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Welcome delivered Tardiff really being honest about it. Just a giant piece of shit.

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More sports, more work, less pay.

I haven't stopped talking in a month.

I mean, I tell you, just when you thought the show couldn't be more dilutive than last time I listened to this show. I haven't listened for years.

Now here's the marching band. No way am I missing something.

What am I missing? The end of the story that. Chris Fallica. It's Fallica. He made a penis and the habitual liar.

I didn't ask for any of us for all of it. The big story.

I'm Chris Codi BSP and. So stick around here for the end of big swing, for a little bit of a personalized message for those of you who intend to follow us out of here. As we leave ESPN today, one of the highlights of being at ESPN was developing a legitimate nemesis, Randy Scott. I went on SportsCenter threatening to fire Randy Scott, saying again and again that I hated Randy Scott. I think I said at one point that if not for consequences, I would murder Randy Scott.

He is holding up the Randy Scott the fire Randy Scott tee shirt right now.

Did you have the power or authority to fire Randy? No, I was, you know, but I was just trying to get a movement going. I was just trying to get him fired.

I didn't have the power to not get Chris Cody fired.

So Randy Scott, though, is a SportsCenter anchor. And the reason that we came after him that way is because he just seems super nice. He seems like somebody that nobody would feel those things about. And one of the things that he has done in our circle here is he does a standup set back in my day in stand up comedy is the hardest thing. It is in entertainment, the bravest thing. So here he is, ladies and gentlemen, on our last day as we leave here, here's SportsCenter anchor, my nemesis, Randy Scott.

It is time to take a trip down memory lane. Here is your guy, Randy Scott with Pat.

You might think this is such this is such an honor. Everyone, I'm honestly touched to be a part of this. I'm almost as nervous as Chris Cody trying to talk about how the football looks so small.

And Tyron Smith, thank God he's coming after you first, Cody, cause I get it.

No, no, no. But seriously, folks, this is a great opportunity for you all to finally not be held down by a company that brought you to national relevance. Yes, this show has been all about you guys restraining yourselves, really holding back. How dare Eisner and Disney do that to the narrow?

Can you turn down that incredibly crappy production music? Can you just turn it down a little bit so I can hear the man's tinny zoom jokes?

Very heavy emphasis on you always mentioned how Colin Cowherd left ESPN and became irrelevant.

I, for one, cannot wait to follow the streamlined and easy steps where I can listen to you guys next.

It's 12 steps.

It's a 12 step rehab program. We're dying to get it down. Isn't one of them involves breathing?

I can't wait for the atonement stuff. It's amazing how quickly you've risen in the ranks. I mean, you've even gotten into merchandising lately. Obviously, we've talked about the cameos. We've still got. There are a couple of opportunities for expansion now that you're no longer a part of Disney Stewart's automated telemarketing machines.

Oh, wait. Wait until the audience gets a load of the website we're going to unleash in a day or two. It's about the only company thing about us. But in about a day or two, you're going to see a pretty good website.

I'm sorry to do a promo in the middle of your set here, Randi, but as you step, as you know, we're staring at the end of a cliff and I've got to make sure that people on this platform know that we're headed toward another platform. Make sure you secure that Web handle.

Greg Cody branded Pacemaker's Mike, Mike Ryan eight ball.

That only says, you know what, maybe when you shake it habitable. I didn't think that that was the eight ball you were talking about. I thought you were talking about all day. I thought benign, lovable Disney. Randy Scott was making a cocaine joke.

And then Dan Leveton, mail order meat delivery problem. Yes. Sign me up. And speaking and speaking of programs, how has the new health care program that you're all going to be a part of? Because I imagine it won't cover the monthly upkeep for the iron lung then. Great.

Cody, we imagine a whole litany of as to be outdated diseases, that he suffers from scurvy, risky exercises, and he doesn't drink much.

I'm sure he'll be fine.

Chris laughing Laugh or cry. Chris laughing His father's on his father's lack of health.

