The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Your Life Is Hard To Please

Episode Date: July 23, 2024

Greg Cote is having himself a DAY. Greg shares the details of his car accident in Ireland while somehow placing blame on his wife, teaches us about the potato famine of the 1840s, searches for his satchel, and gives the crew some advice on disposing of cooked oil. He also discusses pineapple pizza from Spain and claims his son's wife is too critical of his cooking. Plus, Jessica explains why Willow was able to take advantage of Lucy as a dog-sitter. Also, it's time to turn off the lights in the studio to help Greg remember the glory days of when this show was just an audio medium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's wonderful. And so many of them are like destroyed. But I think there must be like a law like like you can't Knock down the remnant of an old castle or something. It's great They're all over Europe too because my my in-laws were in Spain and they'll be driving in Spain and there's like eight castles That are just abandoned. There's nothing there The reason that I say it's affordable is if you go with 12 people and you split the cost you can Handle whatever it is that you think is an unaffordable castle situation now I don't know where Greg Cody was staying

why are you shaking your head at me Chris? I just don't know maybe I'm wrong you didn't have the entire castle I would assume it's like a regular hotel that there are a bunch of rooms it's a castle hotel they call it it's transformed Dan would rent out the entire hotel well it's a little bit of a boutique hotel in that I think there were forty four rooms and then would be like they're all mine carry can it be a boutique and a castle i feel like those two things are kind of the office it

i don't think both of those things can be the same thing can they a boutique is just i don't know what you're saying it's intimate but i also think a boutique is kind of small a castle is never small, right? Yeah, it was pretty impressive. Not all castles are big Yeah, really did castle put it on the pole at LeBatard show White Castle at LeBatard show are all Castles big the mini sliders Or no heaven on earth

You know you need to upgrade your heaven. I'm not saying White Castle or no heaven on earth mm-hmm you know you need to upgrade your heaven I'm not saying White Castle's bad Dan you ever had a hundred White Castle bugger like at 2 a.m. look at me look at me do you think I can have a yes you know close to heaven yes of course but no that's not heaven come on you need to have a better you need to do better on heaven if you're thinking that White Castle is heaven come on a little bit better best is when you have the one at your at your house in the microwave and you bite into it and it's still cold in the middle. I want to cover a handful of different things from Greg Cody's vacation. How annoying was Erlene about your

driving? Because I started the show this way yesterday because I'm a little bit surprised that they were able to get the power away from Joe Biden in a political climate where it seems like people are only interested in power, when as I said, I've had some trouble taking any power from my father at his age. You are about to turn 70 years old. If I were your wife, I also wouldn't trust how generally flipping and reckless you are about thinking that your judgment is better than it is. Yeah, it's good judgment. It's not good judgment. It's not. And I don't blame her for not trusting you driving and you wrecked a rental car.

I'm a good bad driver. In other words, you violently scrape a stone wall and yet you don't lose control. You never have the feeling that you're gonna swerve, you're not gonna hit anybody head on, you're not gonna rebound back into the wall. You're gonna go about your merry way. Balling the jack to Galway is a beautiful thing.

Eventually we pull over and we look at the damage. My wife's shaking her head like a bobble doll and a bobble head the whole time. They usually go up and down. I guess they go side to side. So you just kept, you sideswiped a wall and you just kept driving? Yeah, there's the famine wall.

That's the one? Well, that wasn't the exact one. Most of them aren't that big. People know from history the story behind the famine wall, right, in the potato famine of the 1840s, which caused five million irish people to all of the united states the ones that didn't move we're left behind in in poverty

to uh... to earn pennies a day by creating all of these stone jagged ragged stone walls that line the countryside ireland and the problem is they're all right next to narrow roads and so you know if if somebody swerves to avoid a head-on collision you literally have to scrape a famine wall is that what happened to you that's exactly what happened to me someone swerve to you or you just hit

the wall I just hit the wall it seemed like they were swerving there's a potato famine monument in New York City in Battery Park. If you're in New York, you can go check it out and see what Greg's talking about. Yep. It is a monument to people that died during the potato famine, and they have a whole wall constructed with like native plants to Ireland. It's very interesting. And Ireland now as a nation is obsessed with potatoes.

