The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Greg Cote's Bottom 6 Podcast Episodes | Hour 1

Episode Date: July 7, 2026

"Oh, that's haaaaaaaaard." Does Dan owe a $50 fine for the worst possible affliction? Does Zas know how to pronounce "ancillary?" When did Jaylen Brown become a bad contract? And does Greg Cote have a new addition to his catchphrase countdown? Will he tell us about the 6 worst podcasts he's ever recorded? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Draft Kings, the crown is yours. Doesn't make it right. Put it on the poll, please, at Lebitard show. If you have made RG3, RG1, have you promoted him or demoted him? Because I do think we have a totem pole situation here where the totem pole we learned around here. If you're at the top of the totem pole, that's not where you want to be. You want to be at the bottom of the totem pole.

That is a stronger position. I think we learned that. I'm still always confused by it because I thought the bottom of the totem pole is the worst place to be, and I still sort of think that. Don't you guys think that... Yeah. But it isn't, right? No, it is.

It is. No, but I think I have this wrong in terms of how the totem pole works. I've now confused myself. Well, it's the foundation. It's holding everything up, the bottom. That's correct. But does that mean that you want to be at the bottom of the totem pole or at the top of the totem pole? I don't want to do the work, you know?

I want to be at the... I want you to hold me. I want to be on your shoulders. Right. It's like the ladder. You don't want the bottom rung. You want the top wrong. RG3, making him RG1.

is a you said you were demoting him. I think that might be a promotion, though. If you're making him the original RG, if you make him RG5, that's a demotion. You're one of the last children. You're an afterthought. Yeah. Well, three, you know what? One and two are embarrassed by his take, and four is potentially embarrassed if there is a four. He tweeted after the game. We lost because we weren't a united front as fans. We are supposed to be the United States of America, not the divided states of America. That's so stupid. Is it?

It's dumb. It's awful. Beyond stupid. That's not why we lost. No, Trump's why we lost. That's better. I would say Tim Rien. The people are mad.

You cannot give the United States sports fan hope the promise of some belief and then take it away in that fashion where we're watching a game last night and you realize fairly early on, oh, there's no chance here to do anything. Nothing good is going to happen this evening. Within the first 20 seconds, the striker for Belgium had a absolute rocket that freeze got a fingertip on.

We were like, oh, this is going to be a very long game. We were all saying to each other like two minutes into that game, they're going to get one here. Like it was just a thing. Every living room around America was just like, yeah. It's bottom one. They're going to get. We might score and it might turn into a good game, but they're getting one here. It just feels like it.

What have you guys found on Tom Powers? Do I owe $50 for killing a Tom Powers who is still alive? I don't believe he is still alive, but what is the Internet show? We have no proof that the Tom Powers you search of has passed away. We did find a Tom Powers in Minnesota who had passed away, but not of the same job that you two were speaking of. The latest of Tom Powers. Yeah, RIP to that one. Rest in Powers.

Justin Powers. I do have an article here from 2018. How odd for that man's family to hear us talking about him, right? Well, I think he's gone. I think they know he's gone. Well, they do, though. I think they know one way or the other. We might not know, but I think they know.

And so I either owe $50 or don't owe $50, but what information did you find on the World Wide Web about Tom Powers, who, if you're just joining us, the Minnesota Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist, famously embittered, who listened to Greg Cody's personal idea of writing a book about his childhood home and the history of 1440, looked up from his bacon and said, that sounds duller than dog shit. He couldn't have been more wrong.

And that Tom Powers was last in the news in March of 2018, with the lead of this article saying, a well-known sports commonist went on a Twitter tirade that included telling people to go screw themselves, a comparison of Hillary Clinton to serial killers, and the use of the phrase, liberal p dash dash dash dash dash s what word do you think he meant my kind of guy pyramid so uh set wickersham uh writes the following and i believe his information he's an exceptional reporter he does a lot of good things on the patriots a lot of good things on football this detail is an interesting detail when bill bellichick and the patriots divorced in 24, Sean Payton considered presenting Broncos owner Greg Penner a proposal for the ages.

Hire Bill Belichick as head coach until he reaches 15 wins enough to break Don Chula's career record of 347. Peyton would temporarily step down to assistant coach and run the offense, then move back after Belichick became the all-time leader. What does that look, says, we are largely an audio medium, and while that look on your place... Everyone can feel my look. It speaks volumes. It does. Well, it's not speaking anything.

