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billy what is your degree of confidence in greg cody executing this new uh introduction today correctly um

two for two so far so you would think you know

He's got the reps in, he should be able to do it, but is this a regression to the mean type situation?

You know, and now he's flying a little too close to the sun and he thinks he's too good.

And then all of a sudden, and yesterday we threw him off a little bit.

I say we politely.

Yesterday, you guys are very, very rude to Greg.

Very rude to Greg.

Well, we'll get to that in a moment because

I was just howling with laughter last night at his just general indignance and how he forgot he was doing show to just yell at us and yell at his son in a way that made us all feel like we were being yelled at as five-year-olds by our own father.

I shrank.

I shrank.

I've never really experienced that from a father before, but yesterday was a real masterclass in you shit stirring.

Yeah, it wasn't good.

And I think this whole just like paint over everything with a broad brush of its show, like if you murder someone today and you're like, but it was just for show,

I don't think that works with the police, you know?

So you might be thrown in this intro, is what I'm getting at.

When I was in it, I wasn't blaming Dan as much, but I watched it back, and there was a point about 20 seconds in where I'm like, you know what?

I'm going to give him back to you.

Was it the seven times that we tried to defuse the situation and Dan said, hold up, wait, stop.

yes that's uh exactly what happened but we've gotten two

really good greg cody days that introduction the best version of greg cody there is is when you challenge him to sing like there have only been a couple of times that we have done it on this show where we are performing around him.

What we did in Vegas, I thought was a miracle, but was also Greg Cody caring the most.

He hasn't written it back in my day and I don't know how long, but you let him perform a song?

It's nuts.

Roy, you have to be a little bit confused by the singing sports writer here.

Do you not?

The singing sports writer is the best version of himself at 70 when doing something that's flamboyantly musical.

It's not just that it's a little bit of crooning.

It's performance art of, I get to sing and dance.

I'm a sing and dance man.

If he knows that's what he's best at, why is he not doing it more often?

Is he best at it?

He's just solid at it, I'd say.

What, like a B plus?

He's good.

I don't want to undercut him.

Like, his singing is genuinely.

Okay, but Chris, if you'd like to try to recreate that, because what he did had a degree of difficulty on it.

Two days in a row, he has nailed it.

And there's a degree of difficulty on getting all the songs right, all the movements right, throwing the toilet paper over your shoulder correctly, throwing the bacon over your shoulder correctly, sitting in front of the camera in a place that allows Carl to hide behind him in a perfectly comedic fashion.

I don't know that we can execute all of that correctly again and again.

I mean, yesterday, the wardrobe change Wrinkle 2.

He navigated that so smoothly.

Because he's getting better as a performer, I think, and performers know how to do wardrobe changes.

I believe he's got a little ceiling Dion in him.

I mean,

that was a diva outburst yesterday, even though I stirred it.

Hold on a second.

That was not a diva outburst.

He was a victim.

Yeah.

Billy, let's remember what we're arguing about here.

Like, there is no reason for any.

That is disproportionately.

You stole the man's laptop.

Yeah, I mean, crime was committed, and then you put in jeopardy his livelihood.

Oh, he told us.

No one takes that list more seriously than Greg Cody, and you guys had no respect for this.

It was embargoed.

The fact.

The part that I liked the best was that he was saying, like, you're my livelihood here.

As if the Herald would give a shit.

about us.

Like, we drew more attention to that.

The Herald loved what we did yesterday.

This is, uh, you, you being dismissive of his career is exactly why we were in that spot yesterday.

I would also be very careful with how you're painting the great Miami Herald with a broad brush because you're to say that anything that gets them eyes, they love.

So you're implying that they love when people are murdered.

If you go to the Herald and you're like, well, look at all the eyes we're getting on this murder story.

We wish more people would get murdered.

You think that's what the Miami Herald is hoping for?

Murder in the streets.

Put it on the poll, Juju, at Lebetard Show.

Is the Miami Herald

Herald rooting for murder?

We don't have to put that up.

Let's see if Greg Cody can do this again.

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Blacked out.

What happened?

And Greg Cody, if you were not watching or listening yesterday, I could argue that it's the angriest moment in the history of sports broadcasting.

I could make that argument.

Where else have you ever seen someone rapidly refuse to do any more show and threaten his son and threaten all of us?

I saw Jim Everett slap Jim Rome once.

A good point by you.

Greg got older today, huh?

And I want to play for the audience.

Everybody, look how good I look.

The context, you're breathless.

You're winded.

I want to play for everybody.

