The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Point A to Point B(illy)

Episode Date: February 13, 2025

It's time for a Wild Billy Thursday. With Billy in the EP seat and Greg Cote by our side, the show is off to a roaring start with talk of meteors, Christmas gifts, and Billy's work as Dan's fear coach. Then, do you recognize your own anxiety as it's happening? Plus, Greg takes down the Giant Schnauzer that won the Westminster Dog Show, Dan exposes Greg's phone password, and the show continues to discredit Fangs. Today's cast: Dan, Stugotz, Greg, Billy, Jeremy, Jessica, and Tony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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What I'm worried about, Stugat, is that it's not just a wild Billy Thursday, which is dangerous and doesn't have a lot of precedent, but because you heard it was a wild Billy Thursday, you came in here when you were still on your elbows and knees walking around from what the Super Bowl did to you. You've come in here to be a part of a Wild Billy Thursday and furthermore Greg Cody is rushing as fast as he can to get here so we're gonna get the added benefit of

Greg Cody on a Wild Billy Thursday walking in mid-segment, walking in breathless not knowing that we're on the air, confused. My favorite kind of Greg Cody though I mean. Billy what are we in for on Wild. Just a regular day. No. I'm here to get us point A to point B. Listen I'm in this chair I have different responsibilities when I'm asked to be in this chair yep I'm here to be responsible I'm here to get us start a segment end a segment get the ads in do the Thursday Thunder tell you about Smirnoff, tell you about DraftKings, check the boxes, point A to point B. Today on Point A to Point Billy.

That's exactly what we're doing here today. Train station that goes point A to point B. That's right. Jessica, can you help me understand inner office, inner shipping container back row dynamics? Billy moving from the back row and his seat of normal grenade rolling and being replaced by Tony, who he sabotaged yesterday

in a prank in his return from paternity leave. Tony being over Billy's shoulder when Billy's just trying to get us from point A and to point B and can retaliate on Billy because their relationship is not a supportive one back row Tony How does it change today that Billy's in the front seat? I'm supporting Billy. He's my EP. He's the captain of the ship today He's the one that's driving from point a to point B again talking about smirnoff You guys talking about DraftKings talking about all the sponsor great sponsors that that you know promote on this show

That's what we do my captain is here We're locked in and we're excited to do the show today Dan Even though I talked to Robert and I was like, hey look what happened here back here? So Billy you weren't here yesterday Yeah, as you don't know the screw as you can see like right here this screw right here in the in the microphone Oh, he knows Tony. Right. I'm just saying like he doesn't know so I'm gonna explain how could I exactly? So all of a sudden I went to start the show I grabbed the mic to pull it towards me because it was a little far away and because he's awfully handsy with the mic

All the time, okay Some would say that and then all the sudden the whole thing falls apart Oh and it exploded and I had to hold it in my hand and then Robert had to come in We had to tape it we had to do a bunch of stuff So, you know, did they bill you for that or didn Didn't bill me, no, I billed the company. Oh. You billed the company for that? Yeah, no, Robert, I, Robert paid me.

What did you get paid for? Jessica, how's this gonna go with Billy having to look over his shoulder when he's gotta get us? How's what gonna go? Point A to point B. I don't know what you mean. Okay, thank you. Point B.

Ha ha ha. This is the Dan Leventor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Look who's arriving heroically on a Billy, a wild Billy Thursday. Greg Cody is arriving in the middle of our show. He's going to get ready quickly. That will not be noisy at all. He will do so efficiently. A surgical strike like a Navy SEAL team. He will be a 70-year-old that gets into position and ready to broadcast like the professional

that he is. How was traffic this morning, Greg? It wasn't the traffic. What happened is I had to swerve off the road to avoid a hurtling meteor that was crashing to the earth. Huh. Plus traffic was bad. Right.

Okay, he's coming in flying with jokes and noises. He's going to unzip what I'm assuming is a travel bag he got at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Wrong. This happens to be a Christmas gift from an unmentioned son of mine who decided I needed a new one. Wow. It's a little bit small, but it's new. What Christmas? This year? Yeah. Michael?

The other one. Really? Yeah. Wow, Christopher. I think it was Christopher. I don't know. I mix them up. Christopher is out today He and Mike Ryan have decided to go celebrate hockey in Canada and Valentine's Day together. They just decided not show up for work I'm not going to reveal any sources, but in the eating area before the show I did overhear some people say some shrug and and say I don't know

Can they just show up for work whenever they want to and I had no idea who they were talking about It could have been anybody around here. Yeah it was those two. It wasn't those two which is the funny thing. You're talking about someone else. When I walked by and I heard you say it I'm like it could be anybody. I don't know who they're saying that about that they're complaining and they're grousing in the corner that they had to come into work today and somebody else didn't have to come into work and just chose not to come into work today.

