The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Billy Apologizes to Australia

Episode Date: February 25, 2025

Stugotz is in Australia on something he calls either Operation Boomerang, Operation Bloomin Onion, or Operation Boomerang Bloomin Onion. That leads Billy to make a reckless accusation about the population of Australia, and Dan exiles him to the outback to apologize to the entire country. Also, we replay a clip of Stugotz taking out Al Trautwig and discuss whether a Trautwig would be a wig made of trout or a trout wearing a wig. Matthew Tkachuk of the Florida Panthers and star of Team USA at the Four Nations Face-Off was on the Tonight Show last night. Could this tournament be a landmark moment for the popularity of hockey in America? Also, is there immense pressure on Lionel Messi and Inter Miami to finally win the MLS Cup this season? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Billy, do you know anything about Operation Blooming Onion or Operation Boomerang or when Stugats is gonna be back? We were warned that he was gonna be in Australia, right? Well, that was nice of someone to tell you because I had no idea that this was happening. I was told that he was leaving after Monday's show

and then Monday comes and I woke up to an email, 10.30, saying nevermind, he's not gonna be in today. So I literally don't know where in the world he is at this moment and we recorded Gavos football last Thursday and I thought had planned out this week's episode and at no point was it mentioned that Australia was in play. So down under. Good use of all you know about Australia excellent work on the Bobby I Love Australia never been I Love a blooming onion as a lesbian Dan

Why is he there? That's how you'd star in a movie right there that with that kind of Alertness you would be Daniel Day-Lewis you would be he's not actually there either He's a pretty good actor. No, it's you know how it's to God's is like I think I'm going to Australia. Okay, cool You want to you want to tell us when I don't know probably going to Syracuse first Yeah, you know the your traditional Miami to Syracuse Wait wax it's going up there for lax. So, oh yeah. He has a daughter that goes to Syracuse. Yes, but that daughter's in Australia. I know that.

That's why I was wondering why he's going there. He's going to Syracuse to watch his other daughter that doesn't go to Syracuse. For lax. Hmm. I love this as Operation Lax. Because I imagine he's just going to be doing lacrosse championships for a while.

And relax out. Right, Operation lax. So high. Putting the lax in not working very hard. But we don't know where he is, and Greg Cody sits in the seat, but he's afflicted with some of the same poisons on thinking he can do everything.

What if Stu Gotts accidentally found himself in a Brittany Greiner Russia situation in Australia? Where he didn't realize he couldn't just do whatever the hell he wanted in Australia and then like we he gets arrested or detained. Didn't that happen to Stallone and Johnny Depp but didn't it happen to Stallone Johnny Depp for bringing an animal into the country and Stallone for like throwing steroids off of a balcony in Australia while the authorities closed in on it. Yeah, but so long his plan was effective and that they could not catch him

with the performance enhancing drugs. Because he was just throwing them off the balcony? Yes, well, allegedly. Australia, chill. Respectfully to the people of Australia and Morgan and all of those, it's a country of criminals. What? Whoa.

That's factually true. Whoa. That's a fact. If every company, then every country is. No, this colony was created with, didn't we just send a bunch of criminals to Australia? Like, oh, we don't have to do with them. Over there, you just found this giant island over here

and you guys figure it out. Is that not what happened? Yeah, but it also happened down here in Miami. Marriott Boat Lift. What? Sure. There were people that were there. Those weren't criminals in Marri Mario Boat Lift. What? Sure. There were people that were there. Those weren't criminals in Mario Boat Lift.

Those are people that- There were many. There were some, but they weren't all criminals. Okay, let's not paint with a broad brush Billy. There's, you know, people that came here in the Mario Boat Lift. Swiped out an entire continent. Yeah, but they're not gonna hear this until tomorrow

or yesterday, I don't know how that works. Billy, yes, Fido Castro emptied his prisons. He did, yes, but other people came along with it. It wasn't like the criminals that were sent. You see the issues with painting with a broad brush. I didn't. You did, you very much did. I did not.

