The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: The Top 5 Three-way

Episode Date: December 12, 2023

Billy continues our discussion on Shohei Ohtani and his record-setting contract with the Dodgers, the contract deferments, TV contracts and stardom, and whether or not the Dodgers owners will sell the team before paying Ohtani. Then, Jeremy won't shut up, and we get to three Top 5 lists at the same time: Stugotz's teams you don't want to face in the NFL Playoffs, Chris Cote's teams you DO want to see in the NFL Playoffs, and Greg Cote's teams you'd be ambivalent about seeing in the NFL Playoffs. Plus, Tommy Devito's agent, a Turkish Soccer fight, and Greg tries to learn how to do the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Welcome to the big, sweet, presented by Giraffe King. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to 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

that if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, that face and the habitual liar. I wanted to ask Pablo, but we ran out of time and Mike sure is coming on later to give us a stat and I'm sure we'll talk about Otani.

The Dodgers are gonna sell in 10 years, right? Like, you should sell the team before you have to pay someone $680 million. That's what David Samson did with the Marlins. They did that with Jean-Carlo Stanton. Well, they traded Stanton. I know, but the way they sold the team with the understanding they never they did that with Jean-Carlo Stanton. Well, they traded Stanton. I know, but the way that they sold the team with the understanding that they'd never

technically didn't trade him, but yeah. They'd never have to get to pay the brunt of that contract. They'd be able to trade it. It was the move. They increased the value of their franchise out of nowhere. People were wondering, why would they give Jean, why would the Marlins, an notoriously cheap franchise,

give Jean-Carlo Stanton that much money? And it's because you increase the value of your franchise so that you can sell it down the road And you don't actually have to pay the money They can afford this stuff with their regional television contract They've got the biggest one in the sport. It's the biggest advantage in the sport to be able to have more money than everyone else And just pay other players because you're made for TV product makes more money than everyone else. Is this player worth it? Seriously. Is he worth $700 million?

I'm not certain any players worth $700 million, but Dan, I'm going to say it. He's overrated. Shohei Otoni is overrated. He has had one 100 RBI season, one. He has never taken his team to the playoffs. The next playoff game he plays will be his first playoff game of his career. He can't pitch next year. $700 million seems like a lot of money for a guy who's 29 years old and had one 100 or B.I. season and

could it make it to the playoffs with Mike Trump? He's overrated. You could have ended that sentence many words earlier by just simply saying $700 million is a lot of money, period. That was wrong. That no one is worth probably in sports or outside of sports because it's such an enormous amount of money. But if any player in baseball were worth that amount of money, this would be the one. I'm not so certain. Okay, you cannot be so certain. You're using terrible stats. It's not just that you're not using the advanced stats. Oh, you want the OPS? You want some of that? Because he's been over 900, I think, twice in his career a thousand once. That was last year. That was his best year of his career

at the age of 29 Every other year. It's been like eight hundred eight fifty eight forty eights. I mean he's overrated. I It's a hard act to follow But let me try it this way, okay before the contract He wasn't overrated, but now that you attach $700 million to show Hey Otani overrated correct Thank you. I love how you're holding the 95 RBI's the last two seasons against him that you attach $700 million to show Hey O'Tani overrated. Correct. Thank you. I love how you're holding the 95 RBI's

the last two seasons against him. Get 100. It's an interesting game where you figure out how do you manage to hit 45 homeruns and only have 95 RBI's? I mean, it's because of the angels, but. That's correct. It seems impossible.

