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So Chris was talking during the break about when you get a surprise like this, when people start paying attention in mass to an underdog like the Miami Heat, what you get in these moments is you go deeper and deeper into the playoffs is reputation enhancement. Like Dan Dakich has gone from arguing with George Sedano about SPO not being any good to now arguing that suppose the only guy in the sport who knows what he's doing. And this is happening for a lot of heat players.

Jimmy Butler, Reputation Enhancement, Bam out of Bio. Goran Dragic, Jae Crowder. But before we go down that path, I wanted to ask you guys something because. We are not the show that believes in these great intangibles or momentum or all these storyline mythologies as being the reason for why it is a team wins. But I want to ask you about yourself. I want to ask you guys this question as we head down this path and you watch the Miami Heat against the Celtics.

Help me with this, because this is something that I wonder whether or not it's going on with you as you view this. Do you think to yourself as. The Boston Celtics big star Cox back to make a dunk in at the end of the game as he's looking for his moment, Bam! Adebayo takes it from him. And then last night, OK, you're winning ninety four. Ninety one. You're a little bit scared, but you got that cushion fans like even if it's three points off, we cannot lose on whatever it is that happens next.

We've got a three point cushion for my fear.

Unless Derrick Jones Junior is out there, then he's definitely fouling a three point shooter.

But, you know, you're not going to be trailing at the end of this possession. You know how sports fans do this, OK, especially in this sport, three points means next to nothing. But you're up ninety four. Ninety one while you're down in the series. OK, I'm juxtaposing these two things as matters of will is matters of toughness, the stuff that Stan Van Gundy says when he says the Miami Heat are tougher than the Boston Celtics.

So. You're the Boston Celtics. You're down one, but you're not only down one, you're down one with your star being denied at the rim at the end of the game in a way that makes your down one in the series is right.

I mean, know makes your guy be your best player is on his back base of the basket, bam, out of bio's holding the ball. Everyone is marveling and laughing and echoing. No one can complain. Clean block. That's how you're down. But you're winning this game. Ninety four. Ninety one. And then there's Star. Their star, Chris, was making the argument that Jimmy Butler might be the third biggest remaining star, the Lakers have two of them, but among the guys that are remaining in terms of stardom, not best player necessarily not Jokic not not Tatum but Star.

It should be Jokic but no one wants him around. I believe the Lakers have the only two superstars remaining in the postseason. But if you're making the argument on behalf of Jimmy Butler.

You're up three, and not only does he on the perimeter extend himself in a way that has the ball going out of bounds, but then saves the ball by throwing it behind his back, it goes instead of two because it's just a panic situation.

He doesn't know where he's throwing the ball. He's just trying to save it. He's just trying to save it. And Kemba Walker is is there, but he throws it too hard with his left hand around his back. Yep. Like around his back. Then it goes to the other side of the court to Tyler Hero, who then sees that he's wide open, going from out of bounds, back toward the basket. And now all of a sudden you're up only one.

And now all of a sudden you're scared. And now all of a sudden you've lost the game. And now all of a sudden, everyone's calling the Boston radio station to complain about Jayson Tatum elbows. And I'm asking you if you're the basketball team that is young in that situation, how much amnesia do you have for, like, man, this is twice we've gone into the fire with these dudes and they pull out of their ass someplace that we haven't seen before.

And then you have Marcus Smart yelling at his own teammates towards the end of that game. And after that game, there were reports in the locker room that he was yelling Brad Stevens with a baby face in between the third and fourth quarter. I'd like to think neutral court. They're not coming back to Miami. They're just playing on the floor with Miami's logos on it. That a neutral floor. I'd like to think this team would be able to bounce back.

I'm not certain it will, but I'd like to think they would. In all fairness to Marcus Smart, he was overheard screaming there on that bullshit. And we don't know who's on that bullshit. It could be the heat. It could be the refs. It could be his own teammates. As Cantor came out and said, there's a lot of rumors out there. None of it's true.

No, but I want what I want to do is sink into all of that as the sports show that, OK, Strogatz believes in some of this stuff. But as the sport destiny, the heat right now. Yeah, except that you just couched your opinion with they may come back. I don't know what's your take on what it is that I just said when I'm trying to sink into the emotion of what it is that's happening with both Heat fans and Celtics fans.

