Local Hour: The Mark Of A Raptor

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Local Hour: The Mark Of A Raptor

Date: August 27, 2025
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Billy Gill, Greg Cody, and the Shipping Container
Setting: The Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

The "Local Hour: The Mark Of A Raptor" episode is a classic slice of Dan Le Batard Show absurdism and familial dysfunction, centering on the eruptive fallout from a prank gone wrong involving Greg Cody’s embargoed Miami Dolphins rankings for the Miami Herald. Through laughter, faux trials, and befuddled therapy, the crew dissects one of the angriest moments in sports radio, pivots into the annual Suey Awards’ best story nominees, and peppers in riffs on the quirks of journalism, South Florida culture, and college football. Underlying it all: the enduring chaos and love at the heart of the show’s ever-growing family.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Greg Cody Meltdown: A Masterclass in Show Rage

• High Drama Recap: The disaster began when Greg Cody was goaded into a performance intro and then got pranked over his confidential Dolphins rankings. This led to an unprecedented public eruption—one the crew describes as possibly "the angriest moment in the history of sports broadcasting" (07:25).

• Quote – Greg Cody’s Fury:

  • "I'm serious. I want my laptop back. I'm not the least bit amused by this. I'm not kidding in how angry I am." (09:08, Greg Cody)
  • "On my granddaughter's life, I am not hosting this [draft] party unless I have that computer." (10:03, Greg Cody)

• Prank Fallout:

  • Chris Cody correctly guessed his father's ranking of the Dolphins ("14th") off the top of his head, leading Greg to believe his intellectual property had been compromised.
  • Greg threatens to boycott the show’s draft party, and even invokes the sacredness of embargoes and journalistic property.
  • The incident generated genuine discomfort for the crew and laughter upon reflection:
    • "I shrank to the kitchen because yesterday was genuinely uncomfortable for him. It was not nice. I was not having fun. That was very uncomfortable for many in our audience." (15:51, Dan Le Batard)

2. Family Dynamics on Display

• Father-Son Volcano: The tension (and eventual laughter) between Chris and Greg Cody shows the surreal overlap of entertainment and lived family drama:

  • "It's how I've heard him yell at you since you were five. When he's angriest, he did not care that you're the executive producer." (10:49, Billy Gill)
  • Post-show, Greg calls his son to continue the dispute, oscillating between apology and new threats ("Maybe I overreacted. But do not reveal that pick before 10." – recounted by Chris Cody, 15:51).

• Cycles of Chaos:

  • The show notes that these heated fights are part of the family ecosystem, typically ending in forgiveness or sheepish non-apologies.
  • Billy sums up the core appeal:
    • "Everyone in our audience knows it’s unlike any other television fight you’re ever going to have. And it also doesn’t actually mean anything because those people love each other. Like, they’ll figure out whatever the end of that is if he doesn’t die on air." (20:03, Billy Gill)

3. Meta-Commentary on Journalism & Show Dynamics

• Hypocrisy Highlighted: The crew calls out the double-standard in Greg Cody’s handling of embargoed information versus past “scoops” he’s been unbothered about—especially when he revealed Chris’s engagement before Chris’s wife had the chance:

  • "Greg Cody thought it was okay to reveal to the world before my wife did that I was engaged? That is okay as a scoop... but us reporting what his ranking of the Dolphins is...that is unacceptable and results in a rage not seen since Jim Everett went after Jim Rome." (12:58, Billy Gill)

• Journalism Satire:

  • Dan and Billy riff on newsroom ethics, embargoes, and scoop culture, poking fun at the Miami Herald and show "friendships" versus newsworthiness.
  • "The news waits for no man." (46:16, Billy Gill)
  • "You're positioning it as if we don't have a choice. We are making the decision." (46:12, Dan Le Batard)

4. The Suey Awards: Best Stories Nominee Recap

[27:12–44:00]

A beloved annual segment, the crew relives the year’s “best story” Suey nominees, including:

• Jamal Crawford’s insane dice game loss—putting his car on the line as a rookie (28:41)
• Patrick Surtan Jr. and Sr. on enduring a humiliating NFL game:
  • "Just for the record, by the end of the… About two minutes left in the third quarter, I was drunk, so I knew the score, but the thing about it… we was being whooped in the sun." (30:35)
• Greg and Chris Cody’s near-golf course brawl and Greg puffing his chest to defend his son (29:42)
• Various other anecdotes: Eduardo Perez hiding a shin guard from his dad, Andrew Zimmern’s nut sack collection, Billy being big-timed by Heat security, Papi losing his pants during a Heat game, Amin Elhassan’s terrifying Mike Tyson run-in, and more.

5. Reflections on the Show, Stress, and Scars

• On Chaos and the "Mark of a Raptor":
  • Dan likens the destructive, permanent marks of workplace drama to those left by a raptor in Jurassic Park, a metaphor for the lasting impact these moments have on his psyche.
    • "Like the mark of a raptor. They can never be taken off of my soul." (44:57, Dan Le Batard)
• Work-Life Imbalance: Billy and Dan recount the stress of show crises intersecting with personal milestones (bachelor parties, weddings, etc.):
  • "Every meaningful moment in my life, I can connect to disaster at work that I could not enjoy in my personal life because someone was acting amok here professionally." (44:39, Billy Gill)

