The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Magnifying Glass Club

Episode Date: July 25, 2023

The crew is surprised by the ancient newspaper clipping that Greg Cote brought in. Also, is it human to pulverize and anthill, Greg learns about the Immaculate Grid, and is the HNO no longer funny?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dunlabel Tarshall with the Stugat's Podcast. Guys, the vibes are great right now. I walk in, Greg Cody, furiously typing something in the studio that I don't, what are you doing? What were you doing? We have banter, but today you are just typing really loudly. Was it loud?

He's a pecker. You think someone who's written as long as him? He had the good form. He goes two fingers just all over the place. It's true. Yeah, I typed two fingers, just all over the place. It's true. Yeah, I typed very fast, but not professionally. But Greg, you're usually out and about mingling with people having breakfast,

and I just saw you in here locked in, typing away, like what were you doing? I was doing some Miami-Herald related stuff, honestly. I was doing journalism. My folder for tonight's game, I was putting it on the budget, and et cetera, and so forth, boring stuff. But then, yeah, real work.

But then, the reason the vibes are so great is not simply the fact that we have video working today, YouTube.com slash Levitard and friends. For now, Lucy Rodin is raising the roof with one hand. Yeah, Levitard show. At Levitard show as well, Chris Cody's back too in the back row, lifting the other part of the roof with his other hand. The vibes are great because Greg Cody leans over to me and he shows me a yellowed embodiment of his newspaper life. For years, I've been referencing a headline from my little league career, Cody's slam, Paces, Drugs, where as a, as a youth, I actually, and not a, not a good hitter. I was like sixth in the lineup singles hitter, but I hit a grand slam in this one particular thing.

Without offense. So just kind of like a hard ground ball. Nevertheless, it was in a major big headline. And, and years later, and Christopher always accused me of making it up. And did it? Well, no, you also had a family newspaper. I've always accused you of just having this be a headline in the Cody news. The Cody news, right? And not an actual news. Wait, did the Cody news have departments?

How extensive was the editors and writer, right? Right. I was the reporter, editor, and publisher of the only department was Greg Cody. Yes. Yes. I was 13 years old old and I would write the, we talk about a lot on my podcast, the Greg Cody show. Well done.

If you want to check it out. Oh, I never. And this thing, this is, my whole life, I thought it was Cody's slam, Paces Drugs, but it's Cody's Grand Slam, Paces Drugs. Of course it is. And there you go. It looks older than the declaration of independence.

Yeah, it really does. And just as important, this is a real artifact, proving that newspapers back in the day really overcovered high school youth sports area, little league results. And then yeah, in giant, in giant font, you paste the drugs. Yeah, that's right. And there's actually a box score attached to this, which is incredible. The team name was Adler's drug. Yeah, I'm confused by the drugs. He's a good question. Right. Adler's drugs was a local drug store.

They sponsored the team. Greg Cody played for the team. He batted six. He was a single hitter. He had a grand salami, right? Correct. Dan sums it up. Yeah, that's how I store it.

Yeah. That is correct. Mike, right? Correct. Then sums it up. The highest order. That is correct. Mike, you've never been so impressed with me. I mean, we've talked about it for 15 years. You might as well retain it. But now I should have white gloves when he's... I know. Here's the thing.

I mean, come on. I should be like a Sotheby's handler with this. It belongs in a museum. It really does, Roy. Thank you. It's a drag-coating museum. What was the final score of the game, dude? Seven to three.

Oh, wow. We beat Bob's sports. Nice. Bob does sports? Yeah. What happened to Bob's sports? You know, I don't know. Underrated part is the back of this,

which also screams super freaking old. What cartoon strip is that? What cartoon strip is that? What car I think is Marmaduke? Is that a Marmaduke? I believe that's Marmaduke. If Marmaduke was alive in the late 60s. It is Marmaduke, yes. Okay, confirmed.

There you go. Wow. Big grand slam for you, huh? Can you chill with it? You're like bend down, man. What are you doing? What do you mean? Treat it with,

Oh, sorry, Greg. Just checking treat it with Oh, sorry Greg. Just checking out the box score. I mean, it's it's prune. Out of Greg, you know, you could light it on fire right now and it looks like someone already did. It does. I don't, I don't lambnake that. Yeah, it's great.

You get that authenticated. Yeah, I didn't eliminate something. A PSA one. How does that work? The lamination process. Where do you go from? No one answer. Let's just let them figure it out.

