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A good sports show would start there. We are not going to start there. A good Miami sports show that is both local and national might start with the Tuesday and Wednesday spreading of synergy. Mike Greenberg questioning a decision involving two and telling you that Justin Herbert is already someone who should have been drafted higher than to. Yes, we could do that if we were a good sports show interested in the synergy that involves one person at ESPN said this thing and now let's discuss it on every show.

But where we're going to start is a more obvious place, which is this show is getting old. Stewart is lazy and wants to be allowed to get even older and lazier. We bring in Greg Codi of the Miami Herald, king of entitlement, narcissism, laziness and self promotion to talk about.

When Stuart was the producer for Hank Goldberg, if you have listen to the local hour or the big story today, you heard us do a glancing conversation about Hank Goldberg and Bino Coat and Glory Days sports radio in Miami when Hank Goldberg was ruling the afternoon market in sports radio and he would call out Bino Cook and they would talk football. Yeah, to mensches cutting it up. And that was dominating the sports radio airwaves. What are you smiling about, Billy?

What's so funny? The domination of the sports radio airwaves was Hank Goldberg with Stuart, says his producer.

And Stuart's ringing up Carol Bino Cooke and getting football opinions. That was the height of sports radio entertainment in South Florida.

This is unrelated to that. I was just scrolling and saw Greg promoting that. He's being on the show today and promoting also his latest podcast in which the guest is Chris's wife, talking about Greg being her father in law. Well done.

All right. Well, Billy, thank you. Because while we can reminisce about about Stuart's days with Hank Goldberg, but you guys seem to insist on not letting me do that today. We should talk instead about Greg Cody's podcast, The Greg Cody Show, featuring Greg Cody.

It's a great guy. Yes, exactly. I mean, Greg Cody Tuesdays are all about Greg Cody. I mean, that's it.

I swear this is not even an intentional derailment. I just read it and started laughing. I don't believe this. I don't believe I really do. I know you're thinking of the intentional derailment. No, you always pretend it's one of your signature says. What do you mean? That's one of your signature moves when you intentionally Billy Nilly, you are an intentional derailer of everything here.

We were talking grading number one receivers in the league and you started talking about a sword out of nowhere.

You are not the trophy man. The KVOA Sword Trophy. What a thing of beauty. And looking at the dinosaur uniforms, here's another thing we didn't get to earlier today. The KBIO jerseys, or at least the dinosaurs seem to have like a slit in the armpit that I could only imagine is to let air out of there. Right. That's crazy.

It is crazy. I would also say I went and checked out that trophy that is the greatest trophy in sports. It is in terms of handing a trophy over to the champion. No one has done a better job than KBIO. That is. It's a sword. It's unbelievable. It's fantastic. Is it a golden sword?

Is it a regular samurai championship's or. OK, but what is the material? Because Billy was talking about the big trophies, and it's not surprising at all that baseball is the most ridiculously ornate with too many flags and too many tears. And it's a it's a giant wedding cake for a couple that's insecure and wants to show people how much they matter, how much their love matters. It's way too big a trophy with too many. Too many. What is too much flair on it?

This sword could probably best be described as one that you would use to fight a dragon with. OK, that's a good way to describe a sword, so it's a bit of an Excalibur sword, it's it's real, it's real thick. You've got it being because we're not talking about the thin sword that like Bruce Willis used in Pulp Fiction, right?

Oh, no, no. This is not a fencing sword. Dan, this is one that has different grooves. It looks very sharp. Luckily, the player knew let me not grab the short the sword by the blade and pulled it out, as you know, as you're saying, King Arthur, Excalibur, the sword and the stone. But this is one that could probably do some damage. Yes. Slay a dragon. Exactly right.

Chris, what are you saying in the chat about Greg Norman? The sword is like a Greg Norman sword. OK, I see what you're doing, you're highlighting how large he looked and if that was awkward. Your father doesn't know what you're talking about. So now that wonderful inside joke and it's a great one, you're going to need to explain it to your father because your father does.

