Transcript of Local Hour: Thank You, Billy Gil

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Dan's definitely going to cry, right?

That's a guarantee.

Has to be like- Obviously. Minus 750, probably.

Has it even started yet? He's got his head down right now. I can't even tell. He might be crying right now.

I've got to finish this real quick. Cody betrayed us again, and I'm not ready to do this right now. Scoping it. I need to concentrate on what I'm doing right now. Can you guys just handle this for a Definitely going to cry.

I think minus 750 is being generous.

I'm not going to cry.

I don't cry. The cry price is... The cry? You can't even take that. Off the board? It's about how early he cries. What's going on? It's like crying in the first 30 seconds.

Why are we so late?

Refresh Greg Cody's feed.

Hold on. Tell us what. Read Greg Cody's feed, and let me get back to work here, please. I haven't finished this yet.

It What? Yeah. I got to open the- What's happening now? Here's a tweet. It's official. Belved member of @Lebitard Show is leaving. Who? I assume it's Stugatz.

This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stugatz podcast.

I'm very often surprised by the sheer depth of feeling that I feel here in this bakery where we've made things for the last 21 years. I'm grateful for that. I'll always be grateful for that. But rarely as much as I am today, when I somehow have at once both a sickness in my stomach and a warmth in my heart. I'm going to try to get through this without getting emotional, and I ask your forgiveness in advance for when I surely fail. But I need to provide some context on the news I'm about to share before we get started today because I think many of you who care too deeply about this show and us are going to absorb it the same disorienting way I did. It's all going to take a little time to process for all of us to get on with the show, a show that isn't ever going to be quite the same after today. So after a decade and a half of glorious anarchy, Billy Gill's final day with us is tomorrow. Yeah, I know. It shocked me, too. He's leaving us for a bigger job at Spotify, and I'm both sad and happy to announce that.

Sad because someone I care about deeply is going, happy because someone I care about deeply is also growing. You have two choices when a surprise like this lands on you. You can be selfish and feel left behind, or you can open your heart and rejoice in getting to see all that is up ahead. Billy both grew up with us and never grew up with us, but he has children of his own now, and he's career-driven, so he seeks more adult creative challenges than just babysitting Stugatz and me all the way to the end. It turns out we all got to watch him outgrow his childhood bedroom. Grew so much that he hit his head on metal art ceiling on the way out the door. We've worked together for a long time here. Too long, some might say. No matter how fun it looks to the outside, we work in a cauldron. Sometimes it cooks, sometimes it burns. But after many, many years, too many, some might say, we all know that this cauldron is where everyone eats every work day. And so some of us have been doing that, eating together for decades now, plural.

And there are parts of this that will always feel like home to people who care as deeply as Billy does. He knows he will always be welcome here. We don't He didn't even have to do that thing about the key under the mat. He knows where all the hiding places are. He knows where all the keys are. No one really knows how much Billy does around here, not even me, especially not me. This thing is an unholy beast to produce every day. The sloppiness, a feature, not a bug. The host, more bulls than butterflies. Billy's gentle grace behind the scenes and creative coloring in the scenes are not things that can be replicated ever, never mind replaced. All of this will be harder without him, obviously. Our soul won't be the same. I'm not even going to try to pretend it will be. He might be the most popular character we've ever had, but on his way out, I would like you to know just some of the things that he was, things beyond how much better he made Stugatz and me and the show every day. I once was celebrating some big success our show had that he obviously and always had a part in, and I told Billy to just rent a limb No, have an all expenses paid party night out, and just send me the bill.

This was for months of work. He sent me a receipt for $84, as I recall. It might have actually been less than that. He had a chance to lead the country's biggest radio show, The Morning Show at ESPN, almost as soon as we got there, but he turned it down to stay with us. He stopped doing his beloved people character, which gets universal applause, and he never told me why, though I'm assuming it was because it reflected stereotypically poorly upon our people. I'm pretty sure that he leaves our doors without an enemy, even though I think Tony would be totally justified in making him one. And many, many years ago, when Mike Ryan was still a baby, I asked Mike to tell me every single thing he needed as an executive producer to replace Hawk, a friend who had known me since college. Mike pointed to Billy and Just Billy and said, Just him. All I need is him. And damn it if they didn't do as good a job in knowing me and tolerating motivating me and helping me and understanding me over the years as someone I'd known as a best friend for two decades before I met them.

