Local Hour: I'm The New Daddy

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Episode: Local Hour: I'm The New Daddy
Release Date: July 2, 2025

From the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz, alongside their co-hosts Chris Cody, Greg Cody, Mike Ryan, Jeremy, and Billy, delve into a lively discussion covering Miami sports, team management, personal anecdotes, and lighthearted banter.

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1. Miami Heat's Performance and Team Management

[00:58] The episode kicks off with Chris Cody highlighting the Miami Heat's impressive eight-game winning streak, expressing uncertainty about how long it will last despite their current form. Greg Cody enthusiastically labels the Heat as the "hottest team in town," setting a positive tone for the discussion.

[01:13] Chris Cody introduces Zaslo, a passionate Miami Heat supporter, who shares his disappointment with the team's recent performance. Zaslo voices his frustration, stating, “I’m bummed, man. I feel like it made me look stupid” ([02:21]), emphasizing his unwavering loyalty despite setbacks.

The conversation shifts to the Heat's recent trades and team-building strategies:

• Chris Cody critiques the Heat’s trade for Fontechio, expressing skepticism about the value received in return: “But when it comes to the Miami Heat... Zsasz is really firm in his convictions and allegiances. But right now he is super bummed” ([01:37]).

• Greg Cody breaks down the trades, pointing out the minimal returns from significant players who contributed to the team's finals appearances. He remarks, “For the entire two finals runs era of Heat basketball, what you get back is Wiggins, Rosier, A1 and A2” ([02:21]).

[09:11] The discussion deepens into an analytical debate about the best shooters in Miami Heat history. Billy provides statistical insights, comparing Jason Capono’s impressive 49% three-point shooting for a single season with legendary shooters Ray Allen and Duncan Robinson, both averaging around 39.8% over multiple seasons. Greg Cody adds context, noting, “He shot 49% from three as a member of the Miami Heat, which is insane” ([10:07]).

[11:26] As the segment concludes, the hosts agree that while the Heat have faced challenges, the foundation remains strong with key players like Ray Allen and Duncan Robinson continuing to make significant contributions.

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2. The Great Handyman Debate

Transitioning from sports, the podcast takes a humorous turn into personal anecdotes about handyman skills and DIY culture.

[21:18] Chris Cody poses a lighthearted question about the integrity of gymnastics, which serves as a segue into a broader conversation about personal abilities to fix things around the house.

• Greg Cody claims to be a handyman, prompting skepticism from Chris, who jokes, “That's how you end up with a handyman with one hand” ([23:17]).

• Dan LeBatard admits his reluctance, saying, “I know how to. I just don't want to screw it up” ([31:25]), highlighting the common fear of making mistakes in DIY projects.

[32:32] The discussion evolves into a critique of professional mechanics, with Greg Cody sarcastically advising listeners to use YouTube for all their car repair needs: “You can learn how to fix anything on YouTube now” ([32:22]).

• Jeremy and Chris Cody join in, sharing humorous takes on failed DIY attempts and the reliance on online tutorials, emphasizing the show's casual and humorous spirit.

[34:22] The hosts collectively apologize to listeners who might be frustrated by their lack of handyman skills, while Greg Cody encourages using online resources: “You can learn how to fix anything on YouTube now” ([32:32]).

This segment underscores the everyday struggles and humorous side of not being handy, resonating with many listeners who face similar challenges.

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3. Dolphins' Uncertainty and Team Prospects

Shifting back to sports, the hosts analyze the Miami Dolphins' current state and future prospects.

[41:36] Greg Cody references a tweet by Louis Riddick expressing skepticism about the Dolphins' future: “Dolphins are the very definition of uncertainty” ([41:36]). He questions the team's coherence and chemistry, especially after signing high-profile players like Darren Waller.

[42:19] Mike Ryan counters by expressing optimism, calling it "the most exciting Dolphin team in my lifetime," showcasing the diverse opinions among the hosts.

[43:02] Dan LeBatard reflects on the Dolphins' inconsistency, lamenting lost opportunities due to injuries and ineffective team management: “It took so long. We finally got there. And now it's gone again” ([43:02].

[44:01] The group agrees that the Dolphins lack depth, particularly on the defensive line, which hampers their ability to maintain a strong performance despite offensive improvements.

[45:34] The conversation wraps up with a consensus that while the Dolphins have potential on paper, their ability to execute and maintain stability remains in question, leaving their future season shrouded in uncertainty.

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4. Personal Anecdotes and Listener Engagement

Throughout the episode, the hosts interweave personal stories and engage in playful banter, creating a relatable and entertaining atmosphere.

[25:28] Dan LeBatard shares a heartfelt story about his father's relationship with Uncle Richard, highlighting family dynamics and the unexpected ways people connect, even during somber moments: “After the funeral, my dad's driving... blasting a Beach Boy song” ([25:49]).

[35:58] The discussion shifts to parenting decisions, where Greg Cody humorously narrates a hypothetical scenario about stealing a co-host's family to spite him, blending humor with exaggerated storytelling to entertain listeners.

[38:22] The hosts continue with playful exchanges about half-birthday celebrations for their child, illustrating the camaraderie and light-heartedness that characterize the show.

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5. Closing Remarks and Reflections

As the episode wraps up, Dan LeBatard and the team reflect on the day's discussions, balancing serious sports analysis with humorous personal stories. The blend of in-depth sports commentary and relatable anecdotes ensures that both avid sports fans and casual listeners find something engaging in the episode.

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Notable Quotes:

• Mike Ryan on Feeling Bummed:

  "Doesn't mean I don't have my allegiance. Doesn't mean my allegiance is not strong as ever. But I'm bummed, man. I feel like it made me look stupid." [02:21]

• Greg Cody on Heat Trades:

  "For the entire two finals runs era of Heat basketball, what you get back is Wiggins, Rosier, A1 and A2." [02:21]

• Chris Cody on Handyman Skills:

  "That's how you end up with a handyman with one hand." [23:17]

• Greg Cody on DIY Solutions:

  "You can learn how to fix anything on YouTube now." [32:32]

• Greg Cody on Dolphins' Future:

  "Dolphins are the very definition of uncertainty." [41:36]

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This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz masterfully blends sports analysis with personal stories and humor, offering listeners a comprehensive and entertaining experience. Whether dissecting the Miami Heat's management or poking fun at DIY mishaps, the hosts deliver engaging content that resonates with a broad audience.