It does seem hard, but also though, I believe that I'm inching towards to God's side, where if Otoni had just gotten me to the helpful round number of 100 there instead of 95, I'd be willing to cast aside all my other more informed baseball knowledge and just say, yeah, I'm more comfortable with the nice, round number of give me an extra zero in there so I can make him not over and not over rated. But by deferring all the money, it's perfect because now he's not over rated until 10 years from now

because he's only making $2 million in total. So actually he's the best value player in baseball. You do have to wonder though, like this is gonna be a second Tommy John surgery. Like, how good is he gonna be when he comes back as a picture? Right. He'll never pitch again. Yeah. He's oblivious. You feel concentrated on his bat. They may have paid him $70 million to get 95 RBI's a year. Well, you know,

maybe he'll get an extra five and everybody will be happy. Now we're talking. Yeah. Jeremy, please put on the poll, Judeo at Levitard show is Otani overrated and just put a bunch of zeros as the O in overrated on the front end of that. Jeremy, I'd like to do a top five list with you. Just find as fast as you can on the internet over here, and I'll come to you in a couple of seconds. The silliest payments in baseball. Just find for me a bunch of them and put together a top five and let me know, you're a high achiever, it's kind of annoying. You are a theater kid, a performer. You are somebody who moves very fast. So just scour the entirety of the internet and give me a top five list on all silly payments, but still gots. I don't know if he's going to pitch it's actually a reasonable concern

because one of the reasons that he's Baybruth in the modern form, the only reason he's Baybruth in the modern form is because he does both things and he does both things in a way that have value and is stupefifying. I would never call such an athletic feat under any circumstance overrated to be great at those two things in that sport. He is properly rated. You cannot rate that highly enough. There is no player like him anywhere in the sport.

You have to go back 100 years when Babe Ruth was playing against people who had second jobs as plumbers to find anything like this. I understand that. He was 10 and three last year, had a 314 ERA, basically a three ERA for his career, Dan. But if he can't pitch, that's problematic. Like that is.

Like, you're signing him to that deal because you're hoping he could both, you know, he could both hit and he could pitch. And if he can't do one of those two things, I question whether or not he's worth $700 million. I'm telling you, the contract has everything to do with it. Like when you attach that amount of money to someone, suddenly they look overrated in your eyes. But you are someone who knows sports enough to know that this is not your money. And so the Dodgers don't actually have to spend their money wisely.

They just have to get stars and keep the buzz around and it doesn't matter how they get the stars. They need to get their programming. So, God's don't think of this as well. Is he going to be someone who helps them win a title? That's the reason they're trying to get him. But the functioning of the business that allows for the contract. Hey, get me an LA star, LA love stars. We need stars.

The Dodgers have failed. The Braves are better. The Braves are younger. We took Freddie Freeman and we're still not good enough because the Braves are gonna be here for a while. How do we fix this? Get another television star.

That he's a baseball star is also nice, but get me in Hollywood someone who feels big who's gonna put more people in my in my ballpark these aren't even I mean you can say their baseball moves but if we're talking about we're not talking about the baseball parts of this we're talking about this because of the money parts of this and as a business move this is the Dodgers going Hollywood we're gonna all of it. It's also the tracking of him on airplanes where it's like, wait a minute, baseball never feels like this. This is an investment

you spend in order for your television program to be a nightly thing that has a star in the middle of it. It feels a bit unfair though, right? Like the Dodgers, the rich get richer. I understand what you're saying. It's good for the team. It's good for TV contracts. It's good for the fans in LA. I understand that. It's great for the team, it's good for TV contracts, it's good for the fans in LA. I understand that. It's great for Otani, right? He's got $770 million, but it just seems, I don't know. It seems like people are upset because the richer getting,

it feels like the Yankees stand back in the day when they were spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year. It's like, man, how many stars do you need? Let's spread the wealth a little bit. But there's an expectation with the Dodgers when a big free agent comes up, they have to be in the game and probably get that guy.