Well you're running a loose ship. Can I say that? Yeah. You know, I, on Tuesday, I walk into a room here in the studio, somebody's getting the massage. Yep. The hell's going on? Yeah, that did happen. And like in a somewhat state of undress and the door was locked and we were like, well, we have to go in here, we were sent to the penalty box and then they like opened the door and they're like, oh we're going to go massage and we're like, oh, it's the middle of the show.

Got weird, right? It did, yeah. Then we had to get out of there because you had sent all three of us to the penalty box at the same time, we had to figure out a new place to go, I don't know what's going on here. If I was there, point A to point B.

That day we year it off. Well, let me ask the group this before I get into today's subject matter because when greg cody says this it would appear to be self-evident the sentence you run a loose ship it yeah there are a lot of working environments in america that look like this on television like yes we run a very loose ship but i thought that's that that's what employees would want i'm wrong right

i'm wrong that the running of the loose ship makes it so you get those conversations in the corner of the eating area where people are noticing that somebody else has a day off and isn't working as hard as they are or whatever it is that those things so i thought i would have thought that i would think that most people listening to this would like to work uh... in an environment that is a loose ship I'm wrong. Well, the reality is no one wants to work, right?

So like that's that's if we're gonna cut to take a loose ship I guess no one actually if you gave everyone their you know prime working conditions, it would be I don't want to work Is that true? Do you think that that's yes, that's I don't think that's true. Most people don't want to work Okay But there are a lot of people that love their jobs and do want to do them like I'm not making that up I would say you've heard me say this before I think the unhappiness Epidemic that you will find everywhere in the world is at least triggered in part by the fact that a lot of people are doing For more than 40 hours a week something they deeply resent having to do like I understand

Why people would be really sad with their lives when so much of it is spent something they deeply resent having to do. Like I understand why people would be really sad with their lives when so much of it is spent something they hate doing, but this ain't that or it's not supposed to be. Maybe there's just a lot of baggage that comes with this loose ship. Speaking of baggage, Greg, is that a Toomey briefcase? I have no idea. That would be a good one.

Wait a minute, that's an expensive gift from your son. Is that a, it looks like a Toomey, but I don't think it is. It is a Toomey. Wow. T-U-M-I. It's a nice gift. Wow.

Is it really? Yeah. That's a good one. That's like a $600 briefcase. Oh, it is, it can't be. Probably a regift, if we're gonna be honest. It was a regift. Why can't it be?

What do you mean it wasn't, what do you know? I just have the feeling it was a regift from Christopher. Really? Yes, yes. Someone I just have the feeling it was a re-gift from Christopher. Really? Yes, yes. Someone heard Christopher got the EP situation and said, you know what, this is an important man of business. He needs a bag that goes along with it. I wouldn't be surprised, honestly, if Erlene didn't give that to Christopher.

He forgot and then Christopher gave it to you. And no one wants to say what happened because we're all embarrassed. I wouldn't be surprised if Greg Cody on Christmas is such a narcissist that the way he gives Christmas gifts is with little stickers That say to me and that they can write it comes right back to him because he's all about himself on these things and I gotta tell you Stu gots. I I stand wildly corrected here. I accused that of being his 1992 Barcelona Olympics I accused that of being his 1992 Barcelona Olympics gift bag was that 92 drive the year wrong 90 Yeah, I think was 92 Barcelona. He still has that bag that he has it and brings it in often and it's battered and it shows My guess is put it on the pole, please do you at Levitard show?

Do you have any bags that are 30 years old? Yes or no any bags? That is your phone that is a $5 Venmo fine for Greg Cody, keep the phone on for a second and pay that fine, we're done with the not paying a fine. I'd like to challenge that fine though, I mean he's coming in, he's rushed, he's out of breath. No, no, no, no, what do you mean you'd like to do? Extra day.

A traffic, a meteor, I mean. Well, let's talk about the meteor for a second because Greg Cody made that as a joke, and I'm not sure he's aware, and Stugatz has been railing about this for a while, and I tell you, America, pay attention to this man. He was way out in front on Elon Musk, like ahead of the world on this,

and something else he's been ahead of the world on is. The Chiefs. Why, also the Chiefs, yes. Why don't we pay more attention when there's the risk of a meteor or an asteroid hitting the earth? Now hold on, Tony, before you wave your hand at me, last week, for reasons that I'm having It was reported by NASA that in 2032 there is a 1.6% chance of an asteroid between 100 and 300 feet, so as large as a football field, hitting the earth and then the next day it became 1.9% chance. And then it elevated a couple of days later to 2.3% chance.

