Hour 1: Stop Being a Poop

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Hour 1: Stop Being a Poop
Date: August 20, 2025
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, with Billy Corbin, Greg Cody, Greg Cody Jr., Zaslow, Mike Fuentes, and more

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Overview

This hour of The Dan Le Batard Show is a quintessential Local Hour: a mix of sports talk, office anarchy, Miami nostalgia, and rowdy comic bits. The main focus is the crew playfully putting Greg Cody on the spot about whether he knows the names of everyone in their office—a comedy sketch that spirals into discussions about show dynamics, family, and accountability. The hour also breaks into meaty sports commentary, especially around the Miami Dolphins' tight end prospects, and transitions to pointed media criticism: the consequences of NFL taking a stake in ESPN and how that changes content, honesty, and coverage.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. The “Name Everyone in the Office” Bit

Timestamps: 02:06–11:20

• The show opens with a signature bit: challenging Greg Cody to prove he knows every colleague's name.
• Greg stubbornly refuses, causing escalating banter among the crew.
• Multiple approaches are suggested: direct quizzing, lineups, multiple-choice, but Greg won’t crack.
• Chris Cody (Greg’s son) frustrates his father by escalating the pressure, leading to Greg’s memorable refusal.
• Mike Fuentes tries to mediate, advocating for Greg’s autonomy.
• The bit climaxes with Greg being “sent to the penalty box”—but he ends up getting a haircut from Lucio instead, softening the “punishment.”

Notable Quotes:

• “No, we’re not doing it because I decide that.”
  — Greg Cody claims authority, shutting down the bit (03:00)
• “Stop being a poop.”
  — Zaslow to Greg Cody, in a moment that gives the episode its title (04:50)
• “I have the right not to go along with a bit.”
  — Greg Cody, defending his right to avoid embarrassment (08:26)
• “Mike is the only one who kind of understands.”
  — Greg Cody, appreciating support from Mike Fuentes (08:46)

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2. Miami Bush-Fall Story & Office Camaraderie

Timestamps: 11:20–15:32

• The crew recalls a classic Miami memory: Greg Cody drunkenly falling into a bush during ND-Miami week, a moment captured on video and previously monetized by Chris Cody for t-shirt sales.
• Commentary on Miami sports nostalgia and the culture surrounding the show.
• The bit expands into discussions about Greg Cody’s drinking habits and enduring legendary status within the show’s lore.

Notable Quotes:

• “Your father should be a much better drinker than he is, because he doesn’t eat… he’s got the requisite Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 expert hours.”
  — Billy Corbin, riffing on Greg’s legendary, if inefficient, drinking (14:26)
• “Those are the moments, man.”
  — Dan Le Batard, on the group’s shared Miami nostalgia (13:41)

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3. Greg Cody’s “Punishment” and Old School Miami

Timestamps: 15:17–20:35

• Despite being “punished” with a trip to the penalty box, Greg essentially gets rewarded with a fresh cut from famed Miami barber Lucio.
• Discussion shifts to who Greg looks like (Jeffrey Loria, Dan’s dad "Papi," sometimes Tom Cruise).
• Billy Corbin and the crew joke about Greg being only willing to play the name game when he’s certain of the answer (“Who gave you the haircut?” “Lucio.”).

Notable Quotes:

• “Oh, he’s willing to play the game when he knows the names.”
  — Billy Corbin, nailing Greg's convenient selectiveness (18:45)
• “Old people love that... and I’m old now. I can’t deny it anymore.”
  — Greg Cody, on his own birthday plans (28:02)

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4. Dolphins, Darren Waller, and NFL Reclamation Projects

Timestamps: 21:12–25:43

• The show reacts in real time to NFL news: The Dolphins activate Darren Waller off the PUP list.
• Spirited debate about Waller's potential to impact the team, given his age, injuries, and personal struggles.
• The conversation threads in issues of mental health, NFL addiction, the wear and tear of football, and the romance of comeback stories.

Notable Quotes:

• “This is the only kind of talent that would be available to the Dolphins at that position—a game changing Gronk type.”
  — Billy Corbin, on the significance of Waller’s return (22:04)
• “I think there’s plenty of a chance he doesn’t make the roster. He hasn’t played in several years.”
  — Dan Le Batard, on Waller’s actual prospects (21:33)

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5. NFL Ownership in ESPN & Erosion of Journalism

Timestamps: 32:17–39:20

• In-depth critique: NFL’s purchase of a 10% stake in ESPN.
• Discussion about how this move may further soften critical coverage of the league, referencing the scrapping of the Spike Lee/Colin Kaepernick documentary.
• Hosts recall ESPN's history of journalism pulled back due to league pressure, and question if the “day-to-day machine” of content will get even less critical.

Notable Quotes:

• “That’s not partnership anymore. That’s ownership.”
  — Billy Corbin, on NFL’s influence over ESPN (35:32)
• “The content machine already carries water for the NFL.”
  — Dan Le Batard, on the realities of TV sports coverage (38:40)
• “A shrug of the shoulders on Spike Lee’s Kaepernick doc being killed... societal shift.”
  — Billy Corbin, on lost opportunities for honest, deep sports storytelling (39:17)

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6. Hard Knocks’ Decline & The Buffalo Bills’ Media Problem

Timestamps: 28:10–32:04

• Discussion centers on Hard Knocks covering the Buffalo Bills, seen as “a bore.”
• The panel debates why even interesting NFL teams feel sanitized, blaming both the cautiousness of franchises and the blanding of NFL-access media.
• Champions like Josh Allen lack the “star” treatment despite headline lifestyles.

Notable Quotes:

• “That show is a bore.”
  — Zaslow, on the current season of Hard Knocks (28:31)
• “What is your Buffalo team doing on personality?”
  — Dan Le Batard, questioning why the Bills can’t become more "America’s Team"-like (28:57)

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7. Call-in Segment: Audience Hot Takes

Timestamps: 39:31–41:01

• Listeners phone in their “boldest takes of the week.” Highlights:
  • Dan Campbell looks like his team’s mascot, the lion.
  • Confusion over why pickled cucumbers are called pickles.
  • Chipotle taco ordering shaming (“grow up and order a burrito!”).
  • The claim that there are no good Christmas songs.
• Playful banter, limited fake voices, and classic Le Batard Show interactivity.

