The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The Little League Theory

Episode Date: March 25, 2026

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So go with the Sabres, who are the favorites tonight? Spread one and a half. It's the spread. It's a spread. Spread. Oh, Kansas spread. I vote of the Sweet 16. Darius Aikov Jr. and them Razorbacks against number one seed, Arizona.

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And I'm going to go with the Miami Open, the fifth major. I'll tell you, Dan, that's the last time I stick my neck out for Sebi Cordo. That was embarrassing. American tennis, you fell for the okey doke. You felt for the bait and switch. Yeah, I mean, classic come down after beating the world number one. he loses just a much lower seat. However, there's still two Americans, I believe,

perhaps three alive in the quarters, but we're going to turn our attention to Argentina. Francisco Serundolo, I like him plus one and a half sets against Sasha Zverev. I expect Zveriv to win, but Sarundalos had a nice little crowd support at the Miami Open, the Argentinian. He's been tough lately.

Let's take him plus one and a half. Oh, Gensilsprin. You put a B at the start of that? Yeah. Baw against the spread. Buggins the spread. B against the spread. B against it. Baw against his spread.

Did you feel... I've been putting consonants in front of vowels my whole life. You guys think his voice sounds good. Like that's... You guys think it's better. I'm going to find a clip. I can find a clip of it being worse. Greg, again, your coffee breakfast and the fact that you eat or drink thermoses of coffee for breakfast has made your stomach.

make a sound while you're talking that you don't hear. We have it again. This is not altered just so that you hear. I can hear the sounds of the gurgling and the dancing swords next to me. Listen here to what your stomach does. Coach in this today's landscape. Sounds like a cat purring in the middle of it. Coach in this today's landscape.

It's AI. It's not AI. Unless the I is for intestines. Alan Iverson made that sound. Are we certain that's Greg? See? I'm pretty sure because I got to tell you

I got the high-deaf headphones on those sounds come out of Dan's throat a lot Thank you I didn't want to say it I would like to hear it one more time Coach in this today's landscape Yeah that's a Dan one for me

That's a Dan That's you Dan Yeah it's a shocking development I don't think we know that No it's more likely Dan It's no We also don't know that's Greg's stomach Look I've never heard Greg's stomach

do that noise. Thank you. I have heard Dan, midword. I have heard Dan do that noise all the time. Coach in this, today's landscape. Yeah, that was it. Well, now I don't want to look at Dan. Dan, was it you?

It was not me. Admit it. O'nup. You're the one that's... Two denials. Drinking coffee all show. Was it you? No.

Whoa. I never suspected him until that answer. Really? Whoever denied it supplied it. We all know that. It's a basic rule. Everyone knows that. just like you being a cuck.

Jeremy, what... Don't ever say that. If people want more, whoever denied it, supplied it. They can have it live tomorrow on pitch clock as you're beginning to kick off the segregated baseball season that we don't talk about around here. What are you doing tomorrow when? Very excited for this, Dan. So tomorrow from three to five, we're going to have a live stream on the Levitard show YouTube page. Myself, Chris Cody.

I know against your wishes, but Ethan Bedowski will have... have a microphone for portions of this so that we can play some of our trivia that we do on pitch clock. We're going to be some guys name and dudes going back to the 90s and early 2000s. But mainly just watching ball. We're watching opening day. So there's games. Tomorrow is the full opening day. Tonight is opening night. Do you know where tonight's opening day festivities are going to be broadcast? No. Netflix. I learned this one recently. Netflix has an MLB package. L Duncan. Okay. I was Will Bond the other day. trying to find Heat Spurs because I just go all the time.

It's on Peacocker. No, I just always go to Eric Reed. I'm expecting the game to be there and only there. I'm always surprised when Eric Reed is not on my broadcast. It's been happening since the beginning of the Miami Heat. Greg Cody, not feeling confident in his fake Eric Reed. No, the pitcher just shook off the catcher signal, although I learned baseball's not doing that anymore, which sucks. I pushed the button.

Yeah, did you not know this? I didn't know this. Signs? Not a thing. Well, for catchers and pitchers. Yeah. Still a thing for third base coach. Yeah, but they're like, oh, is that one of a bygone era?

In the World Baseball Classic, they were going like this to their glove. They haven't. Yeah. And it's just some dude's disembodied voice going basketball. No, I don't think it's voice. It can be a voice. I believe it's just. Get out of here.

