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I'm glad that at some point today we will be able to definitively answer a question we've been asking for many years around here, are the Raiders for real?

I believe it's something we will get to the bottom of before the end of the show today. We've been asking for years without an answer. They win a Monday night game in a stadium that looked very disappointing for two billion dollars in Vegas. I want like a pyramid or something. Come on, give me something hugely. Vegas. Don't give me something that looks like a giant Roomba. Not enough lights, not enough pizzazz, not enough Vegas.

Not enough. Not enough to put it on the pole. Yermo was that enough Vegas for your stadium at Batard show? I want to take up some of Greg Coatis grievances. I have been told that he has been complaining on various platforms about how he is being used on the show. So, Greg, explain to me what is happening here, what your most recent complaints are. We've had a good string of shows with you after what can only be called as a pandemic soaked catastrophe or much of the last few months.

What is your gripe with the way that you're being used?

Well, on the local hour I was asked I did not volunteer this. I was asked if if there's any frustrations about being on the show. And I was very candid, as I always am.

I'm an honest person. I mentioned that sometimes sometimes I get the feeling I'm only on the national show to be set up to miss the hard network out and for a back in my day. And otherwise, I'm just sort of like the potted plant and in the corner of the room. But, you know, that's OK. That's OK.

The only part of your objection that is incorrect is that very often you don't do the back in my day that we're here to.

You do very. Do you have one today?

I do. All right.

I said shut you up. Yes, I do it one today. But that's a guaranteed segment that will feature you. Yes. That's why we put it in.

That's correct. It is guaranteed for you to not be a potted plant. It is for you to shine. And very often you don't you simply don't do it right.

I'm going to start doing six back in my days per week.

I'm now curious because there was only four of us or five of us in that local hour and it hasn't been published yet and there's no way to listen. So it seems to me that there's a rat in here that was leaking information to Dan about what was going on, because what also happened in the local hours, I'm sure all the listeners have heard by now, because you can listen to local hour in the big city and then the two national hours and the post game show and then party and everything else that's going on, as I'm sure you all heard what was going on.

We then decided we were going to be a team for Greg and we were going to find ways to infiltrate the national show with Greg. So we were going to be telling you things like when you're like, hey, Billy, what are you burning on today? I'll be like, Dan, you know, I really want to talk about Pocketwatch is today. And then that was going to be our end to just sneak Greg into the national show. And we were all going to have little things that we're going to sprinkle in here and there to kind of poison the well of sorts and make sure that Greg was as involved as possible today.

But now it seems as though that there's a rat on this ship that's told you what was going on. So it's not going to be as easy to come in and say, like, hey, you know what? I want to talk about Fred Astaire today, Dan, and then you're going to fall for it. So who's the rat?

Well, I protect my sources, but I understand it was Chris. I was not true.

Actually, it was Billy was like, wow, I was not himself.

He told me everything. And also he told me about a restaurant issue that Chris and Greg really I couldn't believe you think it was.

I got so much information in my morning interview of Billy today. What is this restaurant issue, Chris, that you have with your father?

OK, so we go to a restaurant and we talked a little bit about this in the great Cody Show podcast this week, so you can check it out there. But Greg Cody, we go to a restaurant, he orders Buffalo, he orders chicken strips, and he gets a side of hot sauce. Nice order. But then he gets the side of hot sauce and he like he hits it with his hand and all of a sudden there's hot sauce spilled everywhere around the table.

It happened like classic restaurant thing. This is not the embarrassing thing. The embarrassing thing is, is I start well, Greg just leaves it there. So like a minute later I'm like, OK, he's not going to clean this up. I'm going to grab a napkin and start cleaning it. Greg Cody was offended that I was cleaning it up and not leaving the spillage there for the waiter to come over and clean up for him. I'm like, what kind of animal are you?

You can at least start the process of make like make an effort here. He was like offended. He's like, no, that's their job. I don't do the work for them. Like it was really.