Because if you believe in that stuff, then those things are demoralising. If you believe in that stuff, then the locker room problems become real. Instead of this silly thing, I think anyone who's down to is going to be super frustrated. I think anyone who's down to with the losses that way is going to be super frustrated. I don't think it matters to professionals. I think professionals bounce back and sometimes those shots go in and that will not be something that plagues the Boston Celtics.

But what I'm asking you guys is, as sports fans, are you feeling the strength in the weight of that where it's not just, hey, we're beating you, but we're beating you with these plays that are super memorable and that we're going to take into the next game with confidence and enthusiasm because our team has won ten of eleven games, honestly, less so without fans.

Yeah, because I remember the bubble worked several ways, not just protects you from this virus, but you're also living in the bubble. You're not driving home every night, maybe listening to what's going on in sports talk radio. I'm sure they have their social media, but I don't know if the criticism that they would get normally if they were home, I don't think they'd be wearing it the same way if they disappointed an arena full of fans twice as the higher seed.

Right.

Plus, you lose the first two at home and you actually have to go to Miami. You know, the series is over. You just you know, it's over. You're not coming back from 02 when you lost the first two games at home. So so I just don't know if they wear it as much. I certainly know what this would feel like if this were a normal circumstance. And how would it feel like this?

I don't think if you're a Boston supporter or even a player on that team, it's so interesting, the disconnect you guys are talking about there, because the two plays we're talking about, if they had been around fans in either a home arena or a road arena, would have felt like something else because you would have felt inside of a building, an energy either saw or an energy fall apart because you get a little scared all of a sudden that you just saw against you and your team a play that you know might be remembered.

Imagine seeing that band play with fans in Boston if that play happened in Boston and he shut up. Twenty thousand self-defense in.

And I remember the I remember the way the arena felt on the Tiago Splitter block when LeBron James met him at the rim. Like you feel a certain thing when twenty thousand people are seeing something and they all realized at the same time. Wait a minute, did I see what I just what I just saw?

Yeah, I feel like I'm more invested if they're fans because just look, remember what the reaction was after Bam! Gets that block immediately throws a panic pass there. Jones Jr is there to catch. There's no gestures to the stands. There's no bubbling hatred for what this player did. If you're a player on that court, you can't help but turn to the fans because of all the horrible things especially. In Boston, you're probably hearing that little bit of aspect of it, that little bit of poison, I'm really missing that, especially when it's the Celtics and Heat.

Same here. It's not to minimize what the Heat are doing because they're playing great. The games have been exciting. They're making all time plays. They're making plays that Magic Johnson is calling the greatest block he's ever seen in NBA history. But, Dan, you know this town like imagine this town. If the heat were coming back from Boston up to, oh, for a Saturday night game three at the American Airlines Arena, you're missing that. You're just missing parts of of what sports is all about.

Philly.

I don't feel like we've done enough. OK, this is something that's weird that's happened in the last couple of days. Everybody is waving around this Magic Johnson tweet when we've only been making fun of that account for all of the history of time. And now all of a sudden we are reverential about Magic Johnson said. That's the best defensive play he's ever seen in the playoffs.

I mean, the guy's seen a lot of playoff, I understand. But he's also the owner of the most mundane Twitter account in the history of Twitter accounts, where he only says the most obvious things. And now we're waving around this guy as the banner and the flag for all historic analysis. Hey, did you hear what Magic Johnson said? That play that I saw for myself, that was an amazing block he also thinks is amazing.

He's also probably seen the most amazing defensive play in the history of the playoffs. Thirty Times, if we look back on Twitter and I tried to look back on Twitter, by the way, and there was just so much reaction when I searched at Magic Johnson best defensive play because everyone's like, well, Magic just said that that was the best defensive play I've ever seen, that bad, blah, blah. And I'm like, am I really going to dedicate like two hours of my life to fight?

How many times magic does this? Because I always what's the what's the payoff in the end of this? Right. Like twenty seconds of Magic Johnson in 2014 so that this was the best defensive play. I was like probably not worth two hours of searching, but you have felt how weird this is, just like I have.

Right. I know you mentioned it earlier this week. The idea that all of a sudden everyone's reporting what Magic Johnson tweeted when all we've been doing since Magic Johnson was on Twitter was make fun of everything that Magic Johnson is tweeting.