It can be a voice, which leads me to believe, like, one of those voices better be Morgan Freeman. Like, you should be taking liberties with the voice. It has been years of this. And so if you'd like to learn a little bit about baseball, you can join us on the pitch clock live stream on the Levitart Show. YouTube page from three to five on Thursday. We'll actually have our debut regular season episode of the pitch clock airing a little bit earlier on YouTube. And that's where Chris and I, standings officially start on trivia. So you'll want to see who wins that opening day matchup.

Jeremy, I've already gone through the whole emotional spectrum of finding out about this thing existing. Being mad, what happened to my great American pastime. We're losing recipes to realizing this thing's happened for a couple of years now. And that's on me. It's because they didn't want Runners on second stealing signs. Yeah, it's the Astros. It's related to the Astros thing. They ruined all the fun because now, Kit, there's going to be a whole generation.

We're losing recipes. There's going to be a whole generation of kids that are never going to know that a catcher used to put down on like a one or a two or flash a two and then go to a three. And the pitcher is going to go like, you're shaking them off. They're not going to have that.

I got one even better for you. The Marlins have led the way on this and now the Mets are following suit. They'll be calling pitches from the dugout. So it won't even be there. catcher that's calling the game for the pitcher. Well, how does the catcher know what pitch is being called? It's the same thing.

He has the same thing. All the recipes are just gone. Terrible. I mean, it's just more efficient and better for the team. Greg, do you know the reference that he's making there when he's saying we're losing all the recipes? Do you know what that's in reference to? It's in reference to Nellie Doogie's handwritten cookbook from the 1950s and 60s.

It was about five or six inches thick and it was at Uncle Dick's house. And it disappeared. I can't find it anymore. Can we get some water, please? What's so fucking about it? No, Greg's right. This guy sounds terrible. Seriously.

Call up Uncle Dick right now. Ask him where Nana's cooked for. Please, please call Uncle Dick. I'll do it live on air. I don't care. Your voice is trying to escape your body. And failing. So we're looking for Nana Doogie?

Yeah, the big thick. Nelly Doogie. Nelly Doogie. Nelly Doogie. Well, she was my Nana. The big thick. Yeah. I don't want to do this.

I'm going to just say if you're... Don't call them? Don't call on speaker? No, this is really simple, Dan. Nelly is Nelly to Greg, but Nana to Chris. And a Greg Moore is four. Yes. But a Rushmore is also four.

But the four is about the five, which is a Greg four? Greg Moore is five. Greg Moore is five. Right. Greg four is because of the four brackets. Got it. And it's five within the four. Right.

Yeah. Okay. Just wanted to clear. Uncle Dick, unavailable. He's preparing for dinner. He eats dinner very early. He eats dinner at 4 o'clock. That one got me. Bad time to sip of water. One of the strangest people in the world, I will just tell you guys, if you're bookmarking,

as we are around here, the just total dissent of Greg Cody, I'd like to remind you that this week's Greg Cody dissent began, because I rarely have the exact marking of where this stuff begins. with him looking at a piece of paper at the start of an hour, smiling to himself because on that piece of paper, he was thinking about Joe Biden calling into his podcast. And then we played a full 90 seconds of an interminable, flu sick, cruise sick, drinking too much sick, Greg Cody, impersonating Joe Biden poorly and not funny for 90 seconds. And that's where the dissent began this week. and it's been an epic descent. That was Biden, not me.

All right, we just heard his voice there. Chug a big sip of water here and then talk back into the money. He doesn't drink enough water. I have this conversation with my father all the time because he's always drinking diet orange juice, like the generic. Yeah, you're going to sound a lot better from here.

Yellow. Like instantly better. Your body right now is like, yes. Yeah, he doesn't take care of it. Thank you. No sugar. It might start rejecting him.

No milk. Yes, yes. What is this? There's no coffee in this. We're having withdrawal symptoms from drinking too much water. Can you guys please get for me as I requested... I'm sorry. You're not sorry, Greg.

You just talk whenever you want to. You don't care about anything that's happening. I'm complimenting the glass already. I just want the record to show that when I was saying they're losing recipes, I was indeed talking about Nellie Doogie. See? We have the Nellie's Diner commercial, if you want it. That's Greg in the corner.

