The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Greg's Ears

Episode Date: March 12, 2024

Pablo Torre insists on not talking NFL free agency, the crew finds out about Stugotz's show idea with Pablo called 'Stick To Sports' and Greg thinks that Kirk Cousins is a HOFer. Plus, Greg Cote reminisces about how he would write articles and relay them to the Miami Herald back in his day. Also, the Cote family is cursed with Greg's weird ears and would you take a kick from an MMA fighter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm sorry, I'm not gonna apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it. And now here's the marching band to nowhere,

that face and the habitual liar. Today's episode of the Dan LeBartard show with Stugatz is brought to you by Peloton. Stugatz was during the break muttering under his breath and I don't know what the tension is exactly between Pablo and God bless football but God bless football is just as award-winning as Pablo Tory finds out and isn't occupying sort of the same hoity-toity lane and What what's to God said as soon as the microphones went off was why doesn't Pablo Tori find out in an hour other than first thing in the morning? On the first day of free agent. Why does he have to friends he got a football frenzy?

We're gonna stop over here so he can talk about Carson daily like what are you doing? Whatever TRL is, Total Request Live, whatever that means. What are you doing? That's the biggest show in American pop culture. Okay, but put him down. They had to deflose the like hurricane shutters. Times Square got shut down. Yes! Thousands of girls were flooding Times Square in control of American capitalism and

culture and what was cool. And you're like, oh, Chris Jones. No, no, if we want, no, no, Jones, Chris Jones, maybe, let's do that. Good signing. If we wanted to find out what you were finding out, we would have been over there finding out about it. You went on and on about it, and if people want to know more about it, they can listen to Pablo Torrey finds out, we've got football to talk about.

Do you have something to contribute on the football front? Uh, Chris Jones, good signing. Alright, get out of here. Can you do an contribute on the football front? Chris Jones, good signing. All right, get out of here. Can you do an episode on the Minnesota wild pulling their goalie in overtime? Yeah, I know. You guys? An 80-4-2.

I like the idea of Pablo finding out rules we don't know. I do like that. Did you know that this rule existed? That if you pull your goalie in overtime in the NHL, you run the risk of losing the point that you would have gained in losing a game in overtime. Mike, go sit in the penalty box. Oh, wow.

Have you guys ever heard of Vanessa Lachey? Two minutes for talking hockey. Like, get out of here. Vanessa Lachey. Love is blind. Vanessa Lachey, out. Did you find out about that rule when it happened? Mike Ryan, out.

Did you find out about that rule when it happened? Out, Mike Ryan. Did you find out about that rule when it happened? I'm tired of you and this and this entire subject matter. Stop it, please. Guess where she met met Nick Leche and they had an affair TRL really there it is Allegedly not a hundred percent sure but she used to work Vanessa Manila before Without them we wouldn't have love is blind today Dan Billy okay

I want to know what's going on with you and Pablo Tory finds out because you guys occupy different lanes and Stu Gatz has occasionally spit things in the direction of after the Pablo segment that I recognize as a certain Has some acid on it even though we're all friends here. Are we though? Are we though? Okay, thanks for the help guys. You got to go eye-detector test once in which it was revealed that he didn't want me to join this company. That's true. That is true. I asked that question and I regretted that.

Just like you regretted now? Well, you know, I don't think Pablo likes Stugots, right? Pablo, do you like Stugots? I love Stugots. And I love Pablo. Love Stugots. I'm less certain about that one. Stugots tried to get me to co-host a show with him that we recently found out about on Pablo Torre Finds Out.

Yeah. I was on episode last week. Oh, listen to this. I'm sorry. Forgive me. The last episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out. I forgot to talk about this. Please, Stu Gatz.

I learned for the first time that this is me, news to me, that Stu Gatz had tried to do shows with both Pablo and Mina that he wanted to try and get off the ground. They were on the rise at the time, you know, I figured jump on the bandwagon with them. But yeah, I wanted to do a sport, a show with Pablo where he and I wore Velcro suits and we were on a wall that said sports on it and we just stuck to sports while having sports conversations. It's funny man.

We had trampolines, we're jumping off trampolines into the board, we stick to the board and we stick to sports. Nice. It's more of a bit than a show. When we talk football, our hands have to be in the dirt. Oh, it was a beauty. What a wonderful idea.