Again, if you did not see it yesterday, and we've got a giant college football weekend this weekend, one of the biggest openings you will ever see.

FIU Bethune.

To a season

right there, opening week.

I just can't remember a time where there was something like this on an Arch Manning, where he could really become, he could go from star to superstar one game he can do it that quickly like he's he's somebody whose name you know and in one game he could become the the immediate frontrunner for everything in college football or it could fall apart

and that's one of the games you got Miami Notre Dame we haven't talked about that yet but I want to start with what I believe to be close to unprecedented anger and here's just a smidgen of it because it was about seven minutes but here's here's one minute of it

Oh, here we go.

We gotta wait a second.

Oh, no!

They're gonna be elbows, Crab!

No!

They're gonna be elbows, Craig!

He's furious!

Don't say anything about it.

I'm serious.

I want my laptop back.

I'm not the least bit amused by this.

I'm not kidding in how angry I am.

I'm gonna send them both to the penalty box.

I'm not going to the penalty box.

But together, I'll bring this.

I want my computer right here

before I do anything.

No, I'm not going to the penalty box until I get my computer right here.

You can bring it to me.

This is fine.

This is good.

No, you can bring it to me.

Craig, you're going to stop that now.

No.

Yes, you're going to be able to do that.

No, I'm not.

You're going to stop that now.

No, no, I'm not.

I'll leave.

I'll go home if you want me to with my laptop, but I am not going in the penalty box until my laptop is connected to my computer.

My son is, this is not your fault.

My son has gone over the line here.

I am genuinely upset.

We know.

Okay, so how about make it right?

Christopher, if I don't have that computer here in three minutes, I am not hosting the draft party Thursday night.

Put the clock on the screen, Louis.

Please do it.

I cannot express to you how serious I am about this party.

All right.

Yeah, I'm scared.

I'm worried.

No.

On my life, Greg, I am not hosting this draft party Thursday night.

I've never been more angry connected with this show.

Anybody who thinks that's me is an idiot.

On my granddaughter's life,

on my granddaughter's life, I am not hosting this draft party unless I have that computer.

Whatever number he said will not be where the dolphins are.

Oh wait, now the number's changing?

Maybe.

Oh no.

Depending on how accurate he was.

That was crazy.

I just love the beginning of that.

I want my laptop back.

The

next to last time that he was yelling at you, it's how I've heard him yell at you since you were five when he's angriest.

He did not care that you're the executive producer.

He did not care that he is that he's sitting here and doing a show.

The back story on this, before I get to other things here, I just want you guys to know, the audience to know,

that Chris Cody

just this morning was still on the phone with his dad, who was still screaming, my

ranking of the dolphins comes out at 10 a.m.

Eastern.

And if you guys break that story before me, there's no draft party on Thursday night I'm hosting whoa hold on a second I don't know if you're aware I'm a journalist all right and I have sources I break stories sometimes

Greg doesn't get to tell me what stories I could attempt to break dude you're gonna kill me

but listen

This is my integrity.

This is my livelihood we're talking about here.

Greg doesn't get to tell me what stories to break or not break.

If I have a source who's going to tell me, you know,

what ranking the dolphins are before 10 a.m.

Lord's time zone, Eastern time.

Everybody knows that.

Well, nothing's stopping me from doing my job.

Put it on the poll, please, Juju.

Is the Eastern time zone the Lord's time zone?

Does everyone know that?

Chris,

what is your

description for the audience of what you endured this morning while talking to your dad again about trying to get a graphics package together that celebrates where he will rank the dolphins?

And I'm telling you, from just knowing your dad,

the place that he was angriest,

and this was lost yesterday, is that because you said he would rank the Dolphins 14th off of the top, he thought you had already looked at his computer.

You're right.

That was the biggest confusion.

Whoa.

That's correct.

I haven't confirmed that yet.

Okay, thank you.

I'm waiting on your word here, Zaz.

We will get it from the journalist, but is it lost on everyone here how amusing it is that Greg Cody thought it was okay to

reveal to the world before my wife did that I was engaged?

That is okay as a scoop, but us reporting what his ranking of the Dolphins is to do that to him, that is unacceptable and results in a rage not seen

since Chris Everett, since Jim Everett went after Jim Rome

for calling him Chris Everett.

Well, I think it depends on a number of factors, okay?

When you told Greg I'm engaged, did you say off the record?

I didn't say it to him.

I wasn't his source.

Well, when someone said it to him, did they say off the record?

Because if they said off the record and he put it out there, then he did, then there was malfeasance.

Now, there's a difference between that and him reporting news that was not off the record and someone stealing his personal property and then stealing his intellectual information, his IP, and putting that out there before him.

