Local Hour: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GREG COTE!

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Local Hour: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GREG COTE!
Date: September 10, 2025
Podcast Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Greg Cote, and friends
Location: Live from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami

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Overview

This "Local Hour" of The Dan Le Batard Show centers around Greg Cote’s 71st birthday, blending the crew’s usual freewheeling banter about South Florida sports, radio vs. print media dynamics, and communal ribbing, with more thoughtful moments of sports nostalgia and local media history. Notable threads include a celebration of Greg Cote’s legacy, a spirited “soup-off” competition, a deep dive into beloved South Florida soccer icon Ray Hudson, and a tense, impassioned debate about the Miami Dolphins’ rocky start to the NFL season.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

🎉 Celebrating Greg Cote’s 71st Birthday (03:45–09:00)

• Greg’s Age Revealed

  • After decades of secrecy, Greg hints at turning 71:

    "A year ago, I rented a yacht to celebrate my 70th birthday. So you need to do the math on this one." (04:00, Greg Cote).

  • The show shares stories from the “sad yacht” party, teasing Greg about the less-than-glamorous state of the yacht’s interior.

• Running Jokes and Greg’s "Back in My Day" Identity

  • Playful pushes for Greg to embrace his “back in my day” persona, both as a sportswriter and as a generational voice on the show.

    "He got tired on ESPN radio... He quit on that long before back in my day. But this is a bonafide banger right here." (05:36, Dan).

• Warmth Amidst Roasting

  • The crew recognizes Greg's enduring role in the show, both for his quirks and sincerity:

    "The gift of Greg Cody on this show over those years should turn today in a, into a party." (10:34, Dan).

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🎙️ Print vs. Radio vs. Podcast: The Media Banter (12:16–17:00)

• Print vs. Radio Rivalry

  • Stugotz and Greg play up their respective media backgrounds, with Greg defending print’s legacy and Stugotz extolling the pressure and prestige of live radio:

    Stugotz: "Between the two of us, you're a print guy, I'm a radio guy. Between the two of us, you tried to get into my business. I never tried to get into your business." (13:03) Greg: "Yeah, because you couldn't have... that requires putting words in a particular order... in a way that's entertaining." (13:14)

  • Chris Cody reframes the fight, noting that Greg became a "podcaster long ago," suggesting that the boundaries between media types are now blurry.

• Dinosaurs and Komodo Dragons

  • The team playfully discusses which medium is "extinct":

    "Dinosaurs are beloved... My kid has never said, hey, can you get me a toy Komodo dragon?" (13:53, Chris).

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🥄 The Chef's Hat & Soup-Off Rivalry (27:45–32:30)

• Greg’s Chef Identity

  • Greg shows up wearing a custom chef’s hat (“Greg Cody Show” logo and all), and the group ranks him as the best cook among them—except in competitions, where he’s winless.
  • Mike Ryan, surprisingly, challenges Greg to a “soup-off,” with the two outlining their recipes:
    • Greg: "Sausage and lentil with a little bit of kale... It's not as foofy." (30:13)
    • Mike: "Thai food. Curry, ginger, chicken, farro. We got coconut milk in it." (30:42)

• Good-Natured Trash Talk

  • Mike critiques Greg’s culinary techniques:

    "I saw him over there chopping [red pepper] into a fine dice. Hey. Worry about your own soup." (31:11, Mike)

  • Greg is animated, joking about losing to Roy and Dan in past cook-offs and recounts indignantly losing a pumpkin-carving contest:

    "Jessica beat me on that and should not have. I carved by hand. She had a machine!" (29:20)

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⚽ Honoring Ray Hudson: South Florida’s Soccer Legend (17:34–23:17)

• Ray Hudson’s Impact
  • Greg reflects on Hudson’s influence:

    "He was the first athlete who I associate with my big break in journalism... covering the Fort Lauderdale Strikers... all of a sudden, a year after covering... high schools... I'm in Vancouver covering the Strikers." (18:33, Greg)

  • Hudson is celebrated as a flamboyant player, coach, and, above all, broadcaster:

    "This is the greatest sports voice to have ever come out of South Florida... his voice has internationally resonated with flamboyance..." (20:35, Dan)

  • Sample Ray Hudson commentary:

    "Vinicius on the wit, like Dracula that will play the liver...." (21:17, Greg doing Hudson impression)

  • Dan proposes a daily 30-second tribute to Hudson until the World Cup.

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🏈 Dolphins Panic: A Heated Breakdown (35:06–48:53)

• Doom and Gloom Over the Dolphins
  • Dan, Stugotz, and the panel debate the Dolphins’ disastrous season opener and the wave of panic gripping fans:

    "I can't remember something that felt quite like this this early in the season..." (35:06, Dan) "By far the worst performance in the NFL in week one... But it's a gross over exaggeration and knee jerk to say they're done." (36:45, Greg)

  • The crew discusses what a second straight loss (“O-2”) could mean—potentially leading to a major shakeup, with some calling for firing GM Chris Greer or even contemplating a Tyreek Hill trade.
  • Chris Cody injects much-needed reason:

    "Everyone knows this is just like a middle of the road team... The window closed. But... did the window ever even really exist?" (47:26, Chris)

  • The tension between "nuance/perspective" and "fan panic" is stark:

    "You guys are attacking a columnist for trying to show some level of nuance or, like, perspective here. And, like, you should be more of a fan and just fire everyone immediately." (43:20, Chris)

  • Stugotz and Mike press Greg on whether this week's loss cements a "collapse":

    Mike: "If they show up unprepared again... someone's paying for it." (39:27) Dan: "This is built on something that's really flimsy and everyone around it is... howling: this is the beginning of the end, obviously." (45:22)