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Memorable & Defining Moments

• “Stop being a poop.” (04:50, Zaslow) — The show’s irreverent phrase-turned-episode-title, epitomizes the banter.
• Video of Greg Cody falling in bushes is recounted, capturing the show’s legendary blend of family, embarrassment, and Miami lore (13:11–14:54).
• Corporate Critique: Billy’s passionate warnings about the danger of the NFL owning a slice of ESPN echo the show’s longtime devotion to independent journalism and highlight why the show prizes its freedom after ESPN.
• Birthday Reflection: Greg Cody candidly concedes to becoming “old”—a rare wistful note amid the chaos (28:02).

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Episode Flow

The show weaves skillfully from absurd office in-jokes and South Florida culture to serious sports analysis and hard-hitting media critique, without ever losing its laid-back, bickering charm. Even the biggest debates are laced with sarcasm, comedic interruptions, and meta-commentary on the making of sports content itself.

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Final Thoughts

This episode captures the Le Batard universe:

• Office anarchy and familial tension as performance
• Vintage Miami sports nostalgia
• Honest, sometimes bleak, reflections on football’s business and physical toll
• A crew willing to make fun of each other and their own show’s limitations

Whether you’re a sports fan, a lover of Miami culture, or just want to hear media insiders worry/fretting about the future of sports journalism, this episode is a perfectly chaotic slice of the Dan Le Batard Show.

Transcript

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[Billy Corbin]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Billy Corbin]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Billy Corbin]

The Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast. There are many reasons that Zaz is shooting up the radio airwaves at ESPN Radio and it's because he knows what good radio is and goes back and harkens back to a time at different time in content. And as he walked out of the studio as Greg Cody said absolutely not, I will not do that, Zaz just muttered under his breath that's good radio. You should absolutely test and quiz his knowledge of how many people that he works with. Is he willing to say after just saying I know all their names. He comes in here more than ever, comes in every day and or twice a week and is claiming he knows everyone's name out there.

[Zaslow]

We are definitely doing that.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

We're doing it.

[Greg Cody]

No, we're not doing it because I decide that.

[Billy Corbin]

Whoa.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, snap.

[Billy Corbin]

Whoa.

[Greg Cody]

Okay. And first of all, when I said I know everybody's name in there, I meant in there. Okay. Now I'm going to admit there. There might be one or two people in the back room.

[Billy Corbin]

Let's find out who. We go learn.

[Greg Cody]

We going learn. It's not going to happen.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is a bar by Greg. I like that he is in charge here of himself.

[Greg Cody]

My decision.

[Billy Corbin]

But we just. We just mobilized all of metal art. Billy, on an anarchy Wednesday, was ready to go around the office as a game show host. What do you mean? No falsehoods.

[Mike Fuentes]

I would never betray Greg.

[Greg Cody]

Billy's on my side and I appreciate that. I'm marshaling support right here.

[Mike Fuentes]

Grand marshaling.

[Greg Cody]

Yes. Thank you.

[Zaslow]

I like how Greg was referring to just this side of the room. He knows, like, how ridiculous would it be if you don't know everyone's name in this room right now?

[Greg Cody]

Well, that's what I'm saying.

[Dan Le Batard]

Back at least 15 years.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

That's what you're saying.

[Greg Cody]

I don'. I mean, you know, I only see a humble man when it's a fact, Jack. You know?

[Greg Cody Jr.]

All right, so let's do this. So for walk out there.

[Greg Cody]

No, if we were.

[Mike Fuentes]

If we were to do this.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Mike Fuentes]

How should we do it?

[Dan Le Batard]

Should it.

[Mike Fuentes]

Well, no, if we were to do this, should. I think that just grabbing someone and saying Greg, what is their name? Might not be fair to you because a lighting, camera, stuff like that might be hard to tell and differentiate. There's two Fuentes is. You know, it's confusing. So should it be a thing where it's like multiple choice, where you have three people and Dan says, which one of these is Ethan? And then you have to decide.

[Zaslow]

I think that's the way Dan say.

[Mike Fuentes]

Something like, okay, Ethan. And then Greg says, okay, Billy, move over to that person. This table stand next to the person. And then they reveal their name.

[Greg Cody]

No.

[Mike Fuentes]

Oh.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

We'Re doing this.

[Zaslow]

Stop being a poop.

[Greg Cody]

No, I think.

[Mike Fuentes]

Where was that going?

[Billy Corbin]

Where did that. That language didn't need to escalate till there.

[Dan Le Batard]

Guys, I have no idea what he was originally going to say.

[Mike Fuentes]

I'm worried.

[Zaslow]

I know.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

No, I meant what I meant.

[Billy Corbin]

Don't be a. I want some help here as opposed to the lack of help, which is what I'm presently getting by all trying to help. Okay, you're trying to help, but you're doing it in the worst way possible, which is speaking a language your father does not understand. Which is, you are my boy. You are my son. Stop badgering me. I don't like it on our podcast when you do it.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you.

[Dan Le Batard]

In defense of Chris, it's not the worst possible. The way that he corrected himself initially, the original word would have been the worst way.

[Billy Corbin]

You have.

[Zaslow]

No way starts with a P. Rhymes. You'll see.

[Billy Corbin]

Okay. It's actually not a minute. People poop. All right, all right. You know what? Hold on a second. Zaslow. Zaslo. What you just did there is totally unacceptable. We need subtlety in those moments we like. That is not. You could have left something to the imagination, Zaslow.

[Zaslow]

I mean, that's why I said rhymes with.

[Billy Corbin]

Yeah, okay, not helpful.

[Dan Le Batard]

How did he skate on a penalty?

[Billy Corbin]

Well, I can't figure out the board here. They said they gave me a whole bunch of new penalties, and I'm looking and all I see is Billy Corbin's board. So I had to bail on the late call.