Jesus. And so I'm just curious, what are you, Tony, why are you so? Don't worry about that, Dan, OK? You worry about a lot of things. One thing you do not have to worry about is an asteroid hitting the world. OK, you don't have to worry about that. When we talk about asteroids and we talk about space,

OK, they're like, oh, there was a near miss of an asteroid It was 998 million miles away. It just missed us. We can't believe it So it's like oh, there's a 2% chance that a football field size asteroids gonna hit us But it's gonna miss us by 40 million miles. Yeah, I like those odds me too Greg 2% Yeah, I'll take those odds and the other thing is this but the odds are climbing Thank you 1.6 to 2.1.'ll take those odds. And the other thing is this. But the odds are climbing. Ah! Thank you. You know, 1.6 to 2.1. I like those odds.

Yeah, but also, what are you Stugats or Dan LeBattard going to do about it, other than panic for 10 years about it? That's it. Are you gonna build a rocket ship and go out there and deflect? You guys can literally do nothing about this whatsoever, so why even stress it?

If we're gonna send a Ben Affleck out there and they're gonna blow it up and save humanity, that's for someone else to figure out how to do. That's not for you to figure out, that's not for Dan to figure out. 2%, don't think about it. Yeah, I'm more worried about a nuclear missile from North Korea, to be honest with you.

And here's why. An asteroid the size of a football field is relatively small, right? And the US military has the wherewithal to shoot that down when it is hundreds of miles away and what you get instead of an asteroid hitting the earth you get a million different little pieces of charcoal and a couple of them might land in your backyard, you know. Also know in the barbecue yeah and it would be charcoal like a real expert on how this goes yeah no no I'm aware I'm aware you're what do you what does that mean can you what do you mean you're aware what do you wear you think

the the the military does not have the wherewithal to shoot down i'm not so i'm not certain i mean that's my concern does anyone have a plan they just talk about the asteroid coming near earth by two thousand what are we gonna do about it and i don't know if it was like okay let's just settle down for just a second because i thought when uh... you know some of our nation's foremost scientists, right, I'm not quoting the weekly world news here, it's NASA.

Like, maybe we don't know a lot about space, but I trust that those people know more about that stuff than we know. Okay, maybe not, maybe Billy has more expertise. Well, we haven't been to the moon in about 70 years, so it kind of like stops progress there. That's weird, by the way. Exactly right.

Figure it out. What do they know they know something? They've known something for a long something spooked them very clearly said you know what? Too close to the Sun literally while they were moving the opposite direction But if the result of my fear and Stu gots his fear and Greg Cody's fear is that Billy Gill of all people Steps forward and says let me be your fear coach. Foch. And tells us there's nothing to worry about as I would

say our I'm not gonna say our industry's chief warrior but in this environment you're not. No you are Dan you've surpassed me. Okay. Okay. So you and me are the chief warriors and I'm over here talking about the asteroid with my friends and you're over here auditioning to be promoted for fear coach. Like that you, that you're going to say that because you can't control something you shouldn't worry about it. Yes, there's enlightenment on the other side of that. That is absolute, that's the serenity prayer. Well, in death, probably, if it hits us, we're screwed, right?

It doesn't matter if we hit us. I can't actually do anything to stop it from hitting us. And also, by the way, and I don't like, listen, I'm not going to pretend to be a military expert, but like, North Korea isn't where we ourselves need to worry about the missiles coming from, right? Like, they don't have a long range missile enough that's gonna hit Miami. Yeah, but they got a crazy man running the country. Yeah, yeah, but it'll hit somewhere else in the country, which like, not good, but also not us. Cuba's what we got a Cuban eye on, you know what I mean? There was a missile crisis not too long ago.

Was that you, or was that somebody under the breath? Just saying, got some of these ships going around the Gulf of America. Don't worry guys, MIT said not to worry about it until 2028 and that's when they'll have a better sense for the actual situation. So we've got time. So we're early. I'm gonna worry right up until someone tells me

it's gone away. Don't worry until 2028. What a crazy time. Then you can worry. Or not worry. They might tell, they literally said not to worry. Yeah, there you go. Yet.

Go ahead and put it in your calendars. Let's see if we get an alert on our phones that 2028. That's good, that's good to know. So we don't have to worry now. We can wait till 2028. When's it supposed to hit? 32. By 32.

