The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Happy Thanksgiling Day 2!

Episode Date: November 28, 2025

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We are back with Thanksgiving. That was fun yesterday. Yesterday was a good episode. A lot of good feedback. We're very excited for this episode, though. This Billy went out with a bang. He did. Billy went out with a bang.

We were about to play on this happy Thanksgiving. We were going to celebrate Billy's last show. His final day with us. It was a doozy. Pippo might show up. Every bit Billy's ever done. He pulled it out. He did.

We were very thankful for the effort that he put in on that last day. We miss you, Billy. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy thanksgilling, Dan. Happy thanksgilling. Here's the show. That was good. It was perfect, Dad.

Thank you. I almost ripped Billy in there. I was almost going to be like, it would have been nice to get that effort, you know, maybe before the final day. I'm keeping that in. I left that point. Leave all that in there. Yeah, I love it. I'm leaving it.

Leave that in there and just let it linger off the end of that. For sure. As if he didn't know he was on Mike, because he didn't know he was on. I'm like, leave all of that in there. Pablo. Now what? This doesn't qualify. This does not qualify.

It's got to be huge breaking news. It's not just sniffing around Bill Belichick. He's a voyeur at this point. This is getting weird. It's not a big episode unless it means there. That's true. But it is a pretty ridiculous episode. I mean, it's a good find.

The lost tapes and whatnot. It's a great find. But you know what it is? is Mike it's a window into how the power dynamics at play because I think all this time we've been saying it's Jordan and she's running the stuff or whatever and according to this episode it's a Game of Thrones it's not just her because Mike Lombardi's in there too and he's got the ear and he's pulling but at the same time him and Jordan don't like each other and So it's like a competition for the, for the ear of the king.

So it's a fast, how long is this thing going to blow? You know who comes out smelling like this? Matt Patricia in all this. He's even had a glow up of sorts. He's skinny. Patricia is skinny. Matricia is actually a Chris Cody thing. Are you regretful that you were there the first day that the bomber thing came out?

I mean, because now it feels like you're part of this situation. And I would imagine this is burning some bridges for you. you professionally. Absolutely nuked any relationship I have with the clippers. Yeah, and you didn't have any sense

that that was going to happen when you sat down that day. No, I didn't know what it was about. I picture of me walking into like, hey, what's up, man, has to go. Are you really that plugged in with the Clippers? I used to be. He was wearing a Clippers jersey

in the episode, and he wasn't a costume. He wasn't faking it. Like, that was the second episode. That was trolling. What? No. You're just supporting. No.

I was giving them the benefit of the doubt. I don't think that that whispering wind qualifies for this episode I mean you've heard it I have not heard the whole episode I know what it's about but this should only be for big national breaking news

that's going to get everyone talking the wind shouldn't blow for anything else it's not yeah it's not a big breaking news but it is incredible context to a situation that we're familiar of and and through who caught Pablo's reporting and also what's happened during the season. But now it's like, oh, now I get what the power dynamics at play are,

and that's what makes it really interesting. I am told, Chris, that a lot of people here who don't know necessarily how they want to express their feelings toward Billy want to do so through song, that Jeremy says that he wants to say goodbye. He's not supposed to be in today. Nobody asked him to come in. Billy didn't ask him to be hard. I definitely didn't ask for Jeremy's song today.

serenade Billy with song on his last day? Is this for me or for Jeremy? He's not the only one. Well, this is a good question that you ask. We often ask it about Greg Cody. He too wants to serenade you with song, and I don't know if he's doing that for him or for you. Chris, have you heard Greg Cody's song?

Yeah, and it's a tearjerker. Oh, no. We're going to start sad? Strap it on, boys. It's a turker. Strap what on? Is something happening with Billy? You became the Duke as you vaulted higher,

a useless sound not hard to find. And our love for you, it was forged in fire every time you blew your mind. Skeptical at times, but nuance always knows how to make us feel without you on the show. You won't be back, Jack, our favorite hypochondriac. So bang those pots and pans into the sky. To go where apple pies and eagles fly, it's hard to say goodbye.

