The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Big Suey: Mike Schur Is Creating Monsters (Feat. Billy And The Onion)

Episode Date: November 27, 2024

Our Little Show is having another giant watch party in December for the Miami Dolphins-New York Jets game on December 8 at Vivo in the Dolphin Mall. Can you believe that the Miami International Mall outlived Sunset Place? Whatever happened to the mall that was going to be built in Miami and host an indoor ski resort? Plus, Mike Ryan has some insight on what led to Tata Martino being fired following Inter Miami's disappointing campaign. Plus, the Los Angeles Dodgers continued to flex their muscles (and wallet) by signing Blake Snell to a 5-year deal worth $182 million last night. Would the Marlins even want Juan Soto? What would a team full of Jake Burgers look like? Also, Mike Schur is raising monsters (but only if he's raising his children as Dodgers fans). Then, we go Behind The Bit on Billy eating the onion that allegedly sent him to the hospital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it.

And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar. Billy, I am seeing here on the preview screen that our little show, one of the most popular in America, every time we land somewhere, I am always moved, you got, by people who fly in and drive in from a long way away, even if we're just at a local bar party and we're doing another one of these for a game that we could turn this place into a real zoo. Jets and dolphins.

Yep. One o'clock Sunday, December 8th. I need the Dolphins to have that game matter. I need Aaron Rodgers to come into town. I need not so many quarterbacks to get hurt between now and then that Tim Boyle is starting for somebody. But that game Billy, that day, what are we doing and where are we doing it? Well, we've been doing a little god-blessed football Country tour here. You know what I mean? We start in Chicago. We went out to Arizona now Me landing here at home in Miami dolphin mall

Vivo you guys remember Vivo Vivo was the site of a fun watch party We had last year with the Dolphins played the Titans that ended up being a disastrous Yeah, they ended up really ruining the Dolphins season. It was so fun. It started off great. Dolphins seemed to have the game in hand and then all of a sudden they somehow magically blew that lead and then we all thought, well, Levis, wow he's gonna be something in this league. No, he was not. He's pretty bad. Not very good this year. So that game ended up being a disaster and a bad time had by all. It was fun for most of the night, but then a bad time.

So we said, you know what, let's have a bad time again. So come out here, we're gonna have a bad time together. Dolphins versus Jets, December 8th, live from Vivo at Dolphin Mall. Kickoff's at one, but we're gonna get there around noon. Going till about five or so. We're just gonna kinda be enjoying football. We'll have the Dolphins game on, the Jets game on.

And I would advise you, and this is not on the script here. This is not Sunday service presented by Smirnoff. This is not on the script. But I will tell you this, because our partners at Smirnoff have been great. I will tell you this, December 8th, Dolphin Mall to Sunday. I would get there a little bit early

because you're headed into prime holiday shopping season. So if you wanna find some parking, it's gonna be a zoo generally just because of that time of year at Dolphin Mall. Oh, but no, the growing property of God bless football landing in your town after touring the country, Arizona and Chicago, landing at a homecoming, closer to home to Billy Gill, the people that matter,

the people show, these are Billy Gill's people. They're not closer to home, my actual home. I grew up at The people show, these are Billy Gill's people. This mall is- We're not closer to home, my actual home. I grew up at Dolphin Mall, that's where I met my wife. My wife. Wow. Yeah, at Dolphin Mall. So, the point is, get there early,

because if you wanna sit down, you wanna have a good spot at the bar, you wanna have some, you know, a good vista of us, like there's a lot of bars and stuff around that area, and it's gonna probably be crowded just because of that time of the year. So come out and enjoy the Dolphins and the Jets with us. It'll be fun, who knows we'll be the Jets quarterback

at that point in the season. If Aaron will be released, if he'll be on the team, if he'll be on IR, it could be a disaster. Hopefully it's the Dolphins win. It seems like we're trending in that direction and we have a big prove it game tonight, right? Or show me something game tonight, tomorrow? Tomorrow, yeah, tomorrow.