It's just total silence. It's not, there are not volumes being spoken. There's nothing being spoken. He's just, you don't like the idea? You think it's ridiculous? It's an insult to Don Shula. Yes. I would personally do whatever it takes and make sure that doesn't happen.

Didn't happen, though. I'm not sure exactly what I would do, but I would make sure. It insults the integrity of everything. I believe that Stugats once famously claimed around here that he would do anything in his power if Dwayne Wade ever left the mind. Miami Heaton played for another team to prevent a statue from being erected. That statue can be seen from our windows now of Michael Chickles. So I guess in some ways he did prevent it.

That's not a statue of Dwayne. It's meant to honor Dwayne Wade, but it's clearly not Dwayne. And if I'm really having to consider it, I do think Stugat's fingerprints are all over what happened across the street. He got to the sculptor. That's what it was. Paid off the sculptor said, hey, here's a piece. picture of Michael Chickles. Put this on.

Tony, are you headed across the street here to find out whether or not you can buy, still buy a number 34 onto Tocompo jersey that's going to be a collector's item? And I dare say, do I have this right? I must have this right. If you buy any of these things as memorabilia investment, the 34 is going to be worth more than the seven, correct? I completely disagree. I think it's worth nothing. It's the wrong jury.

He will never, he will never, he will never, worn that jersey number with the Miami Heat. That's why, though, it would be a collector's item, you know, 50 years from now, somebody's going to hold up that jersey and they're going to be like, how does this, how did this get made? This is the official NBA logo. They are very careful about

how it is that the copyrights on all that stuff works, so you can't make knockoffs. Somebody's going to have to explain, well, Janus was on a stream with neon, and then he told neon, he actually wanted number seven, not number 34, in which the heat had to change all their jerseys for number seven to number 34. You're allowed to custom

make your jersey, all right, on the MBA store.com or even at the arena, okay? And so if I went on to MBAStore.com and I made an Antitacompo jersey and I put in number four, that's a collector's item now? No, because he never wore that jersey

or intended to. That's right. That's right, Chris, because he never wore that jersey. 34 was his number with the bucks. I'm sorry. Is the jersey a Tony's going to go pick up? Does it say bucks or heat on it? You sound like a fool right now. You're Sun does memorabilia, too. This is a bad look for you. Your son would be embarrassed right now by you. There's a story behind Heat, Anta Tocompo, and 34.

There's not with the number four. That's why it's a collector's item. There's no story. Yes, there is. They printed out a jersey that is wrong. Right. How is that worth anything? Okay, so it's tantamount to a mistake, right?

That also creates a collector's item. If you have a Hank Aaron baseball card and they misspell Hank Aaron, that's a collector's item. So you think that one day, Someone shows up to an auction with a Miami Heat onto Tacompo 34 jersey. People are going to bid actual dollars on that. Yes. No chance. If the Heat had made a bunch of James 23 jerseys when LeBron first came here before he decided to change to number six, you don't think that those would now be collector's items?

No. Why? Of course they would be. It's just a jersey that never existed. It's a wrong number on the jersey. Let's hear Anta Ticompo on with the aforementioned neon here talking about this jersey switch. Would you ever change your number? I think, yeah.

Seriously? To what? I haven't decided yet, but I don't think he's going to be the same number. This year you're changing your number? Yeah. Oh, that's hard. You know, look, imagine. Number seven.

That's not a bad number. I'm going to take that. You're gonna use number seven? You want me to? Yes. There it is. That's the formality of the arrangement. He took Ray Allen's number 34 in Milwaukee.

Maybe he didn't want to do that again in Miami. Do we have an explanation for why it is that he is changing the number? Greg, can you explain something to me? I'm sorry, I got distracted. You're promoting something with such small type that I don't believe anybody can read what's on the screen that you're trying to promote. It's so small that that is not so.