A very exciting future for you all. I still hope we get the useless sound montage completely devoid of the irony that had Billy not including himself in all these years, as long as we're talking irony, I look for.

Hearing how much Mike Ryan continues to lose on entertainment purposes only, the only thing more entertaining in this world is hearing about someone else's fantasy team. And why wasn't I a part of the Lobos this year?

Sorry, I broke the fourth wall and at first I like the fourth wall.

The only person I have to mention is Roy, but it's only because he said four words in the last four years.

Six, if you count your momma, at least I know I can get in touch with you on Karmiel soon, although forty nine cents does seem like a steep price to pay just to have them reply with like Kevin Durant doesn't have any rings in his own personal record.

But I'm Randy Scott and that's how in my day, although it seemed more like a rose, but you only roast the ones you love. I'm going to miss you guys.

Thank you, Randi. And thank you. Thank you. Can you can you can you can find us.

You know, we're not we're just this guy on 14 easy steps, just 14 clicks of the button.

And it's like setting up furniture from IKEA.

How much am I going to regret, Randy, saying that that you disappear when you leave me and you say you said, I know, I know.

It's the advice I gave him. Don't leave me SBN. Randy, thank you for being on with us. We appreciate the friendship. And hopefully, though I doubt it, ESPN will give us permission to talk to you in the future on air. I don't know. I even have permission to talk to you up here. I think they might block that, too. If I tried to call you.

We're going to try to call people off. You're fumigating the place. They're extinguishing us. They're going to raise us as soon as 4pm arrives. Randy, thank you for being on with us. We appreciate you guys.

Thanks for everything. Thank you, man. Bye. Oh, he's literally left. Thanks, Chris. My bad, I thought. I don't want to bother you again. Why would you talk during your crappy imagery here? The Zoom? I didn't hear the music until after I had set it up. Do you own or rent your home? Sure you do, and I bet it can be hard work. You know, it's easy bundling policies with Geico.

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The NBA almost is sacrosanct. I mean, people are on the ground ripping open testing kits we all have. It's no way. We all don't have it. You knew that the direction of the entire twenty twenty year for the whole world just took a massive turn. Thirty for thirty podcast presents March 11th. Twenty twenty available now wherever you get your podcasts. I feel like I've been watching our funeral the last couple of weeks. I feel like we're about to do our last show ever today.

I do feel like this whole thing feels a little bit like listening to your own eulogy. Yes, that is what the last couple of weeks have felt like, as people say goodbye to us, as if we're leaving Earth, not just this platform. It's not like it's the worldwide leader in sports. It's just you're leaving the world is what it feels like.

I honestly started getting really worried if we're going to be OK after listening to Sarah Spains podcasts, make sure to if you're a fan of our show and clearly you must be if you're listening to this or maybe you're just curious as to what our last show might sound like. And you want to know more about the show. Sarah Spains. That's what she said. Episode where she celebrates our time at ESPN and brings in loads of people from our extended universe.

It was really fascinating to hear is part of it. It was flattering and yeah, I got emotional listening to it.

Well, Randy Scott particularly telling some stories about the loss of his mother. It was moving. All of it was moving, listening to our friends eulogize us in the sense that we're leaving ESPN. And we've told you that a couple of different times or many different times. But the reason that we want you to know this is because over the course of the next month, we want you to come with us on our free agency. The point of what it is that we're going to be doing and trying to do this radio show if we can get it up and running, because I did not know was this difficult.

It's not about just turning on some microphones and some Zoome, you know, equipment, some computers. It's not that it is more complicated than that. So we hope to be on the air tomorrow. If we're not on the air tomorrow, we will get the engineering right to hopefully be up this week so that we can let you follow us on our free agency so that we can tell you some of the stories that you want to hear, so that you can find out with us whether or not ESPN people are going to even be allowed to spend any time with us in this space because they didn't initially allow Dan Patrick to have any ESPN guests when he left and they didn't allow Bill Simmons initially to have any ESPN guests.