Thank you. What happened? I don't know. Did you tell anyone or is this in your head? I told Pablo. Well it didn't sound like you told him till last week. No, no, no, no, no. This was Billy Billy.

I learned, no, this is me, the part of the story you're missing is that Stu got's trying to cut all sorts of side deals on rising stars, Mina and Pablo with just coming to them with the idea of I'll jump off a trampoline and stick to something, Pablo, you'll handle the rest, right? I was just trying to grow the company, Dan. That's all I was trying to do.

Team player, right? This was before Metal Arc was formed. Yeah. This was in 2020, like, early. Grow the company. If you were to Dan, grow the company. Grow ESPN, right?

Yes, grow ESPN. Grow the company of two gods. Grow the company you were keeping with Pablo and Mina. If you were to go around and ask each person in this building or even in this room, you'd find out that he has side deals with everyone in shows that are in pre-production that, you know, don't actually happen. Right, well just waiting on people to finish their jobs.

What was the one with Mina? Oh, I have no idea what the show was with Mina. It was just any show with Mina would have worked because she's Mina. He fished. Rough by throwing out 70 nets at the same time in hopes that one of them would exit. Billy, you want to say the best way to fish? Yep. So we were on a Zoom call. Cast the line, Blanton. It was not a Zoom call, because Zoom wasn't a thing. It was a call, it was a conference call. It was me, Stugatz and Charlie Kravitz who was gonna produce Stick to Sports. That's right, it's Charlie's fault. He never got it

done. I'm glad you remembered him in all of his importance to this enterprise. And the call began with what Stu Gotts just said, and then it somehow went on for another 45 minutes, and I don't remember what the rest of it was, because all I remember was trampolines, velcro suit, Stick to Sports, and everything else. And in there, that's all you needed.

I was still on the phone. Right. Are you jumping face first into velcro suit stick to sports and everything else I was like that's all you needed still on the phone right Are you jumping face first into velcro and then talking into a wall? I'm trying to imagine how that would work. You remember that's how you think that would go Remember those little balls like it was a dartboard and you would just throw the ball no we get the dartboard right? I would jump off a trampoline and stick to a wall that said sports on all right. We'd stick to that That's not a way to do a show with Pablo where he had to talk about sports. That's a brilliant idea. Not only is it brilliant, like all of Stugatz's ideas,

it's blatantly stolen. David Letterman did this many, many years before. He stuck to sports. On television. No, he stuck to a Velcro wall jumping off of a trampoline, and it didn't stick to just sports. But good then. The funniest part of this is that Stu God's basically has that as the germ of the idea and the name of the rest of the show would be,

and you guys will do the rest, right? Like I'm coming to you. This is my intellectual sticking to sport. This is my intellectual property. The joke I've gotten in 2024 is I stick to sport. I've gotten a text from three different people saying we've got a golf show in the works. And none of them are aware of the other golf show that are in the works. Chris and I are getting to it.

None of them were from Chris. We've actually done one. Oh, Pablo, you sent me a nice video. I'm now looking back at the group chat that we had. You sent me a nice video of a guy jumping off a trampoline Into a wall of sports. I look at his data It's letterman. Yes It is I

video currently on the draft because that work your idea Yes, it is a simple thievery, but I just can't believe that that's the only idea you came to an hour meeting with That's the only idea you came to an hour meeting with. Like, and yet... Well, no, the dirt one. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Hand in the dirt! Another great side note, another great side note from this group chat that I'm revisiting, is Stugatz spelling Charlie's name wrong, somehow spelling it C-H-R-L-E-Y.

I did that, yeah. It should be. Well played by you. He probably thought it was Charlie Hume also. Different Charlie's. Football, do you have anything to offer us on football? Nothing? Chris Jones is all you've got? Oh, you're talking to me again?

Oh, get him out of here. Just get him out of here. I don't want to see his face anymore. Just get out of here. Pablo Torre finds out, if you want to know anything about Pablo Torre, finds out his curiosityities put them over there Football let's get back to football. We've Mike Ryan has blessedly been out of the room no longer talking about the Minnesota wild so What were the interesting things to the dukey the Duke of football fourth ranked according internationally?

according to Britain's leading daily. Well you want some winners and losers Dan, is that what you're asking for? I've got them. I have a big loser. We can do two guys's because I have one big loser yesterday, Justin Fields.

