- 7/14/2025
Crowder is given a high honor = greatest #52 in Miami Dolphins history. An interesting nugget from Crowder about his former teammate - Randy Starks - that we find out is likely completely wrong. Hoch lists everything he hates about scuba diving.
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00:00um there was a story that i read today i don't know if anyone tweeted this at you crowder or
00:06anyone texted it to you uh i think it's joe shad you open this story it's si that's oh no
00:15elaine poopart is it alan or elaine alan poopart alan poopart we like him i think he's a very good
00:23writer covers the dolphins for a long time so he wrote in si at si.com they're counting down the
00:30days for the dolphins today happens to be 52 days away from the start crowder and so they're doing
00:38he's been doing since 99 days away a countdown of the best players whoever wore that number
00:47more than green they're at number today they're at number 52 the top players at each number so far
00:56if you want to know jason taylor you can guess 99 98 anybody have a guess i'm gonna have to do this
01:01real quick 98 fat guy is that in david odrick number oh okay no i don't think so he just retired by the
01:11way over the weekend he retired for good over the weekend um 97 philip merlin
01:18philip merlin you got it 96 david bowens
01:25paul solii 95
01:28um tim bowens
01:32tim bowens you got it 94
01:35no ideas who randy starks oh big stark that's my man he's a he's he's a uh scuba dive instructor
01:45now he lost a bunch of weight what randy starks moved to moved to bolivia or something and became
01:53a scuba diver randy was a weird dude he lived like four houses down from me sold his house and moved
01:58out of the country if you gave me if you gave me the question what former miami dolphin became a
02:05scuba instructor i would have 500 names before i got to randy starks he lost about 150 pounds
02:15lives in bolivia and he's a scuba instructor i want to hear like i want to know i want to know
02:20everything about this he he he had a dog that i the i kidnapped one time because he kept pooping
02:28in my yard story yeah it was randy stark i didn't say his name telling the story but it was his dog i
02:33kidnapped because it came and pooped in my yard what's the problem with that what's the problem
02:37with his dog pooping oh yeah i mean it would just stay but he would just hang out anywhere and don't
02:43clean it up what's the difference it wasn't even about the poop it was that this dog just hung in my
02:47yard and i was like you like my house this much i don't think i don't think that's exactly the
02:51hot every take crowder has that he like he's got an opposite take he he it ends up backfiring on him
02:59and he ends up being exposed man this is crazy i mean this was just a week and a half ago every time
03:06the dog got out it would come and just hang around my yard so i put him in my garage and i was like the
03:12owner has to come find him now so i know the owner is and it'll end up being randy starts
03:1793 trace armstrong 92 zex sealer 91 money holiday ham wake yeah that's better 90 marco coleman 89
03:33friend of the program ron day gadston he was 86 how dare you i'm not good at numbers ed perry
03:42nat moore i didn't know nat's number 88 keith jackson the tight end 87 andre tillman 86
03:53friend of the program oh gee or ron day gadston yeah hold on 85 nick bonacani 84 bill stanfield
04:04mark clayton 83 heartline 82 oj mcduffie 81 yes i knew jews gonna make it irving fryer
04:1180 i don't have time to go through all these 58 i'm a friend of the program number 58
04:20um austin spitler kimbo camper
04:26number 57 dwight stevenson number 56 friend of the program
04:36uh twan russell uh twan russell john offered all i don't think twan was 56 was i think he was 50
04:44something zt 54 of course you want to guess who was 53
04:50killer b uh maybe i don't know his name is bob matheson i don't you don't know bob matheson because i
05:07don't know bob matheson is he black or white white lie bob matheson's white dude