You said all of Australia was criminals. That's the broadest brush. I said respectfully. You offended like a few million people, that's all. But they're not gonna hear this. They're gonna hear this yesterday and they're gonna be pissed. Yeah, it'll be degrading.

In the future. All right, I- No, they already heard it. Oh, well, I haven't heard anything, so I'm fine. If they heard it and I haven't heard pushback, we're good. You know, that's actually a good point. Thank you. It is not a good point. Before we go any further here,

because there are a number of things I have to get to, I have to get to Boldest Take, take and I also I'm really happy to see that this has finally happened. I know it didn't work at the All-Star game Adam Silver's like, hey can you guys try? Can you guys show some enthusiasm? And then LeBron's like, I don't even want to dress for the team picture. But he's finally reached a coach when he's trying to sell, hey guys we need to tell everybody our league it's got a lot of pizzazz, everything's very important, we need to tell everybody our league. It's got a lot of pizzazz. Everything's very important We got to sell the regular season really matters

And finally he reached the champion coach of the Celtics who sells Adam Silver's sport the way that Adam Silver with the enthusiasm That you want to sell your sport in these troubled times 3-0 against the Knicks this season all by double digits Does that tell you anything especially when you look at the standings? It means absolutely nothing. All right, thank you Joe Mazzula. Just absolutely nothing. This guy's becoming one of my favorite coaches. He was like annoying at the beginning, but I like what he does with the media.

Just means nothing. He doesn't have any patience for us, and can you imagine that amount of sex, I'm sorry. What? That amount of success in your early 30s. I can't imagine all of that. Turns out more than just criminals lived in Australia,

so I'm sorry to Australia. You know what, go back. I'm gonna be the brave, strong person here and apologize to Australia. I hope they aggregate it first. 162,000 convicts were sent there, but it was more than just that in the population. Yeah, there were already people there. Yeah, I didn't know that. Nowadays they send all their convicts were sent there, but it was more than just that in the population. Yeah, there were already people there

Yeah, I didn't know that nowadays. They send all their convicts to New Zealand really yeah, Kiwis also not true Two minutes right here in the shipping container for trying to leave I didn't understand what that penalty was. I pressed the wrong button. I didn't like my choices. You go. I'll just stay here. No, I want you to go to the penalty box and I want you to apologize to Australia.

I want you to orga- I did. No, more formally. I want you to go and- I'm actually sorry. With, I know, but I want you to be actually sorry while doing a public apology in the other room surrounded by Australian things. I also want to go into the other room because Matt Coogler, the unassuming Matt Coogler, producer of South Beach Sessions, I'm going to say he bounded into work today, bounded in,

seemed happy, giant smile on his face, and you know it was at the end of the last segment, and he's like, now that's the heat talk I like. You guys finally showing everybody where it hurts that it's all over. Mike, you underestimate how you've shielded these tears from the audience that desperately wants. If you guys are gonna be that annoying for five years getting near the finals, you're gonna eat it now as you long for other players. And Jeff, you're gonna be the last one to eat it. You're gonna be that annoying for five years getting near the finals,

you're gonna eat it now as you long for other players. And Jessica is gonna sit in the middle of it and enjoy heat talk for the first time in a couple of years. I may be the only person that was enjoying it other than Kugler because Jeremy Tachay texted me. I'm genuinely embarrassed by them when I think of that analysis being the perspective

from Miami that reaches a national audience. You can tell them this on air or off, LMAO. Okay, I'd like to hear from Jeremy. I rarely say that. Why would you like to hear from someone that has been wrong for two and a half years? Every single thing he has said in rebuttal to things that have been said on this show have been wrong.

Why would you platform him? Moreover, why are we now talking about the Heat Fur going on 40 minutes when they are as culturally insignificant as they have ever been? It's not 40 minutes and it's been 20 minutes. 20 minutes too many. They don't deserve it. I wanted to talk about the Panthers and I wanted to talk about Kachuk being on Jimmy Fallon But before I do that near Kugler, I just saw Taylor and Taylor I don't know what you guys experience of Taylor But I'm telling you that my experience of Taylor is he feels like because so many people around here who work around here

Listen to our show for a long time that he's walking in the middle of the disney characters that his daily life is living inside of this thing that's strange to him and so he's walking around yesterday and all he's doing is giggling to himself listening to still got to talk about al trout weight out trout wing passed away he's a legend in new york out trout wig uh...

uh... many sports broadcasters will tell you that this is a loss that hurts because uh... we remember uh... how great al trout wig was but out of nowhere still gots had opinions on al trout wig and this is what taylor was listening to walking around the office out there after Al Troutwig died. I see Stu Gatze this morning. I'm not kidding you.

