Local Hour: The Moratorium

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Local Hour: The Moratorium

Date: March 25, 2026

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Episode Overview

Broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, this “Local Hour” episode delivers the signature Le Batard blend of South Florida-centric sports talk, quirky pop culture observations, and playful internal banter. The running theme is “moratorium”—interpreted loosely as reflection and eulogy—paired with segments on the Miami Dolphins’ drastic roster strategy, the significance of coaching changes in college basketball, and memorable sports media headlines. Throughout, the crew debates sports intensity, pokes fun at each other’s quirks, and wryly explores the absurdities of sports culture and Miami living.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Morning Dysfunction & Show Operations (01:30–04:00)

• Late Arrivals and "Shadow Show" Confusion:
  • Greg Cody opens with claims about being the only sports show “broadcasting descent” and teases his own legendary tardiness.
  • The crew riffs on show start times, Greg’s chronic lateness, and the mystery of the “shadow show” (an off-air preamble Greg doesn’t understand).
  • Dominique Foxworth and others debate who is earlier to the studio, wryly invoking “spring break traffic.”
  • Quote: "Who starts anything at 8:55?" - Dominique Foxworth (03:08)
  • Tony Reali gives insider radio logic: starting just before the hour snags listeners before rival shows start (03:21).

2. Dress Code Debates & Golf Course “Jeansgate” (04:03–04:32)

• Roy Bellamy is razzed for allegedly wearing jeans (or “jean-esque” pants) to a golf course.
• The group debates whether jeans are ever acceptable golf attire, fixates on the technical “jean nipple” (the small rivet/button), and launches a new poll: “Can you wear jeans to the golf course?”
• Quote: "Put it on the poll at Le Batard Show—can you wear jeans to the golf course, yes or no?" - Greg Cody (04:28)

3. “Looks Like” Bracket: Sports Doppelgängers (04:50–06:34)

• Martin Sadness (Billy Gil) launches into the annual "Looks Like" parody song—riffing on which public figures resemble each other.
• Includes jokes about Adam Silver, Jim Harbaugh, Andy Reid, and others.
• Interlude of musical absurdity: "(Adam Silver) looks like a torpedo bat," "(Jim Harbaugh) looks like a casket salesman."

4. The Strangest ESPN Headline & Cornhole Crime Saga (06:34–09:14)

• Greg Cody submits possibly the weirdest ESPN.com headline ever:
  “Quadruple Amputee Cornhole Player Fatally Shoots Man.”
• The group unpacks the absurdity: How did the player shoot someone? Was it a cornhole dispute? He was also the getaway driver.
• Dominique Foxworth marvels at the driving logistics and mock-argues over terminology (“stubbs”).
• Quote: "There were four guys in the car and the one with no arms and legs was driving." - Dominique Foxworth (08:05)
• Quote: “Is Cornhole a sport?” - Greg Cody (07:18, proposing a poll)

5. Language Games: All Words Are “Made Up” (09:31–09:58)

• Greg Cody’s misunderstanding of football terminology (“targets”), sparks a debate over the nature of language.
• Leads to another poll concept: “Is every word made up?”
• Quote: “Every word is made up. At one point, every word has a birth point.” - Greg Cody (09:51)

6. Miami Dolphins in "Coupon Discount Bin" & Tua’s Awkward Presser (10:01–16:40)

Dolphins' Strategy & Press Conference Breakdown

• Roster Purge & “Moneyball” (Key segment: 10:01–26:15):

  • Greg Cody and crew discuss the Dolphins’ highly unusual strategy: fielding a team with 43 players on league-minimum contracts, driven by enormous dead cap hit from past contracts.
  • Adam Schefter’s reporting: Miami operating with $133 million in cap space, $175M+ in dead cap, “tearing it down from the ground up.”
    • Quote: “We’ve never seen a team ever try to do what the Dolphins are about to try to do.” - Adam Schefter (21:54)
  • Group explores whether this is a "Moneyball" approach—Consensus: Not really, as NFL cap makes true “Moneyball” impossible; this is a pure rebuild.

• Tua in Atlanta & Zoom Mannerisms (10:43–16:40):

  • Tua’s first Atlanta press conference discussed. His vague, awkward Zoom answers are interpreted as ungracious, especially given his generous past contract.
  • Tony Reali: "Anytime he’s asked about the Miami Dolphins... he should be incredibly gracious to the organization." (13:31)
  • Zaslow defends: “This video is super benign... He just looks like a guy answering questions he doesn’t want to be answered.” (13:43)
  • Dan highlights how pro-athlete/coach conflict is more common than fans realize (Stephen Jackson story, 11:14–12:30).

• Dissection of Blame & Scapegoating:

  • Crew debates whether Tua was scapegoated for organizational failure or benched just because he played poorly.
  • Quote: “They left him out there to be maximum scapegoat.” - Dan Le Batard (15:04)
  • Dominique: “There would have been nothing wrong with him saying... ‘I didn’t think I should’ve been benched. I think they made me a scapegoat.’” (16:13)

7. College Basketball Coaching Carousel, Miami’s Turnaround, and Jay Lucas (27:43–38:42)

• UNC Opening and Jay Lucas as Candidate:
  • Greg Cody: UNC now open, might be second most prestigious job in college hoops.
  • Billy Donovan rumored as leading candidate, with Todd Golden in the odds mix. Jay Lucas “too young,” but Cody debates whether the best turnaround ever makes him a legit candidate instantly.
  • Quote: “It’s the best turnaround in the history of college basketball.” - Greg Cody (32:10)
• “Moratorium/In Memoriam” & Miami-Specific Myopia:
  • Roy Bellamy checks if Miami’s “in memoriam” (the moratorium) has been conducted yet.
  • Group debates whether coaching fast-risers get due credit in hoops vs. football, if Lucas is being dismissed for youth, and whether “myopia” is distorting Miami’s view.
  • Nods to collegiate job prestige: “If you’re North Carolina fans, do you want a guy from Duke?” - Dominique Foxworth (38:42)
• Money’s Role in College Basketball:
  • Discussion on NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) and how money, not coaching “charm,” is now the biggest factor.

