Local Hour: Happy Thanksgiling Day 2!

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Local Hour: Happy Thanksgiling Day 2!
Date: November 28, 2025
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

This vibrant Local Hour episode is a heartfelt and rambunctious Thanksgiving (or "Thanksgiling") celebration with Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Chris Cote, Chris Cody, Billy Gill, Mike Lombardi, and friends. The central theme is a combination of reflecting on beloved show bits, sports discussions, and affectionate (and playful) farewells to Billy Gill, who is marking his final show as a regular. The crew alternates between irreverent comedy, Miami sports nostalgia, inside jokes, and moments dripping with sentimentality for one of their own.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Farewell to Billy Gill: Tributes, Tears, and Top Fives

Timestamps: 02:21 – 08:10, 13:57 – 16:53, 26:35 – 35:43

• Farewell Festivities:

  • Dan and crew reminisce about Billy’s contributions to the show and the impact of his last episode, noting he "pulled out every bit he’s ever done" (02:22).
  • Affectionate roasting and gratitude blend as both hosts and listeners reflect on how Billy became integral to the show's weird ecosystem.

• Songs and Serenades:

  • Multiple team members (Jeremy, Greg Cody) opt to say goodbye through songs—equal parts tongue-in-cheek and genuinely emotional.
    • Greg Cody’s “tear jerker” is played and praised:
      “You became the dude as you vaulted a useless sound not hard to find, and our love for you it was forged in fire… our favorite, favorite hypochondriac…” (06:35 – 07:47).

• Billy's Journey on the Show:

  • Billy’s early days are revisited, including audio of his first words and recollection of years spent off-mic:
    “I saw the show for two plus years before I said anything. Sitting in the corner with Stevie…” (16:41).
  • The crew recounts inside stories of show dynamics, like the infamous Masked Singer update, the ladder incident, and times they "got in trouble" at ESPN.

2. Old Guys Doing Big Things in Sports

Timestamps: 08:15 – 11:22

• The crew highlights “a great night for old guys in sports,” mentioning Aaron Rodgers’ monster Hail Mary throw and Mad Max Scherzer in baseball.

• A running joke emerges about Aaron Rodgers having the “greatest incomplete pass ever” (08:47).

• Joe Flacco’s career resurrection is marveled at, especially in how he's “haunted” Mike Tomlin:
  “How does it escape our attention that we found the guy that makes Mike Tomlin blink?” (09:28).

• Flacco’s suitability for Comeback Player of the Year is debated, humorously comparing his arc to Damar Hamlin's literal comeback from the brink of death (11:05).

3. Miami Sports & Friday Night Lights

Timestamps: 41:17 – 45:39

• The panel previews the Friday night Miami vs. Louisville football game, ruminating on what it means for “The U” to be "back.”

• Chris Cote and Chris Cody break down Louisville’s strengths/weaknesses, Miami’s improvements, and the cult-like national anticipation for Miami’s potential downfall.

  • “Miami looks more formidable than they have in 20 years... It looks like the most balanced, fast, violent, beat-you-in-more-ways team that there is.” (41:24)

• Statistical histories and matchups are discussed, concluding Miami is facing its toughest remaining test but has historical Friday night ACC success.

4. Miami, ESPN, and Show Nostalgia

Timestamps: 23:45 – 29:53

• The group reflects fondly (and with plenty of jokes) on their ESPN era, recounting first visits to Bristol, feeling out of place at “the Mothership,” and run-ins with ESPN personalities.

• There is a recurring inside joke about which ESPN host is most likely to have a mirror over their bed, with Kevin Negandhi being “accused” (23:09).

• Billy tells stories about running afoul of ESPN protocols, like crashing sets or playing with Matthew Berry’s fantasy football puppets.

  • “We got some strongly worded emails after the fact, for just crashing a set and...playing with puppets...” (28:45)

5. Show Bits, Bipo, and Dennisisms

Timestamps: 21:13 – 22:39, 36:14 – 39:08, 46:02 – 49:09

• Classic bits are relived, e.g., “Bipo,” the inimitable Miami character known for wild stories and "stock options" grievances.

• The “Swap Helmet” and “Masked Singer” segments get revisited via arguments, old audio, and breakdowns of Billy’s layered sabotage and intentional chaos.

• The crew jokes about in-show rivalries, showdowns for future "Billy seat," and assesses inside baseball about who’s next to step up, including Stevie, Jeremy, and even Udonis Haslem.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Billy’s Show Impact:
  “We were very thankful for the effort that he put in on that last day.”
  — Dan Le Batard (02:34)

• Greg Cody’s Song for Billy:
  “Our favorite, favorite hypochondriac. So bang those pots and pans into the sky, to go where apple pies and eagles fly… it’s hard to say goodbye.”
  — Greg Cody (06:35–07:47)

• On Joe Flacco’s Comeback:
  “You know how hard it is to be better than the comeback player that you already are, that you won over a guy who died on the field and came back?”
  — Chris Cody (11:05)

• On Miami Football’s Big Stage:
  “What the moment commands is they do not allow the nation on a Friday night stage to laugh at Miami because none of it was real.”
  — Dan Le Batard (42:22)

• Classic Bipo Returns:
  “This cara de chorizo over there with that grey on his face... Me, an embarrassment to our people? You know what’s an embarrassment to our people? This guy can’t even say reggaeton…”
  — Billy (as Bipo, 48:05)

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Memorable Segments: Timestamps

• Opening and Billy tributes (02:13–08:10)
• Greg Cody’s song (06:35–07:47)
• Joe Flacco discussion (09:19–11:22)
• Billy’s first show memories, off-mic years (14:25–16:53)
• Miami vs. Louisville Preview (41:17–45:39)
• Reenactment of classic show bits (Swap Helmet, Bipo) (36:14–39:08, 46:02–49:09)
• ESPN/Bristol nostalgia (23:45–29:53)

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Tone, Vibe, and Flow

This Local Hour blends affectionate trolling with real sentiment, as the crew celebrates the life and work of Billy Gill while recapping both sports and show lore. The atmosphere is festive, chaotic, and best enjoyed by those who cherish in-jokes and layered radio history, but Dan and Stugotz maintain their uniquely Miami brand of irreverent, self-aware sports talk.

