The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Thank You, Billy Gil

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

"In Greg's defense, there's probably cyber traffic today." And that concludes our Billy Gil coverage for the season. Today's cast: Dan, Zaslow, Chris, Billy, Jeremy, and Mike. Learn more about y...our ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:02:19 That's to be like, obviously. Minus 750, probably. Has it even started yet? He's got his head down right now. I can't even tell. He might be crying right now. I've got to finish this real quick. Like, Cody betrayed us again, and I'm not ready to do this right now. Scooping it. I need to concentrate on what I'm doing right now. Can you guys just handle this for a second? Definitely going to cry.
Starting point is 00:02:43 I think minus 750's being generous. I'm not going to cry. I don't cry. Oh, like the cry price is that. The cry is... You can't even take that. Off the board. It's about how early he cries.
Starting point is 00:02:56 What's going on? Crying in the first 30. Why are we so late? Refresh Greg Cody's feed. Hold on. Tell us what, read Greg Cody's feed and let me get back to work here. Please, I haven't finished this yet. It says...
Starting point is 00:03:11 What? Yeah. I got to open the... What's happening now? Here's a tweet. It's official. Beloved member of At Lebitard Show is leaving. Who?
Starting point is 00:03:21 I assume it's two gods. This is the Don. Levitar show with the Stucats podcast. I'm very often surprised by the sheer depth of feeling that I feel here in this bakery where we've made things for the last 21 years. I'm grateful for that. I'll always be grateful for that. But rarely as much as I am today when I somehow have at once both a sickness in my stomach
Starting point is 00:03:56 and a warmth in my heart. I'm going to try to get through this without getting emotional, and I ask your forgiveness in advance for when I surely failed. But I need to provide some context on the news I'm about to share before we get started today, because I think many of you who care too deeply about this show and us are going to absorb it the same disorienting way I did. And it's all going to take a little time to process
Starting point is 00:04:22 for all of us to get on with the show a show that isn't ever going to be quite the same after today. So, after a decade and a half of glorious anarchy, Billy Gill's final day with us is tomorrow. Yeah, I know. It shocked me too. He's leaving us for a bigger job at Spotify, and I'm both sad and happy to announce that.
Starting point is 00:04:50 Sad because someone I care about deeply is going. Happy because someone I care about. deeply is also growing. You have two choices when a surprise like this lands on you. You can be selfish and feel left behind, or you can open your heart and rejoice in getting to see all that is up ahead. Billy both grew up with us and never grew up with us, but he has children of his own now, and he's career-driven, so he seeks more adult creative challenges than just babysitting Stugats and me all the way to the end. It turns out we all got to watch him outgrow his childhood bedroom, grew so much that he hit his head on metal arc ceiling on the way out the door.
Starting point is 00:05:36 We've worked together for a long time here. Too long, some might say, and no matter how fun it looks to the outside, we work in a cauldron. Sometimes it cooks, sometimes it burns, but after many, many years, too many, some might say, we all know that this cauldron is where everyone eats, every work. day. And so some of us have been doing that eating together for decades now, plural. And there are parts of this that will always feel like home to people who care as deeply as Billy does. He knows he will always be welcome here. We don't even have to do that thing about the key under the mat. He knows where all the hiding places are. He knows where all the keys are. No one really knows how much Billy does around here, not even me, especially not me. This thing is an unholy beast to produce every day. The sloppiness, a feature, not a bug, the hosts more bulls than butterflies.
Starting point is 00:06:31 Billy's gentle grace behind the scenes and creative coloring in the scenes are not things that can be replicated ever, never mind replaced. All of this will be harder without him, obviously. Our soul won't be the same. I'm not even going to try to pretend it will be. He might be the most popular character we've ever had, but on his way out, I would like you to know just some of the things that he was, things beyond how much better he made Stugats and me and the show every day. I once was celebrating some big success our show had that he obviously and always had a part in, and I told Billy to just rent a limo, have an all expenses paid party night out, and just send me the bill. This was for months of work.