And they got him. Well, that's why the contract is someone annoying if you're a baseball fan because it's the rich getting richer at $2 million a year. So now the money that they were gonna commit, they now can commit to yet another star that they can get where in any other case, it's like, well well you only have enough money

for so many stars but if you're paying him two million dollars now you can go get someone else on top of him. I'm surprised the players union allowed this kind of a deferral of that much of such a high percentage of that contract because that could become a trend that essentially allows you to to ridiculously back end the contract. That's what the Marlins did to a much lesser degree with young Carlos Stanton when it was back ended and the Marlins knew that he was going to be traded long before the end of that contract. But this is taking it to an extreme degree. You know, you can't do you can do it obviously, but I think the players union is going to stop

deferrals like this moving forward i feel bad for bobby bonilla is ten years from now we're gonna start celebrating otonny day and it's just got like uh... sixty eight million lord willing i mean he's got a lot more faith in the nine would love to celebrate otonny day i'll take that right now just getting there

uh... you're getting there. Just Earth getting there. Dude, I'm trying to get past next November. I legitimately have never had the thought ever in the history of contracts given. It has never occurred to me the idea of having to consider. Well, is the economy, it not just baseball's economy, is money gonna be the same thing 10 years from now if we're all fighting, if all the countries are fighting

over money and we're destroying the earth because oil makes money and all of that money is coming to sport. I think Mike is wondering whether or not we're gonna be here, period, as a planet. Understood. And before that though, the economy will collapse. Before the, but that's good.

And the way these steps works to God's, it's economy falls first, then earth, not, not earth, earth collapses. And then there's one person at a bank saying, where'd the economy go? What's earth without money? One surviving, I know your entire earth is money. I don't think you need to really need to worry

about the earth collapsing, because if it does, like you're dead, right? So like if you're living in constant fear of the earth and not existing, you're kind of wasting your time, because you yourself are not ever going to stop the earth. No offense, I believe in all of you as being these great people,

but there's nothing any of you are gonna do to stop the earth from not existing if that's what's gonna happen. There's gonna buck up again, set and say, every vote counts. I just wanna put it out there, Dan, that if it's better for Metal Arc, I'm willing to take an Otoni type deal

where you wanna like promise me a lot of money on the backend like seven or eight years from now. Oh really? I'll take a discount, but you gotta come correct though. All right, well we might do that though. We might do that back into deals. We got about that. Did I just screw myself?

We got about 18 months left on our track. I can't deal. I said I'm under. Dose coin. For the team, I'll do it. OK, but did you hear what I said? We have about 18 months left on our draft. That did a more in detail.

I'll gamble on us. 10 years from now. But I'm going to need a big promise on that back end. How much is that O'Dell Beckham contract that was like half crypto worth now? I unfortunately, I think that Jeremy is ready to give us his list, but it has been too slow. He thinks he's a high achiever.

He gives off high achiever. I expected that faster, Jeremy. You've got five payments, but now we're gonna have to wait for it because your timing is a little slow and when he the poo is all jacked up on honey and Your games not quite where it needs to be yet, and so we will wait a second You have fouled up the timing for a couple of different reasons in the first hour of the show I also haven't been able to talk enough dolphins because of you Cody, did you have any thoughts on a tiny Yeah, I wonder what's next Don't let it hard. Few things feel better than when you're on a roller coaster with no underwear.

Note it. Try it. A very weird observation by Stugat. You should try it. Don't knock it until you try it, Dan out. Stugat! You know what Stugat, I reconsider my position. I have not tried it and so I won't knock it.

Please explain to us in as much elaboration as you can. Why it's so wonderful to ride on a roller coaster with no underwear. Well, you just get that incredible breeze that you can only get when you're high up on a roller coaster and it's about to go down and when it goes down, oh, does it feel good? It's like air conditioning inside your shorts. It's amazing. It really is.

This is the Dalabatar show with the Stugats. Despite being a disappointment in the last segment, I do have a top five silliest payments in baseball headed into 2024. Dandy, want it now? Uh, your punishment, your punishment for slowness is you're going to get off the second top five list. It's been demoted in this segment, because stu got to is a head of you in hierarchy the pecking order has been consistently getting annoyed by how much your yammering because it cuts into his time i didn't say that how would i know it otherwise top five stu got's has

to get one shut up uh stu got's has top has top five and America has been waiting for this because when Stugots gets fired up and starts throwing things in the furnace, he comes up with the best of the sports stuff that people want to hear. And he's got, this is amazing. It's just a jewel. I'm surprised he didn't hoard it on God bless football. I'm so happy. He shares it with us here. Top five teams you don't want to see in the playoffs.