Embiid well this is funny on a couple of fronts. One of them is that I know your father isn't rectifying what is a dehumanizing, awful act with a big tip. So that's a. Bonus, like I know how cheap your father is, so he's not actually going to do that. But compare that to Joey Votto, who called it the honor of a lifetime yesterday, that the clubhouse crew gave him a uniform to wear that they've only given to one other guy, Bronson Arroyo, Cincinnati Reds.

Now, this guy's had a great career with a nowhere franchise that was wasted, that great career. And he called it one of the greatest honors of his professional life. And one of the things that he does is every Sunday he comes in with the clubhouse guys. It basically is a shirt given by the clubhouse guys to people who have treated them very well. And he comes in every Sunday and he cleans cleats with them. Joey Votto cleans cleats with them because he says you got to do something to earn the shirt, as opposed to Greg Cody, who leaves a two dollar tip, I'm sure, on whatever it is that he's eaten and leaves a tray full of sauce all over the table.

Yeah, but I think Greg would leave a much heftier tip if someone came up and clean the sauce. I think that is your. You're right. No, no, no.

You don't know Greg Cody at all. I think what he's thinking is my son should not be the one. He is not hired. He's not being paid by this restaurant to clean up my mess. There's a waiter or waitress who is clean up the mess and a good waiter would clean up that buffalo sauce before it even falls out of the thing. Seriously, am I wrong? You guys worst the worst stew guys nailed it.

He nailed that part of me. What part of what got me upset, frankly, was Christopher swooping in and doing that? It was belittling to me and a I don't consider myself above anybody else. And I have a lot of respect for good waiters and waitresses, bad waiters and waitresses. Not so much, because I'm going to be very honest with you. That job is not rocket science.

It's not about not helping, not helping or not helping.

No, I'm just saying, you know, be efficient, have a great bedside manner.

Act like you're going to be one side manner, bedside, great bedside manner would be a waiter coming to your tailor table and saying, hey, Cody, I'm worried about that cough you've had for four years, that that would be a bonus, you know, show a little.

Right. Care for my health. If you're a waiter and you know, I'm going to tip you in kind, Levator, it always makes it seem on this show like I'm a real cheapskate. I'm not. If I get great service, I'm going to tip you in kind, which I did. Rebecca was our waitress the other day and she was fantastic. And I lavished her with a beautiful tip.

How much? But this means that you did not even get the attention of your waitress or waiter. You just sat there, let this thing spill over the entire table. Yes, he just sat there.

He was just leaving it. There was no conversation of it. Like a minute in. I'm like, I'm going to start cleaning this because it seems you're not.

Yeah, it was a small spill. The spill was probably a pool the size of a baseball circumference of a baseball.

And it was fine just sitting there until the waiter cleaned it up. But then, you know, here heroic Christopher has to grab a couple of napkins to impress you. I don't know. And and it's just it's courtesy.

It's just decency. And it's coming from a son you raised to leave a shopping cart wherever the hell he wants to it. So it's not like he's forever covered in sort of a, you know, Brother Theresa generosity.

I'm foul. This is kind of disappointing, I thought the way the story was going is he spilled this this hot sauce on the table and then decided, you know what, no use wasting this hot sauce and then just dipped his wing or whatever it is in the hot sauce and eat it, but is on the opposite direction where it seems like it was like the Exxon Valdez of hot sauce spillages.

I know. I know they brought two or three cups of hot sauce and I only spilled one so it could afford to to sit there and wait for the the waiter, you know, the waiters, the professional here. He's trained to clean up his mind. And so I was respecting him. If anything, I was respecting his job by leaving it to the pro to do that.

Greg, I've known you for a long time, OK? You are cheap. You are extraordinarily cheap. I'm always telling you, you guys, this family has the means to not smoke three dollar cigars, and yet you're somebody is it even three dollars like you are someone who is undisputably indisputably cheap? Well, when it comes up back when I used to smoke cigars.