[Zaslow]

So page.

[Billy Corbin]

Keep page two. Yeah, no, I've hit all seven of the pages, and they told me that it was all ready to work, and none of it works.

[Greg Cody]

Dan hitting his microphone. Unprofessional.

[Billy Corbin]

Regardless, you have offended Greg. Cody has. Has been offended by the way his son behaves because his son is disrespectful. More disrespectful than most.

[Greg Cody]

Right. Than most sons.

[Billy Corbin]

No, I didn't say that. Then most people who think of your father in a more highly regarded comedic way than the way that you speak to him when you're undercutting him and trying to get him to do something, that absolutely is the best thing for the show.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

That's what I'm.

[Billy Corbin]

But the way that you approach him makes him stubbornly say, no, you can't do it without my help, kid.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

Dad, will you please do this for us?

[Billy Corbin]

That doesn't work.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

Really help the show.

[Billy Corbin]

You got to go Billy's route. No, you don't know your father at all. You got to go Billy's route.

[Greg Cody]

I'm not taking a quiz. I'm not doing a multiple choice.

[Billy Corbin]

Let's do a lineup. Let's do a criminal lineup.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

I'll get three people in here.

[Billy Corbin]

Get three.

[Greg Cody]

I'm not. You guys don't understand, okay? I don't know how. I don't know how to.

[Dan Le Batard]

I am crystal clear. Greg, I.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you.

[Dan Le Batard]

The tone in your voice is.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, very serious. I'm not doing this.

[Mike Fuentes]

I get the feeling Greg doesn't want to do this.

[Greg Cody]

Okay. If there's one or two people in the next room whose name I'm not sure of. That's on me.

[Billy Corbin]

It's okay.

[Greg Cody]

Okay. They shouldn't be.

[Zaslow]

No, we're gonna tell you the name, but it's okay.

[Greg Cody]

I'm not doing that.

[Billy Corbin]

Okay. There has to be a way that we can persuade you. Some angle that we could persuade you for the comedy and the content of this when we're telling you, Greg, it's no kind of crime that you wouldn't know the names of two of the people in there. Like it's. It's okay. Like it's not.

[Greg Cody]

It's not okay with me, Greg.

[Mike Fuentes]

Do you trust me?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Mike Fuentes]

All right.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Mike Fuentes]

Okay.

[Zaslow]

All right.

[Mike Fuentes]

I'm gonna. I'm two people.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hold on.

[Greg Cody]

No, no, no.

[Mike Fuentes]

Just trust me.

[Greg Cody]

No, no, no, no.

[Mike Fuentes]

Can you trust me?

[Billy Corbin]

You can sit it out while you're in it. You can sit down. Just let us. Like. Please, Billy. Let.

[Mike Fuentes]

Just trust me. Can you trust me?

[Billy Corbin]

No.

[Mike Fuentes]

All right.

[Billy Corbin]

Just.

[Greg Cody]

I don't.

[Mike Fuentes]

I'm gonna take that as a yes. I'm gonna take that. No, you could.

[Greg Cody]

You could bring my wife.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, look at this.

[Zaslow]

The lineup is here.

[Mike Fuentes]

We have three people in here. Greg.

[Greg Cody]

No, you can bring my wife in here right now. And I would not play along with.

[Mike Fuentes]

Which one is Mike Fuentes of these three people?

[Greg Cody]

Okay, obviously those three. I know which one is Mike Fuentes.

[Billy Corbin]

Come on. They're trying to make it easy. Come on.

[Greg Cody]

You can. You got this game.

[Billy Corbin]

You can play this game.

[Mike Fuentes]

A, B or C. Which one is Mike?

[Billy Corbin]

A, B, C. Which one is Mike Fuentes?

[Greg Cody]

Rose is Mike. I'm not. I'm not Rose there, so I'm not playing this game, okay? Plus, I hate that music. Okay, don't start annoying me. I have the right not to go along with a bit.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is gonna go poorly.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you, Mike.

[Mike Fuentes]

I tried to end this.

[Greg Cody]

Mike is the only one who kind of understands.

[Dan Le Batard]

Which Mike?

[Greg Cody]

Mike Ryan.

[Billy Corbin]

Which one is Mike Fuentes?

[Greg Cody]

I'm not playing this game, okay? I don't know your name right now.

[Billy Corbin]

Mike Ryan. Which one's Mike Ryan?

[Greg Cody]

The guy on the far right who keeps insulting me.

[Billy Corbin]

But you are playing the game. You're just getting him.

[Zaslow]

I mean, is it possible he doesn't know which one's Mike Fuentes?

[Greg Cody]

Thank you.

[Dan Le Batard]

The guy on the far right is Tony.

[Greg Cody]

Exactly right. Tony. Okay. Tony's the tall one. No, I'm not playing this game. Nope, I'm. I'm digging the music, though. It's growing. You said you hated the music I'm liking now. It's growing on me.

[Billy Corbin]

All right, hold on a second. Let me see which one of these playing.

[Greg Cody]

No and.

[Billy Corbin]

All right, hold on a second. Let me see.

[Dan Le Batard]

Minor penalty, two minutes for tripping the entire show. That could be anybody's penalty.

[Billy Corbin]

No, that's great.

[Zaslow]

That's Greg's penalty.

[Greg Cody]

It's yours for trying to get me to do something I don't want to do.

[Dan Le Batard]

Minor penalty, two minutes for tripping the entire show. This is five on three.

[Billy Corbin]

Now get out. You got to get out. You're not helping us do the show. We need your help to do the show. It's a clearly good bit to do, no matter what your embarrassment is. And it's not like you're revealing to any of the Mike Fuentes who were in there that you absolutely know their name by tricking us by trying to say, hey, Rose over there. I know Mike Fuentes, but they threw in a ringer. They threw in somebody in there I wasn't going to be able to name.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't think he pointed at the right lady when saying rose.