That's a crime.

Chris should go to jail.

Wow.

No, I shouldn't.

Good defense.

It's up to the judge.

Luckily, we have a judge here.

It's up to the judge.

Should Chris go to jail for his actions yesterday?

He made a good case.

Should I be a judge here?

Roy, do you have the imaging ready for Zaszlo to be a judge?

You're always a judge.

You're just asking if you should be a judge.

Well, today so far, I'm a performer.

Well, but you're a lot of things.

You're a man of many talents.

Yeah, it's a lot of people.

I'm a damn

performer today, All right.

All rise.

The Honorable Jonathan Zaszlo, now presiding with Prejudice.

That's not a judge's.

Oh, it is a judge.

It is a judge, Trent.

We didn't think about the headphones part.

I can't believe he kept the backwards flex fit on.

The no helmet makes it a little, you know, the no headphones makes a little different.

Right, yeah.

All right.

The case in front of me.

Should Chris Cody

go to prison?

Jail.

Based on the evidence that the defense put in front of me, which was, no, I shouldn't.

I side with the defense.

Oh, wow.

Chris Cody does not deserve prison.

With prejudice.

Forgiveable.

Congratulations.

Congratulations, Chris.

I'm very happy for you.

You do not get a prison sentence, but we do have still the problem of your father's wrath, which is real.

Billy, Mike, you guys tell me what you experienced watching Chris say nine times in a telephone, Dad, we're not going to put it on the screen before 10 a.m.

No, I wasn't really paying attention to that.

I shrank to the kitchen because yesterday was genuinely uncomfortable for him.

It was terrible.

It was not, I was not having fun.

That was very uncomfortable for many in in our audience.

I was having fun.

I like it.

Because I just know my dad when he gets that level of rage.

And after the show, he does the thing.

I think I said it on air yesterday.

He does the rage.

A couple hours later, he's like, maybe I overreacted.

And then he says that.

And then right after that, he's like, but do not reveal that pick before 10.

So it's like he apologizes for the rage.

And then he says, I'm going to be that angry if you report it before 10.

He grabbed his chest yesterday.

Like, we're getting to the A, and he's had incidents where he's just collapsed.

Like that highlight.

Like, it was getting a little scary because of angry he was getting.

Well, it doesn't matter if it's because of asthma or whatever.

If you pulling a prank kills your father, I'm with you.

How are you going to feel?

I did think watching it back yesterday that when I saw how angry he was, I was like, this just can't be good for his health.

Over, don't forget, over

what's inevitably going to a mediocre dolphin.

Thank you.

That's the maybe.

We don't know yet.

Okay, Billy, but here's the, I want to take the guesses and I want to walk people through this, okay?

And I'll promise I'll get to the games in a second because I am excited about this UM Notre Dame game and I'm excited about this college football weekend.

But I really do want the audience to understand that I believe this anger started with his son correctly guessing off the top of his head that Cody had ranked the team 14th in the league.

Because I said there's no way he goes under 16.

He's a homer.

He will keep them in the top half of the league.

Chris got it correct, and his father thought that he had looked at the computer.

Well, what was the timeline there?

When did you say that?

That you can see.

There was a video montage that we cut it out of the one we played, but you can see I say it before I had the laptop.

There's me saying 14 wins, and then they cut to me going in there and grabbing the laptop.

Do we know it's 14 for sure?

Well, this is what I want to talk about because.

Not confirmed.

Well, it's not confirmed by Zazzo, but this is what I'm telling you.

What I'm saying is, oh, it was 14, but it won't be today.

He'll move it, and it won't have anything to do with merit or somebody injured or anything else.

He's just going to move it because he doesn't want his son to be right.

Do you want to know a behind the scenes thing that I don't think you're aware of?

Because you were in that studio when this was going on.

So when Chris was back here with the laptop and we were kind of uncomfortable with what was going on, Chris had the laptop and he said, I can't find it.

And then he's hitting everyone.

There were 40 tabs open.

He's hitting every single tab that's open at the time.

And Greg was actively typing it out moments before.

And he said, Oh gosh, I hope I didn't close it.

And if I did, I hope it was saved.

So, while you guys are kind of egging Greg on, we back here are like, Well, there's a chance that he accidentally deleted all of the work that Greg had done.

He said that, but Greg wasn't worried about that because all 40 of those tabs were his podcast that he was opened on.

He was just checking how many downloads it had.

It was.

And I'm promising you, I'd like to take a bet here now, okay?