Transcript

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[Chris Cody]

Guarantee in terms of sports allegiances around here, I don't know how many days we've ever had when Billy gets to walk in on an eight game winning streak with his Marlin.

[Greg Cody]

Hell yeah. Hottest team in town.

[Chris Cody]

And Zaslo is officially bummed about the Heat, man. Official. It's official. Zaz. One of the super homers that we have in town. Mike Ryan's a homer. Parakeet Cortez is a homer. Greg Cody is a homer. But when it comes to the Miami Heat two time champion broadcast, Zsasz is really firm in his convictions and allegiances. But right now he is super bummed.

[Mike Ryan]

Doesn't mean I don't have my allegiance. Doesn't mean my allegiance is not strong as ever. But I'm bummed, man. I feel, I feel like it made me look stupid.

[Chris Cody]

Why and how did they make you look stupid?

[Mike Ryan]

And let's, let's also go on the record here. I don't like looking stupid. They make me look stupid because I. It's not that I've sat here and defended them. It's that like I'm trusting that they're going to do something and I'm just sitting here like watching them do nothing. Everyone else is doing stuff. Some teams are doing stupid stuff. But it's Eastern Conference. It feels wide open. It's like every roster spot is filled. They literally have every roster spot filled. They've added one player. Funtecho.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, that part was funny. You couldn't have found a funnier name to trade for than to have Duncan Robinson leave town. When I first met Fontecchio, I laughed at his name like the first time I saw Fontechio. I'm like that can't be good at sports because it's named Fontechio. And I now have in front of me for an era of Heat basketball. And this part hurts. This is the total of what you got for all of these players who made it to the finals and had an exciting run. Okay, so you got nothing for Jake Crowder, you didn't get anything for Caleb Martin, you didn't get anything for P.J. tucker, you didn't get anything for Gabe Vincent, you got a second for Strus, you got nothing for Duncan Robinson except some cap relief. And Fontechio, you did get Fontechio. Dragic with Precious, you got Lowry, and then you sent Lowry with a first round pick to get Rozier and Jimmy for Wiggins in a first. So for the entire two finals runs era of Heat basketball, what you get back is Wiggins, Rosier, A1 and A2.

[Mike Ryan]

How does it make you feel when I say you traded Dragic, Precious, Achua and a first round pick for Rozier?

[Billy]

Oh, that's really the. The only one that actually stands out there as like, woof, poor management. But the rest of it is. The rest of it is understandable. If you look at every other team that makes runs to the finals, it's not like they then preemptively trade their roster. You got play out of those players. So when you say you got nothing, that's not true. You went to two finals with them, and when they were free agents, they got better offers elsewhere because you learned your lesson from the previous time that you did this in overpaid guys like.

[Chris Cody]

Tyler Johnson, that feels like some spin cycle when your roster is now bam Hero. Davion, Mitchell, Warehouse, Jovic, Larson, Fontechio, Love, Kyle Anderson, Hawkez, Wiggins, Rosier, Highsmith, Johnson.

[Billy]

Yeah, and everybody was salivating over the Hawks yesterday. Like, the guys that they added are these giant difference makers.

[Jeremy]

Would you like Porzingis on this team?

[Billy]

Dude, of course.

[Chris Cody]

Would you like.

[Billy]

But that's not the position that they were in.

[Dan LeBatard]

Would you like to do.

[Billy]

To add guys just to add them? It doesn't make a ton of sense, but I guess.

[Jeremy]

Would you like Luke Canard?

[Billy]

I want to be better in the Eastern Conference. Like, I don't know exactly what the plan is, but I just know I don't want to overpay whatever it is.

[Greg Cody]

If Dan had said that exact same thing and the team was the New York Knicks, you would all be ripping the Knicks and laughing at them like they were a laughingstock. But instead, now we're gonna be like, well, Pat Riley has a plan. And now we're gonna be on a Pat Riley apology tour for three hours.

[Chris Cody]

Started with he's bummed. He didn't start with. I hope he started with, I hope he has a plan. But it didn't seem like it was confident that there's plan.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm bum dog.

[Greg Cody]

This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast.

[Chris Cody]

As, as just mentioned during the shadow show, he is someone who, under all circumstances, refuses to look ridiculous and he does not like that the Miami Heat have made him look ridiculous.

[Mike Ryan]

Hate looking ridiculous. Ridiculous.

[Chris Cody]

I have not looked up the stats, but now Duncan Robinson has gone to Detroit. Detroit is on the ascent. Detroit is a very good young team. They can use. When they've got a gambling. An alleged gambling problem on their roster, they can use the shooting of Duncan Robinson. And I'm doing the eye test here. I've not looked at the numbers. Mike Ryan disputed this when I said it yesterday. Duncan Robinson is the best shooter in Heat history. Do I have that wrong?

[Billy]

You don't have that wrong.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, what are you going by? You're going statistically. Are you going by?

[Chris Cody]

I'm legitimately going by. When he shoots, I think it's going in more than any other player who's ever shot a basketball for the Miami Heat. I haven't looked at any other numbers. It's simply based on when that person's shooting, do I believe it's going in more than at other times? People have been wearing that uniform.

[Jeremy]

By that metric, you donis Haslam, greatest shooter of all time in Heat history. Because that little short corner J was always going in no matter what we.

[Dan LeBatard]

Obviously, you start. I'll put Duncan second. But obviously Ray Allen is the top shooter. Just game six. That shot number one all time. I don't care what anyone says. I don't care what numbers you say.

[Mike Ryan]

That's a moment, though.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's. But it's just. That's the shot. You think of Miami Heat shooters. Ray Allen. That's the.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay, so you also think then, that LeBron is the greatest player in Miami Heat history. Not Dwyane Wade.

[Dan LeBatard]

That elbow jumper. Don't. I mean, you could talk me into that elbow jumper. Putting LeBron on the Mount Rushmore.

[Mike Ryan]

Because that's the same argument. LeBron's the best player in Heat history, not Dwyane Wade. If Ray Allen's best shooter in Heat.

[Dan LeBatard]

History, not Duncan, I see what you're doing there. I'm not going to play that game with you.

[Greg Cody]

Where's James Posey on the list? Because I felt confident when James Posey had the ball. But Tippy, it was probably the Sox, but I felt good about James Posey.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do you mean Mike Miller? No, because you say socks like Mike Miller socks. I thought you said socks like he shot front with.

[Greg Cody]

Come on, man. Are you a Heat fan or not?