Welcome And when you leave We'll see you soon It's the place you are To taste it more Step back in time When you step into Nellie's Diner It's the only place in town

That tastes Wild Bill Cody's Bisonberger Deep Fried in Nana's 100-year-old lard Or try a tall snack of our award-winning PFI PI pancakes Dig into the signature Thangin'O-Thing Salad Or try an Uncle Dick footlong Anything you want and anytime you want it

We got it all served up With a free side of smiles We are right where we've been For 60 years at 1440 He's a Gacky Street downtown. Nellie's Diner. It's the taste of home you never had because your mom sucked at cooking. It's the taste of Nellie's diner that makes you feel at home.

All right. I know the voice is sped up, but it sounds so different than what it does. Healthier. It does. Let's put it on the poll. I was younger then. Let's put it on the poll. Does Greg Cody's voice sound like he has swallowed the sands of time?

He often tells people, you got to listen to me at 1.5. I sound alive. I do. I sound younger. You're more vibrant. I do. It's the thing he listens to most is the sound of his own voice. I'm surprised he doesn't slow his voice down when he listens back to himself.

It's harder to do that when you listen to your own episode four times. Sometimes three. Once as a critic, once as a consumer. And then once as a watcher on YouTube. Right. A seer. Everybody does. I admit it.

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It's all about me. Stugats. Wee. This is the Dan Lebetar show with the Stugats. I want to get to Greg Cody's catchphrases, which you can find updated every week on the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody. Does he have them? I want to go all the way back to number 50.

Are you ready? Oh, I'm doing them all? I'd like to, yeah, I'd like to catch us all up. That's a winner. Number 50. I am Fuller than Vern Fuller. Just you go, Dad. Start rattling him.

49. 49. Where's my click, click? 48, hey, butterfinger. 47. punt. 46. Scranton.

45. I'm busier in a one-arm paper hanger. 44. George up. George I 43 I'm the kind of guy that

42 balling the jack 41 hey hey with the monkeys baby 40 thank you Billy 39 I love him like a pet 38

who made it to sell it 37 we're rolling now 36 your brain beating me 35 let's go States You guys think he's sounded worse than this No this is the worst he's ever

almost impossible. 34, driver comfort is paramount. 33, dummy up. Save up. 32. It was parenthetically. Uncle Dick added that one. Save up.

32, catches, catch can. 31, doesn't make it right. 30, so on and so forth. 29. Very good. 28. These are new. Wow.

I am so excited for these. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I don't want to, this was a bad week. I'm jealous our podcast. I didn't think of this. it bad? If it's number 28, it's better than everything we just heard. Yes, including, very good.

You shut up. That parrot is dying. It's an old parrot. It's an old parrot, yeah. 82-year-old parent. A couple more cups of water. He'll be all right. That is a sick old parrot. Stop teeing off on Greg Cody. He's doing fine. Let's see if the parrot sounds any better.

I'm the feathers on it. So bad this week's patch. No, but this, go ahead. Some dermatitis on it. Do the very good again just so that people can see the difference between when you drink water and when you don't. Very good. Instantly 20 years younger.

I thought he had played something from a computer. I didn't. Look at you. Chris doesn't like your latest batch. He's embarrassed by your latest batch. Not even worth mentioning, honestly. That's fine. Number 28. The Little League theory.

It wasn't worth mentioning. You were right. Hold on. Let's get the history behind this one. And there is a history. I would love to hear it. My late parents. Is it Cody Slam-Pace's drug? Damn, I did this again? Like Levante David. I'm not going to turn it into Levante Davis, but my late great parents heard this.

When I was a youth, when I was 11 years old, and baggy Adler's Drugs baseball uniform, sometimes I didn't feel like playing. I'm like, Dad, do I have to go to the game today? And he said, yes, that's when I would have three hits and make a great play at the first sack. When I felt like playing. Right. This is the timeline of Cody Slam Pace's Drugs. Yes, exactly.

Exactly. When I felt like playing, when I was really gung-ho, that's when I would go 0 for three with an E. And so the Little League theory became... Drink some more water so that you can just get through this. Stop interrupting the man. This is not a saying. It's just like a thing he lived by. No, it's a thing. It's a theory. We're losing recipes. The Little League theory became when just because you wanted to do something really bad, it didn't mean you'd succeed.

But just because you didn't, it didn't mean you'd fail. And that has held up throughout my entire life. At bowling last week, I'm doing great during practice. I'm throwing strikes and spares. Your son is right. This isn't a catchphrase. It's just story time with grandpa. Maybe you're not finding inspiration in this, but many are.

