Billy "Guillermo" Gil Talks About His On-Air Mistakes ("Bald Eagles") and More - My Favorite Mistake

This is an excerpt from is a very, very special episode of the "My Favorite Mistake" podcast.

In this clip, producer Billy Gil shares a number of stories about his favorite mistakes, mistakes he makes while making Cameo videos, and a special "bonus mistake." Why does he say we need to "embrace our mistakes"? Why did he eat that onion on air?

In the full episode, I get to share five stories from some of the personalities who are part of the highly popular Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz. Dan likes to say “embrace your mistakes,” so I thought they'd be a perfect fit here…

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My guests are:

Greg Cote (columnist for the Miami Herald and weekly guest)
Amin Elhassan (former NBA executive and frequent guest)
Chris Cote (Producer)
Roy Bellamy (Producer)
Billy “Guillermo” Gil (Producer)

TRANSCRIPT:

Hey Mark. It's Billy. Hey, my favorite mistake listeners. It's Billy. How are you? I've come up with three mistakes that I've made to share with you today that I guess turned into a learning opportunity. For me, here's a mistake, not included in the three bonus mistake. I don't know if you get a bonus before you get the actual, like meat and potatoes, as they say, here's a bonus mistake. I keep coming outside to do these videos at the same time, ish, more or less thinking how many neighbors could possibly be left to cut their grass.

I don't. I have to assume that you can hear what's going on. I think it's a leaf blower. I think it's getting closer. It's like everyday I'm out here recording these things and every day there's still grass being cut. I don't understand how many lawns there are in this area that needs to be cut. But is that a mistake that doesn't count because you could argue, I haven't learned from that mistake because I keep making the mistake over and over again. So that one probably doesn't count. Here's a mistake, Bald Eagles. I didn't know.

And this is probably this shouldn't surprise you. I didn't even realize the mistake that I had made until like something else. I didn't even realize the mistake I had made until like a year or two later, listening to it as a rejoin. The question was I think the quite, what was the question? I feel like the question was to describe America in one word, right? I think that's what it was. And then I think Chris had freedom and I said all the Eagles, I didn't hear the one word portion of that question.

I just thought describe America in a phrase. I think that was the question, whatever it was, it was described something patriotic and of praise and at thought bald Eagles. And it was supposed to be one word. I also didn't remember that Amin was there, but listening to the rejoin, I hear mean every time. And I'm like, okay. I mean, was there for what was, you know, a horrible mistake that I made that's ended up working out because they've made bald eagle. T-shirts the bald Eagle t-shirt led to the bald eagle costume at Tim Legler's house on Halloween, the bald eagle costume at Tim Legler, his house on Halloween led to the bald Eagle appearance or radio row in Atlanta.

So that one mistake led to t-shirts rejoins a Halloween costume, a Super Bowl appearance. So that was one thing that ended up working out. Here's another mistake. DDP DDP was on one day that I was filling in and he got very angry at Dan and just started cursing up a storm. And my mistake was I should've probably hung up on him after the first curse. And luckily Roy was there and he caught the other curses and that all worked out smoothly. But to tie those two mistakes together because of bald Eagle and because of DDP, we had a collision course of mistakes at the Atlanta Super Bowl radio row, where DDP was there promoting DDP Yoga, or I don't remember what it was.

And we were trying to book them on the show and he remembered the Dan situation and did not come on the show, but said to send Dan his love or best wishes or whatever it was. And then later on, when I was dressed as a bald eagle was able to get DDP on the show and make a prediction for the game because he was more open to talking to a bald eagle than he was to join the show normally, right? Another mistake, the onion, the onion, and eating the onion also. So it seems to be a thing that people love and that has lasted a while. And that sound still haunts me and the taste still haunts me.

And my mistake was eating the onion because...