My studio at ESPN was meant to look like a Cuban kitchen from the 1950s. Me and Papi never get that far, never get to the middle of sports on television in my father's second language representing Miami, if Billy wasn't always working on making us better from another room inside that house. I do not know how to say goodbye here. I do not. I don't know how to end this because I'm in no big hurry to see it end. But it must have been super confusing to Billy as I saw him cry for the first time ever while telling me of a decision that clearly pained him to see the smile spreading so widely across my face. I have not given him that smile. Much over the years because of wherever my repressions have been. So maybe he leaves me, us, and this. But that gratitude, that, that does not leave with him. That stays here, and it stays here You could have helped me make it funny, Billy. You could have helped me make it funny. I sent it to him the night before, 6: 00 PM. Gets back to me 7: 15. Feels like a skit.

Bro, you're making changes that are necessary. Difficult, but necessary. But again, it's my responsibility to do what's best for us going forward.

Let's hear the first brunch of this. Welcome to the 2024 NFL Draft.

I'm Billy Gill. You're welcome, Billy. Why can't we just be satisfied saying that they're all in the top 500? I don't think that we, and I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't think that we really ever faced here in Miami as Cubans because of the strong Cuban community, what it is that immigrants are facing nowadays. We're here with Tim in his Halloween house. Tim, the decoration are incredible. What are your tips for people who are not as talented as decorating as you are?

You got to make sure you go out there right after Halloween. The year before. So you're 364 days ahead of time.

Three.

All right. The tree.

Yeah, it's brutal. I'm glad that you're crying.

I'm a blubbering idiot, Rob. I need this to be funny. Look, there's He's an old-timey baseball player. Rob.

I know. I said, Josh Allen has a stupid face.

You just pushed.

You just dumped him.

There we go. How's that?

Why, Billy? Last week, as we mentioned, Senator Peter Welch. We caught up with him and we had him pick USA at Michigan, and he accurately predicted the winner. Are you going to vomit on?

Is there any chance that you vomit on your keyboard?

It's possible. No, I get that, but I guess not in so many words. But you don't get it. I'm even happy that you're back.

Hey, that's great to hear. This has been the high point of my tenure so far.

This is an addition of Bet the House of Representatives. Just a moment. I can tell you, this week, we did not speak to a senator. Here it is.

It's time to be the House of Representatives.

Bid the House, be, be, be, be, Can we call it a day with this?

No. We're going to eat an entire raw onion.

Put her on the pole, Guillermo.

If you were tanking, would you tell me? Tanking? No. Tanking? Tanking is not trying your hardest to win ball games in every day. We're trying to win ball games every day. If you trade your best players in exchange for prospects, it's unlikely you're going to win more games in the immediate future. When you take the field, you have an opportunity to win each and every day. I repeat, each and every day. You never tell your team that you're not expected to win. Never. Not in so. What? Now you think... Now, now, now. I can't tell you how to think. I see your mind. I see how you I don't like that. That's your mind working like that. The Levatar Show on ESPM radio. World Star.

Nancy Pelosi, what's up?

I knew there was one person for this job.

Someone's going to be here through thick and thin, and there's a bunch of haters like Pablito saying you're a traitor for leaving a table, and you know what? Ignore him. I said, You know what? That people, he's an empresario. That guy wants billete. Who's this guy?

Welcome back, Billy, and I don't know where this particular tension is going to end up. Okay, you're very close. Very close. The breath must be- You got your arms around each other, and Guillermo is moving his face away because I think he fears your scalding hot coffee breath. What he is saying there. It is so wrong what the president of our country is doing.

What Oh, here we go. He's going to wind up. And the pitch.

Oh, God. A home run on the first-year dinner.

Welcome, Derek Jeter.

And that concludes our Marlin coverage for the season.

And I'm not going to get into the coaching moves.