Each segment pivots between laughter, nostalgia, sports hot takes, and musical send-offs—making it a perfect encapsulation of why the Le Batard show is beloved in South Florida and beyond.

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Summary by The Podcast Summarizer For more, listen to the full episode and experience the emotion and mayhem first-hand!

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Dan Le Batard]

We are back with thanksgilling. That was fun yesterday. Yesterday was a good episode. A lot of good feedback. We're very excited for this episode.

[Chris Cote]

Though this.

[Dan Le Batard]

Billy went out with a bang.

[Billy Gill]

He did.

[Dan Le Batard]

Billy went out with a bang. We were about to play on this. Happy Thanksgiving. We are going to celebrate Billy's last show, his final day with us. It was a doozy. People might show up. Every bit Billy's ever done, he pulled it out.

[Billy Gill]

He did.

[Dan Le Batard]

You know, we were very thankful for the effort that he put in on that last day.

[Chris Cody]

We miss you, Billy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Happy Thanksgiving.

[Chris Cote]

Happy Thanksgiving, Dan.

[Chris Cody]

Happy Thanksgiving. Here's the show.

[Dan Le Batard]

That was good.

[Billy Gill]

That was perfect, dad.

[Chris Cote]

Thank you.

[Dan Le Batard]

I almost ripped Billy in there. I was almost gonna be like. It would have been nice to get that effort, you know, maybe before the final day. But I'm keeping that in there.

[Chris Cote]

I'm leaving it.

[Chris Cody]

Leave that in there. Just let it linger off.

[Chris Cote]

The end of that for sure.

[Chris Cody]

As if he didn't know he was on Mike. Because he didn't know he was on my leave. All of that in there. Now what? This doesn't qualify. This does not qualify. It's got to be huge breaking news. It's not just sniffing around Bill Belichick.

[Chris Cote]

He's a voyeur at this point. This is getting weird.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's not a big episode unless a means there.

[Mike Lombardi]

That's true. But it is a pretty ridiculous episode.

[Chris Cote]

I mean, it's a good find. The lost tapes and whatnot.

[Mike Lombardi]

It's a great find. But you know what it is, Mike? It's a window into how the power dynamics at play. Because I think all this time we've been saying it's Jordan and. And she's running the stuff or whatever. And according to this episode, it's a Game of Thrones. It's not just her, because Mike Lombardi's in there too, and he's got the ear and he's pulling. But at the same time, him and Jordan don't like each other. And so it's like a competition for the ear of the king. So it's a fast.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's.

[Mike Lombardi]

How long is this thing gonna blow?

[Chris Cote]

You know who comes out smelling like roses? Matt. Patricia in all this. He's even had a glow up of sorts.

[Chris Cody]

He's skinny. Patricia is skinny.

[Chris Cote]

Patricia is actually a Chris Cody thing.

[Chris Cody]

Are you.

[Billy Gill]

Are you regretful that you were there the first day that the Ballmer thing came out? I mean, because now it feels like you're part of this situation. And I would imagine this is burning some bridges for you professionally.

[Mike Lombardi]

Absolutely. Nuked any relationship I have with the clip.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah. And you didn't. You didn't have any sense that that was going to happen when you sat down that day?

[Mike Lombardi]

No, I didn't know what it was about.

[Dan Le Batard]

Picture me walking into la. What's up? To be fair. Are you really that plugged in with the Clippers?

[Mike Lombardi]

I used to be.

[Chris Cody]

He was wearing a Clippers jersey in the episode and he wasn't a costume.

[Mike Lombardi]

He wasn't faking it like that was. That was the second episode that was trolling.

[Chris Cody]

What?

[Dan Le Batard]

No, just supporting.

[Mike Lombardi]

Oh, I. Giving them the benefit of the doubt.

[Chris Cody]

I don't think that that whispering wind qualifies for this episode. I mean, you've heard it. I have not heard the whole episode. I know what it's about. But this, this should only be for big national breaking news. That's gonna get everyone talking. The winds shouldn't blow for anything else.

[Mike Lombardi]

It's not. Yeah, it's not a big breaking news, but it is incredible context to a situation that we're familiar of and through Pablo's reporting and also what's happened during the season. But now it's like, oh, now I get what the power dynamics at play are. And that's what makes it really interesting.

[Chris Cody]

I am told, Chris, that a lot of people here who don't know necessarily how they want to express their feelings toward Billy want to do so through song that Jeremy says that he wants to say goodbye. He's not supposed to be in today. Nobody asked him to come in. Billy didn't ask him to be.

[Billy Gill]

I definitely didn't ask for Jeremy.

[Chris Cote]

Jeremy wants to serenade Billy with song on his last day.

[Chris Cody]

He's not the only one. Well, this is a good question. Question that you ask. We often ask it about Greg Cody. He too wants to serenade you with song and I don't know if he's doing that for him or for you. Chris, have you heard Greg Cody's song?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, and it's a tear jerker.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, no. We're gonna start. Sash.

[Dan Le Batard]

Strap it on, boys.

[Chris Cote]

It's a Turker strap.

[Chris Cody]

What on?

[Mike Lombardi]

Is something happening with Billy?

[Billy Gill]

You became the dude as you vaulted a useless sound not hard to find and our love for you it was forged in fire Every time you blew your mind Skeptical at times but nuance always knows how to make us feel without you on the show, you won't be back, Jack. Our favorite, favorite hypochondriac. So bang those pots and pans into the sky to go where apple pies and eagles fly it's hard to say goodbye. An onion won't be the thing to make us cry when it's Hard to say goodbye.

[Chris Cody]

I got no shot today. I got no shot of being any good today.

[Mike Lombardi]

Billy.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was a tearjerker. It was a tear jerker.

[Chris Cote]

And just tap into that emotional repression of yours.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the forged in fire for me.

[Billy Gill]

Think of the bad moments.

[Chris Cody]

Well, we've got top five things Billy won't miss. Do you want to just start the show there?

[Billy Gill]

No, we can build it. Couple olis.

[Chris Cody]

Okay. We have. We also have like last night was a great night for old guy in sports. Actually three old arms. Three old arms. Because I'm going to throw. Aaron Rodgers throwing a Hail Mary 70 yards. That was crazy. The biggest one, the biggest story from last night was Scherzer, but we'll get.