05:1652 and then you get to 52 now you get to 52 and again this is alan poopart in uh si
05:28some of the players who've worn 52 for the dolphins include
05:33i'm trying to try to get to some of the more current ones ones we may know
05:38morelon greenwood before me and then philip wheeler after me that's the only ones i know
05:47wheeler kelvin shepherd chris jones raekwon mcmillan landon roberts patrick paul
05:54where is it now i got all them robin seindlin scott nicholas in 87 dennis falke's
06:05mike reichenbach 90 to 91 roosevelt collins in 92
06:12crowder crowder crowder got a leg up guess who the greatest
06:20crowd got a leg up oh crowd got a leg up
06:24this is what uh elaine poopart is it alan or elaine i keep asking the same thing it's al
06:33alan poopart this is what he writes we have arrived at another number without a clear
06:42cut choice as the best to wear while playing for the dolphins there are several candidates for the
06:48top three spots however robert jones was a three-year starter after arriving as a free agent in 1998
06:54and was particularly impressive in that first season when he finished with five sacks and two
07:00interceptions morlon greenwood was a four-year starter after arriving as a second round pick in
07:072003 and made a lot of tackles including 108 in his final season with the team though he never was
07:15an impact player and channing crowder who's having a great second career as a talk show and podcast host
07:23was also a third round pick he started 74 of the 82 games he played for the dolphins he had a career
07:30high 113 tackles in 2008 when miami won the afc east title and of course had a memorable game
07:37clinching interception against tom brady in 2009 he also writes about the number 52 mcmillan was a
07:47disappointment as a former second round pick before he was traded to the raiders two summers ago
07:51roberts was effective in 2021 and 2022 wearing 52 after switching from 44 in his first season with
07:59the dolphins tackle patrick paul is entering his second season in the nfl and first as a starter
08:05and the hope is that he makes an argument for himself here sooner rather than later
08:10the top three dolphins players with the number 52
08:15number three a landon roberts
08:19number two
08:22robert jones
08:25and number one
08:28canning crowder
08:31don't get a big man don't kill him
08:34according to alan poopart
08:37from si
08:41how much you paying crowder
08:45is the greatest
08:47miami dolphin to ever
08:50don the number
08:5352
08:54take that solana
08:56how about that
08:59you
09:00that's pretty cool
09:00you beat out
09:01you beat out a landon roberts
09:03and rayquard mcmillan
09:04it's a storied franchise
09:07and you are now in the conversation with jason taylor
09:12best number uh that uh ever played uh 99 for the dolphins zach thomas best ever 54
09:20for the dolphins you own the number 52
09:26thank you and i appreciate it and i agree with them
09:30i voted for a landon roberts on that list and to be my radio partner
09:36i voted on both
09:40i'm probably friends what is it so 9 99 52 i don't know what 47
09:45i'm probably friends with 40 of those guys
09:48not a storied number in miami dolphins franchise history but it doesn't matter
09:54you can go to hell too
09:55i'm glad i didn't get 55
09:59i mean you're no bob matheson but
10:04all right let's get uh
10:05who was 55 junior
10:07um it's let me see i don't think it was
10:12because yeah because he didn't play here long enough
10:14you didn't wear 55 one year
10:19you did with the florida gators
10:21i wore with the gators
10:23i wore 11 in high school got to
10:25florida oj small had 11 so they just gave me whatever number was available
10:30and then i got to the dolphins and junior had 55
10:32and they brought me in for a deep conversation and i was like i know what
10:37this is just give me whatever number i can get
10:39players make the numbers numbers number players son
10:43greatest number 55
10:48in dolphins history according to si
10:51is earnest roan