Starting point is 00:07:16 He sent me a receipt for $84, as I recall. It might have actually been less than that. he had a chance to lead the country's biggest radio show the morning show at ESPN almost as soon as we got there but he turned it down to stay with us he stopped doing his beloved people character which gets universal applause and he never told me why though i'm assuming it was because it reflected stereotypically poorly upon our people i'm pretty sure that he leaves our doors without an enemy even though i think tony would be totally justified in making him one and many many years ago when mike ryan was still a baby I asked Mike to tell me every single thing he needed as an executive producer to replace Hock, a friend who had known me since college. Mike pointed to Billy and just Billy and said, just him. All I need is him. And damn it if they didn't do is good a job in knowing me and tolerating me and helping me
Starting point is 00:08:12 and understanding me over the years as someone I'd known as a best friend for two decades before I met them. My studio at ESPN was meant to look like a Cuban kid. and from the 1950s. Me and poppy never get that far, never get to the middle of sports on television and my father's second language representing Miami if Billy wasn't always working on making us better from another room inside that house.
Starting point is 00:08:41 I do not know how to say goodbye here. I do not. I don't know how to end this because I'm in no big hurry to see it end. But it must have been super confusing to Billy. as I saw him cry for the first time ever while telling me of a decision that clearly pained him to see the smile spreading so widely across my face. I have not given him that smile.
Starting point is 00:09:17 Much over the years because of wherever my repressions have been. so maybe he leaves me us and this but that gratitude that that does not leave with him that stays here and it stays here forever you could have helped me make it funny billy you could have helped me make it funny. I sent it to him the night before. 6 p.m. Gets back to me 7.15. Feels like a skit.
Starting point is 00:09:58 Bro, etchate fabuloso. Limpiazza, Roe. La Limpia de la Casa. Ro, you're making changes that are necessary. Difficult, but necessary. But again, it's my responsibility to do what's best for us going forward. Let's hear the first brunch of this. Oh!
Starting point is 00:10:14 Welcome to the 2020. NFL draft. I'm Billy Gill. Welcome, Billy. Why can't we just be satisfied saying that they're all in the top 500? I don't think that we, and I can't speak for anyone else, but like I don't think that we really ever faced here in Miami as Cubans because of the strong Cuban community, what it is that immigrants are facing nowadays. We're here with Tim and his.
Starting point is 00:10:46 Halloween house Tim, the decorations are incredible. What are your tips for people who are not as talented as decorating as you are? You got to make sure you go out there right after Halloween the year before. So you're 364 days ahead of time. Three. All right. The tree. Yeah, it's, it's brutal. I'm glad that you're crying. I'm a blubbering idiot, Rob. I need this to be funny. Like, look, there's an old, there's an old-timey baseball player. Rob. I said Josh Allen has a stupid face How's that?
Starting point is 00:11:27 Why? Why, Billy? Last week, as we mentioned, Senator Peter Welch, we caught up with him and we had him pick USC at Michigan and he accurately predicted the winner. Are you going to vomit on?
Starting point is 00:11:39 Is there any chance that you vomit on your keyboard? It's possible. No, I get that. But I guess not in so many words. don't get it. And I'm even happy that you're back. Hey, that's great to hear. This has been the high point of my, of my tenure so far. This is an addition of Bet the House of Representatives. Just a moment. And I can tell you,
Starting point is 00:11:59 this week we did not speak to a senator. Here it is. The House of Representatives. The house. Beid the house. The house. Bid the house. House. House.
Starting point is 00:12:34 Lucy, where are you? Can we call in a day with an end up. Repriseity. Bit the house. Represidity. Can we call it a day with this? No. We've got to eat an entire raw onion.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Put her on the pole gear. If you were tanking, would you tell me? Tanking. What is? No, tanking? Tanking is not trying your hardest to win ball games in every day. We're trying to win ball games every day. We're trying to win ball games every.
Starting point is 00:13:16 day. If you trade your best players in exchange for prospects, it's unlikely you're going to win more games in the immediate future. When you take the field, you have an opportunity to win each and every day. I repeat, each and every day. You never tell your team that you're not expected to win. Never. Not in so. What? Now you think, now, now, now, I can't tell you how to think. Like, I see your mind. I see how you think. I don't like that. That's your mind working like that. The Avatar show on ESPM radio. World Star. Nancy Pelosi, what's up?
Starting point is 00:13:59 I knew there was one person for this job. Someone's going to be here through thick and thin. And there's a bunch of haters like Pablo, saying you're a traitor for leaving a table. And you know what? Ignore him. I said, you know what? That people, he's an empresario.