So I really don't know what our future looks like in that respect, but we've had to evolve a lot over the years. We always have evolved a lot over the years. And one of the reasons that we're leaving now, I'm going to articulate to you at the end of Big Switch so that you understand a little bit better how it is and why it is that we know that we can leave here now because we're all sort of looking at the end of a cliff and we are jumping at 4:00 p.m. today.

We are gone from ESPN. They have slowly erased us like the Michael J. Fox photograph in Back to the Future, like you've seen it happen in front of you over the last 18 months. You lose an hour here. All of a sudden over there, you're you're losing a colleague. We've been slowly shrinking somehow while also growing, shrinking in their estimation while also growing.

So if these feeds or whatever don't work tomorrow, I get to hop back right back to vacation, possibly now. Yes, it is an amicable divorce and these feeds or whatever.

Yeah, I don't know what we're talking about.

Efforts to put more effort into getting on Cameo than he is to anything that we're doing around here the last two weeks.

We have tomorrow, especially if those feeds don't work, that I do want to address the feeds real quick, because while it's a divorce and we're trying to make it as easy on the kids as possible and you people listening right now are our kids, we want your routine to sort of stay the same outside of listening on the ESPN app or listening live to ESPN Radio or watching on ESPN. Plus, if you listen to us digitally on Apple podcast, the hope is that nothing really changes for you.

But you might notice a few tweaks here or there that were just a byproduct of all these negotiations. For example, like this podcast you're listening to right now, got no idea how long you'll be able to listen to it or archive a show, even though we have our library. And going forward, we'll be able to relive some great moments from our show. We got to clear the cache of archive shows from this podcast Feed, and the same goes for the Letarte and friends stuff.

So if I could give you a piece of advice, if there are episodes of stupidity or SPG sessions or this radio show that you've been meaning to get to download those episodes to your phone because they can't take that away once you download the episode. Are you sure? Because I think they're going to try now download the episodes. I think they're going to come to your house, sir or madam. And if you downloaded it, hey, somebody dressed as Mickey Mouse is just going to snatch it out of your hands and run away.

But you'll be happy to know that if you're subscribed to this feed or any of the libertarian friends. Properties that subscription will maintain and you'll be able to get the next episode of whatever it is that we do. Hopefully it's tomorrow. So some things are going to be simple. And some things, if you were meaning to get into older episodes, might be a little bit more difficult. But patience and understanding that this is a very complicated thing.

So I don't know what this show is going to be like today on terrestrial radio. I don't know how emotional it's going to be for us to Gotz. Do you think that you're going to get emotional during what it is that we're doing today? You have never I'm a blubber. You've seen me cry any number of times around here when I get emotional. I have never seen you cry. You alleged that you cried crocodile tears that were very large when watching the shipping container up on stage at one of our events, soaking in a whole lot of adoration.

I mean, you were standing right next to me. That was not a claim. You saw the crocodile tears.

Well, you said they were crocodile tears and those are fake tears. And so while I saw them, you described them to the audience as a giant crocodile tears.

That's the only time I think you you've see me cry. It's the only time I think I've cried.

Well, I will tell I will tell the audience this, though. I would say that the time you're talking about where Stuart's and I were moved, this was how long ago do you think? Two years ago, maybe two to three years ago.

Yeah. Is is right about when it dawned on us.

Oh, holy shit. This is something powerful here that these guys are now also famous doing, because if you've been following us for a long time, you know, the way that this group sort of sprouted like weeds, it was never intended to be anything that was anything other than a fun, goofy Miami show. And when ESPN gave us the platforms and put these guys on television, they elevated us to a place where now we feel like we can go.

But that was one of the few times in in that period, Scott, where it dawned on me, oh, my God, like this thing is a little bit bigger than I thought it was, because we're in this cramped space. We work together. And while I get recognized a decent amount, I'm assuming I'm always assuming that's from highly questionable because it's a daily television show. Sure.