These are his first words to me. This is good morning to me. Before he says good morning to me, this is what he says. This bleeping guy. Because he's talking about Phil Jackson. So annoying, man. This bleeping guy. Yeah. I mean, Dan, he's just an embarrassment Jackson. So annoying, man. This bleeping guy. Yeah.

I mean, Dan, he's just an embarrassment. Like he really is. It's just like if you watched the interview last night that he did with Al Troutwig, I believe. He was a fossil, by the way. Anyway, if you- Why did you take out Al Troutwig? I just said, I mean, Troutwig, please.

Seriously. Well, polished. Al Troutwig. I got issues with Al Troutwig that go way, way back. Way back. out right now and i mean trawling plays as a result of polished al trout wake i got issues without traveling to go away way back way back go on i just don't like the gunman i like them never been a fan of this you know growing up in new york watch

issues you said you had issues not personal issues i just i've never been a fan of al trout with for some reason like growing up New York media I had a list of like the the guys that I least liked in the New York media and he was always at the top of the list Al Troutwick put that on for next year's lie detector question but Phil Jackson's a complete embarrassed thing what's the rest of that list look like like who were the list that you have of media members no now you're in no no give them 10 seconds to make up names on this fake list

now you're in what do you mean well you what you're the one who decided to just side swipe for no reason al trout wig yeah al trout wig what a great name it is it's a funny name i mean just polish pukey broadcaster and just a guy whose work i've i i don't know why i just don't enjoy it that much. Guillermo, put this on the poll. When I say the name Al Troutwig, do you imagine him wearing a wig made out of trout?

RIP. Rest in peace. That's not. What a joke by Dan. Seriously. Isn't that what you picture though? Like a wig made of trout? No, it's a fish wearing a wig.

Yeah. Right, the trout has the wig on. It's not a wig made of trout. It's a trout wearing a wig. I thought it was a wig made out of trout. No, no one's hair's made out of trout. It wouldn't look like a real wig. But that's what's funny about it.

A broadcaster with a wig that doesn't look like it's a real wig because it's made out of trout. How about my dad always wins? The trout wearing a wig is wig is yeah, because now I got the trout holding a microphone Yeah, right your dad always wins. I want you guys because Greg Cody Was talking for some reason. I don't know why earlier Billy why did you come back here? Weren't you gonna give us an apology a public an apology? Surrounded by Australia. Yeah, there was a yeah kangaroo kangaroo I put the kangaroo I said sorry to the kangaroo okay so I thought we were gonna get like a press conference oh there's no sorry

foot over there I'll go over there again yeah I just think you have to I think you have to apologize to Australia because you got all you called the company you called the country a bunch of criminals old-timey. We got a trout wig up on the screen right now. I apologize to New Zealand as well. Again, that doesn't seem like it's sincere. It is. You were very eager to take out New Zealand, but before the show, Greg Cody was talking

about the SAG Awards and something else that he did, and he's not the only one who does this, but he was yelling about Jane Fonda and how he didn't understand how Jane Fonda who's 20 years older than him looks 10 years younger than him at least and and so you were confounded by how healthy she is is she is she ninety yet she's not eighty seven she looks great acts great she dressed like you'd be better as an actor you'd be just as good right because it takes no talent it's it's hard to compare uh... male actor with a

female actor to a certain degree yeah i'm not saying i would never allowed age and women are yeah that's exactly right i'm not saying i would be a great actor i would be you know adjournment i would be a working again we're talking about jane fond i really really really great uh... you know very political what she her speech was what you expected to be but

i thought she looked fantastic and just was tell me that she said work done but i didn't think it was obvious. That is a mischaracterization of the conversation that we had. I mean, I'm sure she has had work done, but I wasn't like, yeah, Greg, she's had work done. Well, you reported it to me.