You need to make bigger type for CodyCup. The GregCody Show.com. Visit often Greg versus Chris versus Yeti scorecard updates with every World Cup result and then an unneeded exclamation point to give off some sort of enthusiasm that no one actually has for what it is for what it is that's being done there. How's all that going there? Don't say the amount of views. He does this thing where he's like, it's gotten X amount of views. It's not as impressive as he thinks. He hates it when I give a number. How about this? I'll just say that

it, we've had visitors from all 50 states and 21 countries. It's been very successful. I mean, it was Yeti's idea, credit to him. It's a website. I'm very proud of- I think Yeti would like larger type to promote that website, though, than the type that you're using that requires viewers of television to both question their eyesight and get up closer to the television. Like, you have to really get up close to the television to see. see how small that type is. It's smaller than Jeremy writes on his whiteboard. I don't know why we're afflicted as a media company with people who use fonts that are way too small. I mean, I'm a trendsetter. There's a story. There's a story behind that. Codicup.The great cody show.com

when I tried to make that the next size up, it broke into two lines. So that's the biggest font I could have that made it one line. So there was a method to my madness. It's because your name too long. Like not your name, Greg Cody. No, the website's name is way too long. I can't read it from here. Gary Long. Cody Cup. Right. Gary Long. Former Miami

Harold writer Gary Long. Great one too. Now lose in Vegas. Hit that bet, boy. The Dan Levitard show, your exclusive home for Gary Long update. Now lives in Vegas, the former Harold Sports writer Gary Long.

Dan Levitar. Baker Mayfield tearing up Tampa Bay, 38 for 45. Great Corey. Shredom! This is the Dan Levitator show. Please stay on top of whether or not Tom Powers is alive or not. I want to know before the end of the show here, whether or not I owe $50. I was saying yesterday, I get fined $50 for killing anyone who's not dead.

It's the largest fine allowable around here. I was saying yesterday that in the history of the Boston Celtics, they have never been laughed at the way that they were laughed. that for everything involving Jason Tatum. And Brad Stevens yesterday did come out and say what I was telling you is that they have a problem with 70% of their payroll being locked up into players. When they won the championship, that was 46% of their payroll. And so they could fill out the roster with needed players like Drew Holiday and Christopps

Porzengis and an assortment of others who made it a championship roster. But something that's happening now in the sport that's in. interesting. And when you have a bunch of competitive people and they're all looking for winning in the margins and the salary cap makes it so you're otherwise pretty equal, it's very hard. In baseball, the race and Marlins are doing stuff organizationally with base stealing, with plate discipline. They're doing an assortment of things that aren't just home runs and aren't just the strategy of how do we line up our players on the field based on tendencies. It's how do we give value to something that is undervalued throughout the sport? There are two things

happening right now in basketball as a reaction to not just OKC and the Spurs and their youth, but as a reaction as to the fact that the sport is physically breaking its players. So all of a sudden, you have money going to centers out of nowhere. The center is now being valued in a way that made it feel like the center was going to go extinct. And more relevantly, teams are choosing depth. You've got to go 10 deep because your guys are going to get hurt. You're guaranteed for your guys to get hurt because everybody's guys are hurt and you lost billions of dollars in salary last year, lost games that weren't played by people who

were collecting their salary anyway. And so now the shift becomes we need to go 10 deep. We cannot have 70% of our roster. And this is a danger that the heat. presently have, the way that they're structured, you can say a couple of things about, this one's interesting to me if you want to analyze what's been happening at the top of the Eastern conference before last year, I'm going to say the previous five years before that, Boston and Miami were at the top of the conference in the bubble. You had Tatum being blocked at the rim by

Atabio. And at that moment, that was the difference between those two teams. And since then, the Boston Celtics have done a better architecture job than the Miami Heat as the Miami Heat have fallen further and further behind. So the last act of the Miami Heat was an act of understandable desperation, but it's desperation and it's still playing behind the way the game is changing. Everyone's laughing at the Celtics right now, but they're getting out ahead of the fact, hey, our rosters have to be 10 deep and that money needs to be spread out. It cannot be locked up in just a couple of guys while the heat are going. going the other way. They're like, nope, we're going to lock it up in a couple of guys, and we're going to be okay with the fact that one of them is 31 years old. And if not brittle, he's being questioned about his health after last year. People are thinking that Janus,

his best days are behind him, that his prime is in the rearview mirror, and that they've just done something that's not merely desperate, but also behind the way the game's about to be played in terms of structure. I agree with you, except for this. I do think that he's sort of trying to play both sides and looking at depth with recent signings like Bobby Portis and Tim Hardaway, Jr., who are both classic sixth-man-type players. I think when you say, and, you know, Brad Stevens explained how two players, 70% of the cap, they want to get out in front of that. I think that makes sense.