  • Greg stands firm on not panicking after one game:

    "The Dolphins are not as bad as they looked in the opener... I'm just saying it's one game and you can't refute that." (46:56)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Greg Cote’s Age:

  “A year ago, I rented a yacht to celebrate my 70th birthday. So you need to do the math on this one.”
  – Greg Cote (04:00)

• On the Print vs. Radio Rivalry:

  “Between the two of us, you tried to get into my business. I never tried to get into your business.”
  – Stugotz (13:03)

  "Yeah, because you couldn't have... that requires putting words in a particular order, making... paragraphs in a way that's entertaining."
  – Greg Cote (13:14)

• Ray Hudson Tribute:

  “This is the greatest sports voice to have ever come out of South Florida. We can go all nationalities, all languages…”
  – Dan Le Batard (20:35)

• On Dolphins’ Panic:

  “You’re in a burning building saying that Mike McDaniel’s got a sprinkler over here. That a Patriots win solves the way they lost in game one…”
  – Dan Le Batard (37:18)

  “The Dolphins are not as bad as they looked in the opener... I'm just saying it's one game...”
  – Greg Cote (46:56)

  “You guys are attacking a columnist for trying to show some level of nuance or, like, perspective here...”
  – Chris Cody (43:20)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Greg Cote’s Birthday and Yacht Stories: 03:45–09:00
• Print vs. Radio vs. Podcast Argument: 12:16–17:00
• Ray Hudson Tribute and Soccer Memories: 17:34–23:17
• Soup-Off Competition & Chef Talk: 27:45–32:30
• Dolphins Meltdown Debate: 35:06–48:53

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Tone and Atmosphere

As always, the tone is irreverent, warm, and occasionally combative—equal parts affectionate roast, sports debate, and meta-commentary on Miami’s unique sports/media scene. Greg Cote is both the butt of jokes and the emotional anchor, his story celebrated even as his attention (and chef hat) wane.

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For the Uninitiated

This episode typifies the show’s blend of comedy, sports nostalgia, and self-satirical media insiderism. You don’t need to be a Miami sports expert or lifelong listener to enjoy the spirited arguments, the local color, and the way the crew bounces from Dolphins despair to a soup contest, always with a wink.

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[B]

Turn sensitive.

[D]

Turn my mic down.

[E]

Thank God for. Thank God for zaz. Now. You know, usually you make fun of me breathing too heavily. Thank God. He's sniffling.

[D]

Oh, well, he's snorting. I. I will. I don't want to tell the story about Freddy Gonzalez. When I met him, he introduced me to the snot rocket third base coach in Erie, Pennsylvania. He's the third base coach in their minor league system. And I look at a guy on third base, and he holds his hand up to his first nostril and blows out something out his other nostril. That's what z. I could hear him.

[F]

That's the best. Nothing resets your system quite like a snot rocket.

[C]

Put it on the pole.

[D]

Is the snot rocket the best to reset your system? But I just want to ask you, Chris, Cody, the last couple of days, we've been having a lot of technical difficulties. Do you know the buttons work today? Can I start testing the buttons, please?

[E]

Shock it.

[C]

They work.

[D]

Okay. That's kind of loud, though, right?

[C]

Standard. Dan's pressing other ones and nothing's happening. So it seems like one works.

[D]

Yes.

[F]

This could be Dan's headphones being too loud.

[D]

No, one of them works.

[F]

Chris Whittingham is a fancy lad.

[D]

All right, the buttons work, then. This one is intentional. And I want you guys to look right now with delight at the chef hat's face here in the studio.

[C]

Can't see anything.

[D]

No, you guys. Not the audience. You guys.

[E]

Happy birthday to him. I don't care.

[D]

Good luck.

[E]

Thank you, Stephen.

[D]

A happy birthday to Greg. Coffee. He's never told us his age. He always hides his age. Which birthday is this for you?

[E]

Well, I'll give you a hint. Hint. A year ago, I rented a yacht to celebrate my 70th birthday. So you need to do the math on this one.

[B]

Good clue.

[E]

Yeah. Thank you.

[C]

Called it the retirement home yacht. Are they still remember the inside of.

[D]

That thing, Dan, at this age? Yeah, it was. It was a little musty. It was weird.

[C]

Sad. We could talk about it now. The inside, the outside, and the deck with the music. Very nice. The inside where you ate it was that.

[D]

No, it was a sad yacht.

[E]

It was sad yacht.

[D]

It was, dad.

[C]

Admit it. Admit it. The inside.

[E]

No, I thought it was fine.

[C]

The bag was there, right oh, yeah.

[E]

Gary the bag.

[C]

Hell yeah.

[E]

Yeah. He was loving it, man. He was reveling.

[C]

What's he up to today? Yeah. You guys still keeping in touch? Yeah. He text you this morning or what?

[E]

Sot said yacht. No, it was a nice yacht. I'd rent it again. What, am I sleeping on the video there? What's going on with me?

[D]

We haven't aired the video.

[E]

You are sorry.

[C]

No, but happy birthday.

[D]

No, but let's. Yes. Happy birthday. But you know we're on the shadow show. You know we're on right now.

[F]

I think you're 71 that Greg finally gets a hang of this thing.

[E]

Thank you, Greg.

[D]

In the preview there is the beginning of the show when the show starts, it's you dancing, but you're distracted by you. You're distracted. Anytime you show up on the screen, you're delighted. And I have to say, honestly, it's one of the favorite things that we've done around here. This particular open seeing Greg this happy and seeing so late in what remains his prime, the singing sportswriter reinvigorated. Look, he's gotten lazy. No. Back in my days, he doesn't want to. He doesn't to work. He's complaining about working. He sounds like my dad thinks the dolphins are good.