An onion won't be the thing to make us cry when it's hard to say goodbye. I got no shot today. I got no shot of being any good today. Billy, it was a tear joker. That was a tear joker. And just tap into that emotional repression of yours. It was the forged in fire for me. Think of the bad moments

Well, we've got top five things Billy won't miss Do you want to just start the show there? No, we can both. A couple of LIs. Okay. We have, we also have like, last night was a great night

for old guy in sports. Actually, three old arms, three old arms, because I'm going to throw Aaron Rogers throwing a Hail Mary 70 yards in there. That was crazy. The biggest one, The biggest story from last night was Scherzer, but we'll get to all of that.

No, the thrill from Aaron Rogers. What a great incomplete pass. If he had five more yards, is the guy in the back of the end zone open, by the way. He had five more yards. I think there are odds in the AFC went down after watching that incomplete. Dare I say, the greatest incomplete pass ever. Ooh, I don't know. He's had a couple of those.

That one is pretty incredible. Watching Flacco go into the Wayback Machine and have the Bengals make it look easy was legitimately confusing to me. Like, wait a minute. How can Flacco be Burrow for a day? Nobody can throw for 350 yards unless they're trying to come from behind. What do you mean he's going to do it all game? Where it's just everyone's going to be open whenever Flacco

wants him to be open because no one can cover Jemar Chabes. Oh, that's right. No one can cover Jemar Chase. How bad is Browning? Chase had like 23 targets in this game. Insane. My favorite subplot of the NFL season is this war between Joe Flacco and Mike Tomlin that has been right under our noses, but we haven't paid attention to it

really. Well, let's get to these sounds in a second because how does it escape our attention that we found the guy that makes Mike Tomlin blink? Like, clearly, Mike Tomlin is afraid of flaco and for good reason. Like, he's been trying to warn us. He's been telling us for years, certain things won't allow you to get out of the stadium. One of them's flaco. And get the sound here. We haven't played much of this sound of him, Tomlin, before this game. Just warning us again and again, I don't want any part of flaco. Please, you guys, don't injure Anthony Richardson. I don't want flaco in the game. I'm afraid of the veteran quarterback. You know, to be honest, it was shocking

to me. Andrew Barry must be a lot smarter than me or us, because it doesn't make sense to me to trade a quarterback that you think enough of to make your opening day starter to a division opponent that's hurting in that area. But that's just my personal feelings. He's like, hey, Browns, why you trained him to the Bengals? He said it before the game, and look what we saw That's as afraid as we've ever heard that man. That man who's never had a losing season in our most violent sport who wins every season. We've never heard of him afraid of anybody except clearly Joe Flacco. Like, make no mistake about it.

Because weeks before that, he told us, yeah, we were trying to keep their other young quarterback healthy because we didn't want to see Flacco. A year ago, we're playing in Indianapolis, man, and I commented to the guys that, you know, keep Richardson upright, don't put Flacco in the game. And, you know, Flacco ended up in the game. Has someone ever won a comeback player of the year because of the comeback within one singular season? He's just coming back from being with the Browns.

Do you know how hard it is to be better than the comeback player that you already are that you won over a guy who died on the field and came back? Talk about breathing life into franchises. That's what Joe Flacco does. A breath of fresh air, breath of new life for NFL franchises. Tone, the Bengals now are in play. All of a sudden, we're all like three and four. Can he get him to burrow?

Can Flacco just get him to? The bridge quarterback we needed, the 40-year-old. He is the living embodiment of Marty McFly's parents kissing at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. Like the Bengal season's disappearing. I was like, oh, my God. I don't feel so good, Doc. They kiss like, Earth Angel, Earth Angel. I need Pablo to investigate the urban legend surrounding Joe Flacco's comeback player of the year.

win because in league circles there was chatter that Joe Flacko was supposed to if he won the award give it to Damar Hamlin in a nice moment and as the urban legend goes like Flacco was like get out of here this is my award I want it the only way to do better than win comeback player of the year over a guy who came back from the dead is to be able to come back from the browns tried to wreck you at the end and you wouldn't let it happen and now you're out there roaming around and your remains are literally haunting the man that we thought Mike Tomlin had no fear. Like, he's clearly haunted by the idea. You guys are really going to give him the division?

I had it right there. It was going to be 5 and 1. We were going to bury the Bengals forever, and I can't because now Fonko's roaming around in the division. And, oh, my God, they've got good receivers. Oh, my God, they gave all their money to the receivers. So I thought, I'm looking forward to talking to Dominique Foxworth about this because the game I watched last night, I thought Jalen Ramsey played well, but T. Higgins is really good. And on that last play, T. Higgins has also paid a huge amount of money to make that last play.