8. Press Conference Gags: Recycling the "Wife as Recruiting Coup" Joke (38:54–41:29)

• Providence coach Brian Hodgson re-uses a corny joke (“just look at my wife!”) at his new job’s presser, after bombing with it the previous year at USF.
• The group pokes fun at the recycled routine, the “finger guns,” and how crowd size and local culture affect what gets laughs.

9. Local Miami Living—The Mundane and the Musical (41:42–44:09)

• Greg Cody observes Miami residents muttering to themselves about high prices and Roy Bellamy singing made-up bacon songs (“I got bacon in my hand”).
• Roy vs. Greg in “song territory"; confusion if Roy was parodying Dave Damashek or just freestyling.

10. “Scarface” Ignorance Shocks the Room (44:43–46:42)

• Greg Cody admits never seeing the iconic Miami gangster film Scarface, shocking the cast.
• Tony Reali: “It’s shocking that you’ve never seen Scarface… I was probably like 8 or 9 years old.” (45:12)
• Dominique Foxworth: Argues Pacino’s accent is the film’s most memorable (if notorious) feature: “When I think of Scarface, the first, almost the only thing I think of is how vilified and mocked he was for his accent.” (46:09)
• Dan pushes back, citing Scarface as Pacino’s most famous role and a key Miami cultural reference.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Tua’s Dysfunctional Dolphins Tenure:

  • “He was the last thing standing at the end after they got rid of everyone else.” —Dan Le Batard (15:56)
  • “You get that 60 mil for that blame.” —Mike Ryan (16:12)

• On the Dolphins’ 2026 Roster:

  • “43 players at the minimum. That’s lunacy. You can’t win. Half of your starters are going to be minimum guys.” —Greg Cody (22:57)

• On the Moneyball Analogy:

  • “The Moneyball strategy is… finding the value and trying to win with that. The Dolphins know they’re not going to win like this.” —Tony Reali (25:48)

• On College Basketball Job Prestige:

  • “There’s Kentucky, there’s Kansas, there’s Duke, there’s North Carolina—pristine jobs. You’re looking at guys in the NBA, guys that have won national titles.” —Roy Bellamy (38:19)

• On Scarface as Cultural Touchstone:

  • “That’s only Cubans who care about that. And if you’ve not been watching the news lately, nobody cares what Cubans think about anything.” —Dan Le Batard (46:36)
  • “When I think of Scarface, the first, almost the only thing I think of is how vilified and mocked he was for his accent.” —Dominique Foxworth (46:09)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Late Arrivals & Show Banter: 01:30–04:00
• Golf Course “Jeansgate”: 04:03–04:32
• “Looks Like” Bracket Song: 04:50–06:34
• “Quadruple Amputee Cornhole” Headline: 06:34–09:14
• Dolphins Coupon Bin & Tua Presser: 10:01–16:40
• Adam Schefter on Dolphins’ Cap: 21:54–22:38
• Moneyball Debate: 24:44–26:15
• UNC Job & College Hoops Carousel: 27:43–38:42
• Coach Presser Joke Recycling: 38:54–41:29
• Scarface Discussion: 44:43–46:42

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Tone & Language

Staying true to the show, the tone is deliberately irreverent, jovial, and layered with inside jokes and Miami-specific references. The banter is self-deprecating, occasionally exasperated, with the cast playfully lampooning sports figures, each other, and themselves.

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Conclusion

This Local Hour delivers an entertaining tapestry of Miami sports angst, national headlines, and clubhouse rapport. It’s a love letter to the absurdity of the current Dolphins and college basketball eras, and a reminder that, on this show, even the biggest news might take a backseat to a debate over jeans at a golf course or who knows the words to "bacon in my hand."

Transcript

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[Greg Cody]

I believe that we are the only sports show in America. Maybe the world. Maybe not just sports. Proudly broadcasting human beings descent. Greg Cody. Never more so than yesterday when Greg Cody had a legendarily bad performance. But do you know where he started today while complaining that he's lost his voice as where he started today by saying to his son, I thought we started at 8:58.

[Dominique Foxworth]

We used to.

[Greg Cody]

No, we've always like Greg, I cannot tell you. This might explain why you're always late.

[Roy Bellamy]

I don't think he's ever really understood the concept of the shadow show. But then again, neither is Dan. He thinks that the podcast audience can't hear it. We always include it.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I'm always late.

[Greg Cody]

I don't understand the shadow show or everyone here doesn't understand what I'm trying to do with the shadow show. Oh, I don't understand it.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Okay, Shadow show.

[Greg Cody]

You were saying Greg, did you say

[Dominique Foxworth]

I was always late? Who was in the studio first the last couple of days, Me or you?

[Mike Ryan]

This guy is flexing.

[Zaslow]

I walked in with Greg.

[Mike Ryan]

Spring break traffic one week and he thinks he's just got it figured out. He's leaving at the same Exact time. He's like, hey, I'm here earlier.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Early, early bird getting the worm and you're sleeping in.

[Greg Cody]

Your computer made a dinging sound. You owe $5 at the fine bucket because your computer isn't ready. But you weren't expecting the show to start for a couple.

[Martin Sadness]

Exactly.

[Greg Cody]

So that.

[Martin Sadness]

So.

[Dominique Foxworth]

So we negate that fine.

[Greg Cody]

But how do you not.

[Roy Bellamy]

Greg's right.

[Greg Cody]

How do you not know when we start? How is it possible that you don't know when we start? When we've been starting at this time for a couple of years now.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Okay, who starts anything at 8:55?

[Mike Ryan]

It's a fair question.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Rounded up to nine.

[Greg Cody]

You know what? That is a fair question. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Who starts anything at eight tea times?

[Mike Ryan]

Outside of tee times, I don't know what else.

[Tony Reali]

I mean, it's really not like if you know anything about radio, and I know this isn't exactly radio, but if you know anything about radio starting at 855 makes a lot of sense.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Why is that?

[Tony Reali]

Because other shows, other things start at nine. You have a heads up and people aren't going to leave your show five minutes in to go catch the start of another show.

[Roy Bellamy]

They're already listening to the big radio brain on zaz.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Wow.

[Roy Bellamy]

How about that big brain?

[Greg Cody]

It is funny to hear zaslo say to Cody, of all people, if you know anything about radio, he doesn't know anything about radio.

[Roy Bellamy]

Famously.

[Greg Cody]

You mentioned tt times. Is it true? Is the rumor true that Roy showed up at a golf course wearing jeans?