Why is there no market for him? Why is there no market for him? People don't think he's good. No, he's good man. Like if you put him in the right spots, he's good. The problem is everybody wants to get somebody cheaper. I guess like Why is there not a good market for him? It's like it's someone explained to me if the economy of the position I'm not understanding if we're gonna go right between if we're gonna live in this space between the running back is totally disposable and the I'm sorry. Yes, the running back is totally disposable but the quarterbacks not disposable on the marjax and i can figure out an offense that makes in the

mvp and just in fields while maybe not as accurate as i'd like but seems to be in the space between running back and quarterback and i don't need a running back anymore i got a pair running back anymore maybe ball tomorrow get Derek Henry but they played without a running back because the position is being played by two people you get value at the position you explain to me if i've got any of this wrong.

Do you think I have any of this wrong? Well, I think with Justin Fields, the problem for him is, and maybe there's a market now in Minnesota or maybe elsewhere, we'll see what else happens. But the quarterbacks in this year's draft and you have a bunch of teams who are gonna take a quarterback in this year's draft, they can get a quarterback on the cheap

that they think might be better than Justin Fields. You're gonna have to eventually pay Justin Fields. So I think that's why the market is shrunken. But eventually pay is not paying him this year. Well, if you can get him, everything is relative in the market, right? Like the Dolphins are now going to try to get to a Ferry-Kirk-Cousins type contract, okay? And if Baker Mayfield is making $33 million a year, then that

should be a starting point for signing Justin Fields. He's worth it. Can you guys walk me down the path, please, of Kirk Cousins, one playoff victory in his career, $330 million of guaranteed football money coming off of an injury? Can you just explain, explain to me how one of those is value and the other one is not. Do you guys remember Joey Fatone? He's in this episode. Joey Fatone in his prime, 99 Fatone.

Get out of here. He has a hot dog chain now called Fat One. Yes, that one. That one. Wait a minute, I told you the first time I discovered him was on MTV. I didn't know who that was and it said Photone, but they used the graphic where they put parentheses around the one and I'm like why would they call the boy band member Joey Fat One?

Like they're going that simplistic on the objectification of boy bands that it's just gonna be. This guy's the Fat One. It is kind of like how when someone has the last name that is exactly what their job is. It's kind of like that. Bob Raist car. Pablo tricked you Dan. He did. Get out of here. He sucked your back. He's kind of like how when someone has the last name that is exactly what their job is. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Bob Rayscar.

Pablo tricked you, Dan. He did. Get out of here. He sucked your back. Get out of here. I don't know why he's still here. 1999. Kirk Cousin.

Someone explained it to me. Tony. He's really good, Dan. No. That's the explanation. He is a good quarterback. That's why he's going to be making $330 million in his career. He's a great businessman.

He is not a great quarterback. Right. Did you say career. He's a great businessman. He is not a great quarterback. Right, did you say Justin's a good fan? No, no, no. Billy thinks he's the first ballot hall fan. No, no, no, no. He's throwing Kirk Cousins as the first ballot. Kirk Cousins is a hall of famer. Right.

Okay, I'm looking up his stats right now. What? I'm not saying that having looked up his stats. What? Kirk Cousins is not a hall of famer. Put it on the poll, please, at LeBatard Show. Is Kirk Cousins a hall of famer? Get out of here, he's a hall of famer. He's an excellent quarterback, not a Hall of Famer. Put her on the pole, please, at LeBatard Show. Is Kirk Cousins a Hall of Famer? Get out of here. He's a Hall of Famer.

He's an excellent quarterback, not a Hall of Famer. Did Greg say Justin Fields is as good as Baker Mayfield? Good completion percentage, good TD interception ratio, big numbers, one, two, three. I don't, I don't. It's not the Hall of Good. Four all-star to our provost. Too many conversations at the same time. I still want to know is Justin Fields good? Remember the best vacation you've ever taken? Make your next one even better with Get Your Guide.