And I'd like to know, what is your measurement, guys, on the game Jalen Ramsey played last night? Because with the running game the Bengals had, their corners were on an island and didn't have a real chance. But the one that had no chance was whoever's guarding Jemar Chase. They decided Ramsey's going to be on Higgins, and he slowed Higgins, but not if Higgins and Chase are going to be what they've been for three seasons that are the reason the Bengals paid them all that money. Tony, yes or no, Jalen Ramsey played a good game last night. Yeah, look, it's hard to play a good game when you're constantly getting beat by two really great receivers, right? Like, as a corner, it's a failure position. It's almost like hitting 300.

You're going to fail 70% of the time, but you're still going to hit 300. As a good corner, you fail more than you succeed. But when you do succeed, it's big. It just feels like when you're getting 23 targets, that's usually never happening to somebody you're guarding. I can't believe how easy the Bengals made offense look last night. But I do want to spend today making sure, while we celebrate old people, we celebrate as well that Billy Gill has a montage of things here, of sounds that we have. It's a connection to old people there. You are getting older.

Yeah, that sometimes that you can't dispute what you. Tony said there. It's factual. You can't, you are getting older. Am I? Are you getting younger? Some would say. We have sound here of Billy's first words on the program as we go full nostalgic and

biographical. Billy, do you have any recollection whatsoever? Do you have any context for this sound that we're going to play? Do you remember your first words on the program? No. Have you seen this? Do you know anything about what Chris Cody has dug up here that are your first sounds on the program?

I don't. I remember starting the. off with a confidence that it was uncommon to most people. The vault, and it is a vault, okay? That's what Strug and Mary Louretton did, okay? The vault is the vault, okay? It's a form

of the pommel horse without the handles. The pommel horse is only used in men's gymnastics. Okay, so you can't vault off the pommel horse. You can in female gymnastics, but the horse without the handles. It serves a dual purpose. Sort of.

We need to get to the bottom of this. I cannot have this leaking into the next segment. Just tell me so that I can get it out of my brain and move on to other topics. Please, Billy, not sort of. Just tell me. Can you vault off the pommel horse set? Does anybody do this? They used to, but not anymore.

Okay. Not an answer. They used to. You can if you're an idiot. All right, moving on. No, no, no. You want to keep it right here? No, I don't want to.

That's the first time he ever spoke. And then there was a texter. The next segment, people were not happy with Billy. Textor writes in, I believe we can all agree with this. Billy is the worst. Billy just uttered a couple of syllables there, but already you have turned on him. His radio debut, I'm pretty sure that was Billy's radio debut on our program. He uttered about four syllables total.

I thought he was efficient and funny. People don't want to hear from anybody who isn't us. They have turned on. Billy, for using the same microphone that they complain that Mike Ryan sometimes turns on. Boy, things have gotten out of control around here in terms of how much the people speak.

Billy, how many shows did you go without speaking? How many shows did... This week? Did you work here? Two years. You used to have to earn. Yeah. I was on the show for the two plus years before I said anything. Sitting in the corner with Stevie

who could barely log the show. Just answering the phone even that I'd have to type in the description. That was quite the producer battle. Stevie. King of the Mountain, who wants it, boys? You were Stevie. And you guys just all, you and Stugat just wanted to be Stevie's friend the whole

time, like, man, Stevie's so hot. I'm like, what's wrong with you guys? I invited Stevie to my wedding. I don't feel like it's fair to group me and you and Stugat's thought that Stevie was so hot. He was so bad. But we just love the vibes. He's like, oh, yeah, man, I forgot to log the show today. you see me you're doing great you guys treated him also like joe was like how the lady's treating you

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Don't say a game is one when it hasn't hit triple zero. Always drink your Yeagermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion. Everything else? Everything else. Wearing clean underwear every day. Well, that's just a personal decision.

Brushing your teeth. Obviously smart, but not a rule. Never pee pee on an electric fence. Okay, maybe there are two rules. But the one that is 100% that I insist on completely, Yeagermeister must be drank ice cold. Or don't drink it at all. Damn, that's cold.

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I'm not going to die to go see some trees. Stugats. Listen to me. You've seen one tree, you've seen them all, okay? There's no special trees out there. That's not true. That is absolutely not true. There's no special tree.