Well, not that we are friends in the parish. That was funny to the audience that happened to be listening to the post game show yesterday when we were talking about Greg Shaw, Greg Norman's shirtless photo on Instagram in which at 65 years old, he manages to have a six pack, which is crazy. And it's not the most noticeable thing about the photo I had Chris.

Chris, I understand what you're doing, but that's just far too blunt. And the joke was, too.

So explain to your father, Chris, and as careful in terms as possible, how would you say this? How uncomfortable are you going to be? Your father needs to be brought in on what the joke is that you're making there. So feel free to have at it.

On his Instagram post, you could see his package through his pants.

And we were sort of asking for that. He said, OK, went on. I was asking for some subtlety from him and he went totally blunt there. And I felt a little bit what I wanted to stop you while you were doing it.

I wanted him to suffer and stumble around trying to explain it to his father. And he just went right in because why wouldn't he? Having the confidence of 10 days of being so good at radio after being fired, be careful with him because he's not careful anymore.

Either way, at 65, I also have a six pack, but it's literally a six pack is a race to the bottom.

That one coming from Billy. You are making the you are making the observation here recently. And I want to get into this conversation because Cody always corrects me on the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody, which I think is a better name than the Greg Cody show with Greg Cody. But Billy, you've been commenting for a while how you don't think that Stuart is ever going to get the and that he wants in this show's name that it's forever going to be with now.

And you're beginning to doubt whether the guy is ever going to upgrade that with to an and the Dan Levitt, what would it be then?

Lieberthal tends to Godchaux whatever at this point. I mean, I'm OK with the with an ad and would be nice. I doubt I'm going to get there. I'm interested in Billy's theory as to why I'm not going to get there. It would be. Yes, of course. Naturally, the Dan Levitan and Stewart show.

Yes, I'm just getting a little concerned. You know, we've had a number of times, we've redone some imaging. We had kind of like relaunches of sorts here. And there's a TV show and then the different things and it's the gods. It's always seems like this is the time. Maybe it's it's never the time. So I'm getting worried for Stewart because I know he says whatever, but I know the end would really mean something to him.

I've learned I've learned to love the with and here's why the with the Daily Talk Show with Stewart comes with really zero expectations. I mean, it's all if the ratings are good, I take all the credit. If they're bad, it's Dan show. I mean, that's it.

Yes. I mean, Stewart, look, I know Tony Romo's got a pretty good gig and I know that a lot of people in our audience don't know how hard or what parts of the job are hardest for us to got. And there are parts of this that are difficult in terms of what it is that he does. But he's a unicorn in terms of his place in the universe of never being held to any responsibility or accountability, for not paying attention to the most basic of things, like, for example, Carolina and Detroit are playing and Teddy Bridgewater isn't playing and Matt Stafford is.

Yeah, see, with the with that's acceptable. With the end. I'm not certain it is.

Well, this is the part I want to get into with Mike Ryan because I and stuff that I feel when you say we have changed the imaging around here a couple of times, but the last time and this is honest, like Mike, I took my name off of highly questionable for Bomani Jones like it was. Dan Levitan is highly questionable. I took my name.

Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

You and yes, yesterday, you know, I think Bomana should be notice saying that, but I am not the one who has ever argued on behalf of a with or in. And we simply didn't want to change.

The image has himself to blame. You're the one that name the show Stu Godse. I did.

It felt right at the time. I mean, Dan was the biggest media member in the morning. It still is, by the way, physically. Well, you know, now that Hank Goldberg has lost some weight, you don't change an established name.

People look for the established name. However, there was one wayward executive producer that put his name on it and then it changed back.

That was very brief. How long was that person? A year. Was it even a year?

It was a nice little run there over the course of two, two and a half years. Where we went from never having to change the imaging to constantly having to change it from one to a four point three, it's a seven, it's with HOK, without HOK, it's on ESPN. I'm glad we found a nice little lane here.

But yes or no, I don't want people to think that I am purposely giving hotlinks to gods with a with when he deserves it. And I want a public place. I want it publicly stated that I believe Stewart deserves the and we just haven't wanted to change any of imaging around changing it.