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Man, does he get a pair. My granddaughter sees his shlong My granddaughter saw his shlong right in the kitchen I said that's what he's like Stugats it was a little extended. I don't know why he was so excited. All right very baby No Anyway, he ate my couch this is the done levitar show with the stooge at I've got a bit of a problem on my hands because with Greg Cody here on Tuesday and as I said the football addiction made an appearance yesterday in a way that jostled me and so there are

a number of things that I want to get to, Stu got. Greg Cody is advocating for some reason on behalf of prosthetic ears. I badly want to get to that, whatever it is that he's thinking about there, but also Greg is more worried than I've ever seen him about the news he's consuming and how much warning we're getting on extinction level event type of problems in our just general atmosphere

metaphorical and otherwise right just that that things that are coming for us as we talk about whether Tiki Barber and Seyquan Barclay get along or not. Please Tiki Barber. Enough of that guys. Come on now. Come on Tiki Barber You had a couple good seasons. Why what makes you the god of the New York Giants all the sudden give me a break That's a bit disrespectful. I mean come on Dan. He's got you to pull with everybody It's disrespectful to say that Tiki barber wasn't any good at his job not a Hall of Famer though He didn't say that though, right? I didn't say didn't say that. Thankfully. He didn't couple good years I'm gonna come to you wasn't disrespectful. Better than Kirk Cousins. Yeah. It'd be maybe disrespect if he'd just come out and brag

about how they won a championship the second you left the team. I don't know, I gotta rub that in. The year after. He did have 1,900 yards. No, yeah, he had a couple really good teams. High in tight, see? You can coach turnovers out of a player. That was an amazing thing to see Tiki Barber reinvent

his career, but that story, I do want to get to it, but what is the extinction level worrying you're doing right now? Time! Well, I'm going to read this because it's shocking to read. The U.S. must move quickly and decisively to avert substantial national security risks from artificial intelligence that could cause an extinction level threat to the human species according to a new government report. And so it's like, it's overwhelming. Like, you can't even digest the plausibility of that

and it makes what we do for a living like you yucking into a microphone and talking about sports seem less more more inconsequential than it ever has but at the same time more important to take our mind off uh... you know the the level threat to the human species uh... it's difficult for me to process that artificial intelligence, which is just now beginning to really boom. It's moving quickly, huh?

Is this level potentially dangerous? It's crazy. I'm right there with you, Greg. I'm super concerned by it. And while we may not be foremost experts to talk about this, we are in the human race. And we have watched the movies. And just to see the leaps that artificial intelligence

has made in just the last few months, it is a very logical concern. But it's also a lot like global warming in that say we do everything we can here in the United States, you also can't count on other foreign governments to take the same kind of steps. So I really do think, I am really afraid of it.

And I really do fear that we've unlocked something that will be the end of us. Back to free agent football. That's the true power of the NFL, by the way, that free agency and a frenzy can take us away from the end of civilization. I mean, that's- You already see these isolated stories where artificial intelligence demands that you call

it master. Yeah, it's just a really scary thing and we are not capable of putting the genie back in the bottle right here. Let's just unplug everything. Yeah. Or just spray some water on it. But the thing is, you have so many competing governments and ideologies that someone is always going to be acting in bad faith, even if you come

to this global agreement. Okay, and you can throw up your hands in despair, or you can listen to the speeches where they say that hope is the greatest thing that America has. Wouldn't spraying water give it growth? No, that's artificial intelligence. And in other news, civilization is dissolving all around us, and Haiti is being overrun by gangs. But how about that contract? How about the Steelers getting Russell Wilson for a bag of peanuts?

We are a distraction. We are a distraction. We can care about Austin Neckler's contract. That joke kind of fell flat, huh? And what's going on in Haiti? And you're trying to move into the joke that you tried. Can you explain what's going on in Haiti? C. GPT can rewrite just he just wanted to do that joke He's gonna be replaced by artificial intelligence because there was no even there was no conviction in it no sincerity

It's like and how about that and then it's unbelievable It's like the laziest version of you comedically. Could be replaced easily by robots. Right, there was some serious undertone to it because I feel for the people of Haiti and I've actually mentioned this on the air before. So you threw a joke in at the end. In the spirit of what we're talking about. It's raising awareness.

That's a show, Dan. Yeah, that's exactly right. I'm doing his show and he's criticizing me. You did it in sincerity. You did it with no effort. You did it so lazily and you're like how about this and then like you're a lounge act. Like put some umph behind it. Effortlessly is usually a good thing in the performance aspects. Thank you, Mike. Yeah, I mean this guy, you know, he didn't know what he wants. What if this isn't actually Greg? This is like AI Greg. It could be today.