December 22nd. Four years of worrying after that. 2032 I believe. Wake me up at 2031. Billy, I don't know who this new you is. What am I supposed to do, like honestly, about this media meteor like if I see it in the sky

I'm like, oh, that's not good and I'll panic then but like I will die of a heart attack Overthinking it and panicking before I die of it hitting us, right? I'm with Dan though this calm collected cool Yeah, it's Billy chill They said it's not a dinosaur killing asteroid, which was 10 kilometers in diameter, but it can do some serious damage. In the unlikely event the asteroid is on a path to hit Earth, they said scientists will be able to predict when and where it will hit,

allowing people to be evacuated, or even possibly deflecting the asteroid's orbit. Well, there you go. Nothing to worry about. Nothing to see here. Well, you articulating a lack of worry, I would like, Point A to point B. Would like our show to produce Billy,

I've enjoyed how you do the reads, you add some personality to the race. I can shill it like no one else. Where it's distinctly you and so it's funny in there and I want to see if we can get you to be somebody who soothes people about whatever their anxieties there are because it is a life truth and life wisdom that you just pointed out that yes you will not be plagued by worry or anxiety your life will be happier if you do not worry about the things that you

cannot control but you hear athletes a little reason all the time well controllable but you say within reason but when i was saying the serenity prayer like it's all about being able to have the clarity to figure out what's the stuff i can control and what's the stuff that i can't control but when it comes to anxiety and i ask this question sincerely because when you say that i've become our chief worrier, this is my first conscious experience with anxiety. Whenever talking about anxiety before in my life, it was something that I was separating myself from. I was being

empathetic about it. It was over there. This is what I imagine this feels like to blah, blah, blah. In my case, I'm not good at recognizing my anxieties and so if I'm not good at recognizing my anxieties then I'm not good at it then figuring out what can I control what can't I control. How anxious do you guys view yourselves as? Do you have do you all have good self-awareness about how anxious you are? Because worry can be solved,orry can be solved if whatever, if you have the conscious presence to know that you're wasting your time worrying. But I don't think it stops any of us from worrying. I think it creates a great deal

of unhappiness. The fact that you're always worried about something. Yeah, most people worry too much. Anxiety is a real problem. But in this case, I reiterate, now there are asteroids out there flying around that are the size of small planets. If a small planet is hitting the Earth, I worry about that. A hundred-yard long asteroid is small. It's a small thing. Going at a great speed. Going at a great speed. Well, this is speed. Yes. Well, you know, this is the modern age though, okay? If an asteroid was coming at us back in the Old West, we'd have to try to lasso it with

a rope. That's true. It wouldn't work. Now the technology says, you shoot it down. Right? I mean. You should try the lasso again though. That would be cool.

It would. To answer your question, Dan, therapy is very helpful to me in not just giving me coping tools for my anxiety, but also when I do think something in my head like what if an asteroid hits Earth in eight years, I can then picture my conversation with my therapist and how hard she'd laugh at me for having that thought and then the thought just sort of passes through and I never think about it again. Why is it that all of us do what Greg Cody does which is whatever future problem we have often the future that can't be totally seen we'll shoot it down with lasers.

We'll fix it with whatever our future lasers are. Sure. Our government will do it. Right send a platoon of drones. Right. Our military there's a... Ah the drones will take care do it. Right, send a platoon of drones. Right. Our military, there's a- Ah, the drones will take care of it. Yeah, of course. Got a lot better at just addressing that stuff head on. Therapy's really helped with that. Yeah, although there was- You know, you just do it right away.

There was one session I had in 2020 where I was telling a different therapist that I have since not continued to see, like, hey, have you heard about this COVID thing in China? And he laughed at me and was like, you don't need to worry about that. And then three weeks later, we were in lockdown for the next year and a half. Wow. Well there you go you

worry about it when it comes. Yeah. Good therapist. These aren't Greg's problems though that's why he's not so worried about the asteroid in eight years I mean. I mean I may or may not be around. Well that's the thing. I told you when I got my new dog I'm like will will my dog outlive me. Jumping Charlie? Yeah it was the first time I'd ever had that thought. Jumping Charlie turns three, it was the first time I'd ever had that thought. Jumping Charlie turns three next month, and we're going to have a big party. I think all of you are invited. It's going to be a big ass party for Charlie.