Matter of fact, I mean, last week I spoke about, you know, when there were Kauai Leonard rumors here, how it would be a bad idea if the heat went after Kauai Leonard. and I got tremendous pushback from the room over there, but it's because of this. And I think you're leaving out an unless you can't have 70% of your cap being taken up between two players unless the player is worth that money, unless the value is there. And Brad Stevens is telling you, it's not telling you you can't have two players take up 70%. He's saying we can't have these two players take up 70%.

when one of the players is Janus, hence why the Celtics tried to trade for Janus, it's okay to have two players take up that much percentage. So let's listen here to Brad Stevens explain about the sleepless nights and how much this one is ravaging him. The unbelievable way we've played in the regular season in the last couple years, you know, the path looked a little bit more challenging to me. I might be wrong. I'm not going to stand up here and be defensive about that.

But the path looked a little bit more challenging was 70% of our cap and such a high percent of our usage tied into two players. And the reality in this era and in this day and age at the NBA, and you could see it obviously with the last couple of champions and some of the teams that were at the very top of the league when it was all said and done at the end of this year is that, you know, you have to do a great job and you have to have the optionality to do a great job of building out depth that can hopefully replace the irreplaceable individual. I'm going to say this again because I think it merits underlining. The Boston Celtics in their storied history have never been laughed at for a transaction the way they're presently being laughed at for this one. Here's Brad Stevens talking more specifically about Jalen Brown. that he felt disrespected by this trade process and he wished more had been explained to him. I know you're talking about trying to be as upfront and communicative with him as possible throughout

this, but do you wish at all that either you handled this process differently or there was anything on your side that was not conveyed to him that you wish you had in hindsight? I think I already answered that earlier with Jay, but I would just say, I'll just repeat that, I'm hopeful that we can sit down and talk about that at some point. But, you know, I'm sorry that he feels that way. One of the reasons they're being laughed at is I think I can construe an argument for the Sixers before that trade, feeling like if they were going to have to get rid of Paul George, they would have had to staple a first round pick just to get rid of him,

that they would have had to give something else. So essentially all you got was a little bit better than that. Anywhere they would have sent Paul George, they might have had to give somebody a first round pick in order to take. that contract. But let's talk for a second about the word you used, value. In a salary-capped sport, I'm competing against you and I have no money advantages. The salary cap has altered so much of this and it's happening faster and faster. The Celtics are now owned by hedge fund people and head funds are like locusts eating cornfields in terms of just grabbing efficiencies and stealing the soul,

the soul from things. The greatest advantages in football, for example, is having a quarterback at value on the rookie quarterback scale, because then you can fill out your roster with an assortment of things. Jalen Brown went from not many people objecting to him

getting the Supermax Zaz to three years later, that's a bad contract. It's a bad contract that wouldn't be known as a bad contract by everyone if the Celtics hadn't just made it known. Like, I don't believe people were reporting the idea that seventh highest paid player in the league Jalen Brown was a bad contract until this deal got made. That's not something that people were saying.

Well, I think you also have to point out where Jalen Brown signed that deal two years ago, I believe it was, right? Well, this new CBA only started three years ago. So it was only a year into it where this new deal from Jalen Brown was signed. We have more information now as far as how the CBA and the new salary cap has affected team building. So I think that plays a part. Yes, it does play a part. But the part that I find more interesting about this is that Brad Stevens was viewed three years ago as being ahead of the curve. And now he's being laughed at the way no executive in the history of the Boston Celtics has been laughed at. That happened pretty fast. The numbers and however it is, they're doing the accounting in the sport changed pretty

quickly on a guy that we were saying three years ago, oh, look, he's past Pat Riley. He knows how to build teams better than Pat Riley. He just built a champion and he just gave Jalen Brown a supermax that he had to give him. There would have been no one in our audience after coming off of a finals MVP who would have said, yeah, you don't give him that money. You let him, you let him walk, you risk him being unhappy. Everyone said you have to give him that money at that time. How does that change that quickly? How does it, how does the sport move so quickly that Brad Stevens essentially won a championship by reinventing it? It's fairly unprecedented what you're looking at. That town is crazy, right?

Theo Epstein won as a 30-year-old, 34-year-old, and Brad Stevens went from, nah, don't want Red Arbac's job. Don't want to be just the coach. Want to be the guy who's the general manager and then wins the title. And now is being laughed at. That to me is crazy. Well, I think there's a couple things that we need to add for context as well, while he's getting this reaction.