[Dan Le Batard]

To all the throw from Aaron Rodgers.

[Chris Cote]

What a great incomplete pass.

[Dan Le Batard]

If he had five more yards as a guy in the back of the.

[Chris Cote]

End zone open right away.

[Dan Le Batard]

Five more yards.

[Chris Cote]

I think their odds in the AFC went down after watching that incomplete, dare.

[Mike Lombardi]

I say the greatest incomplete pass ever.

[Billy Gill]

Ooh, I don't know.

[Chris Cote]

He's had a couple of those one.

[Chris Cody]

That's pretty incredible. I watching Flacco go into the wayback machine and have the Bengals make it look easy was legitimately confusing to me. Like, wait a minute, how can Flacco be burrow for a day? Nobody can throw for 350 yards unless they're trying to come from behind. What do you mean he's going to do it all game where it just. Everyone's going to be open whenever Flacco wants him to be open because no one can cover Jamar Chase. Oh, that's right. No one can cover Jamar Chase. How bad is Browning?

[Chris Cote]

Chase had like 23 targets in this game.

[Mike Lombardi]

Insane.

[Chris Cote]

My favorite subplot of the NFL season is this war between Joe Flacco and Mike Tomlin that has been right under our noses, but we haven't paid attention to it.

[Chris Cody]

Really. Well, let's get to these sounds in a second because how does it escape our attention that we found the guy that makes Mike Tomlin blink? Like, clearly, Mike Tomlin is afraid of Flaco and for good reason. Like he's been trying to warn us. He's been telling us for years certain things won't allow you to get out of the stadium. One of them's Flaco. And get the sound here. We haven't played much of this sound of him Tomlin before this game, just warning us again and again. I don't want any part of Flacco. Please, you guys don't injure Anthony Richardson. I Don't want Flaco in the game. I'm afraid of the veteran quarterback. You know, to be honest, it was shocking to me. Andrew Berry must be a lot smarter than me or us, because it doesn't make sense to me to trade a quarterback that you think enough of to make your opening day starter to a division opponent that's hurting in that area. But that's just my personal feelings.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's like, hey, Browns, why You trained him to the Bengals? He said it before the game, and look what we saw.

[Chris Cody]

That's as afraid as we've ever heard. That man, that man who's never had a losing season in our most violent sport, who wins every season, we've never heard of him afraid of anybody except clearly Joe Flacco. Like, make no mistake about it, because weeks before that, he told us, yeah, we were trying to keep their other young quarterback healthy because we didn't want to see Flacco a year ago, we're playing in Indianapolis, man, and I commented to the guys that, you know, keep Richardson upright.

[Billy Gill]

Don't put Flacco in the game.

[Chris Cody]

And, you know, Flacco ended up in the game.

[Chris Cote]

Has someone ever won a comeback player of the year because of the comeback within one singular season? Like, he's just coming back from being with the Browns.

[Chris Cody]

Do you know how hard it is to be better than the comeback player that you already are, that you won over a guy who died on the field and came back?

[Dan Le Batard]

Talk about breathing life in a franchise. That's what Joe Flacco does.

[Chris Cote]

A breath of fresh air, breath of.

[Dan Le Batard]

New life for NFL franchises.

[Chris Cody]

Tone, you're. You are. The Bengals now are in play.

[Dan Le Batard]

All of a sudden they're back, baby.

[Chris Cody]

All of a sudden we're all like, three and four. Can he get him to burrow? Can flock? Can Flacco just get him the bridge quarterback?

[Billy Gill]

We needed the 40 year old.

[Mike Lombardi]

He is the living embodiment of Marty McFly's parents kissing at the Enchantment under the Sea dance like, oh, like the Bengal season's disappearing. I was like, oh, my God.

[Chris Cote]

I don't feel so good, Doc.

[Mike Lombardi]

They kiss like earth angel. Earth angel.

[Chris Cote]

I need Pablo to investigate the urban legend surrounding Joe Flacco's comeback player of the year win. Because in league circles, there was chatter that Joe Flacco was supposed to, if he won the award, give it to Demar Hamlin in a nice moment. And as the urban legend goes, like, Flacco's like, get out of here. This is my award.

[Chris Cody]

I won it the Only way to do better than win comeback player of the year over a guy who came back from the dead is to be able to come back from the brown shirt tried to wreck you at the end, and you wouldn't let it happen. And now you're out there roaming, roaming around, and your remains are literally haunting the man that we thought, Mike Tomlin, had no fear. Like, he's clearly haunted by the idea you guys are really going to give him the division. I had it right there. I was going to be 5 and 1. We were going to bury the Bengals forever, and I can't because now Flaco's roaming around in the division, and, oh, my God, they've got good receivers. Oh, my God, they gave all their money to the receivers. So I thought, I'm. I'm looking forward to talking to Dominique Foxworth about this, because the game I watched last night, I thought Jalen Ramsey played well. But T. Higgins is really good. And on that last play, T. Higgins has also paid a huge amount of money to make that last play. And I'd like to know, what is your measurement, guys, on the game Jalen Ramsey played last night because with the running game the Bengals had, their corners were on an island and didn't have a real chance, but the one that had no chance was whoever's guarding Jamar Chase. They decided Ramsey's going to be on Higgins, and he slowed Higgins, but not if Higgins and Chase are going to be what they've been for three seasons. That are the reason the Bengals paid them all that money. Tony, yes or no? Jalen Ramsey played a good game last night.

[Mike Lombardi]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Look, it's hard to play a good.

[Chris Cote]

Game when you're constantly getting beat by.

[Dan Le Batard]

Two really great receivers. Right. Like, as a.

[Chris Cote]

As a corner, it's a failure position. It's like almost like hitting 3, 300.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're going to fail 70% of the.

[Chris Cote]

Time, but you're still going to hit. 300. As a good corner.

[Dan Le Batard]

You fail more than you succeed. But when you do succeed, it's big.

[Chris Cote]

It just feels like when you're getting.

[Dan Le Batard]

23 targets, that's usually never happening to somebody you're guarding.