This is nonsense. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Let's get some video here of people and also more recently, right? Because Billy and Zaz had a moment the other day that I want to replay because I'm pretty sure it was the introduction of the mouthpieces. The Dentech bucket mouthpiece, yeah? Yeah, but let's play some of. of that back, going back to the Clevelander.

Let's celebrate Bipo for a second. It's something that we can make happen, right? This is... Bro, you take a turnover chain, you put on the Cuban flag beanie, and that's it. You walk out with Horan, that's it. Bing, bam, boom.

You've got to give him a Cuban flag beanie. He's going to quit before the fight even starts because he's going to see what's up. As soon as you walk to the ring with him, you take a gasweta. You start making... Let me fight it. Hold on a bit. Lots of bands. You just go.

You just... That's how you need to go to the ring. The day of the fight. You don't have this, Suggats. You don't have this in you. You just broke something. Yes, right? And guess what else is going to get broken?

Nate's face is going to get broken. All right, I don't know. All right, so I'm going to trade with Guillermo. I mean, how do I handle today weaving between sports and celebrating what is obviously an emotional? last day for all of us without allowing the emotion to get in the way of an emotional last day for all of us? Wait, whose last day is it? Eves. I know. I saw that email. I was crushed. Shout out to Eve Wolf. Thank you for your service. We should have made this a Stevie Coultoon

tribute show. Oh my God. I want to learn more about the Stevie Captcha. I've never heard of him. Recently got married. Oh, congratulations. You didn't get the invite? You didn't get the invite back? Man. Wow. I was a little raw about that, to be honest. By the way, Kevin Nogandi says, congratulations, Billy. Ran into him last night, the great Kevin Nogad. Wow. Didn't we accuse him of putting a mirror over his bed?

Yeah. Look at me. I think that was me. Kevin Nogandy. We were saying who at ESPN most looks like they have a mirror over their bed. But he looks at himself. He's just looking at his face. No one's ever been more excited to see us in Bristol than Kepard.

Evan to Gandhi. It was awesome. With Victor Cruz, who could not have cared less about it at all. Bristol's so weird. I loved it. It's so weird. Just walk around the corner like, oh, there's Linda Cohn. I went down a Billy Rabbit Hole last night on YouTube. Anyone else do that?

Now, I did stumble into a Best of montage myself, but I got a good 10 minutes into like Billy Montages. You thought about quitting. How long was that? 30 seconds? No, it was like 19 minutes. 19 minutes when I got fired someone made it yeah oh wow oh so this is all pre-got it can you tell me Mike Ryan if during your dinner with Kevin Nagandi anything presented itself that made it more accurate what we've just alleged that not only is Kevin Nagandi the person at

ESPN most likely to have a mirror on their roof in their bedroom but a means contention that it's not to have sex it's just so that he can see himself in the mirror because good morning Kevin because television is the vanity business that's right looking good Kevin if you weren't up there

I'd love to have sex with you you look so good I don't know why I made him Joe Tess a couple of you look great a couple things popped up from that interaction with Kevin to Gandhi I was as a goof we were at Joe's and I was wearing a bib

And, you know, that's not cool when a guy, it's like that scene for getting Sarah Marshall, like I wish I wasn't wearing this effing shirt. I was wearing a bib the entire time. And also, Dan, congratulations. You're at the point now where people ask, how's Dan? With that face? Yeah. Is Dan okay? Like sucking teeth?

How's damn? The way people ask me about poppy? Yeah. How's Dan? While you were wearing a bib. Well, I was wearing a bib. I'm like, just living high. Yeah, I'm like, vibes are good.

We got another deal. Can you believe it? I, I, it was, it dawned on me that I used to work at the same company as Kevin Negandi. I'm like, what a weird time. I don't feel like I was a member of ESPN all that much because we were working in the Clevelander. But like, I'm like, yeah, it's my old co-worker, Kevin Nagandi.

It was weird. Well, you've heard Billy, uh, Billy walking around Bristol and walking around a corner and seeing Linda Cohn. I'm guessing is like Billy's children walking around Disney World and seeing Mickey Mouse at the breakfast. No, they're terrified of the characters. Kids are scared of the things. It's weird, man.