We need to do that. AI Stugatz, AI Greg Cody. Let's see how it looks. Do you have a back in my day today? I did an AI back in my day, if you'll recall at one point. I need AI to write me another back in my day. You don't have one, no. Dan, the NFL News, it never stops.

Gabe Davis, three years, $39 dollars to the Jaguars he's gonna drop passes in Jacksonville yeah so Calvin Ridley's out in Jacksonville he went somewhere yeah I believe Ridley's unsigned right now still unsigned but it looks like the market is kind of opening up for him maybe in New England maybe a dark horse team I want to see a number one there, Gabe. If I can just, just for a second, if I can just take one quick macro look at this,

I don't know, maybe this part of it doesn't bother you at all. But if we're talking in football about the maximum efficiency use of how to spend your dollars, if we're going to get obsessed with the dollars of what yesterday was, how do you build a team in a salary cap sport even though it's stupid that that sport is salary cap like ridiculous assinine that it's salary cap with those people making that kind of money but you agree to it and so once you collectively bargain that you give up a lot of your rights but football

is this machine that grounds through the running back position and this is the part it's dispiriting to me. So you're gonna tell me that we're gonna maximize value in dollars so much that all of these teams are now prime for this is a good quarterback draft and I can get any of them for five years at the rookie wage scale at quarterback and I'm gonna change what matters in this sport so much that Justin

Fields is gonna get iced out there because he's not valued because you can only have him for a year. I'll take a year of Justin Fields if I could get the broken down Russell Wilson for 1.2, but Sam Darnold cost 10 million a year, like explain all of it to me as if I'm an idiot. Did you see that 60 minute special two years ago that revealed that the entire nuclear arsenal of the United States was operated off of floppy disk? And two years ago we were like, well, you gotta update that. Now I'm thinking we go back to two years ago.

Floppy disk is the way to go. The clear ones? No, no, no, I'm talking about like Oregon Trail. Like extra big, like the actual floppy ones. The floppy ones, yeah. Oh, I missed those. Greg? I've never had a floppy disk.

You know, dysentery was just diarrhea. Can't be true. What? I don't think I have, I mean, is that true? What is a floppy, you know? Is that something you insert like a CD? You never worked on floppy disks? I don't think I did.

How did you go from the original typewriter to another kind of computer? My first laptop-ish type computer was a Texas instrument, like a big suitcase that weighed about 40 pounds. Right. And you couldn't put anything in it, right? No. And so when did you start putting something, information into your computer? In on a PC, you know, a personal computer. So that was a floppy disk? But it wasn't floppy. You were at the Herald long enough that you submitted your articles off typewriter, right? Yes, oh yeah. Wow.

Did you ever hand write a Herald? Oh my gosh. Did you ever? Triplicate paper. Explain to me. What is a paper bent? Yeah, explain to me your workflow. Like from day one through the times,

the evolution of Greg Cody submitting work to the Miami Herald, I'm fascinated by it. Okay, it was literally a typewriter where I typed a story on triplicate paper and then I handed it to my editor and God knows what happened to it, but somehow it wound up in print, you know, back in those days and then, you know, a Texas editor.

No, no, wait, by courier, how are you getting, if you're out in the field, are you always doing it in the office or are you sometimes working remotely? Yeah, this is before fax machines. Like, how are you getting, if you're out in the field, are you always doing it in the office or are you sometimes working remotely? Yeah, this is before fax machines. Like how are you getting, this is before fax machines. Right, yeah, no, in that case, I'm at Lockhart Stadium covering a Dillard-Bord Anderson football game,

and after the game, I'm waiting in line behind four 14 teenage girls who are calling their parents for a ride, and finally I get there and I'm dictating my story into someone someone has a right this is the way this is pre typewriter you wrote it by typewriter and then read it into a phone no no when I'm in the office I'm writing it on a typewriter on triplicate paper when I'm in the field like covering a game I'm dictating it by phone

to an editor have you written it down on a legal pad of you are you just dictating something that is allegedly written sometimes I'm dictating it off the top my head if it's right on deadline otherwise I'm you know writing off notes and everything but that that happened for a good few years how would the thing that was typewritten get to the Miami Herald? I don't know. It's a good question. That's why you're one of the best interviewers in the business. It's not his job to figure that out.

You totally stumped him. He told the story. How did I send him it? He's not going to take a quiz. Okay. Now the big advance in technology is when the Texas instrument came along and I put the phone in rubber ears.