But that's sports. That's the fun of sports. Then if Magic Johnson says something that's good for you, you're like just Magic Johnson, NBA legend, Hall of Famer. He knows he had movie theaters. What the best defensive plays in the history of sport. But if he says something that you disagree, that it's magic, he tweets crazy things all the same thing, like the asix thing that we were talking about, which, by the way, you guys were getting dangerously close to saying that this feels kind of different than the other regular playoffs do, which I didn't argue against because that people can read into you saying that this playoff is not the same and that it's a little different.

And then we start getting into the Astros stock. And I just caution you, stay away from that, because that's a very divisive issue that I don't know if you guys want to get into it. And then maybe people will perceive you as saying that this championship doesn't count the same as 06 and the other one. So just be careful with that. But it's the same thing with that. You know, you take the ASX stock if you wanted to be good and if you wanted to be bad, you say that about, you know what I mean?

You just pick and choose day. And that's what sports is. Journalism, that's what you do. You just pick and choose the facts that you want to say. That's not the things that you like. And then you present the way that you like them both. Sports radio.

Yep. On that conversation, I don't really know. There's no way of knowing if the Miami Heat would do this under normal circumstance, do you think, Mike?

I don't know. I really don't know. Lose a single game. They look like they're the best team in the east right now. And when they're ten and one in the postseason, it's hard to argue. I really wish, though, like as a community, it kind of is bringing us together, but remotely. I had a friend over for game one and I hi5 him when Bam Adebayo made that block. And it sounds stupid, but God, I miss that.

I miss being in an arena full of people and just losing my mind. It's different at home by myself. Did you wash your hands afterwards?

I did what I was going to ask. Yeah, I got very nervous last night when Troy Aikman reached over the glass and shook Joe Buck's hand when inducted into the Hall of Fame. I was like, whoa, skeptical. Bellus is there for a reason, buddy.

Skeptical Billy Joe Buck tried to play it off like he was caught by surprise by that whole point.

I think he was fake. Yeah. Yeah. Joe Buck's known for a decade. What are you talking about? Yeah, that was narrated by Paul Owens. He's like, whoa, whoa. Thank you. I'm stunned that I'm going into the Hall of Fame. Oh, wow. It was not a great and I know Joe Buck is a talent and he can act. It wasn't quite believable for me, but it was a nice touch having his friend Paul Rudd, who at the very end reminded you he's a lifelong friend, narrate that piece, are going to be two Hall of Fame.

Yeah.

Baseball Hall of Fame football crazy because he doesn't we're going to age and Joe Buck, we're going to see Joe Buck become an old man and he's going to be one of these. Like it's going to be like Dick Stockton out there where I always remember Dick Stockton doing game.

Stockton is still doing NFL games, doing a. Well, by the way. Submarine, that's some volume on your team as a respected voice in the NBA. Not exactly. I do want to point out what it is that Mike pointed out, because I felt it, I felt a palpable sadness about what Mike is saying here in this respect to God. And you'll appreciate this as someone. Who loves my father? I miss when the heat do something well, physically jostling my father like shaking here, shaking his shoulders, just sort of disorienting him because he's an old man.

He used to do this with potential old people doing really well, but he used to do this. This is something I saw since childhood. Right. He would walk into my grandfather's house and my grandfather had a twin brother that he was always with. And my father, when he was about my age, would get in front of my grandfather and my great uncle, and he would get in sort of a fighting pose. And because they were old men, they would sort of back off.

And it's something I just saw. It's something that not even consciously I've learned from him. And so I like jostling my father when he is excited about something. And I haven't been able to do this with like this feeling with the Miami Heat. This is the most surprising Heat team of our lifetime. It really is. It's there's nothing like this in terms of basketball in this town with a surprise. And I I miss the physicality of it's weird, but because it's not something that I felt very much before in my life, the physicality of being able to share enthusiasm with my father.

It's that communal thing that is missing, I think, from all of this. It's like that time member where the sports bar and you pump your fist. When Udonis Haslem hit that baseline jumper and we all jumped all over you, we were celebrating. Has that been confirmed? Was a dunk. And you admitted to it? Yeah, I did it on the Bam block. Yeah. Oh, yes, it did.

Are you guys not connecting with your wives more? I feel like I'm just watching all these sporting events with my wife now, so like I feel like we're connecting more on it. More high fives with the wife.

It's hard when I'm watching like Steve Nash on the floor. Honestly, Couch, why don't you buy a comfortable nursing chair? I did. I would want a chair that would be comfortable. Then ask you if you were uncomfortable, even in that I only have one nursing chair.