[Mike Ryan]

Do you feel like people confuse James Posey and Mike Miller often?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

I don't think we're going to get any other nominations from the entirety of anyone who has ever watched basketball that has James Posey as the best shooter in Heat history.

[Greg Cody]

No, no.

[Stugatz]

You stumbled onto another Wild Billy Wednesday.

[Greg Cody]

You guys don't know how to play these dance partners.

[Mike Ryan]

It's about to get wild.

[Greg Cody]

Stats be damned. When James Posey had the ball and I know I'm alone on this island.

[Mike Ryan]

That's what people say when they're wrong, by the way, stats be damned.

[Chris Cody]

Well, that's. No, they also say what Chris says. I don't care what the numbers say. I don't care what anyone says. I'm right about that.

[Greg Cody]

Well, you started with, I didn't look at any of the numbers, but what's the difference there?

[Chris Cody]

I admitted all of it.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, so we're on the same page.

[Chris Cody]

I just don't do it every single time with every argument. Usually my arguments have a little more information than that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Can we put on the poll best shooter, best Heat shooter of all time? Duncan Robinson, Ray Allen.

[Greg Cody]

You guys put Antoine Walker on there, too. I felt good about. That's the island I'm on. But I love Antoine.

[Mike Ryan]

What about the man with the golden arm?

[Billy]

I cannot believe the Jason Capono erasure.

[Chris Cody]

Wow, that is a terrible nickname.

[Stugatz]

By the way, the man with the golden arm. Eric Reid tried to get that off the ground.

[Jeremy]

Too wordy.

[Stugatz]

It is as a nickname ever worked that has that many words? The man with the golden arm is a six word.

[Mike Ryan]

Also, do you feel like you shoot with your arm? Like you show your hand, your wrist?

[Stugatz]

It was a truly terrible nickname.

[Chris Cody]

What did Capono give me the numbers of officially? Just what are the numbers officially on.

[Stugatz]

Three point shooting for Ray Allen, Duncan Robinson and James. James Posey.

[Billy]

Well, I have the three point field goal percentage leaders in team history for Miami. Now, this isn't about volume. Jason Capono is at the top. He shot 49% from three as a member of the Miami Heat, which is insane. But if you want to look at Ray Allen and Duncan Robinson and compare them, their percentages are essentially identical. So Ray Allen in two years shot 39.8% from three for Miami over seven years. It was 39.7% for Duncan Robinson, but he did it on seven three point attempts per game, while Ray Allen did that on like four per game. So certainly the volume is different, but their minutes were the same. It's 26 minutes per game for Duncan, 26 minutes per game for Ray Allen. So they essentially played the same role on these two.

[Chris Cody]

Did you just say that Jason Capono shot 49% from three one year?

[Billy]

Has any one year as a member of the Miami Heat for years?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Well, the reason he didn't play more shooting that well is because he couldn't guard anybody. If you think Tyler Herro couldn't guard anybody. Capono had feet made of cement that he lifted off the ground to shoot that three. But I can't imagine that anyone has ever shot a higher percentage than that.

[Stugatz]

Playing for a basketball team.

[Chris Cody]

From three.

[Billy]

He did it on two attempts per game.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, it was one for two.

[Chris Cody]

But.

[Jeremy]

But still, stats be damned, though, we're having that conversation.

[Stugatz]

He won the three point.

[Billy]

He'd be taking 15 threes a game in the modern NBA.

[Chris Cody]

He won the three point competition, so it's nice. It's not just that he was taking two three pointers a game, but do we have a lot of players ever who have shot better than 50% from 3? Because I, off the top of my head, I cannot remember seeing a stat line that has some. But did Kyle korver shoot over 50?

[Mike Ryan]

I think Tim Legler led the league one time shooting over 50%.

[Billy]

Believe it or not, in the 2006 and seven season. So he joined for the championship team year one, he only took actually one three pointer per game. Shot 39.6%. But in the 2006 and seven season, on three attempts per game, he shot 51.4% from three.

[Mike Ryan]

He was a starter on that team.

[Chris Cody]

So Zaslo knows his basketball. And if you were listening last night to ESPN overnight game night with Zaslow and Norris Cole.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Couple champs.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wow.

[Chris Cody]

Zaz's power went down. And I felt for the poor producer who had to go the rest of the way with Norris Cole when Zaz's power went out in his house.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, man.

[Mike Ryan]

So you gotta understand, like, like I'm. I'm paired with Norris Cole. Okay. Which was fun. I'd never worked with him before, but like, he's not, he's not a radio host. He's. He's essentially like an analyst, you know, and, and the show's going Great. Okay. Literally 90 seconds. It's almost one in the morning. 90 seconds left in the show. My power goes out in the house. It started to storm. Power goes out in the house. And I'm like, oh, my God. And so I'm obviously kicked off the show. And for the final 90 seconds, our producer, Josiah did an excellent job. He had to drive the show.

[Jeremy]

90 seconds.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, that's nothing.

[Jeremy]

I thought you were talking about 90.

[Greg Cody]

Minutes at 1am also.

[Mike Ryan]

But then I started thinking, well, you know, I don't know if you understand how time zones work.

[Greg Cody]

I don't.

[Mike Ryan]

Ten people in the West Coast. All right, that. That's the way it goes.

[Jeremy]

The three hours behind 90 seconds on the west coast, though, right?

[Mike Ryan]

Like, but then I was just thinking, oh, my God, what if it happened? 90 minutes left. Oh, I'd have been bad.

[Greg Cody]

How's the family van doing for Norris Cole? That was.

[Mike Ryan]

Right, right, right. Still parked underneath in the arena.

[Greg Cody]

Really?

[Mike Ryan]

I think so.

[Greg Cody]

They kept that?

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, yeah, For a while.

[Greg Cody]

His family van is just parked in the arena?

[Stugatz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Why? How do they get around?

[Mike Ryan]

I. I don't know if it was still functional.

[Chris Cody]

Billy, always great at asking the questions no one can answer.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm trying to find a longer nickname than the one we said before. Charles Barkley, Round Mound to rebound. This is hard.

[Jeremy]

That's quick, though. That's Round Mound.

[Chris Cody]

That's a good one, though. And it rhymes, right? If it was the man with the golden arm, and somehow there was a farm in there somewhere. Farm. An arm.

[Stugatz]

If you got a rhyme somewhere.