Talk about Hanoi Jane. I think she looks great for 87. I'm not afraid to say it. Hanoi is a funny word. No one is afraid to say she looks great. She does look great. She looks great. You're not afraid to say it you know and always a funny word no one is afraid to say she looks great she doesn't great she looks great you're not afraid to say it what i was afraid of uh... and it was unpleasant was it felt like you were all going her the whole thing felt uncomfortable to me

yeah if you're a little with a hard-o well you seem like you had a hard-o can we see if billy is ready to do his uh... it pretty good is is bill is ready to do his... Yeah, that's pretty good. Is Billy ready to do his apology here? Yes. Okay, Billy, thank you. We are not exactly having you surrounded by all things Australia, but can you apologize? Yeah.

Can you, would you do me the favor of apologizing, please? To the kangaroo? The kangaroo's happy to see you. Just to all of Australia for just being reckless. Hello, Australia. It's me, Billy. Yesterday or tomorrow, I said something on the show where I insinuated that Australia was founded by criminals.

And I, for that, apologize. Only 164,000 of your residents were criminals criminals and I for that apologize only a hundred and sixty four thousand of your residents were criminals that were sent there from Ireland and England and while that number seems immense I've learned that there are more than a hundred and sixty four thousand people that are in Australia so also a lot of scary creatures and animals and insects and things that generally you want to avoid. But I'm sure Australia is very pleasant

and hopefully one day I'll be able to visit your great continent, even though it's unlikely because it's like a very long plane ride. And what am I going there to do? See spiders? I doubt it. So anyways, again, yes and I'm sorry Australia for saying that there's a lot of criminals there

even though, you know, them's the facts. All right, good apology until the very end. I mean, we're not gonna just pretend that it's not a thing, it's a thing. Like I'll apologize, I'm sorry that me stating facts hurt your feelings, Australia. I'm sorry that you are in denial about your history. I apologize to you, Australia, for stating the fact

that criminals were sent there by the hundreds of thousands. Well, not hundreds, like 164s of the thousands. Alright, thank you Billy. Of the spirit of, you know, 15 years or whatever in the 1700s. I am sorry Australia. Alright. You've made a great opera house and finding Nemo was cool. And Morgan.

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the debate on TV. We're going to want to do something special for dinner. Baby. It's a nice day for me so far still guts That sounds like a not a super nice night the debate old people love that shit. Yeah That's exactly right. Yeah, that's exactly right old people do love that shit This is the done libertarar Show with the Stugats. Can you get for me, please, I don't know if we have the sound of this, but I heard Chris Cody talking about something that is happening right now in both hockey and America that allows the Panthers star, Matthew Kachak, who's been a star down here for a long time has been a star in the sport for a long

time but is now also a champion and an american champion and a personality hockey doesn't do this great in crossing over the language barriers make so many guys fighting through their second language on stardom when someone's telegenic when someone can sell the sport, the spirit of the sport and be a champion and descends from hockey royalty lineage, so he has the respect of Canada and America, we are seeing something with Kachuk

that is a pretty rare hockey stardom. He was plenty good at hockey before they traded for him he is now at the center of what represents one of the greatest trades in sports history and he's on the ascent so jimmy fallon reaches out is like explain to me this whole canada and the united states thing and now you're crossing over and you're doing the things locally that become national that become international so you can be more famous than your family's ever been at this sport because you're now winning in real time we see how hard it is

and you're at the center of everything but they told me that could chuck was great and felon was not that the questions were very basic it sort of like a famous hockey guy here's america wanna talk to him and that felon didn't bring out Kachuk at all. It was just like, yeah, I mean, I don't even know what I expect there

because I think he is doing it to a more broad audience. But if you're a Panthers fan tuning into that interview, it was just, hey, Kachuk, say the five things you're most known for. Hey, you did it? Thanks for joining us, that was great. Kachuk was fine there, he had good energy, he wasn't nervous, but it was just,

I almost felt bad for Jimmy Fallon, because it was just like, oh your dad played hockey, oh America, you guys fought, oh man, that is so hilarious, oh and you scored a goal, sick man, thanks for joining us. That's pretty much the show. Yeah, but it's just kind of awkward, if you're a die-hard Panthers fan, you were looking for anything there, obviously.

