Local Hour: Tennis Balls For Walkers

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Local Hour: Tennis Balls For Walkers
Date: November 10, 2025
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Chris, Mike, Jeremy, Producer Dan

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Main Theme

Broadcasting from downtown Miami, the crew dives into a vibrant blend of South Florida-tinged sports analysis and classic show banter. Today’s local hour revolves around generational quirks, unpredictable NFL results—especially the Miami Dolphins' stunning win over Buffalo—and a humorous appreciation for the everyday genius of tennis balls on walkers. A healthy dose of Heat and Inter Miami talk rounds it out, with plenty of side debates and the usual offbeat observations.

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Notable Segments & Key Discussion Points

1. The Greg Cody "Knee" Situation & Walkers with Tennis Balls

[01:05–04:27]

• Broken Greg Cody is out for the day, blaming knee pain, which becomes a running joke.
• Chris details family dinner where his dad, Greg, ignores medical advice, refusing to use his cane.
• Debate on when Greg last exercised—Chris jokes, “I bet it’s been 25 years since he said, ‘I’m going to work out right now.’” (02:48)
• Dan marvels at the universal adaptation of tennis balls for walkers:

  “It’s kind of amazing that someone decided, ‘we’re going to rig this walker with tennis balls.’ And everybody’s like, yeah, that’s perfect... No insurance company came up with, like, their own. We’re just like, yeah, the tennis balls, it’s actually perfect for this.” — Dan Le Batard (03:05)

• Jeremy, stunned:

  “This is one of the greatest in-show observations we’ve had in years.” (03:43)

• Stugotz (poll suggestion):

  “Is the tennis ball better at being something that doesn’t scratch the floor on your walker than at being a tennis ball?” (04:01)

Memorable Quote:

“The tennis ball is better at that than it is at being a tennis ball.” — Dan Le Batard (03:57)

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2. NFL Deep Dive: Dolphins Stun the Bills, AFC Playoff Chaos

[04:35–15:44]

• Stugotz launches in on Sunday’s shocking Dolphins win over the Bills— “the most inexplicable in the sport this year.” (04:43)
• Dissects bizarre events: Dolphins fire their GM mid-season, stick with Tua McDaniel, but it pays off.
• Debates why the Dolphins dominated Buffalo after lagging for 1100 days; offered explanations include weather, James Cook’s injury, “just football,” but Dan’s not fully convinced.
• Chris and Mike highlight the strange start: “Dolphins were called for a false start and used a timeout before an official play even happened.” (06:48)
• Stugotz roast:

  “McDermott... somehow looks dumber wearing glasses... You’re not supposed to look dumber when you put glasses on.” — (07:43)

• Detailed humor about sideline coaching—McDermott yelling “wrap him up” at Bosa, whose arm is in a cast.
• AFC East up in the air: New England surges, Buffalo falters, Miami elates.
• Mike asks:

  “When does the realization sweep over the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen that their window closed?” (09:24)

• Dan: “Really pumped for the possibility of Buffalo and Kansas City having to do the playoffs on the road—what odds could you have gotten on that before the season?” (09:40)
• Patriots and Colts game oddities highlighted; German coin flip debacle and Berlin Wall interview with Bijan Robinson.
• General confusion: How did Miami’s defense finally stop Buffalo’s run game, when they’ve bled yards to every RB?
• Dan (on reasons):

  “James Cook was banged up. He almost didn’t play. So I think that probably had something to do with how effective the Dolphins were at stopping the Bills run game.” — (06:38)

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3. Airport Floor Etiquette & Delayed Flights

[19:04–22:19]

• Mike recounts being stuck in Atlanta airport due to a government shutdown and air traffic controller shortage.
• The gang debates the merits (or disgust) of lying on airport floors during long layovers.
• Chris pushes back on chair sitting:

  “You got four hours to kill... What am I gonna sit in these awkward chairs?” (20:25)

• Dan admits: “Atlanta is actually a really good airport for floor...” (20:30)
• Mike:

  “Put it on the poll: Do you judge the person who lays down on the airport floor?” (21:30)

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4. Bills' Struggles, WR Issues, and “Window Closing” Debate

[22:40–32:11]

• Stugotz shares that the Bills tried to acquire Waddle, offering a first and a third-round pick—but Miami refused.
• Mike doubles down:

  “Like, no one’s gonna go into the playoffs favoring the Bills to win the AFC... That team is never going to win anything.” (29:45)

• Next Gen Stats revelation: Josh Allen’s average time to throw (3.53 sec) was the longest of his career in the loss—evidence receivers weren’t getting open.
• Standings and semantics: Extended bickering over whether being “6th” in the AFC is close to the top.

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5. Local Sports: Miami Heat & Inter Miami

[36:05–44:46]

Miami Heat:

• Surprising stat:

  “Norman Powell has scored more points by 2020 plus points than any other Heat player in his first six games. And it’s not just that; he’s made the Heat better—the Clippers are now worse because they do not have Norman Powell.” — Stugotz (36:57)

• Heat praised for new offensive options, especially as Powell, Jovic, and Hawkins Jr. step up due to injuries.
• Extended joke about “home and home” NBA scheduling—what counts as a legit home-and-home if both games are in Miami.

Inter Miami & MLS Playoffs:

• Satirical awe at the absurd length of the first round—“six month long first round series.”
• Dan corrects: now that Inter advances, “all single elimination from here,” baffling the panel:

  “So you play a series to make sure the better team wins... but then when you get to potentially the championship—it’s just one game?” — Mike (44:16)

• Messi’s dominance, Miami’s playoff breakthrough, and Suarez’s suspension for violent conduct covered.