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kind of thing. And you know, it's, and then just giving us finger guns and leave it. Baby. That kind of thing and you know it and then just giving us finger guns and leave it baby You should listen to the great Cody show podcast because that's all we do for 55 minutes a week is just say catch phrases We even make songs about them, but and you know, it is a song for crying out loud. That's great Hopefully that's a suey nominee for best song and you know it baby and you know it still got money for best song. And you know it, baby, and you know it. Stugats.

And you know it, baby, and you know it. And you know it, baby, and you know it. And you know it, baby, and you know it. This is the Don LeBathard Show with the Stugats. Greg Cody is a big dog guy. I am surprised that Jumpin Charlie is another dog that he has brought into his life to care for. He has fallen in love with that dog.

The dog is annoying. The dog will not behave. But he's a dog lover. And Monty the Schnauzer. The Schnauzer is the most magical of the dogs. But Monty the Schnauzer has won. It's the champion Schnauzer. He is the best of all of the dog. But Monty the Schnauzer has now been, has won the champion, it's the champion Schnauzer, he's the best of all of the dogs? He won best of show at the Westminster Kennel Club show, which is the Super Bowl of dog shows. I know there's a lot of derivatives

now, a lot of competition, others, you know, national dog shows. The Westminster is the Cadillac, the king of dog shows, and this dog, I'd never heard of a giant schnauzer. I don't like dogs with giant in the name because like a standard poodle is a little tiny poodle that's like the size of a horse. My Nana and Pop Doogie had a giant poodle, and it was just freaky. Every time you went over there, it's like a poodle and it was just freaky every time you went over there it's like a poodle on steroids it's a poodle the size of a pony but congratulations to the giant schnauzer handsome dog bit pretentious looking

though if we're gonna be honest the schnauzer yes now a small schnauzers fine when it gets like you're saying big like that a bit much I agree with you is it the goatee he's got like a little goatee hanging down I think it that's what it is. It's the hair combed to the side at the top. There's just a lot of it where you can sense like judgment coming from that dog. When you say bit pretentious, isn't that what we're going for on the high end of what that show is? I thought when you're calling it Westminster, if you call anything Westminster, cheese whatever, it's on the fancy end. Westminster whatever is making something better.

Cheese? Cheese? Whatever. Yes, if I had some Westminster brand cheese. Sounds good. Okay, wait a minute. If we're doing word association, okay, Westminster is a word that I almost only associate with this dog show, and therefore it's highfalutin.

It is, to treat your animals this way is a study in excess. And I thought the whole point was to be pretentious. It's essentially equestrian for dogs. Yep. When I think of Westminster, I think of Alex Rodriguez too. Yeah, there you go. Westminster Christian. I think of Westminster Abbey.

Back in 2022, a bloodhound won, there was a Pekingese in 2021, a fox terrier in 2019, German Shepherd in 2017. There's all sorts of there's a beagle in 2015 Dan. All sorts of different dogs. But they're all pure breds. Well yeah of course. They're not gonna let Willow win the Westminster Dog Show. A mutt's never winning. No never. Well never well This is America and like there's all sorts of ethical concerns with breeding purebred animals and health effects Is it is it true? What is the highest ranking mutt? There's ever been like what is the success story of the Westminster dog show? I don't believe that as an official classification On this show yes, you mentioned that but there's another dog on the show now that is not close this guy I don't know is is that a guy?

Is that a boy? No, it's Sasha. Still Sasha. Who's this dog? My friend. Which just came out of nowhere. We're in the commissary, we're in the in area. All of a sudden, I look down, there's a little dog.

I'm like, we usually have the big dog. The big dog's not here, the little dog's here. Now, who's this little dog? Joe Rose. They'll both be here tomorrow. I'm looking up a list of famous mutts on petplace.com. There's a whole list here. Spike from Old Yeller was a mutt. The question I guess I'm asking you is what is the greatest underdog story in the history of the Westminster Dog Show? A not pure bred who

climbs to the highest of rankings and competes and makes the crowd gas because he or she was dirty and somehow made it to the top of the food chain. I don't think that's ever happened. Apparently a mixed breed dog last year in 2024 won the agility competition at the Westminster Kennel Club. I don't like any of that story. Win the whole thing. I just I don't like the way those words came together. Well, what I know about that dog show is that the agility thing is the single most impressive thing in the dog show. That if we're classifying these animals for being beautiful,

the thing that they do on the agility drills suggests a discipline that makes me very frustrated with my own dog. And I can't imagine how it is that Greg Cody experiences Jumpin' Charlie, because Jumpin' Charlie is a bad boy. No. Yes, yes, Jump, yes. It's a good dog.