Oh, yes, that's I'm there now. I mean, it's time to start thinking about it. These are the teams that the elite teams don't want to see in the playoffs. Before it, thank you. I thought I explained that, but I appreciate the elaboration. I'm savoring home the play. Before you do that, I just want to know because after we went off of Max, Stugots with a giant smile on his face said to Greg Cody, Greg, I don't understand

how you don't understand that whenever he asks you Dan asks you a direct question It's because we're right up against the clock But I further don't understand that when he tells you in that question because Jeremy's fouled up the timing of everything Hey Jeremy, we can't do your segment because there's no time Greg tell us all your thoughts on Otani It seems a bit of a poker tell there that you should have been able to see that I was walking you into a timed out break.

I know, I feel it. I start to talk and then I immediately sag inwardly because I know that that damn horn sound is upon me. It's gonna be any second now. It's what a feeling. I felt the need to deliver it as James Earl Jones in field of dreams because, you you know he said the one constant throughout time is baseball and i said the one constant throughout the show

is what dan is asking you a direct question it means you're up against it i know it uh... could not have been telegraphed anymore i was ashamed of myself as i did it i felt like i was abusing an old person. Yeah, you were. Ageism. Yeah, everything. Because I did it so poorly, it felt to me like tripping someone who doesn't have eyesight. Right. Like it felt cruel.

I did it poorly, not check. You've done that? Speaking from experience. Strange reference point. It really was. I only do it on Christmas day. It's part of, oh, but everyone does it. Of course, but it's part of how I celebrate the holidays. It doesn't even count on Christmas day. I said to Greg Cody, Greg, give me all your thoughts on this. We're out of time, Jeremy, you're not allowed to speak because you're a Yammer and we don't have enough time. Greg Cody leaned into it, gave us three syllables and didn't ever see it coming. It is like tripping a person

who never sees it coming. Top five teams you do not want to see in the playoffs. Number five, Dan, the New York football giants. They are in the mix. Tommy DeVito, you have agents kissing parents. You have parents kissing parents. You have everyone kissing each other. A little magic. You have a solid defense. And of course, you have Wake kissing parents you have everyone kissing each other a little magic you have a solid defense And of course you have wake martin Dale no one wants to see him. I feel like they're on the exact opposite list

They're in the mix. They're right there. Teens that you want to see in the play. That's a team you do not want that defense is good And there is some magic with Tommy DeVito Chris can you put together please and I'm gonna put this ahead of the line on Jeremy as well teams You do want to see in the playoffs and see how many of them are the same as Stugat's list here. Can I get a picture, please, on the screen as fast as humanly possible of Tommy DeVito's agent, who I believe is in a costume. I do not believe that is either a real agent

or a real human being. Tommy said he's the Italian stallion of agents. I love that. Don't wanna face him, Dan. Tommy DeVito, I have a theory on everything that's happening there that we will get to at some point in the show because it's fascinating to see someone who lives at home take the lane of nobody knows how to evaluate quarterbacks.

You know what I'm gonna do to get to the commercials in New York? I'm just going to make it as fun and strange as possible. I'm going to play with this and I'm going to have an entirely different experience in New York than Zach Wilson is having because I don't have expectations and look at my agent. I'm going to keep reducing my expectations by telling you I live in home, I live with my family, and I'm going to go full Italian, and I'm going to see if I can get the commercials that way. Sports are great though in this way, right? Because this is a kid from New Jersey, from Livingston went to Syracuse.