You don't see you like would Prince after being like super successful all of a sudden change his name for no good reason? That's not something you do.

I think I'll take the public statement. At least you're acknowledging it. I think that's enough for me.

It's not your rights, but you're part of the Dalembert Torture Nation and the Dr Pepper Twitter feed.

Let's make it a symbol. Let's change it instead of Twitter.

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That's what we need to find out. Still got got overselling it, right? Yeah. There is no utopia out there and be very disappointed, sort of unrealistic to expect a utopia, quite frankly. Just deal with the real world for exactly right. About Utopian heaven later. You are dead on today, my friend. Continue with your program. Thanks. This is about our show. Were there still guides on ESPN Radio?

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Mike Ryan just announced that he believes that the Super Bowl halftime is going to be awesome. Yeah, we'll get to that in a second.

Maybe so excited. And you want to give people some some little.

You guys haven't heard the. I haven't heard the news. No. It's the biggest artists in the world right now. A weekend. Without any at the end. That's right, he spells that with just consonants at the end. Greg Greg code.

I never noticed there was anything wrong. That's right. That's how Stuart spells it all the time. We will get to Greg Cody of the Miami Herald. He is in with us to ruin Tuesdays. I've apologized to him a number of times because of the combination of Zoome and how little space there is to move around on these two terrestrial hours that we don't get as much Cody as I would like on Tuesdays. But Billy. You're a rising executive at this company.

You are somebody who I have made uncomfortable recently with just general histrionics, you feel how about the the the sheer amount of promos that we have in today's two hours as as we stuff a week's worth of are we, I guess, ask I answer this question, have we stopped a week worth of promos in the two days because it's Thanksgiving week?

Is that what we have done this week?

It seems like we have a healthy amount of support from the sponsors today, Dan.

OK, very well put, Billy. How is the useless sound montage? We got to get to it quickly because got otherwise, I mean, that is the reason that you're involved in sports. It is. Why don't complain about it. We are thankful for the sponsors, as always. So thankful.

The use of sound montage is about two and a half minutes of what I just did. OK, let's see what we have here. Here it is. We don't have a lot of time, but we've got a whole lot of useless out. Who are the stars, what stars, who are we looking out for in the useless and montage we had learned from our friend Jon Gruden.

And my dog Dopy is going to be all right. Jon Gruden and Dopy. Let's do it.

Congratulations to the Chiefs, be a couple more plays than we did a win is a good feeling, you know, and so I feel good about that. You know, obviously very disappointing game, you know, did not go the way that we wanted it to. In fact, the opposite of everything we talked about trying to do this, we can be as good as we want. To be honest, we've got all this all in front of us.

We're focused on thinking, well, we've got time. And, you know, you don't want to know that. We know everything's there for us to take.

And we think when we time just focus on one week at a time, we have come home not worried about any point that has been stopping us for the most part as being ourselves. And studies are still off as far as game planning. We needed them to run hard and run tough, knock people backwards and and make extra yards with, you know, his juice. He's a downhill runner right at the top of the heap and see something else in those throws he made out there today.

Shoot. I can't I can't make some of those. I can make them with my mind and know where to throw him. I just can't quite throw a couple of those, like, he can't make the place that we need to make.

We knew when we came off the bye that we knew everything's in front of us. It doesn't matter what we've done up to this point. And it's it's all about these next seven games, you know, so a lot of football to be played.

I couldn't be more proud of our football team. I wouldn't trade any of our players for anybody. I know that you've been hearing me talk about it, but we're getting well here soon.

I'm trying to be smart and all that.

But as far as hesitation, when I see a guy open, I'm cutting and loose, getting the running game going, you know, which helps the boot game. They're throwing the kitchen sink at us, bringing pressure almost every play.

The objective is to go. When he did the job today, we checked the boxes wasn't perfect, but nothing's perfect about us except our record. We're not chasing perfection in our parties, you know, we just want to wear it the proper way. We want to step into the stadium to be prepared. Quite a feat every week.

This kind of feels like somebody who has like a classic car in the garage. And they said, you know what, just wait until I get this new engine.