Yeah, my my go to is the Casa de Garcia, which was approximately a three dollar cigar, maybe to seventy when you break it down to a box. But it was a beautiful draw. It was a beautiful cigar.

And, you know, I'm not the kind of guy who puts on airs. I'm not going to spend twenty five bucks on a cigar just to put the label out so people can see what I'm smoking. You know, if I want to smoke a two, three dollar cigar, I'm going to do it, you know, I'm going to walk the walk. I'm going to be on the balls of my feet walking like a proud man, smoking a two or three dollar cigar.

You know, that's we can't all have twenty nine dollars, Pipestem. Right.

That's how you do it, by the way. Wait, Greg, you sound like this and you stop smoking cigars. Yeah, that's right.

I fucking cigars almost almost two years ago now the the cost of that goes to the applause is supposed to start the stopping smoking because, hey, at least I need some applause for stopping cigars on graduation.

The Casa de Garcia is the cancer free with it or do you have to pay extra for the cancer?

Like I say, I stopped smoking cigars two years ago. Then you saw not advocate smoking cigars then. I think Levitra still smokes. Yeah.

You recently you recently stopped smoking cigars, right then. I stopped several years ago, but I bought cigars so expensive that they were cancer free. They promised me.

Oh, you bought them without the cancer. Yeah I bought. Yeah that's I paid a little bit extra to get to know cancer is going to say you're not speaking show that's where you can cigar.

Same people. But apparently you can.

Yes I absolutely I can. I get the made in a special lab delivered to me. They actually eradicate cancer. Oh yes. Yes. Oh really. Yeah. It's like taking chemotherapy.

Why with every post look so cool, how can you dispute that you're cheap. Like honestly I won't understand how you can publicly dispute this. Chris, what are the tips like? My father says he's not cheap, but he still gets an eight dollar cigar and leaves a two dollar tip and tells me what a good tip it is because you know of it's percentage and it's still an eight dollar haircut. Chris, can you please give me or just take a side, Chris, between me and your dad, pick a side.

I'm going to put you in an unwinnable position. I pick a side. Is he cheap or is he not cheap?

I think yes. If that if I have to say yes or no, yes, he is cheap and he would admit that. I will say in his defense with restaurants, especially when he's with me and my mom, he knows that we are hocking him on tips like looking at what he's tipping. So I think when he knows he's with us at a restaurant, he needs he knows he tips like twenty percent, like he is not overly cheap with restaurants, but in general, when it comes to how much things cost and my mom constantly lies to him because she tells him the truth about how much things cost, he just freaks out.

Yes. In general he is cheap, but with restaurants, he's not terrible. But what about when he's alone, though? He tips a lot worse than him when he's with me.

I can't even imagine I do. As a frame of reference here, I want to say that the son of mine who just referred to me as cheap was driving a brand new Lexus when he was 17 years old. OK, let's just start there.

That a boy. And I'm waiting for Christopher to deny that's true. Crickets.

OK, the other thing is, I don't understand how you son I grew up the son of a World War Two veteran here with my my dad for your service and my dad here.

His tipping policy was he would leave a dollar for breakfast, two dollars for lunch and three dollars for dinner.

What we're doing back down his is two bucks in the time of World War Two.

That was probably a generous tip, though. You got to kind of change with the times on how much you're giving people in the tip.

Yeah, I should have I should have mentioned that to my dad. But at any rate, I kept fairly. I really do.

Chris, what was the tip like for Rebecca Rebecca when he spilled everything all over the place? Was it on Rebecca that he spilled a. Everything all over the place? No, he said the service was lovely from Rebecca. So what was the tip for the person who had to clean up the spillage? Do you remember Chris?

Well, they didn't clean it up. It was still there, covered in napkins because, like, I cleaned it up and he was mad at me. But I think he tipped, like, I think the bill was like 40 something. And I think he hit her with like a like a ten dollar tip or so. I think he tipped theset. I think we shamed him.