Yeah, good dog. Yeah, J.C. He's a good dog. Yeah, J.C. Yeah. Greg. Dogs wanna be dumb, Dan. I don't know if you know that.

If you have a good boy, a good girl, they're dumb. The smart dogs, they're not living happy lives. Jumpin' Charlie is not a good boy. It's jumpin'. Jumpin'. There's no G. Aposting Charlie is not a good boy. It's jumping. There's no Jesus. That's a fine. Did you pay your fine? I'm about to.

You don't need to reach into your pocket. As I recall, my fine is under dispute, raised by my attorney, Stu Gotz. Thank you. Who says that because of the hurly-burly nature of my arrival. He's not in charge. He's not qualified. Him leveling an appeal or a challenge means nothing. Yeah, speak to my attorney. I think I'm in charge today, right? Why did you take Greg's phone to pay your

fine? Greg is then paying your fine. I'm gonna pay both of them. I'm gonna pay his fine and my fine. You're gonna pay it? Wow, thank you Dan. Look how easy Venmo makes this. Hello Dan Money. I am not gonna do it. Put it on my tab. Nope, I'm not gonna pay for yours on your Venmo makes this. I'll owe Dan money. Oh, real? I am not gonna do it. Put it on my tab. Nope, I'm not gonna, I'm gonna pay for yours on your Venmo, which I was told, Chris told me that your wife actually now has installed it. You don't know how to get to my phone. Yeah, well he's holding it right now.

He grabbed it from you. Right, but you need his code. I don't know if you saw that. Good luck guessing my code. Really? You think it's gonna be that hard? You think it's gonna be really tough, do ya? See if you're right.

Is that what it is? Of course! It's every, it can't be that obvious. The way to reveal all my private information. Yes, yeah, I mean, I think it could damn. He stopped himself, Dan stopped himself short on that. I think. Get that out.

That's right. For those of you who do not know that reference, I will tell you that story because it's one of the favorites I've ever told around here about Greg Cody. There was a very acerbic, very acerbic Minnesota Tribune columnist named Tom Powers, who was bitter from 30 years of Minnesota cold. And Greg Cody, in a really heartfelt moment, and I'm pretty sure that Greg Cody shut down emotionally after this in almost every way so that he becomes the man

that you see before you today, but Greg Cody very emotionally was telling me and Tom Powers at a table about how he wanted to write a book, the book 1440, of his family, of his life, of the nostalgia, the romance, the mysticisms and the mysteries. And Tom Powers looks up at him and the only thing Tom Powers says to an emotional Greg Cody is, that sounds duller than dog shit. How does he know? Powers was drunk at the time.

Probably. Tom Powers is a great name for a fullback. Yeah it is. I have to admit, I give him credit for that. Put it on the poll please. Or a porn star. Juju at Levitard Show. Better occupation for someone named Tom Powers. Fullback or porn star uh... at levitard show greg cody left here the other day

and i i i work have remorse that i didn't get to this during tuesday show because greg cody who just belch is content wherever it is that he goes left on the table after tuesday show the following he says i think

tiger woods should be allowed to play golf the rest of the way using a golf cart. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Stu Gotz and I are simpatico on that. Yes. First of all, everybody should be allowed to use a golf cart. It's ridiculous in 2025 that you have a bunch of golfers trailed by their manservant carrying their heavy bag walking a 4,000 yard course, slowing the game down. It's ridiculous. Drive a cart like the rest of us. It would make pro golf more relatable to people and but if they're not gonna make it universal, you make an exception for Tiger Woods.

You do. And I think the PGA Tour, the other players on tour would be okay with this because you want Tiger in the tournaments. Tiger would never do it. He would never, ever take a golf court. But I think if Tiger wants to be involved in these majors, wants to have a chance in these majors

for the next two or three years He needs to do it in a golf court the problem for tiger is he cannot walk the course anymore He just can't get around the course who was that it's his phone. No, but that's you They're doing that code worked the code worked. I I was joking. Yeah, it's the last four digits of his social security number Of course it worked. I was changing that code of his social security number, of course it worked. I was joking. I'll be changing that code. You don't know how. I can't believe what you've done to this man.

You're gonna have to change every password he has. But what I've done to him. It's identity theft, I think. It is. Thank you, Billy. Anyone who knows the inner jokes of this show would absolutely know, I didn't know the code. It would never occur to me.