You put the phone, it fit in two rubber ears and that transmitted what I had written in the Texas instrument. Wow. That's crazy. What? You put a phone into it? Yeah. What a talk. The phone would have intercourse with the Texas instrument and out came a thoroughly mediocre column. And it would make a it would

make a beeping sound and then on the other end would come and back in those days it wasn't a column it was a look at this back in my day. It was more dateline. Back in my day unspooling. He loves these questions because it's all about him. I'm simply stunned, and you should be too, that his memory has receded so much, that the beginnings of his career, when he was hungriest, he simply does not remember how the work got from where he was doing it to where it needed to go.

He can't remember whether he handed something to somebody, whether it was taken off by carrier pigeon, or how it is. How can he not remember that? I remember all I needed to remember which is I wrote it on a typewriter. Well sometimes you just spoke it. You made dead balls. That's all you care about.

I handed it to my boss. Sometimes Barney Rubble's secretary would get a bird that would just drill it into a tablet. You'd hand him his paper to your boss and your boss would drive it somewhere? I don't know, he wasn't in charge of that part of it. Were there automobiles at the time? Were there working traffic roads? There was a town prior. I mean, I can't be expected to know everything. I did what I did. He did his part.

And then the editor, my boss, the editor, all my bosses are dead now. Oh no. They, you know, there's nobody to ask. John Wollin. Hey, you remember? This is the new and improved and leveled out show with the Stugas.

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I want to get, I know, there's just so many things. Mookie bets is a short stop now. Like what? What? Permanently. Yeah, like what? For now. Permanently for now. Hell, I don't understand. All the other short stops are angry about this. They're like, there goes my chance at an all-star spot. Yeah, but it opens up a spot for an outfield. We have prosthetic ears to get to.

Billy has something that he's been wanting to talk to Mike about for a while in the thing that he's been wanting to talk to Mike about for a while in the reports involving magic because I find that we've got a couple of specialties lately where the people gravitate to us for some reason. Alien talk in some areas and I believe we've got an exclusive lane on magic talk. I believe that we have two people who care about magic unreasonably. What is the name of this thing? Magic Castle? Magic Castle, yeah. What is the name of this thing, Magic Castle? Magic Castle, yeah. What is this?

It's a Magic Castle. Yeah, in Los Angeles, it's a, you know, part of a, you know, kind of a secret society. It's invite only, and the creme de la creme of the elite in Hollywood get invited occasionally for huge magic gallows. Didn't we have a member of the Magic Castle on the local hour like years ago?

Yeah. Just kind of telling us how it worked out. Still my plug. Really? No, I still haven't gone. Save Ari? I think so. Yeah, Ari Adventures.

Yeah. You guys were fascinated by this back then, and I want more information, but I wanted to ask you, and we've done this wrong because Tony just went to get Michael Venom Page. He's coming in here, MVP, and we've been talking about. What a great name. Yeah, it's a great name, and he's coming in here, MVP. And we've been talking about, What a great name.

Yeah, it's a great name. And he's an excellent fighter, and he's coming off of, people are gonna wanna hear from this person now, because I was talking about the fighting sports and how brand names get made, and if your name is MVP. Well, I don't think his name is actually Venom.

If you can go by MVP because you've made your nickname, Venom. He's Michael Venom! You're 22 and two, you're 36 years old. Tony just went to go get him, and I want to execute the bit with somebody here of taking a kick from an MMA fighter. Greg volunteer. A welterweight fighter.

$1,000 still stands, Dan. For you, right? $1,000 for you to do it. And I want to show Mazvedal because somebody did this with John Jones, incidentally. I don't know. John Jones is genuinely Stugatz, one of the most fascinating sports figures of my journalism lifetime. We have to apologize.

It's not Ori. It's Addy. Oh, sorry. That's what my invite looked like. And then I just had a thing. Oh, look, you were invited to the Magic Castle? You didn't go? Well, he had to do it ahead of time,

and I didn't know if I was gonna be able to swing it. Huh. $2. It's a great regret in my life. I wanna get in that Magic Castle. What do I have to do? No, I know a guy. I love a secret society.

It's like being invited into a moose lodge or something. You're right. You should start one, Greg. You should start your own. Are you in any secret societies? I am developing a secret society revolving around me. And it's gonna be called the Cotery, C-O-T-E-R-I-E. I like it.