[Roy Bellamy]

That's not embargoed.

[Dominique Foxworth]

No, that can't be.

[Roy Bellamy]

Roy did wear jeans.

[Dan Le Batard]

They were pants.

[Mike Ryan]

There's a debate here.

[Roy Bellamy]

All right, so it had the jean nipple.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

You know that nipple on this, you

[Roy Bellamy]

know, like the little nipple, the little button. What is it for the pocket wrist

[Mike Ryan]

to be able to look from afar

[Roy Bellamy]

and be like, oh, look, those are jeans. And so like, Roy walked in in conventional jeans made of denim today. I'm like, hey, Roy, you're wearing your golf pants.

[Greg Cody]

Put it on the pole. At lebatard show, can you wear jeans to the golf course? Yes or no. And also put it on the pole. Do you know what that nipple on the side of the jeans is for? Purdue was a number one seed as Kirk cousin looked like JCPenney. Looks like. Looks like,

[Martin Sadness]

Looks like it's back Jack bracket time. So make a chart. Does Jeff and Gundy look just like the queen of heart? Does Adam Silver look like a torpedo bat? Let's get Martin sadness back on track. Looks like his back Jack when the donuts are in front of you,

[Dominique Foxworth]

does

[Martin Sadness]

Andy Reeves say don't mind if I do. Adam Silver looks like a cute kid thing or fry in a bag of onion ring When Timmy laughs until he

[Dominique Foxworth]

hats that's how you know that looks

[Martin Sadness]

like his back, Jack

[Dominique Foxworth]

Let me hear you say looks like

[Martin Sadness]

looks like his back Jack. Let's keep on doing it every year though. AD Dan Burke says pista bomb. Welcome to ten. Chair Jim Fisher looks like shotgunning beers at an NASCAR track. If you say this game's the best, I'll say the gaaaak looks like his back Jack.

[Greg Cody]

Northwestern is gone from the tournament.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jim Harbaugh looks like a casket salesman

[Greg Cody]

Fairly Dickinson 16 seed repped by Mike McDaniel look like a college student on a full ride scholarship for esports.

[Roy Bellamy]

What a run.

[Martin Sadness]

Looks like his back Jack

[Greg Cody]

over the years you guys have heard me nominate an assortment of headlines for single strangest headline in the history of ESPN.com but I believe I have in front of me the winner. And while you guys might not remember any of the others, I just want to hear from you whether you think this is a worthy candidate for weirdest headline. ESPN.com hall of Fame Name Quadruple Amputee Cornhole Player fatally shoots Man. We're not going to do any better than that. And then he drove away in terms of weird. Now that's not, it's not worthy of put it on the poll. Is Cornhole a sport? It's not. They just wanted to write that headline. There's no circumstance in which Cornhole is going to get into the ESPN.com headlines except for this. This is the only circumstance that would allow Cornhole to be involved with ESPN dotcom headline.

[Zaslow]

Dan this has been the biggest thing on the Internet for last like 24 to 48 hours. This guy who has no arms and legs shot a gun. But there's video of him shooting a gun.

[Greg Cody]

We should get that video because I'm, I've got more questions than answers on

[Zaslow]

I don't know if he can answer

[Greg Cody]

any question on this headline. Thank you, Tony. I don't know whether his lawyer would advise him to answer any questions, but you start with quadruple amputee, then you go cornhole player then fatally shoots man. I want to know if it was a Cornhole dispute. I've got nothing but questions. I don't have answers. But I want to follow this mystery wherever it is that it ends up.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I love the fact that there Were four guys in the car and the one with no arms and legs was driving. That's my favorite part of that story. Shouldn't he be the guy in the back?

[Greg Cody]

That's your favorite part of this story?

[Zaslow]

Yeah.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I don't care that he's a cornhole champion. Apparently he, he, he had stubs and he held the gun.

[Mike Ryan]

Lean back.

[Dan Le Batard]

Lean back first.

[Greg Cody]

I don't think, I don't. I don't think Stubbs is a. We've covered this, but I've argued Stubbs is dangerous as well. I don't.

[Tony Reali]

Be careful too.

[Greg Cody]

I don't know what to. I don't know.

[Zaslow]

Stubs on your feet or just on your arms?

[Roy Bellamy]

Sending an email.

[Dominique Foxworth]

That's a good question.

[Greg Cody]

I don't know the answer to some of the questions.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Daniel Stubbs, former, um, player.

[Greg Cody]

You don't even have the breath and voice left to make the terrible joke. Like you, Peter.

[Zaslow]

Daniel.

[Greg Cody]

Daniel Stubbs.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Kane's fans are out there nodding. Yeah, I remember him pretty good. De

[Dan Le Batard]

Dana Stubblefield.

[Dominique Foxworth]

There you go. Dana Stubblefield. Roy's catching on.

[Greg Cody]

What about Dana Stubblefield? We're now doing Stubbs now. That's what we're doing.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm trying to help my guy out here.

[Greg Cody]

Please don't. Before the show, Chris Cody said to his father, what do you think? 20, 30 carries today? And then Greg said, I'm going to catch a couple of balls out of the backfield. And you know and didn't know the word for target.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

He's like, throw me four times.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Well, that's a made up word in football. Targets. Come on. What do we play in archery?

[Greg Cody]

Since you brought us.

[Mike Ryan]

Every word is made up.

[Greg Cody]

Since you brought us to football. Put it on the poll at Lebiton show. Is every word made up? It's a good point.

[Zaslow]

So on and so forth.

[Roy Bellamy]

Rare Chris Cody logic. That works out.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, every word is made up. Like at one point every word has a birth point. And before that it wasn't a word.

[Roy Bellamy]

Tony was so jealous. Chris Cody came up with that.

[Greg Cody]

It is true. Every. Every word is up. I want to talk about TUA going in Atlanta doing his first press. And I want to talk about what Adam Schefter said about the Miami Dolphins plans. And it's just super rare to see a professional football team in the coupon discount bin the way the Dolphins are. They're going to do it with minimum salaried players more than any in the league. That is the plan as they fumigate the building more than it's ever been fumigated. But here's two talking introducing himself to the Atlanta Press, you know, with your teammates. Can you just give us some insight

[Tony Reali]

into, you know, what it was like

[Jeremy]

last season in Miami and how that might have shaped the season that you had?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, you know, I don't want to get too much in depth with things that were going on more so in terms of players to coaches than it was players to players. But it was unique in a sense. It was unique.