Because I think we'll find out at 10 or if Zaslow breaks the story earlier.

I imagine we'll find out before.

Really?

Well, you know, this isn't a hobby of mine.

Come on.

You're predicting that in the next 47 minutes, you can get this story, this big story of where it is the Dolphins are going to be ranked, according to Greg Cody of the Miami Herald.

Yeah, I mean, I'm not exactly trying to, you know, crack some kind of code here.

I'll figure it out.

All right.

His rage is indeed real, but Erlene, Chris's mom, can tell you that that's what every experience is like arguing with your father, Chris, where there's an apology, but he doesn't know what he's apologizing for, and he's still right the next day, and he wasn't actually that sorry, but he did overreact.

That's like dozens of times in my life, David.

And so I reject what all of you are saying here, all of you, I reject all of it because I am

last night with my wife

watching that video and we are howling with laughter.

Oh, so she loved it.

Loved it because it was uproariously funny because he's cute and everyone knows.

Everyone in our audience knows.

It's unlike any other television fight you're ever going to have.

Everyone in our audience knows, oh, that's real.

And it also doesn't actually mean anything because those people love each other.

Like they'll figure out whatever the end of that is if he doesn't die on the air.

But there's that too, right?

There's the if he doesn't die on air.

That's the part we want to avoid.

And also just the assumption of like, ah, we'll misbehave, but we'll probably figure it out at the end.

Like, we could avoid that part in the middle, and then you don't have to maybe mend fences.

You know, the best fence?

One that doesn't have to be mended.

Why didn't you tell me that advice while we were at ESPN?

Listen, there was no one stopping that.

That fence was well

broken.

You were a bucking Bronco, and there was nothing stopping you.

Yep.

You wouldn't listen to anybody.

Not a single person.

I tried to stop you.

You sent me to the penalty box.

And then

everything went downhill from there.

It's one of the best stories in the history of the show.

I believe it's the best video in the history of the show, Billy looking at the business.

I know.

I know why you don't like it, but that's not the best story I want to say.

It's my wedding week.

I needed less stress that week.

You have to find that for me so that we can just relive that at some point here, please.

Just Billy's awkward looking.

I do it every night when I close my eyes.

I know, it was a bit of a nightmare.

But the best story of the last year.

This is a difficult category to edit down in the Suez every year because a lot of great stories get told around here.

They are long stories, but

Chris Cody told me this is a tight, tight 15 minutes.

You get to decide what were the best story and stories told over the last year on the show.

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Greg Cody of the Miami Herald is writing an article, and I'm reading in it.

Moss Miami sold out.

Miami artists, Miami culture.

And I'm reading Moss Miami is sold out.

And I'm reading about Digital Podcast Network.

And I'm reading about us.

And I'm like, this is our dreams coming true.

Stugats.

A a thousand people come out, and we see the shipping container, and they're on a stage, and they're like rock stars.

You and me both had tears in our eyes.

We're like mom and dad of sentiment, and it's hard to get you to sentiment, man.

That was a very emotional moment for us to see those guys.

I'm telling you guys, you were on stage, Dan and I were both crying.

Are you guys aware of this?

Crying,

like crocodile tears.

We believe crocodile tears are fake.

Crocodile tears are fake.

I thought they meant big.

This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stew Gods.

Apologies, that is the pickle.

I had that ready for.

We got yourselves pickles, dog.

Yeah, we got pickles.

But here's Best Story in the series.

And now the SUI nominees for Best Story.

Jamal Crawford's biggest loss in gambling.

Shooting dice with somebody I shouldn't have been shooting dice with.

I got in over my head and I started air betting.

I don't know if you know what that means, but it's basically like I lost the cash I had.

So then when I lost the cash, I was technically out the game.

So I had to bet on somebody else while they were shooting air money.

And it got so deep instead of giving the cash, I said, I'll give my car.

And I took my basketball off the trunk and gave him the car.

True story.

And you were a rookie?

And what kind of car was it?

Yeah, I was a rookie.

I was a rookie.

It was a Mercedes.

It was an S430.

The Cody's almost got in a golf fight.

I can wait to let those guys move.

Chances are, I'm not going to hit them.

So you know what?

I'm going to speed this up.

I'm going to hit.

What do I do?

I hit the shot of my life.

And there are two ways to run it up on people.

You can land it 20 yards and it rolls into there.

That's not as, you know, no one's really going to get hurt there.

Or there's,

and the ball like lands and you're like, holy shit, I almost just died.

That's what happened.

It landed on the green.

So I am like, I'm throwing up the international sign for, holy shit, I'm so sorry.