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6. AI Actors and The Future of Fame

[27:25–29:08]

• Dan introduces the case of “Tilly Norwood,” an AI-generated actress, and says agencies are lining up to represent her.
• The show ponders the implications, referencing the recent Hollywood strike about AI rights and likenesses.
• Dan:

  “I don’t know how it is that the future is going to look with fake actors created by AI.” (28:21)

• Producer Dan jokes, “Could have sworn we had a strike about that.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On tennis balls for walkers:

  “You have stunned Jeremy, who is staring at you with open-mouthed awe... This is one of the greatest in-show observations we’ve had in years.” — Dan & Jeremy (03:39–03:43)

• On sideline coaching:

  “McDermott... somehow looks dumber wearing glasses.” — Stugotz (07:43)

• On the Bills' fate:

  “When does the realization sweep over the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen that their window closed?” — Mike (09:24)

• On AI actors:

  “What does that mean? Agencies were lining up to represent her. That’s not a real person!” — Jeremy (29:06)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:05 – Greg Cody and the walker with tennis balls story begins
• 03:05 – Tennis ball walker innovation and in-show poll
• 04:35 – Dolphins-Bills analysis, AFC playoff scenarios
• 07:43 – McDermott with glasses, sideline coaching
• 19:04 – Airport floor etiquette, layover anecdotes
• 22:40 – Bills trade attempt for Waddle, WR struggles, “window closed” talk
• 29:06 – AI actress “Tilly Norwood” and the future of showbiz
• 36:42 – Miami Heat surprising player stats, Norman Powell focus
• 42:44 – Inter Miami’s “endless” playoff series, MLS format confusion

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Closing Thoughts

This episode blends Miami sports passion with incisive and irreverent observations about aging, NFL randomness, the NBA, and the weirdness of modern fame. Amidst the running jokes about polls and “home and home” games, listeners get a hearty sampler of Miami culture, sports heartbreaks, and the show’s signature blend of laughs and insight.
For first-timers, it’s a prime example of why the Local Hour is a fan favorite: sharp, local, self-deprecating, and always ready to go off on a tangent.

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Transcript

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I've been told that Broken Greg Cody was supposed to be in today and just canceled at the last minute, citing knee pain. Knee is keeping him out today, but not tomorrow. He's already decided that his knee is going to be fine tomorrow. Put it on the poll, please. Juju lebatard show have you ever missed a day of work because your knee hurt? Yes or no? What's happening back home, Chris, that you can tell me about? About your father and your mother's frustration with your father and his. His trick knee.

[Chris]

I was over there for dinner last night. He was cooking. He was up and about, limping, got.

[Stugotz]

A limp to him.

[Chris]

But my mom was frustrated with him because he's not using his cane. He's been instructed to use the cane for a good week or so and he hasn't even hit a week yet. So he was up and about and he cooked us a dinner. But he did say, I only have one show in me this week.

[Stugotz]

Old people can be strange about canes and walkers. Your dad is going to refuse the walker with tennis balls. Stubborn on the bottom. He's going to be somebody. He thinks he's 30 years younger than he is.

[Chris]

When he had the surgery and he was leaving the hospital, they were like, all right, crutches. And he was. He couldn't do crutches. I guess maybe the arm, like shoulder strength. I don't know where you need the strength to really do crutches. But he had to do a walker because he couldn't figure out the crutches. So he had to. Which is what I was like, I think, I think that means you're old when you can no longer do crutches and you need the walk.

[Stugotz]

If you had to guess, if you had to take a guess, when is the last time your father did exercise? Oof.

[Chris]

Oh, well, he considers exercise the walking around his house. He just does on a daily basis, like from the office to the garage. He's told his dog, I've said this before. He tells his doctor, are you.

[Jeremy]

How active are you?

[Chris]

He's like, oh, I walk around my house. Like, he literally used that as like, that's my exercise. So to answer your question, I would guess since he put on clothes and was like, I'm going to exercise outside of maybe playing tennis with you. I Bet it's been 25 years since he was like, I'm going to work out right now.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's kind of amazing that someone decided we're going to rig this walker with tennis balls. And everybody's like, yeah, that's perfect. Yeah. No insurance company came up with like their own same exact thing, but it's like gray and it costs you $300. We're just like, yeah, no, the tennis balls, it's actually perfect for this.

[Stugotz]

And the tennis balls are only so that you don't scratch up the floor in your home.

[Jeremy]

Correct.

[Stugotz]

But there's one there.

[Dan Le Batard]

Right, but like a medical company could have came up with something that's like a tennis ball. But they, but they don't. It's just like we can't top the tennis ball. It is absolutely perfect for this.

[Stugotz]

You have stunned Jeremy, who is staring at you with open mouthed awe.

[Jeremy]

This is one of the greatest in show observations we've had in years.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is, this is great. I think you're overselling it a little.

[Jeremy]

I really am blowing up.

[Stugotz]

Don't be modest, Mike.

[Mike]

Do not have modesty here.

[Stugotz]

Not you, Mike.

[Dan Le Batard]

The tennis ball is better at that than it is at being a tennis ball.

[Jeremy]

That's right.

[Stugotz]

Put it on the pole, please. Juju at Lebaton show. Is the tennis ball better at being something that doesn't scratch the floor on your walker than it is at being a tennis ball?

[Dan Le Batard]

I'll tell you something.

[Mike]

Racquetball.

[Dan Le Batard]

Fine. It's closer to being a replacement for the tennis ball than whatever the tennis ball is for the bottom of a walker.

[Jeremy]

That's right.

[Producer Dan]

Yep, yep.

[Stugotz]

It's Just a really good observation. I don't know why you would choose that moment for humility.