[E]

I wrote the book on back in my day.

[D]

Yes.

[E]

Literally, yes.

[D]

No more. Do you have one?

[E]

I have it right here.

[D]

Do you have. Not the book that. Do you have a Back in my nose soup?

[E]

I got about 150 of them in the book. Buy it. And the pride of a lion off.

[D]

The shelf as though. I want you to just stare at Greg Cody's face when this open plays because it delights me as much as it delights him. But he is so happy because the singing sportswriters back. He got tired on ESPN radio, he was doing row, row, row your boat like the last seven songs. He quit on that long before back in my day. But this is a bonafide banger right here.

[C]

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[D]

We have got a local hour that's going to have both kinds of football in it and Greg Cody is here. Why are you guys laughing? Because he's the breathing again.

[C]

It's his birthday. I'm going to be nice today.

[D]

Yes, you're going, going to be nice. And we've got the gift. The gift of Greg Cody. We are now in our 21st year. The gift of Greg Cody on this show over those years should turn today in a, into a party. And it's a party hosted by Wild Billy because we don't want to be on the sad, the sad yacht anymore. Chris, it can finally be said that your dad's 70th birthday. A lovely boat, a lovely gesture, a yacht cruise. A yacht is a wonderful, wonderful thing. But the cafeteria and commissary area felt like it was a big bit less luxurious than one would imagine of the, of whatever they paid for that zagak.

[C]

What are you guys hoping for, like cocaine and hookers like at a 70th birthday party? Like it's, it's a boat.

[E]

Seriously?

[C]

Yes. 70 year olds.

[E]

Thank you, Billy.

[C]

Exactly.

[D]

Greg Cody is a great cook. How did you feel about the food that night?

[E]

I thought it was, you know, I'm, I'm never there for the food. I thought it was there for the booze. I thought it was good. I thought it was good. I didn't think it was, you know, five star Michelin, but I thought it was good.

[B]

I mean I, I, I don't, I don't know anything about this. I wasn't invited.

[E]

Yeah, that's true.

[B]

Yeah, I know it's true. I just said it.

[E]

You just missed the list. You know, we had to cut it off somewhere.

[D]

I did that right of the one.

[C]

Time it happens naturally. You did bring it up.

[B]

Yeah, that's right.

[C]

My face, first time it's ever happened naturally. And Dan's like aha, you did bring it up right in front of Zaz. Let's talk about this party Zaz wasn't invited to. Greg honestly said earlier today, I'm so glad Zazlo's here. Which I didn't think we would ever hear.

[B]

Oh wow.

[A]

I didn't Know that.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

He said, I love Zaz. I'm glad he was here.

[E]

Yeah, well, let's not get carried away, Billy.

[C]

It's when you made a mistake, he was happy because he didn't make. Yeah.

[E]

Yes.

[C]

But regardless, he said he was happy you were here. Yeah.

[D]

Look, the tension between them is real, Greg. Cody looks down on the radio journalist or the radio broadcaster. I guess he thinks the print media is more honorable. So do I, actually.

[E]

Thank you.

[D]

That's how we. That's how we grew up. But not anymore, it's not. Now it is an obsolete dinosaur, and all of the future medias are coming through and tearing the place apart. And Zas is the one who's the star at espn, who has sweets on the road, who flies first class because he's a rival.

[B]

About that. First class Greg.

[E]

Yeah, I've heard about that. Yeah. You were, like, incredibly surprised by the accoutrements of first class.

[B]

That's right.

[E]

Which I found funny, but that's okay.

[B]

Well, you know, I'm not. I'm not this bougie sportswriter, apparently. I don't. I don't get those perks all the time.

[E]

All right, I don't get the perks because I'm a sportswriter.

[B]

Well, and also, let's make something clear here, all right? Between the two of us, you're a print guy, I'm a radio guy. Between the two of us, you. You tried to get into my business. I never tried to get into your business.

[E]

Yeah, because you couldn't have because. Well, we don't know that that requires putting words in a particular order, making. Turning them into sentences and then paragraphs in a way that's entertaining.

[B]

You're assuming that's why I didn't want to get in.

[D]

Feel good about this then. I didn't do this.

[C]

Yes, you did.

[D]

No.

[C]

You called him a dinosaur. You said this used to be prestigious and it's a dying medium. And now Zaz is a rising star, which, by the way, I will say for the record.

[B]

Go on.

[C]

If you ask anyone on earth, beginning with toddlers and anyone who could start speaking. Dinosaurs are revered.

[F]

Yes.

[C]

Dinosaurs are beloved.

[B]

Everyone likes a dinosaur.

[C]

Everybody loves dinosaurs.

[B]

Love learning about dinosaurs.

[C]

Love dinosaurs. You look around at a modern day Komodo dragon.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Couldn't hold a candle to a dinosaur.

[B]

My kid has never said, hey, can you get me a toy Komodo dragon?

[C]

Never.

[E]

T. Rex rules the kingdom. Bang a gong. Get it on. Am I right?

[C]

Hell, yeah.

[E]

Okay.

[C]

That's how Chris is made.

[F]

I got the reference.

[E]

Thank you, Mike. I did.

[F]

Happy 71st birthday, Greg.

[C]

Why are you wearing a chef's hat?

[F]

I'm going to destroy you.

[D]

No, just, just.

[E]

No, you're not.

[D]

Let's. Let's just hold on.

[B]

All right, Good retort.

[C]

You like this fight now you started between Mike and Greg Dan. Geez Louise, how many people today we.