Where do you go to a FedEx place? Or how do you do that? I feel like that's the answer. No, you send it in. There are all these trading card authenticators. You send them in and there's a sole racket where they will grade your card for a fee. Right.

And that is a racket. That number they assign, that rating, that grade will then verify how much it's worth in the open market. Okay. That's a racket. That number, they assign that rating, that grade, will then verify how much it's worth in the open market. Okay. That's worth nothing. Plus, I defaced it. There's a random batting average.

Yeah, well, there's a written number that feels like the clue that leads to the treasure map on the back of this. So what is it? The batting average, for some reason, is 369. And I think at the time, I was also involved in stratomatic and the former St. Louis Cardinal Orlando, Subpeta, even though he was not a high average

hitter, was leading the league in stratomatic. So Willie Nilly, I think I wrote his league leading batting average onto that headline. That's a lot happening right now. What is happening? What is, so, St. Louis God's is fumbling around. Oh, he brought out his the baby bowl his glasses.

Snyder, just about the time I think I've taught him some manners. He sees you. I mean, classic, more Meduc, unbelievable, amazing. I miss more Meduc, don't you? Is it still around or no? No, or comics still around, I mean. Is there an older version of a newspaper still around? Barely? Yes. Is there an older version of a person in the person

who takes out his reading glasses after fumbling around extensively only to read aloud a Marmaduke comic strip on either of his nose? Yeah. Yeah. What a day you had, Greg. Yeah, it was a big day. Yeah, it was a

family lesson. I mean, you're one for two. Well, but the one was a big, a major hit. Yeah. Grand Salami. Yeah. Put it on the pole. Is it charming or absolutely pathetic that Greg keeps a headline from 50 years ago? Have good news. Marbadoop's still with us. Wow. The Duke. You had your race on the hill that day, huh? Yeah. Who wasn't? I don't know, but he pitched a good game. Well, three runs.

So, you know, I was a little worried, Mike, that Marma Duke got milkshake, Duke. Anytime you're turning over a newspaper from that era, and there's a comic cartoon on the back, I'm just, I'm just general. There's like a 20% chance. There's like an oriental hat. Yeah rice patty hat I'm not gonna back of that so it's good. This is good

Sorry, I had to put my resonator a little too much that rifter. I even mean you know what I'm talking about Back in the day, you mean absolutely, okay? Races comic strips a big limo research that everybody should do that said this one out I would like to see a couple of ads on the back of this. Why? I don't know, because I think it's fascinating to look at old ads. I always have ads, is what he said.

Yeah, what did you think I said? You're actually bearing the lead from this Greg Cody show episode this week, because we actually found that headline, and we found the Cody news, an actual printout of my dad just little blurbs of just what's going on with his parents. They tried to buy a car and then they put $20 down and it's honestly adorable and a glimpse

into the person. My dad is at 13. It's really cool, honestly. Yeah, I enjoyed it. I started a magnifying glass club, but it dissolved because nobody joined it. We tried calling it. Yeah, that came out in the Cody news. I'm sorry.

What is a magnifying glass club? Killing ants, I think. Well, you used to use the sun and a magnifying glass. It was inhumane, but back in the day, you thought nothing. Now, we're cool with killing ants. You can do it. Killing an ant.

I've done that. Yeah. I'm not proud of it. But yeah, I remember learning about that. I think I think this is a symptom of being a serial killer admittedly. I think I say this allowed for the first time, but I have done that. Yeah, it could be McGill. Ron McGill says that you can trace serial killing to abuse of animals and he's got a point. Yeah.

Yeah, not to go to a dark place, but well, here we are. Is it socially acceptable for me to just pulverize an ant hill? No, I don't think. Like, roundhouse kick one. We hit one with a golf club. Like we may have been filming some golf content over this past weekend that will come out in the future. And I may or may not have just said, am I allowed to do this and then just start pummeling

an ampie with a golf club? I may have, if it's not acceptable, I didn't do it. If it's acceptable, I may have done it. I think it's fine. I was told you had a tough day on the golf course though. I just, I mean, I mean, geez, that's getting around quick. Spreading like wildfire.

I didn't say anything. Tony did say a thing. No, I just, I didn't, I hit a few bad drives. Chris, they've been talking about you and golf. We won for like two days now. We won. All the batters. Taylor Taylor wasn't crumbling.