If I'm being honest, I didn't fully understand what it took to be a starter in the NFL until I got here.

No, no, no. Wait until I get these new wheels and then it's going to be ready to roll just like old times. People keep telling me that about Taysom Hill. I got a lot of love from a lot of people. I don't see any evidence that he's going to do anything great with the New Orleans Saints in that position. And it was overwhelming in a good way.

What has he done besides run goal line sweeps that make people think he's going to succeed?

I up him so much. He's become one of my best friends. They knew that Miles was out. They knew they had to get funky on the field. And just like an old batch of collard greens insist they played well together.

But wait a minute. That last one had to be that Jimmy Fallon thief, just old batch of collard greens. What was that? Baker has been throwing in hip hop lyrics and I think his last three postgame press conference room. So either it's Jimmy Fallon or he's doing something else on his own.

Does anyone love checking boxes more than Mike Tomlin? I just love that we have sound of Jon Gruden saying I wouldn't trade any of our players for anybody because he already has like he's he's already done that with his players there.

Did you catch the humble brag by Mike Tomlin? Nothing's perfect. Oh, so good. For our record, that's nothing perfect about us except for where we are in the standings. I believe at the very beginning of the useless sound montage, you threw your hands up in the air very frustrated by something. And I assume that's because we were talking about your dog and barking and Jon Gruden. And you said and here's Jon Gruden and Dopey and I thought you were going to be.

And so here is the useless sound montage with Dopy and also Billy's dog. I thought that's where you wanted to go with the Jon Gruden joke. What happened? Why did you throw your hands up in the air?

It's been a morning, Dan, as our, you know, our colleagues can attest to. Earlier in the day, there was just someone drilling into the wall. I have no idea what that was about. That was gone. I thought, OK, this is good. It's going to be a quiet day and then. Nope, someone up here walking by my window, which is on the third floor, which seems impossible, but not there's people out there.

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Yeah, still got you guys. You're sitting right next to each other. You guys know that you're talking when the other one's talking, but that's going to talk to each other like you're sitting right next to each other and you're looking at each other. You've got to keep talking over each other.

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Pablo Torre has joined the chat. He's got a popular podcast, ESPN Daily. It is getting write ups in newspapers because he is changing the podcast form and he's got a special guest we will promote for him in a second. But we've got some other things to do. First and first and foremost, always taking precedence over just about everything is Christine Lease's kazoos.

And finally, according to reports out of Russia, seven people have died drinking hand sanitizer after the party they were at ran out of alcohol. It's understood some nine people began drinking the antiseptic wash, which is 69 percent methanol. Isn't that what's a gas guzzling God?

Man, that is a horrible story, Christine. Starting off dark. Yes. Again, I people prefer you giggling maniacally and evilly and then running off into the shadows after having done something cruel to us. But every once in a while, you throw one of these dark curveballs at us that we don't have anything that we could do other than move to Greg Cody's back in my day.

Thank you for being on with us. We will get to Pablo Otori in a second. But Greg, what level of confidence do you have in your back in my day? I don't think Pablo has ever had the pleasure of just sitting here and watching you create art on the fly.

So does does he have something that does something to look forward to here? Is that what we're doing?

I'm nervous with Pablo in the audience. I am more confident than I was last week. All right.

Very good. But last week was exceptional. I like when you set the bar very, very low for yourself.

He's been on a bit of a hot streak, but he doesn't also have very good judgment for what's good, which is strange for a lifetime columnist, because that is basically what the job is supposed to be. It is an odd thing that for 40 years he's a Lifetime columnist with no ear for what others find interesting.

It really is like keep writing about the Marlins bullpen.

Well, let's go back on Monday.

And now it is time to take a trip down memory lane. Here's your guy, Greg Curry with Back in My Day. Hard sell, sir, man, what has happened to the beer aisle where I shop at once familiar landscape has changed radically over the past few years.

Sometimes what I see now makes me want to take my white claw and ripped to shreds. Truly, it's madness. Now, Lulus used to be pretty simple once they were distilled spirits like whiskey and vodka. There was wine and there was beer. Oh, there have always been outliers trying to reinvent the wheel. Anybody remember? Nowadays there's the trendy Moscow Moscow mule and it's unnecessary. Hey, look at me. Copper cup. This is different, though.