[D]

Are going to broadcast. Over the course of time, he has told us. We make a lot of jokes about what we're going to. I'd like the listeners to write in what tombstone nominations for Greg Cody. I am hoping that the Greg Cody experience for the remainder of his life is broadcast by our show until the very end. Okay? And like, literally, yes, like, I would like him to do our show for the rest of time. But what I'm telling you guys now, as he becomes 71, it's only gonna get worse from here in terms of he's gonna know less about what he's doing. You guys keep expecting him to get better at this.

[E]

This.

[D]

He's not going to get better at it. He's not going to get better at the mechanics of doing this. And he is a print guy to the very end. And he will always look down on the radio guy. That's not manufactured. I'm not making that up.

[E]

Okay, first of all, when I'm on my deathbed, the Greg Cody show will get the exclusive bedside interview. Okay? And you'll be in line for that. But the great Cody show will get it. Looks, look, I appreciate sniffing.

[D]

I think that might be Zazlo's phone.

[B]

My phone's been on solid for 10 years.

[E]

Oh, it's my phone. My bad.

[C]

Someone did that to him. I was talking to him in the kitchen earlier and that thing was buzzing. Someone must have turned that on.

[E]

I bet. I'm going to check right now.

[C]

Look to see the someone find the security tape. Cuz I saw Christopher in there earlier. I suspect someone set him up.

[E]

Okay, it was not Christopher.

[C]

Damn.

[E]

Oh, it was. It was Yeti saying, great T. Rex. T. Rex reference.

[C]

Yeah, reference from 1971 on.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

I would also say, in Greg's defense, Greg didn't become a radio guy. Greg became a podcaster long ago. He has had the Greg Cody show with Greg Cody for years now.

[B]

If anything, anyone can start a podcast.

[C]

Excuse me. If anything, Zaslo was a radio guy who crawled over to the podcast world, which was Greg's domain long before Zaslo's domain.

[E]

Right.

[B]

Radio is different from podcasting the podcast. Great. I do a podcast all Right. But there is a prestige to doing radio.

[E]

Is there?

[B]

It's live.

[E]

Okay.

[B]

It's live.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Greg, you can't tell me that you're recording your podcast sometimes and you're like, wow, I didn't like that. That didn't sound good. Let's do it over. Guess where there are no do overs. Radio. That's why. That's where I honed my craft.

[E]

We're literally live right now.

[B]

I understand.

[C]

Do you? I don't think he does.

[B]

This is not a podcast.

[C]

I don't think he gets it.

[F]

Greg's called you.

[B]

It gets put into a podcast.

[F]

But this is.

[D]

I understand.

[F]

I don't think you do.

[C]

This is not. Do you think you're on radio? This is not radio. Do you think you're on this?

[D]

You're doing a podcast? He's doing radio. He's been doing radio since the moment he stepped foot in here. Yeah, I've been. I'm born for life.

[C]

What station are we on right now?

[E]

AM?

[C]

FM? YouTube? Yeah. You don't know anything going left to.

[F]

Right on your radio?

[B]

I know lots of things.

[C]

I'm not certain. Go on, Greg.

[D]

I'm the shit stir. Anyway, I'll get to the Dolphins and I want to get to Ray Hudson because Greg Cody, 50 years of experience in this market, it. He can actually bring the proper history to what happened in soccer yesterday where a legend stepped down. And we. We talked about it for a second, but it's bigger than any of the stories we're talking about today. USF against Miami. Super interesting. Dolphins. Super interesting. There are things to talk about, but this legend in this market shouldn't. As a voice who's international, it's across all the seas. This is a person in Ray Hudson who came through this market and you covered him. At the very beginning of soccer in this market, you were writing the first columns about can the international sport live in Miami? Can it live in the United States? At the very beginning of Ray Hudson's career, are the seeds of South Florida getting into. Into soccer?

[E]

Yes. And back then, all you had was the Dolphins and football. There was no other major Sport. And the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, they filled Lockhart Stadium. They filled it. 20,000 fans a game. It was really the seed from which soccer in this area grew, the seed that led to Inter Miami generations later signing Lionel Messi. And Ray Hudson was the first star. And if I can be very personal about his impact on me, he was the first athlete who I associate with my big break in journalism, because prior to then, I Was covering high schools for, like, 10 years. I was in purgatory. I never thought I was going to become anything in this market. And all of a sudden, they had me cover the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, which was very big at the time, selling out the stadium, as I said. And back then, we had a budget. And so all of a sudden, a year after covering, you know, a Boyd Anderson Chaminade football game, I'm in Vancouver covering the Fort Lauderdale Strikers against the Vancouver Whitecaps.

[D]

And we had nothing in the market at the time. It's the Dolphins in Miami. Doesn't matter. Um, baseball is trying to find footing. There's nothing in this market. It's just Don Shula.

[E]

Yeah. And. And so the Strikers back then were big. And. And Ray Hudson was the most flamboyant and charismatic of all the Strikers. And I remember sitting with him at a wooden picnic table outside Lockhart Stadium during the middle of the week, and he had just come over from England. He's as white as a milk bottle and talking in that charming, thick accent of his. And our relationship grew from there. And he and I are friends to this day. And he was the first guest on my podcast, actually, five years ago. And so he's just meant an awful lot. He's on the timeline of my career. Before I ever became a columnist or covered the Dolphins or the Hurricanes. I had Ray Hudson and the Strikers. And it just. It means a lot to me.

[D]

You don't understand. I don't think the audience might understand that this is the greatest sports voice to have ever come out of South Florida. We can go all nationalities, all languages. You can go, fellow Ramirez. Like, there is no one in the history of sports in this market whose voice has internationally resonated with flamboyance from player. He was a coach as well. Didn't he do some coaching? Broadcaster. But he made his mark. He was great at all the things. But the thing that he was greatest at was broadcaster, because he's done this with the enthusiasm of soccer for 50 years.