Starting point is 00:14:13 Coel de losuello suave, bro. That guy wants billete. This guy Welcome back, Billy, and I don't know where this particular tension is going to end up Okay, you're very close You got your arms around each other And Guillermo's moving his face away Because I think he fears your scalding hot coffee breath
Starting point is 00:14:35 What he is saying there It is so wrong what the president of our country is doing Here we go And the bitch Oh, come on a whole run up Welcome Derek Gina, and that concludes our marvelous coverage for the season. And I'm not going to get into the coaching moves. Guillermo, tonight you are again rounding the community in a spirited form of exercise.
Starting point is 00:15:07 Well, the Labatard Show Showdown starts now with Billy Gill, better known as Guillermo. What are you thinking about? Well, if there's one thing we know about Guillermo, he shouldn't think. He should just do. And look at me, watching on. You can see him watching on. Amina Hassan. Hold on for your deal life for dear life.
Starting point is 00:15:36 No! This is a Cuba baseball jersey. This is double. Dad, if you're listening, don't take defense or offense about me calling my car an idiot. It's just going to commercial there I could have a tummy ache and he'd be a fun day for everyone So you know what?
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Starting point is 00:20:56 Don Lebertard. Go ahead, Billy. Ask him your question. Is gymnastics Pop... P-Pol... Possibly good. Oh, wow. Wow. Stugats. I got some fleb in my mouth, yeah. It's okay. Yeah. Is gymnastics possibly corrupt?
Starting point is 00:21:10 This is the Don Liberator. our show with these two gods I'm going to miss people but I already miss people there's people going my favorite comment during all that was Billy was people
Starting point is 00:21:28 I didn't see you guys getting emotional during that I saw you guys just looking straight ahead and wearing a mask of of sheer strength and I want to track back a few minutes ago. Do you think you're emotionally repressed? Is that what you were trying to convey that you are emotionally repressed? Do you believe this? You guys have helped open me up a bit. That's not something. None of that stuff crying on television. Sure shit, not something I did on my first 15 years of television. I was just talking to Zazz about this a second ago. How lonely it is to do shows by yourself. Because Zaz does Zaslow show 2.0 by himself. Does it very well, but it's lonely. You guys. You guys. have helped me a great deal there. You don't know how much you've helped me. People don't know how much Billy has helped us over the years, even as they love Billy. But you're not comfortable
Starting point is 00:22:19 with any of this, right? Me? I mean, yeah, you know, that's what it is. Kind of now, I'm trying to edit something real quick. We have going on later. You're too busy for all this right now? I mean, it just, we started late, and now we're apologizing to, trying to use the brakes to finish editing something that we got cooking up and now that we're going to have no break times and now do you want to explain why we finished late do you want to Chris Cody do you want to explain your father being late again the reason
Starting point is 00:22:49 we started late is because Greg Cody was supposed to scoop everybody with Billy Gill is leaving and create the chatter necessary to draw people over to our show to start and hear the beginning of the show but he didn't release it on time because your father is a
Starting point is 00:23:05 fool like he's known this since yesterday but your father is simply that's not an act. Your father's a fool. Well, and he'll have an excuse. He'll have some type of excuse as to why it came out several minutes after nine when obviously it should have been like 10 or 15 minutes before nine. He'll have some type of excuse. And it's the same thing with Cody being late here when he shows up. It's like, dude, leave 25 minutes earlier than you normally, oh, but it was trouble. Oh, okay. To make sure there's no traffic, leave 25 minutes earlier and he refuses to.
Starting point is 00:23:38 whatever happened today, this happened, this happened. Why didn't you release it 15 minutes earlier than you wanted to? And Greg's defense, there's probably cyber traffic today. You know, more cyber traffic than normal, not using the right Wi-Fi. I mean, yeah, what does he to do? Am I to believe that those leaks are coordinated? Well, this one was, this is what Mike said to me during this, like we're just sitting here tapping our feet and it's, you know, this takes a minute to produce.
Starting point is 00:24:06 so we're just waiting for Cody and waiting for Cody and Mike says to me the one time you actually gift this to him he fumbles the bag Chris can you explain to me because I told you when I left here yesterday
Starting point is 00:24:21 I told you tell your dad Billy's leaving he's gonna love that and your smile the smile that came on your face was strong and then he peppers me all night when can I release and I'm like go talk to the people in charge go talk to the people who who have the schedule on time.
Starting point is 00:24:38 We should call your dad to ask him because he totally botched this. He's not going to get the clicks because he didn't have it first. He doesn't know how to be first in the information age when there's cyber traffic and he doesn't want to leave his home on time. He had all the info. Plenty of time last night. This is ridiculous. I have no idea why he didn't get it out earlier.