So the guy's reaction on the green, he's like a young guy my age, you know, looks like a tough guy he grabs the ball just chucks it into oh no what he takes the ball that's it and i just see the motion just chucking it into the water and i'm sitting here saying look what i just did was extremely rude yeah so i kind of get it greg cody over here 70 year old greg cody once he finds out the guy threw my golf ball puffs his chest out and it's just like i'm gonna like i had to essentially hold my dad back

from going to yell at this guy on my behalf where then i would have had to be like defending my dad.

Yes, that's how rage and family bonds work, so that someone gets killed and killed by a golf club on a golf court.

Patrick Sertan Jr.

and Sr.

tell the story of the Dolphins Broncos 70-20 game.

Just for the record, by the end of

about two minutes left in the third quarter,

I was drunk.

So I knew the score.

But the thing about it, they were down and Mike McDaniel kept throwing the ball.

I'm like, oh, shit, he's trying to break records on him.

bad thing about it was it was humid it was hot yeah we was being whooped in the sun and it yeah that was your dad went to get drunk in the client while you're suffering

you're allowing 70 points and your your dad is hammered before the fourth quarter i was watching i was watching out of one eye

the story of how jessica and lehman met my other grandma actually died and then i went to work the next day and i was like my grandma died and everyone was like oh we're so sorry and i'm like it's okay Let's go to happy hour.

And then we went to happy hour.

And that was the day Lehman and I started dating.

So much romance.

So much.

So that's how I remember our anniversary.

Eduardo Perez was terrified his dad would see his shin guard.

The trainer for the Angels comes out and beats our Tampa Bay trainer out to the field.

And he's like, it's mush.

He goes, let me look.

And I said, don't.

And he goes, what?

I said, if it's mush, don't raise my pant legs.

Why?

I said, because I have a shin guard underneath it.

And my dad would always say, the side of a bad hitter is a hitter that has a shin guard on.

So I had a shin guard underneath my uniform.

I did not want my dad to see.

While I'm torn Achilles,

I had the shin guard on.

So I'm like, please do not show me that.

He goes, okay, no problem.

I'm not going to show you that.

The Miami Heat had Poppy so scared, he pulled his pants down.

I was there and I was sitting on his couch with my girlfriend and my father, who got so nervous that while he was watching during all of that, for reasons I will not be able to explain to this day, in the living room, just dropped his pants and was standing there in his underwear.

He just got scared.

That was all heat fans.

That was all of us.

His house.

Just like, wait, but

why do I remember that?

Because my father, for some reason, was in his tidy white.

He's just in the fourth quarter, scared.

Did you ever say, Dad?

Why'd you drop your pants?

We all did.

His house, though, Greg.

Poor girlfriend.

Wait, you all dropped your pants?

Jalen Rose texted Merrow about his hairline.

I was asked the question of like, who do I think think has fake hairlines?

Because, you know, some people

like Steve, that's when the copy.

I know where you're going with this.

Right.

I said, Jalen Rose.

You're a liar.

And I was just like, yo, devil is a liar.

So I said, so, so I said it, right?

So I said, yo, Jalen Rose, his shit gotta be fake because it's soap.

It's too perfect.

It's not.

It's too perfect.

So then I get a text.

Yo, this is Jalen Rose.

My shit's real.

It's true.

Now we don't face it.

Haters will say it's fake, though.

I'm like, yo,

it is geometrical.

Like, it's a modern marvel how

the 90-degree angles on it are crazy.

Like, I'm talking about on TV, Jamal, you know how hard

it looks perfect on TV?

Dominique Foxworth played through spitting up blood during a contract year.

Jay Cutler scrambles to the right and then scrambles to the left.

I go to the left with him, then he comes back to the right.

As I'm coming back, Eddie Royal dives through my chest.

And I thanked him after the game because he didn't hit me in the head because it was legal back then.

I got up from that play and started coughing and spitting out blood.

And then I started to walk in the direction of the sideline because this ain't normal.

And then it hit me, nah, bruh, it's a contract here.

Lined up and played the next play.

And there are people who have done much more absurd things than that because I wasn't even that good.

Craig and Erlene Cody share the tale of bamboo reed.

When you were pregnant with Christopher and we were dreaming up possible names, I came up with, you know, we were going through the usual suspect of names.

I came up with a rather unusual name that you vetoed.

Is that when you were on the LSD?

Is that when that was happening?

Yeah.

Please.

Now that was well after that.

You mean the bamboo reed thing?

Oh my god!

Yes!

I'm set!

I'm set!

Yes!