[Chris Cody]

But it hurts to have. What is the. Is the. Is there a longer nickname that has worked than the mound round of the mound? The round mound of rebound. All right, yeah, sorry. So to make sure, I appreciate the help with that. What are the details? Billy, since you want to know so much about the Norris Cole van. I don't know anything about the Norris Cole van.

[Greg Cody]

It was a giant thing during the heats championship run. The Norse Cole family van was a thing that was outside of the arena.

[Mike Ryan]

They allowed fans to come by and sign it.

[Greg Cody]

That was the story about how it was that he would get to, like, all the games and stuff growing up. So they brought the family van there. The fans signed. It was a big rallying thing around this Heat team. I'm surprised you guys don't know about this family van. It's big Heat nation over here. Don't know about James Posey and his socks. Don't know about the family van.

[Chris Cody]

We do know about James Posey. And his socks called the Mike Miller. We don't know that James Posey is the shooter that Ray Allen and Duncan Robinson is. We got Jeremy heightened enough that he started a sentence with dude, which is the first sign in a debate that someone is unraveling.

[Mike Ryan]

Is that like a sign of aggression from him?

[Chris Cody]

I mean, it's. That's basically him pulling a knife.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's like mother effort.

[Chris Cody]

It's the, it's when. When Jeremy hits you with a dude to start a sentence, it's like someone else shiving you in prison.

[Jeremy]

The question was, do you want Porzingis? That's what he answered.

[Chris Cody]

Dude. Well, he's right to be upset by the fact that I tried three different times to point out hey, Lillard waved is something I wasn't expecting to see together.

[Stugatz]

And everyone wanted to talk about something.

[Chris Cody]

Something else, including the championship fortunes of the Atlanta Hawks in what you guys.

[Stugatz]

Keep calling a wide open east. As if the Cavs don't.

[Jeremy]

The Cavs are frauds and we know that.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, but the Hawks aren't.

[Jeremy]

The Hawks could be interesting.

[Billy]

Okay, could be interesting is the way we all like to analyze everything is, oh, there's something new. Wow, maybe that'll be good. And it's never good.

[Chris Cody]

This. This is one of the things that has corrupted and contaminated all off season. Talk is that the Hawks will always win the press conference in the off season. And what and the fan base wants simply change. The fan base in Miami doesn't want to keep going with a roster that they know is not good enough. And the roster looks and feels stale. I will not believe that this is what will head into the playoffs.

[Mike Ryan]

Playoffs. It better not ends the regular season. Man's a playoffs. Do you want. Do you want anybody in the stands.

[Greg Cody]

Like I think they're at.

[Mike Ryan]

I think they're at kind of a tipping point now when it comes to the fan base where there's going to be a reaction, a tangible reaction in the stands this year if the team looks like. Looks like this again. I mean, you think the buildings will be packed on Wednesday night against Charlotte if they keep this roster.

[Greg Cody]

That's why we were saying that they should get Kevin Durant because like he would be a draw even if he's on a bad team and then you have him down the road or he's part of the Heat family, he's part of the Heat culture. He's part of the history of this team knowing that they probably weren't going to build a championship contender. But at least you bring in this Memorable person in NBA history to be part of your team for a season.

[Dan LeBatard]

We're all going to look really silly if he makes a move for you.

[Chris Cody]

Not Zaz will not look silly. There's no circumstance under which zaz will not look silly.

[Mike Ryan]

I hate looking silly. And that's the part that bothers me most about what's going on with the heat here. Because I've had the confidence or I have the confidence, but I'm. I'm very confident. Everybody knows that about me, and I don't want them to make me look stupid. Right now, I feel like I look stupid, and I'd like them to do something.

[Jeremy]

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[Tony]

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[Billy]

Of course I do.

[Tony]

I make it Miller time.

[Jeremy]

Of course.

[Tony]

That beautiful white can. Oh, when it's so hot outside, I just put it right to my forehead right there. And I just roll it sometimes right on the forehead, cool my body down. And then I crack it open. Instant relief. And then that first sip, brother, does that first sip.

[Billy]

That is a top five sequence of events that you can possibly go through.

[Tony]

I'm just serenity now. When I just imagine that first sip.

[Billy]

Of Miller Light, just thinking about it.

[Greg Cody]

It'S making me happy.

[Tony]

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[Billy]

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[Chris Cody]

Don LeBatard. Go ahead, Billy. Ask him your question.

[Greg Cody]

Is gymnastics gymnastics? Pop prop, possibly. Oh, wow.

[Chris Cody]

Wow. Stugats.

[Greg Cody]

I got some phlegm in my mouth. Yeah, it's okay. Thank you. Yeah. Is gymnastics possibly corrupt? This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Chris Cody]

Chris Cody. I felt that we as a show looked stupid for a number of different reasons yesterday, but one of them was you were out. Your father said out loud, and I don't know what to believe anymore with your family because you guys hid from me for three decades that Uncle Mike exists and has one eye. Greg Cody claimed on the show yesterday that he's a handyman. And I'm like, we. If Chris were here, there's no way he'd get away with that. I know Greg Cody and unless he's decided to do something the last 10 years, I've never known him to do, which is simply learn. Because he doesn't like to learn. He's. Greg Cody's allergic to learning, doesn't want any part of it. So him being a handyman or identifying as a handyman I thought was a bold faced lie. But I didn't have anyone here to. I didn't have anyone here who could have questioned you.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, it's crazy that the bit with him, like with him, with me and my brother, his. Our whole life is. He thinks he's everything. He thinks he's handy, he thinks he's salt life. He thinks he's a country soul. He thinks he's a reggae guy. He is like. He thinks he's everything. So it's just. Yes. This is not surprising. Did he claim something about his mailbox? No, that he said. I think he tried to put up a mailbox recently. So I'm trying to. What did he say he did that?

[Chris Cody]

He said he was going to have a competition with Billy in which they tried to make some sort of furniture.

[Greg Cody]

I think we settled on a table, but we'd have to get the lumber.

[Dan LeBatard]

I would take Billy.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you.

[Dan LeBatard]

I could see Billy.

[Greg Cody]

The thing about being a handyman, like if you're Greg is you really just have to believe in your abilities to do it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Not really.

[Chris Cody]

Not true in any.

[Greg Cody]

It is true.

[Chris Cody]

That's how you end up with a handyman with one hand.

[Mike Ryan]

That's a stupid thing to say.