Starting point is 00:24:55 Wake up a little bit earlier and make sure it gets done. That's it. He can't control it. You guys think you hit send or however it works and it takes as long as it takes. Remember Napster that? You did download and you'd have to come back six days later to get this song. I stole so much music. Come out of me, Metallica.
Starting point is 00:25:14 I was going to say, what was that guy's problem? Lars. What's his deal? Come at me, Lars. What's his problem? I stole so much. Dude. Lars, I stole so much of your music.
Starting point is 00:25:22 And what? What do you think his net worth is? God, please, crying over whatever, spilled milk. He's doing all right. Can you explain Zaz? Because I think people think it's bit how frustrated Chris is dead. has made you over the years and it's not bit i've gotten texts from zaz i'm not kidding for for 20 years about cody's behavior i just i was i was late here one time right okay so i started
Starting point is 00:25:48 coming in here regularly i don't know in the last five six months i was late one time i was so embarrassed it was because of traffic now i leave earlier because i made sure that's never going to happen again but gregg refuses to adjust It's like, no, this is when I leave and in a situation like today, it's like, no, this is when I release my story. Do it 10 minutes earlier. This is such bullshit. It's one time in our history together that I genuinely feel Miami has a shot at a national title and you're getting the fuck out of here. It's not even about winning number six.
Starting point is 00:26:27 It's about shoving it in your face. Me? This is bullshit. Wait, we're talking about me? Lars is worth $350 million. Yeah, they're successful, band. You heard of them, right? Metallica?
Starting point is 00:26:36 Yeah, what's this? Cry baby. I would have been 400, though, without Napster, I guess. In the defense of stealing music, Billy's headed to Spotify. And we are happy for him. You got two days to ruin that for him. Exactly right. Greg reached out to me.
Starting point is 00:26:54 He's like, would you like to comment on this? I'm like, no, thank you. Like, I don't know what their situation is. And if they want that out there, I would prefer if this did not happen. So tomorrow's your last day, right? Yeah. That's what Greg reported. I'd speak if I get fired before I start.
Starting point is 00:27:08 Well, how does this work with the bucket? Can if you lose at the bucket? Oh, the best pick of all time today. Yeah. No consequences. No, you have to show up to your initial Spotify meeting. All right. Okay, but you know what's bullshit?
Starting point is 00:27:20 Like, in the bucket, if he gets a swap and then he swaps with someone who has something really good, you get the hell out of here with that nonsense. You haven't suffered actually many consequences when it comes to punishments, but when you have, they've been hugely memorable. Like this season, you did the Ted Lassau, which consists of just putting on a fake mustache. No, no, no, falsehoods. I had to be positive.
Starting point is 00:27:43 And again, I went above and beyond with the mustache. And U.D. reached out to me personally, said, you're good. So thanks, U.D. Okay. I'm sorry to do this. I think the rules should probably be more lenient for you the last couple of days. What's happening here?
Starting point is 00:27:57 I'm looking for, hold on this second. No, let me see if I can find it. It's not here anymore. the penalty for lying because that's not true. You did not get reached out to by you've done this. I like Chris saying it's the same place it was last time.
Starting point is 00:28:12 Yeah. That was off mic, Billy. But it's not there. So instead, this is the penalty. Minor penalty, two minutes. Sport came out of your mouth. We will be nicer to Billy these next couple of days. And to prove that to you.
Starting point is 00:28:33 you. Yeah, that onion sound, that haunts me. Like, I was truly disgusted and felt bad for what would be a later hospitalized Billy Gill. The eating of a whole onion seems not smart and seems disgusting, but... It also has nothing to do with kidney sounds. Let's be real. Yeah, he... It dehydrates you. I did him a solid. Got him to the hospital quicker. You're welcome. The way that we're going to celebrate this is obviously with the best producers and the land spending months to produce something to celebrate a great career here, 15 years here. That's one hell of a run. So we had Chris Cody cook up top five billies because he spent a lot of time on this the last
Starting point is 00:29:17 few months working on how can I say goodbye to my good friend who I rub his back during skits and he touches my face and how do I celebrate this man I've loved for 15 years? I know I'll do top five billies. I'll give you billies who are better than you. You want to see emotionally repressed. All right? Get out of here, Dan. I've arrived.
Starting point is 00:29:37 Any OLLI here? No. Number five. Billy Bean. Number four. Billy Crystal. Number three. Billy Joel.