I cracked the code by cracking the code. Greg Code. Mm-hmm, that's what they called me. I cracked the code by cracking the code. Greg code. Mm-hmm. That's what they called him. I found your Toomey bag online, Greg, if you want to know how much it's worth. Yeah, I'd love to know. If it's the model that I found

which is known as the Alpha. Ooh. Your Alpha retails here on Toomey.com at $575. That can't be true. Yeah. Why not? It's a bag. Let me see, past to got the Alpha. Chris got. Why not? It's a bag. Let me see.

Past to Gotts the Alpha. It's a designer bag. Are you judging your son? Let's see the Alpha. I mean, you probably TJ Maxxed it. You don't think Chris does more for himself, Greg? 172 or something. Exactly right.

Probably a little less. You got to sell a lot. On sale, $50 probably. Maybe. Yeah, he had Yeti find it. Let's see that. Hold on. That may not be the Alpha after all.

Hold on a second. That looks like a beta. What? Not That may not be the Alpha after all. Hold on a second. That looks like a Beta. Not the Alpha. Let me see. Hold that up. Hold that up. No, that's not the Alpha. I'll keep looking. I'm on it. Alpha's got three sections, I think. That one's only got one. It's probably used. Possibly.

You have not downloaded Venmo. You have not downloaded the app. Arlene did. No, nobody did. Someone did. You have not downloaded the app. Arlene did. No, nobody did. Someone did. Wait a root through my phone. Yeah, this is an invasion of privacy or something. The nerve of this man. Alright, I have an idea. Dan, you Venmo Greg's fine and then he'll Venmo you to cover for the fine that you Venmoed for him.

No, not gonna do it that way. I appreciate you just trying to get us from A to B that way. I'm just trying to make sure we get these fines paid, keep things moving. Tell you guys this episode of the Dan Levitard show with Stu Gotz is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Just kind of getting point A to point B, you know what I mean?

Okay, now I have the problem of it asking me to enter the password to his Apple account. Ha ha! And it's gonna send something to his email that has upset bird in it. I would do maybe jumping Charlie 1440 maybe add a symbol at the end. All right this is gonna be harder than I thought. Yeah. Okay look at this guy plumbing through my personal matters on the phone while the other

guys looking through my documents in my travel bag or whatever you call them at. What do you call something like that, a satchel? I think you just gotta call it a toomey. Once you have a toomey, you just say my toomey. Yeah? Yeah. My homey. Here are the only documents I found. Yeah.

Look at this, amazing. Ooh, what are those? The only documents in the toomey bag are a bunch of Greg Cody Show stickers. That's great. When in Rome. Greg Cody Show, look at this. When the meteorite hits,

people are gonna be clamoring for those. There it is, ladies and gentlemen. These are very valuable. These are artifacts. What is on the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody? Yeah, by the way, those stickers are for sale in our merch store for the low, low price of a dollar each. Wow.

We have Izzy on, our friend of the show, FOS Izzy Gutierrez. We talk a lot about the Super Bowl which came out was the day before we recorded and you know fun stuff I make a point that that the heat hit a home run with the whole Butler trade I had to be negotiated down to a solo home run a short porch solo home run yeah that's a bloop single home run a bloop single, a home run. A bloop single? Yes, a home run. Wiggins is an under 30 guy who's made an all-star team.

Wait a minute. A better than average defender. Mitchell is a supreme defender, arguably one of the best in the league. And yesterday they scored 8 points. They scored 8 points in the fourth quarter after having another game. The Thunder are really good, Dan. We mentioned it yesterday. Real, real good We mentioned it yesterday. Right. Real, real good. Best team ever.

Yes, the Thunder are real good. And through three quarters, the Heat led by 10. And then the Thunder scored 7,000 straight points. We'll have those three quarters forever, Dan. Just like we had 22 to 13 in that first game, we'll have those three quarters forever. They're a quarter away. And it's an 8-point fourth quarter,

which I didn't think they could do worse than the nine point fourth quarter but give them time give time because that's what that's with hero and bam and what he's calling a home run of a trade yeah a home run greg home run for she said okay here the alternative to that trade is but they don't trade butler

he stays on the team poisons the rest of the season and then leaves in free agency and they get nothing for him zero what they did instead was they get rid of this toxic personality and they get a good player a great defender and a first-round draft pick. They did have more options than that to start the season. Short porch. Oh yeah, I'm not retrofitting it. It was a 3-2 count at this point in time. Yeah, that's right. I see that Nick Wright has popped up here and we will get to him in a moment. I'm interested in a few things about Nick Wright. I'm interested in how he's experienced the last few days

of turbulence and heartbreak, but I'm also genuinely interested in what he thinks when I ask you guys the question, does Travis Kelsey leave that game and say those guys are better than we are? And if we played that game a hundred times, that's how that would play out because Andy Reid and Spags and Mahomes, there's not a thing they would figure out for all that pass rushers getting there against six guys every time with four guys. And so I actually want to break down, how do you hold the Kansas City Chiefs to 23 yards in the first half? Does that mean that Sirianni knows something that Andy Reid and Spags didn't know? Like that-

Well, I think he has the thing that you're talking about. He has the ability to rush that quarterback with four pass rushers. And that's a great ability to have. Maybe the most important thing in the NFL. Or Fangs. Fangs knows something. Even though we want to continue to discredit Fangs on this show for some reason.