[Chris Cody]

I can't believe how easy the. The Bengals made offense look last night. But I do want to spend today making sure while we celebrate old people, we celebrate as well that Billy Gill has a montage of things here of sounds that we have.

[Billy Gill]

It's a connection to old people there.

[Chris Cote]

Well, you are getting older.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. That sometimes that you can't dispute what Tony said. You can't dis. You are getting older.

[Mike Lombardi]

Am I?

[Chris Cote]

Are you getting younger?

[Chris Cody]

Some would say we have sound here of Billy's first words on the program as we go. Full nostalgic and biographical. Billy, do you have any recollection whatsoever. Do you have any context for this sound that we're going to play? Do you remember your first words on the program?

[Billy Gill]

No.

[Chris Cody]

Have you seen this? Do you know anything about what Chris Cody has dug up here that are your first sounds on the program?

[Billy Gill]

I don't. I remember starting, though, off with a confidence that was uncommon to most people. The vault. And it is a vault, okay?

[Chris Cote]

That's what Strugg and Mary Lou Retton did, okay?

[Billy Gill]

The vault is the vault, okay? It's a form of the pommel horse without the handles. The pommel horse is only used in men's gymnastics, okay?

[Chris Cody]

So you can't vault off the pommel horse. You can in female gymnastics, but the horse without the handles.

[Billy Gill]

It serves a dual purpose. Sort of.

[Chris Cody]

We need to get to the bottom of this. I cannot have this leaking into the next segment. Just tell me so that I can get it out of my brain and move on to other topics. Please, Billy. Not sort of. Just tell me, can you vault off the pommel horse? Does anybody do this?

[Billy Gill]

They used to. Not anymore.

[Chris Cody]

Okay. Not an answer.

[Billy Gill]

They used to.

[Chris Cody]

You can if you're an idiot. All right, moving on.

[Billy Gill]

No, no, no, no.

[Chris Cody]

You want to keep it right here? No, I don't want to. That's the first time he ever spoke. How many?

[Dan Le Batard]

And then there was a texter. The next segment. People were not happy with billy.

[Chris Cody]

Texture, right?

[Mike Lombardi]

10.

[Chris Cody]

I believe we can all agree with this. Billy is the worst. Billy just uttered a couple of syllables there, but already you have turned on him. His radio debut. I'm pre Billy's radio debut on our program, he uttered about four syllables total. I thought he was efficient and funny. People don't want to hear from anybody who isn't us. They have turned on Billy for using the same microphone that they complain that Mike Ryan sometimes turns on. Boy, things have gotten out of control around here in terms of how much the people speak. Billy, how many shows did you go without speaking? How many shows did this week did you work here?

[Billy Gill]

Two years.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like used to have to earn.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, I saw the show for two plus years before I said anything. Sitting in the corner with Stevie, who could barely log the show, just answering the phone even that I'd have to type in the description.

[Chris Cote]

That was quite the producer. Battle Stevie, King of the mountain who wants it boys? You were Stevie and you guys just.

[Billy Gill]

All you and Stu guy just wanted to be Stevie's friend the whole time. Man. Stevie's so hot. What's wrong with you guys?

[Chris Cote]

I invited Stevie to my wedding.

[Chris Cody]

I don't feel like it's fair to group me and you and Stu Gods thought that Stevie was so hot.

[Chris Cote]

He was so bad. But we just love the vibes. He's like, hey man, I forgot to log the show today. You do you Stevie.

[Billy Gill]

You're doing great. You guys treated him also like Joe is like how the lady's treating you. Stevie live this weekend like, ah, Stevie.

[Chris Cote]

His dad was like friends with Stu Gats.

[Billy Gill]

Stevie vibes he works hard.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Billy Gill]

Don LeBatard. Risk reward of going into the woods by yourself. You die or you see some trees. I'm not gonna die to go see some trees. Stugats. Listen to me. You've seen one tree, you've seen them all, okay? There's no special trees out there. That is absolutely not. I feel like it's true.

[Chris Cody]

Let me break. This is nonsense.

[Billy Gill]

This is the Don Libertar show with the Stugach.

[Chris Cody]

Let's get some video here. Beepo. And also more recently, right, because I, Billy and Zaz had a moment the other day that I want to replay because I, I'm pretty sure it was the introduction of the mouthpieces.

[Chris Cote]

The dentech bucket mouthpiece. Yeah, yeah.

[Chris Cody]

But let's, let's play some of that back. Going back to the Clevelander. Uh, let's get, let's, uh, celebrate Bipo for a second. Something that we can make happen, right?

[Billy Gill]

This is, bro, you take a turnover chain, you put on the Cuban flag beanie, and that's it. You walk out with Jorge and that's It Bing bong.

[Chris Cody]

You gotta give him a Cuban flag.

[Billy Gill]

He's gonna quit before the fight even starts because he's gonna see what's up. As soon as you walk to the ring with him, you take a Goswela, you start making. Let me fight it. Hold on.

[Chris Cody]

Lots of bands.

[Billy Gill]

That's how you need to go to the ring the day of the fight. You don't have this, Sugat. You don't have this in you.

[Dan Le Batard]

You just broke something.

[Chris Cody]

Yes.

[Billy Gill]

Right? And guess what else is going to get broken? Nate's face is hitting in front of my heart. I don't know for a second, I'm telling you.

[Chris Cody]

All right, so I'm going to train with Guillermo.

[Billy Gill]

I mean.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, how do I handle today? Weaving between sports and celebrating what is obviously an emotional last day for all of us without allowing the emotion to get in the way of an emotional last day for all of us.

[Mike Lombardi]

Wait, whose last day is it?

[Billy Gill]

Eve's.

[Mike Lombardi]

I know. I saw that email. I was crushed.

[Billy Gill]

Shout out to Eve Wolf. Thank you for your service.

[Chris Cote]

We should have made this a Stevie Coltune tribute show.

[Mike Lombardi]

Oh, my God. I want to learn more about the Stevie Cow.

[Chris Cody]

I've never heard of him.

[Chris Cote]

He's the best. Recently got married.

[Billy Gill]

Ah, congratulations. They tied him down, huh?

[Dan Le Batard]

You didn't get the invite back, man.

[Mike Lombardi]

Wow.