6. College Football Anticipation

• Major excitement for Labor Day weekend’s CFB slate, especially Miami-Notre Dame and the potential rise of Arch Manning (08:03).
• Mike Ryan’s upcoming five-hour “Cane’s Insight” marathon is promoted as the definitive Hurricanes coverage hub (47:02).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Quote | Speaker | |-----------|-------|---------| | 09:08 | "I'm serious. I want my laptop back. I'm not the least bit amused by this. I'm not kidding in how angry I am." | Greg Cody | | 10:03 | "On my granddaughter's life, I am not hosting this draft party unless I have that computer." | Greg Cody | | 10:49 | "The next to last time that he was yelling at you. It's how I've heard him yell at you since you were five." | Billy Gill | | 12:08 | "Put it on the poll, please. Juju: is the Eastern time zone the Lord's time zone?" | Billy Gill | | 12:58 | "Greg Cody thought it was okay to reveal to the world before my wife did that I was engaged? ...but us reporting what his ranking of the Dolphins is... that is unacceptable and results in a rage not seen..." | Billy Gill | | 15:51 | "I shrank to the kitchen because yesterday was genuinely uncomfortable for him. It was not night. I was not having fun." | Dan Le Batard | | 20:03 | "Everyone in our audience knows it’s unlike any other television fight you’re ever going to have. ...because those people love each other." | Billy Gill | | 44:57 | "Like the mark of a raptor. They can never be taken off of my soul." | Dan Le Batard | | 46:16 | "The news waits for no man." | Billy Gill |

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Timestamps: Key Segments

• 00:00–01:08 — Ads and banter; show kickoff
• 01:08–05:31 — Setting up the Greg Cody introduction, show performance anxiety, and the evolving "singing sportswriter" persona
• 07:25–12:00 — Recap and replay of Greg Cody's on-air meltdown and context
• 12:00–17:35 — Discussion of embargoes, journalism, and Greg Cody's career pride; calling out hypocrisy
• 17:35–21:00 — Chris Cody’s correct guess, post-show fallout, family catharsis
• 21:48–27:12 — Introduction to Suey Awards' best story category
• 27:12–44:00 — Suey Awards best stories montage (Jamal Crawford, Surtan family, etc.)
• 44:39–44:57 — Dan reflects on lasting scars—the “mark of a raptor”
• 45:21–48:46 — Awaiting Dolphins rankings, prank updates, CFB hype, show plugs

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Conclusion: The Soul of the Show

This episode is a microcosm of what makes the Le Batard Show soar: genuine, messy affection; the raucous intersection of sports, family, and performance; and a willingness to live both the pain and hilarity out loud. The “Mark of a Raptor” is not just a goofball title, but a metaphor for the emotional residue these moments leave—and ultimately, for the loyalty and laughter that keep this show ticking.

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Transcript

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Billy Gill]

Billy, what is your degree of confidence in Greg Cody executing this new introduction today correctly?

[Dan LeBatard]

Um, two for two so far. So you would think, you know, he's got the reps and he should be able to do it, but is this a regression to the mean type situation? You know, and now he's flying a little too close to the sun and he thinks he's too good. And then all of a sudden and yesterday we threw him off a little bit. I say we politely yesterday. You guys are very, very rude to Greg. Very rude to Greg.

[Billy Gill]

Well, we'll get to that in a moment because I was just howling with laughter last night at his just general indignance and how he forgot he was doing show to just yell at us and yell at his son in a way that made us all feel like we were being yelled at as five year olds by our own father.

[Dan LeBatard]

I shrank. I shrank. I've never really experienced that from, from a father before, but yesterday was a real masterclass in you shit stirring. Yeah, it wasn't good. And I think this whole just like paint over everything with a broad brush of its show. Like if you murder someone today and you're like, but it was just for show good. I think that works with the police, you know, so he might be thrown in this intro is what I'm getting. When I was in it, I wasn't blaming Dan as much, but I watched it back and there was a point about 20 seconds in where I'm like, you know what I'm going to give him back. Was it the seven times that we tried to defuse the situation, and Dan said, hold up. Wait, stop.

[Billy Gill]

Yes, that's exactly what happened. But we've gotten two really good Greg Cody days. That introduction. The best version of Greg Cody there is is when you challenge him to sing. Like, there have only been a couple of times that we have done it on this show where we are performing around him. What we did in Vegas, I thought was a miracle, but was also Greg Cody caring the most. He hasn't written a back in my day, and I don't know how long, but you let him perform a song. It's nuts. Roy, you have to be a little bit confused by the singing sports writer here. Do you not like the singing sports writer is the best version of himself at 70, when doing something that's flamboyantly musical, it's not just that it's a little bit of crooning. It's performance art of, I get to sing and dance. I'm a singing dance man.

[Dan LeBatard]

If that. If he knows that's what he's best at, why is he not doing it more often? Is he best at it? He's just solid at it, I'd say. Well, like a B plus. He's good. I don't want to undercut him. Like, his singing is genuine.

[Billy Gill]

Okay. But Chris, if you'd like to try to recreate that, because what he did had a degree of difficulty on it. Two days in a row, he has nailed it. And there's a degree of difficulty on getting all the songs right, all the movements right. Throwing the toilet paper over your shoulder correctly. Throwing the bacon over your shoulder correctly. Sitting in front of the camera in a place that allows Carl to hide behind him in. In a perfectly comedic fashion. I don't know that we can execute all of that correctly.

[Dan LeBatard]

And again, I mean, yesterday, the wardrobe change. Wrinkle, too. He navigated that so smoothly.

[Billy Gill]

Because he's getting better as a performer, I think. And performers know how to do wardrobe changes. I believe he's got a little Celine Dion in him. I mean, that was a diva outburst yesterday. Even though I stirred it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Like, hold on a second. That was not a diva outburst. He was a victim. Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

Billy, let's remember what we're arguing about here. Like, there is no reason for any. That is disproportionate.

[Dan LeBatard]

Stole the man's laptop. Yeah. I mean, crime was committed. And then you put in jeopardy his livelihood. As he told us, no one takes that list more seriously than Greg Cody. And you guys had no respect for it was embargoed the fact the part that I like the best was that he was saying like you're my livelihood here. As if the Herald would give a about us. Like we drew more attention to that. The Herald loved what we did yesterday. This is you. You being dismissive of his career is exactly why we were in that spot. Y I would also be very careful with how you're painting the great Miami Herald with a broad brush because you're to say that anything that gets them eyes they love. So you're implying that they love when people are murdered. If you go to the Herald and you're like, well, look at all the eyes we're getting on this murder story. We wish more people would get murdered. You think that's what the Miami Herald is hoping for? Murder in the streets?