It really is. They talk about Mickey, Mickey, Mickey, Minnie. Then they go see Mickey Minnie and they start crying. It's like, Jesus. My earliest, like, literally, well, one of my earliest memories, went to Disney World, saw Goofy, was, wouldn't shake his hand because I thought he was going to bite it. I was two years old. And I, like, I was 30.

70. I got the joke, man. I got the ball. I was in the sun's front office at the time. This was last week. Billy, I'd like to hear more stories about you as the person who didn't speak on air here for two years, walking around Bristol for the first time, feeling disoriented because you didn't actually feel that we were a part of anything that ESPN was because we didn't feel like we belonged up there in the big leagues? I guess. Well, those are different errors.

We ended up at ESPN after I had already been talking. Bristol, though, was, I mean, I remember we, I remember some Bristol memories that we had. We went on a trip that we had a meeting. Me and Roy showed up at the meeting. Chris was nowhere to be found. We then found him in the commissary, the eating era. This is the calf. It's called the calf.

This is not true. And he's like, I found Tony Collins. We're doing a tour. We're recording some tent. And I was like, that's a good idea. You should do that. And then he went after me I missed a meeting

Yeah I forgot who was like the sales guy Yeah I'm pretty sure I wasn't invited That one I remember that And then I remember Scurring about our last day

It ended up being our last day Ever in Bristol But scurring about our last day In Bristol to find a studio To do the music dome Because that was when we were We got in trouble for that We did get in trouble for that

So the original idea Was to do it at the sports center desk And they The real one? Yeah yeah And they were They were very much like You will not be doing that

And then we found, like, another studio, and they're like, you will not be doing that. And then we just kept walking around, and someone's like, hey, I work in the control room of a studio. You want to use our studio? And we're like, absolutely. And it was Matthew Barry's fantasy studio. That was the puppet show. And then we started playing with the puppets. Like I dot, man, Daniel Dobb.

I think Daniel Dopp, isn't he not to ruin our sources? I think he may have been the one that gave us access. He's not there anymore. Is he still there? He's doing a great job on fantasy focus. One of their main fantasy talents now. going to be there. How about that, man?

Way to keep up. That's my guy, man. Dan, you met Daniel Doop? It doesn't seem like he is your guy. Great guy. No, Dobbs's my guy, man. You never met Doop, Dan? You would have loved Doc.

We're going to talk to Maddie Byrne a little bit. He loved a nice guy. He engineered the live show in New York. Yeah, he was there. He loved working with us. You got in trouble your first day on the campus. No, our last day ever. Yeah, it was, it was, and we got some strongly worded emails after the fact for just crashing a set and not going through

the proper protocol and furthermore playing with puppets that we should not have been playing with. But there is, it's like the sports center set is like a vault. I haven't been there enough to actually know these things. So the real sports center set, the one they've had for the last six or seven years. So

when you guys went, it probably would have been brand new. It's massive. It's very expensive. And you can't just walk in there. But even if you work there? Even if you work there, man. That's the, that's a crown jewel. But Billy was an employee. That so is everyone else. You have to

be an employee to be in the building. I know, but why wouldn't employees be, like, if somebody in our building, not that we're ESPN, but if you needed to walk into one of our studios, people would walk in and out of our studios and is it because it's this precious heirloom that that set is

a recognizable set, and so no employee is allowed on it without like a frisking and you got to go through an X-ray and you got to go through bureaucracy and security. Now you get it. I mean, you could like stumble onto the set, but you had to keep

walking, but we definitely were not going to be using the set to tell people the thing of a jig was Victor Oladipo. Remember that. I have now seen over the course of this week a couple of times, and I did not know it before seeing it a couple of times, though I could have suspected it, but I did believe in you, and I can be naive

this way. You clearly pulled that ladder over during your Dancing with the Stars Update. Dancing with the Stars update. Dancing with the Stars. Absolutely pulled the ladder. It almost killed you, by the way. Mass singer. Oh, Stevie.

Stevie's on FaceTime. Steve's on FaceTime, Dan. Oh, Stevie. He is a handsome guy. He means says, what's up? Well, that's a good-looking guy, man. Stevie, the seat's open for you. Oh, he's got a beard now.

Steve's going to be here on Monday, Dan. Just you wait and see. Hopefully you don't need the show to be long. There you go. That's a handsome guy. No wonder they like. It looks like Mike Fuentes. You look all mature.

