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

Episode Date: December 26, 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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["The New York Times"] Castles are surprisingly affordable. There are a shit ton in Ireland. Yeah. I mean, it's hard to not see a castle when you just look out your window. It's wonderful. And so many of them are like destroyed. But I think there must be like a law, like you can't knock down the remnant of an old

castle or something. It's great. They're all over Europe too, cause 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 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 44 rooms and Dan would be like they're all mine Can it be a boutique and a castle? I feel like those two things are kind of the opposite I don't think both of those things can be the same thing can they a boutique is just I understand what you're saying It's intimate, but I also think a boutique is kind of small a castle is never small right now It was pretty impressive not all castles are big Yeah, really a good 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 castles bad Yeah, you ever had a hundred like Castle book like at 2 a.m a.m.? Look at me. Do you think I can have a hundred? You've been 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. The best is when you have the one at your house in the microwave and you bite into it, 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 seventy years old if i were your wife i also wouldn't trust how general it generally flippant 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. Yeah, in other words, you know you you violently scrape a

Stone wall and yet you don't lose control, you know, 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. There's a beautiful thing Eventually we pull over and we look at the damage my wife shaking her head like a bobble doll and bobblehead the whole time They usually go up and down From side to side so you just kept you sides wiped 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 move to the united states the ones that didn't move were 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 uh... 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 swerved 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 in Ireland now as a nation is obsessed with potatoes Like on every are we all on every menu you see some sort of a featured potato I think there should be potatoes on every not in my head if I were running a political campaign I'd put potatoes on every menu yeah but Ada all right what and my Nana Nellie do you use it she didn't pronounce a potato for some reason she said but Ada you know that

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 is gone he's drink like he's gone he's not with us anymore he's not making sense it's like but data and he's just tired and he's gonna he's gonna reel in the traffic again in this because we're taking advantage of an old man and a he's gonna reel into traffic at the end of this because we're taking advantage of an old man and a

He's a writer Dan Thank You Billy You're feeling this Chris right though 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 him. I was right there with them up until the bodada And 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 and you never know when I come and go. Yes. She was the one I've also mentioned she cooked in 100-year-old oil. She never threw out oil. Might've been lard, lard was big back then. But she never, you know- Goose fat, that's what my great aunt cooked with. There you go.

Yeah, but you can strain that, you can cook a 100-year-old oil. I never do that. Like, oil costs more than the turkey, right? So I deep fry a turkey, I 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 things. You got a fat bird brewing down there.

I disagree with that though. Okay and here's why. It cleans the gullet of the toilet. 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 Lebatard show, does hot oil clean the gullet of the toilet? No, it's cold by then. Yeah, to do a lot of law right yeah this used cooking oil right clean does hot used not hot clean the gullet of the toilet Earl does what sure what happened in Nellie's oil when she died yeah I don't know that she died around the time I was barely remember to be honest because she died? Yeah. I don't know. 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 the beetles? He was distracted. She died of diabetes but back then they all called it

sugar diabetes. Yeah, well my Grammy called it the sugars. Oh okay. Yeah. There you go. Mine called it 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, a lot going on in the world. A lot of ganky. Yeah. 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 on, like. 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 before after you've gotten into the accident before after you've locked yourself in the gas before both But I'm gonna tell you this and I tried to explain this to her

I had to be very very careful Anybody in 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. A pie chart.

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, where's your, are you sure you got the briefcase? Did you check that? I'm gonna look back. And she didn't do that. So yes, it's my fault, but you know, a little slice of the pie. What's it reading, the pie chart, Greg? What's it reading? 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, I couldn't quite see it. Yeah, lift it up, lift it up. Yeah. 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 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 I'm gonna 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 truck. We don't need the recipe. He's asking other examples of you doing this. You know. Can we do a recipe of the day? So what I do is, is I let it marinate. It's like, they didn't ask you that. By harvesting the meat, you gotta cut off the fat. You know can we do a recipe? Marinade

By harvesting the meat you got to cut off the fat yeah, and then that's tough. You know it's a combination of knife work kitchen shears Other examples when I came back from Barcelona. Oh, but I don't know. 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 delicacy. The Olympics? Early 90s.