Get ahead of yourself, Billy. Which is it, Billy? Wait a minute, those are two different things. Prove it game or show me something game tonight tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow Wait a minute those are two different things what do you mean tonight or tomorrow game or show me game? Well, you said it was a show me game I said it was a show me game and then Billy show me state summer saying Billy Downgraded it to prove it. It's on son my first My first date with my wife was also at dolphin mall really really at Bevo. Where'd you go? G.i. Fridays and then I'll run down sir and Christopher walk My first date with my wife was also at Dolphin Mall. Really? Really? At Bevo? Where'd you go? TGI Fridays and then we saw the one down starring Christopher Walker, Sean Willis,

Dwayne the Rock, John Gatsby. First date movie, you don't really talk a lot. Yeah. We were smoochin'. You talked before. Yeah. This guy. Baby.

Was the movie always the plan or was like TGI Fridays went well. That's sizzlin'. Hey you wanna go up to Dolphin Cinemas upstairs? That sizzlin' chicken and cheese. You get the mozzarella sticks She's dolphin cinemas one of the first places that I can remember in this area that had like full food that you could order Incredible you do a lap you do a loser lap around the mall always yeah

You got free samples at the food court was a bowling alley there at the time or no Little and it's changed names of all those was a Bolero at one point in time. I don't know if it still is a Bolero. I'm sure they serve smear now. Anyways, that's Sunday. It comes out sizzling like it's fajitas. Yeah. T.J. Fridays, I heard a bunch of them were closing. Yeah, it's a sad one.

I think that one closed. The one next to UM's campus closed. I can't believe that. Really, sad day. Really sad. Yeah, Fridays, Tuesdays, don't name your restaurant after a day of the week, because it's not going well.

Seems to be a bit of a trend. Jets Dolphins December 8th. I want to hear more about both of these encounters. You guys are going, this is homecoming for you guys. This is where love began for you guys, for both of you at Dolphin Mall. You're such a writer. What a romantic. I just got frisky inside a movie. Watch on the run. I just got frisky inside

Just amongst us girls what face did we get to Little handsy. I'm still waiting on that roller coaster at dolphin mall They promised that the opening weekend still no roller coaster Yeah, and now what happened to that other massive mall dolphin mall great by the way come check it out What a high leo on that other giant wall there's to build that was supposed to like combat mall of the Americas in Minnesota, it's supposed to be like the biggest mall in the world right off of the turnpike. It was supposed to have a ski resort or something. Yeah, indoor skiing, what happened to that?

They're still building. I'd like to kiss my wife there. Who would have thought, now that we're talking about Miami malls, and I know that's what everybody wants to talk about this time of year, who would have thought, Miami International Mall, outliving Sunset Place, no one would have had that. And when I tell you it's on its last legs,

International Mall is just nothing. No, falsehoods. No, dude, International Mall is thriving right now. Yeah, no, it's thriving. When was the last time you went? Like two weeks ago. I went two weeks ago too. Oh, it's great.

Is there a radio? I went sooner. Is there a Radio Shack there? Dolphin Shack. No, get out of here. Anyways, Dan, have you been to International Mall in the past couple of things? I will answer your questions in a second.

You guys did a deep dive on local malls here. I still haven't gotten an answer to my question though. How did you meet your wife at Dolphin Mall? My wife, we worked together. And I don't know the backstory. Of what, us working together? Of how it is that you came. Whoa!

That was a while later. What? Was it really? December 8th. None of his personal business. Seriously. Sunday service presented by Smirnoff. Yeah, 1 PM, kickoff.

12. 12. Get there early, too. Be there like 11, 11 o'clock maybe. Good seats, yeah. Billy, that mall you were talking about, the new deadline, it's 2026, the one right off the turnpike

that they've been promoting forever. I didn't understand. It'll be ready in time for the World Cup. But 2026, I mean, get out of here. Look, guys, let me tell you something. I'm gonna call shenanigans on these projected dates of construction projects, because just now driving in,

I see they finally put a shovel in the dirt on that soccer stadium next to the airport. We're finally moving dirt around there, and that's supposed to open in four months, so I don't think that we're gonna meet that deadline. And 2026, there's no shot in hell, because I've driven down the turnpike, and I don't see the largest mall in the world

anywhere around there, so they haven't started that yet either. We managed to go a week without talking about Inter Miami's manager leaving. Yeah. They just hired a new one too. Really? That happened pretty quickly and out of nowhere. And I haven't seen subsequent reporting after I heard personal reasons because not, not a lot of people had that coming.