I'm in. Yeah, the Cotery. And of course. A club of self involvement? We all know what the word means. That's my club. Club narcissism everybody. Stunning that your secret society would be the worst kept secret in all of journalism which is Greg Cody is obsessed with Greg Cody featuring coterie. That podcast comes out on Mondays. Thank you. You just found out about it so it was a good, well kept secret. Yeah, I mean we've been, the Greg Cody show

listeners have been called my coterie and now we're thinking of expanding it in some ways and by the way the newest episode of the Greg Cody show podcast is one of our most monumental ever. The controversial Ed Newman interview finally runs. And downloads are down because of it. Well, give it some time. My dad was like maybe you guys are right. We have 600 less downloads than we did last week. Give it time. He hasn't plugged it yet. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, Podcast until now I can't really put my finger on it why I'm so drawn to just unabashed narcissism. Thank you The idea of prosthetic ears though is something that really appeals You know and we began by discussing Amputation well it also starts with if you look at my dad dad take your headphones off real fast stew gots look at my dad straight ahead

You can't see my dad's ears. Yeah, which one's real which one now they're like my dad's straight ahead you can't see my dad's ears yeah which ones real which now they're like pain right now look at us right here in this room I want Billy and Mike to see it like look at us look at us straight ahead you can't see my dad's ears people pay big money to pin their ears back you know it's the only part of your body right never stops growing in the in the entire studio no one has disappearing ears like I do well I actually I thought the nose I thought the nose was also sorry Chris I thought the nose was also, sorry, Chris, I thought the nose was also that the ears and the nose

were two things that grew. Well, that would be bad news if it was. Just like those. The trivia is like it's the only part of the body. Let me see. The only part, I'm like a dog with a bone on this one. Well, I have large, cody ears that have a crease in them. They're not attractive ears.

The ear itself is one of the ugliest parts of the human body. But if I could get beautifully sculpted prosthetic ears and have them planted on both sides of my head, I think it would really enhance my whole aura. Well, would you remove your ears for said ear implants or would they sit over them? No, no, because I'd want them to be smaller.

It would involve a double ear amputation. Good shout, Dan Levittard Ears and nose. Wow, you learn something every day with this show. Maybe for the coterie, Greg, instead of like the water buffaloes, you know, like the Flintstones had the big hat, maybe you have big like, almost princess leotype earmuffs that go on. That guy is a thinker. Chris Cody was just showing me that he has his father's ears He's got ears. They're not flaps. You don't see them going off to the side. They don't protrude They are stuck to there sticking to sport. Yeah, we're stuck to the side of their face And and if you can't see them then what's the big deal?

Yeah, but if you get a prosthetic was my point to my dad is you're gonna have to get one that's pinned back or else You're gonna have one ear. That's why do you want them to be what your no one has ever thought of your ears before now other than you right this is the this is the place of your greatest narcissism like no one's noticing your ears one way or the other that's the problem you can't see him I don't want them seen yeah I don't like flat back ears I love the the peanut shaped ear that is visible from The front view you know and and so naturally you're gonna have a double

Prosthetic ear situation also you have the Cody crease I do thing yeah, which is patent pending if I pass that down to Graceland by any chance her It develops like right now like some people think I'm developing it You don't see the crease yet, but there's like signs of a crease. Late in life. Oh yeah. As your ear grows, the crease grows. Yeah, and at some point, the crease is so deep,

you could like plant crops in it. You know, it's like unappealing. I remember when my daughter was like an infant, we blamed my dad for ruining her ear, when it was just something that like happens with, like she had this little thing on her ear, and it went away like a couple months later. No, it's the coterie. It's descended from the ear poison of your grandfather.

My dad would do this thing where he'd grab her ears and like and all of a sudden she had this thing. So there was like a three week period where me and my wife were legitimately blaming my dad for ruining my daughter's ear. I mean you want to make sure that they don't get pinned back to his head. That's what he was trying to look out for. It's genetic. Runs in the family. It is indeed. I need some help with the production of this because Tony, our UFC guy, his MMA hangouts are developing a following and he just went to go get MVP.

This is, he's joining us in studio and we've been talking about these leg kicks. It started with Jorge Mosvedal. We had his driver on because this was a penalty for Jorge Mosvedal. You arrive late at on because this was a penalty for Jorge Mosvedal. You arrive late at work, this is what you get right here if you're late at work. This is his driver and we had his driver on and he came on and he said even though that looks really bad, he said he was fine and he looks like he's sniveling and tough after the fact.