[Greg Cody]

That's not a stupid thing to say. You know who stops you from doing things the most? You. If you say that I can't build this table, guess what? You're never gonna build that table. If you say I can, you can build one. I mean, it may, you know, wobble from side to side, but you'll figure it out eventually. Bunch of I can't guys in here today.

[Chris Cody]

The power of positive thinking. Yeah, when Michael Jordan gives the graduation speech and says you can all be me. He's lying. The power of belief. No, there's fast twitch muscle.

[Greg Cody]

No one should believe in them.

[Chris Cody]

Required.

[Billy]

The High Ayatollah of Slamola for Larry Nance Senior.

[Mike Ryan]

That's bullshit. I never heard that.

[Stugatz]

Wait a minute.

[Jeremy]

Not a nickname you could have today, right?

[Stugatz]

Well, not a nickname you should add then either.

[Dan LeBatard]

Offensive that Jeremy.

[Jeremy]

Different time though.

[Stugatz]

The Ayatollah of Slamola.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think we're fine.

[Stugatz]

I. No, I.

[Billy]

The Houdini of the hardwood. Bob Koozie.

[Jeremy]

I like that one.

[Dan LeBatard]

It rolls right off the toe.

[Chris Cody]

Four words. The man with the golden arm.

[Billy]

The owl without a vowel. Bill.

[Greg Cody]

Milk.

[Billy]

V, M, L, K, V, Y. I.

[Dan LeBatard]

Like that one though.

[Chris Cody]

Was there a question mark in his last name?

[Billy]

There is for me.

[Greg Cody]

I think Greg said his dad was a carpenter. He was, Bill.

[Dan LeBatard]

See, that's why I think my dad thinks he's handy.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, cuz dad was. His dad was a carpenter.

[Mike Ryan]

He's like a gene that gets passed down.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm trying to think what my dad has built.

[Greg Cody]

He wanted to build. The story was he wanted to build a table around a tree. And then Uncle Richard, I think it was, he said was a know it all. And Uncle Richard came over and was constantly giving him tips on how it is that he should build said table. And he was annoyed because Uncle Richard was telling him, you need to use this corner, this or that, whatever. And then at the end he ended up telling us, well, when you build something, you need to use this. And we realized Uncle Richard actually taught Greg a lesson that day that he still carries with him today.

[Dan LeBatard]

I, Uncle Richard and my dad had a funny tentious relationship. I actually have a funny story after Uncle Richard died.

[Chris Cody]

What was that word?

[Dan LeBatard]

Tentious.

[Greg Cody]

That's.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, that's not a word.

[Jeremy]

Play on it's not.

[Dan LeBatard]

You know what I meant.

[Chris Cody]

What do you mean? It's.

[Dan LeBatard]

There's a lot of tension in their relationship.

[Greg Cody]

Tentious.

[Mike Ryan]

I didn't know what you meant.

[Chris Cody]

Contentious.

[Dan LeBatard]

Contentious. There it is. See, everyone knew what I mean.

[Greg Cody]

You can't say that first part.

[Mike Ryan]

I didn't know.

[Dan LeBatard]

So this is actually a good story. Stay focused here. When Uncle Richard died, they were having the post funeral thing at Aunt Bonnie's house. And my dad, who I had a. A nice. A weird relationship, a tentious relationship with Uncle Richard. And one of their songs was the Beach Boys. One of the happy Beach Boys songs. So my dad.

[Mike Ryan]

Are there sad Beach Boy songs? I don't know.

[Chris Cody]

Do you think of anything sad when.

[Stugatz]

You think of the Beach Boy?

[Dan LeBatard]

So my dad, thinking of Uncle Richard was playing a song that they connected of. It was a Beach Boy song, but visually the optics. So after the funeral, my dad's driving the Aunt Bonnie's house for like the post funeral thing and Aunt Bonnie's brother is out front and my dad rolls up to the post funeral party blasting a Beach Boy song. So the visual of my dad like, like happy song.

[Mike Ryan]

Windows down.

[Dan LeBatard]

Like windows down, like jamming to Beach Boys. So that, that, like he went up to my dad and was like, why are you. This is a sad time. Why are you rolling up? And my dad had to be like, no, no, no. We connected over the Beach Boys. So this was actually me paying tribute, but just not a good look.

[Mike Ryan]

He should have just said, why can't I have an enjoyable car ride?

[Billy]

Still that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Put it on. Can you show, like, are you allowed to jam out after a funeral?

[Chris Cody]

Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Can you roll away from the funeral with the music too loud in your. The happy music too loud in your car. Jeremy, you made a face on our lack of Beach Boys knowledge. Is there something horrible in the past of Brian Wilson or one of the Beach Boys?

[Billy]

Brian Wilson was like extremely depressed. Pet Sounds is. Is one of the most beautifully tragic albums ever written. Maybe the best album ever written, including the song I Just Wasn't Made for these Times, which not only is this self reflective, sad mental health song, but it's actually Kevin Love's favorite Beach Boys.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm pretty sure he rolled up to Sitting on Top of the World. Like it was like.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. I think of the Beach Boys though, as all surfing USA type of happy songs and just bounce around and. But you're right there, there is a real happy sadness. So we need, we need a different question. I do Think of Beach Boys music as being happy, though. Put it on the poll at Lebatard show, do you? Of Beach Boys music as being happy.

[Mike Ryan]

I like the idea of Greg pulling up to the funeral with Surfing usa, blasting out his car.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, he's just wildly inappropriate. And then will defend his action no matter what. And will take several days before he concedes.

[Dan LeBatard]

The thing about it is, if he's telling the truth, it's a play. He's good. But he, you know, Uncle Richard not around anymore. There's no one really to verify that they connected over Beach Boys. So my dad may have just been jamming out and then needed a cover.

[Chris Cody]

He's not a handyman, though. And he does have Dunning Kruger the same way that Stugots does, where he just delusionally thinks he's good at every single thing, even though he's 70 years old. But you guys are reminding me of the greatest thing that my father taught me around handyman stuff, which is have friends who can fix things. Because my. It's all I saw in my childhood. My brother used to tell the story of the scarring of being a Boy Scout, and my father helped him with the car, and as soon as the race started, the wheels fell off and the thing just hit the ground like as a block of wood because. And he to quit, he had to.

[Stugatz]

Leave the Boy Scouts in disgrace. Had to leave the Scouts? Well, because you can imagine, right?

[Chris Cody]

You're sitting there, you're 36 years old.

[Stugatz]

You let go of the car and then the wheels fall off. How embarrassing.

[Dan LeBatard]

Contentious.