[Billy Corbin]

We had him cornered. And Billy. Billy has never resorted. Never resorted. Billy, every. Every time he's dealing with Cody. He has never resorted to just trust me. This will be good. Just do you trust me? You were trying to help him so much. He will not help us do the show. As if now everyone in there thinks, oh, yeah, he clearly knows my name.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

But now everyone knows that he didn't know some of the names, but he didn't play, like, just so annoying.

[Mike Fuentes]

Well, I have. I have some reporting from the back over there because this is just kind of like a different environment. You've sent Greg over to the penalty box, but we have a barber there who thinks Greg is there for a haircut today. So it may be a while before Greg gets back.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

He needs a haircut, actually.

[Billy Corbin]

So he gets rewarded.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

There they are.

[Billy Corbin]

There's Lucio. Ah, good to see Lucio. Yes. Lucio is in doing haircuts today. So now Greg Cody gets rewarded for that behavior. That's. Okay. Great. That sort of backstory.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hair got darker, huh?

[Billy Corbin]

That's.

[Mike Fuentes]

Oh, come on.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, come on, man.

[Mike Fuentes]

What is that?

[Dan Le Batard]

Geez. That's typically not how it works.

[Billy Corbin]

How long has it been since you've seen Lucio? How long has it been, Covid?

[Dan Le Batard]

Clearly a couple shades ago.

[Billy Corbin]

That can't be a greeting. You cannot. You cannot see somebody for the first time since the pandemic and salute them with your hair got darker.

[Mike Fuentes]

Greg knows he's about to get A haircut.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, my God. He knows this is just going to.

[Billy Corbin]

Put it around his neck and he needs a haircut. And. Yeah, Lucio's here giving out haircuts now. Yeah, he should get a haircut. He's a mess. Chris, that video. Can you get for me the video of your father falling into the bushes, please? Because not since. I can't believe we're giving away this video for free. If you watch your hand, his hands. During the video of him trying to get to his phone, his hands show you that he's as drunk as he's ever been. That's not age. That's the three old fashions after whatever day drinking he had to do to get through that dinner. Can you give me the video that. How many? How Many?

[Greg Cody Jr.]

This was 2017 Notre Dame, Miami week. Like, the best week in Miami history. We went out with Marty Smith to. Where'd we go?

[Dan Le Batard]

Like, we went to Coconut Grove.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

We hit the Grove and. Yeah, all right.

[Greg Cody]

Don't we.

[Billy Corbin]

Don't we need to do something around the Miami Notre Dame game this year that feels a little bit like that to bring back the old vibes of whatever this is Your dad drinking. What? That ended up with him in the bushes. That ended up with you charging people. How much money did you make the evening?

[Greg Cody Jr.]

Not enough, because I didn't buy enough shirts. I bought, like, a hundred shirts thinking, like, oh, man, I might not sell all these. And we sold out in, like, 15 minutes. I could have bought, like, 500 shirts.

[Billy Corbin]

All right, so there was a video of your dad drunk and falling into the bushes. Forgive me.

[Dan Le Batard]

What are you doing?

[Billy Corbin]

Forgive me for Andrew Schultzing this.

[Zaslow]

You fall.

[Billy Corbin]

Here it is.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, my dad.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

Greg, you're gonna hurt yourself.

[Dan Le Batard]

What are you doing?

[Greg Cody Jr.]

You can hear my concern.

[Dan Le Batard]

You also sound pretty sauced up.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

Give me your hand. Give me your hand. Give me your other hand. Hold that other phone. My God.

[Billy Corbin]

All you did was drink beer.

[Greg Cody]

I know.

[Billy Corbin]

No.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

Oh, he's actually getting a haircut.

[Dan Le Batard]

Those are the moments, man.

[Zaslow]

There's. That's my first time seeing that. There's like, an element to that where you could hear. It's a son who really doesn't like what they see from their father.

[Billy Corbin]

Oh, no, no. Wait a min.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

So I hear me being, like, a concerned son.

[Billy Corbin]

As long in the video, I hear. Yeah, I hear the same thing. I hear the same thing Billy does, which is, oh, my God, what a golden opportunity. A drunken, rambling, rampaging Cody in the wild. Let me present my best side to the audience as I Know I'm embarrassing my father, who drunkenly is now crawling through mud while giggling.

[Zaslow]

All you do is drink beer.

[Billy Corbin]

No, no, he.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

No, it was me saying all you did tonight. Even though I think I'm wrong about that, because I remember people were like, buying him shots.

[Dan Le Batard]

Few shots. Yeah.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

I don't know why I said that.

[Billy Corbin]

Your father should be a much better drinker than he is because he doesn't eat.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

That's his problem.

[Billy Corbin]

So much practice. Like, he's got the requisite Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 expert hours. He should know the order so that that doesn't happen to him. And when you shout in that video. And this. This part was shocking. This is just beer. We've seen worse. We have seen Greg Cody.

[Zaslow]

How many beers is that, you think?

[Billy Corbin]

Well, first of all, it's a day of it. It's 14 beers. Whatever. 16 beers.

[Dan Le Batard]

He didn't adhere to the old adage beer before liquor. Never been sicker.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

Of course, part is that all often when he's drinking like this. Like, dad, you eat before. Like, that's. He had a good, you know, foundation. He's like, yeah, I had a lunch. Like, he just thinks eating lunch will get him through a night of drinking liquor before beer.

[Zaslow]

You're in the clear.

[Billy Corbin]

All right, so Greg Cody is in the other room. Greg Cody is refusing to play our game, but Greg Cody is rewarded instead of a penalty. This is infuriating.

[Zaslow]

That's such bullshit. We had a great radio bit. He was so obvious. All right, can you name everyone in the office instead? No, I'm gonna get a haircut.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Billy Corbin]

Levatar show with the ST. So now he's in the other room, and Lucio's great at this. And Lucio is going to clean him up and he's going to come in here looking spectacular. But this is not a punishment. This is a reward. It's obvious a reward. We were just done talking about. We were just done talking about Greg Cody. He's been told all his life, Lauria or Papi? Who do you look most like? Greg Cody? What's the answer to that question? We're going to get some pictures together so that people can see the resemblance. What's the answer to that question? Do you get more people saying you look like Lauria or Poppy?

