lines, like Schoer, like the same size.
[219] And I'm like, wait.
[220] It's like 1960 where you'd have those three -down linemen and then all of a sudden they're like 200 pounds.
[221] Yeah, they stand up and they're just a little heftier than the quarterback.
[222] I'm like, what's happening here?
[223] It gives me pause as far as like, I thought Dion's supposed to be his amazing recruiter, right?
[224] Is he not recruiting lineman?
[225] Is that what's happening?
[226] Lineman isn't sexy.
[227] I mean...
[228] He recruits sexy.
[229] For the audio audience, Tony says linemen aren't sexy and Billy looks up from his laptop and silently just points it So that's true But it was off mic so it wasn't helpful Why does Colorado have like that asphalt Like uh like do they have like like skateboarding competitions on the weekends Like you know what I'm talking about like against the wall Like that thing?
[230] What is that there for?
[231] That just seems like a waste of space and dangerous I don't know Maybe it's for like a band like a band shell back in the day But then they just covered it Or maybe like everyone signs it Maybe it's, you know, like something, you know, sometimes I'll have that thing where it's like, hey, who came to the game today?
[232] And they, oh, Conan O 'Brien's signatures on the wall and stuff like that.
[233] You know, you see this at the comedy.
[234] T .O. was in the game?
[235] Yeah, T .O. was at the game?
[236] So was Wallow?
[237] Yep.
[238] Cam, was Cam at the game?
[239] I think so.
[240] Yeah.
[241] No. Look, there's a who's who.
[242] They're still drawing.
[243] I thought for sure that there would be some cold water on that whole the who's who coming to the Colorado game.
[244] But no, they're still drawing.
[245] That'll only happen if they start two.
[246] and six or whatever they might do here because I believe they're over under is five and a half wins for the season.
[247] So they might not even be a bowl.
[248] The celebrities know they've learned a lesson.
[249] Show up for the games that you know they're going to win.
[250] I know I know last, yesterday ended up being close, but I think they were expected to win that one.
[251] You know what's funny?
[252] There's a level of this that's galaxy brain.
[253] So follow me here.
[254] Going to a Colorado game is now like a prestigious thing.
[255] It's a, oh, you were at the Colorado game on the sideline?
[256] That's a big deal.
[257] Right?
[258] Yes, right.
[259] And we've also established the games you go to are either earlier, the ones that we think they're going to win when we think they're still good.
[260] Meaning the end of last year's games, no. No one wanted to go.
[261] It wasn't a big deal.
[262] But when you see a picture of someone on the sidelines, nine times out of ten, you don't know what game that's from.
[263] I'm so facto.
[264] If Colorado has another collapse, I propose that we go to a Colorado game and be on the sidelines, get the pictures taken and then just like wait till the next year where it's like it's prestigious again like oh yeah me and tony we're there on the sideline yeah you know we posted in march like thanks dion brother forever and we're just there kind of like next to him yeah works in the NFL there is no margin for error one mistake can change the outcome of the game science proves quality sleep can help boost reaction time recovery time and overall athletic performance as the official sleep wellness partner of the NFL, sleep number's mission is to provide players with data and insights to optimize their sleep for the ultimate competitive edge.
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[273] Don Lebatard.
[274] Amino Hassan.
[275] Stugats.
[276] Yeah, Amino Ascent.
[277] This is the Don Levatar Show with the Stugats.
[278] Make it even easier on you.
[279] They'll be in Orlando playing UCF in just a few weeks.
[280] So we can just head up a few hours north and be on the sideline with Dion.
[281] Nobody will know where you are necessarily.
[282] And it's easy for you.
[283] You don't even have to go to Colorado.
[284] Jeremy, let me just say this right now.
[285] And to the massive audience on YouTube and also on Max, if your children are listening or watching, tell them look up their ears.
[286] UCF Stadium sucks.
[287] Couldn't disagree more.
[288] Wow.
[289] I can't tell.
[290] Did you bleep yourself there?
[291] He kind of like.
[292] He's a pro.
[293] He gave us the duh.
[294] and then kind of tailed away.
[295] Couldn't disagree more.
[296] A bit of a spectacular stadium.
[297] The bounce house.
[298] Small little K at the end.