[Chris Cody]

How you feeling about going to sit.

[Dan LeBatard]

With me for a while?

[Chris Cody]

Contentious.

[Dan LeBatard]

See, I was like. I was looking at you guys like.

[Greg Cody]

What are you guys talking about?

[Dan LeBatard]

This is clearly a word. Contentious.

[Mike Ryan]

I like the idea of Lebo in a Boy Scouts uniform.

[Chris Cody]

It didn't really fit right.

[Billy]

Leave the Scouts in discreet.

[Stugatz]

Yeah, well, my, My brother ended up doing all the sports things. Us, even though he was fast as.

[Chris Cody]

The running back, he'd just keep moving his head around because the way the.

[Stugatz]

Wind whistled through his ear hole. So we'd snap the ball and my brother just be standing there in the back, his ear hole make whistling noises and the play that's designed for him goes in the other direction. He'd also stop for like a four leaf clover if he was in the open field.

[Mike Ryan]

Do you think he takes off the patches from the scout outfit when he leaves in disgrace? Do you have to leave it behind?

[Jeremy]

They rip it off you as you walk out the door.

[Stugatz]

I mean, I feel like just the car falling apart was disgrace enough. You walk out of the Scouts never to return. Just ashamed of your father. Embarrassed. Embarrassed because your father isn't good at fixing things. My father didn't know how to put up a painting. My father didn't know how to put.

[Greg Cody]

Wasn't he an engineer?

[Stugatz]

He ran a fiberglass plan. He knew. He knew scientific things. He just didn't know how to do anything around the house.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's like the one thing I can do is put up a painting.

[Chris Cody]

Nothing.

[Jeremy]

Isn't it funny that you have these sets of Cuban men that grew up at the same time, had the same experience, yet there's a section of them who can fix anything and do anything, and there's another section that is equally as. As large that can't do anything.

[Stugatz]

But they were friends with the people.

[Greg Cody]

Exactly.

[Jeremy]

The problem is our dads and our grandfathers were on that side of the line.

[Chris Cody]

Your dad can't fix anything.

[Jeremy]

But that can't fix. Neither can my grandfather. He used to work business.

[Stugatz]

That's how it gets handed down though. When your grandpa can't fix shit, neither can your father. That's why I can't fix shit. None of these people, the Lebitards can't fix anything.

[Chris Cody]

No.

[Stugatz]

The women can. The men cannot.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's how I was about to say my mother in law. I believe the last time I had a flat tire, my mother in law changed it, which is not a fun sentence to say.

[Mike Ryan]

My wife does that stuff around our house.

[Stugatz]

Oh, man.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Stugatz]

Would you be embarrassed? Put it on the poll at Lebiton show. Would you be embarrassed if you had to call your mother in law to fix your flat?

[Greg Cody]

Don't you guys want to know how to do things though?

[Dan LeBatard]

I know how to. I just don't want to screw it up. So I'm like, ah.

[Greg Cody]

Like if I screwed up.

[Dan LeBatard]

The hardest part about changing a tire is knowing where to put the. The thing to lift the car up.

[Greg Cody]

The jack.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't want to bend my leg.

[Mike Ryan]

You don't want to deny the undercarriage.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right. It's like. Which I may have done in my, you know, I was like 17, 18. You try to lift a car, all of a sudden the car is just denting.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

And not lifting.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's like, okay, I'm not going to do this anymore.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

The jack. One of your favorite, your father's favorite sentences when he says there's a fact.

[Dan LeBatard]

Once again, you knew what I was talking about.

[Chris Cody]

I do. But your trouble with words is disconcerting today. Billy did know what we're talking and Billy did have it right when he said to the group of us, don't you guys want to learn anything?

[Greg Cody]

You can learn how to fix anything on YouTube now. Like, it's incredible. I went into my car the other. Well, my previous car IP was total, but I went in there and I fixed like the, like the thing that's on the spark plug or not the spark plug. It's on the battery, the like mount. Because it was. I had a bad. It said that I had a bad battery, but I didn't have to go in there. I had to change it. Just watch on YouTube is like this thing I ordered on Amazon. It was there.

[Jeremy]

Cabin filters you can change on YouTube in two seconds.

[Greg Cody]

Cabin filters. Can I tell you something right now? And I'm sorry to all our mechanics and mechanical scammers out there, but if you, if you go to a mechanics or a garage or whatever and they tell you we can fix your, your, your air filters, we can fix your cabin filter and there's two filters, it's gonna cost you like $250 because that's what they'll tell you. Like, oh, wow. Like, that sounds like a good deal. It is absolutely not. You can buy those two pieces for like $30 combined probably and change them in 10 minutes.

[Dan LeBatard]

And then I can stare at the like my engine for like three hours.

[Greg Cody]

Being like, where does this. No, you just go on YouTube, find a video. You're done in five minutes with the Internet.

[Dan LeBatard]

We trust the Internet on you. Like, what if, like, if I was like a terrible person, I would just put up a bunch of how to videos. Like, yeah, doing it incorrectly.

[Mike Ryan]

There's all kinds of accounts on Twitter where like the blue check marks are trip. How about I'm gonna start tricking people. How do you know you're not getting the NBA a Sentel version of fixing cars on YouTube?

[Dan LeBatard]

Before you put this in, you spit on it.

[Chris Cody]

Okay? I have fixed enough things with the help of YouTube that there isn't a sinister plot conspiracy of people who are pranking.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know that, man.

[Dan LeBatard]

I want to. I want to see if I want to be a flat ol fan.

[Chris Cody]

There's no Barry McCockiner of spark plugs.

[Dan LeBatard]

There could. There's a nice space for that though.

[Greg Cody]

You're too lazy to change your tire. You're not going to spend the time making videos to trick people into.

[Dan LeBatard]

Your first roll it down a hill just to make sure it's got good shredding and Then you just see some.

[Chris Cody]

Idiot like I am embarrassed by how this show has talked about all of this. I want to apologize on behalf of the manly men in the audience who are indeed handymen, who are hearing everything we're saying and hearing a show that can't be bothered to Even check out YouTube's quick explanation on how to fix things.

[Dan LeBatard]

Now we trust the Internet.

[Billy]

I would also like to apologize to the women in the audience who are also handy and think it's a little of us to think it's pathetic that.

[Greg Cody]

You said he can't do things.

[Chris Cody]

We said Chris's mother in law can do things and that we can. We, we. I am specifically warding off the judgment of men against men for not being handymen when Greg Cody alleges that he's a handyman when I know him to not.