I know a million Tommy Davitos. I grew up with all of them. I mean, obserious. And he's now, he's living out his dream playing quarterback and doing it well for the Giants. I mean, I love sports. Leaning into all of the Italian stuff as his agent kisses his dad on the cheek and he comes out with the chain

and the agents wearing the fedora. As he lives at home, he's looking for the DeGiorno's sponsorship, right? Like the make at home pizza, it's perfect for him. He literally is leaning into all of it. Even if he ends up not being good, he's gonna end up with all these sponsors. He also needs to stay at home.'s part of the story right like if

he leaves and gets an apartment in the upper west side of Manhattan everything's gonna fall apart I'm telling you I know that outfit is a costume because I was a mobster for Halloween and third grade and I had that exact same outfit on we are fighting a picture from my dad's Facebook. He exact same. No, I don't think so. That's great. That's a costume. I know it. You guys would say, is it, is the name of the show, Peaky Binders?

Peaky Binders? Oh man, I love all of these four dollars. I love Peaky Binders. I love all of these four dollars. I love all of these four dollars. I love all of these four dollars. I love all of these four dollars. I love all of these four dollars.

I love all of these four dollars. I love all of these four dollars. I love all of these four dollars. I love all of these four dollars. I love all of these four dollars. I love all of these four dollars. I love all of these four dollars. I love all of these four dollars. I love all of these four dollars. You're almost there. Is it a correct is it a correct appraisal? Peaky blinders the way that he looks Something out of that was got a killing Murphy lips. I mean well close no one has killing Murphy's lips Right, Lewis number four stugots the Denver Broncos, Dan Sean Peyton a coach who has been there and done it Russell Wilson a quarterback who has been there and done it. Russell Wilson, a quarterback who has been there and done it. Plenty of playoff experience and a lot of jewelry. Don't want to face them.

Uh, Stugots, can you just stop for a second? I'd like to now mix the lists. Uh, Chris Cody, uh, your number five top five teams you do want to see in the playoffs. Number five. The Broncos. Wow. Crazy. That's insane. The dolphins will lose number from teams that have a chance to get. Obviously, it's not the Carolina Panthers. It's teams that you have a chance to get to the playoffs. Number four, Chris Cody, the Giants. Wait a minute. The wink Martin Dale. Number three Stu got the Rams Dan Shaw McVey, Matthew Stafford, Aaron Donald, Championship DNA, and two and two of the funniest names in the history of sports, Pukin' Akua, and two-two at well. I mean, you do not want to

see those two in the NFL playoffs. The Rams are good. Be careful. If you're interested, I have a top five list of teams you're ambivalent about playing in that I love that, yeah, good luck. Number two stugots. Not two to all, we've read it nice. No, I'm not going to Chris, you know, I'm going to mix it up. Okay, number five, Greg Cody. The Steelers.

Number three, Chris Cody. The Steelers. Ha! Number four, Greg Cody. The Chargers. Number four Greg Cody the chargers minus herberd They're not in it though. They're five and eight. They're in it. They're on the periphery of being in it Everyone's in it. They'd be in it in NFC. Mm-hmm. They're in it in it to win it Thank you. I made that praise up in it to win it. It just came to me. It's unbelievable. Rolls right off the tongue. Yeah, it does. I think it might catch on. You think?

Could be a t-shirt sale at the Greg Cody show. Christopher get on that in it to win it with quotes maybe in it to win it like a phrase. Right. Okay. Where were we we that's an excellent question haha still got to you at number three number two I'm at number two Dan number two still got the Buffalo Bills Josh Allen does it care who you are or where he plays you they're dangerous I put it on the pole does Josh can does Josh Allen care who you are or where he plays you. He's gonna throw it to you. And that you can be anybody. He's gonna have to overcome whatever he does initially. What's amazing to me about the amount of time we spent on Caderius Tony yesterday is that the guy who gets to skate on what Sunday was through guys,

Josh Allen had like four or five plates where he's clearly a centaur. No one can tackle him, but he's about to go down to his knees and you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do what a four year old would do in this situation. I'm just gonna throw it up in the air and flutter it out and hope someone is around it

that is in my colors. Ridiculously reckless. All four of them could have ended up in a linebacker's and hope someone is around it that is in my colors. Ridiculously reckless. All four of them could have ended up in a linebacker's lap for a pick six, because he didn't know where he was putting it. Number two, Chris Cody. Teams you wanna see in the playoffs, number two, Colts.

