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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 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, fat 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 going to sell in ten years, right? Like you should sell the team before you have to pay someone $680,000,000.

That's what David Sampson did with the Marlins. They did that with Jean Carlos Stanton.

Well, they traded Stanton.

I know, but the way that they sold the team with the understanding, I.

Think they didn't trade him, but 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 the Marlins, a notoriously cheap franchise, give Jean Carlos 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 your 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 player is worth $700 million, but Dan, I'm going to say it. He's overrated. Shohei Otani is overrated. He has had 1100 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 1100 RBI season and couldn't make it to the playoffs with Mike Trout. He's overrated.

You could have ended that sentence many words earlier by just simply saying $700 million is a lot of money, period. I was rolling 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. Like, 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. 1000 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 800, 858, 48. I mean, he's overrated.

It's a hard act to follow.

Let me try it this way. Okay. Before the contract, he wasn't overrated. But now that you attach $700 million to Shohei Otani. Overrated.

Correct.

Thank you.

I love how you're holding the 95 rbis the last two seasons against him.

Get 100.

It's an interesting game where you figure out how do you manage to hit 45 home runs and only have 95 rbis? I mean, it's because of the Angels, but.

Correct.

It seems impossible.

It does seem hard. But also, though, I believe that I'm inching towards Stugats's side where if Otani had just gotten me to the helpful round number of 100 there instead of 95, right. 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 fat round number of give me an extra zero in there so I can make him not overrated, but.

By deferring all the money, it's perfect because now he's not overrated until ten years from now because he's only making $2 million. So actually he's the best value player in baseball.

You do have to wonder, though, like this is going to be a second tommy John surgery. How good is he going to be when he comes back as a pitcher?

He'll never pitch again. I don't believe he will. They'll concentrate on his bat.

Million dollars to get 95 rbis a year.

Well, maybe he'll get an extra five and everybody will be happy.

Now we're talking.

Yeah.

Jeremy, please put on the poll. Juju at Lebatard 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 Stugat, I don't know if he's going to pitch. It's actually a reasonable concern because one of the reasons that he's Babe Ruth in the modern form, the only reason he's Babe Ruth in the modern form is because he does both things, and he does both things in a way that have value and is stupefying. 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. And 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 ten and three last year, had a 3114, basically a three era for his career, Dan. But if he can't pitch, that's problematic. Like that is you're signing him to that deal because you're hoping 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 buz around. And it doesn't matter how they get the stars. They need to get their programming stuts. 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 loves 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 going to 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 going to put more people in my ballpark, these aren't even, I mean, you can say they're baseball moves, but if we're talking about it, 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. All of it is. 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 Otani, right? He's got $770,000,000. But it just seems, I don't know, it seems like people are upset because the rich are getting rich. It feels like the Yankees, Dan, 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 somewhat 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 going to commit, they now can commit to yet another star that they can get. Where in any other case, it's like, well, you only have enough money for so many stars, but if you're paying him $2 million now, you can go get someone else on top of him.

I'm surprised the players union allowed this kind of a deferral of such a high percentage of that contract because that could become a trend that essentially allows you to ridiculously backend the contract. That's what the Marlins did to a much lesser degree with Jan Carlos Stanton when it was backended, 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 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 because ten years from now we're going to start celebrating Otani day and it's just going to like 68 million, Lord willing.

He's got a lot more faith in it than I do. I would love to celebrate Otani day. I'll take that right now.

Just getting.

Yeah, earth getting there, dude. 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, not just baseball's economy. Is money going to be the same thing ten years from now 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 going to be here, period as a planet.

Understood. And before that though, the economy will collapse in the way these steps work. Stugats, it's economy falls first, then Earth, not 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 really need to worry about the earth collapsing because if it does, you're dead. Right? So if you're living in constant fear of the earth not existing, you're kind of wasting your time because you yourself are not ever going to stop the mean, no offense, I believe in all of you as being these great people, but there's nothing any of you are going to do to stop the earth from not existing if that's what's going to happen, just going to buck up.