[299] One of the best in the country.
[300] Isn't it called the bounce house?
[301] Because when it's filled and rocking, it feels like it's going to collapse.
[302] And it's designed that way.
[303] I don't like a design.
[304] I don't like, yeah.
[305] It doesn't feel like a design.
[306] How about this 30 house?
[307] You know, this is what it feels like.
[308] I want no bounce.
[309] No sway.
[310] I know that that's not safe.
[311] Like, in an earthquake, you want a building that can sway.
[312] Because if it can't sway, then it's more dangerous.
[313] But they're in Orlando.
[314] There's no earthquakes in Orlando.
[315] The idea of it.
[316] It was on purpose.
[317] That sounds like the kind of thing that that sounds like me censoring myself.
[318] And then asked you, did you censor yourself?
[319] Yeah, I did that on purpose.
[320] I do think that it's more like they made sure after they realized it was bouncing that it was at least structurally sturdy.
[321] Like, hey, it's not going to fall apart.
[322] How do you test that?
[323] Well, hey, let's get six thousand people here.
[324] Yeah, it's fine.
[325] But what about 60 ,000 and two?
[326] So you were the test.
[327] I'm with you.
[328] Yes, absolutely.
[329] Because I was there when there were no fans there as well.
[330] What if it's full of 18 wheelers with 30 ,000 pounds of crap?
[331] How's the bridge?
[332] And then I'm in the middle of it.
[333] Exactly right.
[334] They were just accounting for like, well, everybody has two passengers.
[335] They weigh about 180 to 250 pounds.
[336] Like, well, we only need this bridge to hold, well, carry the four.
[337] We only need to carry about 6 ,000 pounds.
[338] And then boom, 25, 18 wheelers, all of them with 18 tons.
[339] No, it's something like, you know, the entire Alabama offensive line is on a bus coming over the bridge.
[340] Oh, no, we never thought there would be this many people with 300 pounds or more.
[341] And then that's what collapses it.
[342] Do you like that expansion they're doing?
[343] to your bounce house over there.
[344] They're putting like a building on the outside to look like it's part of the inside to make it look like a real stadium.
[345] It's very confusing.
[346] They're just trying to give extra luxury seating to the boosters and such.
[347] And I kind of like that we have.
[348] It's a shitty stadium.
[349] I love our stadium.
[350] I really do.
[351] I think the location of it's great.
[352] And I think that the atmosphere is great.
[353] But you're not going to get me to say anything else.
[354] Like, obviously I am.
[355] Why?
[356] Because I love it.
[357] It's great.
[358] I love my school.
[359] I love my program.
[360] I love the way that the stadium feels when it's packed.
[361] I was there for college game day in 2018, and it was one of the most electric atmospheres I've ever felt in my life.
[362] And it gets loud because you're right there on the field.
[363] Jeremy, listen to me. You and the rest of college sports, enough with the shitty stadium that has nostalgic value.
[364] Go build something nice.
[365] It's not even nostalgic value.
[366] It doesn't even have nostalgic value.
[367] It's just simply a stadium that's built on campus that is, to me, that element of the fact that it is not a. 100 ,000...
[368] That was shade at Miami, by the way.
[369] Well, yeah.
[370] I mean, come on, you need it on camp.
[371] Beyond camera.
[372] You're a legitimate program.
[373] I mean, come on.
[374] I mean, have you been to the bounce house, obviously.
[375] I have, yeah.
[376] So you had to get driven to the stadium.
[377] Bounce house is over all.
[378] Because of how far it is inside of the camp.
[379] As somebody who was told to go home from UCF, the mall and the lawn is seven miles long and you have to walk 18 ,000 steps to try to get into the stadium.
[380] And then there's no back of the seat.
[381] So you're sitting on booters.
[382] Like, if I'm in Little League.
[383] Give me a break.
[384] Also, bounce houses overrated.
[385] Bounce houses in general.
[386] You miss one steak.
[387] They go fly.
[388] Five kids are dead.
[389] They make a $30 million deal.
[390] You ever try to get in there and like grab your kid?
[391] Like walking in a bounce house, not easy.
[392] Oh, no. You stand at the door.
[393] You stand at the door and you say, get out of here.