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This is a Cuba baseball jersey. This is double. Dad, if you're listening, don't take defense or offense about me calling my car an idiot.

You never-Let's just go to commercial there. I could always not have Alcacelsia, and then Chris would have a tummy ache, and he'd be irritable.

And this wouldn't be a fun day for everyone. So you know what? I said, Hey, my stomach hurt a while back. Let me just leave the Alcacelsia work in case someone else has a stomach ache. I feel like a thank you is in order, and that's not what I'm getting right now. Very nice of you. We're here for the baseball bites showcase, where I'm going to try new food at Marlin's Park. Let's go. Pretzels. The kingos. Chilagulus.

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

Is gymnastics possibly good? Oh, wow. Stugatz. I got some flev in my mouth. It's okay. Is gymnastics possibly corrupt? This is the Don Levatard show with the Stugatz.

I'm going to miss people, but I already miss people.

There's people going.

My favorite comment during all that was, Billy was people?

I didn't see you guys getting emotional during that. I saw you guys just looking straight ahead and wearing a mask of sheer strength and masculinity.

I want to track back a few minutes ago. Do you think you're emotionally repressed? Is that what you were trying to convey, that you are emotionally repressed? Do you believe this?

You guys have helped open me up a bit. That's not something. None of that stuff, crying on television, is sure as shit, not something I did on my first 15 years of television. I was just talking to Zaz about this a second ago, how lonely it is to do shows by yourself, because Zaz does Zazlo's show 2. 0 by himself, does it very well, but it's lonely. You guys have helped me a great deal there. You don't know how much you've helped me. People don't know how much Billy has helped us over the years, even as they love Billy, but you're not comfortable with any of this, right?

Me? I mean, that's what it is. Now, I'm trying to edit something real quick. What do you have going on later.

You're too busy for all this right now?

I mean, we started late, and now we're trying to use the breaks to finish editing something that we got cooking up, and now we're going to have no break times.

Do you want to explain Why we finish late? Chris Cody, do you want to explain your father being late again? The reason we started late is because Greg Cody was supposed to scoop everybody with Billy Gill is leaving and create the chatter necessary to draw people over to our show to start and hear the beginning of the show. But he didn't release it on time because your father is a fool. He's known this since yesterday, but your father is simply... That's not an act. Your father's a fool.

Well, and he'll have an excuse. He'll have some type of excuse as to why it came out several minutes after 9: 00, when obviously it should have been 10 or 15 minutes before 9: 00. He'll have some type of excuse, and it's the same thing with Cody being late here when he shows up. It's like, Dude, leave 25 minutes earlier than you normally... Oh, but that was Trev. Oh, okay. To make sure there's no traffic, leave 25 minutes earlier, and he refuses to. So whatever happened today, this happened, this happened. Why didn't you release it 15 minutes earlier than you wanted to.

In Greg's defense, there's probably cyber traffic today. More cyber traffic than normal not using the right WiFi. What is he to do? Am I to believe that those leaks are coordinated?

Well, this one was. What Mike said to me during this, we're just sitting here tapping our feet, and this takes a minute to produce. So we're just waiting for Cody and waiting for Cody. Mike says to me, The one time you to actually gift this to him, he fumbles the bag. Chris, can you explain to me? Because I told you when I left here yesterday, I told you, Tell your dad Billy's leaving. He's going to love that. And your smile, the smile that came on your face was strong. And then he peppers me all night. When can I release it? And I'm like, Go talk to the people in charge. Go talk to the people who have the schedule on time. We should call your dad to ask him because he totally bought this. He's not going to get the clicks because he didn't have it first. He doesn't know how to be first in the information age when there's cyber traffic, and he doesn't want to leave his home on time.

He had all the info, plenty of time last night. This is ridiculous. I have no idea why he didn't get it out earlier.

Wake up a little bit earlier and make sure it gets done.

That's it. He can't control it. You guys think- You hit send or however it works, and it takes as long as it takes. Remember Napster? That used to download and you'd have to come back six days later to get a song.

I stole so much music.

Come on, Emetalika. I was going to say, what was that guy's problem? Lars. What's his deal?