I mean, seemingly out of nowhere, there were like like there were some people plugged in in the know that You're one of them aren't you Mike? No no no I was I kind of given up that beat they're not my biggest fans anymore but it was interesting when I first heard Dr. Martino was in the mix everyone's like well that's a perfect mesh with Messy because they know each other. But what I kept hearing was like, it's actually not that easy. There might actually be some conflict there. The fact that they've worked together in the past, that doesn't actually help this thing.

Tata's a very prideful guy. And I think this is one of those situations where like, you want to do it your way. I had plenty of success doing it my way. You guys just do your thing. Are you interested at all, Stu got in this portion of it for it my way, you guys just do your thing. Are you interested at all, Stugatz, in this portion of it? For a while there, Mike was doing some insider reporting around that sport and obviously had very good sources in Inter Miami, because if you were listening to the show, it wasn't surprising to you that Messi ended up there. When he says they're not the biggest fans of him, I haven't talked to him about this at all,

but I'm assuming that that would be because you've been on here talking about how they price people out and gouge people and that you gave up your season tickets. I hadn't asked you about this, but I assume. I don't think we need to assume. I think that would be the reason. I would assume that.

Yeah, but I've also been more fair than them. I reconnected with some people over there and I guess the way, my perspective was they weren't that big of fans of mine. I know some people there there and I guess the way my perspective was they weren't that big of fans of mine. I know some people there aren't but there are some people that met her over there that that are totally fine with me. I think that I kind of feel, me personally, this is my personal feeling, I think Inter Miami missed an opportunity here. Inter Miami from a stadium attendance standpoint was doing very well pre-messy. They had a packed house, it was a fun atmosphere,

even though it was very far away from the base that they were trying to appeal to. Which people have no idea how much further that is than it used to be because, you'll see during Art Basel, we are wildly overcrowded down here. So for you to get to those games was gonna take you two hours every day during that time. Well, I was just gonna say, my car is well over the miles

because of all the Inter Miami games that I went to. It's 15 minutes away from Boca Raton. Okay, it's a lot more convenient if you live in Boca to watch Inter Miami than if you are living in the populous center of Miami-Dade County like I am around Kendall. That's why I drive every day. It was tough.

I just, look, they brought in a dude from Barcelona on the business ops. They have a certain way of doing things over there. It's a little different over here. It felt a little less MLS-y, which actually appealed to me. I like the direction that MLS was going in, but this is messy. This is a whole different ball game.

And by the way, on the field, even though they got eliminated in the first round by Brad Guzman, as Dan liked to call him. They made a very, that's not his name? I made it Guzman, I put a Z in there. You're good. Well the Z is always in there, you put an M in there. There's no M.

But it's hard to argue with their path and they're monetizing it and they're getting sponsors and they're doing the thing. I did get a phone call for the first time since giving up my tickets from Inter Miami, which I found interesting. Like, hey, you wanna come back? So I don't know, read into that what you will,

but they also told me I have a credit. I'm like, wait, credit? Wait, what? Where's my money? Huh? You got money? I got money? We'll see if it works out.