[Billy Gill]

Put it on the poll. Juju at lebatard show is the Miami Herald. You said it. Is the Miami Herald rooting for murder?

[Dan LeBatard]

We don't have to put that up.

[Billy Gill]

Let's see if Greg Cody can do this again.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's time to put on a suit and roll out the carpet Crank up the tube and gather near it's the best time of the year so keep your dial right here it's me and you and me again at the su the greatest of life's mistakes and best revelations so much more brought to you by the greatest be it's the best time of the year so keep your dial right here it's me and you and me again the se and every day you're gonna go to a website.com to vote on the sounds that brought you cheer cuz it's the best time of the year so keep your dial right here it's me and you it's me again and it's you it's me and you and me again at the that kind of thing.

[Billy Gill]

It'S tough to do. It's difficult to do. Blacked out what happened And Greg Cody, if you were not watching or listening yesterday, I could argue that it's the angriest moment in the history of sports broadcasting. I could make that argument. Where else? Where else have you ever seen someone rabidly refuse to do any more show and threaten his son and threaten all of us?

[Dan LeBatard]

I saw Jim Everett slap Jim Rome once.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, a good point by you, Greg.

[Dan LeBatard]

Got older today, huh?

[Billy Gill]

And I want to play for the.

[Dan LeBatard]

Audience everybody look how good I look.

[Billy Gill]

The context. You're breathless, you're winded. I want to performer. I want to play for everybody again. If you did not see it yesterday and We've got a giant college football weekend this weekend. One of the biggest openings you will ever see. Fiu bethune to a season right there, opening week. I just can't remember a time where there was something like this on an arch manning where he could really become. He could go from star to superstar one game. He can do it that quickly, like he's somebody whose name you know. And in one game, he could become the immediate front runner for everything in college football, or it could fall apart. And that's one of the games. You got Miami, Notre Dame. We haven't talked about that yet, but I want to start with what I believe to be close to unprecedented anger. And here's just a smidgen of it, because it was about seven minutes, but here's. Here's one minute of it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, here we go. We got a second. Oh, no.

[Billy Gill]

They're going to be elbows grabbed.

[Dan LeBatard]

They're going to be elbows grabbed.

[Billy Gill]

He's furious.

[Dan LeBatard]

Don't say anything about it. I'm serious. I want my laptop back. I'm not the least bit amused by this. I'm not kidding in how angry I am.

[Billy Gill]

I'm gonna send them both to the penalty box.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm not going to the penalty box. Put together. I'll bring this. I want my computer right here before I do anything. No, I'm not going to the penalty box until I get my computer right here.

[Billy Gill]

You can bring it to me. This is fine. This is good.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, you can bring it to me.

[Billy Gill]

Craig, you're going to stop that now.

[Dan LeBatard]

No.

[Billy Gill]

Yes.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, I'm not.

[Billy Gill]

You're going to stop that now.

[Dan LeBatard]

No. No, I'm not. I'll leave. I'll go home if you want me to with my laptop, but I am not going in the penalty box until my laptop is connected to my computer. My son is. This is not your fault. My son has gone over the line here. I am genuinely upset.

[Billy Gill]

We know.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, so how about make it right, Christopher? If I don't have that computer here in three minutes, I am not hosting the draft party Thursday night.

[Billy Gill]

Put the clock on the screen, please.

[Dan LeBatard]

Don't do it. I cannot express you how serious I am. Don't hold your heart. All right. Yeah. No, no. On my life, I am not hosting this draft party Thursday night. I've never been more angry, connected with this show. Anybody who thinks that's me is an idiot. On my granddaughter's life. On my granddaughter's life, I am not hosting this wrap party unless I have that computer. Whatever number he said will not be where the dolphins are. Wait a minute. Oh, wait, now the number's changing. Maybe. Oh, no. Depending on how accurate he was. That was crazy. I just love in the beginning of that. I want my laptop back. The.

[Billy Gill]

The next to last time that he was yelling at you. It's how I've heard him yell at you since you were five. When he's angriest. He did not care that you're the executive producer. He did not care that he is. That he's sitting here and doing a show. The backstory on this. Before I get to other things here, I just want you guys to know the audience to know that Chris Cody just this morning was still on the phone with his dad, who was still screaming. My ranking of the dolphins comes out at 10am Eastern. And if you guys break that story before me, there's no draft party on Thursday night. I'm hosting.

[Dan LeBatard]

Whoa, hold on a second. I don't know if you're aware. I'm a journalist, all right? And I have sources. I break stories sometimes. Greg doesn't get to tell me what stories I could attempt to break. Dude, you're going to kill me. But listen, this is my integrity. This is my livelihood we're talking about here. Greg doesn't get to tell me what stories to break or not break. If I have some. If I have a source who's going to tell me, you know what. What ranking the Dolphins are before 10am Lord's time zone, Eastern time. Everybody knows that. Well, nothing's stopping me from doing my job.

[Billy Gill]

Put it on the poll, please. Juju is the Eastern time zone the Lord's time zone? Does everyone know that? Chris, what is your description for the audience of what you endured this morning while talking to your dad again about trying to get a graphics package together that celebrates where he will rank the dolphins? And I'm telling you from just knowing your dad, the place that he was angriest and this was lost yesterday. Is that because you said he would rank the Dolphins 14th off of the top? He thought you had already looked at his computer.

[Dan LeBatard]

That was the. You're right. That was the biggest confusion. Whoa. That's correct spoiling here. I haven't confirmed that yet. I haven't confirmed that. Okay, thank you. I'm waiting on your word here, Zaz.