Did he ask about his groin? Did they see? Yeah, he said you're currently injured, but you'll be back soon, he's like, I'll be back soon I think. He said soon? I think? It's not soon. He's like I'm working to get back but I love playing for my country. He like turned it to America really quick. He's gonna be out for a while is he not? Yeah he's gonna be out for a while. He'll be back for the playoffs. And he mentioned multiple times about just the honor it was to wear the USA on his chest so there were opportunities

there for like the serious follow up, but that's not really a balanced thing. There's a lot of casual hockey fans, people that are just hockey fans of the Florida Panthers, and they're, I guess, rightfully upset that their star players now hurt for what was an exhibition tournament. Turned out to be a lot more than an exhibition tournament.

It was the first opportunity to play best on best internationally for these players in 11 years. In soccer, country before club, it's always such an honor to represent your country. And it's cool to see that after 11 years that the lure of the crest is not lost, that playing for his country was a huge honor for him. And as a Panther fan, you have to kind of accept that they're going to be playing with high level intensity and some players can get hurt. Not the only American that got hurt.

Do I have to accept that though? Because I can espouse that sentiment. No, you have to accept it. I do. I don't know if it's cause we were there. Like I'm good with it. Obviously if he was out for the year, I'd probably think differently.

But being there, seeing the emotion of it, you tell me he's out for a couple weeks, like worth it. This was that important. You also come off winning the Stanley Cup, so it's house money, right? Like if you fell short in the Stanley Cup, you blow a 3-0 series lead, and now one of your stars is out because of an exhibition game,

you're like, what are we doing here? Perhaps, perhaps that frames it, although Florida's still very much a franchise that is competing for another Stanley Cup to go to their third straight Stanley Cup final. But I understand why people are upset about it. I think my perspective on it, because I follow soccer so much, and understanding international breaks happen in the middle of the season, and often top tier players pull muscle and aren't available on the club side, that it's just kind of next man up, country before club. You have said that a couple of times and I have seen

Kevin Durant weep recently when talking about how basketball moved him playing for the United States overseas and I think that sentiment is anything that can be understood by our by our audience. However I thought that the selfishness of the local regional sports fan was such that if my player is injured, and that's a random thing you're doing, half a year I'm okay, a full year now I'd have a problem, that's where my patriotism stops. If you're going to go all out in hockey and play that intense a game and get all of our attention because you're playing that intensely, you're risking the regular season, the postseason, you're risking the thing that I thought was supposed to be the

most important to your team. Here's where I think there's an understandable frustration. The Boston Bruins came out with a team statement really chastising the training staff. I believe it's a Minnesota Wild training staff that was assigned to take care of Team USA. Chucky was injured. He missed the game against Sweden. And the staff and Chucky all came to an agreement. I am sure there was communication back to the Florida Panthers. He's got to give it a go.

And you could seize on that decision. He was hurt enough to miss a game. We rushed him back. Other players were held out of the tournament. Quinn Hughes wasn't deemed healthy enough by the Vancouver Canucks to go play in this four nations competition. The Sweden game was not important though. That is a factor. What happened to Charlie McAvoy is interesting. Charlie McAvoy suffers a hit then gets some sort of complication that sees him going to mass general when he was supposed to be in the care of this training staff. They botch it to the point that he has to get

admitted to the hospital. So you can have your questions about Team USA's training staff, I guess. Well, but I'd like to broaden this out for a second without getting too stuck in the mud on this. I understand that you and Chris are giant hockey fans. I understand the moment that I just witnessed where hockey made friendly exhibitions matter in a way that now you guys come home and are like, good, yeah, I'm good with my star missing the next half of the season when there are ten good teams in hockey and it's gonna matter a little bit and and it's hard to remain champions and these guys come back from

an event that was all exhibition I understand the patriotism in the move but as practicality holy shit if I'm running the Panthers, I don't love this Kachucks always playing hurt Kachuck I need that torso in the playoffs that torso was not as good in the playoffs when it was hurt But he plays through everything for that guy to care that much about exhibition games. I get it We just witnessed it. It was nice, but my god is it prisoner of the moment? That's an it's a it's a contrivance like they made that whole thing up for our entertainment Yes, but it meant something. It was a big tournament