Like on every menu, you see some sort of a featured potato dish. I think there should be potatoes on every menu. Can that be my heaven on earth? If I were running a political campaign, I'd put potatoes on every menu. Yeah. Badada. What? Greg.

As my nana, Nellie Doogie, used to say, she didn't pronounce it potato. For some reason, she said badada. And that's always stuck with me. Chris, I'm a little worried, okay, because today has been amazing for a number of different reasons, but one of them is your father underestimates how hard it is to get back on this. His stamina's gone, he's drank, like he's gone. He's not with us anymore, he's not making sense, it's like like but data and he's just tired and he's gonna he's gonna reel into traffic again in this because we're taking advantage of an old man

and a he's a writer den thank you billy you're feeling this chris right that the fact that your dad one out of every six or seven things he's saying isn't meant for air isn't with him remembering he's on air it's taking advantage of an old person I was cooking with them I was right there with them up until the bodada then I got really just reminded me you know but a fond memory fond memory of my my Nana Nellie Doogie Nellie yeah mine's a beautiful thing huh how

sometimes it just brings back memories you never know when they're gonna come and go. Yes She was the one I've also mentioned she cooked in 100 year old oil Hmm. She never threw out oil. Oh Might have been a lard lard was big back then. Yeah, but she never you know, that's what my great aunt cooked with There you go. Mm-hmm. Yeah, but but you know, you can strain that you can cook a hundred year old oil I never do that like oil costs more than the turkey, right? So I deep-fry a turkey I spent 50 60 bucks on oil you use it once Then you throw it out the bird costs a third of that. Where you throw oil. That's a good question

I want to get back to down the sink. Yeah, do it every year Where do you I'm asking you I? Down the sink down toilets. You can't put it down any of those See I disagree with that Okay, here's why it it cleans the gullet of the tour not sure if that's true. I believe it does It's always worked for me. Let's look it up. I don't have stuffed up toilets. Put on the poll please, Juju at Labotard show, does hot oil clean the gullet of the toilet?

No, it's cold by then. Yeah, we have to do it responsibly. We let it cool off. Right. Yeah. Does used cooking oil clean? Does hot used cooking oil clean the gullet of the toilet?

Earl does, that's for sure. What happened in Nellie's oil when she died? Yeah, I Don't know that she died around the time I barely remember to be honest because she died around the time of beetle mania like 64 65 So you just forgot everything about? For that of diabetes, but back then they all called it sugar diabetes. Yeah, well my Grammy called it the sugars. Oh, okay. Yeah.

Yeah, there you go. Mine called the sugar diabetes. I'm learning a lot today. To this day, if I'm referring to diabetes in front of your mother, I say the phrase sugar diabetes because it drives her nuts. She corrects me every single time. I would love to go on vacation with you too. Crazy time, huh?

Beetlemania, the sugars, potato famine, lot going on in the world. Big bad ganky, yep. Your wife was pretty frustrated with you on this trip. I can't imagine her getting concentrated, old man bickering, Cody forgetting the passports, having to drive. That was so annoying.

She actually took a victory lap on how she handled him losing the passport she's like i handled that well well you drove a hundred miles before realizing like just through countryside yes this is before or after you've gotten into the accident before or after you've locked yourself in the gas before both but i'm going to tell you this and i tried to explain this to her i had to be very very careful anybody in a relationship knows that if you're telling your partner something that might not hit the right way you got to be very very careful. How did you say it? I explained to her that there's a little bit of a pie chart going on here

in terms of whose responsibility it was. Blamed her for... No, no. What I said was it's my briefcase it's totally on me that i left it in the rental car we had to turn back in on the other hand you might have said you sure worship ratio you got the briefcase you check that and look at and she didn't do that so yes it's my fault but you know little little slice of the pie height what's a reading the pie chart greg what's a

reading i i'm i'm gonna take 80-20. Yeah, that's fine. That seems fair. You travel with a briefcase, huh? Well, it's not a briefcase. I say briefcase. It's one of those, there it is right there. It's one of those satchels.

That helps the audience. Yeah, it could quite see. Lift it up, lift it up. It's next to a shoe. Grabbing the bag now. Yeah, your father's. It's a briefcase. It's like a laptop bag. I think it's like a briefcase. It's a laptop bag. That's exactly what it's. It's a briefcase. It's like a laptop bag. I think it's like a briefcase.