[Billy Gill]

We will get it from the journalist, but is it. Is it lost on everyone here how amusing it is that Greg Cody thought it was okay to reveal to the world before my wife did that I was engaged? That is okay as a scoop, but Us reporting what his ranking of the Dolphins is to do that to him. That is unacceptable and results in a rage not seen since. Since Chris Evert. Since Jim Everett went after Jim Rome.

[Dan LeBatard]

Careful. That was a problem.

[Billy Gill]

For calling him Chris Everett?

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, I think it depends on a number of factors. Okay. When you told Greg I'm engaged, did you say off the record?

[Billy Gill]

I didn't say it to him. I wasn't his source.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, when someone said it to him, did they say off the record? Because if they said off the record and he put it out there, then he did. Then there was malfeasance. Now, there's a difference between that and him reporting news that was not off the record and someone stealing his personal property and then stealing his intellectual information, his ip, and putting that out there before him. That's a crime. Chris should go to jail. Wow. No, I shouldn't. Good defense. Up to the judge. Luckily, we have a judge here. It's up to the judge. Should Chris go to jail for his actions yesterday? He made a good case. Should I be a judge here?

[Billy Gill]

Roy, do you have the imaging ready for Zaslow to be a judge? You're always a judge. You're just asking if you should be a judge.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, today, so far, I'm a performer.

[Billy Gill]

Well, but you're a lot of things. You're a man of many talents. Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right. All rise. The honorable Jonathan Zaslow, now presiding with prejudice.

[Billy Gill]

That's. That's not a judge's. Oh, it is a judge. It is a judge. Tread.

[Dan LeBatard]

We didn't think about the headphones part. I can't believe he kept the backwards flex fit on the no helmet makes it a little, you know, the. The no headphones makes a little difference, right? Yeah. Yeah. All right. The case in front of me. Should Chris Cody go to prison? Jail. Based on the evidence that the defense put in front of me, which was, no, I shouldn't. I side with the defense.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, wow.

[Dan LeBatard]

Chris Cody does not deserve prison whip. Right. Give a bowl.

[Billy Gill]

Congratulations. Congratulations, Chris. I'm very happy for you. You do not get a prison sentence. But we do have still the problem of your father's wrath, which is real. Billy, Mike, you guys tell me what you experienced watching Chris say nine times in a telephone. Dad, we're not going to put it on the screen before 10am No, I.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wasn'T really paying attention to that. I shrank to the Kitch kitchen because yesterday was genuinely uncomfortable for him. It was not night. I was not having fun. That was very uncomfortable for many in our audience. I'm. I was having fun. I like, like. Cause I just know my dad when he gets that level of rage. And after the show, he does the thing. Well, I think I said it on air yesterday. He. He does the rage. Couple hours later, he's like, maybe I overreacted. And then he says that. And then right after that, he's like, but do not reveal that pic before 10. So it's like he apologizes for the rage, and then he says, I'm going to be that angry if you report it before 10. So he grabbed his chest yesterday, like, we're getting to the eight. And he's had incidents where he's just collapsed. Like that highlight. Like, it was getting a little scary because of angry he was getting. Well, it doesn't matter if it's because of asthma or whatever. If you pulling a prank kills your father, I'm with you. How are you going to feel? I did think, watching it back yesterday, that when I saw how angry he was, I was like, this just can't be good for his health. Over. Don't forget, over what's inevitably going to a mediocre dolphin.

[Billy Gill]

Thank you.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's the. Maybe we don't know yet.

[Billy Gill]

Okay, Billy. But here's. I want to take the guesses, and I want to walk people through this, okay? And I'll promise I'll get to the games in a second, because I am excited about this, um, Notre Dame game, and I'm excited about this college football weekend. But I really do want the audience to understand that I believe this anger started with his son correctly guessing off the top of his head that Cody had ranked the team 14th in the league. Because I said there's no way he goes under 16. He's a homer. He will keep them in the top half of the league. Chris got it correct, and his father thought that he had looked at the computer.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, what was the timeline there? When did you say that? That you can see there was a video montage that we cut it out of the one we played. But you can see I say it before I have the laptop. There's me saying 14 wins. And then they cut to me going in there and grabbing the lap. Do we know it's 14 for sure?

[Billy Gill]

Well, this is what I want to talk about, because.

[Dan LeBatard]

Confirmed.

[Billy Gill]

Well, it's not confirmed by Zazzle, but this is what I'm telling you. What I'm saying is, oh, it was 14, but it won't be today. He'll move it, and it won't have anything to do with merit or somebody injured or anything else, he's just going to move it because he doesn't want his son to be right.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do you want to know a behind the scenes thing that I don't think you're aware of? Because you were in that studio when this was going on? So when Chris was back here with the laptop and we were kind of uncomfortable with what was going on, Chris had the laptop and he said, I can't find it. And then he's hitting 40 tabs open. He's hitting every single tab that's open at the time. And Greg was actively typing it out moments before. And he said, oh, gosh, I hope I didn't close it. And if I did, I hope it was saved. So while you guys are kind of egging Greg on, we back here like, oh, there's a chance that he accidentally deleted all the work that Greg had done.

[Billy Gill]

He said that. But Greg wasn't worried about that because all 40 of those tabs were his podcast that he was opened on. He was just checking how many downloads it had.

[Dan LeBatard]

It was.

[Billy Gill]

And I'm promising you, I'd like to take a bet here now. Okay. Cuz I think we'll find out at 10. Or if Zaslo breaks the story earlier.

[Dan LeBatard]

I imagine we'll find out before.

[Billy Gill]

Really?

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, you know, this isn't a hobby of mine. Come on.