[Chris Cote]

I was a little raw about that, to be honest. By the way, Kevin Ngandi says congratulations. Billy ran into him last night. The great Kevin Ngandi.

[Chris Cody]

Wow.

[Billy Gill]

Didn't we accuse him of putting a mirror over his bed?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

Look at me.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think that was me.

[Chris Cote]

Kevin Ngandi.

[Dan Le Batard]

We were saying, who at ESPN most looks like they have a mirror over.

[Mike Lombardi]

Their bed, but he looks at himself. He's just looking at his face.

[Dan Le Batard]

No one's ever been more excited to see us in Bristol than Kevin Ngandi. It was awesome.

[Billy Gill]

So nice with Victor Cruz, who could not care less about it at all. Bristol's so weird. I loved it. It's so weir. Just walk around the corner like, oh, there's Linda Cohen.

[Dan Le Batard]

I went down a Billy Rabbit hole last night on YouTube. Anyone else do that? Bye now. I did stumble into a best of montage of myself, but I got it. I got a good stay on that one. I got a good 10 minutes into, like, Billy montage.

[Billy Gill]

You thought about quitting?

[Mike Lombardi]

How long was that? 30 seconds?

[Dan Le Batard]

No, it was like, 19 minutes.

[Mike Lombardi]

Actually, 19 minutes when I got fired.

[Dan Le Batard]

Someone made it.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, wow.

[Mike Lombardi]

Oh, so this is all pre. Got it.

[Chris Cody]

Can you tell me Mike Ryan is. If during your dinner with Kevin Negande, anything presented itself that made it more accurate? What? We've just alleged that not only is Kevin Negandi the person at ESPN most likely to have a mirror on their roof in their bedroom, but Amin's contention that it's not to have sex, it's just so that he can see himself in the mirror because.

[Billy Gill]

Good morning, Kevin.

[Chris Cody]

Because television is the vanity business. That's right. Right. Looking good, Kevin. If you weren't up there, I'd love to have sex with you. You look so good.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know why I made him.

[Chris Cote]

Joe.

[Billy Gill]

Tess, you look great.

[Chris Cote]

A couple things popped up from that interaction with Kevin Ngandi. I was. As a goof. We were at Joe's, and I was wearing a bib. And you know, that's not cool when a guy. It's like that scene in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Like, I wish I wasn't wearing this effing shirt. I was wearing a bib the entire time. And also, Dan, congratulations. You're at the point now where people ask, how's Dan?

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, with that face?

[Mike Lombardi]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

Is Dan okay?

[Dan Le Batard]

Like, sucking teeth?

[Chris Cote]

How's Dan?

[Chris Cody]

The way people ask me about Poppy?

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Mike Lombardi]

Hey.

[Chris Cote]

How'S Dan?

[Chris Cody]

While you were wearing a bib.

[Chris Cote]

While I was wearing a bib.

[Billy Gill]

I'm like, just living high.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. I'm like, vibes are good.

[Chris Cody]

We got another deal.

[Chris Cote]

Can you believe dawned on me that I used to work at the same company as Kevin Negande? I'm like, what a weird time. I don't feel like I was a member of ESPN all that much because we were working in the Clevelander. But, like, yeah, it's my old co Worker Kevin Ngandi. It was weird.

[Chris Cody]

Well, you've heard Billy, Billy walking around Bristol and walking around a corner. And seeing Lynda Cohn, I'm guessing is like Billy's children walking around Disney World and seeing Mickey Mouse at the breakfast.

[Billy Gill]

No, they're terrified of the characters. Yeah. Kids are scared of this. They're weird. It really is. They talk about Mickey, Mickey, Minnie, Minnie. Then they go see Mickey, Minnie, start crying. It's like, Jesus.

[Mike Lombardi]

My earliest. Like, literally. Well, one of my earliest memories went to Disney World, saw Goofy. Was. Wouldn't shake his hand because I thought he was gonna bite it. I was 2 years old and I, like, I was 37.

[Dan Le Batard]

I got the ball.

[Mike Lombardi]

I know, I know.

[Chris Cody]

I was in the son's front office at the time.

[Mike Lombardi]

This is last week.

[Chris Cody]

Billy, I'd like to hear more stories about you as the person who didn't speak on air here for two years, walking around Bristol for the first time feeling disoriented because you didn't actually feel that we were a part of anything that ESPN was. Because we didn't feel like we belonged up there in the big leagues, I guess.

[Billy Gill]

Well, those are different eras. We ended up at ESPN after had already been talking. Bristol, though, is. I mean, I remember we. I remember some Bristol memories that we had. We went on a trip that we had a meeting. Me and Roy showed up at the meeting. Chris was nowhere to be found. We then found him in the. The commissary, the eating air with Tony Collins. And he's like, I found Tony Collins. We're doing a tour. We're recording some tent. And I was like, that's a good idea. You should do that. And then he went after I missed a meeting. Yeah, I forgot. Who is this guy?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I wasn't invited that one.

[Billy Gill]

I remember that. And then I remember scurrying about our last day. It ended up being our last day ever in Bristol, but scurrying about our last day in Bristol to find a studio to do the Music Dome. Because that was when we got in trouble for that. We did get in trouble for that. So the original idea was to do it at the sports center desk. And they.

[Chris Cody]

The real one, yo.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

See? Too.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah. Yeah. And they were.

[Chris Cote]

Can't get in there.

[Billy Gill]

They were very much like, you will not be doing that. And then we found like another studio and they're like, you will not be doing that. And then we just kept walking around and someone's like, hey, I work in the control room of a studio. You want to use our studio? And we're like, absolutely. And it was Matthew Berry's fantasy studio.

[Chris Cote]

That was the puppet show.

[Billy Gill]

Then we started playing with the puppets. Playing with all of the knobs.

[Dan Le Batard]

Isn't he not to ruin our sources. I think he may have been the one that.

[Mike Lombardi]

He's not there anymore. Is he still in it?

[Chris Cote]

A great job on Fantasy Focus, one.

[Dan Le Batard]

Of their main fantasy talents.

[Billy Gill]

Now I'm gonna be there.

[Mike Lombardi]

How about that, man?

[Billy Gill]

Way to keep up.

[Chris Cote]

Great guy.

[Billy Gill]

My guy, man. You met Daniel. Seemed like he.