It's a laptop bag, that's exactly what it is. It's a businessman's case. Let me rewind. Laptop bag. What? Let me rewind to Greg Cody returning from a trip and deciding that very evening, I'm going to honor the country I've just been in by cooking a dish from that country. I want to go back to that particular bit of

wonderful. How long have you been doing that? And what is the lamest, cheapest shortcut version of that that you have done that hasn't been to celebrate the country and it's just because you have to adhere to the particulars of I do this every time I return from a trip so I'm going to just fart out an Irish stew. Oh it was it took me all afternoon to make. First of all just harvesting the meat takes a while. I bought like a four big four pound we don't need the recipe. He's asking other examples of you doing this. Oh, can we do a recipe of the day?

So what I do is, is I let it marinate. It's like, you can ask you that. By harvesting the meat, you gotta cut off the fat. Yeah. And that's tough. You know, it's a combination of knife work, kitchen shears. Other examples! When I came back from Barcelona, Barcelona, thank

you, I had to make a pizza with pineapple on it only because that's what I tasted over there when I was there for the Olympics. Wait a minute! Known Spanish. Early 90's! I thought he was going to say paella! But I don't think the pineapple pizza is a Spanish dish. Let's hear him out. By the way, I came home from Rome and made paella. There you go. I had an Italian paella. Went in Rome. And that's right, in Barcelona, I uh.

Had a Hawaiian pizza. So it came back. Exactly right. And I don't make many pizzas from scratch, by the way. That's difficult. I admire the pizza clippers. That's not a Spanish dish, the pizza with pineapples on it. But he had it in Spain.

I do that every Friday here. But he had it in Spain. What are you guys not getting? Exactly. Making a pizza from scratch, sometimes more expensive than just buying a pizza. It is. But you have that sense of accomplishment afterwards.

Often tastes like crap, but you have that sense of accomplishment. Yeah. I keep meaning to buy myself a pizza oven, but I haven't done it yet. That would be a great 70th birthday present for him, Dan. Oddly enough, the first Hawaiian pizza was in Canada. There you go. It's not a Spanish dish.

If I eat it in Spain, it's a Spanish dish. That's not true at all. If you're drunk at a bar in Spain and you end up at some pizza shop that has pineapple... Look, I'm in Barcelona. You just got a piece of pizza. I don't understand. Okay, not the answer I was expecting in my question, but I've got many questions about your vacation.

How much of a backseat driver was Erlene and how mad was she about the fact that you wrecked a rental car? Yeah, very. Keep in mind, I'm driving on the wrong side of the car on the wrong side of the road, so I'm not used to the...it's really discombobulating me. It took days to adjust to the fact that I'm doing the opposite of what we get in the States.

My whole driving career, I've never driven a car in Europe until this trip, and so it was an adjustment. And so I want to hug the left side so that I don't head on somebody. And my wife must have said a thousand times, Greg move over, you're about to hit a wall, you're about to hit a curb, Greg move over, move over. And it's just so annoying. I only hit one wall. You were hurt. I drove for eight days, I hit one wall.

That's fair, that's one wall. That's pretty good. How many did you pass? 100. Exactly, there you go. Thank you. Not even 1%. No, I hit a bunch of bushes though.

They have a wall of bushes. And so yeah, and you're driving and you hear the car go, thwap, thwap, thwap, thwap, thwap. Didn't you- Because it's hitting all these bushes. Didn't you clip something in a parking garage too? Yeah, we had a minor mishap in a parking garage. Minor.

You have to drive a Fiat to park in the parking garages in Ireland. They're six feet wide. I'm driving an SUV. I have zero chance. Well, there's your problem. You rented an SUV to drive in a country. My wife and trip organizer does that for me.

Well, pie chart, 80-20. That's higher than 80-20. Might have to take right side on that one. Well, she did rent that. There you go. Yeah. It wasn't her fault that the first we got a lemon and we had to go back for it which caused all the satchel incident. Really? Is that so? Yeah. Hey, it's Mike Ryan and by now you know how much I love Game Time. It is the greatest app for the secondary ticket marketplace that I've ever come across. I was recently in Chicago, a Major League Baseball Mecca, and I found incredible tickets

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Dan LeBretard! It's been a lovely cruise. Oh man, that's my outro. That's, you know, as my casket is being lowered. Jesus. You know, I'll have been cremated a week before, but we'll do the casket thing just for show. And as my casket is being lowered.