Stevie, you're on the air, pal. Handsome Mike Fuentes. What's up, boys? Yeah. What's up, Stevie. Your vibes is always, Pat. The old home week. The old crew is back.

I love it. How the girls turn you, Steve? You know, you guys miss me that much. I love you. Yeah. Hey, congrats on being married. Where was my invite, dog? Invite for invite.

Oh, yeah, that is true. That is true. We missed the invite for invite, man. I'm going to the next DJ gig, man. You know that. Yeah, yeah. Do you agree that Kevin the Gandhi f***? Who?

The match singer was the match singer. Dancing with the star. How could I get that wrong? Um. We should do Billy's top five times we got in trouble at ESPN, given that... We? How many OLLI? I didn't get us in trouble.

We know number one. Starting with the masked singer the day after the Super Bowl is one of the times you told me we got in trouble. And I didn't know we got in trouble. And we started with the mass singer after the Super Bowl because you're so good at doing the mass singer. I believe that's when the ladder came down on close to me. Is it not? Or was that a different time? No, that was the figure of ladder.

That was like season three or season four, I think. Yeah, the ladder thing was when we were kind of running out of things to do. And then we saw a ladder in there and actual people was in there. And I was like, I want to make this guy laugh. Let me pull down that ladder. I remember. I mean, no ladder fell. So I can say this now.

Billy reached the point where he didn't want to do it anymore. He hated the bit. So he just tried to sabotage it. And that was a ladder. A common thread. Yeah. It tends to happen. usually by his own design or by

Joaquin Gonzalez's that guy it's a bit passive aggressive because that skit was not my idea I still don't know what the difference is between dancing with the stars and the mass singer we were only doing that because you like the mass singer you got tired of it and didn't tell me

just like you were doing it because you didn't like the mass singer very clearly it's a mask no hold on a second we were doing the mass singer because it was a pop culture moment and that was us connecting with what was going on in pop culture at the time. However, you know, pop culture continued to move on and we did not.

We just continued doing the Masked Singer over and over again. And I will say that when COVID came, while it was horrible, and we lost all of those people and it was a terrible situation, all those lives lost. We also lost the ability to do

the Masked Singer updates, the music dome, and I could not have been happier for the situation. He would take so many notes. Like, I'm telling you, there would be pages of notes. Look at the legal pad. It was so unpleasant watching it at the end. There were pages of notes. Yeah, too many.

You guys didn't even want all the information, but I had to give you all the clues so that we could guess along to figure out who the mass singer. That actually was thing it was. You clearly grabbed that ladder. It's obvious now. The investigation, Pablo Tori finds out his learn. That ladder was purposely, I didn't know at the time

because it happened behind me. I thought it was a mistake. I really did. I believed it was a mistake. It's like with an offensive player like pulls his defender. Like, oh! I want to relive it with audio here. Let's listen to the ladder fall. The tree.

The tree. All right. The tree. Was the tree the key? All right. The tree. So expertly done only because I was not looking at you. Did I not recognize that you were doing that on purpose? Now upon further listening, if you only have audio, see if you see and can hear where it is that Billy is fiddling around and grabbing for a ladder that was already

supposed to fall because he missed it the first time he purposely grabbed it. The tree. The tree. All right. The tree. The tree. The ladder missed this cute.

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That was a long story. Yeah. It's the only kind he tells. This is a short one for me. I tried to speed it up for you guys. You forgot about the Leagues Cup. Stugats. Yeah.

La Caretta is a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the 97 Marlins celebration because it was Levant. Well, when Fidel died the first time. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. Play the sound of Zaz and Billy arguing. This is an all-time clip right here. Honestly, when you had the swap helmet and he was in the studio, I was hoping you guys could recreate the magic. Swap helmet is supposed to be a good thing.

You're squabble with a person. I'm guessing here. You squabble with a person. You squabble with me? You want to do business with me? You want to sclob with me? Maybe. Maybe I had the Broncos.

You want to swap? No, I want to swap for the team. I don't want to swap with you. Who you got? It's not how I do business. Well, you don't make the rules. Maybe I got the commanders. You want the commanders?

Your microphone's off. Yes, if you have the commanders, then I want to swap. So you want to do business with me? If you are the commanders. Say, I want to swap with Billy. I want to swap with Billy if he has the commanders. No. No contingencies.