I got it for Cynthia, as your wife is, as you said, you move your old couches until your new couch.

I, I didn't want to move them with me because I wanted to upgrade the couches and I really regret doing that. I wanted to leave them in the house because I knew from my own experience that furniture is on a super long delay. I keep getting email saying my couches are coming later and later. So I thought it would be incentive. Hey, as is and sure enough, it sold in like four hours. But man, do I regret leaving the furniture.

There is a part of the deal.

What he says he's laying like Steve Nash. Don't you think of like Larry Bird is the person who spent the last two seasons just laying on the sidelines on his stomach with a bag of ice on his back or Steve Nash on his back. Wow. OK, propped up. Maybe it's an age thing, but no, it probably isn't age.

Yeah, I have one memory of Larry Bird playing, and he was like already an old man. He was on the job.

I don't remember any Larry Bird playing Jesus Christ World.

Yeah, my memory of Larry Bird is just him. You retire. When did he retire?

Like, that'll make me sad. Right now I need to. Yeah. And by then he was like Tostes.

Everyone knew his back was shot, spent a good deal of time talking about Larry Bird on the show this week.

Wow. I only pulled that out of my ass. He retired in ninety two. Yeah. I was slightly guessing. I mean, I, I remember watching Larry Bird's Jersey retirement, the thirty three filling that block. I have a very vivid memory of that is just I my memories of Larry Bird as a player was mostly people talking about how great Larry Bird was and watching all these tapes. And because ESPN back in the 90s was amazing, they do these year retrospectives I would know so much about like the seventy eight Celtics.

I miss that man, my childhood as it relates to what it is that we're presently watching with the Miami Heat. Is there another franchise that would be considered, as you know, with the poisonous feelings, with the hatred like we're talking about Larry Bird is there is the Pacers, is there any one that you look at and you think of the same way you think of Boston, which is there's this extra layer with Boston. Boston does not like what Miami stands for in principle, the things that we've endured specifically from Boston more than any other market in the United States, because we do this radio show this way, the things that we've endured are more hostile than they are anywhere else, any other city.

I mean, Boston's a city. It's a team thing. And then it grows into a city and fan thing. So it's different with the Pacers. It was just the team. It was just certain guys on the team that really there's nothing like this on about the city. So, like, I'm never going to forget that that Nick series. But in terms of like, hey, you're going to forget what those big three years felt like, Boston, more than any other city, ties up its identity with its sports.

And it got really ugly when this feels different because everything is different. And I don't think they have the same hatred. They certainly don't have the same hatred for this Miami Heat core. So but I'm never going to forget what my intentions were when the Heat were going through their run. I'm never going to forget all of Rondo's B.S. and how much I dislike that team. And it's still gurgles up within me whenever I see Paul Pierce's face guy. That guy sucks, but no other team gives you that.

I mean, the Spurs, they played each other in the finals two years in a row to respect mutual respect for the Pistons of Chauncey Rip, Ben Wallace and Rasheed. I think everybody was annoyed by that team. The Miami Heat were no different. And that was a very painful elimination in 2005, which prior to this run was the best run of Miami Heat postseason history. And then Dwayne hurt his rib. I thought for sure that team was going to win the title.

I hated that team a lot in the Pacers. But the Pacers were never talent wise on Miami's level. They were just annoying and would get under your skin and be very confusing. Like, why is Miami letting Roy Hibbert do this?

Billy Chris, do you feel any of this stuff as it relates to city rivalries? Because you've got the rare combination of all of it, right? The teams have butted heads. The cities are very different stylistically. Do you guys feel any of what Mike is talking about there where you might be moved to just listen? Basically, what Mike Ryan did last night is the game was over. He's got another game to move to. He's got more action to move to.

But he wanted to go for a swim in the tiers of Boston Celtics fans. He wanted in the middle of the night in an uncomfortable chair in his fat shirt to just wallow with in just soak in all of the tears. Yeah, you say it's weird, but that's where it's coming from. It's say it's weird. I've done it before, though, but I don't think I'm from my twenties.

I don't think any other team is making you do the. Search out an opposing radio station. Yeah, certainly not in the Studwell, any team LeBron is on that's going to if it is indeed LeBron versus the Heat in the finals, I'm sort of like, let that go. Right. All that resentment. He won one in Cleveland, changed the math, and now the Miami Heat are fine and the blood clots are forgotten about it. But it's going to gurgle back inside me.

