The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Do You See What I See?

Episode Date: October 17, 2023

Ron Magill joins the show to discuss his new book with Greg, the Colorado mascot fraud, kissing your own wife, catching pythons, and more. Then, Greg and Billy share their thoughts on Kim Ng and the Marlins parting ways before Lucy and Greg head to the Bucket of Death. Plus, Mad Dog Russo is here to react to Stephen's A-List, purposefully ruining Halloween for children, his favorite Christmas songs, the MLB Postseason, gummies, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dunlabor Tarshall with the Stugat Sputcast. Hi, Ron. Still what's going on, brother? How are you? I'm doing well. Doing well. How about yourself?

I'm doing well. We were talking. I'm going to what's going on, brother? How are you? I'm doing well. How about yourself? I'm doing well. We were talking, I'm going to go to Greg here, okay, before I get to you Ron, before we get to your answer. If I set the overrunner, because Greg and I, we were talking about Halloween and costumes and all that stuff and whether you like to go to parties or not, at Greg and I know you very well.

We feel like we know you very well, so we feel like you're a big Halloween guy. Greg, if I set the over under on the amount of couple costume parties that Ron McGill goes to every Halloween, if I set it at one and a half, what would you take over under? That's a good over under. I'm going to take the over. Ron, I picture you and the Mrs. as being dressed up people for Halloween. I have you going to at least two costume parties in the next few weeks. And you would win that bet.

Yeah. Yeah. Wow. It's not that I like to go to them to be honest with you. You do. But my wife loves going to them. Right. And they're usually, you know, include free food and booze.

I don't drink, but my wife does. And she enjoys that. And, you know, it's happy wife, happy life, guys. And what's the go to costume for you? Oh, it's always attractive. Dracula, Mr. Acquired on the count. I'm the calm killer. Yeah.

I was gonna ask you if you do different costumes for different parties for the same people. You just always do the same costume. I'm saying costume, bro, there's too much too much thought process in the other stuff. This costume is, you know, it's not even a costume. It's our real tuxedo is a custom made cake. I actually had these teeth custom made

for the real teeth that go onto my teeth. And, you know, the trouble is now that I'm going ball. I'm not really Dracula anymore because I got this big guy ball spot in my head. And is this something where since you guys are kind of the same thing every year, it's like a tradition. Do you guys both get into character when you're dressed up? Like before you leave for the party, are you talking to each other as these characters? No, I just suck on our neck a lot. Well, well, I think suck on our neck a lot. Well, wow. I think that, oh yeah. My man. Will you occasionally wear the costumes like on a Wednesday in May?

No, no. No. No. The Halloween doesn't come out. The hardest thing, the hardest thing to the costume for me is to put, I got these custom contacts to make my eyes like super white, red, right, it's the horrible. They scare me when I look at them, but I can't even put eyebrows in my eyes. So I got a whole my eyes open with my two hands and my wife's got to put the thing in and it takes an hour to make contact.

Run, to got to me, not admission, but he said something I had never considered. He says when you go to Halloween costume parties, it's sometimes you end up making out with someone that's not your spouse because they're in the same costume. Has that happened? No, that has not happened.

I will say that's not the cause. I think you know what I mean. Has that happened? No, that has not happened. I will say that. I think you know what I mean. I know. Listen, I don't want to kiss in my wife. I will say this though, people in costume tend to be a lot more freaky in a lot of ways. They're anity that allows them to do things that they would not normally do in public. And I've noticed that over and over again, we used to have a costume contest here at Tzu called the Monster Mask Array. They canceled

it a couple of years ago, a few years back. Can't say pull-truck, right? You know why? Yeah, because she said, well, there really wasn't appropriate. People would come and start doing some really kind of freaky stuff. It was a lot of fun, man. It was a great time. So the new director, trying to convince them to do it back. We're trying to convince him, but because man, I enjoy watching these people doing some wild stuff. You know, if we had a person dress up and he's just cellophane, just cellophane, and she was beautiful,

but she just wrapped herself in cellophane. That was it. And you can, you know, squint and you can kind of, well, who's the bear? Who's the bear? Hey, bear. Hey, bear. Hey, bear.