Andrew Zimmern collects animal nutsacks.

I have the nutsacks of six or seven different animals that I've taken in the wild and whose balls I've eaten.

Which animals?

I have a wildebeest nutsack over there that is about the size of a softball.

Billy Gill got big timed by Miami Heat Security at Amos Miami.

I was like, why is this guy just hanging out by the stairs?

There's this big crowd of people.

Like I wanted him to feel welcome.

So I was trying to be like a good host.

So I was on the stage and I walked over to him and I said, hey, good to see you.

Like, thanks for coming out.

Because I've been told that he's a big fan of the show.

So he shakes my hand very nicely.

And then I walk away and I go back onto stage to do whatever we were doing.

And then a report got to me that he then turned to the person next to him and said, Who the bleep was that guy?

Yeah, he's terrifying, and I don't know why.

I wasn't terrified.

I thought he was a dick.

He was one of the fans.

All right, I'll get back to him.

Poppy Levatard tells us about Fred Dreyer.

The guy used to eat salmon.

That's all the guy ate, you know.

He was in real good shape.

His cholesterol level was in tip-top condition.

And I said, Oh, my God, this guy is going to live forever.

And one day I get up in the morning and I look at the news and the guy dropped dead.

I say, how the hell this guy could drop dead?

You know, he's so healthy not, you know, well, that happened.

So I stopped eating salmon.

That's it.

I don't need salmon anymore.

Let's clip.

I'm being told that Fred Dreyer's still alive.

Nah, I don't believe that.

My source tells me that he dropped dead a number of years ago.

Amin El Hessen got face to face with Mike Tyson.

Crowded bar, and I'm walking out, and someone like bumps into me until my drink spills, and it went all over Mike Tyson.

And he turns around, and this is when he first got the tattoo, and it's glowing in the dark of the black lights.

That's Prime, like, oh my God,

Prime, don't spill a drink on my face.

Yeah, that's no F.

Gibbons, Mike.

And this crowded bar that was like really congested a second ago, it was all open, and it was just me and Mike Tyson, and everyone was like 100 yards away.

And his eyes, his beady little eyes, were like glowing too, and they were angry.

So I said, the only thing that came to mind, As-salamu alaykum, brother.

And he dapped me up and he pulled me close, like sharply like that.

I'll kill you.

And in my ear, he said,

but he said it so close to my ear, I thought he was going to bite my ear.

So

I jumped back.

And then he released, and then I just, I ran away.

Jonathan Zaslow disrupted Brad Williams show.

My wife and I were at the show.

We're sitting toward the back of one of the couches.

And there is a really loud man who is behind us with a couple of women.

They have been overserved.

They are clearly drunk and they are loud.

And so I could feel the buildup.

My wife is getting agitated at the people who are being loud and disrespectful to Brad.

And it got to a point where I turned around and I yelled for everyone here.

Shut the f ⁇ up.

Just to be clear, Zaz is making his wife the Jada Pinkett in this scenario where it's like Will was sitting there like, I don't want to slap Chris Rock, but my wife's uncomfortable.

So let me go assault one of the best comedians ever.

So Zaz is sitting there going like, I don't want to ruin the show, but my wife's uncomfortable.

So let me go ruin the show.

Dan Lebatard's fireworks adventure.

So I go to the park, all right, and I just take the very smallest of the explosives and I light the fuse and I walk away.

What happens next is such a bombardment of neighborhood machine gun fire and smoke that I run out of the park because I don't want to be seen by anybody in

a neighborhood where it won't stop.

Like I get to my car, it's still going.

It was such a rat-at-tat-tat of like 90 seconds of neighborhood machine gun fire on an otherwise tranquil, sunny afternoon that I immediately came home and gave my fireworks away to a couple of my friends.

Dan Lebetard lost his ticket to the Pearl Jam concert.

What happened is we had tickets and they were hard tickets, actual tickets, not on the phone.

Tickets were distributed to each of the people in our party about an hour and a half prior to the concert.

When it came time to enter the venue and show the ticket, Dan Levittard says, sorry, I can't find my ticket.

He lost his ticket, which would have kept him out of the concert.

He was there for his wife, for her birthday.

So my girlfriend has to go looking in a casino for his ticket, doesn't find it, and I'm forced to get him in because I knew security.

So Dan gets into the concert.

There are eight of us for only seven tickets.

So we squeeze in and all of a sudden, there's this guy standing where our seat is.

And I, no one else said a word.

Dan is just sort of standing there with his eyes half open.

And I said, excuse me, this is not your seat.

And what does this man do?

He showed the ticket.