I'm going to want to hand LeBron that. Well, it would be very embarrassing for him. And I think Tom Petty is going to come back out if that is indeed the match up.

If the Heat play the Lakers, who do you think Heat fans want to see lose the championship more, LeBron James or Dion Waiters? Because I feel like if this season ends with Dion Waiters winning a championship over the heat, people will lose their mind.

There's a lot of people I want to see Vogel. I don't like Vogul because the Pacers days Rondo. Don't forget Rondo is on that team. There is a lot of incentive outside of just lifting Larry O'Brien.

The thing I relate to Mike with the most on that is the fat shirt. I definitely have a fat. We all have a fat shirt, right shirt. They just feel safe and feel good and a little slender. A little slender.

I don't have one of those. No, it's just I don't want I already have like the overlap a little bit because of the low. So I'm picking up the waistband a little bit because I don't need to feel that. What I'm just trying to kick back and watch a game. And now I'm wearing this shirt from like an arena give away shirt that is way too tight around the top that I ever remits the dryer.

Don't blame that on yourself. Pants dryer. I mean, this one had been washed all that much. I specifically was holding this one back. And it's just this. Wait a second. This is an arena giveaway. Sure. This is everyone supposed to be comfortable in these and I don't. So I had to change the plaid shirt once it became brown. So I feel like those heat giveaway shirts shrank more than any other.

Like I have this culture shirt has shrunk. I you see my stomach when I wear it.

I know I'm fat. Don't make the joke here, Chris. It's not the shirt. But I'm telling you, these shirts shrink. So it must be the material that they use because they have to make a bunch of them. I would use a cheap cotton too. Yeah, but it is just it's insane how small like multiple six conference finals shirts.

Maybe you got bigger. Thank you for making me feel better. It's definitely the shirt.

It's a combination of thirteen years ago. I think your body's telling you these shirts string.

I'm not saying I haven't grown but they do sold.

It's the shirt. What, what is really insane. I think something that doesn't get enough coverage and should be talked about more is just how unreasonably excited people get to receive one of these incredibly cheap shirts. It's like finding your shirt.

It's like it's like finding a nickel on your seat of your you know, it's like finding money in your pocket, deep pocket. You get a dude legitimately almost push me down the stairs at the triple J when I was a season ticket holder because I caught him stealing the shirt that was back. It was me that was probably me.

Like I've seen fights of the t shirt can like, hey man, hey, that's my shirt. And I try to like and he was like, no, it's mine. I'm like, it was on the back. Try to take it out of his hands and he shoved me. I'm like, OK, this is not worth it. This is ridiculous don't you.

Thirty three years old. You have to take inventory of your entire life when you're fighting over one of these seven cents to one hundred percent.

But it's worth the fights. The last altercation I've ever been in in my entire life, I'm like, this is this is stupid.

This actually reminds me of last night on the Internet. On Twitter, there was a fight at the Browns Bengals game between fans, which is not safe in a pandemic. And everybody on Twitter started taking it super seriously. And I was like, you know, what, if there can't be a fight at a football game, we need to just not have fans. Because when you have a football game and you have fans, you have fights. OK, that's not on the fans.

OK, they're expected to fight at football game. If you're going to have football games with fans, we allow fights.

If we don't want fights, no fans and Browns probably top five in the nation in terms of fan bases that fight themselves. No. One, Miami Hurricanes, we all know this, especially that upper deck. And yeah, Flyers fans are in that top five Sixers fans and Bruins fans.

I've seen so many Bruins on Bruins fights, you basically are coming to the arena with a lifetime of resentment and someone is going to feel them at the end of your first.

Speaking of the football game last night, one of the great back door covers of all time we know a back door cover and a sixteen blazer, definitely hard drive that.

How the hell do the Bengals run 30 more plays the back door covered.

Do you guys agree with me, though? Like about the fights? Like, yes. Like they shouldn't have fans at football games. If that's going to turn into a big societal point of like, look at this. See, it's like they're drunk at a football game. They're allowed to fight.

We should not fans then if they can't fight, it's why it's why the I don't even know why they're allowing fans at Hardrock Stadium here, because they're not allowing alcohol sales and. All the problems at Hardrock Stadium Root traced back to the alcohol that they sell in there, so they're limiting the fights and they're limiting there's no tailgating either because you can drink at your car. So we don't want you coming in their booze up. Nobody wants to go anymore.