Hey, Ron. It's Jarba. Ron, I have a question for you about fish. You were talking about pedicures earlier today. And you know, the pedicures where they have like the fish going and eating the dead skin off of your feet. And like, now, yeah, they were saying that that's not good because there's bacteria that can be spread that way. I would imagine that's not good for the fish either, correct? No, it's fine for the fish because the fish are feeding off of it. It's not necessarily good for you because,

you know, the fish are swimming in water that they're pooping in there, you know, relieving themselves in and who knows what's in that water. And yeah, it could be a portal for infection in your feet, even though this fish really just eat any dead skin and not like cutting into your skin. So I think that the risk is minimal. And people, you know, it's one of those conversations things. Ron, Zuma Amy recently welcomed the birth of a white faced, Saki monkey. Why is that significant? Well, you know, anytime you have any of these tropical American primates and the white face Saki is found, you know, in these tropical American forests and Guyana, but not as well, it's like that. It's, listen, it's a good insurance

policy. One of the main purposes of Zeus is to serve as an insurance policy against a very uncertain future in the wild. So when you have these animals, the sake, for instance, is not necessarily endangered, but certainly the habitat that it lives in is becoming less and less every year. You know, you're taking down areas of tropical forest, the size of the state of Maryland every every year. That can't continue. So to have these animals and have this insurance policy of this this population under human care kind of helps us learn a little bit more about the monkeys themselves and hopefully we can apply that knowledge to protecting them in the wild. Ron, how are we going to stop the python problem in the Everglades? I follow a guy on Instagram who goes out and tries to catch all of these things.

Fish and Garrett, he's incredible. He goes to the Amazon. He's like barefoot and catching all these, you know, pythons and all these different animals. And it seems like 99% of the mammals in the Everglades are gone now because of the pythons. How do we stop this problem? You're right. And I don't think we're ever Tony. I don't think we're ever going to really totally stop that problem.

The best we can try to do is manage it. Listen, the bottom line is there's tens of thousands. Some people say over 100,000 pythons out in the Everglades. Anybody who's ever been out in the Everglades, it's not just going to, you know, the main entrance of Everglades. Anybody who's ever been out in the everglates, it's not just going to you know, the main entrance of hergaly's national park

and walking through Anhenga. It's thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of acres of many inaccessible areas for humans that is, but very accessible for pythons. I have walked by pythons that were

literally three feet next to me, big pythons that I didn't even see. They blend in with their environment so well. So there's no way that we are going to go in there and catch and hunt pythons to make any

significant impact. When they have this python hunt list and that's nothing more than just good PR. That's just trying to broadcast the fact that this is a problem. They make good news, you got people catch the snakes. These guys who are out there and catch these snakes, this guy you follow, it makes for great videos. People love watching that because most people are afraid of snakes so they go, oh, God, I'm God. It's not me. It makes for a lot of likes, a lot of clicks, but at the end of the day, it's not really making a difference with pythons.

What's gonna make a difference with pythons is if we have some huge extended cold, which is coming less and less likely every year, or we have some kind of pathogen that comes in. Some kind of bacteria pathogen that is what we call species specific. In other words, it just affects pythons. Or as we're seeing now, some predators

that will start feeding on these pythons. So we gotta have, the balance has gotta be established. Pythons contact. That's gonna take a little bit of preparation. Pythons code. Exactly. You know, Billy, that's a wonderful analysis. Pythons code.

Thank you. Ron, I have a question for you. So I've asked you about my bird feeder and my rat problem for a minute now. Someone suggested to me that I could put pepper in the bird food and that that will have the rats go away, but it will not affect the birds, that the birds are not bothered by the peppers, that true?

I'm not sure about that, Billy. I don't know, so I can't answer. Well, I'm gonna kill birds with pepper is really my question. You never know. I mean, maybe there is some kind of incredible, you know, allergic reaction to pepper to birds. I don't know, it could get into their lungs, maybe it affects their breathing, I don't know, so I don't want to give that kind of incredible, you know, allergic reactions to peppered birds. I don't know.

It could get into their lungs, maybe it affects their breathing. I don't know. So I don't want to give that kind of advice. Ron, and a crazy hypothetical, let's say Derek Geter landed in a private airport and he jumps into his wagon here and he's driving to his house in Tampa and he has the X-ray vision stuff, okay? But he'd be able to see a coyote. He's got heat sensor vision in his vehicle.

Yeah, he wouldn't be able to see the coyote. He wouldn't see it the way you see it in the commercial. Exactly. Yeah. He wouldn't see that. He wouldn't see that. There are coyotes on the west coast of Florida is what you're saying. There are codis throughout Florida.