How would we have felt if before the tournament Kachuk's like I'm sitting out for nations don't want to get hurt I would have been like oh that sucks. Yeah, that would have been terrible. No you guys would have pretended. It was less cool That would have been terrible. No, you guys would have pretended it was less cool. Yeah. I don't know. No, because they had the tickets already. If Kachuk wasn't playing in the championship game against Canada, I would have been disappointed.

Like, tough it out, this is a really huge game for hockey in this country. It would be a huge honor to beat Canada in that sport and secure a championship against them on the international level, best on best. So I'm glad he gave it a go. I'm fortunate that he's gonna be out a couple of weeks. Thankfully, the Florida Panthers are good enough

to withstand this absence. Maybe they make a move before the deadline, but it comes with the territory. It was a great moment for hockey, the past couple of weekends. It was a great tournament. It was made up, but like honestly, what isn't made up? There's a time Australia was just a land mass,

and then all of a sudden, boom. He just did the Tonight Show. A Florida Panther, a Florida Panther went on. Or a USA hockey player. Yeah, he went on the Cadillac of late night talk show properties in the Tonight Show. In terms of fame, the Tonight Show means something. Do we still make Cadillacs?

I think we did this on my dad's podcast. Really? Are Cadillacs still the Cadillacs? I think we did this on my dad's podcast. Really? Are Cadillacs still the Cadillac? Like beyond just an Escalade? What cars are Cadillac? I'm looking it up. Yeah. What's the Cadillac of cars these days?

The most common reason for transportation was theft. This included pickpocketing, shoplifting, stealing horses and sheep, highway robbery, housebreaking, and receiving stolen goods, Billy. What are we talking about? That's Australia? What do you mean what are we talking about? That's your wheelhouse, she was supporting your,

she was supporting. No, I was saying that like, these are very pickpocketing, you get sent to Australia and then like 300 years later, Billy calls you a criminal. Yeah. Oh. Come on. Well. He didn't hear me. He apologized. I think twice, I apologize twice. I mean, what am I supposed to do,

go there in person to apologize? Like, enough's enough already. Yes, you should do God bless football from Australia with two gods. Well from right here, I might be doing? Go there in person to apologize? Like, enough's enough already. Yes, you should do God bless football from Australia with Stu Gatz. Well, from right here, I might be doing that. You might have to. Yeah. God bless Australian rules football.

Super sincere apology. Ass on. Operation Boomerang or Operation Bloomin' Onion, he is in Australia or on his way to Australia. You know a crazy thing? I went to Highlight last Friday. An outbackakhouse was constructed in two weeks. Really? Two weeks. Prefab must have been. I guess. Because I was there two

weeks ago, there was no Outback Steakhouse. I pull in, there's an Outback Steakhouse now. Two weeks. Where? Right in front of the Magic City for Anton. It was incredible. Two weeks it took for an Outback Steakhouse. That's crazy. Why are you so surprised by this? Because it's taken me a decade to build Freedom Park. Well, but you knew that... We're starting to see bones finally. We've gotten to the bones? We all knew this was a bad idea, right?

Messi coming down here and us promising him, hey, we'll develop that land for you in a year or two. We all knew what that was. Why is that a bad idea? It worked. He fell for the trick. I know, but Messi knows that he's never going to you in a year or two. Like we all knew what that was. Why is that a bad idea? It worked, he fell for the trick. I know, but Messi knows that he's never going to play in a stadium by a highway near the airport. No, if he's here next year, he'll play. Yeah.