[394] I've been in there before trying to get her.
[395] And like, you don't look more awkward than when you're walking in a bounce house.
[396] I don't think it's so much shitty.
[397] It's that like, and Jeremy will disagree with this because it's not positive towards his university or stadium.
[398] It doesn't really have character.
[399] It has zero cats.
[400] It's just like.
[401] It is a generic, generic gas stadium.
[402] It's like build a program.
[403] It's a bleacher company's wet dream.
[404] It's just like, let's just build bleachers as high up as we can.
[405] Put as many rows as you want.
[406] No backs.
[407] We're good.
[408] It's terrible.
[409] Now, the positive thing.
[410] I could not be more upset.
[411] The positive thing I'll point out.
[412] Give me time.
[413] We went, as I said a couple years ago, Georgia Tech at UCF.
[414] We parked and in a church that's not, that's like, Tony said, seven miles away from the entrance the stadium.
[415] And in the church, they were given out, like, free food.
[416] Like, it was just free here, here I have some Chick -fil -A.
[417] I was like, really?
[418] And I was like, I've never experienced that anywhere.
[419] How can you argue this stadium has character?
[420] There's like one section where it's like, here's our character, yellow seats.
[421] The rest is just weird.
[422] It's not about that.
[423] It's literally just about like what it feels like there.
[424] It's not just my memories.
[425] It's anyone who goes to the stadium.
[426] I've been to the same.
[427] Literally just yesterday, Master was here saying what an incredible experience it is, tailgating at the program and how great the stadium ever.
[428] Come on.
[429] Nobody, nobody who like a college football.
[430] Close ball.
[431] That's a different story.
[432] You can't ask, Matt.
[433] You guys don't like college football.
[434] You just said it.
[435] When did Master become the one that ends the conversation?
[436] Exactly.
[437] Exactly.
[438] Well, you guys all just said you don't like college football.
[439] We don't like dealing with the nostalgic college football.
[440] This is a great on -campus stadium that is a spectacular experience for anyone who goes there.
[441] Anyone who likes college football enjoys that moment, I don't understand what we're doing here.
[442] Also, yesterday, the rare time that you win by 54 points and run for 450 yards and feel terrible about your Victory.
[443] Can I tell you something?
[444] Yes.
[445] You know, I mean, how you know that the stadium doesn't have character and that this is like, you know, you know, they're looking for a thing is, is the play that happens that's very popular now where they have 67 ,000 different uniforms.
[446] And you're watching game.
[447] You're like, which team is UCF?
[448] I am obsessed with that.
[449] I don't know which team is UCF.
[450] I don't know who just scored because every game they're in a different uniform.
[451] No tradition.
[452] Wow.
[453] Exactly.
[454] That's what, okay.
[455] Yeah, that's what teams with no tradition do because you're just searching for identity.
[456] We have the identity.
[457] The whole premise is they did that because they could never get over the hump.
[458] But they're also Nike.
[459] We're never going to win.
[460] So let's just have a lot of flashy uniforms.
[461] Oh my God.
[462] Oregon has an, Oregon has an.
[463] We have like seven uniform combinations.
[464] Ridiculous.
[465] You also, by the way, their stadium, more character.
[466] You know why?
[467] That's insane.
[468] Boom.
[469] What is wrong?
[470] It's not wrong.
[471] It's not wrong.
[472] There you go.
[473] You're just unbelievable.
[474] You just don't get it, Jeremy.
[475] I'm unbelievable.
[476] You're unbelievable.
[477] I just got a text for my friend John who went to UCF.
[478] He says, we sound absurd right now.
[479] Okay, he went to UCF.
[480] Wait, is he talking about Jeremy?
[481] I feel like when you go to UCF and you like, you choose like to root for UCF football team, they remove part of your brain.
[482] But I will, so let me get to my point.
[483] It really wasn't about UCF.
[484] I told you you could get more upset.
[485] That's stating.
[486] I am.
[487] You said it about three minutes ago and now I'm fuming right now.
[488] But some of these places, quote unquote, have personality and I think they got to go.
[489] go to.
[490] Years and years ago, we had Mike Shushchevsky on Highly Questionable.
[491] Coach Kay.