And so when I saw that these guys there's something about this show. There's something about the shipping container. There's something about what a pirate ship of Misfits ship is. The word I use there of misfits.

We are where you guys could always tell somehow from within the machine, how is this thing in here?

How and how is this thing being allowed to exist, sort of, you know, yanking at all the the wires and chambers inside of the machine of professional broadcasters. How are is this group of guys in baseball caps being goofy, Billy being neurotic, Chris being incompetent, Roy being silent, Mike being Kokanee, how Stewart's just being Strugatsky, the dumb.

How how is this thing allowed to exist inside of ESPN and the people who support the strongest, the people listening to this right now, the people tuning in today because they want to hear what we have to say at the end and say bon voyage. They understand in a way that super unusuals to gods and super discerning and super loyal in a way that I would have never been able to imagine.

Never mind when we started this when we came into ESPN, I didn't imagine that it would look like this here on our last day.

No, I didn't. I didn't either. The impact that we would have on a lot of people, which is which has been great. And that's the part that's going to make me emotional. I don't tend to get emotional. I have a feeling I will get emotional today. I'm grateful to ESPN. I've said this before. I never expected to spend a single day at ESPN. And so I've been able to spend eight years at ESPN. I am sad because of some of the relationships that I have formed and just little moments like what I'm calling the women's final four for lacrosse.

And Maryland is playing at Scott Van Pelt, an accomplished broadcaster. A journalist is texting me because he went to Maryland saying, hey, you're crushing it, you're killing it, you're doing a great job. It's so cool that you're doing this. And then you start forming a relationship with Scott Van Pelt. So I'm going to miss a lot of those small nuance things where a guy like him is sending you a text during a telecast. And all the great relationships that that we've made here, whether it's me and Dominique, Pablo, people associated, but they're still going to be our friend.

No one like I know. I know. They I don't know how much we're going to be able to use them. I just don't know I don't know the answer to that question. But I'm also super excited because this show has always been about this family, about me, about you, about Mike, about the shipping container and about our audience. And I know our audience is going to follow us wherever it is that we go. It's I'm excited for what's next.

It's kind of a bittersweet day, but I am excited about what's next because it's always been about us. And we got into this I got into this to do a radio show. And I'm not saying you can't do a radio show at ESPN Radio. There been many successful ones.

We're one of them. But the type of radio we want to do is a little bit different. And perhaps we outgrew what ESPN wanted or we started going in a different direction. But I am grateful to them for the platform they have lent us for the last eight years to build our audience. I really am.

And so beginning tomorrow, who is doing this? And I don't say this by way of insult, who's doing the atom gas coverage in our spot tomorrow?

It's it's grainy at ten. I'll be there. OK, and so that's Greenberg and then Bart Scott will be there after Greenberg. What is the new schedule look like? Forgive me, I don't mean to be disrespectful or dismissive on this. I just don't know.

So you've got you've got gotten, hon. All right. So Scotton hon, is there not replacing us, though, Mike Greenberg?

I mean, they are in terms of the lineup, like you remove a show there, the show that gets added to the to the daytime programming over here to ESPN. But, yeah, Greaney, it was earlier now. Right.

I mean, I'm going to try to get Adam Gayson with us on the podcast. I've already sent him a text, and I'm hopeful that we'll have Aaron Rodgers this week if the feeds work.

Well, this is a problem. So Aaron Rodgers is going to call and we're just going to talk to him on the phone. Hopefully you'll be able to also we're not sure if the phone works.

Yeah, I've been meaning to ask you guys about that because it's hard to kind of get people to call in if I don't know what the phone number is. I don't know the phone number. All right. So hold on a second.

Is that me? Is the phone really is that we're going to lose the phone number? We don't know if we're going to lose the phone number.

Oh, I'm like a good 75 percent sure. We'll get to keep the phones. Well, I'm not going to lie Bart Scott and Han Solo sounds like a good show. Jesus, why don't the horns work?

Did they turn those horns and turn the horns and turn the loose?