Come at me, Lars. What's his problem? I stole so much. Dude. Lars, I stole so much of your music. And what?

What do you think his networth is? God, please. Crying over whatever, spilt milk.

He's doing all right.

Can you explain Zaz? Because I think people think it's bit how frustrated Chris's dad has made you over the years. And it's not bit. I've gotten texts from Zaz, I'm not kidding, for 20 years about Cody's behavior.

I was late here one time, right? Okay, so I started coming in here regularly. I don't know, within the last five, six months. I was late one time. I was so embarrassed. It was because of traffic. Now I leave earlier because I made sure that's never going to happen again. But Greg refuses to adjust. Like, No, this is when I leave. And in a situation like today, it's like, No, this is when I release my story.

Do it 10 minutes You said earlier.

This is such bullshit. It's the one time in our history together that I genuinely feel Miami has a shot at a national title, and you're getting the fuck out of here. It's not even about winning number six. It's about shoving it in your face. Me? This is bullshit.

Wait, we're talking about me? Yeah. Lars is worth $350 million.

Yeah, they're a successful band. You heard of them, right? Metallica? Yeah. What's this?

A Cry Baby. I would have been $400, though, without Napster, I guess.

In the defense of stealing music, music. Billy's headed to Spotify, and we are happy for him.

For the moment. You got two days to ruin that for him.

Exactly right. Greg reached out to me. He's like, Would you like to comment on this? I'm like, No, thank you. I don't know what their situation is, and if they want that out there, I would prefer if this did not happen.

Tomorrow is your last day, right? Yeah. That's what Greg reported.

I may be back next week if I get fired before I start.

Well, how does this work with the bucket? If you lose at the bucket-Oh, the best pick of all time today.

No No, you have to show up to your initial Spotify meeting.

All right. Okay, but you know what's bullshit? In the bucket, if he gets a swap and then he swaps with someone who has something really good, you get the hell out of here with that.

You haven't suffered actually many consequences when it comes to punishments, but when you have, they've been hugely memorable. This season, you did the Ted Lasso, which consists of just putting on a fake mustache.

No, no, no, false. I had to be positive. Again, I went above Love and beyond with the mustache, and UD reached out to me personally, said, You're good. So thanks, UD.

Okay. I'm sorry to do this. I think the rules should probably be more lenient for you the last couple of days. What's happening here? What are you looking for? I'm looking for... Hold on a second. Using those cheaters? No, let me see if I can find it. It's not here anymore. The penalty for lying because that's not true. You did not get reached out to by your Donna's haslum.

I like Chris saying it's the same place it was last time.

That was off mic, Billy.

But it's not there. So instead, this is the penalty. Minor penalty in two minutes.

Sport came out of your mouth.

We will be nicer to Billy these next couple of days. To prove that to you, yeah, that onion sound, that haunt me. I was truly disgusted and felt bad for what would be a later hospitalized Billy Gill. The eating of a whole onion seems not smart and seems disgusting.

It also has nothing to do with kidney sounds. Let's be real.

Yeah, it dehydrates you.

I did him a solid. Got him to the hospital quicker. You're welcome.

The way that we're going to celebrate this is obviously with the best producers in the land spending months to produce something, to celebrate a great career here, 15 years here. That's one hell of a run. We had Chris Cody cook up Top 5 Billy's because he spent a lot of time on this the last few months working on, How can I say goodbye to my good friend who I rub his back during skits and he touches my face? How do I celebrate this man I've loved for 15 years? I know I'll do top five Billy's.

I'll give you Billy's who are better than you.

You want to see emotionally repressed. All right, get out of here, Dan.

I've arrived. Any Oli here? No. Number five, Billy Beane. Number four, Billy Crystal.

Number three, Billy Billy Joel.

Just number three, huh?

Number two.

Piano man.

Billy the Marlin.

That's right, Zaz.

Number one. This is going to be It's Billy Gill.

Holy shit. No wonder it took you months to prepare something so carefully sculpted.

I had Billy Crudup.

That was an almost famous guy. What about Billy Corbin? How does Billy Corbin not get in? No way. How does How can I not get an O-L-I?