[Producer Dan]

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[Stugotz]

I will talk in this hour about the Miami Heat, the Miami Hurricanes and the month first round playoff series of inter Miami. But I want to begin today and see if you can get me that video from the locker room where the Dolphins celebrated the winning of the Super Bowl. I believe that yesterday's Bills result is among the most inexplicable in the sport this year. I'm thinking off the top of my head Cleveland beating Green Bay and Carolina beating Green Bay because I think Carolina and Cleveland are bad football teams and I think Green Bay to be a good one to be the most surprising results I've seen this season. But I was not only flatly stunned by what the Dolphins did yesterday in a really weird week. Okay, because it's super unusual to fire your GM and keep the coach in season. It's not something that most people do. It's easier to fire the coach and keep the GM in season. It's a weird move for the Dolphins to say we're going to stick with Tua and McDaniel because we're kind of stuck with them. But Greer, you've got to go. But the Bills lose. I have not seen anyone come up with anything that resembles an explanation. For me you can go weather, you can go let down game, you can go it's just football. But I haven't heard an actual good, a good explanation for how the Bills can look that way against the Chiefs. And then Josh Allen can have the worst game I've seen him have since he was terrible. I didn't think that can happen to the Bills offense. I actually understood what happened. Bills against Chiefs. Chiefs. Their weakness, their greatest weakness is run defense up the middle. That's the Bills greatest strength, running the ball up the middle. But for the Dolphins to allow every running back in the league and every backup to go for 100 yards and then all of a sudden stop James Cook and turn those Bills receivers into something that doesn't look very impressive and then on offense to dominate the game and win for the first time against the Bills in more than 1100 days was lunacy. And I don't have a good explanation. Do any of you have any of you read or.

[Dan Le Batard]

James Cook was banged up. He almost didn't play. So I think that that probably had something to do with how effective the Dolphins were at stopping the Bills run game.

[Mike]

Then you go and compare the way the beginning of the game started and it was like, oh, we're going to lose 100 to nothing. Like, you've never seen a game start that way. The Dolphins were called for a false start and use the timeout for the first play before an official play even happened in the game. You've never seen anything like, how did.

[Chris]

They overcome that and still win?

[Stugotz]

And.

[Mike]

And on that opening drive, two of the interception, a punt.

[Chris]

Well, that was a punt. If you talk to McDaniel, it's a punt. He told him before the game, on third down, throw it long.

[Mike]

It's so stupid. This whole arm punt thing is so stupid.

[Chris]

It's an arm punt.

[Mike]

How about getting a first down? Like, oh, arm punt. How about get a first down?

[Stugotz]

Let's talk about this game. The funniest thing from the game, and I'm telling you, the game was confusing, but the funniest thing from the game to me was McDermott who somehow looks dumber wearing glasses.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's unbelievable.

[Chris]

The rare.

[Stugotz]

That.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's. I think. Does it make his eyes too big? I think that's it. You're not supposed to look dumber when you put glasses on.

[Stugotz]

The idea that McDermott on the sideline was yelling after a broken tackle and HN had like 200 of his yards after broken tackles, that's the most tackles he's ever broken in a game. And again, almost 200 of his yards after initial contact. McDermott screaming, screaming, wrap him up on a tackle at Bosa, who's got a cast on his arm. Like it's. It would be more difficult to wrap anybody up with a cast on their arm, right?

[Jeremy]

Correct.

[Stugotz]

We're in agreement that if someone's got a cast on their arm, they're more likely to be susceptible to the broken tackle if they've got a cast on their arm. McDermott from the Safety of the sidelines telling Bosa, of all people, Bosa, Bosa, who's a good pass rusher and a good football player, wrap him up. As if that's not. What Bosa was trying to do with a cast on his arm was lunacy. But that Bill's result, you tell me if I'm wrong. To me, I'd put it at the top of the list on most surprising results this entire season, where you're a nine point dog at the beginning of the week, it slides down to eight over the course of the week, and then the game comes and you just throttle them. The Bills can't do anything offensively when they've got the mvp quarterback. And then all of a sudden the MVP is fumbling the ball and. And they're just. It was a disaster for the Bills on the day. The Patriots are going and they're beating Baker in Tampa when Baker's got the opportunities to beat them late. And now the Patriots are at the top of the division.

[Mike]

When. When does the realization sweep over the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen that their window closed? Like they had an area.

[Chris]

They.

[Mike]

They had a time frame there.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, you've got some takes today.

[Mike]

They had a time frame there where the Patriots are terrible. Patriots looking like they're back.

[Stugotz]

I'm.

[Mike]

And the Bills lost the dollars.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm really pumped at the. The possibility of having an AFC playoff in which the Bills and the Chiefs have to do it on the road. They don't have any home games.

[Mike]

Oh, I mean, fascinating. The Chiefs are going to have to do it on the road. Like that seems almost definite.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. But them. And like what kind of odds could you have gotten that before on that before the season that they're going to be in the playoffs but they're not going to have a home game.

[Stugotz]

Let's talk a little bit though, about the Patriots because Drake May's deep throwing ability is a special thing and they're really well coached. The things that you saw at the end of the first half with Vrabel where he's just squeezing the time out of the. Out of the first half so that he can get the ball back in the second half and then on fourth and short, they're throwing it to Diggs and Diggs is making an Amazing play on 4th and short.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. I don't know if he's getting the same kind of separation, but the hands are as good as ever. He's scoring touchdowns. And there was a really cool moment when Henderson broke out of the pile bounce it outside, is running for 80 yards and he's so fast that he's looking to the sideline for coaching. Do I go in the end zone or do I do the thing where I kneel before he's doing that mid stride.

[Mike]

Looking at Vrabel, maybe the bill should have kept him.

[Stugotz]

It's been a minute since the Patriots had a skilled guy who was that fast. Like I'm. I'm thinking back to Randy Moss. Like it's been a minute since the Patriots had a skilled position player who could break an 80 yard run. We saw yesterday how the Colts are going to lose in the playoffs. Playoffs. It's going to be. Daniel Jones is going to be throwing To Warren the entire game. And they should have lost yesterday because the ball he threw on 4th and 2 to Warren. Warren wasn't any kind of open. Simply wasn't open. And the things that happened in that game were amazing. Including my favorite moment from that game, which is the pregame interview after 37 years since the Berlin Wall fell. Bijan Robinson, your thoughts? That's how that game started in Germany where they were asking Bijan Robinson questions about the Berlin Wall.

[Dan Le Batard]

What do you say?

[Mike]

That's my gimmick.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, it's a perfect opportunity for it, man.