[Greg Cody]

Pretty. Pretty equal. Actually. I would say those are the big two. Lyndon John Lyndon Baines Johnson. Probably a distant third.

[Billy Corbin]

Only Mike, who is the person, the name of the person cutting your hair?

[Greg Cody]

Lucio.

[Billy Corbin]

Oh, he's willing to play the game when he knows the names.

[Mike Fuentes]

There it is.

[Billy Corbin]

Oh, we've got him. We've Got him corners. And now he's willing to play the game. We're closer. Billy, good work. Good effort by you.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

Dad used to get Tom Cruise, right?

[Greg Cody]

What?

[Greg Cody Jr.]

Didn't people used to tell you you look like Tom Cruise?

[Greg Cody]

Oh, yeah. Back in the day, yeah. Very much so, yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right.

[Greg Cody]

When I was in college or whenever it.

[Billy Corbin]

Put this on the screen now, please. Here's a young papi. Here is a disheveled Greg Cody. And here is former Marlins owner Jeffrey Lauria. We see the resemblances. Roy. Look at Roy nodding his head vigorously.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, when they smoosh together.

[Billy Corbin]

Yeah. Okay, so they look similar.

[Greg Cody]

Look similar, that's correct. That shirt I'm wearing used to fit me at one time.

[Billy Corbin]

Well, the way that we're talking about. Greg Cody's drinking again. His son did profit, but not enough because he could have sold many more T shirts with the promise of a video that before had to be paid for to be seen. And only those people saw that video to embarrass Greg Cody. This video I'm maintaining of the birthday dinner in his hands is the drunkest Greg Cody I've ever seen. Just the wobbling sausage hands that come with the old fashioned after you've had eight beers. And the question I have, and I don't mean this to be an interrogation, what kind of day drinking did you do to get through the awkward socializations you didn't want to partake in of a bunch of office workers who work for your wife that you didn't particularly want to have a party with for seven hours while also sell celebrating her?

[Greg Cody]

I don't keep track. You know, I don't count beers. My wife might. I don't, you know, could have been a couple. I don't know, a couple or three.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

Thank you for everything you're giving us.

[Billy Corbin]

Yeah, I want to penalize it more.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

You want to take a nap mid sentence?

[Billy Corbin]

Maybe he's gonna come out of there looking beautiful.

[Greg Cody]

Getting my haircut.

[Billy Corbin]

Yeah. Okay.

[Greg Cody]

That's my priority right now. Multitasking. I rarely that kind of thing, you know. I'm getting a haircut. Professional haircut.

[Billy Corbin]

Turn this microphone off. Fine.

[Mike Fuentes]

Than we have some exciting breaking football news for you, Dan, if you want it.

[Billy Corbin]

I do want it. After asking you some hard knocks questions. But do you. Do you. Do you think the news. Well, it's your day, so which way do you want to go here?

[Mike Fuentes]

Let's go with the news first, if you want.

[Billy Corbin]

Yep.

[Mike Fuentes]

Oh, wow. NFL News. It never stops.

[Billy Corbin]

Dan, what happened to Roy? Roy, Were you just.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's got Billy Corbin's hot button.

[Mike Fuentes]

There's a lot going on. He has haircuts and such. Actually have to look for a thing.

[Billy Corbin]

Let me see. Play one of those Billy Corbin things randomly. I love this town.

[Mike Fuentes]

The Dolphins are activating Darren Waller off the PUP list.

[Dan Le Batard]

Come on.

[Mike Fuentes]

Darren Waller is officially out of retirement now.

[Billy Corbin]

Why? Oh, come on.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

I mean, it's just play. Play a practice.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, he's got to make the team.

[Mike Fuentes]

Well, he's on the PUP list now. He's not on the PUP list and let the dog out.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's got a couple of days to make an impression, to earn a roster spot here.

[Mike Fuentes]

There's no chance he's not going to make the roster out of this.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think there's plenty of a chance he doesn't make the roster. Yeah, he hasn't played in several years. He hasn't even been available during the preseason. I think there's a big chance he doesn't make the roster.

[Billy Corbin]

I was really excited about this as an opportunity because it's the only kind of talent that would be available to the Dolphins at that position. That would be a game changing Gronk type you guys do. The story of Darren Waller for examining it wherever it runs through addiction and depression and things he's talked about with things that he struggled with. Both the mental illness part of football that ends up with New York having, you know, the worst shooting we've seen in 25 years. Because somebody comes out and says, football, check my brain. I'm going to shoot myself and not kill myself this way. I need my brain checked. There's something wrong with my head. This game's dangerous. You saw the ESPN report about how many people are playing in pain and, you know, limping toward an earlier death than the rest of us because obviously our most popular game is like chewing up its body. It's what we celebrate every Sunday.

[Dan Le Batard]

Missed you, pal.

[Billy Corbin]

It's great.

[Dan Le Batard]

Welcome back. This is you being excited about Darren Waller being activated.

[Billy Corbin]

It's great fun. I want to believe.

[Dan Le Batard]

What do you got in the AFC South?

[Billy Corbin]

Look, I want to believe that Darren Waller can overcome just the public shaming of his breakup being celebrated by him in a music video and everyone tearing up his insides on vulnerability cuz he dared to make something artistic around a relationship that seemed like it had a ton of volatilities in it that everyone seemed to be fascinated by. And he showed us this is a reclamation project. Who with the Giants? With Daniel Jones. Football became so hard. It looks so easy to him as a Raider He's a game changing tight end. He is a majestic physical talent but I don't know where his head is. And I want to believe that somebody who wants to be great again can be that kind of great again in an offense that you know, if you get Tyreek Hill speed you will get. You'll get another Gasecki. Like he'll be better than Gasecki if his body's right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ross Dwelly is available and he's familiar with this offense though.

[Billy Corbin]

I can't believe you guys sucked me into this. That was such a good trick you played on me.

[Mike Fuentes]

US breaking news.