Like I'm telling you, he tips different when my mom and me or the bill was sixty one dollars and change in with the tip, I left her 80. That is a decent, very nice pair at six. But what was the 60 something? Was it 61 or was it 69 something? No, no, no.

It was like sixty one eighty. And I rounded it up to 80 with the chip.

That is a good tip. Are you willing to admit to the audience in the shipping container that, like my father, you do get shamed by your wife and son to tip better than you might otherwise? Do you are you less of a tipper when you are by yourself? Yes or no? Yes, I will. And I'll tell you, one of the ways I'm cheap is that my wife is afraid to tell me how much she really gives people.

For example, we're giving somebody a wedding gift, a cash wedding gift. And my joke is, what, you give them 20 bucks? And she says, no, I gave them two hundred. Well, when she tells me she gave somebody a two hundred dollar cash wedding tip, I automatically know it was well over 200 dollars. She's just telling me that as the top end of something I might tolerate. So everybody thinks I'm cheap, but it's just not the truth.

That sounds, though, like a situation where your wife, who makes you know, she is a lawyer and has been a partner for a while.

Correct. Yes, partner, yes. So she has been a partner in a law firm for a while, I love the fact that she has two as the core to your relationship, actively lied to you about being cheaper than she is, just so that she keeps you from rage on money that she's earning. That doesn't require your help in any way. Well, I can't disagree with that, but at the same time, my wife is generous to a fault and I mean to a fault.

You can send my wife anything and she will donate to you.

We have I don't know I don't know how it happened, but we have this Indian reservation in New Mexico that sends us something and and she sends them money.

I don't know what it is or where it is or why it is. And she sends the money. So every other week we just reservation, send us pencils and dream catchers and little trinkets and everything in. My wife is just generous. All right. I don't understand. Going to be sending her some envelopes. I mean, right. And here you are every Tuesday Dreamcoat. I honestly don't understand how you've been this happily married for this long when you are actively rebelling against your wife's charitable efforts and she has to consistently lie to you about the amount of money that she's giving others, even though she's making plenty of the money for herself.

You don't know my house.

She gives to the Kidney Foundation and she's and, you know, nice animal rights groups and this.

And why are you complaining about this? Do you realize what and what an epic international and intercontinental and also intergalactic asshole you sound like because you're condemning your wife for giving while being the guy on a segment that started with you not cleaning up your own spillage because you're a cheap stripper unless your family is there to shame you.

The thought does occur that I'm putting myself in a bad light. Well, and Greg's defense, I mean, if you give away all the money and tips, you can't sponsor any of the rabbits. There you go.

And a reminder to the audience that Greg bought his son for his birthday, his 30 year old son, No. Three ninety nine pineapple.

But he got him a Lexus at 70. And he isn't giving him a thing since the beautiful pineapple.

We get 10 things in the mail because, you know, when you when you give charitably metastasizes because, you know, everybody shares mailing lists and everything, right?

So we get 10 things a day from people wanting money from her.

I'm sure they know. Right. I'm going to come up with some fake charities and start sending your.

Cody thinks we're not airing all of that, even though the segment already started. So, Greg Cody, if you're just joining us of the Miami Herald, put himself in a very bad light. And I think, Greg, you should look up, as you're saying, thank you to God and consider who your allies are like. You could not have sounded the two of you worse when it when it comes to the service industry and jobs that can be tough than to come into a restaurant with the expectation that if you spill something, it is somebody else's responsibility to clean that up in a hurry and you'll just leave it there even if it's right in front of you on the table.

Well, I think what Greg is saying, I'm not even saying I agree with it, but what he does is, you know, tips for waiters and waitresses are performance based. If your waiter has a good day, they get a good tip. Waiter has a bad day, gets a bad tip. And if you drop wing sauce all over the table, you expect the waiter to come clean and clean it up. You certainly don't expect your son to have to do it.

And so, you know, perhaps just a bad day for the waiter, that's all.