Plug it low and hold on a second.

Let me try this. No, Mike, can you get the sound of Stewart doing lacross? Are we going to be able to play ESPN sound? I unplugged.

Oh, there are some things still works. Han Solo, Chris. Chris. How have you not used the fear of being fired to get better at anything? Scotton, Hanmin, Ansaldo, you are you are you eating well, am I? Am I interrupting you during your breakfast? What are you eating? What explain to me what you're eating that I can hear moving around in your mouth. Well, it's a new year.

New meat Meedan dry, dry January, by the way, doing it. Anyone joining me? Oh, no.

What? GI Joe, I'm not doing that. Why do you sound so bad? They scared me. They like the base you've got you've got that wonderful screen and now you sound super loud. Yes.

Billy, I think what's going on here with Chris is Chris is super chill because he's not getting emotional yet because today is not his last day. It's everyone else's last day. But Chris is still going to work for ESPN today for four or five more days. So he still has a little more of this to process.

Then as my last day, when you get fired, you outlasted all of us.

Hey, baby, how did you get fired? And Outlash Renaldi, I don't understand. So wait a minute. What are you going to be doing the. Are you really the next four days? Are you working for somebody who's producing Greaney?

Yeah, well, no, I tried to get on the Scotton Handschu, you know, like that. But I think you, Greaney, you made the hard sell on average.

It didn't work at them. They didn't get it.

My place you got calling Lacross. We're not allowed to take ESPN sound with us, are we?

I just like to point out that it was right up until this point where I was getting the text from Scott Van Pelt. They they stopped coming in after this call.

I'm so looking forward to a lifetime of Dan asking me over the air what the rules are now. Okay.

I mean, I've got to look at my contract more closely, my termination agreement.

So I've noticed the last couple of possessions where it seems like they tried to force James and tried to force something. I'd rather see someone other than say I get the show. Puzo's will be heading to the national championship game for a third straight year.

If you had to pick a struggle, that's one thing. I want to go around the room here and I want to ask I'm going to give you all some time to think about this, but you're only allowed to pick a single thing that you're allowed to choose from as your favorite memory at ESPN.

I'm putting you all on the spot here because this is a lot of like a personal favorite, just whatever we got to do. I know you love the reason I bring it up is because I know how much you enjoyed the specifics of that broadcast, even though we make fun of you with the broadcast of it. You love lacrosse. You love that you were there doing that. You were good on the broadcast, even though we only play the part that embarrasses you.

And I didn't know whether that ranked for you in terms of the single best feeling. Was it College Gameday recently, like just what you consider the highlight of being at ESPN?

I think. Well, certainly the Final Fours up there and called the national championship game. The call I got from Mike Ray in the morning. I was going to do I did college game day is probably for me the probably the greatest moment I had while at ESPN.

I was on College Gameday naked pics. I was throwing up the daily course of the turnpike in Orlando.

You guys kept it from me, so I didn't see it until it was on television. I wish you could have seen my face when I was watching that because the smile on my face, just seeing you up there relaxed, feeling like you had unshaven, like you had your hand in your underwear while you were talking to everybody.

In retrospect, I think maybe the libertarian friends live event in New York. While I was in it, it was just like a like a kokanee hurricane of stress and anxiety. That was my fault.

But afterwards. Afterwards and seeing what what a good time specifically everyone on our team had with it because, you know, it was hard to get off the ground and it was all confusing. And people really didn't know what we were doing because we never done anything like that. But to see the outpouring of affection from our fans and really to be in that green room and to see how many people in this industry that I respect and truly admire, love us and want to be around the fun that we have because it's infectious.

In retrospect, that event was really, really cool.

They're just I can't explain. There are so many cool moments. I grew up on ESPN, so something as simple as just walking on the set with my kids. The Baseball Tonight set many, many years ago when I was doing First Day. But just to be able to be around that place and walk around the set and be on first take or stand in a SportsCenter studio, all that little those little things meant a lot to me at the time because ESPN was such a large part of my life growing up.