Take a person to swap with. This is what you got for not keeping up. You, Chris, who you got? I have the Jags. Mike has the Cardinals. They're the biggest favorite. You, son of a bitch, and I don't like to use that word, but you made me. I might have the commanders.

Might use it in this hand right here. You have the commanders? Maybe. It's right here. Take a look. It's in this hand. Let me see your hand. You're seeing it.

You blind? you're the commanders I got my team in this hand right here You want him If that team is the commanders I'll want him I think Chris Cody gave you a clue Want this team or not

I don't want that team I'm declining I don't want that team Your funeral It's as strong as you've ever been Gangster with a Lisp It sounds like Jonah Jonah Hill from Wolf of Wall Street

With the fake teeth That's what Billy sounded like. Jeremy wants to say goodbye to you emotionally. Serapy. He wants to serenade you. He's jealous of Greg Cody's song. Jeremy's in the other room. He also badly wants to talk about Scherzor putting on the best performance that there was

from an old guy yesterday. We're not going to let him do that. But Jeremy, what do you have? How do you want to say goodbye to Billy? Thanks, Dan. Yeah, I really wasn't sure how to say goodbye. I dressed as Billy today as tribute. He's always been one of the first.

my favorite characters. He welcomed me in with so much love and so much grace to the show and I didn't know how to put it into words and speaking to him in person. I didn't know how to even write it in a card so I decided like Greg like Yeti, I would try to put my words

into a song. So Chris, I think you have that available. Goodbye, Billy. Goodbye, Billy. Billy Gill See you later man And I mean it from the heart Billy While Jeremy was sitting that up

That's the one The camera didn't show it Billy was hitting him with the rapid obby Yeah Billy was trying to speed him up Jeremy is vying for the position Left Open by Billy by trying to yammer More than Billy Stevie wants it though

Stevie think he's the run runner right now Country mile lead The vibes Him or Eudonis Aslam or or james franklin we're going to have an open tryout for for for for billy's seat do you know how difficult it is jeremy to yammer so much that billy tries to wrap you up well you know i learned from billy that things like words can be you know because it's like um charlie charlie um charlie well you know sometimes and when and when you think about photography like really

all you have to do is just kind of point and go there's nothing that complicated about it and really old... I vote for Stevie. Clay Travis's contract's up. Really? Saw that article. Man.

Free agent. Shitstein. We refer to him as shit stain. A little more balance. Get yourself on a list. I do want to talk in this local hour. We will spend the show celebrating Billy and Dominic Foxworth will be around here

a little bit later. Matthew Berry will be here as well. We'll ask him about that. but uh great dude louisville and miami play tonight and if people um want to pounce on miami quickly because very little annoys the national audience more than anything that resembles the u is back talk but there will be people nationally tonight rooting for the whole miami thing to not be real for louisville to win uh create more chaos and college football and produce one of the great things that I miss since Sabin left.

Where are the teams that you root to lose, that you don't want them to get back on top? Because Miami looks more formidable than they have looked in 20 years, maybe 25. It looks like the most balanced, physical, fast, violent, beat you in more ways, team that there is, as I mentioned all week. There just aren't a lot of teams good enough that the money will take. tell you, yeah, they're two touchdowns better than an offense that is scary. Like a team, a Louisville team that offensively has been scary for a while and can put up 40 at a time. If that defense is real and if Miami is real, what the moment commands is, they do not allow the nation

on a Friday night stage to laugh at Miami because none of it was real. Normally I'd be super nervous about this game. And I think, I respect Jeff Brom. He's like Miami. They're coming off a Jeff Brom is an incredible play caller, NFL level play caller. They have a really talented, outstanding wide receiver. There's going to be a first rounder in Chris Bell. But, you know, typically these Friday ACC games, they're a little spooky. Miami historically has actually randomly been really good on these Friday nights. I think 10 and 3 overall since they joined the ACC.