[Stugotz]

It doesn't really matter what he said. It all. All that really matters is that they asked him the question before the game. That Colts game had some funny sound. The referee at the end of regulation. First of all, this is great. They got the coin flip wrong. And they got the coin flip wrong because when you're in Berlin, you don't know who the home team is. And they just didn't know who team was. And the referee didn't know that the game or the way he was saying it, because I'm guessing he was a little nervous talking to, you know, 80,000 Germans in a stadium. The referee kept saying that the game was over when they were headed into overtime. Can we just play this? Can we just hear the sound of the referee just wildly confused and he just. He really needed to, like, he. He needed to stop talking and he wouldn't. He just kept yammering. Play that sound, please.

[Mike]

The timeout to delay the 10 second runoff. So there is a 10 second runoff, plus they offer to wind the clock. So it really ends the ends of the game at this point. End of regulation, we'll go to overtime.

[Stugotz]

So again, I mean, I'm not sure what he said there. He said that they're going to go to overtime, but if they are going to properly. If they're going to properly enforce this, they would should have reset the clock to 11 seconds.

[Mike]

They put one second on the game clock. There it is, Mike. We're waiting for it. And right on cue.

[Stugotz]

I trust Pereira more than I trust those referees.

[Mike]

What happened there?

[Stugotz]

He just got really nervous, confused, and got everything wrong.

[Chris]

At what point is he like, you know what, Give me a second. I need to gather myself.

[Stugotz]

And then they went to the coin flip and they got that wrong. As. As well, in. In a game, he had the wrong person call the flip where microscopic inches and the margins are tiny and. And the referee clearly did not know what it is that he was doing that game yesterday is why People don't trust the Bills like that. That game, The Colts that. No, well, no, no, they don't trust the Colts either. The Colts won that game. But I'm talking about that game yesterday. I transitioned without telling you I was transitioning. That game yesterday is why it is that people do not trust the Buffalo Bills to do anything meaningful. But the thing that's weird about the game, the thing that's weirdest about the game isn't even that the Dolphins won though. That's weird enough. The weirdest thing about the game, the Bills never lose like that. They never lose like that. They're always in the game because of who their quarterback is and because they can go get offense. Did the rain slow them down that much? It can't just be that James Cook was banged up. Every running back in the league and every backup running back in the league has gone for 100 plus yards against the Dolphins run.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know how they stopped him. You were asking for reasons. He almost didn't play. That's all I'm telling you.

[Stugotz]

I am confused by everything that happened with the Dolphins game yesterday. And I have yet to hear a good explanation. I've heard some explanations, but a better explanation than I have football.

[Dan Le Batard]

I gave you James Cook. It wasn't good enough for you. I'll keep hitting the books, seeing what I can find.

[Mike]

I don't know, like there doesn't have to be an explanation.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, see what they did in the A gap.

[Stugotz]

There does need to be an explanation. We hyper examine all of these games. There does need to be an explanation. You saw.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean there you go.

[Mike]

Let's add hot to the list.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean let's come up with a list. I mean Josh McDaniel, Mike McDaniel has played. We went over this on the Thursday nighter. Like he plays them tight. He doesn't get the results often, but he does know how to keep a game against the Buffalo Bills tight. And small sample here. When they play the Bills at home on a 1pm start, that's when you get your best punch.

[Mike]

That was the last time they beat him.

[Stugotz]

You say that he knows how to keep these games close and I will tell you they have not beaten the bills in 1100 days. So while they might know how to keep it close, they lose. They lose consistently. A surer result is you will get in that sport is that the Dolphins are going to lose to the Bills when they play the Bills. The Bills have overtaken the AFC east at least in part because the Dolphins can never beat them.

[Dan Le Batard]

But in those 1100 days, how many of those were 1 o'?

[Stugotz]

Clock?

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Mike]

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[Chris]

All right, we gotta go back out there. That was big. Wake him up.

[Stugotz]

Oh, he doesn't want. He doesn't want to be bothered anymore. Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that. As a result, he needs something that happens.

[Chris]

Can we buy. Are we bothering you right now?

[Stugotz]

Turn on your microphone.

[Chris]

My microphone's on st. Paint the scene. The paint the scene is.

[Stugotz]

I gotta go to work.

[Producer Dan]

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[Mike]

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[Stugotz]

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[Chris]

I'm in on it.

[Mike]

I'll tell you once it happened to me again yesterday, it never fails. And next week's gonna be a true test because of the Dolphins. I wake up on Sunday and it's oh yeah, there's a game going on. I like. It was the second quarter before I.

[Stugotz]

Sleep in on Sunday until past 9:30.

[Mike]

Yeah, player. And I. I had a. I had a really late Saturday night, man. Like I go on government. Government got me.

[Stugotz]

What happened?

[Mike]

Shut down.

[Stugotz]

Dan, what happened?

[Mike]

I got home like I walked into my house like 3am on Sunday. Government shut down.

[Stugotz]

What happened? Flight problems.

[Mike]

Yeah. I was stuck in the Atlanta airport for a long time on Saturday. It turns out you need air traffic controllers to fly and if you don't have any of them working, they ground the flights. And so I was just chillin in the Atlanta airport for a very, very. Like there was like this pocket apparently from like 7pm to 11:30pm where we don't have air traffic controllers. So no flights are taking off. And it's like I just had to chill in the airport for. What's your long time?

[Chris]

What's your strategy when you got a lot of time to kill an airport? You're a floor layer. Like find a spot in the corner floor. People lay on the floor.

[Mike]

Airports, I look down on those people. Really a floor layer in the airport.

[Chris]

I've got four hours to kill here. What am I gonna sit in these awkward chairs?

[Mike]

How about. You're not gonna be disgusting.

[Dan Le Batard]

Atlanta is actually a really good airport for floor. Yeah. Because I had to spend the night in the Atlanta airport once.

[Mike]

And why would you do that?

[Dan Le Batard]

I didn't do it, like, electively. Dude, what are you talking?