I've got coyotes right here behind my office here at the zoo walking free in some of the foresters Got a couple of codis right here. That's right. That's really good. Hey, listen guys I also want to bring up something to you guys because I hear you talking about a lot when you're current You know covering Colorado and the buffaloes and all that stuff. Yeah Never brought up the Colorado that their mascot is not a buffalo. It's a bison. I know really You just not a buffalo. It's a bison. I know. Really. You just hit a buffalo. It's a bison. It's a bison. It's a bison. It has to be a female bison because I heard male bison are too aggressive. They can be. That's true. But still, and everything is about the buffalo's buffalo. They're not buffalo's. Buffalo's only found in

Asia and Africa. They're bison. Wow. There you go. That changes everything. No, it changes. That on the pole brother. Put one on the pole. Yeah. I've been lied to my whole life. Did you know that Buffalo mascot at Colorado is not a buffalo, but a bison. The bison bills. All right. Put it on the pole. South Dakota. Ron, you run a book with Greg Cody. We're very excited around here. Holy crap. I cannot believe it either because I just got a, I don't know if Greg, you saw the, the email. It's on, it's number one on the best, other thing for books on non, non environment and

animals. It's a, and it hasn't even come out yet. It's number five that Amazon's got it at the top of their list. How about that? We should have asked more money from the publisher. We negotiate. We do feel, I Billy pointed the publisher. Renegotiate. We do feel I Billy pointed this out that you took top billing. I mean, you really did, Ron.

Oh, I don't deserve top billing. Uh, I mentioned that the book, uh, would not have happened without you. You're the reason for the. No, no, no, no. Yeah, listen, the writing is everything. You could get this love fest on the grand couture show. He's just going to go on from about the fingers. I promote the ball.

I'm telling you, okay. Bottom line is, bottom line is, it's up, listen, I'm gonna be putting things on my social platform later on today about the links to go get it on Amazon. But the fact that Amazon's already got it at the top of their list in that category, it just blew me away. I couldn't believe it. Thank you so much, Greg.

Well, thank you. Chris, why are you upset? Because Rama Gill is my friend. Your dad is my friend. I had the last. I'm the guilt. I was been doing this show for over a decade for free, by the way. I had the list of the least we can do is let him promote the book.

I had to listen to 25 minutes of this on the great Cody show with great Cody of just back and forth of you were great. No, no, no, you are the legal honking. So good. Yeah, exactly right. It's a book good. It's better than good, Billy. Come on now. Yeah, exactly right. It's a book good. It's better than good, Billy. Come on now. It's number one. That's right. It's number one on their category in Amazon.

I just got the screenshot sent to me this morning. I was blown away by 50 50. How are we doing this? The two of you? Yeah. Yeah. I already said, I already said public that said an email. I said Greg can have all of my proceeds. What? I don't take them. Wait, what? You're all I decline, you're all I want. What? Are you stupid businessmen? I did offer that.

I said, listen, I'm willing not to take a penny on this because Greg is done. This is going to sound so, so serving. But he's done, he's kind of written a legacy for the people I'll never see in my future generations, my great grandkids, whatever they'll find out. They can read this book and find out who I am. That's kind of like a neat thing because I think he did a good job of saying who I am in this book. I'll take the proceeds. Yeah, money's cool.

I mean, Greg, you don't want them and Greg doesn't want them. I mean, they got to go somewhere, right? Someone's got to pay for that catalog, you know what I mean? Billy, did you really go there? Sorry. Yeah, I'm stuck in there. I forgot. That's where I'm going to go wildlife foot in the case of that., I'm still here. I forgot. That's a, that's a run-a-go wildlife one.

That is a beautiful catalign. I'll be in it. Great. I still get checks from listeners saying for the catalign with the exclamation point. In the memo, I'm more interested for the catalign. I love that. I'm not spending any conservation fun on catalign guys.

So the buffalo is not a buffalo. Not a buffalo. It's rocked by worlds. That is crazy. I just, I couldn't believe it. I always say, why did they call a buffalo? It's a bison. It's rocked by worlds. That is crazy. I just, I couldn't believe it. I always say, why did they call a buffalo? It's a bison. It's a different species.

What's the difference from? Well, buffalo are only a current Asia and Africa. They are from a different genus. They're different, you know, their family tree is different. It's like saying, what's the difference between a lion and a tiger? They're both big cats.

These are both big types of bovines, but they're different families. But they look the same though. You can tell the difference between a lion and a tiger, a buffalo and a bison, they kinda look the same. Yeah. Well, what about a leopard and a jaguar? Ooh, close.

A cat of a different spot. Yeah. Oh, they got a lot of... Most people can't tell them apart, but they're very different species. How about a black jaguar and a panther? Hmm. Exactly.