I wholeheartedly wanna come back and be a season ticket holder again once the stadium gets a little bit closer. Maybe the prices level off in a post-messy world. I'm super excited about this Club World Cup that we have an opportunity to watch Inter Miami open up the whole tournament for. So look, they got messy. They were building the stadium. It's not on time. Doubt them at your peril because they've proved a lot of people wrong. And I think on the whole, this has been very successful. And from a business investment, David Beckham made his money over several times over. Alright guys these seasons are changing you

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and the Marlins have fallen behind Inter Miami and University of Miami football and maybe University of Miami basketball? Like the dwindling fan base. I might be carried away but I think we blew that opportunity. During that final four run it felt like that. It felt like the Marlins were like seventh place locally and what I wanted to ask you Billy because I was surprised by this yesterday although perhaps I shouldn't. Marlins are a year removed from the playoffs I have you know. The Dodgers now

got Blake Snell. Blake Snell has been just really exceptional for a couple of years now he was unhittable in San Diego he wasn't a lot more hittable in San Francisco and I can't believe that the Dodgers have the money to just add someone casually like this that I think that guaranteed money the Dodgers just gave him represents more money than the Marlins owe everyone they've gotta pay in guaranteed money because the Marlins have only one year contracts and Sandy. They've got Sandy and just one year contracts.

So the Dodgers, the champions have now added Blake Snell and you put such distance between yourself and the Marlins dugouts that you make it impossible for the Marlins to compete. I mean, I've heard all our lives the idea of ruining baseball, but if you can get Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman and Ohtani and you can, and, and.

You just add Blake Snell, right? I mean. Ah, Blake Snell sucks. Because your pitching got hurt. Right. You wantnell, right? I mean. Yeah, Blake Snell sucks. Because your pitching got hurt. Right. You want to slam him two years ago. Yeah, but he was terrible. He was terrible until August last year.

I mean, he was five and three last year. Billy's right, he was not good until the second half. Guy didn't even have a contract until like, two months into the season. No one wanted him. What's the spot on the rotation there though? In LA. He's number two or three, I think.

In LA? In LA, yeah, but Billy does have a career 319 ERA. Yeah, great. They already had Glass now for $100 million that they took from Tampa. He also sucks by the way. I know, but they can just. He's terrible, never can stay healthy.

They can just keep paying away their mistakes. Yeah, keep paying them away, losers. Snell in the second half, after the All-Star break last year, was 5-0 with a 1-4-5 ERA. A little suspicious. Whoa. Whoa. Go on.

That doesn't sound. I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying it's odd. Such a rough start. Some people will say, Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless. Here is something we like to call reckless speculation. You're good.

Here's the thing, is you guys get me like comfortable to just start talking to you guys, like it's just a bunch of us talking around each other right and I'm just here comfortable just you know talking just speculating and then I hear this sounder and I know exactly what's to come now the little the gaggle out there they're all gonna cut this up and they're gonna put this out there and then a Bob Costas of sorts is gonna get mad at me and then someone else is in the Dolphins fans are gonna be and it's just

We're just talking sports. We're just sitting here around this fireplace Thanksgiving week talking sports and no one wants to talk sports No one wants to be real. We're just talking. This isn't for the public. This isn't for the masses I didn't want Blake Snow in the Marlins. I'm glad that they didn't get him Also, I don't want Juan Soto if I'm gonna be honest honest with you. Too much. It's too much of a thing. Too much expectations, it's too big of a deal, too much money, not gonna be worth it. Marlins don't need a Juan Soto, they don't need a Blake Snell type. We don't need that. We need grinders on this team.

We need Jake Burgers. We need more Jake Burgers. Find me a team of a bunch of Jake Burgers. Is that a real person? And we're gonna... We did this yesterday with Baker. Tony, stop doing that! I wanna hear about a team full of Jake burgers. Is that a real person? No. We did this yesterday with Baker. Tony, stop doing that to Berger. I want to hear about a team full of Jake Bergers. What are you doing here?

He's one of their stars. He's one of their name players. But we did this with Baker Mayfield yesterday. A team full of Jake Bergers would be one of the saddest teams. No, that'd be a good team. Good team of grinders. Yeah.

Good man, too. Family man. He sounds like a Husky guy. A couple kids. He's a Husky guy. He's been on this show. Not on the day I was on. Tony. Grinders yeah good man to family man He's been on this show I was on Tony Tony. He's been like he's a genuine Marlin star And would I wish I wish I could wake up Nick to take burger

On the corners those are the glory days of the recent playoff Marlins. Yeah, Bell's gone, unfortunately. But Berger's still here. He had a mustache for a little time. You'd like him. You guys kind of look similar, to be honest with you. I love their corner infielders. They just hit 450 foot bombs.