[Chris]

Like, we're just like.

[Mike]

I'm gonna go hang out at the.

[Chris]

Airport and lay down.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hey, ladies, basketball team, you know what's a great idea? Let's not go home. Let's spend the night here.

[Mike]

No, like, go to the hotel. Go to a hotel.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, that's not. It's not. No, it's not that simple.

[Chris]

Did you go to a hotel?

[Mike]

Well, no, because my flight was still scheduled to leave.

[Jeremy]

Exactly.

[Chris]

So what do you do if you have, like, four hours to kill? I don't.

[Mike]

All right, everybody calm down.

[Chris]

I mean, you're judging me.

[Jeremy]

I would've loved it.

[Stugotz]

What'd you do?

[Chris]

Just sat there?

[Dan Le Batard]

Look, look, if they told me at 6pm that I wasn't gonna be delayed into oblivion, that I was actually gonna have to spend the night in Atlanta, then I probably get the hotel. But you reach a tipping point sometime around midnight when you realize, oh, boy, I'm probably gonna board a flight here at 6. Which means I gotta get to the airport with my daughter around like four. You know what? I'm just gonna sleep on this floor. That's what I'm gonna do.

[Mike]

That's how I say to that.

[Chris]

He's fine. You know, he did it and he survived.

[Mike]

I sat in the chair and I watched the Heat game. That's what I did.

[Stugotz]

Put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Do you judge the person who lays down on the airport floor? How long were you in the Atlanta.

[Mike]

Airport For like six hours.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let me tell you something. That Vegas airport floor. Comfy?

[Mike]

Get out of here.

[Chris]

I was gonna say that might be where the line is.

[Dan Le Batard]

Are you kidding? That one and the Tahoe one. The Reno airport floor.

[Chris]

That one I'll lay out.

[Dan Le Batard]

Reno airport floor.

[Chris]

I'll lay the.

[Dan Le Batard]

Out of that three floor.

[Mike]

I would never lie in the airport.

[Chris]

I'll lay face first.

[Mike]

I judge all them.

[Chris]

You're filthy on my stomach.

[Stugotz]

You guys are a special kind of discussing. And I'll lay down on a floor. I got no problem.

[Chris]

I do it all the time.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, but an airport floor. So gross. An airport floor.

[Dan Le Batard]

Go sleep standing up.

[Mike]

Why do I have to sleep?

[Stugotz]

Is there an airport. Is there an airport hotel in the Atlanta airport?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, there is a place that you can spend some money and rest. And everybody got delayed that day, so it was all fully booked and there just weren't any good options.

[Mike]

You realize you Travel in such a large group.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a. Yeah. Okay. Did I did actually it was with the Miami Hurricanes. Women's basketball.

[Mike]

Well, this was just me.

[Stugotz]

One of the things that I saw reported yesterday, I had not seen it before yesterday. It may have been reported before yesterday is that the Bills because of their wide receiver problems and man, I thought Shakir and Coleman would be better for Josh Allen. I thought Shakir and Coleman would be too. I mean he must have targeted Coleman eight or nine times yesterday and only got three catches out of it.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's what he does. Dayton back to FSU told you about this guy.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I liked him out of fsu. I thought they got a steal getting him as late as they did in the first round and he hasn't been that good for them. Yeah.

[Mike]

Targets yesterday.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. And the thing that I had heard reported that I had not heard before yesterday is that the Bills were offering a first and a third for Waddle. That is not something that I had heard before yesterday. And a first and a third from the Bills isn't going to be very good because it's going to be a late first round pick. So they decided not to trade Waddle at at the trade deadline. And Matthew Berry told you Waddle was going to have a big game against the Bills defense. The Bills defense has some real problems that are going to be bigger problems in the playoffs. Their run defense is a problem. Ed Oliver not being healthy is a problem. And their defense in general is the windows closed.

[Mike]

Dan.

[Jeremy]

What?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

They've got the MVP of the league at the quarterback position. I would not. You're going to close the window on them.

[Mike]

Yeah. Like no one's going to go into the playoffs favoring the Bills to win the.

[Stugotz]

They just beat the Chiefs at home a week ago.

[Mike]

They beat the Chiefs at home always. They literally always do that in the regular season. They're 5 and 1 against Mahomes in the regular season.

[Stugotz]

Okay, but they just did that. They did that. Did that to a chief scene that everybody was saying was fully and all the way back. Look, do you know how confusing it is to me to see the Chiefs have more trouble against the Bills than Dolphins did on offense? Explain that to me. Like you could go heat, you could go rain, you could go. James Cook is banged up. But the offense of the Dolphins had more success against the Bills defense than the Chiefs did.

[Dan Le Batard]

Dan, Jeremy has busted open the books and we have another reason as to why Miami pulled off this upset.

[Jeremy]

That's right. Per Next Gen stats, Dan Allen's Average time to throw was 3.53 seconds. That was the longest of his career. The longest of his career in this game. Receivers can't get open.

[Mike]

Shut the corners.

[Stugotz]

Maybe he should.

[Jeremy]

Maybe he should request a trade because they won't get him any weapons.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, the window is closed.

[Mike]

Windows closed. What are you gonna do if the window's closed? Your next step is you gotta request a train.

[Chris]

I'll give up two in a first.

[Stugotz]

I saw that stat of three and a half seconds, and I still thought that the Dolphin defense is banged up enough and bad enough that I would think that if I'm giving Josh Allen three and a half seconds of time, I'm going to be in trouble because I don't trust that defense at all. I will say it again. The Chiefs offense that everyone says, and I agree is fully back, struggled more against that defense than the Dolphins did. Now, part of that was ball control. Part of that was the fact that the Bills just kept giving the ball to James Cook to run up the middle. And so they just held the ball a lot, and Kansas City didn't have it as much as the Dolphins did.

[Dan Le Batard]

How about this Dolphin team fighting for their head coach, huh? Toxic vibes. No one saw this win coming.