Yeah. Hey, Grace. Where are we on Greg Cody's ambivalent list? Number three. Number three, Greg Cody. Where are we on Greg Cody's ambivalent list? Number three. Number three, Greg Cody. The Vikings. Clear your throat. Not into the microphone.

You said clear my throat. Right here. Where am I going? Following orders, yeah. Thank you. Number one, Sturghott. The Cleveland Browns. Defense wins, championship chips.

They have a great one and they have a quarterback who never sweats. Watch out. It is true, he doesn't sweat. Ever. His stoicism, put it on the pole. Does Joe lead the league in stoicism? Number one, Chris Cody.

Teams you wanna see in the playoffs, number one, the entire NFC South. D-Fence wins. You can pick any of them. That's it. That's excellent. In fact, we can make this all three of these lists. That's honestly your best work. And it's spectacular. And it's only Stugat's list because it's literal in that case. None of us want to see those teams actually in the playoffs. Greg Cody, are we on number two or number one with your ambivalent? We're on number two? The Browns. Baker could be a problem.

I'm just saying. Oh, well, uh, but that's Tampa. He said he just said the Browns. I thought he said NFC South, didn't he? Okay, but then we went to my dad. I know. I was going back. I know there's a lot going on here Dan I was going well listen

It is offensive because Baker Baker used to be a brown So that's why I was confusing for a lot going on Jeremy won't stop talking kitchen you did That is correct. He won't stop talking as either Jeremy or as Winnie the Pooh. But we need to get to our climactic and most important because we're all done, right? Everyone is all done here? I have a number one to go. Okay, so finally. That's where he was at. The number one most ambivalent team from the playoffs. The Colts. This is Inu and unimproved on Lebatar Show with the Stugas.

Gamble on by draft Kings Don't let a part I heard the hotel industry is moving away from providing shampoo and so Oh, don't get me started on them. Yeah, do not get me started on hotels. Oh, guys They do what they take from me. I feel like I'm entitled to take something from them That is you gonna throw away the shampoo. They're gonna throw away the so I'm not even talking about that I'm talking about the sheets and I'm talking about the towels stugas Take something from them. That is the ability. Yes. They're gonna throw away the shampoo. They're gonna throw away the soap. I'm not even talking about that. I'm talking about the sheets and I'm talking about the towels.

Still gots. Oh, we really care about the environment. So please, hang up your towels and get out of here. You just don't want to wash these towels. Because it's gonna cost you money to wash these towels. All right, this whole thing about you're saving the whales or you're saving the turtles or whatever. Because I put my towel on a hanger.

It is so full of it. All right, you just don't want to give me fresh towels every day. Just call it what it is. Tell me you don't want to give me fresh towels. I'm still going to throw it on the floor. All right. I feel like water is a renewable resource. And you're not really saving the ocean by using water to clean my towel. Are you? Am I missing something? What am I missing? Am I missing something? The end of the story. This is the Dalaibertar Show with the Stugats. I remember years ago Stugats, the video coming out of a fight of a basketball game overseas. And the fight had thrown chairs and was totally insane. And I thought to myself, if that had happened in our country, in the NBA, it would have

echoed like the malice at the palace. Of course. It would have been a seismic national sports event that a fight and the video of a fight that concerned people had been in this country, it would have been received vastly differently because we cared about the sport and we cared about the thing that happens in this country and I was reminded of it when I saw a video, Turkish soccer, a video of an owner in Turkish soccer, being so displeased with the referees, everyone's displeased

with the referees. This is what the pandemic caused. The greatest virus that echoes, that doesn't kill a bunch of people, but kills my soul every day in the content business is the pandemic birth, the general unhappiness with the refereeing. Even Andy Reed is doing it. He's the nicest birth, the general unhappiness with the refereeing. Even Andy Reed is doing it.