Yeah, sometimes. Could use a couple more of them. Most of the time, they don't. Yeah, most of the time. More often than not, they don't. Sometimes. Yeah, but they had a Keng softball team, and they're like, come on Dodgers. Sandy's coming back.

We got a new manager, Clayton something. Well, Billy is right. Like a team full of roster full of Jake Bergers would be exciting. It's like a roster full of John Crux. I mean, Cruxies. Rotation's a bit of a liability. You're right. Also, you did say. No, the rotation will be fine. It Crockies. Rotation's a bit of a liability. You're right.

Also, you did say. No, the rotation will be fine. It's just health. Health is really a game. You did say before the reckless speculation sounder started that the second half of Blake's sound was suspicious. That was a direct quote. You said that.

Then I gave you the five and O. You said that. And then we played catch up on you speculating recklessly. And then you definitely said it. You did say it. And then you throw a plume of smoke in our face You just a bunch of words not just sounders start going out being Gaggle you're accusing Blake Snell of something nobody's accused about

It's odd that you have such a horrible first half and second half all of a sudden you turn everything around that odd You know he was due. I didn't say, I didn't accuse anyone of anything, I just said it's odd. No, you said it was suspicious. It is suspicious. Billy, Billy. There you go. You guys are putting a negative connotation

on the word suspicious that doesn't exist. Right, just talking sports. Billy, it's negative, suspicious is negative. Not always, depends how you use it. Billy, you're odd, not suspicious. What? I'm odd? I'm not odd. Not suspicious. What? Yeah. I'm odd? Huh. I'm not odd.

Not suspicious. Having or showing a cautious distrust of someone or something. That's a definition of it. You said suspicious. Having the belief or impression that someone is involved in an illegal or dishonest activity. Nah, that's another one.

That was the one. That's not how I use it. I think I use it as a past participle. Blake's. Don't be it. I think I use it as a past participle. Blake's. Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious. Blake Snell signs for $182 million and was unhittable the second half of the season. It's a big signing.

Baseball is talking about it today because the conversation is, God Almighty, Dodgers, knock it off. You can't hog everybody and you're the first I've heard call it suspicious on a day of great celebration. I haven't heard anyone in the national media, not Kirchens, not.

He doesn't say anything. When would Kirchens say that? All baseball's great, it's the best thing in the world. Well Dan, it's a little suspicious. See, he said it, cosigned. Isn't it just baseball that he was Cy Young Award winner the year before and then has a bad half season because as you said, nobody wanted him

even though what he got was, it felt like what happened to him is he got boar-ished, right, like he was, he opened. Last off season was really bad for free agency, obviously without the, you know, show hey-o-tani of it, but like no one was really signing big deals, so he wanted a deal that didn't exist. And then he kind of stayed put,

and then he ended up signing a two-year deal with a one-year opt-out, and then got a deal finally, but after spring training. So the reason that he had a bad first half is because he didn't have spring training and didn't sign with anyone until the season started so he was kind of delayed a little bit his spring training essentially was the first half of the season and then when he started pitching again he came back to his Cy Young form

that's what happened if we're gonna drop the charade long training if we're gonna tell the truth and we're not gonna do show that's what happened it's not suspicious it said he didn't have a spring training Dan and he's a good pitcher and now the Dodgers gave a good pitcher a lot of money and they're gonna be a really good team and I'm gonna say that baseball is dead and they can't kill it because it's already dead but that's not the truth the Dodgers are just really good and they have a lot of money but I will say this hmm Mike sure if your children are Dodgers fans you need to do a better job

of raising them because you're creating monsters that just get whatever it is that they want and they think that every team can just pay every player. They're the new Yankees and you're creating monsters if they're in fact Dodgers fans. If not, then forgive me for speaking on your children. Mm. Mm.