[492] And so I wanted to ask the question, when are you guys going to finally put some money into the program and get a new building?
[493] And Dan literally was like, absolutely not.
[494] You cannot ask that question.
[495] And I said, well, we're going to upset Mike Shoshchewski.
[496] If you've been in Cameron Indoor Stadium, ladies and gentlemen, or if you haven't, excuse me, it's a dump.
[497] It's a dump You know what other places Are a dump That people just glaze all the time The carrier dome Syracuse Dump No AC I heard Dump But I don't have AC Carrier They don't have AC That's what I heard I know multiple people I went to Syracuse And I think they don't have A C in the carrier dome But at Cameron Indoor They slap the court They could do that anywhere Chris They could do that anywhere That's just playing good defense And slap in the floor That's just playing a D You can do that anywhere Now The flip side is they seem to put a lot of money into practice facilities because I saw this video of Northwestern's new practice facility and I don't think of Northwestern as a football powerhouse, right?
[498] The only reason we talk about them is because 60 % of the media all went to Northwestern.
[499] That's right, by the way.
[500] I don't know, where's my camera right here?
[501] I don't know if you people know this, sports consumers.
[502] If you wonder where all the biases come from, I'll tell you right now, they all went to Northwestern or Syracuse, all of them.
[503] Greenie, Northwestern, right?
[504] Rachel Nichols, Northwestern.
[505] Mike Wilbaum, Northwestern.
[506] Lefco, Syracuse, right?
[507] You go through the list of all your play -by -play and host people, you're like, oh, that's another one?
[508] And now it all makes sense.
[509] It all makes sense.
[510] So they try to convince us that Northwestern is a thing.
[511] Oh, it's a Big Ten school, and they're coming up and all that shit, right?
[512] That's not a good school, football -wise.
[513] It's a good journalism school, though.
[514] Great journalism school.
[515] Great journalism school.
[516] But I'm going to tell you this.
[517] Their football practice facility they just built, I would have been fooled as a 17 -year -old.
[518] I'd be like, oh, my God, I've got to go there.
[519] It's on, like, the water.
[520] But because they got some sand there, it makes it look like it's at a beach.
[521] I'm like, oh, my God, you guys have your practice facility right onto the beach.
[522] Yeah, but it's Lake Michigan.
[523] It's a lake.
[524] Yeah, exactly.
[525] And it's freezing.
[526] It's freezing.
[527] Most of the time you're there.
[528] So it's like, this is all.
[529] This is all trickery.
[530] Smoke and mirrors, ladies and gentlemen.
[531] Yeah.
[532] I thought you guys could only make me feel like this during heat season.
[533] Why?
[534] I can't believe what's happening right now you've ever felt in heat season.
[535] This is ridiculous.
[536] You understand why people who don't go to UCF would think that it doesn't have a lot of character.
[537] Like it doesn't give off like.
[538] It's not like you see Tennessee football game.
[539] We haven't existed since like segregation.
[540] But you understand it then.
[541] It's not that crazy what they're saying.
[542] Like Tallahassee Doke Stadium?
[543] That's a dope -ass stadium.
[544] That's got character.
[545] I don't like the Seminoles.
[546] We kicked their ass.
[547] I don't know if anyone heard.
[548] Are we talking about character versus, like, actually being a good stadium of atmosphere?
[549] No, it's a great stadium atmosphere.
[550] He's talking about the bones.
[551] When you're walking up, though, like, do you feel like, oh, I'm at a college environment right now?
[552] Well, I do.
[553] When you walk across the campus and you see all of the tents and the tailgating and then you walk down Knights Plaza and you, there's the cheerleaders in the band.
[554] You walk over to the stadium.
[555] It's an unbelievable atmosphere.
[556] And, yeah, you feel that buzz of college football.
[557] I've heard it's no FAAU stadium.
[558] Oh, my God.
[559] Oh, foul owls.
[560] I'm leaving.
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[577] Are you guys old enough?
[578] Well, Roy is, but everyone else.
[579] Are you guys old enough to remember the Christopher Reeves Superman movies?
[580] Yeah.
[581] No?
[582] No, I have no idea, right?
[583] I mean, I know him as the Superman that then was in an accident.
[584] That's all I know Christopher before.