[Mike Lombardi]

Oh, that's my guy, man.

[Billy Gill]

You never met. Do it. You would have loved such a nice.

[Chris Cote]

He engineered the live show.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, he was there. He loved working with us.

[Chris Cody]

You got in trouble your first day on the campus?

[Billy Gill]

No, our last day ever. Yeah, it was. It was. And. And we got some strongly worded emails after the fact, for just crashing a set and not going through the proper protocol and furthermore playing with puppets that we should not have been playing.

[Chris Cody]

But there is. It's like the Sports center set is like a vault. I haven't been enough to actually know these things.

[Mike Lombardi]

So the real Sports center set, the one they've had for the last like six or seven years, so when you guys went, it probably would have been brand new. It's massive. It's very expensive. And you can't just walk in there.

[Chris Cody]

But even if you work there, even.

[Mike Lombardi]

If you work there, man, that's a crown jewel.

[Billy Gill]

But Billy was an employee and so is everyone else. You have to be an employee to be in the building.

[Chris Cody]

I know, but why wouldn't employees be like if somebody in our building, not that we're espn, but if you needed to walk into one of our students studios, people would walk in and out of our studios. And is it because it's this precious heirloom that that set is a recognizable set and so no employee is allowed on it without like a frisking and you got to go through an X ray and you got to go through bureaucracy and security.

[Billy Gill]

I mean, you could like stumble onto the set, but you had to keep walking. But we definitely were not going to be using the set set to tell people that thingamajig was Victor Oladipo.

[Mike Lombardi]

Remember that?

[Chris Cody]

I have now seen over the course of this week a couple of times. And I did not know it before seeing it a couple of times though I could have suspected it. But I did believe in you. And I can be naive this way. You clearly pulled that ladder over during your Dancing with the Stars update.

[Dan Le Batard]

Dancing with the Stars, Absolutely. It almost killed you, by the way, a singer.

[Mike Lombardi]

Oh, Stevie's on FaceTime.

[Billy Gill]

He's on FaceTime. Dan. Stevie, I mean, says, what's up?

[Mike Lombardi]

Well, that's a good look, Stevie.

[Billy Gill]

Stevie, the seat's open for you.

[Chris Cote]

Oh, he's got a beard now.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, Steve's gonna be here on Monday, Dan. Just you wait and see. Hopefully you don't need the show to be lost.

[Mike Lombardi]

Zoom in on that.

[Chris Cody]

There you go.

[Mike Lombardi]

That's a handsome guy.

[Chris Cote]

No wonder he looks all mature. Stevie, you're on the air, pal.

[Mike Lombardi]

Handsome Mike Fuentes.

[Billy Gill]

What's up, boys? Yeah, what's up, Stevie?

[Chris Cote]

Your vibes as always, pal.

[Dan Le Batard]

Old Homewood week old crew.

[Billy Gill]

The old crew is back.

[Dan Le Batard]

I love it.

[Billy Gill]

How the girls treating you, Stevie? You know, you guys, you guys miss me that much? I love.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. Hey, congrats on being married. Where was my invite, dog?

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, that is true. That is true. We missed the invite for invite, man.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's the next DJ gig, man.

[Chris Cody]

You know that.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chris Cote]

Do you agree that Kevin Nandi.

[Billy Gill]

Who?

[Chris Cody]

The Match Singer was the match Dancing with the Star. How could I get that wrong? Wrong. We should do Billy's top five times we got in trouble at espn. Given that we.

[Chris Cote]

We.

[Mike Lombardi]

How many ol.

[Billy Gill]

I didn't get us in trouble.

[Chris Cody]

We know number one, starting with the Masked Singer. The day after the super bowl is one of the times you told me we got in trouble and I didn't know we got in trouble. And we started with the Masked Singer after the super bowl because you're so good at doing the Masked Singer. I believe that's when the ladder came down on close to me. Is it not? Or was that a different.

[Billy Gill]

Three or season four, I think. Yeah, yeah. Ladder. The ladder thing was when we were kind of. We're going to be honest, we're running out of things to do. And then we saw a ladder in there and actual people was in there. And I was like, I want to make this guy laugh. We pulled down that ladder.

[Mike Lombardi]

I remember.

[Billy Gill]

I mean, no ladder fell.

[Mike Lombardi]

It's so I could say this now. Billy reached the point where he didn't want to do it anymore. He hated the bit, so he just tried to sabotage it.

[Dan Le Batard]

And that was common thread.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. Tends to happen usually by his own design or by Joaquin Gonzalez' that guy.

[Chris Cody]

It's a bit passive aggressive because it. That skit was not my idea. I still don't know what the difference is between Dancing with the Stars and the Masked Singer. We were only doing that because you like the Masked Singer. You got tired of it and didn't tell me.

[Dan Le Batard]

Just we were doing it because you didn't like them.

[Chris Cote]

I mean, very clearly, it's a mask.

[Billy Gill]

No, hold on a second. We were doing the Masked Singer because it was a pop culture moment, and that was us connecting with what was going on in pop culture at the time.

[Chris Cote]

Time.

[Billy Gill]

However, you know, pop culture continued to move on, and we did not. We just continued doing the Masked Singer over and over again. And I will say that when. When Covid came, while it was horrible and we lost all of those people and it was a, you know, terrible situation, all those lives lost. We also lost the ability to do the Masked Singer updates the music dome. And I could not have been happier for the situation.

[Dan Le Batard]

So many notes, like, I'm telling you, there would be pages of notes. Look at the legal pad.

[Chris Cody]

It was so unpleasant.

[Billy Gill]

That wasn't a bit.

[Dan Le Batard]

There were pages of notes.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, too many. You guys didn't even want all the information. But I had to give you all the clues so that we could guess along to figure out who the master that actually was. Thingamajig.

[Chris Cody]

That's you clearly grabbed that ladder. It's obvious. Now the investigation Pablo Torre finds out has learned that ladder was purposely. I didn't know at the time because it happened behind me. I thought it was a mistake. I really did. I believed it was a mistake.

[Mike Lombardi]

State it's like when an offensive player like pulls his defender like, oh, I.

[Dan Le Batard]

Want to relive it with audio here. Let's listen to the ladder fall.