[E]

Vinicius on the wit, like Dracula that will play the liver. And it's just leaves Barcelona in acid it here. The roughness disappears when the Magic man gets it, though, doesn't he? He's almost polite in the way he beats his defenders. Again, if you showed him a Rorschach blotch, he'd see goal every time.

[C]

Phil.

[E]

It's a phenomenal strike. Fakir is underwent jumping Jack Flash. Quick and sharp as vinegar. With this hit, he sees his teammate Sonny. The side of him. Phil and says, I see you, lads. I don't need you. He needs help like a shark needs a dentist.

[D]

Chris, I think we need to, every day until the World cup, take 30 seconds to honor Ray Hudson in this market. Did I say anything that was wrong?

[E]

No. No, I don't think so. And Ray Hudson, I don't know. Not all of those wonderful Florida comments were spontaneous. I guarantee you he put some of them in the oven and took them out at just the right time. Because he told me once, way back in the late 70s, that if they were up two or three nil at halftime, he was already devising the colorful quote he was going to say after the game.

[D]

It's so wonderful to know what your relationship is here because he learned before you did that it's all professional wrestling. And he was a salesman and a spokesman and it carried him, the charisma of it. And I'd like to honor him right until the World Cup.

[E]

Cup.

[D]

Every day until the World cup next year. Every day. Every single day.

[C]

On it.

[D]

We stop for 30 seconds like the.

[C]

Pledge of Allegiance at school.

[D]

Yes, yes, yes.

[F]

I got to say, you did not have this energy yesterday.

[D]

Start the shadow show every day with 30 seconds of Ray.

[C]

Ray Hudson to.

[D]

To honor the great.

[C]

No.

[F]

Kyle shocked when he kept it to a 30 second bit.

[D]

Corey Brooks, who's on the Mount Rushmore of voices in South Florida.

[C]

Eric Reid, Eric Reed, Tommy Hutton, Corey Brooks.

[D]

Zagak. Zagak is on the Mount Rushmore. Is he or is he not?

[E]

Yeah, I think A.J.

[C]

Ricketts. Jeremy Tashay.

[D]

That gives Jeremy Tashay the opportunity to give a stat of the day that nobody wants. I'm punishing you, Billy, with this stat of day because he wants to talk Marlins and you just made it about the Marlins.

[C]

Through 37 games to start his career, Marlins outfielder Jacob Marcy has recorded 20 extra base hits and 10 stolen bases, becoming the first Marlin to reach those numbers in the same span and the first player in Major League Baseball to do so since Barry Bonds in Pittsburgh in 1986. He's definitely going to keep it up.

[E]

I know the 7,000 fans at the game really appreciate that.

[D]

You guys are the worst, Jeremy. Well, we're not the worst. I feel bad that baseball segregated around here. I feel bad that you never got to talk, never get to talk baseball. But you're so eager to do things. You didn't even wait for the stat of day music. You gave the stat and you didn't even wait for the music. You just rushed.

[C]

I have another baseball Stat. If you'd like, we can play the music now.

[D]

You're doing this in the wrong order.

[C]

When this finishes, you tell us your Ray Hudson.

[E]

Start of the day.

[C]

Start of the day. It is the start of the day.

[D]

Start of the day. Start of the day. It is the start of the day. I will get to the.

[C]

I first met Ray Hudson at WSVN when I was working as an associate producer. He came in for Sports Extra and it was just a joy to be around him. Just like a kind man who brought a really special energy to the room. That accent was obviously infectious and it was really special working alongside him and Steve Shapiro, Mike DePasquale on that sports Extra, you know, working behind the scenes. It was a really, really good time and. And I really enjoy. Yeah, Drew Rosenhaus in there almost every Sunday. It was great. Thank you, Ray.

[E]

Thank you, Ray.

[D]

Did you not see that I was trying to talk there? Jeremy, turn this music. It's Nancy. I like that music. Turn the music off. Thank you. Did you not hear, Jeremy, that I was trying to talk there, that I was gonna make a point there?

[F]

I did.

[D]

You disrespected the.

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[D]

Dan Lerd.

[E]

It's all about me.

[D]

St.

[B]

This is the Dan Lebatar show with the stuff.

[D]

You're wearing a chef's hat because you are somebody who is a very good cook. I think that Greg Cody, why are you still here? Why are you still here?

[C]

Doing my job.

[E]

Making a mark.

[F]

No, stop doing your job and get the hell out.

[D]

Yep. Thank you. The chef's hat that he is wearing, he is, I believe, the best cook among us. I think Roy might have some sort of objection.

[B]

I think Roy would take offense, but.

[D]

He'S a really good cook. However, around here, he's.03 in Cook Offs. He's lost all three that he's done. And now Mike, who I didn't know could cook, has challenged him today in a soup off. How are we doing this, Mike?

[F]

We have a stove upstairs here at the Beautiful Elser.

[B]

You look like you work at the bear.

[C]

Look at him.

[E]

He does.

[D]

I didn't know Mike was a chef.

[E]

Yes, chef.

[F]

I take great pride in it. I just don't advertise it. I'm not like Greg Cody, where I make it seem like I'm greater than I am and then fall well below expectations anytime someone decides to take him to task.

[E]

Okay. Roy Bellamy deservedly beat me in the.

[B]

Turkey off, but it sounds like everyone's beat you.

[E]

Well, Lebatard beat me in popcorn, which was a disgrace. Lebatard's popcorn was so over seasoned with tagine. It was. It was almost inedible, but it won.

[B]

So how bad was yours?

[E]

Mine was. It was.

[C]

Well, he's the boss, so.

[E]

But the third event, I don't remember.

[C]

Yeah, I think there might have just been two.