Yeah, Taylor was good. Right. Well, I'm shocked to hear that. You're not the days now. We won. All the matters. Taylor wasn't crumbling. Yeah, Taylor was good. Well, I'm shocked to hear that. You're not the reason that you guys won. Well, we were a team. We were a team. You know, people expect great shots for me. I hit a couple bad shots, yes. Okay.

It's almost as an adjustment when the cameras come out. Like, I'm not used to it. They were saying that Chris Cody had the yips. Yeah. I did off the tee. I don't know what yips are. No, I mean, I hit a few things. You hit a monster drive. I mean, I just more than I usually do, I hit a few bad ones.

I'm okay with it. But with Chris, he plays just a couple of times a year. If Christopher played every single day, the way I do, I should be better. I'm not, but if Chris played every single day, he'd be a great golfer. He'd be a scratch golfer. He could be. Yeah. I play like five times a year.

Well, you play more than that, honestly, not in recent years, not really. Okay, Mike's making faces. Far too good to not play that often. I know. Far too good. That's how good I am. Like me and Mike would kill to have your game. Like we would.

We'd play all the time. I do play all the time. I don't have your game. He's far too good, but should I play more? I have all the time that you have to play all the golf that you do to get so good. I showed up to Tau. Someone asked me when's the last time I played. You know this, this same time last year.

Last time. Last time. Yeah. I just like that there was an ant civilization that looked up one day, only to find Chris Cody Godzilling their entire existence. There was actually, I did it and there was one ant. And I was picturing it it was the ant home alone. He got the house left home alone.

He had a big party the night before and then he was just got done cleaning the house. And I just come over and just pulverized the entire house after he got done cleaning. His parents, everyone's about to get back home. He just got the house cleaned and I just ruined everything. If we all had super hearing,

we would hear the ant call on a screaming. But you never hear a song. That would make it, I would not do it. If you heard the scream, you wouldn't do it. Of the ants, I would not do it. I feel like this is exactly the ethical dilemma we should be grappling with. Would you genocide ants if they could scream?

No, you wouldn't. Well, they probably are screaming, we just can't hear them, right? Put it on the pole. If you could hear the screams, no, you wouldn't. Well, they probably are screaming, we just can't hear them, right? Put it on the pole. If you could hear the screams, we would not do it. Dude, you can't do it. Please are the ants screaming.

They have to be, right? They have to be. They can't just take white paint. So you've got people that vote no to that, just have them like, but this is gal. This is the whole kind of mammals thing. Thank you for finally getting around to my point.

Oh, well. We only recognize the things that speak to our native mammal language. We want to see tears. We only recognize the things that speak to our native mammal language. We want to see tears, we want to hear screams. But meanwhile, there are these animals that are expressing pain in ways that we just don't give a shit about. No. Because they're not audible. We don't hear it. By the way, whatever happened to red ants, you know, back around. We're still around. They're still around. Yeah when I when I was a kid every other ant pile you saw was red ants and that's that's an ant pile you

didn't mind obliterating the black ants they were great they were my friend but I can't tell you the last time I saw a red ant pile. This is a new and improved on levatar show with the stugas gamble on by draft Kings. Don lebertard, you know, you go to buy gas and it costs three 49.99, a, a gallon, just round all the numbers off. We're getting rid of change in this country, round everything off, include the tax and the totals. Stugas, it's really hard to stop the gas tag.

It's zero, zero. Isn't it? I know. It's like a game. Even when you're feeling gas, it's really, it stop the gas tank at 0-0 isn't it? I know it's like a game. Yeah, when you're feeling gas It's really it's always a 1-0-2-0-4 you get really frustrated You try it again. Yeah, you're trying to put more gas in the car than the car allows you to put gas in I mean you can't stop it out too. You just gotta go up to the next

Oh, yeah, yeah, 98 more sense. I have to stop at either a zero or a five or else It's on the pole. Are you bad at stopping at the zero at the gas station I started intentionally stopping at oh one because then I get 99 cents put into my savings because it rounds up to the next dollar so what 99 cents savings just like that this is the down lebert show with this two gods. So Greg was just trying to explain how some of his best friends are black ants. Uh-huh. Correct. And now he's just in a rabbit hole and ant hole and ant hill right on Google ants. Yeah, I googled whatever happened to red ants thinking it would back me up, but it didn't.

The red ants are still a real thing. Here's a headline from 2022, invasive fire ants continue their march across Virginia. Wow. If you don't take care of the red ants, they'll take care of you. I mean, they will. I believe it.