[Jeremy]

Unique in what way?

[Greg Cody]

In a lot of ways. We'll go to Terrence Moore. It's a good follow up from the reporter to a Not looking at the people interviewing him doesn't come off great there. I think people would be surprised. I'll get to this more of the analysis of this sound in a second, but I think people would be surprised at how often human beings who are professionals, who have gotten to professional football have disagreements with their coaches that are bad. There's a famous Stephen Jackson story. You guys can look this up for me if you don't remember the running back Stephen Jackson, he ran angry, came into the locker room at halftime one time, was furious with his offensive line coach and his offensive lineman and went to the offensive line coach and said, you better get these guys guys to start blocking. And the coach said, I'm not doing anything. And so he charges at the coach and the center gets in the way of Stephen Jackson with his offensive lineman. Stephen Jackson knocks the center out in the locker room at halftime. He falls into his other offensive linemen like bowling pins. And no one did shit. No one did anything because Stephen Jackson was terrifying. But I think people would be surprised how often players and coaches clash in ways that are meaningful. And obviously Tua blames the coaching staff for leaving him on an island at the end to take the blame.

[Tony Reali]

Yeah, I think he comes off terrible in the clip. I think it's another clip that you can add of him coming off terrible in front of cameras over the last really couple of years. Why is that the case? I don't know. We could certainly speculate. But it also bothers me where I feel like anytime. And by the way, where he says, you know, we're not talking player to player, player to coach, coach. Tua, pal, you're the one who got up in front of the cameras before a game and talked about players being late to meetings and not being accountable. Like, you're the one who put that out there. If you want to talk about player to player, player to coach, I just feel like anytime he's asked about the Miami Dolphins because when his contract was going into the final year, everyone was saying. Everyone outside of Miami was saying, you can't pay this guy. The Dolphins paid him. Everyone else ended up being right about, you can't pay this guy. And I just feel like every time that Tua's asked about the Dolphins, he should be incredibly gracious to the organization.

[Zaslow]

I agree 100 with that. Like, nobody would have given that to him on the open market. But to me, this video is super benign. He's doing a press conference on Zoom with, like, a bunch of reporters he doesn't know. He's probably sitting out in some rental, like, apartment. He's looking out of, like, a parking lot, and he's like, like, all right, so this is where my life is now. I'm answering questions as the bat. Maybe back up to a guy who has no knees and, like, everybody's talking about his mannerism and stuff. He just looks like a guy who's answering questions he doesn't want to be answered.

[Mike Ryan]

Every market other than ours, this is a nothing burger. Like that sound clip, because we know him. But it's just like, I feel like we are the scorn lover overreacting to this.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Well, first of all, remember when he got that big contract that he arguably didn't deserve?

[Mike Ryan]

Show me the money.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Show me the money. At the first Friday.

[Tony Reali]

So off putting.

[Dominique Foxworth]

So off putting to a lot of people, including teammates, I would imagine. And in this case, I agree with Tony. It's so bizarre. You're. You're a quarterback competing for the number one job, and your introductory press conference is not in person. It's on Zoom. So, so ridiculous. And the other thing he said in that press conference, this is the. The NDH headline, the no DA headline. I have to play better if I'm going to compete for the starting job. Well, no, duh. He had such a terrible season last year. He's lucky to have a job at all right now. And, yeah, just a total disaster, that press.

[Greg Cody]

You've been riding for Tua for a long time, and now you're just burying him in air quotes that are put in the wrong places in a bunch of different wrong places. You've been using the air quotes a lot lately, and you were really supportive of Tua, loudly supportive of Tua. And now you're hurt. This is scorned lover bullshit that you guys are doing. It's not a press conference. It's a Zoom. And it is a bad way to introduce yourself to your new fans. But he's just not answering questions the way quarterbacks don't answer questions. Like, there's no. What's the good way to answer that question. It's just with gratitude. Like, because I don't think, I don't think he's grateful. I think that at the end they left him out there to be maximum scapegoat on a bunch of different stuff as the entire team fell apart and his number one receiver was sent to the hospital with a cracked and half legged.

[Tony Reali]

Well, isn't he only a scapegoat because he played terrible? Like, they didn't leave him out anywhere.

[Greg Cody]

Like, no, I mean left him out to take the blame for all organizational failure. He was the last thing standing at the end after they got rid of everyone else. There wasn't anyone else to care about. There wasn't anyone else to blame. He was the last one standing with the money's for. That's correct.

[Mike Ryan]

You get that 60 mil for that blame.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Look, he was a six year starting quarterback who was unceremoniously benched for a seventh round draft pick. There would have been nothing wrong with him saying, and I wish he had something to the effect, I didn't think I should have been benched. I think they made me a scapegoat. I would have loved to have heard him say that instead of saying, oh, there was a lot going on, but I don't want to talk about it. That's the worst thing he can say.

[Roy Bellamy]

Hey, Roy, buddy, you know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody all together in unison knows to stand up on their feet?

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, absolutely.

[Roy Bellamy]

Mike.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Yeah?

[Roy Bellamy]

You've been at many big time sporting events. You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take your first sip of Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, delicious.

[Roy Bellamy]

It's the signal that says, we're not checking the time anymore, pal. It's when small talk turns into stories. Cuervo, man. It's that high five, a random stranger effect. That's right. The game is popping. You're hugging people you never met before. That's the kind of energy that Cuervo brings. It's so smooth, so delicious. That's the Cuervo effect. Keep it Cuervo.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Roy Bellamy]

LeBatard in terms of Heat fans, you're the most irrational of us right now. What's the pivot.

[Mike Ryan]

How irrational.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stugats.

[Greg Cody]

You don't hear your voice. If I were making a cartoon thing that was meant to symbolize irrational, that's the voice I would give him.

[Mike Ryan]

Entire premise.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Roy Bellamy]

This Cody's got the hot hands.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, I'm cooking right now.

[Roy Bellamy]

I think show works through this Cody today. Because I mean, have you heard these takes?

[Mike Ryan]

Any takes on anything?