Capacity was thirteen thousand and 4000 people showed up for the last game I was there.

Chris, did you see you say and I understand your point and I want to ride with your point or irresponsible point of if it's football and fans, you must allow fights, but it's a license to fight. Understood. I want to follow you there and just be that kind of irresponsible and not wag a finger parentally admonishing you. But did you see what the Kansas City Chiefs had to release as a statement because one of their fans tested positive for coronavirus?

They then have to go through the George Orwell. We've been videotaping this person. We followed all of his movements. We saw who he came into interaction with. We talked to the people who who were there, who came into interaction with this fan.

It was it was a bizarre flex, a PR release, because they were really touting their contact tracing when they should have said, what does that mean?

They let some random fan got an email after that game like, hey, by the way, when you were at the urinal in the third quarter, you were right next to the guy. It's like, oh, God.

Horrible thing to say to me. That's right. Now, imagine that person was in the fight. Now, imagine that's the reason you got all that societal discourse on your Twitter feed, and that's why I can't follow you where you're going. Just made me so sad. Sarah, Spain like wagging a finger. It's like it's a football fight. It's a football game. Well, we do. Yeah.

Yeah. She's really carved out a niche for herself and Will's absents.

I'm looking up hazmat suits, so Dan could go see Poppy and Sheikhan, I think you always got to go with hazmat suits. You always got to go up a size, right? Yes, a quadruple like.

So I mean, maybe two sizes. Yeah. Yeah. This is because you want to buy him a gift, I imagine.

Well it's a bit pricey. Is more like a hey, heads up if you want to go to your dad's house and shake him, which again Dorce going to his dad's house and shaking him. But if he needs to go there to watch the Heat game and shake his dad, I'm looking at potential hazmat suits and make it look love. Shouldn't we put Poppy in a hazmat suit. What's the game plan here.

Yeah Poppy, he's. No, no, no. Poppy needs to be protected. Not not doing well, no. But if his the comfort of his home, I feel like he shouldn't be inconvenienced. Right. He's already getting shaped.

Remember the concept of wearing a mask. You wear a mask to protect others. So yeah, absolutely. Be wearing the hazmat suit.

Billy is trying to find you a hazmat suit so you can go over to your dad's and shake him during the Heat game. Yeah. Yeah.

Did you miss it so much?

Oh, you want a yellow or do you want. Oh, do we get the reflectiveness just in case you cross the street and it's nighttime.

I think the yellow is the most popular of the hazmat suits to get real humid inside that. For Dan it's going to be an Andy Reid situation.

Maybe we could get you a snorkel, but then you'd be breathing out. Your germs are going to work. Also, while you're shopping for these, get those like Armand Hammer dehumidifiers. It's unbelievable science. I put this in my washing machine room, guys, you put these little baking soda balls on the top and then all of a sudden it just pulls in all the moisture in the air. It's crazy.

Is Halloween happening? No, no. Get out of here. What are you out of your mind? It's in certain places it will be.

I drove by a Halloween store the other day and they had signs that said, oh, we're hiring now. And then they had like the big signs, like Halloween costumes. And now I'm cute. I don't know that it's going to work out.

I'm going to send my kids out to stick their hands in a bowl of candy. Are you crazy?

Three, though, this is a big Halloween year. Like I need to, like, at least dress her up and just like Walker like to my house, like to know what you should do.

You should dress her up and turn out all the lights in your house. So then just have like little candy stops in the different room. Right. Right. Oh great. Like knocks on the door like, oh, happy Halloween, trick or treat. We gotta do something but a different mask on each way. She's a kid. She's not gonna remember anyways, but a different mask on in every room and like, oh look, it's you know, your neighbor Bill or whatever.

At three she might remember.

That's why we just got at least get her dressed up, take a picture of her and then that's it. Just what is your earliest memory? What are the earliest memories you have? I don't have earliest memory is I actually have a memory of my dad and my parents divorced when I was two. So I have a wife. I have a memory sitting behind my dad's rocking chairs. He was reading the paper drinking from a coffee cup with an old Model T on it.

That said, Michael really has a very vivid memory, very said. And so I know since they got divorced when I was two, I absolutely know that's got to be my earliest memory. How about you guys?

How early do you go? Because I do not have I have a vague memory of looking out through a window in Long Island in central Islip as my mother walked down a snowy street. I did not know where my mother was going or why it is that she was leaving. I was 31 years old.