And so it's just it's crazy.

Mike mentions the New York event. And one of the things that I would say to you the audience is that we will be doing more stuff like that that ended up being too expensive at the time. And they decided then and there that they weren't going to do that a second time. But it will not be too expensive going forward. We are going to figure out how once this pandemic closes, we're going to figure out how to get back out there and have that feeling because that event in New York sold out in thirty seconds.

And that's another thing that we saw along the path. We're like, oh, no, wait a minute, we might be able to make a go of this by ourselves because of how strong and loyal the support is behind us.

Billy, do you have a favorite that you would choose from a favorite experience at ESPN? There's so many.

I mean, the Super Bowl, the radio row, ninja warrior, there's just a lot legless house. It's hard to choose just one thing. I mean, similar to Stewart's, like, you grow up and you watch ESPN and you think I'll never work there. So just being able to work there was really cool. Like, I know that, you know, I don't think that we took this experience for granted, but it changed all of our lives, you know, whether we admit it or not.

Yeah, we were a local radio show and now we have I mean, there's two guys in Texas that started a général mafia that started selling things just with things that I've said on it. There's people in Michigan that run a credit account where people go in every day and they just talk about the things that we say. We have people in Australia listening to us like it's just crazy how big it got considering where it started and, you know, the opportunities that we got along the way and all the things that we got to do that we never would have done.

How do we just stayed as a local Miami and sports radio show? So it's I mean, the Legler house was cool, even doing things like the all star game, you know, media day, stuff like that, where you just holding a microphone that says ESPN. It's like, wow, like I was interviewing a Jaguar or a panther with. Ever was one day like, how am I doing this? It was just it's. It's been a lot it's it's crazy, I can't believe all the things that we've been able to do, the, you know, the company, one of the happiest times, I think, for you guys then you were off that week.

It was the the five weeks we didn't ask for any of this. You were on hiatus or whatever.

You know, we all went up to Bristol for a week. I am telling you the time that Billy, Chris and I believe Roy got to spend with Tim Kurkjian. I mean, it was like and I took a I still have those pictures you guys did know is taking photos, but they're gathered around Tim Kurkjian and Khorshid Story time at Kirchen is delivering the stories. And I'm not certain I've ever seen Billy Crystal and Roy happier in my entire life.

OK, a couple of things here. I've just got to clean up. When Billy said Jaguar or Panther, he wasn't talking about the Jacksonville or Florida teams or Carolina. He was talking about interviewing an actual Jaguar or Panther just for clarification purposes.

And also the moment that Stewart is talking about, because I do have to look at that contract to figure out whether or not we're going to play or be able to play any of the specific ESPN sound of things that happened at ESPN. But here is Stewart's on the set of Sports Nation, making a mockery of the whole thing. I do remember how funny this was just because this right here to me is a symbol. What we're about to play for you now is a symbol to me for all the student things that were allowed to happen at ESPN, where he was allowed to be himself running roughshod over an environment where people embraced him, even though he was being sort of the opposite of the professionals that they were.

And they embraced it in a way that they not only liked him because Strogatz is one thing is a character, but people like Stewart in general just walking around Earth, people like Stewart. And so it was just nice to see the community of credibility embrace the clown, I got to say, going to be down today and.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, are you tired of me? I need a microphone. I want to rank quarterbacks. I hate jar, jar, jar.

You can't talking to a woman's chest that's before me too. Like that is just wonderful. All of it. It's just he just leaned in Michelle beetle's bosom on television right next to a just grinning maniacally Adam Schefter, who couldn't have been any more delighted that you were storming their set. They're underrated.

Part of this high five me on the way in. Oh, listen, I thought at that time I was thinking to myself, the sky's the limit, man.

We burned hot, though. We that we flew too close to the sun. But I think about the things that Stieglitz was doing out there. Chris, what would you what would you nominate here among the things that we're talking about? I mean, all of them, everything they said, just being up in Bristol, I mean, like I go to like that stuff is all the moving stuff I go to, like, the funny stuff, like a battery.