[585] No, I mean, it's just the truth.
[586] We've upset Jeremy here.
[587] He was back here during the break.
[588] He was like, you don't know how many false starts we've caused.
[589] Fuck you guys.
[590] Oh, that last Superman, the Quest for Peace one, that was...
[591] Superman for The Quest for Peace?
[592] Yeah, that was terrible.
[593] Yeah, I have to be Superman for the Quest for Peace.
[594] Look, this was the original comic book movie Blockbuster.
[595] Those Christopher Reeves Superman movies.
[596] Like, that was, hey, you can take a comic book character and you can make a summer blockbuster, it's going to make a shit ton of money.
[597] And you can cast big -time, big names, like Gene Hackman, like Richard Pryor.
[598] Right.
[599] And the guy who played Superman who really looked a lot like Superman as we imagined him as we see him in the comics was Christopher Reed.
[600] And they made, was it, four of them?
[601] Four of these movies, Roy?
[602] Yeah.
[603] The fourth one wasn't so good.
[604] No. Wasn't even made by Warner Bros. Oh, yeah?
[605] No, it was made by Canon.
[606] Oh, Canon, that's right.
[607] Oh, shit.
[608] Go to Sinipo for more canon trivia.
[609] Canon pictures, those guys were a bunch of scammers.
[610] But basically this star of the movie, Christopher Reeve, who was basically synonymous with Superman, in the same way that if I say, Tony, if I say Iron Man, who do you think of?
[611] The actor?
[612] Yeah.
[613] Robert Donny Jr.?
[614] Right.
[615] I was going to say Tony Stark, but yeah.
[616] We got there.
[617] Right.
[618] So it's like that.
[619] It's like there is no other Iron Man. Like they could try.
[620] There might have been Iron Man was cast in some other smaller movies or whatever before.
[621] might do it again later, especially with all this multiverse bullshit.
[622] But now he's, uh, what's his name?
[623] Dr. Dune.
[624] Dr. Dune.
[625] Guess what?
[626] He's going to be Dr. Dune to.
[627] Right?
[628] Like that's how, how strong that character is.
[629] That's what Christopher Reeve was.
[630] He was Superman.
[631] And then as Jeremy in eloquently pointed out, he was in this awful accident.
[632] He's a big time horseback riding.
[633] Like he was into question in sports, fell off his horse, severed his spine, complete paraplegic, paralyzed from the neck down, right?
[634] There's a new documentary that's coming out.
[635] It might already be out called Super Slash Man, the Christopher Reeve story, and it's about his life following that accident.
[636] Like, it's a little bit build up to all the things, you know, that he did prior to, you know, when he was acting.
[637] And then, from then on, and, you know, the guy had a family.
[638] He had like a bunch of kids.
[639] One of them was Will Reeve, who was one.
[640] once worked with us at ESPN and now is on like Good Morning America.
[641] That's right.
[642] That's right.
[643] I forgot about that.
[644] Yeah.
[645] I was watching Good Morning America and I was like, dude, I remember doing Sports and It's got to do a Good Morning America.
[646] And I'm stuck hosting the Levitart show.
[647] Yeah.
[648] What is my lot in life?
[649] Tragic term.
[650] Yes.
[651] Tragedies.
[652] But it's one of those things where I saw the trailer and I have to admit it looked incredible.
[653] It looks moving.
[654] It's definitely something I don't know, right?
[655] I'm big on learning from my documentaries.
[656] But I also saw that it is a Warner Brothers production, which makes sense.
[657] Superman is a Warner Brothers character because DC Studios is owned by Warner Brothers.
[658] Which led me to think to myself, it's a documentary.
[659] It's being released like in a couple of weeks.
[660] If I wait a little longer, it's got to be on Max.
[661] It's got to be on Max.
[662] And so this is the type of thing where I'm going to wait until it comes out on Max.
[663] Oh, you don't want to spend the money at the theater.
[664] It's not even spending the money at the theater at Roy, although that factors in.
[665] It's, I like sitting down at home and like firing it up on my TV and being able to pause and have subtitles on and like, you know, go to the bathroom and do all these things, right?
[666] I don't, the go, the movie going experience is just inconvenient.
[667] But because of that, I realize I am also complicit.