They're not playing games, man. I like how ants and like Confederate generals are built to things that we always say are marching places. Yeah. You're just marching across Virginia. Very militaristic language when it comes to ants. Confederate generals are built to things that we always say are marching places. Yeah, yeah. You're just marching across Virginia. Very militaristic language when it comes to ants. Because they are like a battalion. They can move a rubber tree plant.

You know, they can carry, I think they can carry like 10 times their weight. Might be more than that actually. Might be like a hundred. You think? I wouldn't doubt it. Let's check that out. Last week I asked Ron McGill if, and Fire Ant, which was one of those big red ants,

flew off the eight story of my building, and Ron said, yeah, he'd be fine. Yeah, that's right, because they're so lightweight. That's a good point. I would be jumping off so much shit if I was an ant. No one you were gonna live, right? Right, right.

Right. Yeah, you'd be sky diving. Which we had Ron today. Right, we don't have more ants landing on us. Like, oh, I'm live, right? Right. Right. Yeah, you'd be skydiving. Yeah, we had Ron today. Right, we don't have more ants landing on us. Like, I'm walking, I'm walking. Oh, there's an ant on my shoulder. Oh, you do. I've had ants land on me.

All of a sudden you notice an ant on your arm. Right. That hadn't happened to you. Are you guys spider in the house escort them outside? Folks. Lucy is your dad. Chunk Leita. It's where I'm as tough.

It's the toughest I am in my life wow when my like my wife my daughter see a spider it's like I got this 10 to 15 times they're weight that's what they can carry 10 to 15 yes but how much do they what oh infant decimal right I mean like like like negligible weight well this is the legend of herb legends right he was like 551 55130, you could bench press, well, like three times his body weight. Wow. This is the legend of the- What's the fatdest ant?

What's the fatdest ant? Have you ever seen a real overweight ant? You have. It's like a really, really big one. Like I would see them on the playground sometimes. It would be like normal size ants and then just the largest one you've ever seen. Maybe that's the clean.

Yeah. Are there the cleans? Oh yeah. Oh, bullet ants. Oh, no. Yeah. They were the colony.. Maybe that's the clean. Yeah. Are there some? Oh, yeah. Oh, bullet ants. Oh, no. Yeah. They won't look all the way. Yeah, bullet ants. Oh, you get bitten by bullet ant is like, you feel like you're dying.

I've never, I've never even heard of a bullet ant. Yeah. Oh, there's a big deal. Oh, there's a big deal. Yeah, no, I would love to talk to Ron McGill because someone spotted a pot of work. He's so many Ron questions today. There was a pot of work around Key Largo. Mm.

Yeah. Made life sound Miami. Ants way anywhere from one to five milligram, MG, whatever that means. Millogram, yeah. Yeah, like you don't know. The bullet-ass. You convinced us. Para Panora.

Para Panera. I have an eighth. I have an eighth of ants. That's what I gave you. Chris, what's your weapon of choice when it's time to be the man of the house and destroy the spiders entire living? I mean, I wish you I'm wearing a sandal. Yeah. And if sometimes they're already dead and I'll just grab a napkin. But yeah, I'll step on that shit. How about a roach? Same. Really? Yeah. I'm not afraid of that stuff. I like to put a little scare into the roach

so I can see where the roach tries to go to so I can find the, the roach, the hub. Oh, really? Yeah, you want him to go to the biome. Yeah. You need you back to his little scare into it. Watch it scatters, see where it tries to go into and then I think that spot.

I take that all the roaches. That's the plan. I like it. Any bug in the house is going to die. But if it's a lizard, then you can escort it out. Connolly's. With a cup, right? Put a cup on top of it.

Yeah. Put like that. I've done that. Yeah. I have done that. Yeah. Good point. Fun game.

The emblem. I never thought of the paper part. I always I'm just awkwardly walking like with dragging my cup along the floor. I'm like the lizard lab he really has it hooks into you guys, huh? Well, yeah, how about how about like wasps and bees and stuff like that when you see one of their thing, what are they, what are they called? Not for me, Clarence Nests, Hives, whatever. I saw something on TikTok where if you take gasoline in like a cup or jar and you put it up to the wasps hive, all of it falls down and they all die. It's gonna be a safe way to do it. I've watched a lot of those videos.

You've seen that too, right? They're incredible. They just die. I should point out that Lucy's face has been generally horrified as we've all talked about what we're genociding. I would kill like the wasps. Like I don't like wasps for bees or stuff. Oh, not bees, but wasps.