Number one is you traded this player for Paul George, who most people believe is not a very good player anymore. So that plays a role in him getting laughed at his hold on. That's what you got for Jail Brown. Paul George, the player who I still believe the Sixers, if they could have gotten rid of him and gotten nothing in return. I'm not talking about nothing like lesser players. I'm talking about legitimately nothing.

I think the Philadelphia 76s would have done it. So that's why Brad Stevens getting laughed at. But also because what preceded this the week prior, the idea that the Celtics now would rather have Paul George and Hugo Gonzalez and Baylor Shireman rather than Janus. Like they weren't willing to give up those ancillary players who both started game seven and scored zero points. Are you sure?

Yeah. I think it's ancillary. No, it isn't. All right, I'll do it now just to appease you. But both those two players, Shireman and Gonzalez scored zero points in their game. game seven loss. And you'd rather have those two in Paul George than Janus? Yeah, you're getting laughed at. You want to try that word again? Ancillary.

They're ancillary. No, they're not. They're ancillary. I got, I might have to look into that. I don't know if you're right about that. I don't think that you know how to be communicative. Communicative. A little stumble there. I did. I was setting up Roy for the joke there. Instead of communicative, I said

communicative. It's communicative. Dan Levitar. Jonathan Sasselow. Is this chum bucket? This is the Dan Levatar show. Greg, help us out here. Have you ever heard communicative? Communicative.

I've heard both. Really? Yeah. Unlike ancillary, I think that's a word that actually allows. Do you think of artillery, Zaz? Are you sure it's ancillary? No, I'm not. It's not.

It's ancillary. You keep doing this wrong. Are you doing artillery? What's happening here? It's not, it is ancillary. It's not insane. Okay, I got a problem now because I've been saying ancillary into a microphone for many years. Wow.

Okay, but it is not. It's a fact that it is not. No one's correct. It is surprising that you are using that word that incorrectly. If no one else has corrected me, I mean, wouldn't that lead me to believe that you're wrong? That doesn't make it right. That would be how you would climb the logic ladder to arrive at, you being right and the rest of us being wrong, but not everyone else is wrong. I've never

heard the word pronounced the way that you're pronouncing it. It's the first time I, have you ever heard it pronounced that way? Iscillary? It's ridiculous. Laffable. Greg, do you have your catchphrases ready? Do you have your list of top 70 catchphrases of all time? Chris, get for me, please, your father's top six episodes of all time. No, please don't. And top, and bottom six episodes. of all time, excuse me. So go ahead. What do you mean, don't do that? I mean, that's why people are flocking to my latest episode is to hear those top six and bottom six.

All 50 states and 21 nations? Yeah, exactly. Thank you. Number 70. Number 70. I'm fuller than Vern Fuller. 69. Where's my click, click? 68. Hey, butterfinger. 67, punt. 66. Scranton. 65. I'm visiting a one-arm paper hanger. 64. George up. George. 63, I'm the kind of guy that's 62, balling the jack. 61, hey, hey, with a monkeys, baby, 60.

Thank you, Billy. 59, I love him like a pet. 58. Who made it a salad? 57, we're rolling now, huh? 56, your brain beating me. 55, let's go, states. 54, driver comfort is Paramount.

53, dummy up, save up. 52, catch-catch-catch can. 51, doesn't make it right. 50, so on and so forth. 49, very good. 48, a little. League theory. 47, nice hat, asshole. 46, the others, they all learn from me. Forty-five, don't go showering to try to please me. 44, look at that jerk. 43, it's like a packing house in here.

42, what'd you learn? Forty-haw-three, badeep, 40. I'm not going to take a quiz. 39, sassafras, 38, would we break a window? 37, hello, 36, who won, 35? 35, trailers, For sale or rent. 34, you got to eat a peck of dirt before you die. 33. Three words, we are the Lobos. 32, you're going to go to Buffalo. With Bernie, Palm Lee.

31, Rappie-Cack. 30, another crisis solve. 29. Nice chatting with you. 28, he ain't heavy. He's my blank. 27. Hey, that's what I'm talking about.

26. Who let a pet? 25. Good on you. 24, dancing swords. 23. QK, quick crap, 22, B, 21, blanking it, 20. That's a fact, Jack.