Mike Ryan just said to me, he's the son.

We flew too close to you a little.

I'm sorry. You were saying the car battery. I'm sorry I interrupted you.

You should do cameos in the car battery. I mean, in the works.

That's ours. So anyway, yeah, I mean, the advanced advanced auto parts battery all the time. Why was that?

Why was that a highlight? You were terrified being the battery was like the bit, the bit went over really well. And then I mean like that moment of being next to you, talking to a security guard behind the first takes that like that's just memorable. Like, that wasn't a great memory, but that's memorable. But I think, like the I think Billy hit it like the fact that we're at like a live event are these mass Miamis and people are like lined up 50 people deep to take a picture with me, Roy and Billy.

And it's just that's crazy. And like, the fact that, like, we don't deserve that. And that's just incredibly moving, like the support we get from our listeners, like the die hards, like that's the connection with those people. Like that's honestly like the coolest part of all this.

You mentioned one of the most Miami events. I do. I do delight in you selling views of your father drunkenly falling into some bushes. How much were you charging per view?

Well, they had to purchase a shirt. If you purchased the shirt, you got to see the video for free. If you purchased your shirt, you could just, you know, throw daddy a little five skite about how how fast did you run an insurance.

I do remember Chris learning the business lesson, just shaking his head, sadly saying I just didn't buy enough.

Sure, it's like two hundred.

And I realize the longer it he so fast. Roy, what would you nominate, sir? Well, it definitely had to be a combination of the live event in New York and having to travel to Bristol and getting to know people out there, the New York thing like that was amazing. It was a 500 seat venue, I believe, and we could have filled the Fillmore, which is a bigger, bigger venue. It was amazing. Like all the people that wanted to go, the fact that the event sold out, like within, what, 30 minutes, 30 seconds, 30 seconds.

A fan of our show spent twelve hundred dollars on two tickets to that show.

Well, this is what this is what I want to tell the audience. I want them too much. And I want to tell the audience that that is something that once things normalize here, once things normalize, that is something that is going to be in our future. We enjoy that as much as the people there enjoy that. So it's not we just haven't been able to do it again because certain things couldn't happen. Pre pandemic that made that stuff complicated.

Do I go to Tony here because I don't feel like he's been along here long enough to have an assortment of emotional memories?

I will tell you, one of the great days for me is when Tony started working with us, who I can I can talk a little bit about it since like the segments already over Tony actually ended on the joke.

I'm sorry I to say it anyway, just to get it off my chest the moment I walked into the Clevelander after watching you guys for so long and like being part of my life, growing up to now, getting to know you guys on a personal level and like really being friends with you guys, it's been really cool.

I remember walking in and being like, oh, my God, I'm inside the he'll finally like, this is crazy.

So I just we're your greatest we're your greatest ESPN memory. That's how that's how young.

He told us he grew up listening to us. I forgot to mention the music he had.

He did that from Matthew Berry studio. Like the investigation afterwards is so great to hear about. Terrible. On our last day here in this magical space we've gotten to share with you through the years, I wanted to talk to you a little more directly, more purely, more intimately, sort of just you and me and sort of not but sort of just you and me. On moving day, I want to tear down the final curtain on our way out the door so you, our listener, our viewer, can have a cleaner and clearer view of all the bright light we see out the window in our future and how very warm it is and how and why we have you to thank for the way it pours into our lives now at what could otherwise feel like such an unstable time for us.

We our show, this little dysfunctional family, couldn't be more grateful for your support, and I know that's what people are supposed to say during goodbyes and some of them mean it and some of them don't. But I'd like to spend our last day at ESPN explaining how and why that gratitude to me is mountainous and real and forever. And to start today and in the coming weeks of pirate radio to show you just how much it means to us. It's the primary reason we're leaving, just so you know, that overwhelming support we're leaving because you've given us the freedom to know we can, because we know somehow that you'll follow us to the end of every earth Stuart scorches, because we know the way you care about us and that there's no way in hell you're going to get left behind.