10:55i don't know him that june bug got him june bug the 12th time i don't know who that is
11:00r-h-o-a-n-e
11:01earnest rome
11:03yeah probably 72
11:07back in the day bob matheson was on the 72 team by the way
11:11um earnest he was a linebacker for 10 seasons with the dolphins
11:1775 to 84
11:21yeah yeah i guess so junior one here but what four years three years
11:27yeah 14 career nfl interceptions by the way
11:32i'm gonna tip up
11:34see i was white on rice i was white on weiss coverage so i was so close to my to my man in
11:42coverage they never threw the ball my way they called me white on right you were white you were
11:47white on weiss that is the problem
11:49brady and peyton used to point at me say white on rice white on rice
11:54right on top of
11:56that's that's what you heard in your head
12:00what they were yelling was go at him again
12:03go at him again
12:04they saw pie
12:09they saw pie in the middle
12:10let's get uh headlines here chris whittingham is going to join us this hour headlines brought to you by durell volkswagen
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12:30hey crowder how confident are you in randy starks denouncing all his possessions moving to bolivia and becoming
12:38omar's texting me you are totally wrong on this right no he lost a bunch of weight and he like started scuba diving it might be in the caribbean bolivia i think i just made up
12:48but omar kelly just sent me a picture that he is the head coach for eureka college a position he has held since 2024
12:55really
12:56last time i talked to randy he was in a foreign country scuba diving
13:02did he just need a few bucks to borrow maybe he adjusted his life
13:07got his number let me call him hey jimmy i'm gonna text you randy starks number call him and ask if he's a scuba diving instructor
13:19i'm not gonna do that oh please come on
13:25randy i gotta get you i gotta get you to talk to somebody on the phone
13:31uh this is jimmy crowder jimmy crowder uh crowder producer i'm crowder i'm up bye
13:41i got so dwayne starts he's a football coach
13:46ticket wizard says bob matheson was excellent
13:49i got um
13:53the big tackle from the steelers name is starks
13:57oh i got it jimmy 954 and dwayne starks play uh um yeah i got the wayne starts number the wayne
14:07starts max starts and then starts that gotta be ready i have landy starks number
14:11then i got captain neil starks i met him at the exxon
14:16i have randy starks number he used to do a weekly show with us on 790
14:22you see how i say people's numbers
14:25captain neil starks exxon
14:30why would you ever need his number again
14:34because he's a captain and i'll go fishing with him
14:37you know i'll jump on a boat with anybody that's all that's how i'm gonna die one day
14:41i'm gonna get on somebody's boat i don't know and they're gonna kidnap me and take me to bolivia
14:45well that's on you for talking to people at the exxon and then ending up on their boat
14:50if you that's my bait that's my what they say you you wanted some candy
14:55right get the kids in the car
14:57if you tell me if you tell me you fish i will get your number and call you the next day
15:02hey man when you're going out
15:03they're gonna kidnap me
15:05by the way i would like to add that bolivia is is landlocked
15:10he's a big pond he's a pond he scuba dives in ponds
15:26he is a different rate
15:27that's great
15:29he's a river scuba he's called river scuba
15:33the boy lost a lot of weight and started scuba diving
15:38omar so perfect
15:41it's a landlocked country
15:43no wonder he had to get into coaching
15:48sat around all day phone never rang
15:52it was a terrible business plan
15:55he had billboards all over bolivia bolivia's hottest instructor
16:00didn't get one call
16:03it might not have been bolivia
16:11he's like i checked in the yellow pages there's no scuba
16:17first one in since the market
16:21i'm locked in first one in since the market
16:24listen he started scuba diving fellas and i kidnapped this dog
16:33let's call randy start