And 19. Got to want to earn, got to want to learn. Now we have the new two from this week. We are into the top 20, even though I thought we were almost done with the bottom half of the top 20. We were at number 11. Now we are at number 18.

Yeah, there's rumors, unconfirmed, that the final countdown may expand from 70 to 75. I have not said that. I do not condone it. It's just a rumor I'm reporting. So next week on the Greg Cody show, we will reveal numbers 18 and 17. What do you mean next week?

What about this week? We skipped the catchphrase countdown this week because it was a special episode with the listener who listened to our entire back catalog to come up with a top six and a bottom six all-time episodes. Otherwise known as we recorded that episode six months ago so we could take this week off. Yeah, it wasn't quite six months ago. Oh, Fourth of July? Yeah, that kind of thing. Yeah, so gag-y. We just forgot to do the catch. So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Are you not only

denying us a refreshed number 18 and number 17 that updates the list that used to be at number 12 and number 11, but somehow we keep going backwards, you're not only denying us that you're also not allowing us to talk about that episode that you did that references the rankings of your top six and bottom six episodes of all time? No, I love talking about it. Thank you. Let's keep talking about it. Well, you just said, well, you just, where's the update? Okay, the update is not available because it hasn't been out yet. It hasn't been revealed. Let's put it out. It's going to be revealed next Monday on my next episode. Give us what, give the listener, give this audience one of those at least, and you can give the two on your podcast,

but we're expecting something every week here by way of update. That's why we just did what we just did where you read the other 50. The other 70. Oh, the other 50, you're right. I mean, you have the top 20. Like, you know what the phrase is on.

No, I don't. There are a week-by-week list. No, no, that's not what I'm asking. You have, like, you have, the list is done, right? No, no, it isn't. You're still making the list. You don't know what number 18 is as we sit. That's not true.

I don't. Greg. It could be... I won't read it out loud, but let me see your list. Fine, because it stops at 19. You're brain beating me. He is brain beating me. That's not the next one.

That's just... It's true. It's not on here. Thank you. No way. It's not updated. But it's on like your files on your computer. He knows what the next one is.

I do not know what the next one is. I have for the final night... The contenders for the final 18 include about 25, 20, possibilities. So hold on a second. Including a couple of new entries. Of the final 18, you're going to pick the final 18 of a possible 25 or 20-so entries.

Right. So seven could be left out of your list altogether, but they are possibly good enough to be in the top 25. Yeah, that spawns the rumor that the list may grow from 70 to a final 75, which has not been confirmed yet. I have to admit, this list has gone on a bit longer

than originally anticipated. Aren't you the person who could confirm? in the rumor? Yeah. Well, it is an eponymous podcast. I don't know what that word means. In other words, my name is in it, implying that I'm the boss of the podcast, so yeah. But I have input from... Your name's in it twice, the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody.

With Greg Cody, right. And I think I'm the only podcast that does that, which makes me very proud. I'm surprised there haven't been a bunch of imitators. My wife asked me that the other day when said the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody. With... She then said, why is his name in it twice? Yeah, would you say? I just like I don't have time to explain this bullshit.

Good answer. Chris, where are we with? I don't care about his top six episodes all time of the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody. But I would be interested in the worst six episodes. Because I imagine that both you and Yeti take some inventory of your life and are made a little bit sad when you think about those six episodes. All right. So give us, yes? Can we do this?

Can we compromise here? Can Christopher give you the two of the worst six of his choosing? In other words, this can be number six or number one. Don't even say the numbers. Just say two of the six. If you want to negotiate, we can, but it will be in exchange for a catchphrase update. Well, we don't have the catchphrase. Let's just start here.

I'll do two of them, and then we'll see where we're at and see if you want to reveal more. I feel like you'll be okay with it. Okay. The number six worst episode, according to Steve, our listener who listened to all 350 plus episodes of our podcast history. He says the sixth worst episode in 2020, episode 20, the ESPN employee who had COVID. This was like, at the start of COVID.

We found some guy at ESPN. Really nice guy. I don't even want to say his name. I don't want to do that to him. Very nice guy. And we were just like, we found a guy. It was so misleading. It implied that Stephen A. Smith was on.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Explain to me the workshop. So what happened? And he's like, I got pretty sick. Who was he again? We don't have to say his name. Okay, but wait, why? Why?