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[Greg Cody]

He wasn't benched for a seventh round pick. He was benched for. Let's not get him injured here. He wasn't benched because the backup, anyone thought the backup was better. That's not why he was benched. He was benched because it was all over. Because everything around him had failed and created a situation for the Dolphins that has no precedent in the history of this market for a team to just strip it down to the bare minimum. Let's listen to Adam Schefter here explain to you and Jeff. Hopefully he'll be through here to do a South beach session. I'd like to get to know the coach a little bit and this stuff matters. Okay. I think the fairest criticism of tua, that's not how you present to your fan base. When you're the face and voice of a new team, or possibly the face and voice of a new team at quarterback, you've got to pay attention at least some to the optics. Like the Miami Dolphins don't have to drag their coach down here. Except the present predicament puts them in a position where this leadership group needs to have some faith from its customer base. And part of the reason that this, this coach is coming here is because they want him known. Because they don't have any players who are known. Like this is going to be the hood ornament on the front of the franchise now. Because listen to Adam Schefter talk about what the Dolphins are doing and why.

[Adam Schefter]

The Dolphins have over $175 million in dead cap money. So we're talking about a team that basically has $133 million against the salary cap to go spend this year. The composition of their roster, it's just way different. They have 43 players next year who are signed for the minimum wage. The next highest in the league is 31. We've never seen a team ever try to do what the Dolphins are about to try to do. You might as well tear it down and start from the ground up. That's why to me, I would have called on Devon H. And if I Were the Dolphins I trade him to, Everybody's for sale.

[Tony Reali]

So is it safe to assume then, that Jeff Halfley and John Eric Sullivan got assurances from Stephen Ross?

[Adam Schefter]

Yes. That patience lasts only so long. So I don't know whether if it's in year three, people start asking questions or year four, but some point they're going to have to show progress on this roster or else.

[Greg Cody]

This is what has happened here. Steven Ross is coming out of a bathroom, waving his hand in front of his nose and going, john Eric Sullivan, Halfley, get in there. It's terrible in there. Get in there and fix that. Do whatever it is you need to do. 43 players at the minimum. That's lunacy. That's lunacy. You can't win. That means. Means you're paying real money to half of your starters. Half 12. Not. Not all of them. Half of your starters are going to be minimum guys based on the current roster construction.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Yeah. And a lot of that's the residue of the TUA contract that continues to be an albatross for their whole design, but yet they spent fairly big for the position. Fairly big to size. The best free agent quarterback. That's what's at odds here. Okay? If you're going to go all bare bones and you're going to tank, you got to. I don't think you sign Malik Willis.

[Greg Cody]

You got to meet the salary floor. You've got to give that money to somebody. That's not big money. That's just, hey, get this cleaned up in two years. Get this. That's two years of guarantees for Willis on. You'll work out or you won't work out. These guys have two years to fix this and show progress. But the way that they're doing it, it strips it down because I think this part cannot be overstated. Okay. It's simply not possible to win in the NFL at all. The Dolphins over under is four and a half this year. Four and a half. It is not possible to win in the NFL when you have $99 million in cap money that you're paying a quarterback to play somewhere else. No team can overcome that. No management team, no brilliance, no players. It can't be overcome. That's a third of your salary cap.

[Zaslow]

And with the 43 players, you know, getting the league minimum, basically, this is not a way of moneyball where we're going to try and pay little to no money for guys that are really good. We're just going to kind of put them in spots.

[Tony Reali]

Does that even exist in football?

[Zaslow]

Probably not. But, but the way that you look at it, it's like this. This could be substantially worse than the year that Dominique said that they needed to arrest whoever you know was on the roster for how bad the team was. Eternally bad or whatever he called it. Like this could be worse.

[Greg Cody]

I believe Dominique is furious at me for the ways that I have misrepresented his point, saying the Dolphins were unethical. You have upped the stakes by saying the Dolphins should have been prosecuted and arrested players.

[Zaslow]

He said players, front office players are doing their job.

[Roy Bellamy]

There is a model for this, but it's not a very good one. The New Orleans Saints were in cap hell and they tried to do what they could with their roster and I think they're finally out of it.

[Tony Reali]

How about the Broncos?

[Roy Bellamy]

The Broncos had a bad contract to get out of, but nobody's had this kind of contract. 201.

[Tony Reali]

This is the most so.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, but it is a Moneyball like strategy. They're going to go with, you know, draft picks and undrafted.

[Tony Reali]

The Moneyball strategy is, is, is finding the value and trying to win with that. The Dolphins know they're not going to win like this.

[Zaslow]

I don't know.

[Roy Bellamy]

I, I think they're going to try to win with their roster, see what they have and then, you know, they'll take the temperature of the season and then it'll probably go in one direction.

[Tony Reali]

Like with the Athletics and Moneyball. Like Billy Beane very famously felt this team is going to win. There's no way John Eric Sullivan thinks this team's gonna win.

[Greg Cody]

There's no such thing as Moneyball outside of baseball. Baseball doesn't have a salary cap. So you can go ahead and figure out inefficiencies and cheap play and value in ways.

[Roy Bellamy]

In my opic, it exists in soccer much harder than.

[Greg Cody]

Well, I was just doing the Happy opening week four major sports.

[Roy Bellamy]

This is the biggest sport in the

[Greg Cody]

world in America is what I was doing. Myopia and the salary cap. Moneyball. I'm gonna say it again. There are no human beings who have ever lived who can immediately fix something that wastes a third of its money giving it to a player who's not gonna play for you. You can't make that kind of mistake at that position and overcome it. In a sport where the greatest advantage is at that position, you've got historic lack of value. The Dolphins like record breaking inefficiency that the Dolphins are trying to overcome there. And it puts them in a position that's rather literally unwinnable So I want to move from that, though, to what happened yesterday. If you were listening last week to our college basketball expert and taking his picks, he was great at his picks. He did great with his picks. But he told us that Hubert Davis wasn't going to be fired, that he wasn't on any kind of hot seat, and that right there isn't the premier job in America, but I think it's second in college basketball. Do I have this wrong?

[Tony Reali]

Well, how. How do you define the premier job? Because that, that makes it sound like if it were the premier job or second, like, does that mean anyone who's offered the job would take it?