Against that and say every vote counts.

I just want to put it out there, Dan, that if it's better for metal arc, I'm willing to take an Otani type deal where you want to promise me a lot of money on the back end, like seven or eight years from now.

Oh, really?

I'll take a discount, but you got to come correct, though.

All right, well, we might do that though. We might do that back ended deal we got about.

Did I just screw myself?

Dogecoin.

For the team. I'll do it.

Okay, but did you hear what I said? We have about 18 months left on our draft.

That's an important detail.

I'll gamble on us ten years from.

Now, but I'm going to need a.

Big promise on that back end.

How much is that Odell 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. Okay. He gives off high achiever. I expected that faster. Jeremy, you've got five payments, but now we're going to have to wait for it because your timing is a little slow and Winnie the pooh is all jacked up on honey. And your game's 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 this show. I also haven't been able to talk enough dolphins because of you. Cody, did you have any thoughts on Otani?

Yeah. I wonder what's next.

This is a new and unemployed don Levitar show with the Stugats gamble on by Draftkings.

Don Levatard.

Few things feel better than when you're on a roller coaster with no underwear.

Noted.

Try it.

A very weird observation by Stugat.

You should try it. Don't knock it until you try it. Dan out, Stugatz.

You know what, Stugats? 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 Dan Levatar show with the Stukats.

Despite being a disappointment in the last segment, I do have a top five silliest payments in baseball headed into 2024. Dan, do you want it now?

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 Stugatt, who is ahead of you in hierarchy, the pecking order, has been consistently getting annoyed by how much you're yammering because it cuts into his time.

I didn't say that.

How would I know it otherwise? Top five.

Stugats has, I mean, the kid won't shut up.

Stugats has top five. And America has been waiting for this because when Stugats 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, yeah, it's that time, Dano. It's time to start thinking about it. These are the teams that the elite teams don't want to see in the playoffs.

Thank you. I thought I explained that, but I appreciate the elaboration.

Just hammering home the.

Before you do that, I just want to know because after we went off of Max, Stu Gotts 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 going to be any second now. What a feeling.

I felt the need to deliver it as James Earl Jones in Field of dreams because he said the one constant throughout time is baseball. And I said the one constant throughout this show is when Dan is asking you a direct question, it means you're up against it.

I know.

Yeah.

It 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.

Because I did it so poorly, it felt to me like tripping someone who doesn't have eyesight.

Right.

It felt cruel. I did it poorly. Not.

Jeff, have you done that?

Speaking from experience?

Strange reference point. It really was.

I thought that too.

I only do it on Christmas Day. It's part of.

Oh, but everyone does.

It's part of how I celebrate the holidays.

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.

Really?

They are in the, you know, 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 wink Martindale. No one wants to see him.

I feel like they're on the exact opposite list.

They're in the mix.

They're right.

Teams that you want to see in.

The 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 going to 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 Stugats'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 want to 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 going to 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 at 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 DeVito's. I grew up with all of them. I mean, I'm serious. And 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 agent's wearing the fedora. As he lives at home. He's looking for the de Jornos sponsorship, right? Like the make it 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 going to end up with all these sponsors.

He also needs to stay at home. That's part of the story, right? Like if he leaves and gets an apartment in the upper west side of Manhattan, everything's going to fall apart. I'm telling you.

I know that outfit is a costume because I was a mob stir for Halloween in third grade and I had that exact same outfit on. We are finding a picture from my dad's facebook. The exact same outfit. That's a costume. I know it.

You guys would say is the name of the show. Peaky binders.

I love the name of the show. But waiting to see where Dan was.

Going to go with it.

You're almost there.

Is it a correct appraisal?

Peaky blinders, the way that he looks.

Something out of that.

Well, he's got the Killian Murphy lips. I mean, well, close. No one has Killian Murphy's lips.

Am I right?

Loose. Number four, Stu got the Denver Broncos Dan. Sean Payton, a coach 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.