[D]

No, the pumpkin you lost, it wasn't cooking. But you've had three channels.

[E]

That's another one. Jessica beat me on that and should not have excuse for everything you're owing three. I carved by hand.

[C]

And she. She had a machine.

[E]

She had a machine.

[D]

A machine.

[E]

She used a paper thing.

[C]

Mold. Yeah, she had a mold and she had, like an electronic. Like a knife. It was a whole fraudulent, fraudulent peds.

[E]

And I did a. I did a beautiful pumpkin that included a ghoulish face with a prop. A knife in the pumpkin Head. It should have won.

[C]

Not.

[B]

So have you thought about what the excuse will be this time?

[E]

I have no excuse because I'm going to win.

[D]

Well, what are you making? You're 0 and 3. You're owing 3 in competition over here. But today's his birthday. Yeah.

[F]

No, it's a.

[E]

You.

[F]

You stack the deck.

[B]

Bryn d' Moore had a birthday.

[F]

You stack the deck against me. This is certainly a road game, but I feel good. I mean, Greg, he decided to go for lentil.

[E]

Now, sausage and lentil with a little bit of kale.

[D]

I've had that. It's good when you make. He's well.

[F]

So did people on the Oregon trail. This is a campfire soup.

[E]

Okay.

[F]

All right. He's here for the. The hearty. I'm here for the party.

[E]

It's not as foofy. What is yours called? You have, like, names in the title of your soup that I don't recognize.

[F]

It's pretty complicated. It's, you know, it's for a refined palate. We got curry, we got ginger, we got chicken, we got faro. But all in all, we're just gonna go ahead and call this soup Thai food.

[C]

Hell yeah.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, I love Thai soups.

[B]

Thai food.

[E]

Hell yeah.

[D]

Do you have coconut milk in there?

[F]

There's coconut milk in it.

[E]

No, I. I already have a negative critique of Mike's acumen in the kitchen.

[C]

You guys have both been divas this.

[E]

Morning, if I may say it. A coconut Thai chicken soup demands that the bell red pepper be cut into strips. And I saw him over there chopping into a fine dice. Hey.

[F]

Oh, man. Worry about your own.

[E]

Unheard of.

[F]

Yeah. Worry about your own soup.

[E]

I don't have.

[F]

I worry about mine.

[E]

Okay? Okay. All right.

[F]

You're already.

[E]

It's a faux pas.

[F]

Okay.

[D]

Really?

[E]

Yeah.

[F]

We'll see.

[E]

It is.

[F]

I think I'm gonna dominate you in this one.

[D]

Yes.

[F]

In fact, I know it.

[E]

Okay.

[F]

I saw the color of yours. It looks like poop.

[E]

Any Thai restaurant in America, you got that poop soup at a fine diced red bell pepper.

[C]

What's your soup?

[E]

You gotta cut it in strips. My soup is sausage and lentil with kale and other stuff, and it's super flavorful.

[D]

Were you not listening to your father before?

[E]

No, he wasn't.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

But it's worth repeating, quite frankly.

[F]

Scales for color, and trust me, it needed it.

[E]

And by the way, this. A chef hat is supposed to be a souffle. It's supposed to stand up regally, and. And these headphones are really raining. On the parade of my chef hat. But otherwise it's amazing. I was able to get a chef hat with the Greg Cody show logo on it, which I didn't even know they made. But that's a. That, that, that's a good podcast, that, that one.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Yeah. I don't know who does it. We have Adnan Burke on the latest episode talking about his new book and we, we do a dolphin's autopsy. It's a great episode.

[C]

Greg doesn't know movies.

[F]

You are petering.

[D]

I was just hoping you guys would lay out the entire time to see how long he talked. Like just bored about his own podcast.

[E]

No, I don't want to dominate. I don't want to talk too much about my podcast.

[D]

It's not. You wouldn't have called what he just did there dominating where he petered out. Yeah, we got Adnan Verka here. You know, that was not dominating. It was you petering out because you haven't gotten to plug your podcast in the last couple of days.

[E]

Yeah, thank you for that.

[D]

And, and I'll just tell everyone it's 71 today. It's only going to get worse from here. There's going to be more petering out, more distraction, more slurping on the cup, more frustrating at the sun. That's what it's going to be.

[E]

You love the phrase petering out. It's one of your go tos.

[D]

I. I didn't accuse you of it. I'm stir Mike accused you of.

[E]

I know the show loves that phrase.

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[E]

Don Lefield tearing up Tampa Bay 38 for 45 stum.

[C]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[D]

The Dolphins are playing a game this weekend and I'm trying to think, okay, Dave wants that first half when he can't decide between Fiedler and Feely. I'm trying to think of a season that felt like this right away. I'm trying to remember Cam Cameron's 1 in 15 season and if the first game felt like the following. The Miami Dolphins this week playing a game that is only interesting to South Florida because they're like, does the whole thing just fall apart right here? Was last week real? They might get some sort of NFL illusion because and think about what I'm about to say here. The New England Patriots the first week of the season deserve to also be laughed at from Cedar shining Sea. But no one is doing that to the Patriots who played one of the worst football games played this weekend. The Patriots played one, Carolina played one, the Giants played one. Patriots are the only one of those to do it at home against Geno Smith and the Raiders. The Patriots have their fan base saying oh no, maybe Drake mays not the answer. Oh no, maybe Vrabel's not the answer. One week at home and you lose to the Raiders. That's bomb for the Dolphins. But I'm presently talking about a game game with this group of people who have covered this sport and this team all their lives. And I can't remember something that felt quite like this this early in the season and I'm looking at all of it after Marino retired at 62. Seven Jimmie Johnson leaves. I'm having a hard time remembering a season feeling like this seven days in.