Feeling a wasp have you ever used a spray to kill the wasps? Oh, you used a spray. The spray, the spray. Oh, I'm using a wasps. You're amazing, not Bees, but wasp. Feeling a wasp, have you ever used a spray to kill a wasp? Oh, you used a spray. The spray, the spray. Oh, I'm amazing. You're amazing a wasp. Yeah, you're like, get away. And you're just like, yeah, full side. It's like shooting an enemy fighter pilot out of the sky.

It's like a fire ghost. Yeah, it's red. I use that. I'll kill a wasp, but anything else, like if I can take it outside, I probably will. I used to live like in the woods and I would get frogs in my room. That was a journey. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. So I called the cops. Wait, it was a bull frog. So if you have a little tiny ant on your counter, you're like, come on, come on, buddy, let's get out of here. No, like. I am. Wow.

Exactly. I'm a Chris, yeah. Yeah, if it's like a small little ant, then yeah, I'll take a paper towel and I'll give it a peaceful death. But if it's like something, yeah. You're going to not peace it. You're going to get a crush. You're going to choke out that ant.

I wish you could hear the screams of terror. Wait, so you have suffocating it. You're losing, you're getting a better death than just, I have losing putting a pillow on this insects face. Exactly. It's just a little like, I'm telling you, you this hand slap that thing has no clue what just happened that thing is just like I'm walking I'm dead Yeah, my score like I still hit it like quickly, but I'm gonna do it with a paper towel So I don't have to worry about it. It's like what's happening to me. This is weird. I'll now I'm dead that slow

I'll take I'll take any bugs outside if I can just because I like they probably that's the whole point is like hey we found shelter here at your house we're gonna try and get back you know when you take you outside a lion yeah well there are lions here I'm just saying I'm not going into a lion's house sorry like that actually lions dead yeah Dan. Yeah. Thanks, Dan. You got it. Well, about Accuersit. You guys like sports?

Sure. Yeah. The Lions? No, just like... Sneaky Goods, Ian. Yeah. They are. They're going to be good.

Even the little Dan Campbell season. Chancigar and Adjonser just got her. Who? Big addition to them. Who? Chancigar and Adjonsen? Safety. Eagles.

Yeah, Eagles. Eagles. Eagles. If you're playing at home, Lions, Eagles, McIrred, they announce the guard toss. The formal version announced basketball immaculate today. There's like, cross-border. So I have questions about the business of you McIrred because I come in here and in the morning, all you guys are doing is playing the Immaculate Grid.

In the morning, I spent the entire dinner with Mike. That's all he did. I mean, an entire evening. I get the crap stable. The appeal, the appeal is obvious to me. I'm also in on this, but I'm also curious about the business of this. Like who is profiting from this addiction that all of you have developed? Big grid hang on using a grant long as my heat hawk. Excellent. Baseball reference.

One percent right. Profiting. Steve Smith. Yeah, but two basic. You want to get the low? No, I know. You want to rarer the pool. Right.

No one is profiting right now, but someone will eventually, right? Because it's pretty popular. I feel like it's publicly available information. The entire concept of the grid is tic-tac-toe. None of this should be propriots there. You guys are sitting on a potential competitor that you're not realizing economically. So, heat, 20 plus points of game per season, everyone's going to go for LeBron and Wade and Shaq. What you want to do is get Tyler Hiro. So, you get a better score, lower the score the better better. Like golf, Tyler hero, 3%. How about runny cycle? That would have been nice. That

would have been nice. But I'm trying to prove a point that it's actually a good trade for Portland. My dad was doing this. Me and my brother were playing the other day and my dad was just saying guys from like the 60s and I'm like, Dad, I think this starts around the 90s. Wait, there's the business. My dad's great at this, but there's the business. Center Square, piss and suns. Going Lindsey Hunter. Yep. Pablo's graded this game, by the way.

Anytime we need a sixer, Pablo has everybody on lock. Oh, yeah, I'd wish on home's ready for you on that sixers king square. What a win. Lindsey, hundred in a work. I just have one of those with blue jays, 200 plus hits in a season. I put Roberto Alamoor.