Thank you. And so I'm bowling well in practice. Little League theory, I bowl like shit during the game. You always bowl like shit. It's a real thing. The Little League theory, that's number 28. Oh, God. That does not deserve to be a habit.

That was better than very good? Make of the salad? Get your own list. I'm trying to follow the story. Thank you, Mike. Number 27. Nice hat, asshole. That's a good one.

That's a good one. That was a great one. He said it one time. So proud of himself. Well, I mean, when somebody says that's a good one, I'm smiling, kind. Congratulations, Zaslo. You are the origin point of nice hat asshole. And you're right in the middle of his.

long list of phrases. We're near the halfway point. Yeah, we are. And you can tell when he drinks the water. Now you get closer to the mic. Let's play something that I wanted. I want to play a couple of different sounds for you guys. One was the promised Mike Schmidt sound. Do you guys know what it is that I'm talking about here? Because when I think of people laughing at great athlete who's super emotional about retiring, The first thought I have is of the Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt,

who I think falls into his locker weeping. Let's see if I remember this correctly. Some 18 years ago, I left Dayton, Ohio, with two very bad knees and a dream to become a major league baseball player. I thank God. That I should have laughed at. Shout out to Moose. A forgotten hair product.

Good hair on Mike Schmidt. That whole puffy look. It's just, it's gone. And it was all thanks to Moose. I want to play for you guys another sound here that I don't think that you saw. And I want to offer some reference to this on the front end. Okay, I've been telling you about the fact that throughout sports media, before the streaming services arrived,

there had been a movement into making everything cheaper. Cheaper by paying the Eagles and starving the turkeys, has been a phrase that's been used. And perhaps you guys have noticed, maybe you haven't, that at ESPN, generally, over the last 20 years, the only time that they get somebody who's an all-time great to appear on the daily studio shows that are the churning grinding of the industry

is when they're bad at broadcasting. It's Emmett Smith. It's Scotty Pippin. It's somebody who's willing to do the grinding. But generally, it's the average player or a below-average player that does that. but you see that NBC. You're describing the Little League theory. That is not the Little League theory.

You're not understanding the Little League theory. You made us listen to all of that because you force the show. No, no. It's a guy that ends up performing well when he's not really trying. Nope. That's a Little League theory. Yes, it is. Exactly.

No. The bad broadcasters at ESPN who are great players, Jerry Rice was another one. You can't get the great player who's also great at broadcasting to work at discount fees. but NBC and Peacock are spending big money on Tracy McGrady, Vince Carter, Carmelo Anthony. That is three people that you have to pay a lot in order to get them to sit there the same way that Amazon is paying, you know, Dirk Novitsky. 20 different guys. And Blake Griffin, yes, they're spending money on giant names. But what I want you to hear here is Carmelo Anthony's entire game fall apart right in front of your eyes,

when he is arguing on behalf of the Houston Rockets making the Western Conference Finals, listen to how incredulous Tracy McGrady is, and listen to Carmelo's surrender at the end of this. Houston, Minnesota can make it to the Western Conference Finals. Yes. They can. Houston? Yes. Oh, my gosh.

They can. With no point guard. They can. No point guard, Mel. Yeah, because we got a matchup now. It's about matchups. Who we match in up with? Okay, four or five.

If you're saying Houston, if you're saying Houston is going to be, Jamal Murray. Let's start with the first matchup. They got to get past the nugget. They have, who? Houston? Yeah. Uh, uh, hi.

What's the first matchup? I'm trying to hold my guys down over there. Look, I play for it. But that's a tough matchup. Listen, what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at the field, I can't hold them down, bro, because no point guard. We watch them again. You got me, Matt.

You got me, Matt. I digress. That never happens on television right there where a guy just puts down his sword. Yeah, I was just trying to do PR for my guys. Classic Little League theory. Yeah, it was. The programming around all this stuff has gotten better with the competition. Those three guys losing it laughing, there's all sorts of fake chuckle fest on television.

Rarely do you get to laugh at the Hall of Famer's face in a way that everybody falls out of their chairs. laughing at somebody. This turn has happened real quick where everyone loves the new studio shows that are in the game and all the complaints are against inside the NBA. It happened like that. It's generational. Like the, it just happened like six months ago. But it happened with baseball where everyone was complaining, everyone was complaining, everyone was complaining, everyone was complaining. And then they put Big Poppy and Pedro Martinez and A-Rod. Better not. Jeter. And Jeter all on TV together. And even if you don't like that. the individuals, like that collective where you're going back to the generation of the early

2000s and throughout the odds and saying, hey, you guys were the stars talk about the game now and they embrace it with love for the game now as opposed to complaining, even if it's a little bit different. It's the same thing you're getting now, where you're getting these guys who were drafted in the early 2000s or in the 90s who were all guys who played together and are saying, hey, we love the game. Well, I'm sorry, Dan. It's not exclusive to that because, I mean, how long were we talking about ESPN's studio show and they would have former players and it's like we don't love it, you know?