I don't say that with arrogance or ego. Swear to God, even though I know I can annoy you all the time when those things creep up on me, I say it because of how you've made us feel over the many years by supporting this remarkably stupid thing we do, giving us permission to be different, then demanding it of us and now rewarding us for it by growing the show. So grandiose that this thing, your passion built can't even be chained to a terrestrial place anymore, not even one as large as the worldwide leader in sports.

It's time for us to go and we know you'll follow because of what you tell us and how we know it, because of the single greatest compliment so many of you give us that the laughter you found here dragged you through the darkest time in your life and somehow made you feel less alone. You've seen it with Roy and Chris and Mike and Billy and Tony, all fans of the show first, who somehow grew into being parts of the show, Angel Resto, our graphics guy, Juju, our social media guy.

You hang around our group of misfits long enough drawn to that laughter and that love. And you become part of our crew and part of our glue and.

Holy shit, have you guys made that family so big, so strong, so full of uncommon love, you just don't find it anywhere in this silly, stupid business of ours. This is such an intimate space, different from all the others, the friends who exist inside your head laughing with you at all, the people to whom we can shout.

You don't get the show.

We will chase that joke in that laughter anywhere and everywhere, regardless of platform, even if it feels today like we're all running toward a scary cliff together to take quite the leap of faith. But as we look around today on the edge of that cliff, what is behind us, at what's below us, at what's beyond us, we feel connected to you in ways that are hard to explain to those who don't understand. And unnecessary to explain to those who do.

Are you ready to jump with us, because you might have noticed we've been ready to take this leap for quite a while, if you've been paying close attention to Shane Bacolod in the last 18 months in America and everything that happened with old man Cody and his oldest son, you know what happened here? There's no need to focus on anything but the gratitude today because it is so very moving, the way you fight for us, the way you'll fight each other to be generals and his army.

What we're doing by leaving here today, leaving ESPN is not brave or noble. It's just obvious because we know the strength of the army that stands at attention at our backs. We felt it very much over the years and most loudly and passionately over the last few months. And I promise you, we're going to show you just how much we don't take that for granted.

I cannot wait to take you on this next fight and on this next flight with us from the things that have always kept us tethered to the terrestrial ground, to the ones that now rocket fuel ready or not into the digital orbit. Whether it's people's hurricane passion or Mike's annoying hurricane home tourism or Roys discordant love of the Panthers or the Dolphins fandom, hand me down from Greg Cody to Chris. You guys know what Miami means to us and always will. This incredibly diverse and weird city of ours will forever be the first that gave us the permission to do it our way.

And we've taken great pride in spreading that swaggering, loud, obnoxious brown sugar from sea to shining sea. With ESPN's help, this weird little show from Miami made it to the top of the sports mountain somehow and watched in wonder at how Stuart planted his flag, somehow even outlasting Tom Reynolds. Beloved journalism students was on College Gameday around the Horn SportsCenter. How an art briles is hell. Was any of that ever allowed to happen? How bout that will be Jon Stewart's wins again at the end, literally making cameos in a future with a freedom to be greedy that not even the powerful PTI pioneers at ESPN are allowed.

Part of being from Miami, of course, is that so many of our Cuban parents fled communist shackles to get us to the kind of freedom we will have by the end of today's show. My father, a Cuban exile, has grown old at my side on television for damn near a decade in retirement on Miami Beach, doing a daily TV show in his second language in the middle of the lineup for the worldwide leader in sports, The American Dream, a fairy tale funded by Disney.

Imagine that this little Miami story and family getting so goddamn big that it can leave no less an authority than the worldwide leader in sports, without doubt or fear or hesitation, because we know the person listening to this right now within this intimate space, you don't even need to hear any of this history of nostalgia in your head. Because it's something you feel a little bit deeper down, a little closer to your heart. Do you own or rent your home?

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