Wait a minute. Empty casket? Yeah, it'll be empty, you know. Just for show, we're gonna do that. Well, what's the redundancy there? You know, I mean, we're gonna put on a public display yeah naturally stugats what do you do with the ashes you're going on a lovely cruise exactly maybe we'll throw them over my wife will throw them overboard I would assume

making with her new husband this is the done libertar show with the stugats on ads on the pie chart of blame i will uh... for those of you do not listen all the uh... all the time i will remind you that greg kody an adult human being has blamed his wife for not telling him it was cold outside when he wandered out into the cold and have seen for himself uh... he should know expects his wife to take care of him the way that a mother would take care of a fetus not a toddler

a fetus she doesn't trust him with driving for very good reason he is an old man in his judgment is getting worse and worse and he thinks it's the same or better we just got done telling you the story of the locked himself inside the castle and got into at least two accidents in it a lot of shrubs and is wondering why his wife is telling him a thousand times greg you're not in the middle of the road you need to get out of the middle of the road

is it possible the castle is also not entirely his fault he was sent to yes that's why they comped our room. There was some You know aberration in the lock that prevented me from unlocking my own deadbolt You know I'm unscrewing it doing the the work of the maintenance crew. I'm unscrewing my own deadlock or deadblock You got it Yes, he's falling apart as I said he's having a a lot of trouble with just speech, thought, and knowing where he is. But Chris, this part I'm serious about.

My father is 10 years older. The last time I drove with my father anywhere was a few years ago. It was Christmas Eve night. Not sure when I got in the back seat of a car on a night. This was several years ago, and I'm like, my father shouldn't be driving anymore. I was in the back seat, and I'm like, this is deeply unsafe. What is happening right now? And it's the last time I got in a car with him, and I've been trying to get him a driver since, and it doesn't work. It's absolutely not.

You're not. No, I will not. Your father is in worse general shape than my father. He's 10 years younger, but it's been a battering the Greg Cody experience has been to this vessel of a body for a long time. You're going to have such a hard time and your mom is going to have such a hard time getting those keys away from him because he thinks this is an aberration and all it is is the beginning. It's the beginning of this. Two things, number one, I'll take a driver if you're buying. Number two, this is gonna sound like I'm bragging. I'm gonna out drive everybody in these two rooms. Really? Okay.

What's your BMI? I'm a daily driver, okay? I'm a daily driver. And I haven't had a speeding ticket just as an example in who knows how long Years plural you came back from vacation where you were just hitting shrubs walls and Things in parking garage Limit yeah, exactly. He didn't get a ticket in Greg's offense

He didn't get a ticket right Greg Lehman I actually have we have a system when we're in a place where you have to drive on the left, which is the person in the passenger seat points to the lane that you're turning into. Because if you say right left, and you get confused, and then if you're making a left, it's like a close left and not like a far left, like if you're on the right side of the road.

So we point to which lane you're turning into. Yeah, and another thing was everything in kilometers over there, of course. So all of a sudden you're going 100, you see a sign that says the speed limit's 140. And so mentally you're like, I can't go, I don't want to go that fast. When in fact, that's probably what 80 or whatever the thing is. But a fabulous trip despite all the harrowing. How was the food? I would love to go off

We'll bring you along just Awful the food was all really bad It was so mediocre and and everything on the menu is like, you know beef and Guinness and fish and chips and potatoes potatoes and Shepherd's pie there were a couple of uh... topped beef and guinness is with the with the topping why would you feel the need to remember the land you came from with your culinary uh... respect if the food was awful i wanted to outdo the irish at their own dish and he said he did as he's eating and he's like this is better than what i have a little listen your wife

who's hard to please well and a little shy with her compliments. What did Christy say about my... She said it was good. She said it was good multiple times. That's actually hilarious because she is critical of your food. There are times we leave and she's like, eh, not his best work.