Have you driven past it? We didn't say which Messi also, I mean his son. His son's a badass. He's saving soccer. I may watch soccer. Here you go. If Messi and all the kids that Messi's playing against all rise to the level of MLS, and that's the competition we're seeing, I may watch soccer. If Messi and all the kids that Messi's playing against all rise to the level of MLS,

and that's the competition we're seeing, I may watch. Kids scored 11 goals the other day in a 12-nothing blowout. I will watch soccer if one person is scoring 11 goals against the other team. Now, we have to elevate all of the Inter Miami childrens and all of the Atlanta FC childrens

to make sure that these games continue this way. But 11 goals, come on. When you see that at the youth level, nine times out of 10 that person is a bona fide superstar. That is just not something that you can fake. Every time I see it. Scoring 11 goals, he's not nepo-ing his way

to 11 goals in a game. I mean, soccer, you know. You've asked me if I drove past that when is that going to be built when did they promise him that it's going to be built? In like two weeks that thing's going up quick. It's starting to go up fast it'll be ready by next season. Yeah. Like an outback steakhouse. I would I would give it a year or two before I actually stepped foot in that thing to make sure everything's on the up and up but it's going up quickly. It's supposed to be ready next year. It's in Miami you know it's not

gonna be on the up and up but you know it's gonna be sinking into land, you know there are gonna be airport problems, there are gonna be traffic problems. Well. The airport thing is so overstated, there's a lot of stadiums near airports. I've been at SoFi stadiums, like whoa, it's that close? That's crazy.

We got an alert last week that just like, one of our expressways was shut down for an emergency check of an overpass. And then... The expressway right next to the studio. Yeah, the one that we take to get here. And then it's just open again. And there was no update on what they were checking for,

what the results of said emergency check are. And traffic was cut down for like three hours. Yeah, it's just like, you know what? We're good, we're gonna open this thing up again. I have no idea what they were checking, what bridge they were checking. I don't know how to avoid these bridges moving forward because they didn't give me all of the information I wanted

on a quote unquote emergency check in which they shut down an expressway because they're not sure if the overpass that they're building is structurally sound. Look, I know that we've lived in Miami for a long time and I know that you guys are used to all of the ways and things that we are a banana republic about. But if you think we have a committee somewhere that is competently planning to have Lionel

Messi play giant games near the airport in a new stadium without it being a massive cluster fuck that swallows all of South Florida with people trying to get in there. You are out of your mind if you think that's going to be a thing that's well orchestrated so that it's not, it's gonna be the Super Bowl the moment he plays in a new stadium down here. You can't put that near the airport in a thing you've,

in a building you've just built that's around by construction. Put him 10 minutes away from Boca. That's way more offensive. They're hiding him in Boca where you can get, there's giant parcels of land over there, near the airport. Have you guys seen how hard it is?

You're listening to Billy Corbin. Yeah, this is five seconds away from Doral. This is home. There was reporting in the Rolling Stone last week that some of the cut positions in the FAA were, quote, lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies, employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes,

and staffers in charge of medically clearing pilots. And the flying hazards like cranes did, sort of, my ears perked up, because this is right next to the airport, and that was one of the reasons that people at the airport and officials were concerned about the location, because there's gonna be all this tall construction material right next to the runway but you know luckily all of those people may have been laid off now so they can continue construction you guys

don't trust our infrastructure in South Florida do you know let's now I mean they've been worse not they've been working on the highways my entire life yeah my entire life government 36 and that's the dream. My entire life. Government contracts. The 836 and the 826 have been under construction. So I gotta think they're working on it. They work on it so long that by the time they complete something,

They need to work on it again. They have to work on a new thing again. Mike, there's reports like every month that's like a new building has sunk in four inches into the ground on Miami Beach. I'm more worried about that. Every month there's a new building has sunk in four inches into the ground on Miami Beach. I'm more worried about that. Every month there's a new like, this building has sunk in so far into the earth,

engineers are shocked, and then there's just never a follow up. We have talked about this before, contractually it was understood when the Panthers, the champion Florida Panthers, moved into where it is they play in the Everglades, that there would be a sinking into the earth because it's on Swampland.