That was Dan's ticket.

Because who else has a physical ticket?

Like, obviously, it's Dan's ticket.

BJ Upton asks Tim Kirchin his shoe size.

Dan, I was in the dugout once in Atlanta and B.J.

Upton came up to me during the game and he just looked at me because I'm right there in the dugout with a microphone in my hand.

And he said, my brother and I were wondering, what size shoe do you wear?

So I said, well, I wear a seven and a half shoe.

And he said, man, that's a really small shoe.

And then he walked away.

That's what you get when you're the dugout reporter.

Dan Lebatard threw carrot cake out of the press box.

Dan had brought back a piece of carrot cake, a square of classic carrot cake from the dining room.

Dan looks at me, looks at the carrot cake, and then he kind of puts his hand like he's going to flip the carrot cake over the railing into the crowd.

And I look at Dan, I said, you're not going to do it.

Like, don't do it.

Don't do it.

And he always, you know dan that just that to him is saying you're gonna you have to do that

so with just a quick little flip of his finger the carrot cake over the railing gone and now and now since we're professional what do we do we both push back from the

desk and we're now because we want to separate ourselves from possibly somebody seeing us and then about 10 seconds later thick new york accent shouting up hey great new york Hey, you idiots, you think that's funny throwing cake for people?

You guys are idiots.

I'm going to come up there, blah, blah, blah.

And we are both just about to die.

It's like,

I literally want to just disappear.

He thinks it's the funniest thing in the world.

David Sampson gave a sermon at a black church.

I needed their support for public money for the ballpark.

So hold on.

I was the only white guy in there.

Jewish.

I am Jewish.

I am white.

The white is the same.

Okay, so.

How did you dress?

How I dressed is I went to visit a black tailor.

Hold on.

No.

And I had a suit made for me by Andre Dawson's tailor.

So I looked like Andre Dawson, and it was awesome.

I had a concigliary who was Cuban, and we had a plan of all the different people we had to get votes from.

So we went to the Cubans, we went to the non-Cubans,

100%.

I had to go get one personally made, A guy of Adda.

What's the best story in there?

Which one did you guys like best?

And I will give you the context for what's happening in the lower right-hand portion of the screen in a second, because this was the moment that got us ended at ESPN, basically.

And what you can see in the corner is executive producer Billy Gill has been sent to the penalty box.

And I don't believe he can hear what I'm saying, right?

I could not, but I knew.

Right.

Well, so I knew what was coming.

So, you did know what was coming?

So, the directors in Miami just put it on Billy because clearly, if this person's going to be suspended,

no organization that made this go viral would just air a guy sitting there the entire time.

Just Billy sit, like, that's the reason they went to that shot.

That's good directing right there, is the reason they went to that shot.

And Billy looks like he's afraid, even though he's not afraid, but he was afraid.

uh my wedding was a week away that was the day before I was going or two days before I was going away on like a bachelor trip for like a two-day trip just before I was a bachelor party is that is what we call it yeah but it was like it wasn't a party it was like we went to like freaking Orlando it wasn't like you know cocaine and strippers you know as bachelor parties have so it wasn't good no no

it's good it's a good time bonding with friends you know and then they were all telling me like that was, wasn't that so great what your boss said?

I was like, no, I may come back and not have a job.

It was horrifying.

It was terrible.

Like, oh my God, that was so great.

What he did.

I was like, it was absolutely not great what he did.

I'm coming back from this trip where I'm supposed to be unwinding, getting ready to wed my beautiful wife.

And I don't know if I can provide for this family anymore because Dan wanted to prove a point and he wanted to have a little hissy fit, even though we were trying to say, hey, let's just, let's tone things down a little bit.

Let's calm down.

And he wanted to do it anyways.

So, no, it was not great, friends.

I'm quite stressed out right now.

And surely things can't get worse next week.

And they did.

The way that it worked out was...

He came back from his honeymoon, and we were no longer going to be with the SPN.

No, we were still with the SPN, but I came back from our honeymoon in 790 said, hit the road, Jack.

That was true.

That wasn't.

That was too hot for us.

That was another thing that happened.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Every meaningful moment in my life, I can connect to disaster at work that I could not enjoy in my personal life because someone was acting amok here professionally.

That's a great top five list.

No, it's not.

It's tragedies of my life, scars, mental scars that cannot be healed.

Years of therapy have attempted to, unsuccessfully.

Clearly.

We will keep it.

Like the mark of a raptor.

They can never be taken off of my soul.

What?

I was going to say brain, but soul.

What's the mark of a raptor?