[668] it in deteriorating the movie industry because it's people like me is the reason why they can't make diverse movies.
[669] They got to make a certain kind of movie because they know that's going to make money.
[670] But everything else, there is no home video they're going to make up on the backend.
[671] So in two hands, I mean, you have propped up the movie industry by creating content around it, yet also tearing it down by not going to the movie that you're going to be talking about possibly in a couple years after that to prop up said movie industry again.
[672] Yeah.
[673] I mean, like, I am both a champion and a villain to the movie industry.
[674] Hollywood should embrace me and also chastise me, castigate me. Wow.
[675] It should be purged, my dear brother Numsi.
[676] So in that vein, what is the thing that makes you guys say, you know what?
[677] I am going to get up and go to the movie theater and pay money to watch this.
[678] Deadpool versus Wolverine I got up and went and I paid.
[679] I did too.
[680] I was like, I got to watch this.
[681] Black Panther.
[682] That's the last time?
[683] No, that would be an example of something.
[684] Oh, something.
[685] Okay, got you.
[686] Looking for something to do on a Saturday with my kid.
[687] Really?
[688] I think I'm going to be forced to see Moana too in theaters.
[689] Oh, I'm definitely doing.
[690] That's not a force, though.
[691] I'm excited about that one.
[692] I'm excited about that too, but again, Disney Plus.
[693] Yeah, but you got to wait.
[694] No, they play.
[695] they on the big ones they make you wait a little longer than like the 30 days or 90 days or whatever That's a good point They'll make you wait on that one I can't do movie nights at my house anymore My couch is too comfortable Oh I'm like I'm like the stereotypical Like my wife's like Chris And I'm like what I'm not sleeping She's like you're snoring I'm not sleeping You're snoring I ain't sleeping I'm on the phone Like, get off the phone, Roy.
[696] You ever drop your phone on your face?
[697] Yeah, literally every night.
[698] Every night, huh?
[699] Yeah, almost every night.
[700] I fall asleep in bed.
[701] Pictures of the bounce house and you fall in your face.
[702] That's like, well, it's interesting.
[703] A bunch of people who don't want to go to the movies in person are talking to me about an in stadium experience.
[704] But that's fine.
[705] That's fine.
[706] Man, do you call the movie theater the bounce house, too?
[707] Like, this movie theory, am I right?
[708] Totally.
[709] Mission impossible.
[710] Any mission impossible I go to in the fear.
[711] Oh, I learned my lesson.
[712] Any James Bond, I'll go to in the theater.
[713] I learned my lesson on Mission Impossible because I didn't go to Dead Reckoning.
[714] You fool.
[715] And then I watched it on the plane and I was cursing everyone.
[716] I said, nobody made a big enough deal about this.
[717] And we saw the...
[718] Mike did.
[719] No, he didn't.
[720] He did not make a big enough deal.
[721] Because then I went into the chat and I said, why didn't you tell me?
[722] This is the best Mission Impossible ever.
[723] And he's like, no, it's like the third best.
[724] I'm like, what are you talking about?
[725] It was fire.
[726] It was fire.
[727] So I went once in the theater when it came out and then it was still out when I went to Greece last year it was around the same time and then we saw it in a beautiful outdoor cinema in Greece it was it was amazing it was an old school like 1940s they had a projector and you had like a little stand you'd go and get it was like four bucks and you was like a bunch of Greek people and I was like this is amazing and like studio chairs like the ones that the director sit in so you would sit there they had a smoking section or non -smoking section which all became smoking section because we're outside and you're in Greece they don't follow the rules there Everybody's smoking, but it was awesome.
[728] We saw it on a, literally like a sheet that they put up.
[729] Yeah, oh, like a white sheet.
[730] Like a white sheet, like a big ass white sheet.
[731] Like the commercials.
[732] Yes.
[733] Like you know the commercials where it's like, it's like an Allegra commercial or whatever.
[734] And it'll be like, hey guys.
[735] In a bathtub watching a white sheet on video.
[736] That's exactly what it was.
[737] If you're ever in Santorini, I'm going to see if I can send out whatever the Chinima's name is.
[738] Amazing little place.
[739] But I saw Dead Reckoning there.
[740] Oh, my God.