[Greg Cody]

He at least tries. You guys aren't even even putting in the effort to try to fix things.

[Chris Cody]

I would be if we had some sort of Olympics on fixing things. I would finish last. I would be the worst of all of us, but not a lot worse than some of you.

[Greg Cody]

You're thinking a new. A new edition of gold, silver, bronze or did not podium today?

[Chris Cody]

Yes. Let's.

[Greg Cody]

Good game yesterday. Tony loved it.

[Jeremy]

Another wordy one.

[Chris Cody]

Well, do you think I've heard accusations around the office, Billy, that you're of the belief that. That Tony is now making parenting decisions simply to spite you?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I. I think last week Tony was in a patented pickle.

[Jeremy]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

You only sell pickles in my movie theater.

[Greg Cody]

Really? How much?

[Mike Ryan]

$2.99.

[Greg Cody]

Is that so? Well, I think that last week Tony was in a patented pickle and we discussed it on air where we said it seemed as though for it to be a pickle.

[Jeremy]

Billy, not to interrupt you. For it to be a pickle, it had to be something that is a rock and a hard place. And I'm kind of stuck in the middle of trying to decide. This is a very easy decision for me.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I think that last week, for those of you who are catching up on the show, last week Tony, congratulations. Had a child. And it turns out his child was born six months ago. And we were discussing whether or not Tony would be someone who celebrates half birthdays. And we kind of got the feeling that Tony might celebrate half birthdays. Tony one time, if I remember correctly, had a party at a brewery for a dog and we were kind of like, what's going on here?

[Dan LeBatard]

A dirt day.

[Greg Cody]

So he had a whole party for the dog. Birthday was not for Me invited all of us. We're like, no, thank you, Tony. That's not what we're gonna do here. So anywho, Tony had a child and half birthday was coming up. So last week we were discussing whether or not Tony would have a half birthday. Is a child. So here is the pickle that Tony was in. Do I celebrate my child and give my child lasting memories via photographs that they will see years down the road because a child at 6 months won't remember anything. But do I celebrate my child? Do I do this for the family? Do I do this for my wife? Or do I prove Billy wrong and not throw a half birthday for my child and do the good parenting thing and do nice things for my family and my wife and everyone involved? And I was made aware that Tony's wife wanted to have a half birthday party. And Tony said, no, we're not having a half birthday party now because of the conversation at work last week. So Tony found himself in a pickle and he cited proving me wrong over the happiness and joy of his wife and family.

[Jeremy]

So it wasn't a full blown birthday party. My wife wanted to get a cupcake to take pictures and stuff.

[Greg Cody]

That's a half birthday.

[Chris Cody]

Yes.

[Tony]

That's nice.

[Jeremy]

Not happening.

[Greg Cody]

You said not happening. For what reason?

[Jeremy]

Because we don't need the constructs of, oh, get a bit. A picture with a cupcake. It's your half birthday. No, it's six months. We celebrate it, we move on. That's it.

[Dan LeBatard]

You put a cupcake in front of them. You see what they do with it? They, like poke it.

[Jeremy]

No, because then she puts it in her mouth. She can't eat that.

[Greg Cody]

Do the thing. They put their feet in it. It makes a giant mess. And you're watching, you're like, they start.

[Dan LeBatard]

Are their hair doing?

[Greg Cody]

This is a disaster. And like, it's so cute.

[Jeremy]

Avoided.

[Greg Cody]

And then a year later, you look at you like, yeah, it was kind of cute. I was getting upset about nothing.

[Jeremy]

So, Dan, I looked at my wife and I said, no, not gonna happen. But I was looking at her, but I was really looking at Billy. Like, she, like Billy's form took over my wife.

[Chris Cody]

And I was like, she's right. Then you're making parenting decisions, biting me.

[Greg Cody]

Of course.

[Jeremy]

Absolutely.

[Greg Cody]

When really I forgot that that even happened until we came in today. And you're like, guess what? Didn't have a half birthday. I'm like, like, give that a second thought. Until we. Until today.

[Jeremy]

Now you'll never forget.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, you, you. You're ruining A child's life to spite me. Congrats. Thank you.

[Chris Cody]

Will be wonderful. Wonderful. Years from now, when Tony is alone in sad dad village because his wife and the child have left and he's just smiling because he's like.

[Stugatz]

But I did spite Billy.

[Chris Cody]

I got him.

[Stugatz]

I didn't have birthday. He thought I was going to have a birthday and I did not have a happy birthday.

[Greg Cody]

Imagine a crazy twist. Nevermind.

[Chris Cody]

So this is from Louis Riddick. Good work there, Billy.

[Greg Cody]

Well, because it puts all of us in a bad spot. But I was gonna say imagine a crazy twist or something happens to my family and then Tony's family leaves him and they end up with me after he was making all these decisions, breaking them up to spite me. What a plot. I win at the end.

[Jeremy]

So wait, so something happens to your family. All of my family goes to live with you and now you become their father.

[Stugatz]

It's not just. It's not just. It's not just these.

[Greg Cody]

I'm the new daddy. I'll fix all the problems that you have because your old daddy made poor decisions despite me.

[Stugatz]

So many birthdays around here.

[Greg Cody]

We celebrate quarter birthdays in this house. Get used to it.

[Stugatz]

So just to be clear, what just happened was that you didn't offer for Tony and the audience the mere possibility of you stealing his wife and family, but his.

[Jeremy]

His is going somewhere else too.

[Stugatz]

You took. You took his wife and six month old and you took. Just said. I'd like to add everything to my family. I don't want to eliminate my children or my wife.

[Mike Ryan]

Are you all living together like this?

[Stugatz]

Is everybody.

[Greg Cody]

Well, no. In this horrible situation which none of us want to have it. Something happened to my family. So I was there. Yeah. No, I wasn't going to leave my family for Tony's family. I'm sure they're lovely, but I love my family more than his.

[Stugatz]

I thought you were going to have both families. I thought Tony was.

[Greg Cody]

No, no. I can't handle any more kids.

[Mike Ryan]

They're different wings of the house.

[Jeremy]

Plus the dogs too.

[Chris Cody]

I like it. I like it better as you just.

[Stugatz]

Stole Tony's family and now he's lonely. But he has the victory over you on half birthday.

[Billy]

Oh, he's got to celebrate all the birthdays.

[Greg Cody]

I don't have to do anything.