Hard seltzer, a.k.a. spiked sparkling water has established a major foothold in the booze market share since first hitting big in 2016 with brands, white cloth and truly leading the way. Here's something fun to do. Find a big fan of Hard Felser and ask them what is the alcohol in there? Not the Abebe. That's around five percent like light beer. I mean, what is the actual type of alcohol contained in hard seltzer, beer, wine, vodka?

Nobody seems to know. But we chug it anyway. Nobody seems to. Here's my phone in the background.

Landline, you can't make up this.

All right. Hold on a second. Let's stop. Let's pause. Let's just expect get a fax. I just let it die out. Let's let's hear the facts sound that picks up the facts. My recorder is not.

All right. Hold on. Just hold on a second. Greg. Yes, Pablo, I just got to say, this is like truly watching the master in his studio. This is such a treat for me.

Yes. Has it stopped? Are you ready to move on? Does that make that person go back and try to send another fax? You don't know.

All right. All right. Nobody seems to know what the alcohol is, but we chug it anyway. Nobody seems to know what's in it. And here's why. It's a nameless, manufactured alcohol made from cane sugar that is fermented into ethanol and carbon dioxide with flavors and carbonation added. The flavors are things like lime, ruby, grapefruit, raspberry, mango, kiwi, watermelon. Sales are exploding because it's expertly packaged as the taste of summer. Now the taste of summer has gone by.

All right. Hold on a second. We will wait for it to die down. Just give it a second gut. Pablo, do you want to promote your podcast here? Hold on, Greg. We'll get right back to you. Pablo, you want to promote your podcast?

I want to promote ESPN Daily, but I mostly just want to point out how Greg said the phrase, hey, does anyone remember Zema followed by a landline endlessly ringing, which is, again, I'm standing up and I'm beginning to just a plot like this.

This can't be happening. That's going to be Christopher. Oh, it's not OK. OK, everybody stop.

Who is everybody talking about the disruption back in my day. I'm turning all this off.

You don't know how many other. Let me finish this bleep bleep bleep back in my day. Where was I?

Oh, yeah, if that rings once again, by the way, Christopher, I see you on the phone with it, right?

I mean, I guess his head in his hand, by the way.

I just for those who can't see this, it's so good. All right. Go ahead, Greg. I'm sorry. We have been disrespectful of the sacred space. You want to start over? You want to do it again in the next segment?

Oh, I don't care. All right. I'm two thirds done. I don't give a crap.

I want to hear it drawing it out where sales are exploding because it's expertly packaged as the taste of summer's gone by nowadays of pre pandemic carefree bliss. Meanwhile, Beer wept to see its market share run across the aisle. Even worse, beer relented, gave in, waved a white towel, now fully flavored beer.

That wasn't Chris Bowen, right?

Not that many people know my number, honestly, at this point. I want Greg to answer the phone. We need to find out who is calling Greg.

Pick it up, Greg. Oh, I see. It's. I told you the entire song, it is on your son. It is with me the entire time with the phone under my desk. Nothing in this free time for some ads.

Greg, we're going to do it again, Greg. We're going we're going to start over again. We're going to do it. What? No one will call you and you will do the whole thing. I doubt that. No, we will do the whole thing from speaking to me.

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Is he legitimately mad?

I don't think he's that mad, but he leaves his thing unmuted so we can still hear the phone ringing like you yourself, man.

Pull the court out. I mean. Donald Batard baby still. Don't ever do that again, please, baby. OK. Every segment. No, no, no.

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Greg Coady has written in the chat making fun of Mike Ryan the weekend at Super Bowl halftime. I'm so excited. I'm feeling weekend the knees.

That is the joke that he is making. Yes. I really, really enjoyed that joke. We will get to Pablo Torres promotion of ESPN Daily. You should check it out. He's got a special guest we're going to get to in a second. But let's start over because we really screwed that up for Greg Cody and it is supposed to be sacred. The back in my day is supposed to be a space where he gets to shine without interruption.