[Billy Corbin]

Yeah, the Darren Waller you just knew it would suck me into talk sports and mental health because this is a total reclamation project.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean he is atop the depth chart provided on ESPN.com but that is because I have literally never heard of anybody else at that position on this dude.

[Billy Corbin]

Okay, so let me ask you between. In the discrepancy between where it is that Mike and Billy land on, is he going to make the roster? Okay, because the Dolphins looked for a discounted scrap heap thing. This is the only game changing thing like this is available. I don't know Noah fan like you're talking about a tight end who in a bad offense with the Raiders was an easy thousand yards because he can't be. He cannot be guarded by linebackers, he cannot be defended. But it was years ago. So he goes to New York and I expect him to be great. But the day ball Daniel Jones thing runs everything there right into the ground. So what does he become physically? Is he spent at 32? Well, how old is he? He's not that old. Is that. Is that physically and mentally spent in that sport where you can't get it back?

[Dan Le Batard]

He looked pretty spent the last we saw him, which was years ago and.

[Billy Corbin]

It was in New York, which I would argue could ground anyone to dust. And Daniel Jones has Now survived but 32. If you saw how they were playing offense in the Giant with the Giants under day ball, they didn't have anything else. It's some of the worst receivers in the league.

[Dan Le Batard]

I really believe you when it comes to this Darren Waller thing. It is an interesting story but I think he's got to prove to the team that he can be healthy. The book on him was that his body was always broken and then out the gates. His body is not in football shape. Which I guess could be understandable unless he'd been plotting a football comeback and teams knew about that, which clearly the Dolphins did. And then you got to Wonder was he held out to get into football shape. It feels like. And I know he's not going up against a lot of great comedies competition. It feels like he's got to prove to the franchise and of football watchers everywhere, football Americans, that he can go still.

[Billy Corbin]

Okay, so walk me through this part of what it is I just saw happen this offseason, which I thought was actually interesting. The financial and business interests at play don't know the difference between requesting a trade and demanding a trade. Okay. But that's now something that's in the NFL, and I'm not used to seeing that. Whether it's Micah Parsons or anybody else, I'm not. What's the distinction between the requesting. McLaren. McLaren is being discussed as requesting a trade. Right. But Micah Parsons is demanding a trade, and with the Rams, Stafford, that situation's still fluid. Right. So what's he. He's neither requested nor demanded a trade, but he's in play for every team in the league.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I think other teams. He was almost traded this offseason before the Rams decided to settle on him. And now Rams are actually, you know, if you look at the NFC favorites, they're up there. They got super bowl buzz. I think the thing with Stafford, too, is the same stuff that's kind of surrounding wal. Well, physically, this is a guy that has just gone through a lot to get himself ready for football.

[Billy Corbin]

But when you say physically ready for football, okay. Cause Stafford is one of the toughest human beings there's ever been like that. For him to play that way through, whatever it is that he has played through, there is nothing. I mean, guys, the Detroit Machine was ready to be that when Stafford was there, but he was the only one ready to be that. And because they lost so much, they built everything they have now so that we could laugh at Man Campbell when he's here and he's some kind of genius because he's over there with. With Jared Goff of all people. Stafford built all that. That was all left for him. And then when he gets traded to the Rams, we'll still argue he's a top 10 quarterback. Still a top 10 quarterback. It's amazing his body still works. If. If he should be a torso. If he had legs, he'd kick you.

[Dan Le Batard]

He also still built it because they got a return for him, including their.

[Billy Corbin]

Starting quarterback, which is crazy. None of us. None of us saw any of what was happening in Detroit. But imagine they re. Re. They reclaimed all things Jared Goff because of the. The. The. The pile of things that they got that made them great at every position. So the Dolphin so that the Detroit Lions would no longer be a laughingstock. Don LeBatard.

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg, how's your birthday going so far?

[Greg Cody]

I invented it. It's going fantastic. My wife and I are staying home tonight. We're watching the. The Debate on tv. We're gonna do something special for baby. It's a. It's a nice day for me so far.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stugats. That sounds like a. Not a super nice night. The debate.

[Mike Fuentes]

Old people love that.

[Billy Corbin]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

That'S exactly right. Yeah, that's exactly right. Old people do love that. And I'm old now. I can't deny it anymore.

[Billy Corbin]

Now this is the D Ler show with the st. You guys said earlier in the show, who's the face of the league? Is Jerry Jones the face of. Of the league? Hard Knocks is doing the Bills. And I ask this for the future of the league.

[Zaslow]

That show is a bore.

[Billy Corbin]

Well, but this, this is why I ask you this. For the future of the league, it should not be like you say, that show's a bore. The Buffalo Bills need to be one of your storylines. They've got a unicorn at a quarterback, but he's kind of interesting and that's all they've got.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's dating a Hollywood starlet.

[Billy Corbin]

That's correct. But whatever the Bill's got, it ain't it. It ain't. It ain't what makes them like the Bills should be. You are going to see in this Netflix documentary about the Cowboys how far personalities can carry you in that league. The Cowboys have lived off this so long that they've eaten up even the broadcasting stream. Romo gets the jobs, gets the job. Jason Whitten gets the jobs because they know how to play media. Buffalo Bills. He's gonna. Your quarterback's gonna date a starlet and he's not. And he's gonna be the mvp, but he's not gonna be here for Face of the League. He's still talking about Jerry Jones. Like, what is your Buffalo team doing on personality? That's not making people buy in. When you've always been a loser, people should be rooting for you.

[Zaslow]

Oh, I don't know that it's necessarily that they don't have personality. I think it's that we've seen in recent years and most specifically last year with the off season Hard Knocks at the New York Giants and how that blew up with the Saquon Barkley stuff and the general manager where team allowing stuff to get out anymore like this Hard knocks. It's a boar. And in the past, they were showing you the, the electric personalities. They were showing you interesting stuff. I don't think teams are interested in doing it. It's a struggle every year to get a team to agree. And then the NFL just forces the show on you.

[Mike Fuentes]

Everybody you want Josh Allen be doing a bunch of coke. Like the Cowboys in the 90s. Like, what do we want from him here?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Zaslow]

And that Cowboys documentary, Like, it's. I'm looking forward to it. It's probably really, really good.