Yeah, Yeah, raptor.

Like, you know, in Jurassic Park, like, I guess that maybe is a T-Rex.

You know, the mark of

it.

It's a very common expression.

People say it all the time.

Ever heard of Thomas Ederson?

The Toronto Raptors logo is basically what you're saying.

That was more of a basketball-shaped.

We have a pickle later, Roy ruined that surprise.

I apologize.

Apologies again for that.

We have to get to Diana Roussini in a second as well.

And I want to, because in 30 minutes, Greg Cody is going to reveal Where the dolphins are ranked and I think Zaslow's close

close to sniffing out this story I actually just got a text that my dad it was originally gonna be noon He said to the Herald hey that Lebatard shows doing this thing We got to get it out at 10.

He has not got confirmation yet that it will be out of 10.

He's hoping it will be so oh no then we got to break this news on him.

We can't wait if we know it's got to happen before we leave the air today.

We can't wait around for him if especially if Zaszlo gets the story.

Yeah, the Herald.

I don't know if you know, I don't work for the Herald.

The Herald deadlines mean nothing to me.

Just to be clear, we could wait.

He's our friend.

Yeah, we could.

No, we can't wait.

We should break the story.

If Jaslo has the story, the news waits for no man.

You're positioning it as if we don't have a choice.

We are making a news decision.

The news waits for no man.

Do you think breaking news is about to come out and somebody in the newsroom says, What about our friend?

Sometimes.

Yeah, no.

Sometimes.

Do you think the whole Epstein list thing

now?

Maybe.

It's not how it used to be

back in Zaslow's day.

I'm going to call your dad here, and as I do this, I'm going to

FaceTime him.

Put him on speaker.

But hold on a second, and I will put, even though you guys shamed me for that yesterday, I will put him on speaker.

But before I do that, just real quick, because we're in the local hour, and I really do want to talk UM Notre Dame.

Mike, what are you doing later today

to talk UM Notre Dame for five straight hours?

If anyone wants five straight hours of Mike Ryan, hasn't been allowed to talk about it here, so he wants to talk about it five straight hours there.

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We're doing our second annual hurricane.

Last year, we kicked things off with a five-hour marathon that had a ton of guests.

This year, the marquee is even bigger.

It begins at three o'clock.

We have Chris Felica, Bruce Feldman, Jay Lucas, a new men's team coach, David Lake, Jessica Smetana, Mike Golig Jr.

will be joining us, Kevin Clark, Brett McMurphy, and hopefully, a big-time special guest.

Dude, you should get Xavier Restrepo.

He's got nothing going on now.

He's got nothing going on.

Waived by the Titans yesterday.

Billy, how many people sent you that?

Just you, but I had other people tag me.

Yeah, I don't like this.

I don't like that I'm being, you know, tagged and people think that I'm celebrating someone's downfall.

You are smiling.

Well, no, because I got the text from Dan, so I knew we were going to get here eventually.

It's a dream.

It It was an easy joke to throw in there, but I don't like being, you know, attached to essentially my words.

I'd like to just kind of say things for laughs and move on.

Like, I don't like this Josh Allen stupid face thing news later.

Billy, you got it right, though, on Restrepo.

Look.

There's plenty of that story still to be told.

You don't really do consequences well.

Fair.

I'm going to call Cody, all right?

Because

we have the chance of getting him pissed off all over again.

I'm nervous about that.

For the podcast listeners, Dan is calling Greg Cody on his phone, maybe.

Turn the volume up somewhere.

Yeah, there's confusion there.

Oh, he's fumbling around with the phone there.

Now he's raising the volume.

Yeah, he's not here.

He's got two fingers, thumb on one side.

Oh, couldn't figure it out.

I'll try again with Diane Rossini.

Hey, Tony.

Hey, Mike.

Hey, man.

The summer's almost ending, man.

I like that.

There's no way.

There's no way.

I am excited about cooler temperatures, but down here in South Florida, that just means slightly less boiling.

It's been a pretty incredible summer.

We've had a parade down here.

We've grown our family down here at Metal Arc Media.

A lot of exciting things, a lot of memorable benchmarks.

And along the way, at almost every step, I've been tailed by that beautiful white can of Miller light.

Oh, that beautiful white can.

Or the brown bottle.

You can do it on draft.

Draft is crisp.

There's been so many great special times.

And each time, I've decided to make those special times a Miller time.

Whether it's a long weekend like one we got coming up or a full-on vacation, it is a perfect time to get the crew back together.

This year marks 50 years of Miller time: 50 years of great taste, great friends, and unforgettable memories.

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