I thought he was going to say paella. Wait a minute. 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. When in Rome?

That's right. In Barcelona. I had a Hawaiian pizza. So I had a Hawaiian. 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 not Barcelona. I don't understand if I eat it in Spain. It's a Spanish dish. That's right 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 and I You just got a piece of pizza. I don't understand. Okay, not the answer I was expecting 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. 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 is is so annoying You were over eight days one wall Hundred Not even 1% now I hit a bunch of bushes though They have a wall of bushes until yeah, and you're driving and you hear the car go They have a wall of bushes. And so yeah, and you're driving and you hear the car go

thwap, thwap, thwap, thwap, thwap. 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. There's your problem. You rented a SUV to drive in a country. My wife and trip organizer does that for me. Well, pie chart, 80-20. That's even higher than 80-20. She did rent that. There you go.

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That's, you know, as my casket is being lowered. Jesus. You know, I'll have been cremated a week before but we, 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 public display yeah naturally Stu gots what do you do with the ashes you're going on 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 down Libertar show with a Stu gots on the pie chart of blame I will for for those of you do not listen all the uh... all the time I will remind you that Greg Cody an adult human being has blamed his wife for not telling him it was cold outside when he wandered out into the

cold and could 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 of a 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 us that's why they come to our room there was some uh... you know aberration in the lock that prevented me from unlocking my own deadbolt.

I'm unscrewing it, doing the work of the maintenance crew. I'm unscrewing my own deadlock. You got it. Whatever it's called. Deadlock. Yes, he's falling apart, as I said. He's having 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. Noche, 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 gonna have such a hard time and your mom is gonna 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 uh... this is a selling a brain i'll drive everybody in these two rooms really okay what should be in my i'm i'm not a lot of daily driver

okay i'm a daily driver 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 part but he was driving at reverse speed limit too exactly he didn't get a ticket in Greg's offense he didn't get a ticket

right greg lehmann and i actually have we have a system when we're in a place where that 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 in yeah and another thing was everything in kilometers over there of course so all of a sudden you're going a hundred 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 the thing is but Fabulous trip despite all the harrowing. How was the food? I would love to go off you next time 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 but a dozen Shepherd's pie there were a couple of topped beef and Guinness's with the with the topping

Why would you feel the need to remember the land you came from with your culinary 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 it. He's like, this is better than what I had. Listen, your wife, who's hard to please. Whoa.

A little shy with her compliments. Whoa. What did Christy say about my- She said it was 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 Like there's there are times we leave and she's like not his best work. I know really 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 because it tastes so good. She's never tried Greg's shrimp. That's right. I thought the food in Ireland was great. Where were you eating? I did. It was phenomenal. I had the worst steak I've ever had at the Castle Hotel Restaurant. You don't eat at the hotel restaurant That's just well, not even if it's a castle

It was a beautiful 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 inside at 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 want to be the ugly American. I ate it Now later at the Shelbourne one of the great hotels Does anyone else hear that car alarm as our continued as our functions around here continue to fail on the doing of this show hit the car alarm button that's why only half of you hear it I am not I've

been hearing a car alarm for two and a half hours for two and a half straight talking for a second so I'm here terrible for the podcast no I mean we hear it the audience might continue your. Greg, do you hear it? Continue your story, Greg. I'm sorry, nevermind. No, no, no. That reminds me of the latest Greg Cody Show podcast episode where Christopher, 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 to hold True so back to the shell born the shell born is one of the great hotels in Dublin ah, and in fact we I

Forget how was my might have been mentioned on the podcast and I get a Text from Dave Barry saying yeah, we stayed there beautiful hotel. They They served me one of the great fillets 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 menus all sort of read the same, unless you're at a upscale restaurant and then they're they they know how to do it. You never got that often.