He's second on the list of Billy's. I get number 6 rubbed in their face.

Can you get for me, please? Can you get for me just... I think, I don't know if Zaz's favorite clip from that is what I'm about to show you. But I think I want to go around and nominate from the video. If you're only listening to this on audio, I suggest you check it out on YouTube, the montage the folks did here for Billy was lovely and covers a lot of ground. But my favorite moment, do you have it there of me, emotionally repressed me, sobbing while talking to the actor Rob Delaney about the death of his child and the death my brother? This, I believe, if Zaz were coming up with a top five list of the moments that we just showed in that montage, I think he would choose this as number one. The places that you and I talked about the loss of your son, the places that you and I talked about the loss of your son at the time that we talked about it, I didn't even know my brother was sick when we had that conversation. In the time since then, my brother has died. I will tell you that the pain of that has been...

I don't know what your pain is exactly, right? I can't possibly know, even though you've written a book. But I feel like I lost a son because I raised him.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's brutal. I'm glad that you are talking about it. I'm so incredibly sorry. I'm glad that you're crying and that people can hear that because the pain truly is-There's an old-timey baseball player here, Rob.

Yes, thank you. I can't cry in front of these people. Do you know how weak it is? Do you know? I'm a blubbering idiot, Rob. I need this to be funny. Look, there's an old-timey baseball player. Rob.

I know.

It's my favorite.

See how well it goes when you actually pay the punishments? Sometimes you end up in the hospital, but sometimes you stare at a camera with a mustache dressed as a player from 1919. Billy, is there anything that you would like, and we'll have plenty of time for this over the next couple of days, I can get to the sports stuff, and we got a loaded show filled with a lot of guests today.

We have to talk to Congressmen today.

Yeah, we got to talk to- It was very important.

We're I got to bet the house.

Got to solve this government shutdown today on the Dan Leventard show.

Or bet the house, or we could just bet the house.

That's when I need to finish editing. We have to get it. It takes a long time, and again, we're a little bit late, so no promises.

Because of Greg Cody... Chris, get your dad on the phone so we can hear his excuses. Oh, another guest today.

Can we veto this?

I just want to call him. I just want to call him and hear his excuses. We don't have to see him at a Zoom or anything else. Just a phone call so that I can find out for Zaz. I want to guess what the excuse is he's going to make for botching this. But is there anything that you would like to say or would you like... I know you're not comfortable, or I'm assuming you're not comfortable with some of this. Is there anything that you want to say or do you want to just save it for tomorrow?

No, we're good. You're talking to me, right? No, we're good. Okay. I'm sorry I broke a camera when I was in the penalty box. I threw a baseball at it.

Well, just throwing... Look, I am not surprised that your last ax will be of sabotage, that you will leave Maximum Anarchist rolling a grenade across the floor, but you're going to be wearing a costume your first day at Spotify.

Well, we'll see how I do. I pull out a winner again. You D told me you're good. I built up some credit there.

Where did this lying penalty go on my board? There used to be a penalty for lying on here.

Chris just said Jesus Christ off mic.

Don Levatard. I may take it one step further. Wait a minute.

You're getting sexy about the moment. Slow down.

We haven't even gotten. Stugatz.

Jason Sanders, you're unnoticed.

Oh, my God.

What in spite of him.

Oh, wow.

I love you, Duke.

This is the Don Levatard show with the Stugats.

The Miami Dolphins mess continues to swirl in a way that makes Billy say off air that the Dolphins should move the franchise, and Zaz get excited about a fire sale. So let me just take you through the video and the audio from the last couple of days so you guys can see the mess the Dolphins presently, the noisy mess the Dolphins presently have on them that is unlike the mess around other one in five teams. Let's begin with what it is Tua said after they lost a game that he won with less than a minute left and shouldn't have been lost and was not his fault in any way that they lost. And he made sure to point out to you afterwards that it was not his fault in any way that they're losing.

I think it starts with the leadership in helping articulate that for the guys and then what we're expecting out of the guys. We're expecting this. Are we getting that? Are we not getting that? We have guys showing up player-only meetings late, guys not showing up to player-only meetings. There's a lot that goes into that. Do we have to make this mandatory? Do we not have to make this mandatory? It's a lot of things of that nature that we got to get cleaned up. To be clear, you're saying some players were late or missed?