[Greg Cody]

I'm saying it's prestige. I'm Saying Duke, North Carolina is 12 for me in terms of what is the prestige job? Because the people who have come before you are Roy William, Dean Smith. And when you get that job, you're following icons of the sport. But the, the domino effect that this is going to have. Who is considered the favorite for that job? Because I was surprised that people weren't mentioning Jay Lucas as a possibility for that job, probably because he's too young, one year of experience. And when Billy Donovan is somebody you're throwing out there as a possibility, then you're talking about somebody who's, you know, top of the food chain.

[Tony Reali]

So, number one, I do think Billy Donovan is going to get that job. I think it's going to be Billy Donovan. But as far as betting, if golden

[Greg Cody]

goes to North Carolina, you think Billy Donovan might be tempted at all? Florida.

[Tony Reali]

Oh, that'd be so awesome. But as far as the betting odds go, the last I saw, Todd golden has the shortest odds, 3 to 1, Todd Gold. But I would be surprised, though, if Todd golden takes that job. And I'm looking up and down the list, you know, his name is not on the list for any odds. Jay Lucas.

[Greg Cody]

Right.

[Tony Reali]

He's not even on the odds.

[Roy Bellamy]

This is where our centrally focused Miami homer ism probably, maybe is a little bit overstated in the landscape of the college basketball world. Because, yeah, a job like North Carolina, they're going to look at a few names before Jay Lucas. Todd Golden's won a national title at Florida, if you can, if you're in the position to, like, shoot for the moon. There are names that come on that list before Jay Lucas, probably a dozen.

[Tony Reali]

I also mentioned when we were talking about this last week and the potential job opening up at unc, which of course it did yesterday. And would they look at Jay Lucas? And I told you, like I Don't think UNC can't hire a coach who not has been a coach at a Power 4 school for one year, but has been a head coach for one year. Like, that can't be the coach of UNC.

[Roy Bellamy]

One that I want is Billy Donovan to go to North Carolina just because if golden leaves or another or oh leaves Alabama, then you start having the coaching carousel, dominoes start falling, and then you have these, like, tier two jobs that will look at a guy like Jay Lucas more seriously.

[Tony Reali]

I think it's going to be Billy. If it is Billy, does he have to step down like, before the NBA season ends because UNC can't wait around for another month.

[Greg Cody]

His and his NBA season has ended. His NBA season is over. Billy Donovan going back to college is. Is interesting since I mentioned Jeff Hafley before, the way that he talks about wanting to go to college to teach. He was a head coach at Boston College wanting to go to teach and realizing how quickly his job became zero percent about coaching. If I'm Billy Donovan, I don't want to go back to the present landscape of chasing around 17 year olds and trying to convince their families that the amount of money that they're giving is the correct amount of money. There is nothing more important right now in college basketball than money. It's not a coach's persuasive charms on how he's going to raise your kid for you.

[Roy Bellamy]

Well, I'm curious to hear Greg's thoughts here because we haven't talked about. He hasn't done the moratorium on the in memoriam on Miami's basketball season yet. And I'm curious your thoughts on the whole Jay Lucas situation.

[Greg Cody]

I think you got the word wrong twice. What is it?

[Roy Bellamy]

In memoriam.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, in memorial.

[Roy Bellamy]

Incorrecting myself.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Okay. Obituary. We're giving an obituary here. That's a word.

[Tony Reali]

Eulogy.

[Zaslow]

Would eulogy be.

[Roy Bellamy]

That would have been good, too. All of them would have been better.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Eulogy would be good.

[Roy Bellamy]

All right, guys, we're getting bogged down here.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Jay Lucas should get coach of the year votes for the way he turned around that team. And the money's what drove the money thing. You're talking about the portal, the nil. That's what drove Laryn Yeager into retirement very awkwardly. And so I would not want to be a college coach in this today's landscape. Jay Lucas obviously had a flawed team.

[Greg Cody]

Right?

[Dominique Foxworth]

Right. He had no depth. They couldn't shoot threes. If they could shoot threes, they might be playing tomorrow or Friday. But Jay Lucas did a great job. He's young and I agree, we're a little myopic with him down here because we think, look at the turnaround.

[Greg Cody]

Well, but wait a minute, too young, you say. You say a little myopic. I mean, it, it, it's the best turnaround in the history of college basketball. And it's the biggest, obviously, if it's that, it's the biggest that there was in the sport. Sport this year. When it goes like that will get anybody's attention. When you've turned, when you come in and you start with the team was 7 and 24, right?

[Dominique Foxworth]

Great turnaround, coach, not great turnaround.

[Greg Cody]

The best turnaround there's been, not great turnaround. The best we've ever seen. Like that will immediately make you a head coaching candidate. I don't think that's myopia. I think anybody who does that would get the world's attention.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I think if you're North Carolina, the bluest of the blue bloods, and you have your choice of coaches, including guys who have won national championships, you don't go to Jay Lucas. Right now.

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[Greg Cody]

Don LeBatard.

[Dominique Foxworth]

He called me on my own podcast. He called me full of shit, claiming that I'm faking interest in the solar eclipse.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, you do do this. You love to just get excited about everything.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Okay, Junior stugats. I had to school you and explain

[Mike Ryan]

to he was going to take you to Augusta.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I mean, when I was 17 years old, Alan Sherry and I used to haunt the Bueller Planetarium.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan lebatar show with his two gods.

[Greg Cody]

I think all of that is overstated. In the modern age, I believe Billy Donovan will get back to college basketball and will feel left behind by how they're doing things now versus how they were doing them when he could get joking. No. And Al Horford to play next to each other.

[Jeremy]

You know, in the 201213 season, Towson had what was previously the best turnaround in men's basketball history. Their coach was Pat Scary. He is still their coach. They hung a banner in their arena for the greatest single season turnaround. Miami should do the same thing.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, I like that. But Dan's absolutely right. Jay's still a little wet behind the ears. Needs a little bit more experience. I think, you know, this is.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let.

[Roy Bellamy]

Let this bake a little bit. Let's. It was just a one. Maybe he's a one year wonder.

[Tony Reali]

Did you take that serious, what Jeremy just said?

[Greg Cody]

Didn't you hear what he just said? I was trying to not notice that all he's doing is trying to make sure that Jay Lucas stays at Miami.