I know, believe me. I still have Chris's top five from the sex therapist here. Didn't she not like shrimp? No, she hated my shrimp Oh, man. Yeah, she's allergic to shellfish. Yeah, she can get over that. Yeah You know if you've had my shrimp exactly right you're gonna forget the allergy cuz it tastes so good She's never tried Greg's ramp. That's right. I thought the food in Ireland was great. What are you really? I did it was phenomenal. I had the the worst steak I've ever had at the castle hotel restaurant

I don't eat at the hotel restaurant. That's just well, it's not even if it's a castle It was a beautiful you're gonna go. It was a beautiful restaurant and they had a nice menu. I ordered a fillet You shouldn't screw up a fillet. Okay, you give it a nice crusty hard sear on the outside Beautiful medium on the outside and beautiful medium on the inside at that most maybe medium shading to medium rare it was tough they overcooked it like crazy in my own country I'm gonna turn that back Jack but in Ireland I played the polite and one of the ugly American I ate it now later at the Shell born one of the great hotels

in Ireland. Does anyone else hear that car alarm as our functions around here continue to fail on the doing of this show? Chris hit the car alarm button, that's why it didn't. Only half of you hear it. I've been hearing a car alarm for two and a half hours. For two and a half straight hours. Stop talking for a second so everyone can hear it.

Terrible for the podcast, no one can hear it. I don't hear it. I mean we hear it, the audience might hear it. Greg, do you hear it? Continue your story, straight. I'm talking for a second. So I'm here Terrible for the podcast. Oh, yeah, I mean we hear it the audience might hear your story Greg. I'm sorry No, no, no, that's it reminds me of the latest Greg Cody show podcast episode where Christopher is His lawn is being cut as we're recording. So the entire time we're recording Chris Cody's lawnmower is going in the backyard You got a lawn guy Chris. I do Wow. You think he's gonna cut his own lawn. He didn't know which end of the lawnmower is going in the backyard. You got a lawn guy, Chris? I do. Wow. You think he's going to cut his own lawn? He didn't know which end of the lawnmower to hold. That's not true. So back to the Shelbourne.

The Shelbourne is one of the great hotels in Dublin. In fact, we, I forget how it was, it might have been mentioned on the podcast and I get a text from Dave Barry saying, yeah, we stayed there. Beautiful hotel. They served me one of the great filets I've ever had in my life. Okay, so you can do it, Ireland, but you just got to be more consistent. My only complaint about Irish food is that it's a lot of the same. You know, the menu's all sort of read the same unless you're a uh... upscale restaurant and then there they they know how to do it never got that i mean i didn't hear that i was

going to find what has of the sound your phone just made you a lot of my thought that is your phone here at uo five dollars uh... uh... before we end the segment uh... jessica meant to ask you something that i'd forgotten ask you about because lucy week, and you guys can vouch for this, Lucy and Jessica have become very good friends in a way that allows Jessica the great comfort of leaving Willow behind with a friend so that she can go places, but Lucy was having a hard time with Willow because Willow, what kind, you just. Pay a fine with a euro?

You can't pay the fine with European money that makes Jessica go convert it at the. It's worth more, Dan. It's $10, what is this worth now? Is it worth $5? Isn't it close to one to one now, isn't it? I think it's pretty close to one to one. All right, but Jessica, are you aware

that Willow was pulling dragging lucy to ice cream scoops and sitting in front of them and lucy was on the able to move her in any way yeah i i heard of i heard about this i feel terrible about it willow does have a little bit of a bully streak in her she can judge character very well she can tell if someone's going to be too nice to her and if she can get away with getting a pop cop and for some reason she knows that the ice cream places have pop cut she's

never been to this ice cream place before but she drag lucy there every day and it i'd feel very bad she didn't respect lucy it it she could spot that lucy was a pushover she doesn't respect me there for what it's worth she's not true constantly hot my leg when we're home. Okay, well that's disrespectful, but she wouldn't have done that to you. You wouldn't have trouble pulling Willow if you were trying to pull Willow. That's true. I would just drag her down the street. She doesn't, I mean I wouldn't really do that because dog owners are listening to this now and they're going to be like, you're a bad dog owner. Which is not true. But I did feel bad because when I came home,

I was like, how was Willow? And Lucy was like, well, she could tell that I, I didn't, she didn't respect me very much and it didn't get better throughout the week. And I feel bad. Lucy's gotta get better at that. You shouldn't feel bad. Lucy, Lucy's gotta do, it's the,

it is the dog caretaker's job to make sure that the dog behaves. That's not, the dog caretaker's job to make sure that the dog behaves. The dog wants to behave. The dog behaves so well with Lehman. The dog loves Lehman. Anything Lehman says. Kids are the same way. My wife says the same thing about my daughter,

that she does well for me, but when it's just with her, that she turns into this. I'm not tough enough on her, and I know I need to get better. I need to put some bass in my voice and tell her, Bay. Yeah, Lucy should have been taught the Bay call because I guarantee you that's a beautiful trainer.