Late, yeah.

Yeah, thank you.

Definitely not his fault in any way. I'm glad he pointed that out, including another multi-interception game, this time three of It was a three-interception game, right?

It's not a multi-interception game. But two of them... I mean, the first one wasn't his fault, and the last one was irrelevant.

Oh, stop making excuses.

It's not irrelevant. I've never seen before. I saw the Miami miracle. You know about Kenyan Drake?

You thought that that's where that play was going to end up at the end. It was bad and sour punctuation and three interceptions, obviously, is bad. I don't know.

I can't predict the future.

Okay, here's McDaniel reacting to what it is that Tua said, and it's exactly what a quarterback needs to not do. They all know it. They've known it. Moreno used to do this expertly. The only job is make sure the questions get away from your locker. Don't say anything, ever about anything that can become a headline. Don't ever do that.

Regardless of an intent and what was on to his mind after a loss as the franchise quarterback, that's not the forum to displace that. I think he knows that now. I do honestly believe it was not... There's no ill intention, but you're talking about, I think, a misguided representation of player orchestrated film sessions. The bottom line is no one's going to be happy and always is looking for reasons for failure to succeed. So you're trying for reasons that you can attribute to losses. And there's a heavy as the crown of being a franchise quarterback.

Just rambling nonsense. It's nonsense. It seems so bad.

It used to be so cute, that whole stick. It's not cute anymore.

There's nothing good here. You guys are a joke.

When Zaz says used to be cute, Zaz has arrived at two as unlikable, which caught me totally off guard. But let's get to two as apology here because this is the stuff you don't want to be doing, wasting energy on publicly and privately while trying to prepare to get out of a one in five hole when you can't stop anyone from running the football.

As a leader of this team, of the Miami Dolphins, The comments that had been said, I would say I've made a mistake, and I'm owning up to that right now. I've talked to guys on the team about it, talked to the leaders about it, and that They know my heart. They know that the intent was right. But no matter the intent, the intent can be right. But when things get misconstrued or however the media wants to portray it, that leaves a void of silence and a lot of questions for the guys on our team. Now, being one and five, we talk a lot about, All right, we got to get this going. We got to get this Come in excited to go to work, forget about the noise. And I feel like I just added onto that for our guys. For myself, I got to look at myself as a leader, protecting the team. I don't feel like I did that to the best of my abilities. I felt like I let the emotions of the game get to me after the game. And that's something that I can learn from as a leader on this team.

And what happens in-house should be protected, and none of that should have gotten out. And so I want to publicly apologize about that. I want to move forward, and now I want to focus on Cleveland Browns.

Is the game plan for the Cleveland Browns Rambling? My God. Can he write that in a Sharpie on the whiteboard?

I'm just watching the worst soap opera ever.

I slipped into a coma in the middle of whatever that was. I think he's crossed over a line now where he's unlikable.

Yeah, I don't like him.

I Let's go back a few examples.

I have one example.

You're going to say, mind that on the outside- Glass bottles on a boat.

You don't do that. People can cut their feet. Irresponsible. I love him.

He went and got that concussion and ruined that season, too.

Not what I was going to say, but- Oh, really?

You're a bad guy if you have a glass beer bottle on a boat. You don't do that.

Remember the beginning of training camp last year? The first time he's talking to the crowd, he gets on the microphone and he tells everybody, Show me Who does that? We all thought it was weird in the moment.

A cartoonish Hollywood character does that.

Who does that? It's an odd thing to do. Then you had earlier this season when he was asked, How do you recover over something? Or, How do you take into the criticism and say, My family loves me. I just go home and everything's okay. All right.

You guys have turned on him because he's losing, and I understand that. Questions the leadership when he's the leader 100%.

And his politics.