[Mike]

Let's.

[Stugotz]

Let's show for people here something that people are saying may have been AI generated, but I don't believe that people are so bored or that AI is so boring.

[Mike]

Really, people are bored, Dan.

[Stugotz]

They would create this fictitiously, but it is being said that this is real, that Mike McDaniel on his way home past the Elbow Room, which is famously Bill Central. Whenever it is that the Bills come down here and win, as they so often have over the last 1100 days, it is said that Mike McDaniel in a black matte car, just swung by the Elbow Room and hung out of the car. Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Do you drive with an arm out of the car, out of the window at Lebatard show? Because Mike McDaniel is flexing a little bit there as he drives past, and he's looking straight into the Elbow Room ruined.

[Chris]

I see all five fingers. This is not AI for me.

[Mike]

That's always the first thing I look at. I look if the fingers are intact.

[Chris]

It looks like a normal hand. I see a watch.

[Jeremy]

Does it have to be AI or could it just be Photoshop? Could someone have taken that?

[Mike]

No, no Photoshop. Nobody Photoshops anymore. No. Get with the times. It's always AI. No one Photoshops anymore.

[Chris]

More Y. I'm doing the math on what time the game would have. It gets dark down here like with the time change, like 6 o'.

[Dan Le Batard]

Clock.

[Chris]

Could it have been that light out after at least?

[Mike]

You know what? That's actually a.

[Chris]

A game. If the game ends. Detective Workout game ends at 4:20. He does press comp. He's probably. What time is he leaving the.

[Mike]

Definitely not leaving before 5:25 30.

[Chris]

It takes probably a half hour to get from the stadium to Elbow Room.

[Mike]

I don't even think he's leaving by 5:30.

[Chris]

That's the only part of this that makes me skeptical.

[Mike]

That's good detective work.

[Chris]

Thank you.

[Stugotz]

Speaking of the confusions of AI can you guys get me some information on something my wife told me? I've gotten used to my wife gasping now when she is looking at the phone and there are any number of things that it can always be when she's gasping. Sometimes we're just bombing random, you know, boats in the ocean. It's just there are all sorts of things every day that make her gasp. But today I was surprised by learning of the existence of Attili Norwood, a name I had not heard before. It's an AI actress that has been created. But she also told me that there are 40 more in the shop that they are creating actors and actresses to replace our actors and actresses so that you still can't recreate the writing. That's going to take a minute to tell the stories as well as they need to be told. But I don't know how it is that the future is going to look with fake actors created by AI I.

[Producer Dan]

Could have sworn we had a strike about that.

[Stugotz]

We did have a strike about that because the writers and others, in fact Mike Scher was in the middle of that, trying to prevent Disney and others from being able to put actors out of work by artificially creating actors. But Jeremy, can you get me any information that you can on both Tilly Norwood, which is a name for a faked actress that has just been created by computers, and this army of actors that are being prepared that are in the shop to replace other actors?

[Jeremy]

I'll find some more information in a second. That as of about a month ago when they were talking about Tilly, they said that agencies were lining up to represent her. What does that mean? That's not a real person.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sup?

[Mike]

What does that mean?

[Stugotz]

It's a good question. I believe we're all going to be asking it over the next few years. What does that mean? Is something that is going to be A part of our lexicon for a while.

[Chris]

A lot of milk in her coffee.

[Producer Dan]

A lot.

[Stugotz]

You're done with the build.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You can't trust that team. That team is never going to win anything. I just. Yeah, I think the windows closed in the afc, so I do.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can you objectify AI.

[Chris]

I want to.

[Stugotz]

You can't say that. Zaslo. That's. You can't say that. They've. They've. They've dominated the division. They've dominated the division. They go 17 straight years without winning a playoff game, and they've dominated the division since because they have this quarterback.

[Mike]

Yeah. I don't trust that team at all. And yesterday I derived actually a lot of pleasure watching that ass kicking right there. I love. I love watching that Bills team lose. I love the idea that you had all those fans there at elbow room yesterday who thought they were. They were going to be there for a big party they're going to crush. The Dolphins game was never close. Hell, it sounded like the crowd at the stadium yesterday was mostly Bills fans. I love that those people were sour yesterday. That team is never going to win. Win anything. It's Dolphin team sucks. Okay? And they. And they. They killed the Bills yesterday. This team's not gonna win anything. Balbo right now, six in the afc, like, they're not even near the top. They're not gonna go on the road.

[Stugotz]

They are near. They are near the top. Zaslow.

[Mike]

Five teams ahead of them.

[Stugotz]

Zaslow says definition, though. They've got three losses and the others have two. What do you mean? There's not a. There's not a one team. There's not a one loss team in the afc is there are sixth?

[Mike]

Are you close to the top?

[Stugotz]

Yep. If you're one game within the two lost teams, you are close to the top. Are there. Are there five? Two lost teams and then the Bills. The Bills yesterday, because of that result, are now one game back. Of the five teams, where do they.

[Mike]

What are the standings today? Today they're sixth. If Buffalo loses next week, they may be out of the playoff.

[Jeremy]

Is that close?

[Mike]

Dan?

[Jeremy]

Is that close? Because six is not close.

[Mike]

Six is not close to first.

[Stugotz]

Standing at the top, they are one game out, are they not? Or are they a game and a half? Is there someone who has a game in hand?

[Mike]

You're trying to throw semantics here. And I'm looking at standings. I know that number one is the top and number six is not okay.

[Stugotz]

But name the five teams with two losses.

[Chris]

The Colts are the one seed with.

[Stugotz]

You're doing this also without looking at the rest of the schedule as well. But go ahead. Name the teams with play low win, loss, win, loss. I don't want to.

[Mike]

I don't sound like you do.

[Stugotz]

I know. What I want to do is question your overreaction and your knee jerking because you haven't even looked at the schedule and you're declaring the Bills window closed.

[Mike]

I'm looking right now. That's tough schedule next week.

[Stugotz]

That's as good.