That's Willow, right? That's a handsome dog. You go Bay. And they're gonna do that thing where the ears go out a little bit and the head cocks. Maybe the head tilt. That's what you want, because that's the dog listening to you

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it can be an orchestra tuning up before a concert, and the bassoon is a little bit off key, and it comes on like that. Stugats! The musical part. It's a beauty. It is a beauty. F*** me! Oh, sorry.

Shit. This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. Under the circumstances, I will say, with Stugats sabotaging us from beyond and Greg Cody sabotaging us while sitting in Stugats' chair, under the the circumstances we have slapped together a show, a show that talked to a little too much but ignored Heat Summer League championships with Jeremy and Mike Ryan not here to the reprieve of the audience. But Greg Cody just got done harrumping under his breath after many years doing this. He'd forgotten about the stamina it takes to get back in the chair when

you've had a month off and he doesn't know where he's been by his own admission for about the last seventy minutes he's been disoriented he's thrown up but data over here but it up and he's he's a very old over there to find a big ten-year-old he's buddy does it get what is happening chris let's let's examine for just a

moment uh... it there've been a lot of obstacles around microphones breaking car alarms going off video falling apart stuff stuff's happened that has caused chaos around here today and we've slapped something together but also your father there have been times I feel like that he's not remembering he's on air. Like he's just like, hey Ron, I'll send you a text the way you would if you were leaving the office, just sort of forgetting that he's performing

in front of a lot of people. Yeah, that bag over there, like stuff like that. Well the video, no, look, your father's never gonna get the part that this is now a video production as well, and he's never gonna get the part, i'd prefer actually that your father only think of this is an audio product and we start to be yet i'm fine with that portion of it but it's when he doesn't know that he's on video or audio and just sort of forgets that he needs to come up with a sentence of thought if he knew he's on audio you

know to give more context like that him not knowing he's on audio he just thinks he's on only on video. He's the worst. It's strange that your father after this many years doing this approaches 70 years old and lacks some of the general fundamentals of remembering when he's broadcasting. Well that's a different thing though because you know you go from newspapering to radio and they do to radio and the original incarnation of the podcast was an audio only. And so now the video element, it's confusing. But you're in a studio with a lot of lights and we're

clearly all in front of microphones performing something. But Dan, you do get rusty and also you forget sometimes how bright the lights are. they hurt your head a little Bit like I can barely look up right now without I feel this migraine coming. I know Greg probably feels very very bright Unnecessarily bright. All right, let's turn off all the lights guys if you can Okay, let's turn it off let's see if it gets any better here just let's see how this goes Let's turn it off. Let's see if it gets any better here. Just let's see how this goes Go ahead. No, I mean this is this is the way it should be. Yeah, okay I feel like I'm walking into my my bedroom closet. Whoa, I'm surrounded by you remember the first podcast

I ever did from the great Cody show was in my closet because back then I thought all of the sound would be Would have a great sound room by doing it among all my closet. My wife's clothes take up literally 70% of that closet. Which is always been unfair. But anyway, I love it in here. Right now, this is how it should be. You know?

I have a ghostly quality there as well which is perfect with scary story got any no no no way to play the improv game I don't tell scary stories no my life is a scary story believe me oh I like that the silhouette look at the end can you see my wrath in the silhouette you look thin can you see how much rage is in my face in the silhouette? The general darkness of concealing all of me? Right, let me look dark. Why can't I do that?