[741] Better the second time.
[742] Magical.
[743] That fuss had felt magical Right Like that's what Tom Cruise wanted Exactly I'm you know what Top Gun I went to the movie for you I went to the top gun The movie four or two It was during the finals I had the day off I was like I'm gonna go to movies And I watched it And I gotta admit Like Top Gun was cool But I walked out It was like it was Top Gun Like what do you mean They updated the technology But it was pretty much Top Gun Like watched the same movie But it saved movies It was It did save movies It made people want to go to movies But then now I'm saying hey Hollywood it's on you to make movies that make me want to go to the movies but then I also think to myself wait that's why we're in this condition to begin with because I've basically told Hollywood you know if you're not making Mission Impossible or Deadpool like I'm not going to the movies but then I'm like we're all the art house movies and like the documentaries and stuff well they're all getting made and I'm waiting for them to stream so I'm part of the problem I feel guilty I feel guilty don't be yourself up it's okay Hey, Jeremy, what's Dick Mountain?
[744] What?
[745] Ah, I've been wanting to talk about Dick Mountain all day, and you guys have forced me to talk about the bounce house.
[746] Dick Mountain is Rich Hill, the pitcher for now the Boston Red Sox.
[747] So Rich Hill is 44 years old and made a start yesterday for the Boston Red Sox, and I couldn't be happier about it.
[748] But he has one of the best nicknames in sports, which is Dick Mountain.
[749] And so I actually have a top five.
[750] suggestive nicknames in sports, potentially suggestive nicknames in sports.
[751] That also exaggerate, too, because, you know, Dick Mountain is a little bit of an exaggeration.
[752] Rich Hill.
[753] You don't know that.
[754] So, O -L -I, Big Poppy.
[755] Yes.
[756] Number five, Flash Gordon.
[757] What's suggestive about that?
[758] Flashing.
[759] Yeah, Canote.
[760] Oh, I thought you bet like he got done real quick.
[761] Number four, hammering Hank Aaron.
[762] Number three, Dick Mountain.
[763] Number two, Randy, the big unit, Johnson.
[764] Oh, yeah.
[765] Double there.
[766] Number one, could be triple.
[767] Mordecai, Three Fingers Brown.
[768] Is that, okay.
[769] Just to be clear.
[770] Forks up for Three Fingers Brown.
[771] What?
[772] Wichita State.
[773] Arizona State.
[774] Arizona State.
[775] If you're on a team for the fourth time, like, is it?
[776] Is that, like, the same as, like, being in a relationship for the fourth time?
[777] After four times?
[778] It's different, right?
[779] Like, yeah, after, you're like, and Rich Hill, like, let's give this guy a go for a fourth time.
[780] Like, three divorces.
[781] That's a gimmicky thing, right?
[782] You're just like, ah, we can get Rich Hill, put him in relief, he'll pitch an inning, and, boom, he has a record, 20 straight years, whatever.
[783] Yes, it is.
[784] But it's like if you were the one who was broken up with and they got back with you, as a player, right?
[785] Yeah.
[786] Because they're the ones that have the choice, really.
[787] So it's like, hey, baby, I'm sorry, I'll be different this time.
[788] I can't stay mad at you, and you get back.
[789] That's what it's like.
[790] He struck out two guys in just an inning in a third.
[791] Bet he did.
[792] Which is pretty spectacular.
[793] I mean, it's crazy.
[794] He's 44 years old and just throwing absolute slop up there.
[795] And I think it's pretty impressive that a guy like that can still play in the major leagues.
[796] I don't know.
[797] But baseball is the sport of, like, old guys, right?
[798] That's the sport.
[799] Not as much anymore.
[800] So much of it's about, like, Max, velocity and athleticism and guys are not having the same length of careers and it's in large part because guys like Richel aren't valued the same way anymore.
[801] Well, that's why a guy that just throws slop is valuable.
[802] Because you just throw anything out there and they don't know what's coming.
[803] They thought it was going to be something fast, but instead it was slop.
[804] By the way, the open -air cinnamon and Camari playing Bob Marley One Love.
[805] They're playing Mamma Mia.
[806] Of course.
[807] Every year.
[808] And Borderlands.
[809] Yeah.
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