[Billy Gill]

You're predicting that in the next 47 minutes you can get this story, this big story of where it is. The Dolphins are going to be ranked according to Greg Cody of the Miami Herald.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I mean, I'm not exactly trying to, you know, crack some kind of code here. I'll figure it out.

[Billy Gill]

All right. His rage is indeed real. But Earlene, Chris's mom, can tell you that that's what every experience is like arguing with your father, Chris, where there's an apology, but he doesn't know what he's apologizing for. And still right the next day. And he wasn't actually that sorry, but he did overreact.

[Dan LeBatard]

And that's like dozens of times in my life.

[Billy Gill]

And so I reject what all of you are saying here. All of you. I reject all of it because I am last night with my wife watching that video and we are howling with laugh.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, so she loved it.

[Billy Gill]

Loved it. Because it was uproariously funny. Because he's cute. And everyone knows. Everyone in our audience knows it's unlike any other television fight you're ever going to have. Everyone in our audience knows, oh, that's real. And it also doesn't actually mean anything because those people love each other. Like, they'll figure out whatever the end of that is if he doesn't die on the air.

[Dan LeBatard]

But there's that too, right? There's the if he doesn't die on air, that's the part we want to avoid. And also just the assumption of, like, we'll misbehave, but we'll probably figure it out at the end. Like, we could avoid that part in the middle. And then you don't have to maybe mend fences. You know, the best fence, one that doesn't have to be mended.

[Billy Gill]

Why didn't you tell me that advice while we were at espn?

[Dan LeBatard]

Listen, there was no one stopping that. That fence was well beyond broken. You were a bucking bronco and there was nothing stopping you. Yep. You wouldn't listen to anybody. Not a single person. I tried to stop you. You sent me to the penalty box. And then everything, everything went downhill from there.

[Billy Gill]

It's one of the best stories in the history of the show. I believe it's the best video in the history of the show. Billy looking hard to disagree. I know, I know why you don't like it, but that's not the best story I want.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's my wedding week. I get less stress that week.

[Billy Gill]

You have to find that for me so that we can just relive that at some point here, please. Just Billy's awkward look, I do it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Every night when I close my eyes.

[Billy Gill]

I know it was a bit of a nightmare, but the best story of the last year. This is a difficult category to edit down in the Suey's every year because a lot of great stories get told around here. They are long stories, but Chris Cody told me this is a tight, tight 15 minutes. You get as tight as it can be. You get to decide what were the best story and stories told over the last year on the show.

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Billy Gill]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Billy Gill]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Billy Gill]

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[Billy Gill]

Don LeBatard Greg Cody of the Miami Herald is writing an article and I'm reading in it Moss Miami sold out. Miami artists, Miami culture. And I'm reading Moss Miami is sold out. And I'm reading about digital podcast network and I'm reading about us and I'm like, this is our dreams coming true. Stugats A people come out and we see the shipping container and they're on a stage and they're like rock stars. You and me both had tears in our eyes. We're like mom and dad of sentiment and it's hard to get you to sentiment, man.

[Dan LeBatard]

That was a very emotional moment for us to see those guys. I'm telling you guys, you were on stage. Dan and I were both crying. Are you guys aware of this? Crying like crocodile tears.

[Billy Gill]

We believe crocodile tears are fake. I thought they meant big.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach apologies. That is the pickle. I had that ready for sells pickles dog. Yeah, we got pickles. But here's best story on the suis. And now the Sui nominees for best story. Jamal Crawford's biggest loss in gambling. Shooting dice with somebody I shouldn't have been shooting dice with. I got in over my head and I start air betting. I don't know if you know what that means, but it's basically like I lost the cash I had. So then when I lost the cash I was technically out the game so I had to bet on somebody else.

[Billy Gill]

While they were shooting air money.

[Dan LeBatard]

And it got so deep. Instead of giving the cash, I said I'll give my car. And I took my basketball off the trunk and gave him the car. True story.

[Billy Gill]

And you were a rookie and what kind of car was it?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I was a rookie. I was a rookie. It was a Mercedes. It was a S430. The Cody's almost got in a golf fight. I can wait to let those guys move. Chances are I'm not going to hit them. So you know what I'm Going to speed, speed this up. I'm gonna hit. What do I do? I hit the shot of my life. And there are two ways to run it up on people. You can land it 20 yards and it rolls into there. That's not as. You know, no one's really gonna get hurt there. Or there's. And the ball like lands and you're like, holy, I almost just died. That's what happened. It landed on the green. So I am like, I'm throwing up the international sign for holy. I'm so sorry. So the guy's reaction on the green, he's like a young guy my age, you know, looks like a tough guy. He grabs the ball, just chucks it in.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, no.

[Dan LeBatard]

What? He takes the ball. That's what I would do. See the motion? Chucking it into the water. And I'm sitting here saying, look, what I just did was extremely rude.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

So I kind of get it. Greg cody over here. 70 year old Greg Cody, once he finds out the guy threw my golf ball, puffs his chest out and it's just like, I'm gonna, like. I had to essentially hold my dad back from going to yell at this guy on my behalf, where then I would have had to be like defending my dad.

[Billy Gill]

Yes. That's how rage and family bonds work. So that someone gets killed and killed by a golf club on a golf course.

[Dan LeBatard]

Patrick Surtan Jr. And Sr. Tell the story of the Dolphins Broncos 70 to 20 game. Just for the record, by the end of the. About two minutes left in the third quarter, I was drunk, so I knew the score. But the thing about it, they were down and Mike McDaniel kept throwing the ball. I'm like, oh, he's. He's trying to break records on him. But bad thing about it was it was humid, it was hot. Yeah. We was being whooped in the sun. And it. Yeah, that was.

[Billy Gill]

Your dad went to get drunk in the. While you're suffering, you're allowing 70 points and you're dead. It's hammered. Before the fourth quarter, I was watching.