Well, your laptop's giving you light. Why don't you close that up a little bit? Yeah, hold on. But now you gotta move in front of the screen so that you can see your profile. Yeah, maybe switch camera shots from the side or something. Hold on. Yeah, I on there. Now you gotta move in front of the screen so the screen can see your profile Yeah, maybe switch camera shots. Yeah from the side or something. Hold on. Yeah, I got this. Oh wait. There you go Okay, there it is. Oh pitch cock Ian Now that's television or YouTube whatever the hell we're on Channel four seven or ten usually I can read how this is going based off Dan's face and I can't tell it. What channel is this? Channel four, seven, or 10? Usually I can read how this is going

based off Dan's face and I can't see it right now. So I don't know if he's like enjoying this or he's crying. I don't know what Dan's doing right now. Let's keep it that way. I like it. This is much easier on the eyes. It sure is. I feel good right now.

Yeah, it's invigorating. Greg, I have a question for you. When you go on vacation, I assume that you're like me. You're not responding to emails and work texts while you're gone. When you get back, how long will you push it before you start replying to people that you need to talk to who tried to message you during your break? Wow, that's a good question. I'm still not getting email on my new phone. I gotta get that taken care of. Oh no. But the texts kept coming. You know, I'll give them a glance.

I mean, I look at the texts every day, you know, that kind of thing, but I don't answer all of them. You know, the work-related texts, they know better than to text me. You know, Hugo from Mango calls me, texts me, you know, about the deadline on the back of my days and everything, so we get back to him. But for the most part, man, when I'm on vacation, I am on vacation. Okay? I'm doing it up. I'm leaving work behind, you know, looking for dimly lit places like this, which is another reason it's beautiful. It reminds me of vacation. Can you turn the light towards Dan a little so I can get a read on him? Because

I'm terrified right now. Do you come back reinvigorated, Greg? I do, but you know what, Billy? I've never been on a vacation because I'm terrified right now. Do you come back reinvigorated, Greg? I do, but you know what, Billy? I've never been on a vacation that I wasn't glad ended. Really? Yeah. It's true, especially the longer the vacation, like if I'm away for seven, eight days, by that sixth or seventh day,

I'm looking at the watch I never wear, symbolically to say, I'm done. We've had a good time. I'm ready to get back into my routine. You know, I'm a creature of habit. I'm a creature of routine. Do you miss your bed? Like you miss your bed at home?

I do, yeah I do. Do you miss Chris? Yeah, somewhat. He misses bed. Yeah? Yeah, no I do. Jumping Charlie? Jumping Charlie I miss.

What was old JC up to? You know, we bored him. Oh, no wow wow that is you make they send him to like a Some ladies house like the best he's like I get pictures from my mom all the time like look how much fun Charlie's happy Imagine how much they charge you for that it's you know It's a fair amount of you come back, and he's like shit You know what he exerts himself so much on his vacation at this woman's house that he's like a zombie for the first couple of days he comes back. But when I saw a picture of Willow on that picnic table, it warmed my heart because dogs love to jump on top of picnic tables. They really do. Yes, she loves to sit on a table and we're like get off like this this is on hygienic And Charlie does that and and the the woman who's hosting them always texts us photos of Charlie at play

It's so funny cuz my mom is always like she loves Charlie so much and I'm like mom She tells everybody that she loves their dog No, like as if this lady this lady that's charging two grand for the weekend is gonna be like your dog's a real piece of shit She is kind though. My mom's like no she likes her the best. I'm telling you. I'm telling you I'm like mom Well, Charlie has such a beautiful disposition. Yeah, she really is. That's why you can't stay angry at her him. Whatever Charlie could is a name that can work both ways Yeah, but Dan just say something and There used to be a perfume called Charlie. I think so. Let me look it up.

Yeah, I think there was. Brat Summer. Aimed at women, if I remember correctly. Is Dan awake? I had a dog named Charlie once. Did you? Yeah. I heard that that is the most popular dog's name.

And it shocked me. Yeah, it shocked me. Who bit me? I don't almost And it shocked me. Yeah, it shocked me. Huh. I don't, almost don't believe it. Really unoriginal, Greg. Well, you know, I mean, I named my kids Christopher and Michael. I mean, how original are we?

Revlon makes a Charlie Blue for women. Hello, that's what I'm talking about. Yes. Aw, Greg, I missed you. Thank you, Jess. I missed you too. We'll take you next time we go to Ireland. I was going to say that.

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