He's the nicest man in the world. Even my homes is doing it. Look, all sorts of pandemic collateral of things in odd places that hurt because our mental health has been challenged as a human race by nothing more than a pandemic that has birthed complaining about referees in a way I've never seen before. How are you guys so chill as this video is playing right now? There is a team owner from a Turkish club in Ankara punching the lights out of an official flush. Like we can you guys have seen this before?

No, no, this is made a glass. This is the, wow, the part I seen, the part you should see that, some of the remnants of this fight, dude, did damage. He did damage, and if you can show that again, look, look how he caught him. Yes, lush. If you can show me from the other angle though, if you can show me that video just one more time,

again, of a Turkish owner, just straight knuckles, right to the face, I don't know what Jeff Passon did to him to deserve that, but Jeff Passon goes down like a sack of potatoes, and it is a punch that if it had happened in this country, can you imagine? I don't know who owns the Kansas City Chiefs is it's still the Hunt family? Yeah.

Can you imagine? It will always be the Hunt family. Look at that. Give him a black eye immediately. It hurt really bad. It put it on the pole, Ju-ju. Will the hunt family always own the chiefs? Will it always be the hunt family?

Look at the aftermath of that punch right there. Oh, brother. I don't know why that photo is so funny. The hospital in a neck brace? Why does he have a neck brace for getting punched in the chair? My guy's trying to get paid. Oh, you don't call the lawsuits, I mean. The guy Dove, all right, the rift took a dive.

What is what I saw? Is he giving a statement? The neck braces are funny. I'm just gonna come on and say it. I love Greg's posture right now. What? You're so good at this that you're super relaxed and confident. I have a great legs.

And my living room. I got to take a dive. I had to swing my coffee. living room. Guy took a dive. Sweet my coffee. I think he did take a dive. He dramatically fell. You know, no matter how square the punch landed, the guy took a dive. He exaggerated. I never has anyone been so relaxed and yet so bad at something.

I know what's happening here. I think I need to draw up another play for Greg Cody to get him back involved. Yeah, we do. Never been uninvolved. All right, let's do this. This is what just happened. So he is uninvolved. He gets hurt and narcissistic when we're not selling his book or playing his songs. He already checked out. The pride of the lion. This book. He already checked out when we played his song at the beginning. He's had enough for today. Once he gets his thing, he just wanders away because it's the only reason he's actually here.

He took a dive and you know it. That would have been better than what you did. I just did it. See, exclamation point. The thing? The thing, exactly. That was in your headphone. Oh my God, I love you.

That's great. I slipped into late. Oh, I took the dog outside. Now I will be raised. You're lazy, Ness, I will chide. A little heads up. Just look it up for yourself. What have been I? Why is technology your vice? It's cold enough for so flurry

Greg, you could go go in a hurry I feel the chill rush through the door The hot today is 74 But I couldn't just say You don't need to tell you That is cold That's outside That is the debut of a singing early in Cody. I wish it had never happened. Surely singing. That was sing talking like a two hours of recording with the

Eddie. Wow. Let me explain something to you about the Cody family dynamic and you can catch all of it at the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody podcast. With, but thank you. Fine. The experience of Greg Cody on Tuesdays, if you had not noticed, is deteriorating. Are we all? The days are here.

He talks about me like I'm not even here. Well, I talk about you in the meetings when you're not there I let you do the same way and You're trying to work an endgame. You're trying to figure out how to get rid of me without hurting my feelings No, the end you do it the end game is I'm worried you're gonna end us all before we get to whatever it is Pays your son in 10 years because he's deferred all his payments and we still own, we still own a company that works that you have not destroyed.