See, that's one that's probably 60% of it because everyone's gonna guess him. plus hits in a season. I put Roberto Alamoor. See, that's one. That's probably 60% of it because everyone's going to guess him. Thanks. The more I've skier you weren't in. No, it's not him. Right. Oh, he didn't do it. Yeah, I was wrong. Oh, wow. I know. Uh, Lindsay Hunter was the interim head coach. He never actually played for the sun. Damn it. No longer immaculate. What if we do old immaculate grid? So Greg Cody can play. Is that a business? 60s. I mean, the regular immaculate grid, you can just say old people.

Yeah, you can. They still qualify. They might not be playing anymore. They might not be living anymore, but you could still use them as guesses. Some immaculate grids start as of like the 90s. The football one does dynasty daddies. Okay. So now I'm realizing there's there's a whole

Cinematic universe of grids dynasty daddies that's who we're yeah, that's who we're that's aren't that's our NFL one For now, so are there any from the 60s or no? I'm getting mixed signals here because I won't want to the all right dad Let's do a baseball and give me a Philly and a blue Jay all time. Give me a Philly and a blue Jay all time. I don't know All right, great. Yeah, I, I don't. I like to you Pablo. But listen, look at here. If I say red socks and Yankees, everybody goes Babe Ruth. I go else than Howard. That would be a good answer. That would be a good. I like Greg giving himself grids to answer. That's right. Yes. The ones I make. where it knows the answers. Great. Great. So Greg on the NFL, there's a charger who had a thousand plus yards receiving, right?

Yeah. So you can go like John Jefferson, West Chandler, guys like Charlie Joyner, guys like that. Yeah. You can tell him, Winslow. Yes. Of course. Great pull.

So it's all sports. Immaculate grid. It's everything. See, I've never heard the phrase. I'm going to explain things like this to my dad. Well, you know, it sounds like a religious phrase. Immaculate Grid. It's everything. See, I've never heard the phrase. I was going to explain things like this to my dad. Well, you know, it sounds like a religious phrase, Immaculate Grid. I'd never heard of it until today.

So I got a little bit of it. I explained it to you yesterday. Yeah, but you didn't say Immaculate Grid though. I walked up to you and I showed you. I said, this is what we're doing. And it was the baseball, like I just, I did this to you yesterday. I said baseball reference or something.

You just said you learned of this today and you didn't. I learned the phrase a Macular grid today What did you call it when you and Michael were playing macular grid? No, he didn't liar. No, you really didn't I forget what but it wasn't a Macular like Greg may have been pacing a couple drugs. I don't remember that I was you know elbow deep and cooking when he and Michael We're doing that. Um, how are you making? when he and Michael were doing that. How do you make it? Schnitzel.

Oh nice. Excellent. Like to the forearm, entire forearm, so you're saying you're not Schnitzel. Yeah, I had, you know, flower all over me. He was breading, veal, and chicken, and then his way,

because you know what you do is you fry up some meat, and then you put it on like a paper towel, right? To soak up. My dad had it on a regular towel. Oh yeah, you have to do that. He was My dad had it on a regular towel. Oh, yeah, you have to do that. He was soaking up his degrees on their on a regular towel. Do you have a, do you have a grease towel?

A towel designed just for this purpose? It's, yes and no, it's a kitchen towel. It's not a towel that one would use in the classroom. It's something he kept a shower on or with right before. It's a kitchen towel. It's used in the kitchen for all manners of stuff. And, and towel, towels absorb grease so much better than paper towels do. It's a kitchen towel. It's used in the kitchen for all manners of stuff and and Tows of Zorb Greece so much better than paper towels do

This is a new and unimproved and lebertar show with the stugas gambalon by draft Kings Don Lebertard punctuate this segment with what is your strike three call strike one would be Strike and then you stand up and you give a good point to the right. Still gots. That's same for strike two. But strike three, you get down low, you got your hands behind the catcher. All right, the right arm goes up into the air.

Yeah. And then you finish it with a punch. The right arm flings way up into the air. Yeah. Yeah. And you finish it. I wish I could see that. It's the audio screen!

VCC dan lebertar show with this Tougat! I need you guys to help me out here because there is actually one bit of fan feedback that I've taken to heart because I myself feel it. I'm afraid when you take fan feedback, Mike. I mean, there's occasionally something useful and we're doing that hard network out thing way too much and I know how it happened because Dan

wanted to bring it back and ends like this distraught that stirs the drink, but going to it every segment is not funny. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's only fun. Greg agrees. When it's genuine.

Right. And trying to trap Greg every time is also not funny because it feels forced and thus inauthentic. So Greg, I'm gonna need you to be clock discipline because the last few times we've used it, it's been genuine. But it's also still not funny to me because of how much we've beaten that joke into the ground.