It was like a low, it was like a tech guy at ESPN. Just a guy I met in Bristol, stayed in contact with. And then we were doing the podcast. And it just became, I became aware that he had COVID. I was like, I know someone who has COVID. Let's talk to him. Okay. So is this as close to investigative journalists?

Is this as close to Pablo Turing finds out at your podcast? It's a forerunner. Oh, was that a headline at the time? So you have five worse than this. It wasn't a headline. No one picked up on it. It was not ground zero of COVID. It was just some guy.

That's exactly right. It wasn't the first known carrier of COVID. It was just somebody at Disney. And by the way, I will never not laugh at the way that the ESPN and Disney protocol sent us back to work with a hands sanitizers. Are you good? Here, we've been preparing for this. We've been preparing for a pandemic.

Here's a cheap $9 machine that spews goo. You guys will be fine. What is another of the historically terrible episodes? Number five in 2024, episode 209, the Ed Newman interview. God, I had to fight for that one. He wanted to put that guy on so bad.

Former Dolphin Center, Ed Newman. Guard, yeah. Oh, sorry, yes. Former Dolphins Guard, Ed Newman. He made it worse somehow. He made it worse because Center would have been more relevant, but no, he downgraded it immediately. He's right. He's become a lawyer.

Yes. No, he's a judge, I think. Yeah, Judge. He used to be. He retired. Well, a boring quote for all of his years. He didn't change. Yeah, no.

And Greg arguing on behalf of, let's have Ed Newman on. That was one of those things where he got the pitch from the, he was releasing a book or something. And it's like, hey, have Ed Newman on it. And I'm like, no. And my dad's like, we got to do it, dolphin legend. Yeah, we went through an unfortunate phase where we had on a lot of authors. And I also had to get over the idea that it has to be a sportsy podcast involving local athletes. And thankfully, I've gotten over that.

You guys made fun of Jalen Brunson and downgraded him because he had hairy shoulders. In the history of South Florida sports, I associate two men more than any other men with being hairy. Ed Newman and Tim Ruddy. Great shout on Tim. Ruddy, yeah, that's a good one. That guy had a fur coat of pubic hair on the front of his body. The pubic hair went all the way up from the pubic area all the way up and was just a fur coat. Like there was no gap?

It was just, it was very hairy. I remember you could see. his hair like when he was in uniform and in pads with a helmet on. Like it would like the little space on his neck in between like his jersey and his helmet. Unusually hairy. And I downgraded his athleticism because of because he didn't whacked because he didn't take care of any of that. It was too, it was too hairy. I need the rest of this list.

Give me the rest of this list. Give me a two more. Give me another. Okay, two more. Give me another two. Episode 52, the Moss 5 episode with terrible audio. We tried to make an episode out of a Moss Miami, and it was so loud. And it was just like no one could hear it.

We got so many complaints. It was just because of our production. That was the worst episode. Yeah, you guys forgot that in order to produce things as a media entity. You're all right. You're talking to me, Greg. It was unlistenable. That was the toenail episode.

For those of you who do not know what the toenail episode was, who would need some context, a line that stretched thousands of people long. went to go see Greg Cody's rotten toenail in a glass. I'm not making that. It was in a glass case. It was in a glass case and the line, the line, it's the longest line we've ever had for anything. And what happens? You would just take a look and then they keep moving.

Get a photo for the right price. Yeah, you know, selfie. There used to be before that a long line for watching the video of Greg Cody drunkenly falling in the bushes while his son exploited him for content. That was the longest previous line before the toenail was taken off. I believe it was cut by Stugats, was it not? It was, and he pinched me. He drew blood. Love him anyway.

Give me another of the worst episodes in the history of the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody. Right. Number two, episode 53 in 2022, Dave Barry loses patience with Chris for interrupting him. We have Dave on once a year, and he and Christopher awkwardly. It was great, actually, because it was so awkward. But Christopher was interrupting him so much. Not best for my timing that episode. The Dave Barry actually got angry, like out of character.

I've never seen Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Barry, a famously affable man angry. I've never seen that. It would take your son being so unprofessional. And he was. I need these other two. I need the rest of this list. How about one more? One more.

Leave number one. Leave number one unsaid. Okay. Number four, 2023, episode 195. the post- Thanksgiving episode where Greg and Chris fought a lot. I've seemed to be at the problem a lot of this. Yeah.