Mike Schur, you've been called out. I have not called him out. And you are right. The caveat at the end. There were a lot of ifs there, Dan. No, you are been called out. I have not called him out. And you are right. There were a lot of ifs there, Dan. You are absolutely right on everything you said. You are a truth teller and Mike Schur's kids and Los Angeles fans. You're so right about this. There's a generation of kids that's saying, yeah, we get Freddie Freeman when the Braves

are better. Yeah, we get Shohei Otani when he plays for another team. Yeah, we get everybody. They can just be scrappy underdog Red Sox fans who don't just get everybody they want. Well, they may get Soto. Yeah, they're in it for Soto too. By the way, the AL East, everyone's in it for Soto and the Orioles are better than all of them.

Like that's, because Toronto's in it, Boston's in it, the Yankees in it. So why are people so concerned about the Dodgers? Because the Dodgers have been doing this, they've been conducting business like this for over a decade now and it's gotten them what? Two World Series? Well, because they have to overcome Dave Roberts and he's a terrible man. Right.

But I mean, it doesn't guarantee you anything. It guarantees you're gonna get to the postseason, but they would have gotten to the postseason without Blake Snell. I had a Yankees fan yesterday text me and say, I get it, I now understand why everybody hated Yankees fans and why everybody hated the Yankees all these years, I'm finally understanding what it's like to be on the other side of this.

Stugats, how do you say with a straight face, it doesn't guarantee you anything, it guarantees you get to the playoffs? The Dodgers are gonna get to the playoffs every single year. So it guarantees you that. I know, but once you get to the playoffs, it's a crap shoot, I don't care how good your your team is the Padres had the Dodgers on the ropes

they could have lost to the Padres at the time Freeman was all shot up on medication and said so shouldn't have been on the field Betts was coming out of a slump but we can't dispute this part of it right this part of it's weird the Yankees used to be the team every offseason for decades in their rivalry against the Dodgers that got all of the players they wanted. The fact that baseball now has a sport that is being won by a regional television contract that's better than the others, that allows them to get Blake Snell. Aren't they in it for Soto too? They can get everybody and they can pay for everybody because Otani was just great business. They won the championship.

Like now you just start mass collecting, go grab everybody. What they're doing with the pitching staff, Billy, it doesn't matter that their pitching staff was hurt last year, that Kershaw was hurt, they're just going to keep getting giant expensive arms because it doesn't matter if they blow a $200 million contract here and there. Well, it's not just that. It's that Otani's contract was almost entirely deferred.

They paid him like $2 million last year or something like that. So the 70 million that he got, all of that money is spaced out over years. So it's basically not a real contract for them at the moment. They're gonna have to pay for it at some point in time and it's going to be a hindrance, I would assume, at some point in time.

But again, all the business that he brought in, it was more than they expected. They can afford everybody now if they wanted it. And if you wanna be a bad parent and raise your children Dodgers fans, that's a hard ticket to come by. Why don't you try the secondary marketplace, and for me, and you, you should only be going to one place.

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Yeah. It's the only kind he tells. It's the short one for me. I tried to speed it up for you guys. You forgot about the League's Cup. Stugats! La, La Carreta is a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the 97 Marlins celebration because it was Lovato and... Well, when Fidel died the first time.

This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats. Speaking of onions, I just saw that behind the bit as part of our 20-year anniversary celebration that includes Stugats going to the top of the bestseller list We have the memory here's to God and I I just learned today an assortment of other Details that I did not know about Billy and this onion and the subsequent hospitalization This is behind the bit. This is behind the bit. This is behind the bit a segment where We highlight all these bits, the glory days, some might say. Not that it's not nice now, it's nice now,

but it's not. ["Raw Onion"] Guillermo now has to do his challenge of eating a raw onion. Yeah, this isn't a good idea. And I didn't, like, now I'm starting to think maybe I should have thought of whether I'm allergic to onions and like looked into this

and like maybe I'll die doing this. Where are you just gonna start eating? Yeah, do I start? All right, go ahead, let's hear the first crunch of this. Oh! Oh! Oh my God, that seems awful! That's a giant onion I am going to vomit.