That's just a genetic mutation. That's not a different species. That's not a different species. Thank you, Rob. You got it, brother. Good luck with the book. Thanks. It's on right now, no waiting necessary. You have the latest phone, now take advantage of a great price on a 5G subscription phone plan. It's the perfect deal for anyone who could use some savings

right now. Subscribe today at publicmobile, no, I'm here. This is the Dan Lebatar show with a Stugats. So yesterday was an interesting day, Greg, for the Marlins. I think it was surprising for some people that are not super familiar with the situation in which Kim and essentially left the Marlins organization. So it wasn't that she was fired, they offered her an extension or they wanted to kind of,

they didn't give her what she wanted. So she left, I guess, as a result, and is going to pursue other options, notably something she may go to the Red Sox. And I'm curious to think, to hear what you think of the situation because for me, it was, it's confusing, right? Because she essentially it seems like wanted to run the entire baseball operations department. The team owner Bruce Sherman did not want that to be the case. If you listen to David Samton who was on the

show yesterday, it seems like maybe Bruce Sherman hasn't been as involved lately as he'd like to be. So he wants to start doing that. You're not happy with the farm system. They're not happy with international signings. It would appear they're not happy with the farm system. They're not happy with international signings. It would appear they're not happy with, I guess, the way that the draft has gone on. So they wanted someone else, I think, to oversee the entirety of it and have Kim just focus on the major league roster. But it's interesting because the team just made it to the playoffs for only the third time in a full season.

So I'm curious where you stand on this whole situation because the Marlins were getting crushed, actually, by everyone yesterday. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, the timing is so strange because they're coming off. What was a successful season, despite it ending so quickly in the postseason. But I think Kim and Redeem took this season because of a couple of the late signings that really propelled the teams or trades rather. The deadline deals. Yeah, the deadline deals. I mean, they both worked out great.

And, you know, to bring somebody in over her to have control over what she does, I think, is the wrong idea. I don't think the club needs a club president. Maybe they need somebody specifically to oversee the international signings or something like that. But, you know, I don't like the idea that she perceived it as I got an answer to a boss all of a sudden that I didn't have to answer to before. That part is totally fair, Greg.

I think being in the position that Kim Aing was in to essentially be given a demotion in power after a successful season like that. I understand completely why she would take offense to it. On the same token, this was not at least reportedly someone coming in to change what her job was going to be in terms of managing the major league roster, which by the way, as she was in this role, that was her primary job. The premise was that we want to reshape the rest of the organization around you from amateur scouting to development of players and bring in a president of baseball operations, who would be in charge of sort of that part

of the front office. This is similar to what the Mets had done in bringing in David Sterns and then wanting to keep Billy Eppler in the GM job, the difference, the Mets were a catastrophe this season. Eppler left. By the way. Yes. By the way, yes. By the way, yes.

By the way, yes. Right. So they hired a president of baseball operations above Eppler, who at the time was still under contract and he decided to leave while still under contract. Kim Aing was not under contract. There was a potential mutual option that was there. And so her decision was, I don't want to see somebody be brought in. Right.

Even to be a co-dissission maker on anything. And I can completely understand why her decision was to move on. But this is not a situation of the Marlins necessary. Like, yes, it may have been an insulting offer to her. And I can understand why she would feel that way. There is no reason to take a demotion with success. On the same token, I think the Marlins in their minds at least, we're not demoting. It just wasn't promoting to, hey, you have the full run of the entire organization.

Thank you, bear. It seems like part of it may have been there was just no one in that position. So she was operating in that position and then they decided we're going to hire someone. Dare Geter has actually been doing that from the owner's box. From her from her perspective, I think from her perspective, it also makes sense because her stock is very high right now. For sure. And there are some good opportunities out there, potentially with the Red Sox, potentially

with the meds. Now, at the meds, you kind of have a similar situation there, which is not what she wanted here necessarily. So I think it makes sense as being a free agent to go out there and see what you can get. And if you could run an entire organization like the Red Sox, why not? What's your stock very high though before the Bellenberger trades? Because I feel like Marlon's fans were being very critical. That's why that's why those so to trade. No, it wasn't. It wasn't, but it just takes two when you make the postseason. That's it.

Your stock rises. Well, that's why this is a perfect time to be testing the market. Exactly. Right. And the other thing is we don't know this yet, but if she ends up signing with the Red Sox, we're all going to look back and say, wow, what a great move she made. You know, because the Red Sox are a bigger franchise, they're going to spend three times what the Marlon spend. Not lately. Well, there, that is part of the criticism recently of the Red Sox, by the way, is they're not spending. They've been cheap. They let go of their stars.

Mookie Betts was the first and there's been a lot of points. But Greg's point, his larger point is a good one. Like any job compared to the Marlins is going to be a step up. Right. I mean, they're, look, keep Red Sox still outspend the Marlins. Sure. Okay. But what part of what they're trying to fix is not the spending.

It's the developing. Like you look at what the braves are doing. and that's a prime example of what it is that you want your organization to be. Another thing that's a factor here, I think with Kim and in particular, is that this is a good time that her stock is high and you go into next year and you see Jorge Soler were probably out. Josh Bell will probably opt out. Sandi El Contra is going to miss the entire season.