[Chris]

That's good. I'm looking right now.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tough schedule next week.

[Mike]

I realized that once I let it lay out, it's like I should keep going. They got the Buccaneers next week. Bucks. Bucks just lost the Patriots. Okay, Bucks next week.

[Producer Dan]

Tough one.

[Mike]

Fired up. Don't want to lose two in a row. If you're Tampa, that's tough game. I'm going to let you think about the rest of the schedule though.

[Producer Dan]

All right.

[Chris]

Let's get easier after that.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

That's right.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Jeremy]

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[Chris]

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[Mike]

Don LeBatard. Did someone say conservative entity?

[Stugotz]

Oh, see, this is why stugats.

[Chris]

Hers is better than mine in the fifth Zagaki.

[Stugotz]

How is the fifth Zagaki better than the third and the fourth zagaki already?

[Mike]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Chris]

You see that late fumble by Josh Allen?

[Mike]

They definitely don't play the tech.

[Chris]

You see that late fumble? See that late fumble by Josh Allen?

[Mike]

You know what my favorite. You know my favorite moment of the game yesterday?

[Chris]

You're not gonna listen to me.

[Mike]

Yeah, well, yeah, I saw the fumble. Yeah, Yeah. I saw how it happened.

[Chris]

Yeah, it was a punch. Look at the picture.

[Stugotz]

Can you harass an AI in the Washington game yesterday? By the way, somebody just punt. Just punched St. Brown just punched him.

[Mike]

We're okay with that, huh?

[Chris]

It's a different kind of punch, though.

[Stugotz]

Everyone's okay that punching on.

[Chris]

We should get out of here.

[Mike]

Why? Was it a penalty? Penalty? We're okay with punching if he was holding a football. Yeah. If he had a footballer said it's okay. It's the stupidest thing. It's so dumb.

[Stugotz]

You saying the bill's window is closed is. Is comparably dumb. I would say it's just. It's too strong a take. You can't do that.

[Mike]

You know what? The window may never been open because when's the last time they were in the Super Bowl? This window may not have been open. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe it's not. Can't be closed if it's never open. And maybe I am wrong.

[Stugotz]

Let's segue better than I did from Colts Bills earlier into some things going on in local sports here, inter Miami among them. But before I get to that, do you guys know the Heat player through six games, through his first six games, who has more points than any Heat player ever through six games By a lot, by the way. It's not, it's not by a little. Are you, are you familiar with this stat I'm about to give?

[Mike]

I don't think so.

[Stugotz]

So Alonzo Morning scored like 117 points in his first six games as a member of the Heat. LeBron James scored like 122 points. Dwyane Wade was coming off the bench at the beginning.

[Mike]

Okay. In their Heat debut. Okay, got no the first six, their.

[Stugotz]

First ever games, their first six Heat games. Norman Powell has scored more points by 2020 plus points than any other Heat player in his first six games. And it's not just that he's made the Heat a good better the Clippers are now worse because they do not have Norman Powell. This has been an important player that was somehow acquired for Kevin Love and.

[Mike]

Kyle Anders and he's an easy player to to like. He, he's easy to watch. Seems like a likable enough guy. I I've taken to this Norman Powell. I like him.

[Stugotz]

This you're probably taking to him because he scored more points through six games than anything.

[Chris]

The vibes thing too. You saw him with Jovic after the game. That was adorable.

[Stugotz]

He has made a difference and I believe that this is a Heat playoff team. I believe they will have trouble all season winning on the road. They will also have trouble late in games, although against Portland they did pull away late. But I do believe this team will have trouble winning road games.

[Jeremy]

We don't know yet what their late game strategy is going to look like because they have yet to play a game with all three of Bama, Tobias, Tyler Herro and Norman Powell. The fact that they're going to have all three of those playmakers late, especially considering the way that they're sharing the ball and moving around right now like they closed it out with Nico Jovic who had an unbelievable game against Portland, but they closed it out with him being the primary ball handler. They've closed out other games with Jaime Hakus Jr. The options right now are endless for this team offensively with record setting quarters like over and over and over again. It's been really impressive to watch thus far.

[Chris]

Did SPO start using Jovic differently like immediately after Jokic was Like, hey, this guy's good. You should use him differently.

[Jeremy]

It was.

[Chris]

It was like a game later, and all of a sudden he has his best game. Maybe there's interesting timing there. Interesting timing.

[Jeremy]

There's some motivation for Jovic going up against Jokic and then being able to respond to that. But the. The usage rate was simply because you. You don't have Bama to bio as your big man. So now all of a sudden, he's got to be playing some of that role where he's playing small ball five at times. I mean, they've. They've deployed Kashak using him in the.

[Chris]

Post just how Jokic suggested.

[Jeremy]

Well, that's been what they've been trying to do. They've. Get Jovic to use his body to be physical. You hear it on the broadcast. You hear karate talk about it all the time. Spolstra was after that unbelievable game. It was 29.96 for. For Jovic, and he's talking about the last play of the game where he could have iced it and took like a step back three and was like, why is he doing this James Harden thing? I told him, go post up. Use your body, be physical. He would have been able to do it. That's the stuff they're trying to get him to do. They're trying to get Khalil where to go. But thus far, the offense has been great and it's interchangeable pieces, which is nice for this team that's been constantly dealing with injuries.

[Mike]

So the last two games, Heat have scored 126 and 136. Obviously no Tyler Herro, also no Bam Adebayo, and they're scoring 126 and 136. But tonight, Dan, tonight they start a home and home. All right, but both games are at your home. They have a home. And then another home against Cleveland tonight.

[Chris]

Dan, that's not a home.

[Stugotz]

I didn't understand.

[Mike]

What was hard to understand about that. I just explained it. It's a home and a home, but they're both at your home. Somebody was confused.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stugotz]

It can't be a home and home if. If you're never going on the road to their home.

[Mike]

A home and a home. Both games at your home.

[Dan Le Batard]

Somebody's confused. Stop being such a man. Just like, say, I screwed that one up. That one's off me, coach.