But Louisville really struggles at what Miami excels at. That is a bad offensive line. This is a game where Ruben Bain can get after it. those stats. Everyone understands while watching the game that he is dominating the game, but he's not racking up the sack totals a way that you would like. They're bad at pass protection with their running backs. The Skinner was here in Miami, and he hasn't improved whatsoever. His frame is the same and he can't block worth a damn. So this is a game where Ruben Bain can really, with a TV window all to himself, can further entrench himself in that

conversation, as well as Carson Beck, who has good numbers and should be in that conversation as well. Louisville historically, and you're going to have to help me here, because not just with the pronunciation, I can't tell you how good statistically Louisville's defense is, but in my lifetime, they've never had a good one. In my entire lifetime, Louisville. Louisville, not with Schnellenberger, not with anybody. Has Louisville ever had a good defense? This is probably, they've played each other, since Mario Cristobal's been here, the battle for the boots, the bronze boots. The last three years, I would say this is probably their strongest defense of that era. Remember, like, these two teams combined for like 90-something points last season.

That was actually a game that I was surprised Miami won. They were kind of in control of that game, but it was like, I think, 52-45 at the end. This is probably, in terms of talent and effectiveness, the weakest offense that Jeff Brom has had going up against Mario Cristobal. Quarterback, Miller Moss, a former USC guy. You know, he's all right. Brown's a really good running back, but he seems a little hobbled,

but he can break away and be a gamebreaker. It should be, you know, this is, talent-wise, though, this is the toughest test on Miami's schedule to date. Did Billy check out? You think it's talent-wise? You think, wait, I don't think I agree with you. Talent-wise on Miami's remaining schedule,

I think that this is the toughest test remaining on their schedule. I think that at Pitt, maybe I have PTSD from like ending a season against a freshman quarterback at Pitt with the playoffs on the line. No, that's just ACC fear on the road. But Pitt's playing better. SMU's got, that'll be an interesting road test too. But I think in terms of overall talent, Louisville is probably the most talented team remaining on Miami schedule. But not more talented than the three teams they've already beaten. No, no. But, you know, the season's a war of attrition. And I keep holding on to, and this is not an emotional hedge. I just don't think this is the kind of year that you see a team go undefeated.

You keep doing that, though, and you know what's coming your way if they lose this one. Like, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Embarrassment, shame, the rest of the nation, reveling in it. And those are the stakes now, which is great. Like, we had the conversation that if, you know, they lost this game. Oh, my God.

Uh-oh. There's no way. Oh, my God. What is this shit that you guys are talking about? Then Louisville and Louisville is, and they're not going to beat the case. The keys are going to beat the shit of the scene today. I'm telling you that right now. And you guys have been saying, all this time, where has people been?

Where is he? What's going on? Let me tell you a little story. I can't believe this. Four years ago, a company was started, and there was this man with an accent, and his name was Gilling is something, and he said, We are going to reinvent the wheel, and we are going to make all of these movies, and the first movie that we're going to make is about you, people.

And I said, that sounds dope as hell. How many are we going to make? And he said, four parts. And I said, that's six, four documentaries about people. I can't wait for the world to hear my story. And he said, I'm going to make you a very wealthy man, people. And I said, that's great. What are we talking here?

Millions. Billions. He said, millions. And I said, great. How are you going to pay me, bro? And he said, I'm going to pay you in stock options. And I said, what the hell does that mean? And then he was like, well, Mr. People, this is always going to win.

And I said, great, you're going to give it to me now. He said, well, four years, something about a vest. Four years. Something happens with a vest. And I said, four years I get all of that money. And he's like, well, not exactly, Mr. People. And I was like, well, what are you talking about? He said, well, in four years, you're going to get the opportunity to give me money for those stock options that I'm giving you.

And I said, motherfucker are you high? He said, no, no, I stopped that. But, and I say, hey, enough of that. Get out of here with that shenanigans. And you thought that I wasn't going to come, and I wasn't going to come. And the reason that I came is because I heard that someone said yesterday that I was an embarrassment to our people. Someone insinuated that I disappeared because I was an embarrassment to our people.

His gotta cheer over there with that great shit on his face. And if you go back and you look, Mike, if you, it happens to know, and Pablo Tori can maybe find out, we look at the old videos from the Clevelander, that beer that he had before, that was blacker than a means, beer.

So someone needs to look into that situation. Me, an embarrassment to our people. You know it's an embarrassment to our people? This guy can't even say regettone. That's an embarrassment to our people's right about that. I, sir, am no embarrassment to our people. I am our people. Yeah, you are.

Yeah, people. Your cardio is definitely taking a hit over the years. COVID. You still have the COVID lung. Congrats to people. I thought you were. facts. Congrats to people. He is this week's nuttiest fan. Get nutty

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