You guys have turned on him. I want you to see how Chris Cody was looking at him. I'll remind you that the way that Chris Cody talked about him was, Show me the money, was super confident. Look, my quarterback's confident. I love that I have a confident quarterback. He told us in that interview where Chris Cody was playing with his draw strings and staring longingly at the Dolphins finally have a quarterback. He told us that that was a bet. He had a bet with one of his teammates that he wouldn't do that, and he won the bet. That's what he was doing.

Short on money.

So he has a bet to show everyone I can look like an asshole.

Let's call your father, speaking of assholes, Chris, let's call your father and have him give us his explanation for why he botched this the way that he botched this this morning.

The thing is, if he just owned it, I think you'd feel different, too. It's like he does these things, then he backtricks, like, Oh, sorry. I want to be a Michael guy. Cody or Tua? No, Tua. Just own it. You want to be a villain? Be a villain.

Hello, Greg. Hello. Greg, what happened?

What do you mean?

Why were you- What do you mean, what happened? We're We're calling you on air. We're calling you on air right now, and we're just curious why you broke the news late and why our show was waiting around for you to break the news.

Yeah, I can't answer the latter, but I did not break the news late. The story I wrote, posted online in the Miami Herald at 8: 58, and it's doing very good business. It's already in just a matter of minutes, it's already the second most read thing I've written this month. And so I'm all happy on this.

That's the first. That's incredible, considering how bad the dolphins have been.

Was the first them being 15th in the league?

No, the first one happens to be their loss to Carolina, just randomly. Nothing anybody cares.

We'll break that. We'll break that record for you. Billy will break that record for you. But do you understand how it is that it wouldn't quite work to break the news two minutes early because it doesn't give people the time to go from wondering why Billy is leaving, talking about why Billy is leaving, being curious and wanting answers to why Billy is leaving, and have only your articles to look for. It would have been better for you to not do that with two minutes because then you would have given people time to react to it.

Yeah, well, we had a technical issue on this end- Cybertraffic. That delayed it by about 10 minutes. Nobody wants to hear about that. I'm not an excuse maker. No. My main thought is that I'm sad that I'm not in today to share in the fond. Farewell to Billy.

Well, tomorrow's the last day if you want to come in He didn't work three days this week. No.

In Greg's offense, he has the knee thing, and he signed a two-day-a-week deal.

But if you want to say goodbye to Billy tomorrow is his last day, not today. So you do still have time. You could beat traffic. If you start early, you can beat traffic, get here on time tomorrow, and be here for Billy's last day.

Yeah, that would require me to cancel an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon who wants to repair my knee. I'm going to decline that. But I'll No, you will miss Billy. No, you will miss Billy more than me, who has come to my defense over the years. I patented the phrase, Thank you, Billy. I patented that phrase. Copyright. No, you didn't. Yes.

Greg. Yes. Greg. Thank you. Doug, your Billy tweet this morning came out at 9: 03.

Yeah, but the story posted at 8: 58. I'm a busy man, Zed. I have things on my plate other than this story, believe it or not.

You're saying now that something is more important than clicks? You're saying publicly that something in your life is more important than clicks?

Of course, yeah. What was it? Friends and family, health. I have perspective.

Those What can I tell you? Those 13 minutes that you were late, was that because you were tending to friends and family?

That's exactly right. And by the way, I croon a tribute song for Billy. Croon? Getty and I put together a tribute song with his heart I felt, and I look forward to you all hearing that. My voice is terrible right now.

Yeah, okay. Well, just- Something going around. It's not all the singing. It looks like the rest of you. See you later.

Greg, I tried your K-Cup trick. I liked it. It tasted good. I felt like I got good value. Thank you. Yeah.

Thank you.

Yeah. How about that?

Yes, I appreciate that.

You want to tell the people- That's the first compliment you've ever given me. You want to tell the people who weren't listening yesterday what the K-Cup trick is so that they have some context to what it is that you're saying?

Yeah. So Greg yesterday said that he does the K-Cup to make his coffee, and rather than throw it away after usage, he believes that there's still some coffee bean grind still in that cup, and he uses it again for an extra cup.

What a money saver.

Drinking your coffee.

Drinking with Cody.

Look how happy Jeremy is there. We should have the Narcissus cam on Jeremy there, just listening to the of his own voice. We all know he loves the sound of his own voice.