[Producer Dan]

Still stupid stubborn.

[Mike]

I'll tell you what I will say. It's one thing you beat the. The Hornets. It's the worst team in professional sports. It's another thing you Beat the Trailblazers. All right, they're fine. You got the Cavs tonight and Wednesday. Some people call it home at home. At your home tonight, Dan. It's a show me game.

[Stugotz]

What?

[Mike]

Yep.

[Stugotz]

What?

[Mike]

Tonight's a show me.

[Stugotz]

Wait a minute. You said against the spurs, they had a buy in game. They lost that.

[Mike]

I know, I know.

[Stugotz]

What's the difference between a buy in game and a show me game?

[Mike]

Because a buy in game game early in the season, you don't really know if you should be buying into the team or not. And that's why it was a buy in game. But now we're a couple weeks later, we're 10 games in 10 games. A decent enough sample size, you know a little bit about your team, but like I said, you beat stupid teams like the Hornets, like the Clippers, those teams aren't any good. Well, guess what? The Cavs and the Heater, undefeated at home. All right, that's a tough place to play. Kaseya Center. Tonight you got the Cavaliers. If you beat a good team like Cleveland, you show me something. That's why tonight, show me game.

[Jeremy]

And that's without Pam and Tyler to have that, that show me game. But their next five games, you got Cleveland, Cleveland, New York, New York and Golden State before taking on New York.

[Chris]

Home and home.

[Jeremy]

That is an actual home and home. That's at New York on Friday.

[Stugotz]

Home.

[Mike]

That's a home and home.

[Stugotz]

A real.

[Jeremy]

A real home and home.

[Stugotz]

Not.

[Mike]

Your home.

[Stugotz]

That's not a home and home.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's a home and home, too.

[Stugotz]

That's not a home and home.

[Mike]

They're both home and home.

[Stugotz]

You can't have a home and home and everything. You cannot have a home and home when you never go to their home.

[Mike]

You just have to. You just have to specify this right now. Against Cleveland's, a home and home. Both games at your home. Then against the Knicks, it's a home and home. Their home, your home.

[Stugotz]

This is.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm sorry, is this a record for home and homes in a season? Miami apparently has 41 them.

[Mike]

All right, so now you're being stupid.

[Stugotz]

This is where we are with the stats on the Miami Heat. They're 13th in offensive rating, fifth and defensive rating, seventh in net rating. And all of that is very good. In a weak, weak east, you know.

[Jeremy]

They have two players in the top 10 in individual net rating, and their names are Jaime Hawkins Jr. And Drew Smith.

[Mike]

I love that Hawk has. That's my dog.

[Jeremy]

He's been pretty good in this offense. He's Been unlocked by what they're doing.

[Stugotz]

It's a bad east and they have the third best net rating in the East. But I don't want to go another minute without talking about this six month long first round series that Inter Miami is playing. They. They do not have happened to them against Nashville. What happened to them against Atlanta where a team with great expectations and the best star in the world gets knocked out in the first round Last year they survive it this year and they survive it in. In with big punctuation against Nashville blowing them out.

[Chris]

Is the next series like two months.

[Stugotz]

It was really long. It's three weeks long.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, but fear not. MLS playoffs make a ton of sense now. They're all single elimination from here. Shut up.

[Mike]

What? Are you serious?

[Chris]

Don't fall for this. He's messing with us.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, it's.

[Mike]

That's not true.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's true.

[Mike]

No, I don't believe.

[Chris]

I don't.

[Dan Le Batard]

First. First round of the MLS playoff. It's the best at three. That takes a while.

[Mike]

There's no way they go backwards. There's about a month I'm looking this up.

[Dan Le Batard]

And now they're all single elimination from here.

[Mike]

Big liar.

[Dan Le Batard]

I knew this would be an issue.

[Mike]

I don't believe you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. Messi scored five goals in the three games. He absolutely owns Nashville. They hate seeing him. He beat them in the league's cup two years ago. Believe it or not, this is the first time in franchise history Inter Miami have advanced past the first round. He's right.

[Chris]

He's not lying.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is stupid.

[Mike]

That's a real thing. They play a series to open the playoffs, single elimination and then it's single elimination.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's right. See, the MLS is like we get all these random results because it's soccer and single elimination. The first. That's stupid. We want the random stuff later in the playoffs.

[Mike]

So you play a series to make sure the better team wins. You do that at the beginning. But then when you get to potentially the championship. Eh, let's just fly by the seat of our pants.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's right. One game for your life against Cincinnati. Let's go.

[Stugotz]

Can you guys find out to me why we fly by the seat of our pants? Is that a Peter Pan reference? And also the reason they have to do that is because if they made every series as long as the first round, it wouldn't be over for seven years. You wouldn't be able to decide a champion in a calendar year.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, it went to game three and you had Luis Suarez suspended for the final game. Of the home, home and home.

[Mike]

Good.

[Stugotz]

What do you mean, good?

[Mike]

I don't like him.

[Dan Le Batard]

He was suspended for violent conduct. He kicked out a player that wasn't called on the game.

[Mike]

It's enough of this guy.

[Stugotz]

Well, this guy. Is there a soccer player, like, punitively and empirically. Is there a soccer player ever who gets into as much trouble as Luis Suarez beyond biting people like you just said a violent act. But we talk. He didn't get suspended for spitting. Like, is there a soccer player ever that's gotten into as much trouble on the field as Luis Suarez?

[Dan Le Batard]

Now is a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

What are you doing here, Cuervo?

[Stugotz]

Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I do know that to be true. But even during ad reads like Cuervo, I think he could lay out, especially from one of our great partners.

[Stugotz]

Sweet, delicious Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots. The same family, the same land, the same passion.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

So enjoy the tequila that started it all. Cuervo. Cuervo, the tequila that invented tequila. Proximo Cuervo.

[Stugotz]

Com.

[Dan Le Batard]

Please drink responsibly.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.