So it depends. I'm saying it's about the generation, though, because the former players that they had were complaining about the game because they were guys from the 80s as opposed to- On ESPN, you think? No, I think the problem with ESPN is when they were players. It was John Barry. I think that it's the confluence of these things. and I think it matters and it's important. Inside the NBA didn't have a competitor

because ESPN wasn't spending the money to really compete. Like, this is what you have to do. If you want to actually knock off the best studio show, you have to get reps to the guys who are the Hall of Famers and you have to get money in order to get the Hall of Famers. Seeing those three guys on a set, Tracy McGrady got his start at ESPN doing the jump, but graduated.

out of it, seeing those three guys together on one set is not something ESPN has ever tried to do to compete against inside the NBA. And ESPN also can't compete because they've got so many commercials that everyone's talking for 12 seconds and then they've got to go back to a commercial. So there's not even time to build the reps and the camarader. I'm telling you how rare it is for friendship and respect and confidence to be good enough that everyone can laugh in a way that's not canned or rehearsed. The only other show that I've seen that does that is the NFL on Fox because all of those guys have been together for so long that they can welcome in a stray hand. They can welcome in anybody and they fit because Brad Shaw and Jimmy Johnson loved each other because

Howie Long's been working with them for 15 years because they've got the confidence of you can make, you can't embarrass me on television. I'm too good and trust you too much my teammate who's up here with me. I trust too much that you love me for real. And so you're not going to actually embarrass me. That for Carmelo could have been wildly embarrassing. He's copping to, yeah, I was just bullshitting. I hadn't done any of my research. I hadn't thought for a moment. I said matchups just by reflex. And then you told me what the matchup was and oh shit, it's Yokic. And I hadn't considered. I just said matchups. That's Carmelo not doing any of the prep. If Carmelo's willing to be the clown,

if the Hall of Famers willing to be the clown, you show me all the Hall of Famers who are willing to be the clown. You can only do that among guys that you respect and that you trust not to actually embarrass you. That was unbelievably irresponsible of Carmelo as a broadcaster, and what do you do? You sink into the mistake

instead of try and hide from it. It was endearing. Well, because they all lost it laughing. Yeah. How rare is the real laughter where people stop doing the television, television to laugh. You see chuckle fests all over the place. How often do you see people on television just lose it laughing? Tracy McGradie and Carmelo were crying. They lost it with tears

because of how they were laughing at each other and they just sank into the laughter of it. You just don't see it on television. Television doesn't allow that very often. Tell me all the times. Think of all the times. You see it happen. Why do you think inside the NBA is always the best studio show because they have the reps, the friendship, the trust, and the space to do it. You need all of those things. Streaming offers you those things. It's like when the internet arrived and knocked out newspapers. The space to do things matters. Yeah, we never fake laugh around here. Hey, Roy, buddy. You know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody altogether in

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We've said all. He said all that. He said all that. Everyone is. First I heard of you this great. Everything you're saying. It's all been. Okay, you got to understand one thing.

Stugats. Me, Maximum. That's right. Until I say it, it hasn't been said. Boom. Okay, understand that. You're the mayor. Until I say it, it hasn't been said.

Me Maxxum. Me Maxim. Me maximum. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Greg, how do you feel about your performance today? Was it better than yesterday's performance? How are you generally feeling about how you're doing around here? because you have been limping around here today.

I don't self-judge as much as others judge me. And I've always been like that. I mean, I just don't. Speaking to the mic. Keep cleaning back. I'm relaxing here. I'm among friends. No, I don't know.

You tell me. I don't think I've been limping around. I mean, my voice is shit and shot. Like when Biden called me the other day from Scranton, you know, his voice was shot, which he said at the end of the call. But yeah, my voice is bad. I admit that. I thought he was good until there.