Starting point is 00:30:01 Just number three, huh? Number two. Piano man. Billy the Marlin. That's right, Zaz. And number one, this is going to be, it's Billy Gill. Wow. Holy shit.
Starting point is 00:30:18 No wonder it took you months to prepare something so carefully sculpted. I had Billy crewed up. What about Billy Corby? How does Billy Corby not get an... Oh, no way. How does he not get an O-L-I? He's second on the list of Billy's. I get number six rubbed in their face.
Starting point is 00:30:35 Can you get for me, please? Can you get for me just, I think, I don't know if Zaz's favorite clip from that is what I'm about to show you, but I think I want to go around and nominate from the video, and if you're only listening to this on audio, I suggest you check it out on YouTube, the montage that folks did here for Billy.
Starting point is 00:30:56 It was lovely and covers a lot of ground. But my favorite moment, do you have it there? of me, emotionally repressed me, sobbing, sobbing while talking to the actor Rob Delaney about the death of his child and the death of my brother, this, I believe Zaz, if Zaz were coming up with a top five list of the moments that we just showed in that montage, I think he would choose this is number one. The places that you and I talked about the loss of your son, the places that you and I talked about the loss of your son at the time that we talked about it.
Starting point is 00:31:35 I didn't even know my brother was sick when we had that conversation. And in the time since then, my brother has died. And I will tell you that the pain of that has been, I don't know what your pain is exactly, right? I can't possibly know, even though you've written a book. But I feel like I lost a son because I raised him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's brutal. And I'm glad that you are talking about it. I'm so incredibly sorry. I'm glad that you're crying and that people can hear that. Because the pain. There's an old-timey baseball player here, Rob.
Starting point is 00:32:21 Yes, thank you. Like, I can't cry in front of these people. Do you know how weak it is? Do you know? I'm a blubbering idiot, Rob. I need this. to be funny. Like, look, there's an old-timey baseball player. Rob. I know. It's my favorite. See how well it goes when you actually pay the punishment? I mean, sometimes you end up in the hospital, but sometimes you stare at a camera with a mustache
Starting point is 00:32:58 dressed as a player from 1919. Billy, is there anything that you would like? And we'll have plenty of time for this over the next couple of days. I can get to the sports stuff and we've got a loaded show filled with a lot of guests today. I have to talk to the congressman today. Yeah, we got to talk to. We've got to talk to. We've got to talk to.
Starting point is 00:33:14 Got to solve this government shutdown today on the Dan Levitart show. Or bet the house. Or we can just bet the house. Come on. That's when I need to finish editing. We have to get it. It takes a long time and we're again. We're a little bit late.
Starting point is 00:33:25 So is there. Because of Greg Cody. Chris, get your dad on the phone so we can hear his. Oh, another guest today. His excuses. Can we veto this? I just want to call him. I just want to call him and get and hear his excuses.
Starting point is 00:33:36 We don't have to see him at a Zoom or anything else, just a phone call so that I can find out for Zaz. I want to guess what the excuse is he's going to make for botching this. But is there anything that you would like to say or would you like, I know you're not comfortable or I'm assuming you're not comfortable with some of this? Is there anything that you want to say or do you want to just save it for tomorrow? Nah, we're good. You're talking to me, right?
Starting point is 00:33:58 No, we're good. I'm sorry I broke a camera. I was in the penalty box. I threw a baseball at it. Well, just throwing, look, I am not surprised that your last axe will be of sabotage, that you will leave maximum anarchist rolling a grenade across the floor, but you're going to be wearing a costume your first day at Spotify. Well, we'll see how I do.
Starting point is 00:34:19 I pull out a winner again. You D told me you're good. So I built up some credit there. Where did this lying penalty go on my board? There used to be a penalty for lying on here. Chris just said Jesus Christ off, Mike. Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right? Don't place parleyes on multiple long shots.
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Starting point is 00:35:59 Throw down. We haven't even gotten. Stugats. Jason Sanders, you're unnoticed. Yeah. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. What in spite of him.
Starting point is 00:36:11 Oh, wow. I love you, Duke. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. The Miami Dolphins mess continues to swirl in a way that makes Billy say off air that the Dolphins should move the franchise and Zaz get excited about a fire sale. So let me just take you through the video and the audio from the last couple of days so you guys can see the mess the dolphins presently. the noisy mess the dolphins presently have on them that is unlike the mess around other one and five teams.