[Greg Cody]

Good.

[Zaslow]

Those guys aren't in league anymore. Like, they're not in the league. So, hey, we'll talk about whatever you want.

[Dan Le Batard]

But Jerry is. We already have the revelation, but Jerry's already said for.

[Zaslow]

Jerry's already said that he loves it, that he wants the controversy and he wants the spotlight. Jerry admits to you in one of the previews for this documentary. Like, he's the odd one in this case.

[Mike Fuentes]

I think, like, times have changed too. And like, we know that they're probably not letting a lot of the stuff out. So after the first episode, one of the things that we all, like, took away from it was, was we found out one guy goes drifting and he takes his young kids and he puts them, you know, shotgun while he's there drifting. And another guy in the off season going hunting 11 foot pythons. And everyone in here was like, how'd the Bills let that get out? Like, why did they let that on tv? That looks really dangerous. And things they shouldn't be doing. Why was that on television? So even us, while we're saying, like, this is boring. We're like, the interesting things that they put out there, like, ooh, they shouldn't.

[Dan Le Batard]

Have put that out there.

[Mike Fuentes]

That seems dangerous.

[Billy Corbin]

I want to examine the idea that the Buffalo Bills didn't make the playoffs for 17 years. And wherever it is that America's team should reside nowadays, it doesn't have to be coke off a tag build, but MVP dates, starlets. Maybe not Taylor Swift, but in terms of whatever fame is supposed to be there but is in the championship hunt and can go the next step to stardom. If you just want to be fun and interesting. And everyone would say they love Josh Allen's personality, but carry a team through this storyline of knocking off the Eagles and the Chiefs, they should be someone America's rooting for.

[Dan Le Batard]

That I think they are. Remember the narrative when we were looking like for a few months, Eric could be Lions, Bills, and everyone got excited about that storyline outside of maybe division.

[Billy Corbin]

Rivals okay, so, but where storylines reside in the future of sports, when the NBA is going to take you til 11 o' clock at 10 night and where it is, this league has to sell its properties. The Bills are one of its shiniest items there. They should be one of the big tickets on let's sell this thing to you as interesting so that you follow the storylines of this season.

[Dan Le Batard]

And I think in their defense they have effectively. He's the MVP of the league. I should correct myself. He's married to a Hollywood starlet. He is one of the faces of the league. He plays a really exciting style, he's often in the dialogue and yes, on.

[Billy Corbin]

Top of everything else, hugely fun to watch as a team. The thing that I wanted to bring up with you guys though, when it comes to interesting and truth telling and how Hard Knocks would become a diluted property that can't even sell you one of America's shiniest things while I was away. I don't know how much you guys talked about the idea that The NFL bought 10% of ESPN. And so what was Disney's biggest moneymaker at the time that John Skipper was there? Espn. And was in the journalism business back then because Skipper insisted that it be so that change for that dollar amount and that ownership changes content forever through the life of that country. The NFL will not be a silent partner with espn. They are now more in business with ESPN they ever been. They've been a stock. They're a stockholder, their shareholder. And what happens as soon as they get through the door. And I don't know if these things are coincidence or not, but. Oh, the documentary on Colin Kaepernick that Spike Lee was doing. Yeah, we're not doing that anymore. And so I don't actually know what the facts of that are. Spike Lee can't even speak and I don't know what it would cost to buy that man.

[Mike Fuentes]

TMZ reported they canceled the project a year ago last summer.

[Billy Corbin]

I don't know any of the backstory here.

[Dan Le Batard]

I will say it's well chronicled how long ESPN and the NFL have been talking to one another trying to orchestrate this deal. It's been literally years. So I'm sure that was a talking point.

[Billy Corbin]

So what is about to happen now? And it's been like, it's been fun to watch and interesting to watch and I don't know how well it's been covered but basically ESPN before this was basically a marketing arm for the NFL with also journalism coverage. But the deal was we'll pay You a lot more than the big network. So that we can run your programming all day long, all your highlights. It's not even the Monday night game that's that valuable, though. It's valuable. It's that all week long we can run all your footage and it'll do in the off season. And we can just be an infomercial for football at all times. America will love it. It'll make it bigger than ever. You guys have seen what's happened, baseball and hockey, when they weren't on espn. Partnership. This partnership, a giant one. And it was amazing, interesting and sad for me to see. Oh, wow. The NFL Network now gets to create its own thing that they already had. Sell it to espn. We all love Red Zone. And this thing will become bigger and bigger than it's ever been, but far less interesting in how we're going to cover it and where it is. We're going to get on the insides of how things get made so that Hard Knocks can continue to be Hard Knocks and so that we can get an honest action, actual version of the Colin Kaepernick story told through Spike Lee's eyes. Because I really would have liked to have seen that without it being bought.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think that's a straw man. Far less interesting. What's the most interesting thing about NFL coverage? An NFL ESPN studio show that features Mina Kimes. That it is vanilla on purpose. Everyone minds their corporate partnerships. And you may be right in saying that, well, now that they own 10% of ESPN, that's just only going to increase.

[Billy Corbin]

Well, that's not partnership anymore. That's ownership.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Billy Corbin]

That's not partnership.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, well, they were owning them. Remember, like the whole, like, concussion investigative report thing. This was before the ownership stake and ESPN took a step back in the name of their partnership.

[Billy Corbin]

What's the straw man?

[Dan Le Batard]

That I don't, I don't think that there is really interesting NFL coverage to begin with. It's not. What, what's. What's interesting about the NFL coverage.

[Billy Corbin]

So you don't believe that. Just this Netflix documentary. Keep in mind, this is Jerry Jones, who's comfortable with it. He's the one who's comfortable with it.

[Dan Le Batard]

30 years have passed.

[Billy Corbin]

No, but they're not going to. They are not going to. I don't imagine that they will explore in any real way how it is that Michael Irvin almost killed a teammate with a pair of scissors to his.