[Billy Gill]

The tree. The tree. All right. The tree.

[Chris Cote]

Was the tree. The key.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right.

[Chris Cody]

The tree. So expertly done. Only because I was not not looking at you did I not recognize that you were doing that on purpose. Now upon further listening, if you only have audio, see if you see and can hear where it is that Billy is fiddling around and grabbing for a ladder that was already supposed to fall cuz he missed it the first time he purposely grabbed it.

[Billy Gill]

The tree. The tree.

[Chris Cody]

All right.

[Billy Gill]

The tree. All right, the tree.

[Dan Le Batard]

The ladder missed its cue.

[Billy Gill]

Total Eclipse of the Heart the tree.

[Chris Cody]

The tree. The tree.

[Mike Lombardi]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Billy Gill]

Don LeBatard. That was a long story.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, it's the only kind he tells.

[Billy Gill]

It's a short one for me. I tried to speed it up for you guys.

[Chris Cote]

You forgot about the league's cup stugats.

[Chris Cody]

La Carreta is a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the 97 Marlin celebration because it was Levon.

[Billy Gill]

Well, when Fidel died the first time. This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Chris Cody]

Play, play. The sound of Zaz and Billy Art arguing.

[Chris Cote]

This is an all time clip right here. I, I honestly, when you had the swap helmet and he was in in the studio, I was hoping you guys could recreate. The magic helmet is supposed to be.

[Billy Gill]

A good thing with a person, not the team.

[Chris Cody]

It's.

[Billy Gill]

Love it with a person. You squabble with me.

[Chris Cody]

That's. I'm not.

[Billy Gill]

You want to do business with me? You want to squat with me? Maybe I have the Broncos. You want to swap?

[Chris Cody]

No, I want to swap the team. I don't want to swap with you.

[Billy Gill]

You, who you got? It's not how I do business. Well, you don't make the rules. Maybe I got the commanders. You want the commanders? You guys don't stop doing this, your microphone's off.

[Chris Cody]

Yes. If you want the commanders, then I want to swap.

[Billy Gill]

So you want to do business with me? If you have the commanders, say I want to swap with Billy.

[Chris Cody]

I want to swap with Billy. If he has the commander.

[Billy Gill]

No. No contingencies. Take a person to slap with. This is what you got for not keeping up.

[Chris Cody]

Yo, Chris, who you got?

[Dan Le Batard]

I have the Jags. Mike has the Cardinals. They're the biggest favorite.

[Billy Gill]

You son of a. But my man had.

[Chris Cody]

And I don't like to use that.

[Billy Gill]

Word, but you made me. I might have the commanders. My teaching is hand. Right here you have the commanders. Maybe it's right here. Take a look. It's in his hand. Let me see.

[Chris Cody]

Hand.

[Billy Gill]

You sing it. You blind.

[Chris Cody]

You the commander.

[Billy Gill]

I got my team in this hand right here. You want them?

[Chris Cody]

If that team is a commander, I want them. I think Chris Cody gave you a clue.

[Billy Gill]

Want this team or not? I don't want that team.

[Chris Cody]

I'm declining. I don't want that team.

[Billy Gill]

Wow. Pretty much your funeral.

[Chris Cody]

It's as strong as you've ever been. Gangster with gangster with a lisp.

[Billy Gill]

It sounds like Jonah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jonah Hill from Wolf of Wall street.

[Chris Cote]

With the fake teeth. Billy.

[Billy Gill]

Sounded like.

[Chris Cody]

Jeremy wants to say goodbye to you. Emotionally syrupy. He wants to serenade you. He's jealous of Greg Cody's song. Jeremy's in the other room. He also badly wants to talk about Scherzer putting on the best performance that there was from an old guy yesterday. We're not going to let him do that. But Jeremy, what do you have? What. How do you want to say goodbye to Billy?

[Dan Le Batard]

Thanks, Dan. Yeah, I really wasn't sure how to say goodbye. You know I dressed as Billy today as. As tribute. He's always been one of my favorite characters. He welcomed me in with. With so much love and so much grace to the show and. And I. I didn't know how to put it into words. And speaking to him in person. I didn't know how to even write it in a card. So I decided like Greg, like yeti I. I would try to put my words into a song. So Chris, I. I think you have that available.

[Chris Cote]

Available.

[Billy Gill]

Goodbye Billy. Goodbye Billy. Goodbye Billy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Gill.

[Billy Gill]

See you later man.

[Dan Le Batard]

And I mean it from the heart, Billy.

[Mike Lombardi]

While Jeremy was setting that up.

[Billy Gill]

That's the one.

[Mike Lombardi]

The camera didn't show it. Billy was hitting him with the wrap it up.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Billy was trying to speed him up. Jeremy is vying for the position left open by Billy by trying to yammer more than Billy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stevie wants it though.

[Billy Gill]

Stevie think is the front runner right now.

[Chris Cody]

The vibes him or Udonis Aslam or. Or James Franklin. We're going to have an open tryout for. For. For Billy's seat. Do you know how difficult it is Jeremy to yammer so much that Billy tries to wrap you up?

[Dan Le Batard]

Well you know I learned from Billy that. That things like words can be. You know because it's like Charlie. Charlie. Charlie. Well you know sometimes and when. And when you think about photography like really all you have to do is just kind of point and go. There's nothing that complicated about it. And really old.

[Billy Gill]

I vote for Stevie Clay Travis's contract's up.

[Chris Cody]

Really Saw that article. Agent Shitstain. We refer to him as shit stain.

[Dan Le Batard]

A little more balance.

[Chris Cote]

Get yourself on a list.

[Chris Cody]

I do want to talk in this local hour. We will spend the show celebrating Billy and Dominique Foxworth will be around here a little bit later. Matthew Barry will be here as well. Ask him about do but great dude. Louisville and Miami played tonight.

[Billy Gill]

Louisville.