Yeah, I agree. I would like to make them. I would like to do that once, twice a show. To do it every segment has zero comedic value. Well, back at ESPN, it was once an hour because the hard network out was at the top of the hour. It was nice, right? We would set it up the entire hour hour. It was nice. Right.

We would set it up the entire hour. And it was anyone, even though we have clocks here that we're trying to adhere to, it's not really all that hard. It's a contract that we've made to make you laugh. And if we are the ones that are making it less and less funny, then we should have painted in the contract altogether, my friends. Well, it is genuine because he doesn't know it's coming, but it's not fun. I'm with you that it's not funny when we do it every segment, but he is,

it's not like he knows it's coming and walks into it. No, but it should be organic. It should be natural. It shouldn't be someone intentionally asking me a question with three seconds left on the clock to bait me into it. Now granted, it's my responsibility to be more aware of the clock. You're opinion on this aware of the clock. Your opinion on this also means the least. Okay.

You would fight, but you were on the right track. You got to get better at this. Right. Well, this is, this is my game of 30 seconds with my hands. I'm trying to help you here, Pat. This is what happened is that we were sitting in between segments before last segment

and we said, we're not going to go back to the hard network out. And then Greg just started talking clearly with no intention to stop and it was like, do we stop him to get an out here and we just let him run into this painted tunnel. And he ran into the painted tunnel. That kind of thing, you know,

it's fine with me either what? It doesn't bother me. It seems like it does though. You okay? Oh shoot. fine with me either what it doesn't bother me it seems like it does though okay oh shoot all right let's show Pablo let's show the audience Mike is right about this all right I agree with Mike completely this is an example Greg of it being for mean, but funny. I just want to give you a sample of what grand code he sounded like, which set us all off in a panic. Everyone except for Greg Cody because he's old and he stubborn.

He refuses to go to the doctor. So that's what you sounded like for the better half of a month now. Me, Dan, everyone. We told you repeatedly to go to the doctor. You ignored us. You finally went to the doctor and the results of your visit to the doctor, you ignored us, you finally went to the doctor and the results of your visit to the doctor were what? Yeah, after several tests, they found a tumor in my chest. He's Dan Stuhl-Gantrekordi

on the S.B.N. radio. It was benign. It was benign. Don't worry about it. The live radio listeners at the time over at ESPN had to wait an entire commercial break to find that out. I'll get about it. The sounds Greg made just made me think that maybe it's not so benign anymore. He's been forever changed from that experience, and I don't think we're ever gonna get the Greg of old and set we just have old Greg. What do you mean by that? I just think you're never gonna fix that cough issue. It's been years.

Also, you're drinking out of a wooden water bottle, which is also extremely old. It's foe wood. It's foe wood. Yeah. It's like a wood laminate. It's not that with a real wood. That'd be great.

You brought an ancient newspaper clipping. I did. Same color as my faux wood. No, it is. Right. The guy who has that newspaper clipping also has an authentically wooden water bottle. You've also lost hope at ever regaining your previous health prior to tumor. No, no, no.

You think one day you will overcome this cough. Christopher, who knows me better, obviously, than anyone else in the room will tell you how much better the cough is than it was at work. He just has asthma and post nasal drip. That's what he has. And he takes medicine. Right. And when the medicine is working, he'll seem fine.

And laughing does, well, I think we are at a point that, though, wherever, when you laugh genuinely, it makes you cough. So this, this post nasal drip and this asthma, this existed before the tumor. Correct. How come it never surface? The timeline is just kind of similar. He had the tumor, got it removed, and then he started having the chronic cough, and then

they figured out the chronic cough was from post nasal. Wait, wait, wait. Have I, in my mind, have I been retconning Greg's entire like tenure on the show? I thought he always sounded like this. No, but we're about, we're about halfway through his tenure where the cough has been around. Yeah. I think he's actually been healthy or a little bit longer than he's been unhealthy or at least sounding unhealthy, but it's been a while now. I mean, we're talking. Since he sounded healthy, we're talking a couple of years before the pandemic.

He's in the room. It's all coincidental with my surgery. I had so many tests prior to my surgery that they discovered, you know, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a kind of thing. I mean, he's just old. Yeah, you know me. But it's okay. It's part of your robust character that you've built out on the show. And thank you. There's a lot of robust at this table, by the way,

in terms of what is being sort of expectorated all around me. What? It's true. He doesn't know what that word means. I would not want to be Pablo right now. I was genuinely not able to know what idea what you were talking about.