I'm not totally sure, though, that you shouldn't expect someone else at your table to help with that cleanup. And I don't know if you were getting these wings at the place you normally get them, Greg, but that place has paper towels at the table. Was it the place you normally get your wings or was it some other place like there? I'd understand it if you just didn't have enough napkins or whatever. No, it was it was a different place, but there were plenty of napkins on, plenty of napkins, a stack of napkins, right.

But look, I stand behind that. I said I'm not ashamed that I don't feel the need to clean up a minor spill on a table. I think that's the waiter or waitresses. And that's not demeaning to them to say that. I think that's just part and parcel of what I'm paying and what I'm tipping them for. My my dining experience is not to clean up something on my table. It's to enjoy a beautiful meal, leave a healthy tip and then walk out with my hat on.

But you spilled it on the table. Was it on the table when you got there? How far do you let that play out? Like, do you let it drip on like your shorts and stain your shorts and you're like, oh, this idiot waiter ruined my short clean up this bill.

It's about to fall on his wife. Well, that's a fair question.

But, you know, luckily, almost fortuitously, this bill was in the dead center of the table where it was doing no harm to anyone.

Quite frankly, I hope you're not the type of person that throws like a gum wrapper on the floor, says, oh, that's a janitor's job to clean it up.

Oh, my God, Roy, don't get me started on littering. I mean, I am the biggest anti litter proponent in America.

If I see somebody if I see a car in front of me flick a cigarette butt out the window, I will literally blow my horn at that car and that they look like me.

I'm like giving them one of these high shoulder shrugs. It means, what are you doing? If I see somebody drop a gum wrapper, I do the same. Christopher will tell you one of the first things that I instilled upon both of my sons is do not litter. I mean, don't throw a matchstick on the ground. Don't throw a gum wrapper on the ground. I am so anti littering. It's unbelievable. Passionate, passionate belief of mine.

Put it put a couple of things on the pole here. Gameau please. At Libertador Show is a minor spill at your table, the responsibility of yours or the waiter. And also has Greg Cody taught his son Christopher anything other than do not litter at Today Show is just as parenting. I feel like that has been Greg's only role as a father and I feel like the thing that he has done to be a dad to Christopher more than anything else is to teach him simply do not litter.

And that's how it comes to be, that Christopher is somebody who in a parking lot leaves a shopping cart just where it's not supposed to be, instead of putting it back because he has not been taught properly by his.

Oh, everybody does that. Enough with that. I'm so tired of people bringing that up like their shopping carts. All all these people are great people until you actually get them with their shopping cart and they leave, you guys all leave your shopping carts in front of your car. I don't believe anything.

Anybody at Batard show. Are you an awful person? If you leave your shopping cart in the middle of a parking lot, or is there a way I can frame that question to make it less less contaminating of the jury pool where I'm just saying, do you leave your shopping cart? Do you return your shopping carts? Do you leave them in the parking lot?

I guess it's the way I would phrase you return your shopping cart every time. Yes. Really? Huh. You leave it right there.

There's so if someone has a job to do to go around the parking lot and collect all the shopping carts, I had no idea this was an issue.

I mean, all he has to do is direct me to return it to the actual cart receptacle.

So. Right. There's if there's a cart corral within, like, you know, 40 yards of me, I'll do it. But if I don't, my Publix doesn't have a corral. Like, what do I do if they don't have one of those shopping, like parking spots, that's for shopping carts. I leave it in front of my car safely. It's not in the way of anybody. And there's a guy always coming around like it's I'm not alone on this and everyone makes me feel like I'm this jerk means you got see, I knew you were my man.

You got yeah.

You got an elevator and has not pushed a shopping cart since 1982. And we all know it's actually not true.

I mean, I'm the one who always goes to the grocery store now on behalf of good like a good store on my bottom.

Right. We told you, man, you are married. It's not Publix, it's Whole Foods. Of course it is. I can't get out of there. I can't get out of there without spending a hundred dollars every time. Even if I'm just leaving with one very small bag of vitamins, it's like it's just impossible.