Starting point is 00:37:03 Let's begin with what it is Tua said after they lost a game that he won with less than a minute left and shouldn't have been lost and was not his fault in any way that they lost. And he made sure to point out to you afterward that it was not his fault in any way that they're losing. I think it starts with the leadership in helping articulate that for the guys. and then what we're expecting out of the guys, right? We're expecting this. Are we getting that? Are we not getting that?
Starting point is 00:37:31 We have guys showing up to player-only meetings late. Guys not showing up to player-only meetings. Like, there's a lot that goes into that. Do we have to make this mandatory? Do we not have to make this mandatory? So it's a lot of things of that nature that we've got to get cleaned up. To be clear, you're saying some players were late or missed? late. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:55 Yeah, thank you. Definitely not his fault in any way. I'm glad he pointed that out, including, you know, another multi-interception game, this time three of them. It was a three interception game, right? It's not a multi-interception game. But two of them, I mean, the first one wasn't his fault, and the last one was irrelevant. Oh, stop making excuses. It's not irrelevant. I've ever seen before. I saw the Miami Miracle. You know about
Starting point is 00:38:15 Kenyon Drake? You thought that that's where that play was going to end up at the end? It was bad and sour punctuation and three interceptions obviously is bad, but I don't know. I can't predict the future. Okay, here's McDaniel reacting to what it is that Tua said, and it's exactly what a quarterback needs to not do. They all know it. They've known it. Marino used to do this expertly. The only job is make sure the questions get away from your locker. Like that's, don't say anything, ever about anything, that can become a headline. Don't ever do that. You know, regardless of an intent and, you know, what was on
Starting point is 00:38:52 onto his mind after a loss as the franchise quarterback that's not the forum to displace that I think he knows that now I do honestly believe it was not there's no ill intention but you're talking about you know I think kind of a misguided representation of player orchestrated film sessions and you know the bottom line is no one's going to be happy and always is looking for reasons for failure to succeed so you're trying to look for reasons that you know you can attribute to losses and there's a you know heavy as the crown of being a franchise quarterback just rambling nonsense nonsense seems so bad it used to be so cute that whole stick there's nothing good here you guys are a joke when when zaz says used to be cute
Starting point is 00:39:53 zaz has arrived at two as unlikable which caught me totally off guard but let's get to two as apology here because this is the kind of stuff you don't want to be doing wasting energy on publicly and privately while trying to prepare to get out of a one in five hole when you can't stop anyone from running the football as as a leader of this team of the Miami Dolphins, you know, the comments that had been said, I would say I've made a mistake and I'm owning up to that right now. I've talked to guys on a team about it, talk to the leaders about it. And, you know, that they know my heart. They know that the intent was right. But no matter the intent, you know, the intent can be right. But when things get misconstitutional,
Starting point is 00:40:45 construed or however the media wants to portray it, you know, that that leaves a void of silence and a lot of questions for the guys on our team. Now, being one in five, you know, we talk a lot about, all right, we got to get this going, we got to get this going, come in excited to go to work, forget about the noise, and I feel like I just added onto that for our guys. You know, for myself, I got to look at myself as the leader protecting the team. I don't feel like I did that to the best of my abilities. I felt like I let the emotions of the game get to me after the game. And that's something that I can learn from as a leader on this team. And what happens in-house should be protected. And none of that should have gotten out. And so I want
Starting point is 00:41:38 to publicly apologize about that. Want to move forward. And now I want to focus on Cleveland Browns. the game plan for the Cleveland Brown's rambling. My God. Did he write that in a Sharpie on the whiteboard? I'm just watching like the worst soap opera ever. I slipped into a coma in the middle of whatever that was. I think
Starting point is 00:41:57 he's crossed over a line now where he's kind of unlikable. Yeah, I don't like him. Let's go back a few examples. I have one example. You're going to say, mind out of doubt. Glass bottles on a boat. You don't do that.
Starting point is 00:42:11 People can cut their feet. Irresponsive. I love him. He went and got that concussion and ruined that season, too. Not what I was going to say, but... Oh, really? Oh, you're a bad guy if you have a glass beer bottle on a boat. You don't do that.
Starting point is 00:42:24 Remember the beginning of training camp last year? And the first time he's talking to the crowd, he gets on the microphone, and he tells everybody, Show me the money! Who does that? It was like, and we all thought it was kind of weird in the moment. A cartoonish Hollywood character does that. Who does that? It's an odd thing to do.