[Stugatz]

And he's got that victory forever. The victory.

[Billy]

Play PS5.

[Greg Cody]

Finally.

[Stugatz]

You may be having a great time with your wife and his wife and your child.

[Greg Cody]

No, something happened to my family. It's a horrible situation.

[Stugatz]

We don't want this no, you've made it that. I've made it something different. I prefer you stealing the entirety of his family.

[Greg Cody]

But you understand why I said, never mind now, Right?

[Chris Cody]

Well, the part I don't understand is, as a professional broadcaster, why you start.

[Stugatz]

To say something and then offer it.

[Chris Cody]

To the audience and then pull it back. It's not because I don't understand why.

[Stugatz]

You didn't say that you were thinking about stealing Tony's wife and child.

[Greg Cody]

I wasn't thinking about it. Just something that may happen based on the parenting decisions that he is making to spite me. It would be. It'd be the most ironic thing, I think. I don't know how irony works. The most ironic thing, if he's trying to spite me and what ends up happening is I end up winning.

[Chris Cody]

I want to put in front of you this tweet from Louis Riddick.

[Mike Ryan]

What do you have to say?

[Greg Cody]

We have a problem with him.

[Chris Cody]

It felt like it. It felt like your tone suggested that there was a problem with Louis Riddick. What did he have to say? As if he had said the wrong thing.

[Greg Cody]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, I could be the judge of that.

[Chris Cody]

You are a judge, a journalist, a lawyer, a doctor, and a race war expert.

[Mike Ryan]

Yep.

[Chris Cody]

So here is Lewis Riddick on the Dolphins after they lured Darren Waller out of retirement. Something I evidently was more excited about than just about anyone on earth, including Darren Waller yesterday. Dolphins are the very definition of uncertainty. Going into 2025 has zero idea what this team will look like, play, like, come together, like, chemistry wise. Zero Fascinating to me.

[Mike Ryan]

Sounds like the most exciting Dolphin team in my lifetime.

[Chris Cody]

Is this team fascinating? Is it fat? What's fascinating about a team that hasn't won a playoff game in a quarter century and now has just a bunch of question marks and whatever players you've seen be great in a Dolphin uniform so far are not on the. In the prime of their career, I guess outside of tua.

[Mike Ryan]

I think what he's telling you there is. You look at it on paper and certainly there's a lot of talents on both sides of the football. So, hey, they could be really good, or they could be this year's just total hot mess. They could be like the worst team in the league and just everything goes wrong.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is just frustrating because we had like a, what, two year stretch, A year and a half stretch of being good.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Like, it took so long. We finally got there.

[Mike Ryan]

I like trying this.

[Dan LeBatard]

I was like, we have a good team. We've arrived and now it's gone again. And now everyone is back to just thinking we're a joke. And it's like, yeah, we had a few injuries to our defensive line. I know we made some trades, but it's like the team's not that different, actually that it was a few years ago.

[Chris Cody]

But you said they were good and they weren't.

[Dan LeBatard]

They were though, right?

[Mike Ryan]

They're not that different. Like they weren't good last year.

[Chris Cody]

They. They were interesting, but they didn't win a playoff game like, because they got.

[Dan LeBatard]

Injured at the end of that. Their good season two years ago. They got battered at the end. Who was the. That old defense alignment from the Chiefs. They signed like Houston. They signed for that playoff game against the Bills. That team going into that year was good on both sides of the ball. They got battered with injuries at the end of the season and it all fell apart and it just stinks because it seems like other teams have injuries and then get back to being good. And it seems like the Dolphins were good for like one season, got a ton of injuries and then just can't get back there.

[Chris Cody]

The teams that are good tend to be teams that are good even if they have injuries in that sport. Like that's fair.

[Dan LeBatard]

No depth.

[Chris Cody]

I understand what you're saying. It's a perfectly logical explanation for how it is the blueprint exploded on a win. Now franchise, they. They started the season having lost whatever they were, 9 and 2 or whatever it is.

[Mike Ryan]

We could agree it ended with the loss on Monday Night Football to Tennessee. That was the beginning of the end.

[Chris Cody]

It just always ends in December around here in this century. But what Riddick is saying about the Dolphins as an entity is true, right? Because everyone is looking at the Dolphins and saying, well, if at quarterback you have the greatest of injury risks that will obviously detonate anything that you were planning in terms of team building, then of course you're a bit of a mystery. But he's doing that because of the Darren Waller signing, right? Cuz nobody knows what that is. Nobody. You can't have any idea what that is when the last three years have just been body problems and head problems, problems.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, I think it's all of it. Because in the span of the 24 hours you have a team that, that, that's. That brought in Minka, Fitzpatrick and also traded for Darren Waller. Two very big names. And it's still like, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know what this team is.

[Dan LeBatard]

You need Phillips and Chubb, like, right? That's like their defensive line has to be what it was a couple years ago. Or else it's just if Chubb. If they're not what they were, they're not going to be a good team.

[Chris Cody]

That's it.

[Jeremy]

How about their offense being what it was a couple years ago? Because feels like that kind of got fought, like, found out and everybody's like, oh, what do we do now?

[Chris Cody]

This one. But in 25 years, you keep using draft picks on offensive linemen, and some of them can block.

[Tony]

Jeremy. You know something about me, right? You know when I'm grilling outside and it's summertime? You know how I supplement my summertime?

[Billy]

Of course I do.

[Tony]

I make it Miller time.

[Jeremy]

Of course.

[Tony]

That beautiful white can. Oh, when it's so hot outside, I just. I just put it right to my forehead right there. And I just roll it sometimes right on the forehead, cool my body down. And then I crack it open. Instant relief. And then that first sip, brother, does that first sip.

[Chris Cody]

That is it.

[Billy]

Top five sequence of events that you can possibly go through.

[Tony]

I'm just serenity now. When I just imagine that first sip.

[Billy]

Of Miller Light, just thinking about it, it's making me happy.

[Tony]

Dude, the sun is out. It's nice. You have your friends showing up. You got your family there. You just had your first sip of Miller Light. And you know what? You're happy. You're blissful, you're fulfilled. I've been stocking my cooler with Miller Lite four years and for good reason. Reason? It's brewed for taste only. 96 calories and 3.2 grams of carbs. This year, Miller Lite turns 50. That is five decades of cookouts, laughs, and ice cold moments that never miss. It's the original light beer. And it's still my go to Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Cheers to 50 years of Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.