But how can Kelsey walk away thinking anything other than that team is a lot better than ours? I mean. Okay, well, we'll see. Because athletes are really confident, and those guys had to, you know, be really confident to be champions, thinking that they're better than ours. I mean. Well, we'll see because athletes are really confident and those guys had to be really confident to be champions thinking that they're better than everyone. But when you say, Billy, that I keep discrediting.

No, I said we, we. Okay. Royal we. We keep discrediting fangs. When a guy doesn't have to blitz all game and he's getting pressure with four all game, how much does the defensive coordinator have to do? When, like, I'm asking genuinely. Oh'm asking genuinely it's a game plan Dan they chose not to blitz okay

but I mean how many choices is he making like I don't it didn't feel like Philadelphia was being fooled by anything like Philadelphia is not being fooled by anything whatsoever well what are you saying dominated right you're saying fangs had nothing to do with it it's how we roast men and the roster construction which I think is the most important i'm not going to be i'm not going to be what the that's the part that i'm interested in discussing with nick right and we'll see what he has to say about all of this is

is just the idea of a champion of three years very worthy champion of three years that a constipated offense this year and then ever running game could have done any number of things differently but do you think the results would have been a lot different that there would have like whatever things it is you guys are scheming up yes Patrick Mahomes cannot have the two turnovers like sure but those two turnovers are being caused by an unrest that we're not used to seeing from Patrick Mahomes it was caused by something it's not Patrick Mahomes

suddenly forgot how to be a quarterback who's won 17 postseason games. It was caused by fangs. It seems like that you like there's like a button that the defensive coordinator presses that says blitz and that that's all they do during a game is either they hit the button or they don't hit the button. I understand that you're making fun of how simplified that is and I do want to play some sound of Dominique Foxworth talking about how analytics have come to make the sport somehow less interesting to watch but the watch but when you're talking about you get pressure with four it just makes a defensive coordinator job very easy after that right like it

no matter what no matter what buttons he's pressing they're gonna look like they're the right buttons that have been press can you blame kansas city coming off back-to-back super bowls if they think to themselves collectively if we play that team again next week we're going to win okay it's sports it you have aberrations in results if if the teams

played again next week it wouldn't shock me in the least if the Chiefs Beat the Eagles. I know but Greg a lot of teams could say that if the Ravens play the Eagles this week the Ravens would Think they're gonna win. The Bills would think they're gonna win. The Bengals would think they're gonna win. Let's not get they would think it though. Joe Burrow would think it. I mean he would. I think the tough part is obviously the Eagles did a lot of great additions Defensively with drafting a lot of guys Cooper de Jean they had Quinian Mitchell Two incredible guys in their secondary. They were missing the Kobe Dean to who is out Zach bomb was an incredible pickup for them

Their defensive line is great fangs was able to do stuff during the watch line that we had Buffalo versus Kansas City Mina said hey, he didn't do that bad of a job fangs in Miami It was just a lot of injuries a lot of weird stuff He didn't have a lot of relationship with Jalen Ramsey. But we look at the Chiefs side, and I feel bad saying this because Nick Wright is over our shoulder, they were 12-0 in one score games this year. That easily could have been a team that went 5-12. We're looking at a team that if things go the opposite way, this is a laughing stock of a team that doesn't make the playoffs.

That is a good place to enrage Nick Wright. I can't even imagine. You like that, right? In fact, let's go off the air right now. We will prepare. But you just saying to Nick Wright, who came on here. You like that? Nick Wright came on here.

Yes, you're inciting him. You've lit a fuse that you're saying that Nick Wright, who was saying this is about to be a team for all time, best team ever when you win three straight, you're saying that could have been five and 12. Could have been five and 12. All right. Just to be clear, Nick Wright, his face is going to explode next. Look at him. Look at him. He's ready. Hey folks, it's Mike Ryan. It is big game week and I've got just the thing to make your

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