And now it is time to take a trip down memory lane. Here's your guy, Greg Cody with Back in My Day. He's cursing now because he didn't unmuted his microphone. He doesn't know what's going on. We can't get him on the phone. I want to give you a call.

Great ovation. I love this man. He left the he left angry public.

Go ahead and talk about your podcast. Why are you picking up the phone? Who is he calling? Is he calling Chris Christie?

He's dictating he's dictating a text to me on what's the issue.

All right, Greg, we need to get your timing right on this. Are you ready to go? Are you not on me? I got the text.

I got the text. His cursor is frozen. OK, that's on.

Right. So this is. All right. Let's see if we get it fixed here at some point.

Pablo, go ahead and promote whatever it is you're promoting.

So, listen, guys, ESPN Daily is my podcast. You may have heard of it. Greg Cody is staring into his webcam. OK, now he's gone.

OK, now he's talking about Greg. Now he's totally open about Greg. He was so mad at us and he wanted to do his back in my day over and we gave him the opportunity to do it over. And now his computer doesn't work.

I want to talk to you guys about how look, I have a special guest on the podcast tomorrow. I'm so excited to reveal who that is. But I can't get over the fact that Greg Cody was shadow boxing into his camera proudly before winding up to do back in my day the second time. That's right. And he ends up screaming into the scream to curse.

No, but he screamed a curse like you did. It was very clear that if he had if his microphone had gone on at that time, you would have heard the F word because he screamed a curse word.

I wish he stuck around because there's a weight on yourself without a curse. Chris Bad.

But he's a curser. What are you going to do about him like that when he gets upset? He just. Oh yeah. And give it to you. So.

Pablo, what are you promoting tomorrow on ESPN Daily, and this is something that I think anybody who is not me will appreciate, even though I understand why you think this is something specifically for me. Jeremy Lin is going to be my guest on the podcast tomorrow. I have been wanting Dan to make a documentary about him because I find his life unbelievably fascinating, unbelievably fascinating. He was just in China last year being this messianic figure who was beloved, who had literally millions verging on a billion people kissing his feet, literally tearing off his shirt.

As he explains to me on the podcast that points. That's the kind of figure he is and he wants to come back to the NBA. He left all of that because I said this to my producers after we finished taping. I feel like Jeremy Lin has like taken ayahuasca or shrooms because what he is now in terms of being an introspective person is unlike anything I have ever heard from him before. He sounds like a totally open person who is incredibly, incredibly vulnerable.

And he gets me to that place of, hey, I think you've lived a fascinating life. And he takes me inside that and says, here is how I was terrified. Here is how I was scared. Here's how I am proud. Here's what I want to do. And it's just it's I'm super proud of it. So I hope you guys listen, subscribe all that stuff. But I see Greg Kotey is back. Right. Cody's back.

Is his microphone working because we don't know what's going on.

I mean, seriously. Right. But seriously, like I mean, how can that you realize that what you did with your microphone muted was you curse because it wasn't working. And if your microphone had worked at that moment, you would have been saying the F word on the air because of how angrily you curse, because it didn't work there after we set everything up for you.

I tried to express how inopportune the timing was off of my computer being frozen. I had to reboot the computer for a change. What just happened was not my fault.

Oh, again, with it, not my fault. Your microphone was on. That's what Pablo.

Pablo wanted to ask you something and then you just disappeared. You just you disappeared entirely from the chat. All of us. I was rebooting. OK, thank you, Greg. My question, though, I mean, yes, you can answer here it.

So, Greg, tomorrow on the podcast, I have Jeremy Lin and he's a guy I've thought about seriously writing a book about. That's the kind of guy he is to me in my career. He kind of helped make my career as a long time veteran sports columnist and reporter. I'm just curious, is there anybody you have the kind of relationship with in sports? Is there somebody that you've thought about? Hey, somebody this is the life I want to get inside and tell to the people.

Wow, perhaps not to the to the level of Linsanity and and through his life. I can't I can't think of anyone of that level.

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