[Chris Cody]

And if people want to pounce on Miami quickly because very little annoys the national audience more than anything that resembles the U is back talk. But there will be people nationally tonight rooting for the whole Miami thing to not be real. For Louisville to win, create more chaos in college football and produce one of the great things that I missed since Saban left, left. Where are the teams that you root to lose that you don't want them to get back on top? Because Miami looks more formidable than they have looked in in 20 years, 20, maybe 25. It looks like the most balanced, physical, fast, violent, beat you in more ways team that there is. As I mentioned all week, there just aren't a lot of teams good enough that the money will tell you. Yeah, they're two touchdowns better than an offense that is scary. Like a team, a Louisville team that offensively has been scary for a while and can put up 40 at a time if that defense is real and if Miami is real, what the moment commands is they do not allow the nation on a Friday night stage to laugh at Miami because none of it was real.

[Chris Cote]

Normally I'd be super nervous about this game and I think I respect Jeff Brahm. He's like Miami, they're coming off a bye. Jeff Brahm is an incredible play caller, NFL level level play caller. They have a really talented, outstanding wide receiver that's going to be a first rounder and Chris Bell. But you know, typically these Friday ACC games, they're a little spooky. Miami historically has actually randomly been really good on these Friday nights. I think 10 and three overall since they joined the the ACC. But Louisville really struggles at what Miami excels at. That is a bad offensive line. This is a game where Reuben Bane can get after it and pad those stats every everyone understands while watching the game that he is dominating the game, but he's not racking up the sack totals the way that you would like. They're bad at pass protection with their running backs. The Skinner was here in Miami and he hasn't improved whatsoever. His frame is the same and he can't block worth a damn. So this is a game where Ruben Bane can really, with a TV window all to himself, can further entrench himself in that conversation as well as Carson Beck who has good numbers and should be in that conversation as well.

[Chris Cody]

Louisville historically, and you're going to have to help me here because not just with the pronunciation, I can't tell you how good statistically Louisville's defense is, but in my lifetime they've never had a good one in my entire Lifetime. Louisville. Louisville.

[Billy Gill]

Louisville.

[Chris Cody]

It's not that hard, not with Schnellenberger, not with anybody. Has Louisville ever had a good, good defense.

[Chris Cote]

This is probably. They've played each other since Mario Cristobal has been here. The, the battle for the boots, the bronze boots, the last three years. I would say this is probably their strongest defense of that era. Remember, like these two teams combined for like 90 something points last season. That was actually a game that I was surprised Miami won. They were kind of in control of that game, but it was like I think 52, 45 at the end. This is probably in terms of talent and effectiveness, the weakest offense that Jeff Braum has had going up against Mario Cristobal. Quarterback Miller Moss, a former USC guy, you know, he's, he's all right. Brown's a really good running back, but he seems a little hobbled. But he can break away and be a game breaker. It should be. You know, this is talent wise, though. This is the toughest test on Miami schedule to date. Did Billy check up?

[Chris Cody]

You think it's talent wise? You think, think you wait. I don't think I agree with you talent wise.

[Chris Cote]

On Miami's remaining schedule. I think that this is the toughest test remaining on their schedule. I think that at Pitt, maybe I have PTSD from like ending a season against a freshman quarterback. At Pitt, with the playoffs, no, that's.

[Chris Cody]

Just ACC fear on the road.

[Chris Cote]

But Pitt's playing better. SMU's got. That'll be an interesting road test too. But I think in terms of overall talent, Louisville is probably the most talented team remaining on Miami Skateboard schedule.

[Chris Cody]

But not more talented than the three teams they've already beaten.

[Chris Cote]

No, but you know, the season's a war of attrition and I keep holding on to. And this is not an emotional hedge. I just don't think this is the kind of year that you see a team go undefeated.

[Chris Cody]

You keep doing that though, and you know what's coming your way if they lose this one, like, you know.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, yeah. Embarrassment, shame. The rest of the nation reveling in it. And those are the stakes now, which is great. Like we, we had the conversation that if, you know, they lost this game.

[Chris Cody]

Oh my God.

[Chris Cote]

There'S no way.

[Chris Cody]

Oh my God, what is this shit.

[Billy Gill]

That you guys are talking about that Louis V and Louisville this and they're not gonna beat the K. The K's are gonna beat the shit out of this team today? I'm telling you that right now. And you guys have been saying, follow this time where has people been? Where is. What's going on? Let me tell you a little story.

[Chris Cody]

I can't believe this.

[Billy Gill]

Four years ago, a company was started, and there was this man with an accent, and his name was Gilligan something. And he said, we are going to reinvent the wheel and we are going to make all of these movies. And the first movie that we're gonna make is about you people. And I said, that sounds dope as hell. How many are we gonna make? And he said, four parts. And I said, that's sick. Four documentaries about people. I can't wait for the world to hear my story. And he said, I'm gonna make you a very wealthy man, people. And I said, that's great. What are we talking here? Millions? Billions? He said, millions. I said, great. How are you gonna pay me, bro? And he said, I'm gonna pay you in stock options. And I said, what the hell does that mean? And then he goes, well, Mr. People, this is how it's going to work. We're going to give you. And I said, great, you're going to give it to me now. He said, well, four years. Something about a vest. Four years. Something happens with a vest. And it says, on four years, I get all of that money. And he's like, well, not exactly, Mr. Peepo. I was like, what are you talking about? He said, well, in four years, you're going to get the opportunity to give me money for those stock options that I'm giving you. I think said, motherf er, you high? He said, no, no, I stopped that, but. And I said, hey, enough of that. Get out of here with that shenanigans. And you thought that I wasn't gonna come, and I wasn't gonna come. And the reason that I came is because I heard that someone said yesterday that I was an embarrassment to our people. Someone insinuated that I disappeared because I was an embarrassment.

[Chris Cody]

People.

[Billy Gill]

This carachio over there with that great on his face. And if you go back and you look, Mike, if you. It happens to know and Pablo Torre can maybe find out. We look at the old videos from the Clevelander. That beard that he had before, that was blacker than a means beer. So someone needs to look into that situation. Me, an embarrassment to our people. You know, it's an embarrassment to our people. This guy can't even say reggaeton. That's an embarrassment to our people's right about that. I, sir, am no embarrassment to our people. I am our people. There you are.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, people, your cardio is definitely taking a hit over the years. Covid. We still have the COVID 19 lungs.

[Dan Le Batard]

Congrats to people.

[Chris Cody]

I thought you were vax.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Billy Gill]

I got money on stock options.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Chris Cody]

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