[Dan Le Batard]

Neck 30 years ago. You're never. You weren't going to, like, you're not.

[Billy Corbin]

Going to get that as a company. But I'm saying you can get all of that information if you have documentarians and information sources that aren't in bed for ownership on how the things are getting made.

[Zaslow]

I think the stuff you're referring to there is for instance the stuff that Pablo has uncovered in recent weeks. ESPN wasn't doing that anyway.

[Dan Le Batard]

They're not going to do that anyways. Like I'm sure if an Aaron Hernandez thing happens again, heaven forbid they will cover it. Mina's done a couple of interviews on this in terms of we you're mindful like the NFL was owning ESPN well before they owned espn.

[Billy Corbin]

No, but Mike, that's not. You're doing. I get it. I get what you're saying there. But it wasn't in writing. It wasn't ownership. Here's a 10% stake. You believe that. You believe the NFL is to going. You believe Don Van Nada is still going to be able to do what he's been doing over there?

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean I think. What has he been doing? He's done a great profile piece on a. On Jerry Jones that seems to like Don Van Natta. And if Jerry Jones didn't like Don Van Natta and want to welcome him in, there is no story. Jerry Jones showed Don Van Natta what Jerry Jones wanted to.

[Billy Corbin]

You don't believe the coverage of the NFL is going to change on ESPN because the NFL has a 10% stake as a stockholder and is the, I'm assuming the greatest minority stockholder there is on the world strongest sports network.

[Dan Le Batard]

I certainly don't think anything on the day to day changes. I think there may be a story off in the future that may be embarrassing to the NFL that ESPN may not shine a light. But this is a, this is a league when it's covered on cable television. It's Dax contract and Tim Tebow and Michael Parsons.

[Billy Corbin]

I think you're being naive though about how it is that these power deals are made on information going into the America we're about to go into. These are not dumb people in Jerry Jones and Bob Kraft who got the power of this league and now the power of this league includes a 10% stake in something that makes the NFL Network and ESPN not part. They're not just business partnerships. The NFL owns 10% of you.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think Zaz is on the money. ESPN just wasn't doing that stuff for a decade plus, maybe even longer. When we worked for espn we knew that the influence and power the league had. We'd hear about it from our bosses. We, when we were talking about a topic too much it would be feedback. It wasn't. Don't don't talk about this. But you were aware.

[Billy Corbin]

Does anyone care I asked you this question Sincerely?

[Zaslow]

I don't think so.

[Greg Cody Jr.]

I'm good. No, I Red zone still here.

[Dan Le Batard]

I get what you're doing and signaling the alarm bells as to what could happen but it doesn't affect the content machine on the day to day because of the day to day content machine already carries water for the NFL.

[Billy Corbin]

So you say it doesn't affect fact that day to day and you'd be right. But a shrug of the shoulders on Spike Lee was making a Colin Kaepernick documentary that had Colin Kaepernick's participation in it and would have been something that would have been deeper than most things made on the subject that that was killed and non disclosure agreements were signed on that to buy Spike Lee's silence. You shrug your shoulders on the entirety of what I'm presenting Societal shift.

[Dan Le Batard]

It may have happened either way. Look what's happening happening with the Smithsonian.

[Billy Corbin]

A museum that doesn't do enough about the future. The boldest take of the week is here. Are the calls any better than they've been?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, Chris previewed them before the show. He's It's a good batch.

[Billy Corbin]

I like them. I don't believe we're lying. The Telephone number is 305486 gots 305486 gots 305-486-4689.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Boost Mobile boldest take is presented by Boost Mobile, the newest 5G network in the country. Hey, this is Lou on a walk on a golf course. If you're an average golfer, stop pretending.

[Billy Corbin]

You know how to read the green.

[Greg Cody]

And just three putt it and move on.

[Billy Corbin]

Hey guys, this is Jeff from Jacksonville, AKA Du Ball, calling on a mobile. My hot take is that no coach.

[Mike Fuentes]

In professional sports history looks more like.

[Billy Corbin]

His team's mascot than Dan Campbell.

[Mike Fuentes]

Looks like a lion all hang up in the sneeze.

[Greg Cody]

Hey, this is JR in Minnesota on my work desk phone. My hotline hot take is there's pickled eggs, there's pickled herring, there's pickled beans, there's pickled peppers.

[Billy Corbin]

Why is a pickled cucumber called a pickle? I'll hold for your response so we.

[Greg Cody]

Can do Vikings win loss for the season after.

[Billy Corbin]

Hey, this is Pete on the toilet.

[Dan Le Batard]

My boldest take of the week is.

[Billy Corbin]

That anyone order Ordering tacos from Chipotle means to grow up and order a.

[Dan Le Batard]

Burrito Pay the teachers.

[Greg Cody]

Hello, it's me, Mario. Mario Cristobal. Looking forward to another season of college football. What's going on, guys?

[Billy Corbin]

This is Paul calling from Texas.

[Greg Cody]

My bold take is there are no.

[Billy Corbin]

Really good Christmas songs.

[Greg Cody]

I'll hang up with this one.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hey, this is George from Tallahassee. First time, long term time. Here's my limited fake Chris Berman. Hey, it's Mike Ryan. Those sprinklers are starting to slowly come up on the football field. Time that we have with summer is dwindling. I'm sure you're already doing that thing where you're going through your photo album, flipping through the photos that you've taken this summer, already reminiscing about the good times that you have. I know I did. And in many of the pictures that I went to back to reminisce over, had a beautiful white can of Miller Light in my hand because I love making good times during the summer a Miller time. And it's a good reminder we're losing time on this summer. So why don't you share the moments that you have with a white can of Miller Lite like I have. Whether it's a long weekend or a full on vacation, it is the perfect time to get the crew back together. And since 1975, Miller Lite has been the go to way to stock the cooler and celebrate those moments. This year marks 50 years of Miller time. 50 years of great taste, great friends and unforgettable memories. Brewed for flavor with simple ingredients like malted barley, it delivers rich balanced toffee note flavor and that golden color that just hits different Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery options near you or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Cheers to 50 years of Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.