Does the holding of the nose help? Nothing's helping. You seem to be doing okay though. You seem to be doing much better than I, are you gonna vomit on, is there any chance that you vomit on your keyboard? It's possible. Oh, I mean he's eating it like an apple.

And it's a raw onion and it's horrific. It's one of the worst things I've ever seen. We are in the equivalent of a hurricane shelter in here. I feel like I'm watching Braveheart right now. Let me explain, if he throws up, we're all gonna start throwing up because vomiting is contagious. I mean.

Oh my God, he's gonna puke. He's gonna puke. Yeah, of course he is. Oh! Oh! Oh God! Oh! he is. Oh, God. Oh. Oh, Lord. Oh, my God.

Oh, lemon to our bugang. No! Whose idea was it for Billy to eat the onion? Yeah, this was a grid of death punishment, and Billy had to eat that onion. And it sucked for him because it kind of forced him to go to the hospital with kidney stones actually. So yeah, that was not good for Billy.

Were you there for this moment? Yeah, I was. I raised the sound fader up so we can get the sound of the actual bite. And yeah, I would have picked a smaller onion. Personally, I would have picked a smaller onion, personally. I would have picked the green onion, probably. First bite, it sounded, the sound still haunts me, but it sounded like a bite into a crisp apple. Does the holding of a nose help? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! Ah!

Does the holding of a nose help? No. Oh, oh, oh! He didn't have to pick that one. There were others to pick from. He ate an onion the way you would eat an apple. And so he took, that was his first bite and then he went to the hospital.

He didn't finish the onion. And this part of the story, this was interesting to me. I learned on air, I'm gonna say, seven, eight, nine years later that that hospitalized him I didn't know I don't know whether they kept it from me on purpose But I did not know that that was something that could get you sick or that it did get him sick until many years later Oh the onion the onion

Was a low point in my career and life The onion was life the onion was terrible the onion was a Punishment that I had to do because I lost in the bucket of death and I selected to eat a raw onion There was a double standard when it comes to grid of death and bucket of death punishments, where some people were able to get away with kind of like half-hearted payoffs and others were not. And I was not one of the people that was able to get away with half-hearted punishments.

So I had to go and buy the onion myself. And I was trying to figure out the smallest onion that I could get to have this count. To avoid any controversy in, you know, the spirit of the rules, I went and got a legitimate onion and I got a decent sized onion. And I thought I'm just gonna power through this situation.

How awful was that? Was Billy expecting it? Well, Billy knew what was gonna happen. We hadn't then learned the lesson that we now know post-onion, that eating competition should probably not be a part of the grid of death. I myself had a very horrific experience with tripe.

It just straight up tasted and smelled like poop. It was bad. We thought the onion, eating a raw onion would be fine. I didn't, I mean, I Googled it to see if it would be bad. It's natural. He legitimately threw up. I wasn't aware and I imagine Billy still harbors some sort of resentment there.

Wasn't my finest hour as producer. So I'm eating the onion. I'm powering through. I'm powering through, I'm like halfway done or so. And what really made it terrible was Dan gagging in the other studio. So now the onions hitting me, the like fumes from the onion are in my face,

I'm like starting to tear up. It's starting to collect in my mouth because I'm trying to eat it quickly but I'm not really swallowing it as I'm doing it. And then the gagging sound over and over and over again ends up getting me sick. So he throws up, then I start throwing up, and then I didn't stop throwing up.

What's not known entirely is I ended up in the hospital as a result of the onion. He spent like, I believe three days in the hospital after doing that, but here's the thing, like Billy's always in the hospital. Like that's what he does, he goes to the doctors. But I mean, this doesn't even sound right. Did you know that you could go to the hospital

for eating, he didn't even eat the whole onion. He took like four bites. I don't believe that the onion is the reason for his hospitalization. Do you think it was something else? I don't know. You think Billy's been lying all hospitalization. Do you think it was something else? I don't know. You think Billy's been lying all these years? I just think that he had another ailment that's like what does he think?