They won a lot of one run games this year that could easily have been flipped. You could very easily have a season next year where they lose 10 more games than they did this year. And it'll look like a giant step backwards. And it was just baseball happened. And then you lose all of that stock and goodwill that you built up because you look and you're like, oh, well, I guess you couldn't follow up. And then maybe some of those other jobs are no longer available no that's fair all all good points uh... you know she i i i have a feeling she made a strategic decision i think she either knows she's gonna get the red socks job or knows another one's gonna open up i don't think she does what she did

unless she has an idea from her sources that there's gonna be a job for her. She doesn't leave unless she knows there's another bigger and better job. I have to think that way. Well, it's been time as well. Like the season ended a week and a half ago, maybe longer. So, you know, it's not like the season ended, I'm leaving.

I'm not going to be part of the team anymore. It's been a little bit of time. So you imagine that there have been conversations, at least at some level, to have some sort of idea that I may be in play for a larger role. This doesn't seem like something that ended with animosity. Like this, this seems like a, a, and maybe, maybe I have the wrong read here, but this does seem like a strategic decision by Kim to put herself in the best position to succeed long term. And so for her, she didn't want to be, as you mentioned, Greg, either a co-decision maker or underneath somebody else as a president of baseball operations.

Stock was extremely high. Billy just mentioned all of the reasons why that could potentially change going into next season. It's kind of just a calamity of forces all coming together that made this make a lot of sense. And even if there's not a specific job that she gets this year, stock is high. And when your stock is high and time goes by, we saw it with with with John Groot and as a coach. We saw it with John Groot and as a coach, right? The longer he was away, the more everybody looked at him as like this next

savior. Right. So Kim, if a year goes by where she doesn't get a job here, next time a GM searches open or president of baseball operations searches, opens, she'll be right near the top of the list. That's a good point because that happens in all sports. We saw it in the NFL with Sean Payton. He's out of coaching for a couple of years. He's the big savior. Now he's off to a terrible start with Denver. But I love that we had that conversation with so much dresses of bear. The one thing that I'm curious about as we're going to pick games here, the one thing I'm curious about is that yesterday David on the show said that the Marlins are in a good position to move forward here with the next hire and I don't know how you could know that,

you know what I mean? Like saying, the Marlins will be better off as a result of this because there's not going here with the next hire and I don't know how you could know that you know what I mean like saying the Mars will be better off as a result of this because there's not gonna be that power struggle between Kim and Bruce and I don't know how you know that without knowing who the next person is. Yeah, I think he's got so I gave David Samson credit. I think he continues to have so much both within the franchise and in baseball. Look at this two birds with one stone we're doing. I love it. It's amazing. All right, Lucy, pick the jets. Chris, you are so turning it to your dad, man.

Yeah, it's all good. They're on a buy-out. I will be keeping the jets. And by the way, this bucket of death brought to you by KFC's new hot and spicy wings. Order an eight piece of the new hot and spicy wings for $4.99. And participate participating KFC

today. Let's say it together now. It's 499. It's impossible. It must be 499. You read that one. All right, so Lucy got the jets. The jets are on a buy week.

Three and three. How did it to the buy? I can't believe it. You cannot believe it. Reaper looks a little different this week. Yeah, that's a little happier to share bear. Bad news bear. Rumaging.

Oh, we lost it. You got to put it back in. You got to put it back in. You want the Bengals. They're on a bike. You might want the Bengals. Yeah, they're on a bike. Put it back.

Now he's got to put a break at the Bengals. Now he did it. He's really a good helmet. KC. He's really, uh, well, that's a good helmet. KC. I think the chargers, right? Yeah, the chargers of Kansas City. Dicey gay. At Kansas City?

Yeah. They're five and a half point favors. Oh, oh, oh, oh, keep the chees. Maybe say it for the mic so the audience can hear it. He's keeping the chees. Yeah. Maury. No, it's amazing though that the NFL, we've arrived in a place with the chiefs at home

and you're nervous about it. Yeah, that's right. But you're not gonna be surprised if the chargers who lost last night, if they go into Kansas City and beat the chiefs. Last week was brutal. Yeah, the sports books had their best week of the season. Watch out, great role.

All right, so guys, listen, we have one minute left in the segment. We got Matt Dog coming up next. And Dan's not here, so I one minute left in the segment. We got Matt dog coming up next and Dan's not here, so I'm just doing it. Yeah. Weekly update on our favorite team, Rex Lobos. Oh, no.

Oh, no. Oh, no. Here's a hit, Josh, I'm pressing the football operations. Rick Cody. Side-out. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you.