They accounted for it. They accounted for the sinking into the earth. You guys realize what we have in this town with Messi and the Panthers sinking into the earth? Because Messi plays a game the other day in negative seven degrees. Greg Cody has been telling you here, haven't talked to it with our soccer expert greg cody

has been covering soccer in this market since fort lauderdale strikers since before like pay lay was playing for the cosmos correct greg cody has been covering soccer in this market the biggest thing in soccer is in this market and you and Mike Ryan have placed pressure on Messi to win this season as if it means something as if the business of Messi isn't just being the business of Messi and cashing in on whatever the end of

this is it doesn't matter whether he wins a championship or not oh well it does you have to win. Financially, it doesn't. The tweets are already out there of the difference he's made. Look, not just for Inter Miami, but for the league and for American soccer in general, his signing with Inter Miami still flabbergasting to me that they got him,

and it's a monumental success just from a financial standpoint, unequivocally. What I'm saying is, if you came here to play for an MLS club Be sort of nice to win an MLS championship last year They had the best seat regular season in history and they took a big dump in the first round That's not much. That's not much. It's not much of a take though to say it'd be sort of nice You said that there's enormous pressure on Messi. I'm like, no, there's not. Wow, there should be.

If Ronaldo came here, he'd win a cup, that's for sure. It took a while for Beckham to win the MLS. Yeah, he's no Messi, respectfully. We all agree that the MLS playoffs winning that championship is the one that he's gonna be judged against because that's the one that most casual fans understand. But he's been here for a season and a half

and he's won two major trophies as a member. Yes. Leagues Cup, major trophy? I mean, it was the first year, but yes, it was against Liga and Mequis and they won that knockout tournament. Debatable, but. Well, it's not debatable that they won.

What's debatable? What's debatable? It's a made up tournament. It is. It's like the four nations. All the tournaments are made up. It's a similar tournament, right? All the tournaments are made up. They were a similar tournament, right? All the tournaments are made up.

They were wire to wire the best regular season team, which in soccer, that's how you judge who wins a league. Historically, then here in the United States and in Canada, we need to have playoffs because that's how North America gets down. Christian Overnaldo, is actually what Chris Cody thought his name was. Christian Overrated.

Can you guys explain to me when I ask you the questions of does it matter whether or not there are fans in the building in some future replica of sports that is just all about the streaming, does it matter if Messi wins anything if they've won the game of getting the stadium built? Messi's legacy is secure even if he finishes in last place. Does it matter if Messi wins anything if they've won the game of getting the stadium built? Messi's legacy is secure even if he finishes in last place.

They've won two trophies. This is a disconnect that I kind of understand because he needs to win the league and I try to argue that he has won the league. But no, he needs to win the playoffs. Okay, so he'll win that too. He'll get to that. He's won two other trophies. They're in the the Club World Cup. They're in the kickoff game against that where they test their metal against top clubs from

all over the world and that's something that they earned their way in because they won things to get in there. So they've won things of significance here and if you think he needs to win the MLS Cup he probably feels the exact same way and he'll try to win that damn thing. Right well the Club World Cup their first match is designed that they're gonna win easily I mean they play a club from Egypt which is not a renowned soccer nation. Do not sleep on those clubs. Weren't they essentially put in that World Cup because they have Messi? Yes. You could argue that you had Infantino at a game and said because they've won this and because they have Messi? Yes. You can argue that. You had Infantino at a game and said,

because they've won this, and because they have Messi, they're in. That's not a direct quote, but it was pretty much. But don't you guys enjoy the idea, if it's all made up, if it's all made up for our televised entertainment spectacle, don't you enjoy the idea that Messi doesn't have to win anything to have already won?

He doesn't have to, but he has. But he does, that's what you guys are missing. He does have to win. What everybody is missing is that he has! No, what you guys are missing is he hasn't actually won. There have been two times where at the end of something, there is a huge ceremony. No, in the middle of something.

And he goes out there. But it's in the middle of a season. He lifts up a trophy. It's gotta be at the end. He did do one at the end of something. But it's in the middle of a season. He lifts up a trophy. Yeah. He didn't do one at the end of the regular season. OK, and LeBron won the in-season tournament. So he's won closer to Michael Jordan. No one thinks that.

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