[Mike Ryan]

But Mike did agree to the banner there. I don't even know if he knew what he was.

[Jeremy]

I think that was just like a. He's listening, waiting for me to finish so that he could do his troll after I did my troll.

[Mike Ryan]

Want a banner for most improved Season?

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, that's fine. It's great. Put it right next to the gigantic Final Four banner that we have that is so outsized compared to all the other ones.

[Greg Cody]

I'm curious. I want to put this before the group because I think what you guys are doing to college basketball is not something you would do to college football. If I told you that a first year coach had just turned whatever college football program. Oh, let's make it Indiana. Let's make it Indiana.

[Tony Reali]

But he'd been a head coach before.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, but let's. Let's make it Indiana. Let's not make it exactly Signetti, but let's make at somebody who in one year, Jay Lucas didn't do what Signetti did. But in one year Everybody was talking about, can you believe that? They had the biggest turnaround in the history of the sport.

[Roy Bellamy]

To the degree.

[Greg Cody]

We always give these guys way too much credit for having some sort of acumen that 100 other guys don't have. Because we love to do that. We'll take the results and we'll just take somebody and make them the next Belichick. Because it's like that person knows a lot more than these hundred other people. But when this happens, when the results are this obvious in a results based business, that person should skyrocket at his age to the top of your list. But he does look like a child. And I.

[Roy Bellamy]

That's a great point.

[Greg Cody]

I want to remind the rest of you that when Hubert Davis was hired for that job, he didn't exactly have the qualifications for what it is. The last time they hired a company, they didn't go for the best candidate they possibly could have gotten. They had. They went for somebody who had ties that they liked.

[Tony Reali]

Right.

[Roy Bellamy]

But if I'm put yourself in the shoes of a North Carolina fan. Jay Lucas is a. Is a fine plan G. Right? Yeah. I'm North Carolina. I want a guy that. I want a guy that's won a national title. I want a name that sizzles. I want name recognition.

[Greg Cody]

You know who you can get who's won a national title? He's available. Hubert Davis. You can get him if you want him.

[Roy Bellamy]

Well, he made it a final Four. I don't know why I became ultra Italian that he made it a final Four.

[Zaslow]

Who made it the Final Four?

[Roy Bellamy]

He made it a final Four. No, I just. I think Jay Lucas is a. Is a fine candidate and in a couple of years he can be looked at a little bit more seriously. But come on, this is North Carolina. There's like in that sport, there's Kentucky, there's Kansas, there's Duke, there's North Carolina. Like pristine jobs. You're looking at guys in the NBA, you're looking at guys that have won national titles. You're looking at proven commodities.

[Dominique Foxworth]

And if you're North Carolina fans, do you want a guy from Duke? That's another factor that I think them being interested in Jay Lucas after consulting

[Greg Cody]

with hr, it's residual limb. So Providence coach Brian Hodgson. Hodgson, excuse me. He was introduced yesterday and this joke sounded familiar. It worked better the second time. This is his move at press conferences and he was asked about the recruiting. How good are you going to be at recruiting? And this was his line and it went over very well.

[P]

I want to thank My family. Steve talked about it. My better half, my beautiful spouse here, Jordan, my son Jett, who. You'll hear plenty throughout this speech. If you ever want to question my recruiting ability, just. Just take a look at my wife, Jordan.

[Greg Cody]

That is an unusual amount of applause to get for that joke. It's a joke a lot of coaches use. It's not a great joke, but it's a coach. This coach used when he was introduced at USF and got. This was a year ago. And it didn't get applause and he went right back to it.

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[P]

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[Roy Bellamy]

Crickets.

[Greg Cody]

He did the finger point. He did. Come on, you can't do this. You can't do the same joke the same way and have it killed like that.

[Zaslow]

Dan, come on. You know, you know, especially, you got to work the clubs. You work the smaller club at USF

[Mike Ryan]

didn't get the laugh, but the same finger gun motion.

[Zaslow]

You gotta, you gotta practice exactly what it is. You worked it in Tampa. Didn't work. You working in Providence. Good comedy town. All of a sudden, people left. There's like 30,000 people.

[Tony Reali]

Providence Stadium.

[Roy Bellamy]

It'd be so great when he does this next year at his next press

[Mike Ryan]

conference, people say tampa is a good comedy town.

[Jeremy]

Is this a juxtaposition of how good looking people are in these prospective towns? Like maybe in Tampa they just weren't that impressed.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, I think Jordan, his wife, is tired of that whole act.

[Jeremy]

Oh, I can't even imagine, you know,

[Greg Cody]

like from year to year.

[Jeremy]

And the first time there's the finger point and he immediately, when he realizes there's no applause and no laughter. Laughter. He follows up with a second line like, ah, it's the best thing that's ever happened in my life. Because he realizes this isn't playing. And the second time, the reason he starts clapping for himself is because he gets cut off before the second line with giant laughter and applause. It had to feel so good.

[Mike Ryan]

If he moves on again next year. You do it again. Yeah, you just keep this train rolling.

[Jeremy]

Go from fiance to wife to maybe ex wife.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, he's, he's, he's totally going to do it. When Jay Lucas leaves and he's done. And we're going to be like, yeah,

[Mike Ryan]

we're going to laugh so hard.

[Roy Bellamy]

Easy. Jay Lucas definitely needs a couple more seasons to prove to the nation he's got it.

[Greg Cody]

The last couple of days, I have run into people who are muttering under their breath. Okay. A couple days ago at Fresh Market, I'm just sort of leaning into the produce, and there is a guy there who I just hear saying over and over again, accurately, everything's double. And he's talking to himself like, he doesn't. Like I'm coming in. He was just totally talking to himself. Himself. Today I walk in and you know who was singing to themselves a Dave Danishek song? Roy Bellamy. Roy Bellamy was singing a D. Michek song I had not heard as Dan Sheik continues to infringe on Greg Cody's territory and threaten Greg Cody. Because he does. Back in my Dave. And he does. He does. He voiced the tournament and he's doing some of the things Cody usually does around here. The song. The songs are Greg Cody's pride and joy. He's the singing sportswriter. He invented the song. He invented the song on this show. What was the Danishek song that you were singing, Roy? Can you give me a rendition and can you tell me its origins?