[Dan LeBatard]

I was watching out of one eye. The story of how Jessica and Lehman met. My other grandma actually died. And then I went to work the next day and I was like, my grandma died. And everyone was like, oh, we're so sorry. And I'm like, it's okay. Let's go to happy hour. And then we went to happy hour. And that was the day Lehman and I started dating.

[Billy Gill]

So much romance.

[Dan LeBatard]

So much so that's how I remember our anniversary. Eduardo Perez was Terrified his dad would see his shin guard. The trainer for the Angels comes out and beats our Tampa Bay trainer out to the field. And he's like, it's mush. He goes, let me. Let me look. And I said, don't. And he goes, what? I said, if it's mush, don't raise my pant legs. Why? I said, because I have a shin guard underneath it.

[Billy Gill]

And my dad would always say, the.

[Dan LeBatard]

Sign of a bad hitter is a hitter that has a shin guard on. So I had a shin guard underneath my uniform. I did not want my dad to see while I'm torn. Achilles, I had the shin guard on. So I'm like, please do not show me that. He goes, okay, no problem. I'm not going to show you that. The Miami Heat had Poppy so scared he pulled his pants down.

[Billy Gill]

I was there, and I was sitting on his couch with my girlfriend and my father, who got so nervous that while he was watching during all of that, for reasons I will not be able to explain to this day, in the living room, just dropped his pants and was standing there in his underwear. He just got scared.

[Dan LeBatard]

He was all he fans. That was all of us.

[Billy Gill]

His house, just like Wade. But why do I. Why do I remember that? Because my father, for some reason, was in his tighty white. He's just in the. In the fourth quarter, scared.

[Dan LeBatard]

Did you ever say, dad, why'd you drop your pants? We all did his house, though, Greg. Poor girlfriend. Wait, you all dropped your pants? Jalen Rose texted Mero about his hairline. I was asked the question of, like, who do I think has fake hairlines? Because, you know, some people like Steve, that was when the camera. I know where you going with this, right? I said, jayla Rose, you're a lie. And I was just like, yo, the devil is a liar. So I said, so? So I said it right? So I said, yo, Jalen Rose, this gotta be fake because it's so.

[Billy Gill]

It's too perfect.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's not. It's too perfect. So then I get a text, yo, this is Jayla Rose. My shit's real. It's true. I mean, now we on Facebook. Don't say it's fake, dog. It is geometrical. Like, it's a. It's a modern marvel. How. How? The 90 degree angles on it are crazy. Like, I'm talking about on tv, Jamal, you know how hard TV Dominique Foxworth played through spitting up blood during a contract year. Jay Cutler scrambles to the right and then scrambles to the left.

[Billy Gill]

I go the left One.

[Dan LeBatard]

Then he comes back to the right. As I'm coming back, Eddie Royal dives through my chest. And I thanked him after the game because he didn't hit me in the head. Cuz it was legal back then. I got up from that play and started coughing and spitting out blood. And then I started to walk in the direction of the sideline because this ain't normal.

[Billy Gill]

And then it hit me.

[Dan LeBatard]

Me? Nah, bruh, it's a contract year. Lined up and played the next play. And there are people who have done much more absurd things than that because I wasn't even that good. Craig and Erlene Cody share the tale of bamboo Reed. When you were pregnant with Christopher and we were dreaming up possible names, I came up with, you know, we were going through the usual suspect of names. I came up with a rather unusual name that you vetoed. Is that when you were on the lsd? Is that when that was happening? Yeah, please. Now that was. Well, after that. You mean the bamboo reed thing?

[Billy Gill]

Upset.

[Dan LeBatard]

Upset, yes. Andrew Zimmern collects animal nut sacks. I have the nut sacks of six or seven different animals that I've taken in the wild and whose balls I've eaten. Which animals? I have a wildebeest nut sack over there that is about the size of a softball. Billy Gill got big timed by Miami Heat security at Amos Miami. I was like, why is this guy just hanging out by the stairs? There's this big crowd of people. Like, I wanted him to feel welcome so I was trying to be like a good host. So I was on the stage and I walked over to him and I said, hey, good to see you. Like, thanks for coming out because I've been told that he's a big fan of the show. So he shakes my hand very nicely and then I walk away and I go back on the stage to do whatever we were doing. And then I report got to me that he then turned to the person next to him and said, who the bleep was that guy?

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, he's terrifying. And I don't know why I wasn't terrified.

[Dan LeBatard]

I thought he was a dick. He was one of the fans. All right, I'll get back to him. Come on. Poppy Levitard tells us about Fred Dreyer. The guy used to eat salmon. That's all the guy ate. You know, he was, he was in real good shape. His cholesterol level was in tip top condition. And I said, oh my God, this guy is going to live forever. And one day I get up in the morning and I look at the noose, and the guy dropped dead. I said, how the hell this guy could drop dead, you know, he's such a healthy nut, you know? Well, that happened. So I stopped eating salmon. That's it. I don't need salmon anymore. Let's clip.

[Billy Gill]

That. I'm being told that Fred Dreyer's still alive.