But the thing that I wanna explain to the audience about what the Greg Cody experience is and you've heard it just a couple of times today, it happens a lot. They're very often, most of the time, maybe a hundred percent, that our producers are trying to whisper to something to Greg Cody and he doesn't know what's on air

and what's not on air. And so he responds always as if it was on air and other people could hear it, but it was only him who could hear it. So now all you're getting is the response, which doesn't make any sense, where it is that it's placed. But here's what's funny about what happened.

I don't even remember what it was about. While you were talking at one point, your son who produces your podcast, whispered in my ear and I can make a distinction between what's on the air and what's not on the air. He whispered in my ear in disgust spat at you. He gave you nothing there. And for that moment, I did not know it was actually your son or what I was thinking in my own hand that just happened to come in your son's voice because I'm going crazy. And you're making it worse. That your thoughts and Chris' voice, I was not sure. Yes, weird. Yes, agreed.

Agreed. I am your thoughts. There's a simple solution to all this. There really is. Who are we? Okay. If people are addressing me, meaning to, normally, they speak in their own voice. When they're addressing me through the speaker and only I am supposed to hear them, just pinch your nose. You know, speak like this so that it's a different kind of voice. And I have no idea. I have a crystal clear idea. All right, this time he's just speaking me directly because he's gone like this.

He's speaking like this. And if you don't do that, if you speak to me your yeah, if you speak to me in your in your regular voice And I know that it's on the air. Yeah, is that too much to ask this guy's an idiot But someone just pinched their nose and said that kind of thing and you responded. Yeah So it's still the Oh really? This is the part that we have told him over the last two months when he files a complaint like this, you know what our answer is in here, right?

Our answer in here is always Greg. I wore a literally busset on the air. That's my Brian. You're laughing. You picked your nose. I did. It was funny. It was funny.

When I hear something funny, I laugh. Greg, it's a joke that's provided for you. It's proud of fixes. It's a work in progress as we do the show. But the response, what Greg Cody keeps trying to get us to alter things that help him in the very easy doing of talking into a microphone. And what our explanation is again and again to Greg Cody

when he says you have to put more tools in place that will help me is Greg. For years on ESPN radio and video, Dan was wearing a physical clock on a baseball cap in order to help you with the clock. We set up a great joke on you in the last segment. All it required was for you to say the Indianapolis Colts so that you could get clipped

in the multicellabic word Indianapolis. But because you said the Colts, and only that, you ruined the joke. I mean, we should have recognized the cadence. Thank you. You got to know that teammate. Exactly. Who says the Indianapolis Gold? Nobody says that.

Nobody says that. They're the only Colts and Sports. Is there even a college team nickname Colts? I can't think of one. Lucy, at some point during the show today, I wish to get to your video from Army Navy. But in terms of giving us a preview, I was very worried about this one. I was surprised that the SEC Championship game had a shitty, shitty parking

lot tailgating situation. I was legitimately stunned by that. I thought, for sure, Georgia Alabama was just going to be the whole thing, was going to be like Pat McAfee on game day, where it's just everyone barking and shouting and drunk behind McAfee as he's leading these rolling cheers of insanity in the biggest game of the year. I think when you put those games at a neutral field, a professional field with a corporate environment, it takes away from the tailgating experience, I think. No, you're absolutely right. There is no, you've never said anything more correct.

Well, thank you. There is nothing that can ruin the fun of Having a soul more than corporations There they are there. They are there seven of them sitting out there. Yeah, there are so many of them out there Yes, I feel them in the other room trying to Kin is inter dialogue down the cool it Please Chris there is So, and Ken is interdialogged on the cool it. Please, Chris. There is a certain soulfulness required of fun, art, sports, enjoyment that corporations can have in general trouble with, but when she told me that... Why like Dan the Ramlin man? Well, he's talking about discomfort in California As he tries to introduce us to all the smoke

But he's taking four minutes to get to the point My quants in the bringing home I thought that servicemen might be cautious around microphones and not want to say anything that would embarrass the country and they would be very careful. How do you imagine that this went? About like you imagine it would go. This is a new and unimproved and levatar show with the Stugas. Gamble on by Gravkins.

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