[Dan Le Batard]

There is no origins. I just completely make up songs from time to time, like, hey, I got bacon in my hand, Bacon in my hand. That sort of thing. You know, I completely forget how I sang the song.

[Jeremy]

Best musical performance.

[Tony Reali]

That's a good song.

[Roy Bellamy]

Roy walks in in the morning and he's just singing I Got bacon in my hand. And he's. It's. I haven't seen it, but I've heard.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, Dan was there for that song.

[Greg Cody]

So you. I thought that this was a song that appeared on the show on Friday. I thought there was, like. You were just. Roy was singing a Dave D song, and I was just really confused that you were. There was no reason for it. It was.

[Dan Le Batard]

No. Bob had said Dave Damashik's name, and then all of a sudden, boom. I said, Bob engineer.

[Jeremy]

Let's go to Bob. Go to Bob.

[Adam Schefter]

Bob.

[Zaslow]

You mean Robert.

[Tony Reali]

I've been calling him.

[Zaslow]

Do not call me and call him. Not call him Bob.

[Greg Cody]

Bob. It's Tico.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Dominique Foxworth]

So that's a Demoshek song or it isn't.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm confused, dude.

[Greg Cody]

I was confused.

[Roy Bellamy]

I thought it was a Roy song.

[Greg Cody]

Look, I think everyone in the room is the information I just shared with

[Mike Ryan]

all of you on a Roy singing that's odd.

[Greg Cody]

Under his breath. The song he just made up about Dave Damaschek. This is a shocking bit of information I've shared with the community, Is it not?

[Dan Le Batard]

It is weird. Yes. Yes. And I'm the one that sang it, so. Yes.

[Martin Sadness]

All right.

[Mike Ryan]

Was this A bacon song or a

[Jeremy]

damage is the bacon thing. You just made that up right now.

[Roy Bellamy]

It shows up in too f. Okay,

[Jeremy]

so you made up the bacon one on the spot.

[Mike Ryan]

So.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, I think so.

[Jeremy]

What were you singing about Damache.

[Mike Ryan]

So out there you're like dammashek. Damachek.

[Dan Le Batard]

I was just saying his. Yeah, exactly. I was saying his name in song form.

[Mike Ryan]

So why wouldn't you say that when you.

[Jeremy]

Why'd you say bacon made up? I got bacon in my hand.

[Roy Bellamy]

Did you wear jeans to go?

[Dan Le Batard]

It was pants.

[Dominique Foxworth]

It was pants.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was stretchy pants.

[Mike Ryan]

It wasn't denim.

[Roy Bellamy]

The jean nipples.

[Greg Cody]

Everyone says they were jeans, Roy.

[Mike Ryan]

When you felt them, they weren't. They just looked like jeans.

[Roy Bellamy]

And they had the nipple, but they were IG jeans. I jeans, if you will. We looked at them up. They're jeans.

[Dan Le Batard]

Maybe it was a hybrid. You ever thought about that?

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, but a hybrid that was made

[Greg Cody]

to look like jeans, Like a jegging

[Mike Ryan]

self dress, look like jeans, but also

[Roy Bellamy]

be comfortable enough for you so you can roundhouse kids.

[Zaslow]

I've seen those on Instagram.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, Joe Rogan got me a pair of jeans once.

[Greg Cody]

I'd like to revisit something that happened yesterday that I'm still confused by. Zaslo, what is your appraisal, as we talk right now, of Greg Cody's familiarity with the movie Scarface?

[Tony Reali]

I gotta tell you, we didn't spend enough time on that yesterday. It's. It's shocking that you've never seen Scarface. Now, look, maybe this. You could point at parenting if you want, but I saw Scarface for the first time. I was probably like 8 or 9 years old.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Have you not seen Scarface Bragging or complaining?

[Tony Reali]

No, no. It's a fantastic movie.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Okay. The accent, though, is renowned.

[Jeremy]

Oh, boy.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Awful.

[Tony Reali]

Who cares? He's great in the movie. It's an iconic character.

[Dominique Foxworth]

How can he be great in the movie if all people do is make fun of his awful Cuban accent?

[Tony Reali]

He's an iconic character. Tony Montana movie is incredible. There's so many lines that you recite. You got big stars or, you know, actors and actors who turned into big stars who have assessed you was a cop. I mean, come on, this.

[Roy Bellamy]

He's got a Cuban pass.

[Tony Reali]

He.

[Roy Bellamy]

He's allowed to be Cuban. He and Razor Ramon, the only people that aren't Cuban that are allowed to be considered Cuban.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Well, Greg doesn't know movies, but when I think of Scarface, the first, almost the only thing I think of is how vilified and mocked he was for his accent.

[Tony Reali]

You think that's the overriding theme from that movie?

[Dominique Foxworth]

Yes. And I think most people would agree that's not.

[Greg Cody]

Greg. Greg. That you've never been this wrong.

[Tony Reali]

I doubt that you think you're a nuts man.

[Greg Cody]

I could come. Because I doubt that I could come closer to arguing that that is Al Pacino's most fam role than I can to arguing that what Al Pacino is known for is culturally appropriating a bad accent in Scarface. That's only Cubans who care about that. And if you've not been watching the news lately, nobody cares what Cubans think about anything.

[Tony Reali]

We love Scarface.

[Dominique Foxworth]

It is his most famous movie, but notoriously so.

[Greg Cody]

Jeremy had the finish.

[Roy Bellamy]

I don't think that character has legs.

[Mike Ryan]

A mike. You know I have one rule to live by, right?

[Roy Bellamy]

Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is won when it hasn't hit triple zero.

[Mike Ryan]

Always drink your Jagermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion.

[Roy Bellamy]

Everything else?

[Mike Ryan]

Everything else.

[Roy Bellamy]

Wearing clean underwear every day, well, that's

[Mike Ryan]

just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth, obviously smart, but not a rule.

[Roy Bellamy]

Never pee pee on an electric fence.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay, maybe there are two rules. But the one that is 100% that I insist on completely. Jaegermeister. Must be drank ice cold or don't drink it at all.

[Roy Bellamy]

Damn, that's cold.

[Mike Ryan]

Exactly. You're finally starting to get it.

[Roy Bellamy]

Drink responsibly. Jaegermeister liqueur, 35% alcohol by volume. Imported by mass. Jaegermeister. West White Plains, New York.