The what was, what do you mean? I'm going to get COVID if I haven't already. Yeah. I had a little coughing fit last night actually. Did you sorry, Gus? I down in emergency just in case. Right. A couple of them.

Did you really? I did. You believe in that stuff? Dude, you had a bunch of airborne on the head. You had a bed. Vapocool on this desk yesterday. It was Coke. Pace and drugs.

Stugots, I feel a little bit better today. I gotta be honest. You walked in yesterday looking like you were about to expire, not just expectorate, and you came off of a weekend in which you were about to expire, not just expectorate, and you came off of a weekend in which you were, Greg, we're sitting with the heavyweight champion of the journalistic debate that happened between Dan

and Stephen A. This is the man who won. Mm-hmm, it's amazing, right? I'm the voice of journalism. Like, that's funny. Isn't that an interesting twist? Stephen A. Crown to you. He did, yes. Listen, I've told Dan this for a while, like all these guys, yourself included Pablo, like I get what you guys wanted to do when you were

growing up, which is have your printed word land on someone's front door, but those days are over. And you're all me, all of you, Stephen A, Shepter, Woj, Pablo, Levitard, Greg Cody, you have all jumped, you're no better than I am. None of you, not a one of you. And I know that's a tough pill to swallow. But that's the reality. That's where we're at. And show, this is the only point I was trying to make and tell Dad, show me the person who's in Stephen A Smith's position where journalism is dying, where newspapers are dying, that wouldn't take $12 million a year to debate sports with skipper somebody else. There's not a single person who would not take that deal, not one. We have video of what Stephen A Smith did and you could tell he was serious because he

showed up in his sleeveless hoodie. And I've been told that he said something about our show and I've seen, I was kind of in and out of town. And I'm not really interested in it because it seems like everything that he does so well, by the way, I want to get that message across. I think I echo Dan Sentiments and that Stephen A isn't really the problem here. It's all the cheap imitations of Stephen A that he spawned because it's so easy to do what Stephen A does poorly, not to do what Stephen A does, but it's very easy to do it poorly.

Yeah. And look, it's two gods. Thank you. No consequences, but I kind of understand the motivation here because it's gotten word and it's been written about in trade papers and word got back to me that he's kind of behind this documentary on debate sports television. And I think he is kind of making up a new storyline for it because this is probably the most interesting sports debate television has been in quite some time. The discussion about sports debate television has been in quite some time. The discussion about sports debate television.

So I wanna have Stephen A. in his performance of nature speak for himself here, so you can catch up. So when Stu Scott, I'm sorry, Stu Gotts, alludes to the changing of the industry as it pertains to people like myself and Dan Levertard, he's not wrong, because I saw that you had to modify your game a little bit because all of a sudden the written word didn't matter as much.

All of a sudden the news itself didn't matter two minutes after people got it. It mattered when they didn't have it, but the second they had it within five minutes because of the admin and social media and beyond, everybody had it. And with everybody had it, they didn't care about the news anymore. But the kid about was your perspective on the news.

And I saw that as my avenue to transition. And I'm not apologizing for it. Because even though I went from 53,000 to 225,000 as a salary and employee for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Let's just say you can't even come to me with five figure salaries at this point in time in my life or six figure salaries. It's not even a consideration. I'm at a point in time of my career. I don't even want to discuss anything that's less than seven figures. That would never have been the case had I stayed in newspapers

for myself or Dan Levertaught, which why I think Stugots for pointing out Dan Libertads, Der Raste hypocrisy on this map, because that's what it is, Dan. Sorry, sorry, buddy, but it is. I never got the hypocrisy because I don't think that there was a crux of Dan's argument. There are many paths that one can take while the industry develops. And also the timeline is very disingenuous. Dan was on radio, maybe not to Steven A's knowledge,

but Dan was on radio while writing still very much mattered. And he enjoyed the medium, not to, I mean, Dan can speak for himself on the matter. But by Steven A Joe, it's happened to go at Stephen A for going to television and being good at it. If anything, I just want to point out that Stephen A Smith looks great sleeveless. He does. He does. He looks like behind great period behind him is a brick wall for his show.

It looks like he's a double dragon. He does. Did he do push ups right before that though? There's a little dragon. He does. Did he do push ups right before that though? There's a little pump. Stu Scott. The goat. That's great. RIP.