Have you met up with all the other distraught husbands and all eight?

We get together every Wednesday night at Whole Foods and Whole Foods. It's nothing but women in yoga pants like that's all that's. And kite surfers, like that's the only thing that's there on the beach. You are right, though, regardless of the amount of objects you bring up to the cashier, it's always, oh, it's impossible.

It's impossible. Honest to God, I'm just I've got a little bit of a good package, some turkey here, OK?

One hundred and nineteen dollars, I feel like in Whole Foods though, like you don't have the opportunity to leave the shopping cart in the parking lot because you planted and it turns into a tree.

Whole Foods employees have a vibe don't they. Like all chains like. This chain of franchise, whatever they are, is it a franchise, whatever, this chain has a vibe, I feel like, well, you guys will love this, OK?

For the last three years at my Whole Foods, I'm not making this up. It has been a consistent thing. Every damn time I'm there, it doesn't matter when I go. This one guy pops up next to me who works there and demands to talk marlins' baseball. This has been for four years now.

He's just waiting for you. Yes. Four years pops up wherever it is and scares me with some sort of marlins' baseball take. It's not really to talk Marlins baseball. It's to tell me what he thinks of the Marlins.

Of course, I need to talk to him today about that. Monte Harris. And first, the third last night. Like, what's he think? Was it a good move, bad decision late in the game? You can't risk it at all, right? Yeah. So I get the biscuit, though.

Are you going to they ask him about that, Dan, and get back to us tomorrow on what he thought about that. Can we just give you Moreland's questions to ask this guy? Because you make them sound like a stalker. But he's always there, Dan, because that's that's his place of employment. That's his job. He's going to be there. So you go shop there and he's going to be there. So he figures. You know what, Dan Levitan, Maryland expert, let me ask him.

So can we give you when are you going to do your groceries? This week.

The personal the thing that's funny, Billy, is that he pops up wherever I am in the store. I understand that he works there, but it's always a different place and it's always a big surprise, like he pops up behind me no matter where I am. And so you might work there. But that seems to be something that is like I'm guessing the way it is so efficient that he must have a surveillance system of some sort that he's checking.

Yeah, but you're a celebrity, Dan. You have one of those faces, and I'm wearing a mask one by one of those faces. I mean, it's huge.

I'm wearing ask you, what's the last thing I ask you?

Just what whether I thought they were going to make the playoffs or not. Do you? Well, what did he think? Oh, he thinks they're going to change.

What's his name? It wasn't about you. I don't know his name. I don't know.

And I'm sorry to disappoint you, but does he have a name tag? I don't believe he does know, but I'm confused.

He pops up like multiple times within a visit or just a different sometimes it's multiple times within like ten times and sometimes.

Wow. And sometimes it's with friends as well. Yes.

Yes. I'm picturing him like in the deli, taking your helping you. And then you walk away from him and you get to the checkout lane and then he switches with the person that's in the checkout lane like, all right, checking in. Hey, I'm back. How's it going now?

And you could be recognized while you're wearing a mask. Not many fifty year old people walking around wearing graffitied hats. It's like Bear Bryant walking around with a surgical mask on his face. How do they find me?

When when do you guys tip at the grocery store? Do you guys give anything to the people bagging your groceries? I know you don't give anything to the people returning the cards like you assume it's their job, but I'm assuming you don't give them a couple of bucks. If someone walks out to the car with me and helps me put the bags in the car, which I don't I never ask for. But if they want to do it, I'm fine with it.

Then I'll give them a tip.

I mean, I don't they always say no to that. I'm like, no, thank you. I'll do it myself.

I have a hard time saying no to it because they're obviously fishing for a tip. So I just let them do it and I give them like five bucks.

Doesn't Publix I mean, I know we're not all public shoppers, but Publix like refuses to like they they'll pay. Those people will tell you, hey, no, we don't do tips. Yeah.

Publix beggars wear a little nametag that says no tipping, please. The three most glorious words together.

And that's why I go to Publix.