16:343 30 tomorrow
16:36i want to scuba dive i want to learn how to scuba dive that's always been a goal of mine
16:43you're too weak body your body's weak you couldn't do it
16:46no desire to ever do that that's the dumbest hobby
16:50it's fun
16:51no
16:52it's like it's it's snorkel with
16:55deep water
16:57deep water
16:57and you know how i feel about snorkeling
16:59snorkeling is right about snorkeling
17:01i mean it's honestly one of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated on humans
17:06this snorkeling thing
17:08and then you know
17:09oh uh the 329 dollar excursion to go snorkeling
17:14yeah here's here's a rubber tube
17:16shove it in your mouth
17:17i told you man i rubbed the sea turtles back
17:19scuba diving in bahama in the bahamas
17:22dumb and scuba diving like
17:23any hobby that they go oh yeah i can teach you this in two hours
17:28also if you do it wrong your head explodes
17:30yeah i'm okay
17:32maybe let's come up with other things to give tourists to do
17:36you know
17:36oh uh listen
17:38uh when you're ready to come up
17:39just come up
17:40but don't come up too fast
17:42because your head will explode
17:43don't stay down too long
17:45you'll run out of oxygen
17:46your head will explode
17:47so i know you've never done this before
17:49eh come up at your own leisure
17:51but again not too fast
17:53because your head will actually physically explode
17:55or if you come up too slow
17:58we'll never be able to get you off the ocean floor
18:00but have fun out there
18:01and we feel like we've taught you everything you need to know
18:04you can't take a bunch of damn dummies out there
18:07but it's not that intricate
18:09yeah it is
18:11semi-randy starts
18:15lobster
18:15i want to learn
18:16hey going lobster
18:17lobster
18:18you know
18:19gigging
18:19oh my god that's so much fun
18:21until you get up under a ledge
18:24and there's a big ass shark sitting there
18:25and he
18:26swims away
18:27and all the sands around you
18:28and you think a river monster is going to kill you
18:30but other than that man
18:33it's amazing
18:34i'll let rustic in
18:36capture it for me
18:38scuba dive is fun
18:43it's like a whole
18:44it's like a different world
18:45yeah
18:46have fun
18:48you know 75% of the earth is ocean
18:50another one of those things
18:51where people love to say that
18:53oh i spent $700
18:54getting certified
18:56and you know
18:57and then i bought all the equipment
18:58for $14,000
19:00i can't wait to get out there
19:02and you never go
19:04and you're not lugging the equipment anywhere
19:06and then you end up like
19:07randy stark's opening up a scuba place
19:10in a landlocked country
19:11because you don't really want to go underwater
19:13speaking about i'll tell you the truth
19:16i never got certified
19:17i just go out with this hillbilly dude
19:20my buddy jason
19:21and he just said
19:22yeah throw this on brother breeze regularly
19:24don't beat the bubbles up
19:26and i just dove in
19:27and started swimming down to 70 feet
19:28and it works for me
19:30that makes a lot of sense
19:31hey i'll get
19:32i'll take you out with jason solana
19:34don't spend $700
19:35jason got you
19:36i'm surprised to hear that
19:39the man who truly understands
19:41the complexity of the world's oceans
19:43isn't fond of scuba diving
19:45that's because i understand
19:47the complexities of the oceans
19:48we're not meant to be there
19:50we are
19:51god put you want to see what's going on in there
19:57uh get a black glass bottom boat
20:00you can only see an aquarium
20:0320-30 feet
20:05atlanta has a nice aquarium
20:07time of your life
20:08you want to talk about the horse excursion
20:10the glass bottom boat
20:11hey hey pay $45 to sit on this ledge
20:15and stare down
20:16for two hours
20:18i mean that is miserable
20:19that's called throw-up factory
20:21i'm never getting on one of them boats
20:24all right um
20:27the heat play
20:29second night of a back-to-back
20:30in summer league
20:31their penultimate
20:32summer league game
20:33they'll finish things off
