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Now You Can Listen to Mike and the Mad Dog Lose Their Minds Together About Harambe the Gorilla

Mike and the Mad Dog discuss Harambe the Gorilla. Finally.

Earlier this week, we brought you audio of Mike Francesa losing his mind about the outrage surrounding Harambe the "Goriller." His former partner, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, also lost his mind on his own program on satellite radio. Some hero out there spliced both moments of radio gold together so that it sounds like the glory days of Mike and the Mad Dog. It is so good.

Russo, like Mike, is livid about the people who are blaming the family for losing track of their kid and launches into a What's The World Coming To?! tirade. But he's not an animal hater. He loves animals, even "dopey gorillas." To wit:

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"They can judge everyone else about how they handle their own kids, when all they care about is a dopey gorilla. And I like the gorilla, don't get me wrong. Good-looking gorilla! But you can't go crazy about a gorilla that got himself knocked off because he didn't know how to handle a three-year-old who ended up in his territory. What do you want them to do?! Throw the Tranquilizer at him and then all of a sudden he's dazed for a second and he doesn't know what's going on and he throws the kid a hundred yards?!"

I promise you, you have not lived until you hear Chris "Mad Dog" Russo say "Good-looking gorilla!" in his trademark manic rasp. But that's not all. Russo is also fed up that this is what we are talking about in America on Memorial Day weekend.

The idea they got petitions slamming the mother, let's get the police department to investigate. We'll bring the FBI in. Over a gorilla?! Ah, you gotta be kidding me. This is what we're gonna spend our time with in America, here, on Memorial Day—GO FEED THE HOMELESS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!! I mean gee whiz. You gotta have something better—you know who you are! You animal activist groups. And listen, you can't get on me, I love animals. I've got three dogs, and believe me they're a pain in the ass, but I have them.

This, I imagine, is what it feels like to drive along the Pacific Ocean in a convertible with the wind blowing through your hair: alive. There is also never-ending delight to hearing him describe a gorilla as getting "knocked off" like he's some low-level foot soldier in the mob.

We got flowers at his grave site? I mean, you must be kidding me. Some 17-year-old gorilla now, we're that upset about this in America, these animal activist groups, that we have FLOWERS! You must be kidding. Go feed the homeless, alright? Go work in a, uh, in a…in a…in a autism school!

Just listen to the whole thing, because I could transcribe it all.

h/t Awful Announcing