Starting point is 00:42:42 then you had earlier this season when he was asked how do you recover over something like or how do you take into the criticism and say you know my family loves me I just go home and everything's okay all right you guys have turned on him because he's losing and I understand that
Starting point is 00:42:55 when he's the leader 100% and his politics you guys have turned on him I want you to see how Chris Cody was looking at him and I'll remind you that the way that Chris Cody talked about him was show me the money was super confident look my quarterback's confident I love that I have a confident
Starting point is 00:43:11 in quarterback, and he told us in that interview where Chris Cody was playing with his drawstrings and staring longingly at the Dolphins finally have a quarterback. He told us that that was a bet. He had a bet with one of his teammates that he wouldn't do that, and he won the bet. That's what he was doing.
Starting point is 00:43:28 Short on money. So he has a bet to show everyone, I can look like an asshole. Let's call your father, speaking of assholes, Chris, let's call your father and have him give us his explanation for why he botched this the way that he botched this this morning. The thing is like if he
Starting point is 00:43:43 just owned it, I think you'd feel different too. It's like he does these things and then he like backtracks like oh sorry like I want to be like- Cody or Tua. No Tua like just own it like you want to be a villain, be a villain. Hello Greg, Greg, what happened? Greg, what happened? What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:44:00 Why were you What do you mean? What happened? We're calling you on air we're calling you on air right now and we're just curious why you broke the news late and why our show was waiting around for you to break the news. Yeah, I can't answer the latter, but I did not break the news late. The story I wrote, posted online in the Miami Herald at 858, and it's doing very good business. It's already in
Starting point is 00:44:29 just a matter of minutes. It's already the second most red thing of written this month. And so I'm all happy on this. That's the first. That's incredible, considering how bad the Dolphins a band. Was the first them being 15th in the league? No, the first one happens to be their loss to Carolina, just randomly. Not that anybody cares. We'll break that record for you. Billy will break that record for you.
Starting point is 00:44:59 But do you understand how it is that it wouldn't quite work to break the news two minutes early because it doesn't give people the time to go from wondering why Billy is leaving, talking about why Billy is leaving, being curious and wanting answers to why Billy is leaving and have only your article to look for, it would have been better for you to not do that with two minutes because then you would have given people time to react to it. Yeah, well, we had a technical issue on this end. Cyber traffic. That delayed it by about 10 minutes. Nobody wants to hear about that. You know, I'm not an excuse maker. My main, my main thought is that I'm I'm sad that I'm not in today to share in the fond farewell to Billy.
Starting point is 00:45:45 Well, tomorrow's the last day if you want to come in and work three days this week. No, in Greg's offense, he has the knee thing, and he signed a two-day-a-week deal. But if you want to say goodbye to Billy, tomorrow's his last day, not today. So you do still have time. You could beat traffic. If you start early, you can beat traffic, get here on time tomorrow, and be here for Billy's last day. Yeah, that would require me to cancel. an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon who wants to repair my knee, so I'm going to decline
Starting point is 00:46:16 that. But I'll miss Billy. Nobody will miss Billy more than me who has come to my defense over the years. And I patented the phrase. Thank you, Billy. I patented that phrase. Copy right. No, you didn't. Yes. Greg. Greg, your, your Billy tweet this morning came out at 903. Yeah, but the story posted at 850. I'm a busy man that, you know, I have things on my plate other than this story, believe it or not. Oh, so you're saying now that something is more important than clicks? You're saying publicly that something in your life is more important than clicks. Of course, yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:56 What was it? Friends and family. Health. I have perspective. What were you? Those 13 minutes that you were late, was that because you were tending to friends and family? That's exactly right. And by the way, I croon a tribute song for Billy.
Starting point is 00:47:14 Getty and I put together a tribute song with his heartfelt. And I look forward to you all hearing that. My voice is terrible right now. Yeah, okay. Well, just it's something going around. It's not, yeah. It looks like the rest of you. See you later.
Starting point is 00:47:29 Greg, I tried your K-cup trick. Did you, and? I liked it. It tastes it good. I felt like I got good value. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:47:39 How about that? Yes, I appreciate that. You want to tell the people... That's the first compliment you've ever given me. You want to tell the people who weren't listening yesterday what the K-cup trick is so that they have some context to what it is that you're saying? Yeah, so Greg yesterday said that he does the K-cup to make his coffee, and rather than throw it away after usage,
Starting point is 00:48:01 he believes that there's still some good coffee bean grinds still in that cup, and he uses it again for an extra cup. What a money saver. Kick up, cake up. Drinking your coffee. Drink it with Cody. Look how happy Jeremy is there. We should have the narcissist cam on Jeremy.