20:35later in the week
20:36but tonight
20:36they play
20:37the
20:38possum celtics
20:39final game for
20:40pella larson by the way
20:41he's going to go join
20:41the swedish national team
20:43games on
20:44fan duel sports network sun
20:46speaking of the heat by the way
20:48happy birthday
20:49heat legend
20:49shabazz napier
20:51lebron gave us a lemon
20:57and left town
20:5834 today
20:59i think friday
21:00we were talking about
21:01that was the day that lebron
21:02left the heat
21:03you know what today is
21:04the day he made us draft
21:07shabazz napier
21:08i don't know
21:09today is the uh
21:10the day that
21:11shaquille o'neal
21:12was introduced by the heat
21:14yeah
21:15you don't yell at pat riley
21:17about that one do you
21:18nope
21:20what started it all
21:22trading for shaquille o'neal
21:24at the time
21:24the largest trade
21:26in nba history
21:27seven team trade
21:28or eight team
21:28eight team trade
21:29the uh
21:34i just got down here
21:35i was here for like
21:36nine months
21:37and they traded for shaq
21:38remember so they
21:40traded for him today
21:41in 2004
21:42and then a couple days
21:43later they introduced
21:44him he had the super
21:45soaker
21:45semi-truck
21:47yeah
21:47should have won mvp
21:51that season too
21:51finished second in voting
21:52they gave it a steve nash
21:54that's a front
21:55ryan from funky buddha
21:57text
21:58first thing i've ever
21:59agreed with you on
22:00the ocean can suck it
22:01man y'all some scary
22:04that's scary
22:05i know where i belong
22:06if you're in a house
22:08are you gonna just go
22:09are you gonna walk
22:10around 25 percent of
22:11the house are you
22:11gonna check out the
22:12whole house
22:13no but i'm not gonna
22:14go to the places where
22:15my head can explode
22:16if i if my head's not
22:17gonna if i go back to
22:18my house too soon
22:19wherever i go
22:20your nose might bleed
22:22a little bit
22:22wherever i go on earth
22:23if i want to go back
22:24home
22:24i don't have to worry
22:26about my head exploding
22:27that's that's that's
22:31do you do you drive
22:33you drive a vehicle
22:34yeah
22:34didn't you have to learn
22:35how to drive a vehicle
22:36yes
22:37so you have to learn
22:39how to scuba dive
22:40but then you can explore
22:41just like you're
22:42exploring a car
22:43but here's the thing
22:44the scuba lessons
22:45take place
22:46at a hotel pool
22:48for an hour and a half
22:49from a guy who's
22:51pounding hurricanes
22:52during the the morning
22:54shift
22:54and then
22:55they go hey
22:56we'll go i've watched
22:58all these uh movies too
23:00they leave people behind
23:01you become chum
23:04listen not for me
23:05you know how long it
23:06took me to get a
23:07driver's license
23:07i had to take a course
23:09i had to pass a written
23:10test
23:11a driving test
23:13got my permit
23:14there's a whole thing
23:15hey you show up
23:17at the holiday inn
23:18at the bahemia
23:19and all of a sudden
23:21you're qualified
23:22to scuba dive
23:24an hour later
23:25and it's like
23:26huh
23:26i don't know if they
23:28got this right or not
23:29and i'm not certain
23:29the guy was really
23:30paying attention to me
23:31they just wanted to
23:32make sure that the
23:33the charge cleared
23:34up to my room
23:35i told you my buddy
23:38jason
23:38is ready
23:40he's locked in
23:42i'll call randy
23:46i want to go out
23:47with randy starks
23:48he does it in the river
23:51because
23:51i'll do scuba diving
23:53on land
23:55that doesn't make
23:57no no
23:58well
23:58someone should have
23:59told randy starks
24:00before he opens
24:00scuba diving place
24:01in bolivia
24:02you're gonna put
24:03in the regulator
24:03put a mask on
24:05and walk around
24:06the walmart
24:07if that's what it
24:09takes
24:09sure
24:10crowder you have a
24:14pool
24:14right
24:15yeah
24:16there you go
24:17hawk
24:18little scuba diving
24:19in crowder's pool
24:19time of your life
24:20that's the thing
24:21that's where you get
24:22certified
24:22like you get
24:23certified in
24:24someone's pool