[E]

I think both extremes can be legitimate. I think there's no excuse for the way they play. They had an entire off season not to come out like that. By far the worst performance in the NFL in week one. I think this is also true. It's a gross over exaggeration and knee jerk to say they're done. They're done if they beat New England. Mark my words. And it's not a stretch to say it. If they beat New England and they're 1 and 1 and 2 looks good. All of a sudden we overreacted.

[D]

A birthday gift to let you talk that long when you don't seem to know what's happening here. Like you don't seem. You're in a burnt. You're in a burning building saying that Mike McDaniel's got a sprinkler over here. That a Patriots win solves the way they lost in game one, makes it so that the noise around this stadium is going to have banners flying and people booing in the first quarter if this thing goes sideways.

[E]

I agree that people will boo at the first interception.

[D]

Greg, What I'm telling you. What I'm telling you is a team known to be me nationally, led by a man feared to be meek nationally, is heading to a buzzsaw at home if they get down 10. Nothing.

[B]

I'm surprised that you. You do believe that if the Dolphins beat the Patriots this weekend that all of a sudden, hey, they're one and one and maybe we all overreacted. I mean, everything Dan just said about the Patriots in week number one rings true.

[E]

Like, sure.

[B]

So you're essentially saying that at the Dolphins beat at home, if the Dolphins beat an equally terrible team who had a terrible performance from week number one, all of a sudden we're going to feel better about them. And maybe week one was an overreaction. Like, I disagree.

[E]

Okay. What I'm saying is the overreaction to them losing week one is a why a lot of people hate the media and b, why a lot of people think that fans are idiots because of the overreaction. It's one game. I don't care how bad they.

[B]

Greg.

[D]

Greg, the overreaction, though.

[B]

Look, it's not one game.

[D]

Greg.

[E]

I. Greg, I thought it was one game.

[D]

He's what he's saying. It's the mistrust that is here right now from the fan base toward this thing because Zaslo is holding the popular opinion. Greg, most of this fan base is saying even the most hopeful. Oh my God. Is to a McDaniel, is all of it over if they lose this, get game, someone's not going to be here. We agree on that, right? Tyreek Hill McDaniel. Like, if they, if they lose this game at home, you would agree that someone will not be here the following week, right? And not, not a minor play following week.

[E]

No, I don't.

[C]

Not after weeks.

[F]

I think Owen 2 Someone's paying for it.

[B]

Really?

[F]

I do. I think that, I mean, like, I.

[B]

Hope you're right, but I don't think it's true.

[F]

It also depends on the game flow. Right. If they show up unprepared again and the boo birds have their voice, the.

[B]

Entire who in the like, is it Greer or Ross? Like, who has shown you they have the guts to make such a significant move?

[F]

I think it would probably be Greer because he's been here for close to a decade and it doesn't really shake up the operation all that much. As you're in season, if you let go of the gm like the fans are going to demand.

[B]

You think Ross has the guts after two weeks?

[F]

I mean, it's been 10 years.

[B]

I'm with you.

[F]

It could be Tyree kill Greer to save his job. Could be like, let me make another trade.

[B]

And I do believe the Chiefs are going to go, oh, and two after this week. Okay, but Dolphins are owing to. And the Chiefs are owing to. Maybe Tyree kills.

[C]

But by doing that, telling the fan base we've given up on the season after two weeks, they're flying a banner. Yeah, but telling them the season's over two weeks in is horrible message. You can agree with them and no, we have to make change. But after we do.

[D]

No, but here. So this, this is the part that's most interesting to me about what you're saying because Greg, Greg's not wrong when he says in almost all the other instances, a reaction to one game in week one is an overreaction. It's a hyperventilation. It's one game. However, Greg, and this part to me is the most important part. The way they looked on Sunday, that makes you fear. Oh, no, I'm watching the whole thing collapse because they can't stop anybody. They're not going to be physical enough. They're going to ravage their coach and the entire NFL. Brian Flores in Minnesota is looking down at Boy Wonder and saying, you went from ball boy to the top and you changed your wardrobe and your clothes and you were offensive genius. Now, what do you got in this game against the Patriots when no one trusts you and one of them might be your wide receiver and your quarterback? Looked in the last game like he didn't trust anybody because we didn't recognize him after his first read.

[B]

And former teammate said that he knew what to do to make to a panic.

[D]

Greg, this. This thing like, I don't believe I've ever had. I don't mean to be prisoner of the moment, but I remember Jay Feedly, Jay Fiedler and A.J. feely the first half. Dav Wanstead ran into something like this. Dave wants that. And that was a 10 and 6. Every year at 10 and 6 every year, Onestad walks into. I don't have a quarterback. Who's it going to be? I don't know. And in the first half of the first game, he panics. First half of the first game. It's the only time I remember a stadium closing in. Carnivores. They do it at Miami, at the University of Miami all the time. That happens all the time. It's the first time I can remember a stadium caving in. Because he was under the pressure. This is why the Steelers, what they do is so amazing. With three cars, coaches. He was under the pressure of Shulan Johnson before you. You're 11 and 5 every damn season, and everyone's saying you're mediocre. And. And he panics in the first game because he's Dave Wanstead. And the Dolphin fan base is looking at Meek Daniel. They're looking at Meek Daniel. All the stuff that was charming and saying, wait a minute, am I going to watch my team fall on this guy's head next Sunday? Like, that's what. That's what surrounds that stadium this week. I've never seen anything like it in this market.

[E]

I have a feeling that. That you're going to be the one renting the plane that carries everybody banner. I'm not sure if. If most fans feel quite as vitriolic as you do about fire everybody right now.

[B]

Really?

[E]

No, no.

[F]

You're the columnist. You're supposed to have your finger on the poles.