He doesn't look great there, but regardless, he says it wasn't that big a deal. Seems excessive. And I began talking about John Jones because he did this the other day as well. And this is something that goes much differently. And I will set, he did it twice to him here. He's okay here, and I don't know why they would go again. It was not, oh, now watch.

Yes, he got him on the first shot. He's like, oh, the first one didn't hurt Yes, but this yes the second one does yes, and then of course it's not just crutches It's also that is gonna hurt a great deal. Oh my god. Are you guys okay now doing MVP? Some he will kick someone here for a thousand dollars. Well first I don't know if he's agreed to this so we gotta ask him yeah, who's fronting the money? Stugott says he will do it for a thousand dollars. I told him it's unwise for him to do that for $1,000. Well, now that I've seen that video, it's up to $10,000.

Well, you mean? What do you? But we? John Jones had good years. We made a deal. Yeah, he did. There was a deal made. You said, well, I mean, you said $1,000.

Right, I'm changing the deal. Greg offered for free before the show. We've learned nothing since the pepper nothing at all I saw this wash upon my radar and I was just like this is a really bad idea guys I think Tony's our guy he was the one before the Tony was talking about checking the kick Tony's got to take the kick anyways he will be here he will be here in moments if I had the last name page I would have a middle name nickname that was more apropos instead of Michael Anyways, he will be here in moments. If I had the last name, Page, I would have a middle name, nickname that was more apropos.

Instead of Michael Venom Page, it would be something like Michael Blank Page. Michael turned the page? Exactly, something like that. Yeah, I think, you know, because Venom and Page, it just doesn't really fit. Maybe Woody. Woody Page, that's not bad.

That's pretty good. Michael Woody Page. Woody Page, yeah That's pretty good Michael Woody page Woody page. Yeah, I was Michael Woody. I'd want to be Michael Woody woodpecker Hell kind of a wiggle I wear on the coterie I will join your cult Thank you You're in the coterie. It's not a cult. It's a social club Called PFI. Yeah Thank you. You're in the coterie. It's not a cult. It's a social club. It's a society of sorts. It's called PFPI. Yeah.

Mike would be a controversial ad to PFPI. Really? Yeah. You're the only one that cares. You didn't want Michael's long-time girlfriend in it. Well, you know, they're not married yet. We're still trying to push that rock down the road. It's either not.

Right. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Are you saying that the only way into the fantasy football family is to marry your wayward youngest son? Yes, but that's main PMPI. He didn't want my daughter in it either.

I could take a blood oath. She hasn't married one of his sons. Well, your daughter's in by blood. But he scratches your back and you scratch his. It's something out of 1800s royalty. He's bequeathing his son's. Well, your daughter's in by blood. But he scratches your back and you scratch his. Something out of 1800s royalty, he's bequeathing his son. He wants his son off the books. We can take a blood oath. And that way the Ruiz family and the Cody families are forever intertwined.

We could do that. Doesn't the secret society admission membership seem extreme to you that what you have to pledge is love forever to his firstborn son To get into the gala where he wears an old leisure suit suit from the 80s And then I'm like drinking a Kool-Aid by the end of it And we're in Nike's on my way to heaven or wherever there you go. It's a closest. It's a royal family Point toss space. It's America's royal family. I mean, I'm so worried about artificial intelligence. It's a closest, it's a royal family, PFI. Point toss. Space. It's America's royal family. I mean, I'm so worried about artificial intelligence. Let's just go.

I ain't here for a long time when we work at time. I'll join your call. Greg, you worried about Kate at all? That's weird, huh? What's going on over there? They're Photoshopped, those photos. They are Photoshopped. Really?

Yeah. I hate all that stuff. I hate the fake Adam Shepter. I don't even like that there's fake experts out there. This isn't the same as Adorn Shepter. That's another thing that my dad discovered on this week's Craig Cody show He discovered fake Twitter accounts. I wasn't aware all of a sudden it really messed with my life for a minute because There's somebody who I thought was Adam Schefter reporting that the dolphins have signed to a so I'm like, ah shit I'm looking bets is a shortstop Yn ymwneud yw'r llwyddiad, yw'r llwyddiad yn ymwneud yw'r llwyddiad.