Joe Biden called you? Yeah, you missed that, Tony. You can check out the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody if you want to hear that exclusive call again from Joe Biden. That was about 90 seconds too long. Yeah. Also, get the Mount Greg for Brackett Challenge. We're taking votes right now.

hundreds and hundreds have voted but we want your vote. Do you want to at least say what the four categories are? Sure. And they each have five answers in them right? Correct. Yeah, yeah. Which is like a Greg Moore. And please tell us what the Mount Greg four is a privilege. Watching new age is a privilege. Okay. The four

categories are nets, hoops, pools, and the number 64. Even though there's 68 teams in the tournament. Well, I don't acknowledge We're losing recipes. It's 64. I don't acknowledge the four play-ins. So for me, it's still a 64 team tournament. Shall I give them one nominee from each?

Sure. Yeah. Okay, this is a random example. Tony, we're talking about his Mount Greg four bracket where he has four categories. What is the Mount Greg for? Just to reiterate, for those of you who may have been confused by the way that Jeremy and Greg discussed this before. Okay. In each of the four categories, nets, hoops, pools, and 64s, I have my five finalists, my five favorite nets, for example.

Okay? And that's like a Mount Gregmore. Yes, it's among... Jeremy, let him do it. I'm just clarifying. You're confusing the process. Okay, I'm giving you one example from each category.

Nets. Hair nets. Hoops. Oh, that's a good one. Pools. Small amounts of liquid as in a pool of blood. Wait a minute.

One of the top five pools are a pool of blood? No, small amounts of liquid. He used an example. As in a pool of blood. He was cooking. Stop interrupting. Okay.

And the number of... 64, an example of that would be um... Lay out, give them, give them in some grace. Um, the Beatles 1967 song when I'm 64.

I meant to give a different example of hoops, but I blew it. So anyway, go to the podcast, vote now. Give us another one. You can give two in that one. Well, another example of hoops that, that I like. He doesn't want to give away the goods. It made my top five. It was the 1993

tag team song Whomp, there it is, which many, including me, always heard as hoop, there it is. And so that's... So it's a common mistake. There it is. We should build around you.

It's surprising to me that you used when I'm 64 by the Beatles from 1967 as opposed to their 1964 album A Hard Day's Night, did you consider? I did not, no. But thanks to the question. I'm glad you just cut his legs out.

Just to be sure. It's great. Yeah. It's good stuff. So go vote now. Wherever you vote. Vote now. You have no idea where to vote.

Look on Zaz's face. It's like I'm speaking Chinese over here. Mandarin, I should say. Sorry, my friend's in China. I'm out of water. Greg's right. There's a lot of dialects over there. Mandarin, Cantonese.

Just to name the two that I know. Zaz, how are you feeling in? general about what Greg Cody is doing to what is not only for you a sacred program, but also a sacred medium. This has been something that it's frustrated as since I've known him that Greg Cody refuses to learn the very basic things of trying to attempt to be a professional broadcaster of any sort. I mean, I was frustrated over 20 years ago before I knew anything about radio, but I knew like this isn't the way to do it. And how wrong you were, my friend. Who would have known?

20 years later, he'd be, Greg Cody has outlasted the industry. Damn right, I have. Helped kill it in outlasting it. That's a bar. Greg Cody's career helped kill, put it on the poll at Levitard show. Has Greg Cody helped kill radio

and then outlasted it? Yes or no? All while not trying at all to be good at it. Wait a second. That's a little league theory. Mike Ryan. Wrong camera you pointed at that. Yes, he did.

He did. So one over there. Were you doing it at the back of the camera facing? Were you doing a Greg Cody first down? You were just the referee who did a first down in the wrong direction. Like I want you to imagine. Like a turnover. Turnover.

The camera follows me. I don't follow the camera. That kind of thing. That's not how it works. Well said to it. Radio follows you. You don't follow radio. The others, they all learn from me.

Is that going to be on there? Yeah, well. Maybe. Really? Maybe. He doesn't want to... We're going to have so many good ones left off. No, you won't.

Oh, yeah, you will. I'll be able to do such a good top ten of the omitted ones when this is all done. I can't wait for the list to come out and then like, baby, bears, missing. Like, I'm telling you, every week he's adding another one to this already created... You know, well, you had to make room for Little League theory. The fact that he's doing this in no appreciable order and that he doesn't know that he's going to run out of room because he keeps putting crudy ones... I'm telling you, Little League Theory was added in the last week. Like, that is not one we had on our master list.