Let me tell you something. The bows are back. Let's go. The bows are back in town. One our second straight game. 184 to 130. Rahim Mostert, 34 points. 28 from Cooper, Mike in front of the over

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How are you today? Good, how are you? I'm doing good. Here's your wife getting...is your wife getting your electronics all situated for you, Doggy? Yes, we got to get...he's taken care of it. Thank God I can't do the dancing. He is a legend. He's the host of Med Dog Unleashed weekdays at three o'clock on serious XM has his own channel Med Dog Radio. You can check it all out. First take as well, doggy. In fact,

Steven A Smith just did his top five, Steven A's list. And he had the Lions right as the number one team in the NFL dog. Your thoughts. That's a little strong TV. He's trying to get reaction. You can't, the Lions in a top five. I have no problem with that. You can't put him over San Francisco. You can't put him over the chiefs. You can't, yet put him over the Eagles. Uh, I would probably put them somewhere around four or five.

One is way too high. I still put San Francisco one. And you know, he missed the 41 yardyard field goal, makeable tough spot. A couple of guys injured second half. I'll put the Niners one. Thilly has them play great. I'll go them or Kansas City to the other three. And then I think you can debate where you want to go with Buffalo with Miami. Yeah, maybe the I wouldn't put Dallas there. Buffalo Miami Detroit. And how you want to go with Buffalo with Miami. Yeah, maybe the, I wouldn't put Dallas there. Buffalo Miami Detroit. And how you want to handle those last three, but I would not put Detroit one. That's ridiculous. That's stupid. That's just trying to get reaction. The Lions have

not earned the number one spot yet. I think we all agree. Correct. Who that's? I think you agree with that. I'm with you, doggy. 100% they're a good team. They are not the best team in the NFL. That's NFL. That's absurd. Yes. Eagles were five, doggy. That's too low. Got to be higher than that. They had a bad game, bad play by obviously Hertz, but you can't put them five. I mean, geez, really five team I got the Super Bowl last year. And as one of your first five games, they have to be higher than that again. San Francisco, the Eagles, and Kansas City, you can pick your order, I go San Francisco, Kansas City, Philly, you want to do it a different direction, I'm okay with it. Those are your top three and then you maneuver with Miami, which

has to be considered. Obviously Buffalo, I know they were lucky against a giant, and they are still Buffalo and then the and then the Lions. You can figure out how you want to handle four or five and six. That's your list. That's the way you do it. Ask Killamora for that. That's ridiculous. I've been looking to get a little attention. All right. What do you say to these people that say that Jalen hurts is a bit of a one trick pony that he only has that push push play. He's, well, I say did you see the Super Bowl? I'll start there. You're one of those people, Billy. I got to see a little more before you put him in Hall of Fame. So I'm not quite ready to do that yet. And he was not great against the Jets. He killed them late in the game. We all know that the second half, three picks. So I mean, he's still got

some proof as far as being, you know, in, you know, a top shelf, borderline hauler, a famer, 10 years of greatness ahead of them, I'm not quite ready to go that far, but I don't think it's, you know, he's just a product of a play that, by the way, should be banned. I can't stand a play. It should be banned.

I'm not ready to put him quite, you know, that he's only a product of the one play. That's not fair, either. So somewhere in between I had a bad throw against the Jets. Let's not too quickly jump off the bandwagon. That's not fair. Is it time to finally say that dolphins were right to draft to a head of Justin Herbert? Good question. That's a good question. Yes. I would say no to that only because tours got a show and prove that it can play 17, 18 games. He's played a good five, but wasn't great in Buffalo.

They have so much speed. It doesn't have the same kind of weaponry out there with the chargers of the island is obviously very good. I would say no to that, but I think it's in your area, part of the woods. I think you can debate it. So I think that's a very area, part of the woods, I think you can debate it. So I think that's a very good point, but I would not quite say yes to that. That's not fair. That too, a better than hurts, not quite.

I'll tell you the one thing that we can definitely say, and I've said this before, Flores is a very good defense of a coordinator. He did it. He's done a good job at the Vikings with their defense, but I mean, he benched two or three different times in his two or three year run with the dolphins. And you are not going to be a big time coach in the NFL and the owners are going to hire you if you are not good with quarterbacks. And Flores was not good with his quarterback in Miami. McDonald's is, and I think that is the reason why the switch was made there to get a guy in here

to get the most out of a number one pick. That is the head coach's main job to figure out a way to get the most out of his quarterback, especially if he's a high pick in the draft. McDonald's done that with two. No question about it. Doggy, you're a legend, and I love you. And you know that. But I'm wondering why are you so concerned about Christmas in October? I mean, the Christmas Eve game, Doggy, you're going to church, you're sending it on your show. Hey, I did, Doggy, yes. I was bothered by the Christmas Eve schedule schedules,

you guys, and I mean, I'm bothered by a couple things with the NFL schedule. The fact that I, after sitting around here all day, putting presents together and going to church and having my mother's burnt-vill-pum-a-jam, I talked about last time, right? She does burn it at 90. The last thing I want to do is sit there at eight o'clock at night and get patriots and freaking, was it the... Raters?