You're going to get to hear more of it, apparently.

I hope so. How much more do you have there? Did we ever find out whether that's music we're allowed to use or not? Because I- Hope so. I'm going to learn. Mike was very strong on air telling me that it's music that we can use. Then after the show, I'm like, Are you sure we can use that? Mike was slightly less sure. We used Steamboat Willy as soon as he became available. As soon as he got out of Disney's evil clutsches, we used and he became public domain. I believe the greatest song, because John Tesh called Monday Night Football's Theme the greatest song ever made. I'm surprised to hear that's public domain. I'm surprised. I heard you guys talking before the show about how you remember a day when Monday Night Football started at nine o'clock?

Well, because what happened was the guys out there were complaining that, number one, complaining about the two Monday Night Football games, which I love when there's two Monday Night football games. But it's 07: 00 and 10: 00 PM this week, the Monday Night Football. I'm like, 10: 00 is way too late. And then I had to remind everyone, when I was growing up, Monday Night Football was at 9: 20. Dan, that's so late, 9: 20.

Yeah, but there were only three channels back then.

No, in the '90s? No.

What? No. When Monday Night Football... Let's see what time I have here. When Monday Night Football was starting and at its largest, it's when it was three channels.

No, I remember growing up as a kid on ABC, Salt and Peppa doing a What a Man intro for Dave Wonstead.

Oh, remember they had the guests, musicians do the intros.

Cable was around in the '90s.

Man, what a time to be-Remember the local pregame show with Cefalo.

Yes, Cefalo and Hank would be there.

The good, the bad, the ugly.

We're here at Chula's.

Put it on the poll at Lebitard Show. Do you prefer when there are two Monday night football games? Why not? Yes, Yes or no, because I may be longing for a time, a romantic time that, as Mike just pointed out on my timeline, doesn't actually exist. When there was one game that everybody was watching on Monday night, that America was watching something together, and it was the one thing. Hell, I mean, when Zaz talks about, think about how outdated this is. When Zaz talks about growing up watching Monday Night Football, whether there was cable or not, the rights were so fractured back then that you would get caught up on all of Sunday's highlights on Monday Night Football. They'd put the package together for you, and it was something that everybody was watching. You were not getting your highlights instantaneously. You were waiting for Monday Night Football and Howard Coselle to deliver you what happened on Sunday.

Dan, Sunday Night, Chris Bermans' two-minute drill, must watch, because I had to know what happened in all the other games.

I thought it's the fastest three minutes in sports.

They changed it because then they wanted to pack in some more huts. It used to be fastest two minutes. They changed it to three.

But it was never two minutes. It was always 25 minutes.

They were like, Boomer, you've earned an extra minute.

No, I think it was always 25 minutes, and they called it the fastest two minutes in sport.

Either way, they had to stop calling it that after Rick Pitino took the little old job.

The Dolphins and to the thing you're doing on making him unlikable is because he's one and five instead of five and one. You're going to find the reasons because you're mad at this football.

Yeah, bad quarterback is unlikable.

He gave you hope. They gave you hope. They gave you basically 11 games of hope when they were nine and two and then lost to Tennessee at home in a Monday night game. That was a stand-alone game. That's the only one anyone was watching that night. There weren't two of them that night.

That's when everything went wrong, right there. Our fault, for sure. That blown lead.

That watch party.

I am longing for a romantic time. I think Zazlo has probably got this right. If I gave you 10 games on Monday night, that would be the preference.

We have to reverse It's the curse. It was a watch party that did this. Now, to turn things around, you're going to host a block party at a Flanegan's in Kendall.

This is going to be huge and fun. Billy, are you going? It's a block party.

When day is this?

It's the 30th. It's soon. Here. It's very near your house. We're finally putting one of these.

The day before Halloween, everybody knows. I like to get my Halloween trick or treating in early.

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It is unknown if Billy will show up, but the rest of us will be there. It is a fun block party that we have planned.

I can't wait to see you all there.

I'm sure you're really excited to see me and not Billy. $1,500 costume contest will be there at the Flanigans in Kendall, October 30th. Good fun.

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