I was seven thirty this morning. I'm surprised you remember anything from the previous segment, given your just general meandering, which brings me to what I wanted to ask. You and tell the audience very little around here is scripted, this is almost all ad lib. There isn't very much planning that goes into whatever it is that's happening during a segment. But I thought we should lead the national show with a variety of screaming and trymaine local horns. And I don't know how to do that as a show that's not scripted and with the Zoome stuff making things complicated as it regards our chemistry, I think the place to start the national show today is with one of those cafecito rants where we feel like everyone is snorting something ecstasy, heroin, cocaine, where we're just shouting.

But I don't know how to do it with the Zoome call because it's very difficult to establish chemistry this way. And if people are screaming over each other, sounds get blocked out.

Yeah, Zoome prioritizes audio, so normally it just prioritizes rEU going yay! And it's just like a bit of a downer.

No it have to be me, you and Dan and one guy on Zoome. You have to, you have to essentially pick the most hyped one.

Right, which is Chris Christie. The best. Chris is the best screamer. Chris, do you want to practice it a little bit? Do you want to. Do you want to practice your enthusiasm if people listen to this local our big Stewy in that order and then national show, do you wish to practice it all? Do you want any part of what it is that I'm suggesting? Because this is also something that takes someone out of the show.

If they start screaming and yelling for three or four minutes, they end up becoming exhausted.

We'll sit with you for days. You gag it, ruin your weekend. I mean, I've done it. I mean, three, three or four minutes seems tough. You know me. I'm team guy. You tell me jump. I say how high? I do have some noise in the background here that could end up affecting it. But I feel like noise is good for that noise is good.

Yeah. Well do you, do you think that perhaps we should leave you on an island and then support you just where.

It's just you on the zoom for a second and then we join you as you think, like do we go like maybe a slow chant of let's go heat or more like I like I think that yeah.

But you faded out the second half of what you did. The Zoome cut it out. I only heard you were so loud that I only heard the initial roar. This makes all of this stuff complicated. I guess we'll find out together on how it is that we should do it. But I don't want the national show to suffer from a lack of enthusiasm just because we've been talking about this Heat game for two hours. Because I'd like to it's been so rare that, you know, this week, Richie Incognito, we have not had many stories that locally have transcended nationally.

We often have to force the Miami stuff into the national show just because to get people's attention, because we want to celebrate Miami.

When we first started, we had two stories. You had LeBron James coming here. You had the big three. So that was a local story that translated nationally. Then, as you just mentioned, we had the bully gate with Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin. Chris just left the room. I was going to ask him to scream again because I'm concerned that when you scream too loud in the Zoome chat room that you'll lose volume at the microphone could crack.

And you just so I want to make sure we have this right, it's just happened.

What if Chris calls the studio and then you just bring them up on the phone and then that shouldn't crack? Right, if you're just on a bad idea to get as loud as he wants? Right.

That's funny. That's very pandemic. That's very 20-20 to start the national show with Chris on a phone. How do you feel about that, Mike? Is that something that you think will work at all? Will it be a better. Will it be a better audio connection to have Chris Cody Feeney first?

Mike feels like it's the worst idea we've ever come up with. Well, I enjoyed the idea. See, one of the things that the people can't see is that Chris is perpetually at home with his wife and daughter. So I don't know how any of this gets absorbed at home when he starts with his giggling, screaming.

I mean, who cares who's working?

Chris, we need you to draw one more time, like super loud, back off the mic a little bit. We just want to see from Mike's going to shut off. It's going to crash. What's going to happen here? Just go up. Yes, you've got to bring it down a little bit to bring it down a little bit, right? Yeah, you've got to bring it down and cuts off all you got to get cut off.

I don't know where the volume is, but let's look back to like a 60. Let's test this.

Let's find out where the testing works. Let's see. Too much, yeah, too much, but I'm going to have to be a little less a little girl like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, start low.

And I don't want I don't want to start the national show sounding like Chris is having sex. Oh yeah. Oh that's good. That's good. That is that is that is it. Yes, yes, yes. Yes darling. Darling. See you Bobby.

But you got to go longer than that though. You need to last a little longer.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Loud. Too loud the way. There you go.

Er. Oh my God. That was disturbing. Oh my. OK, we're ready to start now, even though it sounds like Chris is finished.