I mean, that's the last thing I want. Was it Denver?? I mean, that's the last thing I want. Was it Denver? It's Denver. That's the last thing I want. At nine o'clock on Christmas Eve, where I'm treading the next day, ERED, capital D, capital R, capital E, capital D. I wanna lay money on a football game,

and I got Broncos, and I got the Broncos and Pax. Chies me crazy. So that is where that came from. And then the next day he got giant Eagles at 430. Christmas day, you're dying to forget about eggnog and family and sit around on your fanny and watch football and they gave me giant Eagles. So that's what Gives me crazy. All right. But are you going to church dog? Are you going to church? Yo, I got five o'clock

Christmas Eve that will be a problem this year because there are four o'clock games So I might figure something out And it's a tricky one, but I might figure something out the family will be here So the misses will be in a very good mood So maybe I'll pretend to go to St. Mark's and New Canaan, where she goes to St. A's. And I'll figure out a way to put my big fat rear end on the couch to the second half of the four o'clock. The best. Doggy, I see a witch behind you. I'm wondering how you do Halloween. Do you still do costumes? You do couples costumes, family costumes. How do you do Halloween? I wanted just for Halloween.

That's another complete waste of time. I didn't like Halloween when I was a kid. Hmm. As a kid, you did it. And I couldn't stand it. Fish water. Shope running around making candy. I couldn't. And nobody comes to my house because I'm a rough cookie.

I want, I leave all the lights off. No, little kids bouncing around. And if they come, I'd give them more tipsy rolls because that ruins teeth. So I figured I'd give them more clips because that ruins teeth. So I figured I'd give a lot of dental issues for the kids family. Halloween is not one of my favorite times and I got a big break for years because I had four kids seven and under and I always had F.A.E. at the time and it's a long drive and I never quite made it home in time for the five o'clock walking around the neighborhood thing right so Mrs

You're so took care of that and I was delighted that I missed that disaster Doggy's the best you agree Tony go ahead tell them tell them what you want to tell them I want to be you when I grow up You to me you are the goat. There's nobody better than you the way that you can rip your mother You to me you are the goat. There's nobody better than you the way that you can rip your mother Mip your mother-in-law on radio. It's amazing. Bill Palmer is burnt. I mean to smitheree I mean no she kills that Bill Palmer Jean and she insists on making it making a Christmas mom mom Weasewal go to Walter Storitz. I don't

You know you I mean first off the kids can't say you know how kids are they don't want to eat grandma's supper? They think it's got cookies in it. So they don't eat it anyway, and then I got a sip there and eat the nonsense and pretend I like it. It's all if anybody listen, I love the spirit of Christmas. I love Christmas carols. I believe in the Lord and all that. But the actual holiday is a complete utter disaster. I will bet my, but you know, last year I got my come upends because last year, just to get through the day, you know what game I, here's what I did. I bet Miami against Green Bay, a loss. And then I doubled down on Denver in LA against the Rams.

Do we do we remember the final? Of course. No, do you? 52 to 10. Yeah, 50 to 10. Yeah, 50 to 10. Yeah, that's doggy. God, back at me.

Doggy, I have noticed a couple of times, we'll get to the bear in a second. I have noticed a couple of times, your doggy, you have looked over at your wife. Does she think you're crazy? What's going on? He's put up with me for so many years. I'm vice versa, I might add.

Um. We heard it. She has, she has, she has, she, I mean, think about it. She has to put together the Zoom thing so I can do this little, this interview. And then she's got to listen to me, not Christmas or favorite holiday.

And Dopey, what's the movie called with? It's a wonderful life of Jimmy's food and Donnery. I've seen that a thousand times with George Bradley. Enough, I get the idea. The angels from upstairs get some straightin' down. I don't need it anymore. Give me a football game on Christmas Eve and Roger Codell gave me Bella check

and freaking Sean Payton took branches. Oh my God, what a day. Doggy, you said that you do love the spirit of Christmas, though. So with the spirit of Christmas, do you have maybe a top five favorite Christmas songs or a few? Oh wow. Yeah.

Of course you's made on Something no the other one do you know do you see what I see? Yeah, that's the one That you know the cross-be-song do you see what I see yeah, that's number five. Oh, that's a great song. Okay That's a play it now. Let's go. It's the middle of what's our top. Okay. That is a great, great song. I play that all the time. Do you really? That's a ****.

Okay. Chris, are you looking for that song? Okay. Oh, I did. I did it. I did it. Oh, man. Dog also host high heat weekdays on MLB network.