What do you think? Do you think that three or four bites of an onion are if I told you right now, absent this information, Stu got somebody takes three or four bites out of an onion. Are they going to be hospitalized? Your answer to that's going to be yes. I know. You know, that's fair. A lot of people say, how did eating an onion

get you in the hospital? So much so that when I was in the hospital and they were trying to figure out what's wrong with me, I was telling them, I've been throwing up all day, like I had to eat an onion. Can eating an onion cause you to come to the hospital? Like, what was it? You know what, Billy, you lied.

I don't believe him now. I think it was something else. I think Billy's blaming us. I think Billy might be trying to get us to feel guilty because he had to suffer something that wasn't our fault. Maybe Billy was just home. It took three days off of work, and if he did, I taught him well.

Little bit of stugats and everybody. Dan will claim that he had no idea that I was in the hospital until just recently, which is nonsense. And if you look at the tapes and you go through the archives, you will find him making mentions of my hospitalization on the show, openly mocking an employee's hospitalization on the show, unbelievable.

And I sent them a picture of my hospital bracelet. I'm like, I'm in the hospital. Like this went terribly. This was a terrible idea. It was either Mike or Roy said it gave him the kidney stones. Do we think that's malarkey? Kidney stones.

Do we think we, we, we that's, we think onions cause kidney stone. So the kidney stones we're trying to get out, but the onion triggered. There were no stones there. Then he ate three bites of an onion. All of a sudden he's got kidney stone. So the kidney stones were trying to get out, but the onion triggered. There were no stones there, then he ate three bites of an onion, all of a sudden he's got kidney stones. Kind of quack is he seeing.

They were 100% caused by the onions. This is just a liability issue at this point, and I'm sure they've talked to lawyers or whoever in HR that has told them like, deny, deny, deny. They know that they are damn well responsible for my hospitalization that day. I haven't had it confirmed to me through an independent health expert

that it was the onion that sent him to the hospital, but it doesn't really matter. He ended up in the hospital afterwards. I ended up in the hospital after I went to Vegas. Could it have been the booze? Maybe, I put it on the hospital afterwards, you know? I ended up in the hospital after I went to Vegas. Could it have been the booze? Maybe, I put it on the gazpacho. So Dan and Stu, fatically do not believe that the onion

sent Billy to the hospital. I'm not gonna disclose what he was in the hospital for. I'll leave that up to Billy, but it's a bit of a stretch for the onion to what I call wind up to effect what it maybe it jump started it maybe the visceral reaction he had to the onion brought about some other things in his body again look you're trying to trap me I'm gonna leave it at the apology if I hospitalized them for a completely unrelated body part fine it was the onion the onion. Sue me, but don't actually sue me

because the saturated limitations is up. While we're pretending no one knew I was in the hospital and that was just a bit and whatever, I got stuck with the hospital bill. I had to pay like $1,500 out of pocket because I was hospitalized and I was just a lowly employee and I was like, how do I even tell someone I got charged this for going to the hospital?

Months later, ESPN found out about it because they were our employers at the time. They're like, yeah, you shouldn't have had to pay for that. I'm like, okay, cool, so you guys are gonna cover that? Well, and I had to eat it. So I had to eat the onion and eat the hospital bill and the kidney still. It was just a disaster.

I hate the onion. Was Billy mad at you guys for this one? We don't know. I learned about it, if he was mad, he stood in the resentment for seven or eight years without telling me. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] Hello friends, this is Billy.

If you find yourself in a situation at work or home and you're challenged to dare to eat an onion or you're just hungry, look around, there's nothing in the cupboard but a raw onion and you think, what's the worst that can happen? I'm here to tell you hospitalization's the worst that can happen? I'm here to tell you hospitalization is the worst that can happen. I was one of the lucky ones. I was just hospitalized for two days as a result of eating a raw onion.

And then my employers denied any involvement in this and had to pay out of pocket all the co-pays involved. So it's better to starve than to eat a raw onion. ["Sweet Home Alone"] Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

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