24:24and then they
24:26drop you off
24:276,000 miles
24:28out in the ocean
24:296,000 miles
24:32you know cuba's
24:3990 miles
24:40so
24:41they're gonna
24:43take you to
24:43chile
24:44and just
24:45throw you off
24:46i'm telling you
24:54man it's a lot
24:55of fun
24:55under like 50
24:57feet
24:57you can't hear
24:58birds or
25:00engines anymore
25:01and it gets
25:01kind of weird
25:02like 50 55
25:03feet
25:04you can't
25:05hear the
25:05surface
25:06and that's
25:08when i get
25:08scared
25:08that's when i
25:09i don't say
25:09scared because
25:10i'm a man
25:11with a beard
25:11and when i
25:12you know that's
25:13when i kind
25:13of swim back
25:14towards the
25:14shallower water
25:15dumbest thing
25:18a lot of fun
25:21it's like you
25:23oh i got to
25:24this country
25:24i flew all the
25:25way to this
25:26country and
25:26the country
25:26goes here's
25:27the thing
25:28we don't have
25:29anything to do
25:30here we got
25:30to take out
25:31a couple
25:32hundred miles
25:32in the ocean
25:33for you to
25:34have something
25:34interesting to
25:35do here we
25:36appreciate you
25:37coming and we
25:38do have a
25:38senior frogs
25:39right here on
25:40the beach but
25:41that's about it
25:41so if you want
25:42to do anything
25:43that's interesting
25:43we got to take
25:45you a couple
25:45hundred miles
25:46out into the
25:46ocean
25:46you'll see
25:49well what am i
25:51doing here in
25:51cozumel you'll
25:53see 50 species
25:55of fish just
25:56dipping your face
25:57in the water
25:58fish swimming
25:59everywhere
26:0020 species
26:00of fish at
26:01the seafood
26:02counter at
26:03public's what's
26:03the difference i
26:04don't have a big
26:04tank on my back
26:05but they're not
26:06swimming and
26:07living what do i
26:09care it's like an
26:10underwater safari you
26:12want to go on a
26:12safari not at all
26:14you don't want to
26:15go everybody wants to
26:16go on a safari i got
26:17west palm beach zoo
26:18that's west palm beach
26:20zoo is his damn
26:21walgreens that little
26:22pretty ass they got
26:23squirrels and rats
26:25those are your sports
26:33headlines over to
26:35weather i should
26:39mention uh inter
26:39miami did win over
26:41the weekend they beat
26:41national we're gonna
26:42talk with witty in
26:42the next segment so we
26:43can talk all the
26:44inter miami you want
26:45another brace for
26:46messy um and uh
26:49tonight is the home
26:51run derby in major
26:52league baseball uh
26:54your weather it's
26:54raining drive safely
26:56all right chris
26:57whittingham talk a
26:58little soccer with us
26:59do you think
27:00whittingham is a
27:00scuba diver no no
27:03he has a widow's
27:04peak no chance that
27:05he would ever go
27:06scuba diving right
27:07no no no i think
27:08he's indoor child
27:09yeah what about you
27:11jimmy go scuba
27:12diving no i would
27:15not but i have
27:16been i had to think
27:17about it i've been
27:19i have been snorkeling
27:20before yeah how'd you
27:22do pretty good i
27:24mean i was well i
27:25was i was like 13
27:26when i did that
27:27did you win
27:28you kept the the
27:29did you take the
27:29snorkel all the way
27:30underneath the water
27:31and you gotta then
27:33blow it out i guess
27:34when you get back to
27:34the the thing or
27:35whatever
27:36no i didn't i just
27:39any pictures of you
27:40snorkeling
27:40no there's no
27:42pictures i don't think
27:43that the camera
27:44i think i have
27:44pictures snorkeling
27:45on my honeymoon
27:46truly the worst
27:50excursion i've ever
27:52been on like ever
27:54been on if the water
27:56was 10 degrees it
27:58was i mean it was
28:00freezing cold i i just
28:02remember laurie and i
28:03just huddled shaking at
28:06the at the end of the
28:07boat waiting for two
28:08hours while everyone
28:09finished up their
28:10snorkeling
28:10did y'all get
28:11married in maine
28:12in aruba i think
28:17goodness yeah
28:19snorkeling on me
28:20fellas i gotta look
28:21for snorkeling
28:22pictures i'll take
28:22every i'll take
28:23everybody snorkeling
28:24on me let me know