Doggy, how much does Major League Baseball need the Phillies in the World Series? Oh, they can't have Arizona in there. I completely agree. They've never admitted. And I think that get the Phillies. But they will have a good World Series. I mean, fit it up against either one of those two teams as a good World Series. Texas or Houston looks like Texas, although I wouldn't really use them out there better on the road than they're at home.

You know, Texas is going to lose the game eventually and they are speaking. But I would think that the take and then get the Phillies. The Phillies against either one of those two teams is a very good road series. A lot of emotion in Philly, it's a great ballpark. Harper is a huge story right now. He's a big star. He we he courses the, you know, everybody relates to Harper,

the Pat McAfee's in the world who doesn't necessarily love baseball. He's a perfect example. That's a good world series. And I think, you know, they're going to get, I mean, I think the Phillies, I'd be shocked if they lose Arizona. Now, I'm surprised Arizona lost to the Dodgers, but I think you'll get Philly against either Texas looks like them now were used in. And that's a good world series. No question about no question about it good world service is good to see Travis Kelsey out there yesterday Also, I didn't see Taylor, but it's good to see Travis Do you see what I How would you not like this?

This is Christmas. It's like, oh, sorry. It's all over. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no music, our exchange a gift with the Mrs. And that's the end of it. Get the July to get

the December 26th. Love you dog. And then I love New Year's Eve. You know why I love New Year's Eve? Oh, tell me. Four o'clock dinner. Yeah. In bed by 9 9 30. Wait, what is talking? Come on. Four o'clock dinner. In bed. Yeah. 9 9 30. That means 10 o'clock. And don't wake me up with a ball of job. I could kill us. What is the last time you saw midnight, doggy? What's the last time you saw midnight? What's the last time I haven't seen midnight in 30 years. What do you mean? I can't stand that's another. How about the dopes who go to times where in that weather? Don't they go to the van? Yeah, they wear diapers. What a disaster. But I like Christmas Eve because the pressure's off and I can

again, my wife wants to go to a country club one in a university black tie this year. I said, Jeannie, find somebody else. I am out. Out with Mary Chaplin carbon during my year buds at 9.9.30 at night on December 31. So is Genie finding someone else? What is she doing? I think she's real. I don't know for all of them. How much?

What? What was the old reactor? Tom Salah. Tom Salah. Tom Salah. Tom Salah. I can't even go for a put Tom Salah. He's 100 years old to that.

I'm not a bad pick. You know, bad pick. Okay. Oh, bad pick. Oh, bad pick. Okay. I don't know if you mind if we ask your wife to be on the show tomorrow. What are you doing? You can come here right now.

No, no, she doesn't want to say. But we'll make up. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Bottom line is I can't stand a high Christmas that games things. I'm going gonna watch the log on msg are you really you know they got the log on it yeah I am I am I am I'm not watching better check who I love but I can't watch him okay I don't want to watch

Russell Wilson right I'll have a gummy oh I have a gummy Wilson. Right. I'll have a gummy. Oh, I'll have a gummy. Oh, yes, you will. I'll have a gummy. And I will sit there and I will stare at that yellow log before I was. That's my game. You're going to be in charge of the gummy. After that garbage view of Palmer John that Mrs. Mrs. Dayton, Dayton Annual, one of the mix.

I've had enough. I've never loved. I've never loved you more. Have you ever taken too many gummies, doggy? And you just, oh, yeah, sure. And you're curled up in the fetal position, right? I mean, Steve Tory, the dope, gave me his share. You know, he must be an elephant, but he gave me his last year coming back from the Super Bowl. I took a nine guys back on the plane from, uh, it was Phoenix nine and I'm telling you right now, it hit me when I was about the eat a sandwich. And I was about to open up the cabin and fly away. Thank God I fell asleep.

I was, that was a weird one. And that was cut him in half, Steve, for trying out loud. In an arc. He gave me a full one and I was in Lella land. I took a nap. Thank God I fell asleep. They were out of sandwiches. I ate about 9 billion Oreo cookies. That's double stuff.

That was a double stuff. You got it right. Double stuff Oreo cookies. I got it right. No, stop Mario Cookies. I'm gonna stand. Oh my God, I love you so much. He is the host of Mad Dog on Leech Weekdays, three o'clock on Series XM.

I also host high heat weekdays on LB Network. And of course, on first take tomorrow, right, Doggy? You'll be on tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow at 10 o'clock. Yes, look. All right, take a take. Call Stephen Hale for the Lions., being the best team in the event. Steven Hayhal.

I mean, well, Carol, I need you forgot about the Panthers. I mean, how can you put the Lions up there? All right, Doggy, we love you. We appreciate it. Thank you for the last dog. All right, buddy.