Starting point is 00:48:31 They're just listening to the sound of his own voice. We all know he loves the sound of his own voice. You're going to get to hear more of it, apparently. I hope so. How much more do you have? have there. Do we ever find out whether that's music we're allowed to use or not? Because I hope so. I go learn. Mike was very strong on air telling me that it's music that we can use. And then after the show, I'm like, are you sure we can use that? Mike was slightly less sure.
Starting point is 00:48:56 We used Steamboat Willie as soon as he became available. As soon as he got out of Disney's evil clutches, we used that and he became public domain. I believe the greatest song, because John Tesh called Monday Night Football's theme the greatest song ever made. I'm surprised to hear that's public domain. I'm surprised. I heard you guys talking before the show about how you remember a day
Starting point is 00:49:18 when Monday night football started at 9 o'clock. Well, because what happened was, you know, the guys out there were complaining that, number one, complaining about the two Monday night football games, which I love when there's two Monday night football games. But it's 7 and 10 p.m. this week, the Monday night football. I'm like 10 o'clock, it's way too late. And then I had to remind everyone, when I was growing up, Monday football was at 920.
Starting point is 00:49:44 Dan, that's so late 920. Yeah, but there were only three channels back then. No, no, in the 90s? No. When Monday night football, let's see what time I have here, when Monday night football was starting and at its largest, it's when it was three channels. No, I remember growing up as a kid on ABC, Salt and, Peppa doing what a man intro
Starting point is 00:50:08 for Dave Wanstead. Oh, remember they like the guest musicians do the intro? Cable was around in the 90s. Man, what a time to be a little. Remember the local pregame show with Saffalo? Yes, Saffalo and Hank would be there. The good, the bad, the ugly. We're here at Shula's. Put it
Starting point is 00:50:24 on the poll at Lebitard show. Do you prefer when there are two Monday night football games? Why not? Yes or no, because I may be longing for a time, a romantic time that, as Mike just pointed out on my timeline, doesn't actually exist when there was one game that everybody was watching on Monday night, that we were watching,
Starting point is 00:50:46 that America was watching something together, and it was the one thing. Hell, I mean, when Zaz talks about, think about how outdated this is, when Zaz talks about growing up watching Monday night football, whether there was cable or not, the rights were so fractured back then that you would get caught up on all of Sunday's highlights on Monday night football. They put the package together for you, and it was something that everybody was watching. You were not getting your highlights instantaneously. You were waiting for Monday night football and Howard Cosell to deliver you what happened on Sunday.
Starting point is 00:51:21 Dan, Sunday night, Chris Berman's two-minute drill must watch, because I had to know what happened in all the other games. I thought it's the fastest three minutes in sports. They changed it because then, like, they wanted to pack in some more huts. It used to be fastest two minutes. They changed it to three. But it was never two minutes. It was always 25 minutes, right? They're like, boomer, you've earned an extra minute.
Starting point is 00:51:42 No, I think it was always 25 minutes, and they called it the fastest two minutes in sports. Either way, they had to stop calling it that after Rick Petino took the little old job. The dolphins and two, the thing you're doing on making him unlikable is because he's one in five instead of five and one. Like, you're going to find the reasons because you're mad at this football game. Yeah, bad quarterback is unlikable. He gave you hope. They gave you hope. hope, they gave you basically 11 games of hope when they were nine and two and then lost
Starting point is 00:52:10 to Tennessee at home in a Monday night game. That was a standalone game. That's the only one anyone was watching that night. There weren't two of them that night. That's when everything went wrong, right there. Our fault for sure. That blown lead. That watch party. I am longing for a romantic time. I think Zaslo's probably got this right. If I gave you 10 games on Monday night, that would be the preference. We have to reverse the curse. It was a watch party that did this. Now to turn things around, you're going to host a block party at a Flanagan's in Kendall.
Starting point is 00:52:40 This is going to be huge and fun. Billy's going? It's a block party. When day is this? It's the 30th. It's soon here. It's very near your house. We're finally putting one of the... Before Halloween, everybody knows. I like to get my Halloween trick-or-treating in early, so...
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