[C]

Okay.

[E]

Did you read what I wrote following that game? I know I spared no amount of.

[C]

You can't just say this was a terrible game, but I have no reason, like, you're acting like you have no reason to believe that it will continue.

[E]

I want to see more than one game approved.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Multiple years.

[E]

They're favored against New England.

[B]

They're terrible. New England. They're at home.

[C]

You guys are attacking a columnist for trying to show some level of, like, nuance or, like, perspective here. And, like, you should be more of a fan and just fire everyone immediately.

[E]

Billy's 100% right. Look, I've been writing and saying since last season that this is the season that tells the future of McDaniel and Greer. If they don't make the play playoffs 99% they will fire the general manager and the coach if they don't make the playoffs and if they start off terribly worse than Owen1, I don't think Tyree Kill will last. If they can get a buyer for him, probably the Chiefs will take them back. But where we disagree is I'm not ready to say all that after one bleeping game, no matter how badly they look.

[B]

The place where I would push back on and that is, do you. Does Greg Cody, do you feel any different? Did this team look any different from what they looked like the way you felt week 18 last year compared to what you just saw in week one? Yes, they look different.

[E]

They look terribly unprepared.

[B]

Okay, that's the whole point. So that's why it's not one week. It's a total. It's a continuation.

[E]

Here's the thing.

[B]

Last year.

[E]

Here's the thing. The way you two are putting it suggests that the opener they played is on top of a terrible 3 and 14 season. They went 8, 9 last year. I'm not forgiving 8, 9, okay, it's a losing record, but 8 and 9 is. Is credibly bad.

[B]

It's not, but the trajectory is this. They were playoffs the first two years of.

[D]

If I can just for historical perspective, okay, because the. I'll just keep going back to this one Stadt season because, okay, I was saying the same things then that you were. And I was doing it with 11 and 5 in my back pocket and everyone was yelling, no, this is the beginning of the end. How do you not see it? Look, he's using up all the Jimmy Johnson cheers and I'm like, guys, it's 11 and 5. It's hard to go 11 and 5 in that league. And he's handing the ball off and he's making my friend retire because they're running the ball 400 a game, 400 times a game. And they're punting all the time because they're playing primitive football, wasting the Jimmy Johnson years. And everyone's saying, dan, how can't you see it? And I'm like, 11 and 5. The Dolphins, this is not one week. Greg 2 and McDonald Daniel are 6 and 9 in their last 15 games when 2 is available, 14 interceptions and 2 has got eight fumbles. We worry about his head. This is built on something that's really flimsy and everyone around it is. Is howling. This is the beginning of the end, obviously. And the thing that doesn't feel like hyperventilation to me, and I keep coming back to it. The first game of the season looked like that. You, you. You got injuries now on the offensive line.

[E]

Right.

[D]

You can't block anybody. And the Colts put up a performance we've never seen in football before. Seven straight drives can't be stopped. And the way that it looked is important. It's not just, oh, they had an off game. It's. No, they were dragged up and down the field by surgical competence of Daniel.

[B]

Jones against a team that you know is not that good.

[E]

Yeah, I mean, you guys aren't saying anything. I don't know. You guys aren't saying anything. Anyone who watched that game but Greg.

[D]

It looked like that's what they are. What I'm saying is no other team in Week one like Carolina could think they're bad. Giants and the Patriots, but no other team was on the field with its fans watching, saying, oh, my God, the way that this is going, they don't have any chance in this game. Do they have any chance in any game?

[E]

Okay, if. If you think the Dolphins are going to be the worst team in the league, I'll bet you $100 and give you all odds it's not going to happen. Okay.

[B]

Kind of odds we talk about.

[E]

The Dolphins are not as bad as they looked in the opener. They could not have looked worse. I agree with you. They were putrid, they were embarrassed, they were humiliated. They deserve all of the criticism they're getting. I'm just saying it's one game and you can't refute that. And it's not a reach that they beat New England. And then what are you going do to say, maybe we overreacted? Maybe I will.

[D]

If they look good on Sunday, I'll.

[E]

Say I overreact, as will most fans.

[C]

The problem here is like, the perspective of Dolphins fan, right? Like there was this expectation after that game against the Broncos that that's what the Dolphins were, that they were going to score 70 points every game. And if you look at what the Dolphins have been over the last three seasons, it was playoff appearance. Playoff appearance last year. They controlled their own destiny and they vomited on themselves and they cost themselves the playoffs. But they were. Were there. You knew when that season ended, when, as soon as they missed the playoffs that Steven Ross announced, hey, you know what? Chris Greer's safe. Mike McDaniel's safe. They weren't going to make any significant change. I mean, the big change that they made in the offseason was, hey, let's get Darren Waller out of retirement. He'll solve this problem. So they came into this season and even Greg, who you guys accuse of being a homer and all that, said eight and nine or nine and eight, he said, like they'll be a playoff team, maybe as the last, last seed in the playoffs. But he's not predicting they're going to win the Super Bowl. Everyone knows this is just like a middle of the road team that you could say the window closed. But I think now the question is more so did the window ever even really exist? Or did we just convince ourselves that this was like some super team that it really never was? So when they decide in the off season we're not going to make significant changes by giving it two games and firing everyone, what are you really accomplishing? Because you know week three is probably going to be a blowout regardless of the outcome of this one against the Bills on Thursday Night Football. So if you fire everyone week two, then you come back week three, you get embarrassed nationally while your team is already in disarray like you've punted on the season for everyone to see.

[D]

Look at Zaslow. He seems defeated here. I don't suspect this will be the last time we talk about this. Mike Ryan. Get out of here. Go cook your stuff. We're going to start the soup off. Oh, yours looks like poop.

[F]

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