[Dan LeBatard]

Nah, I don't believe that. My source, though, me, he dropped dead. A number of years ago, Amin Elhessan got face to face with Mike Tyson. Crowded bar. And I'm walking out, and someone, like, bumps into me until my drink spills. And it went all over Mike Tyson. And he turns around, and this is when he first got the tattoo. And it's glowing in the dark of the black lights. That's prime. Like, oh, my God, Prime. Don't spill a drink on my Tyson. That's no f givens, Mike. This crowded bar, that was, like, really congested a second ago. It was all open, and it was just me and Mike Tyson, and everyone was, like, 100 yards away. And his eyes. His beady little eyes were, like, glowing too, and they were angry. So I said the only thing that came to mind as salaam alaikum, brother. And he dapped me up, and he pulled me close, like, sharply like that. I'll kill you. And in my ear, he said, alaikum salaam. But he said it so close to my ear, I thought he was gonna bite my ear. So I jumped back, and then he released, and then I just. I ran away. Jonathan Zaslow disrupted Brad Williams show My wife and I were at the show. We're sitting toward the back of one of the couches, and there is a really loud man who is behind us with a couple of women. They have been overserved. They are clearly drunk, and they are loud. And so I could feel the buildup. My wife is getting agitated at the people who are being loud and disrespectful to Brad. And it got to a point where I turned around and I yelled for everyone here, shut the up. Just to be clear, Zaz is making his wife the Jada Pinkett in this scenario where it's like Will was sitting there like, I don't want to slap Chris Rock, but my wife's uncomfortable, so let me go assault one of the best comedians ever. So Zaz is sitting there going, like, I don't want to ruin the show, but my wife's uncomfortable, so let me go ruin the show. Dan LeBatard's fireworks adventure.

[Billy Gill]

So I go to the park, all right? And I Just take the very smallest of the explosives, and I like the fuse, and I walk away. What happens next is such a bombardment of neighborhood machine gun fire and smoke that I run out of the park because I don't want to be seen by anybody in.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, my God.

[Billy Gill]

In a neighborhood where it won't stop. Like, I get to my car, it's still going. It was such a rat. A tat tat of like 90 seconds of neighborhood machine gun fire on an otherwise trash, tranquil, sunny afternoon that I immediately came home and gave my fireworks away to a couple of my friends.

[Dan LeBatard]

Dan Lebatard lost his ticket to the Pearl Jam concert. What happened is we had tickets, and they were hard tickets, actual tickets, not on the phone. Tickets were distributed to each of the people in our party about an hour and a half prior to the concert. When it came time to enter the venue and show the ticket, Dan Levitard, set says, sorry, I can't find my ticket. He lost his ticket, which would have kept him out of the concert. He was there for his wife for her birthday. So my girlfriend has to go looking in a casino for his ticket, doesn't find it, and I'm forced to get him in because I knew security. So Dan gets into the concert. There are. Are eight of us for only seven tickets. So we squeeze in, and all of a sudden there's this guy standing where our seat is. And I. No one else said a word. Dan is just sort of standing there with his eyes half open. And I said, excuse me, this is not your seat. And what does this man do? He showed the ticket that was Dan's ticket, because who else has a physical ticket? Like, obviously, it's Dan's ticket. It. BJ Upton asks Tim Kirchen his shoe size. Dan, I was in the dugout once in Atlanta, and BJ Upton came up to me during the game, and he just looked at me because I'm right there in the dugout with a microphone in my hand. And he said, my brother and I were wondering, what size shoe do you wear? So I said, well, I wear a seven and a half shoe. And he said, man, that's. That's a really small shoe. And then he walked away. That's what you get when you're the dugout reporter. Dan Lebatard threw carrot cake out of the press box. Dan had brought back a piece of carrot cake, a square of classic carrot cake from the dining room. Dan looks at me, looks at the.

[Billy Gill]

Carrot cake, and then he kind of.

[Dan LeBatard]

Puts his hand like he's gonna Flip the carrot cake over the railing into the crowd. And I look at Dan. I said, you're not gonna do it. Like, don't do it.

[Billy Gill]

Don't do it. And you know Dan, that just.

[Dan LeBatard]

That to him is saying, you're gonna. You have to do that now.

[Billy Gill]

So with just a quick little flip.

[Dan LeBatard]

Of his finger, the carrot cake over the railing, gone.

[Billy Gill]

And now, since we're professional, what do we do?

[Dan LeBatard]

We both push back from the desk. And we're now, because we want to.

[Billy Gill]

Separate ourselves from possibly somebody seeing us.

[Dan LeBatard]

And then about 10 seconds later, thick New York accent shouting up, hey, great New York. Hey, you idiot. You think that's funny?

[Billy Gill]

Throwing cake at people?

[Dan LeBatard]

You guys are idiots. I'm gonna come up there, blah, blah, blah.

[Billy Gill]

And we are both just.

[Dan LeBatard]

We're about to die. It's like I literally want to just disappear. He thinks it's the funniest thing in the world. David Sampson gave a sermon at a black church. I needed their support for public money, for the ballpark. So hold on. I was the only white guy in there.

[Billy Gill]

Jewish.

[Dan LeBatard]

I am Jewish. I am white. The. The white is. How did you. Okay, so how did you. How I dressed is. I went to visit a black tailor. Hold on. No. And I had a suit made for me by Andre Dawson's tailor, so I looked like Andre Dawson. And it was awesome. I had a consigliere who was Cuban. And we had a plan of all the different people we had to get votes from. So we went to the Cubans. We went to the non Cuban 100. I had to go get one more recently made guy. Vera.

[Billy Gill]

What'S the best story in there? Which one did you guys like best? And I will give you the context for what's happening in the lower right hand portion of the screen in a second. Because this was the moment that got us ended at espn, basically. And what you can see in the corner is executive producer Billy Gill has been sent to the penalty box. And I don't believe he can hear what I'm saying. Right.

[Dan LeBatard]

I could not. Not.

[Billy Gill]

But I knew, right, well, so I.

[Dan LeBatard]

Knew what was coming.

[Billy Gill]

So you did know what was coming. So the directors in Miami just put it on, Billy. Because clearly, if this person's going to be suspended. No. No organization that made this go viral would just air a guy sitting there the entire time. Just. Billy, sit. Like, that's the reason they went to that shot. That's good directing right there is the reason they went to that shot.

[Dan LeBatard]

Shot.

[Billy Gill]

And Billy looks like he's afraid even Though he's not afraid. But he was afraid.