How about I'm the kind of guy that... Yeah, that's on there. That's a great one. That one was on the list. I'm the kind of guy was on the main. And driver comfort is paramount? Yeah, that one was on there. Are you disgusted by him, Zaslow?

You can't even look at him. You're looking away. Well, because I don't want to be rude. You know, like, I don't want to make a face at someone and make them feel bad about themselves. You couldn't do that. Go ahead. Give me your face. Give me that face that would make me.

feel bad about my story. I don't want him. I'm a nice person. He can't look at you though. He is hiding. Well, but there have been two of them today who have hidden. The last time I saw this kind of shame hiding behind a microphone, it was when Chris Cody didn't know that Levanti David had lost both of his parents and called him a blubberer.

Zaz is now doing the same thing where all I see is a backward hat behind a microphone. Nice hat, asshole. 27. But Zaz appears to me to be seething, and I believe, as somebody who can be both fluent in Zaz and body language, that it's an affront to the medium that Zaz cares about.

Have we made it clear enough that I want them to fight? Let's try one more time. Yes, because let's hold sacred a medium where we have a looks-like contest and have fun with other falderall. Let's hold sacred. I don't know what that word means. I don't know what that word means. Fonderol?

Fonderol. Faldorol? Yes. I don't know what it means. I'll take us disrespect. What does Falterol mean? Put it on the Poltero. Have you ever heard anybody use the word falderall?

Just nonsense. Just, you know, silly. That's bang on. Speaking of nonsense, I heard Tony, of all people, longing for the waiting room the other day. Tony was doing a sort of back in my day. I have not heard a young person long for the waiting room. Why were you longing for a waiting room?

room and what does Faldor all mean. I don't know what it means either. Greg, I'm talking to you. I know. I already told you what I think it means. It's trivial or nonsensical fuss. So exactly what Greg said. Yeah. Thank you. Give me the music. You know what? I'm sorry though because I wasn't listening to him and I really wasn't listening to him because so much of what he has spewed has just been nonsense. Minor Bell, two minutes four, not listening to the show. Thank you, Den. That was big of you. All right. Give me the music again. So what I want to do in paying homage to the great Greg Coddy, who's done an incredible job, not only today, but this year, to be honest, he's been on fire in 2026 to pay homage to the legend. He's got back in my day.

What I want to do is call Bring It Back Jack. Okay. These are things from the 2000s and before. So everything in the 20th century, I want to bring back into what we're doing today. Okay. We did so many great things back then. Now everything is being destroyed by this thing, our phones, right? So I went to the accountant yesterday to do my taxes.

Greg, you would appreciate this. I walk in. The phone's buzzing off the hook. My wife's texting me. News is coming in. What's happening in Iran? What's happening here? I'm like, you know what?

I don't want to do this anymore. So I put my phone in my side bag and then I walked into the accountant's office. They said, it's going to be a couple of minutes. I said, that's fine. I looked down at the chair. What's next to the chair on a little table? Oh, a magazine. Greg, the magazine of the history of Coral Gables.

Guess what I did? I picked it up, started sifting through, started reading it. I said, this is beautiful. This is nice. I'm reading about a lake somewhere in coral gables that isn't as a, you know, aquifer of some sort. And I was like, man, I didn't know that. That's beautiful. You know, historic coral gables, 1936 or whatever it was. Where was Stephen Morris's 500-yard game in that magazine? They didn't have that one in there. The editor had a really big picture of himself, though, which I didn't really much like. But that's not the point. The point is, as I'm sifting through and reading and watching and looking at all these different things, all of a sudden, counten comes in, hey, it's your turn. passed a beautiful 20 minutes just reading about a city that we passed by every single day.

Did you lick your finger to turn the page? My hand was a little dusty. So yeah, I had to like wet it a little bit. But the beauty of just sitting there, leaving my phone away and enjoying the waiting room by looking at a magazine of a city was beautiful. Bring it back, Jack. Let's stop using phones in waiting rooms. Let's pick up a magazine. And that's...

I'm Tony and that was... Bring it back. Bring it back, Jack. I like that. Thank you, Tony, for that. homage, get your own music, but other than that, I really like the idea. That reminds me of a back of my day I did along similar lines about how you, there's no in-flight magazines anymore on an airplane.

I used to be able to kill an hour with an in-flight magazine. Just skimming through it, yeah. What they call it on Delta? The Delta Skyliner or some ridiculous thing. What was it called as? The Delta Skyliner. improve Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Gambled on by Drafkins.

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