I didn't hear the phone go off. That's a fine because of the sound your phone just made. That's not my phone. Yeah it is your phone. Oh yeah you're right. You owe five dollars. Before we end the segment, Jessica I meant to ask you something that I'd forgotten to ask you about because Lucy last 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 and 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 week. It's worth more, Dan. It's $10, what is this worth now? Is it worth $5? Is 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 shops and sitting in front of them, and Lucy was unable to move her in any way? Yeah, 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 pup cup and for some reason she knows that the ice cream places have pop cups she's never been to this ice cream place before but she dragged Lucy there every day and it I feel very bad she didn't respect Lucy it she could spot that Lucy was a pushover she doesn't respect me either for what it's worth she's not true constantly hump my leg when we're 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 gonna 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 wants to behave. The dog behaves so well with Leemon. The dog loves Leemon. Anything Leemon 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 when the head cocks like that.

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It's the classic first ballad hall of famer, the musical fart, okay? Where it can be a creaking door, it can be an orchestra tuning up before a concert and the bassoon is a little bit off key and it comes out 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 circumstances, we have slapped together a show, a show that talks 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 throwing up

but data over here but it up and he's he's he's a bit of a shrubs over there to find a meeting ten-year-old he's but he doesn't 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 stops 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 note 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 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's him not knowing he's on audio. He just thinks he's on only on video He's the worst it is 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 Newspaper ring to radio and they do to radio and the original incarnation of the podcast

was an audio only. And so now the video element, you know, 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 the same way.

Very, very bright. Unnecessarily bright. All right, let's turn off all the lights guys if you can. They're kind of necessary though. Do you think you'd be better? Make them comfortable. Okay, let's turn it off. Let's see if it gets any better here.

Just let's see how this goes. Ooh, all right. Baby! That's what I'm talking about. All right, let my boy's what I'm talking about. Alright, let my boy cook. Go ahead, Dad. No, I mean, this is the way it should be. Yeah. Okay, I feel like I'm

walking into 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 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 Can you see my wrath in the silhouette

You look thin can you see how much rage is in my face in the silhouette? That is thinning. 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. The laptop, oh yeah. Why don't you close that up a little bit?

Hang on, hang on just a second. Yeah, hold on. There you go. But now you gotta move in front of the screen so you can see your profile. Yeah, or maybe switch camera shots, Yeah, from the side or something. Hold on a second. Yeah, I got this. Oh, wait.

There you go. Okay. There it is. Oh, Hitchcockian. Ha ha ha. Now that's television. Or YouTube, whatever the hell we're on. Ha ha ha.

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 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 got to 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 text every day you know that kind of thing but i don't answer all of them you know the work related text they know better than the text me

uh... you know he'll he'll go uh... from mango calls me text me you know about the the deadline on the back of my days in every so we get back to him but uh... 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 looking for dimly lit places like this which is another reason it's beautiful remind me of vacation he

turned the light towards Dan a little so I can get a read on him because I'm terrified 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 make they sent him to like 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 how much they charge you for that it's you know it's a fair amount of 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! This is unhygienic. And Charlie does that. And the woman who's hosting them always texts us photos of Charlie at play and everything. It's so funny, because my mom is always like,

she loves Charlie so much, and I'm like, Mom, she tells everybody that she loves their dog. No. You're paying her. 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 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. She really is, that's why you can't stay angry at her. Him, whatever. Charlie is a name that can work both ways. Yeah, but Dan, just say something. There used to be a perfume called Charlie. I think so

Let me look yeah, I think there was brought summer aimed at women If I remember correctly is Dan awake I had a dog named Charlie once did you yeah, I heard me. I heard that that is the most Popular dogs name and it's really yeah, it shocked me. Huh. I don't, almost don't believe. 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 gonna say that! Let's go together.

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