[Dan LeBatard]

My wedding was a week away. That was the day before I was going. Or two days before. I was going away on like a bachelor trip for like a two day trip just before. Bachelor party. Is that is what we call it? Yeah, but it was like. It wasn't a party. It was like we went to like freaking Orlando. It wasn't like, you know, cocaine and strippers, you know, as bachelor parties have. So it wasn't good? No, no, it's good. It's a good time bonding with friends, you know, and then they were all telling me that was. Wasn't that so great what your boss said? I was like, no, I may come back and not have a job. It was horrifying. It was terrible. Like, oh, my God, that was so great what he was like. It was absolutely not great what he did. I'm coming back from this trip where I'm supposed to be unwinding, getting ready to wed my beautiful wife. And I don't know if I can provide for this family anymore because Dan wanted to prove a point and he wanted to have a little hissy fit. Even though we were trying to say, hey, let's just. Let's tone things down a little bit. Let's calm down. And he wanted to do it anyways. So, no, it was not great. Friends, I'm quite stressed out right now and surely things can't get worse next week. And they did. The way that it worked out was he came back from his honeymoon and we were no longer gonna be with ESPN. No, we were still with ESPN, but I came back from our honeymoon and 790 said, Hit the road, Jack. That was true. That was too hot for us. That was. That was another thing that happened. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Every meaningful moment in my life, I can connect to disaster at work that I could not enjoy in my personal life because someone was acting amok here professionally.

[Billy Gill]

That's a great top five list.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, it's not. It's tragedies of my life. Scars. Mental scars that cannot be healed. Years of therapy had attempted to unsuccessfully. Clearly we will keep, like the mark of a raptor. They can never be taken off of my soul. It's gonna say brain, but soul.

[Billy Gill]

What's the mark of a raptor?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, raptor. Like, you know, in Jurassic Park. Like, I guess that maybe is a T. Rex. You know, the Margaret. I think it was a. It's a very common expression. People say it all the time. Ever heard of Thomas Ederson? The Toronto Raptors logo Is basically what you're saying that was more of a basketball shaped. We have a pickle later. Ruined that surprise. I apologize. Apologies again for that.

[Billy Gill]

We have to get to Diana Rossini in a second as well. And. And. And I want to because in 30 minutes, Greg Cody is going to reveal where the Dolphins are ranked. And I think Zaslow's closest close to sniffing out this.

[Dan LeBatard]

I actually just got a text that my dad. It was originally going to be new. He said to the Herald, hey, that Le Batard shows doing this thing. We got to get it out at 10. He has not got confirmation yet that it will be out at 10. He's hoping it will be. So.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, no, then we got to break this news on. And we can't wait if. We know it's got to happen before we leave the air today. We can't wait around for him if. Especially if Zaslo gets the story.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, the Herald. I don't know if you know, I don't work for the Heralds. The Herald deadlines mean nothing to me. Just to be clear, we could wait. He's our friend. Yeah, we could.

[Billy Gill]

No, we can't wait. We should break the story if Jaslo has the story. The news waits for no man.

[Dan LeBatard]

You're positioning it as if we don't have a choice. We are making the decision.

[Billy Gill]

The news waits for no man.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do you think breaking news is about to come out and somebody in the newsroom says, what about our friend? Sometimes.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, no, sometimes.

[Dan LeBatard]

What do you think the whole Epstein list thing now?

[Billy Gill]

Maybe it's not how it used to be. Back in. Back in Saslow's back day. I'm going to call your dad here. And as I do this, I'm going to.

[Dan LeBatard]

Another crime being committed.

[Billy Gill]

I'm going to FaceTime him on speaker. But hold on a second. And I will. Even though you guys shamed me for that yesterday, I will put him on speaker. But before I do that, just real quick, because we're in the local hour and I really do want to talk, um, Notre Dame. Mike, what are you doing later today to talk? Um, Notre Dame for five straight hours, if anyone wants. Five straight hours of Mike. Ryan hasn't been allowed to talk about it here, so he wants to talk about it. Five straight hours there as a partner.

[Dan LeBatard]

Over at Kane's Insight. Make weekly appearances. Cane's Insight broke a lot of news over the off season. For my money, and quite literally my money, the best Cane's coverage there is out there, we're doing our second annual hurricane Last year we kicked things off with a five hour marathon that had a ton of guests. This year, the marquee is even bigger. It begins at 3 o'. Clock. We have Chris Felica, Bruce Feldman, Jay Lucas, a new men's team coach, David Lake, Jessica Smittena and Mike Golick Jr. Will be joining us. Kevin Clark, Brett McMurphy, and hopefully a big time special guest. Dude, you should get Xavier Restrepo. He's got nothing going on now. He's got nothing going on.

[Billy Gill]

Waved by the Titans yesterday. Billy, how many people sent you that? Because.

[Dan LeBatard]

Just you, but I had other people tag me. Yeah, I don't like this. I don't like that I'm being tagged and people think that I'm celebrating someone's downfall, which is. You are smiling. Well, no, because I got the text from Dan, so I knew we were going to get here eventually. It's a dream. It was an easy dream joke to throw in there, but I don't like being, you know, attached to essentially my words. I'd like to just kind of say things for laughs and move on. Like, I don't like this Josh Allen stupid face thing.

[Billy Gill]

Billy, you got it right, though. On Restrepo, he.

[Dan LeBatard]

Look, there's plenty of that story still to be told. You don't. You don't really do consequences. Well. Fair.

[Billy Gill]

I'm gonna call Cody, all right, because this we might. We have the chance of getting him pissed off all over again.

[Dan LeBatard]

Again. I'm nervous about this for the podcast listeners. Dan is calling Greg Cody on his phone. Maybe turn the volume up. Confusion there. There's. Oh, he's fumbling around with the phone there. Yeah, now he's raising the volume. I don't hear ring fingers one side. Oh, I couldn't figure it out.

[Billy Gill]

We'll try again with Diana Rossini.

[Dan LeBatard]

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