Stugats. Can you just stop for a second? I'd like to now mix the lists. Chris Cody, your number five. Top five teams you do want to see in the playoffs.

Number five, the Broncos.

Wait a minute.

Wow.

Crazy.

That's insane.

The Dolphins will lose 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.

But wink Martindale.

Number three, stugat.

The Rams. Dan Shaw McVeigh. Matthew Stafford, Aaron Donald, championship DNA. And two of the funniest names in the history of sports, Puka Nakua and Tutu Atwell. 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.

Number two, Stu got not two to three to. No, I'm not going to. Chris. No, Greg, I'mixing it up. Okay. Number five, Greg Cody, the Steelers. Number three, Chris Cody, the Steelers. Number four, Greg Cody, the Chargers.

Minus Herbert.

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 the NFC.

They're in it, in it to win.

It.

Thank you. I made that phrase 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?

That's an excellent question. Stu got you at number three or number two?

I'm at number two, Dan.

Number two.

Stu got the Buffalo Bills. Josh Allen doesn't care who you are or where he plays you. They're dangerous.

Put it on the poll. Does Josh Allen care who you are or where he plays you?

He's going to throw it to you.

And that you can be anybody. It can be anybody. Yeah.

He's going to have to overcome whatever he does initially.

What's amazing to me about the amount of time we spent on Kadarius Tony yesterday is that the guy who gets to skate on what Sunday was to guys. Josh Allen had like four or five plays 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 going to do? I'm going to do what a four year old would do in this situation. I'm just going to 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 lap for a pick six because he didn't know where he was putting it. Number two, Chris Cody.

Teams you want to see in the playoffs. Number two, Colts.

Yes, I agree. Where are we on Greg Cody's ambivalent list?

Number three.

Number three, Greg Cody, the Vikings. Clear your throat. Not into the microphone.

He said clear my throat right here. Where am I going?

Following orders.

Yep. Thank you.

Number one, Stu. God.

The Cleveland Browns defense wins championships. 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 poll. Does Joe lead the league in stoicism? Number one, Chris Cody.

Teams you want to see in the playoffs. Number one, the entire NFC south.

You can pick any of them. That's excellent. In fact, we can make this all three of these lists.

That's honestly your best work. That was spectacular.

And it's only Stugats'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, I.

But that's Tampa. 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.

Baker used to be a brown, so that's why it was confusing for us.

A lot going on. Jeremy won't stop talking. Continue, Dan.

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 a new and unimproved Don Levitard show with the Stugas gamble on.

By DraftKings Don Levitard.

I heard the hotel industry is moving away from providing shampoo and soap.

Don't get me started on them. Do not get me started on hotels.

Right.

What they take from me, I feel like I'm entitled to take something from them. Thank you, Billy.

They're going to throw away the shampoo. They're going to throw away the soap. I'm not even talking about that. I'm talking about the sheets and I'm talking about the towels.

Stugats.

Oh, we really care about the environment, so please hang up your towels. Get out of here. You just don't want to wash these towels because it's going to 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 Don Levatar show with the stugat.

I remember years ago, Stugat, 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 birthed a general unhappiness with the refereeing?

Even Andy Reid is doing it. He's the nicest man in the world.

Even Mahomes is doing it. Look, all sorts of pandemic collateral of things in OD 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. You guys have seen this before.

Chin's made of glass.

This is the, well, the part I seen.

You should see some of the remnants of this fight. Dude did damage.

He did damage. And if you can show that again.

Look how he caught him.

Yes. Flush. 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 passen 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 still the hunt family? Yeah. Can you imagine?

Always be the Hunt family.

Look at that.

Gave him a black eye immediately.

It hurt really bad.

Put it on the poll, Juju. 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.

My guy's trying to get punched all the lawsuits.

I mean, the guy dove, all right. The ref took a dive. That's what I saw.

Is he giving a statement? Neck braces are funny. I'm just going to come out and say it.

I love Greg's posture right now.

What?

You're so good at this that you're super relaxed and confident.

In my living room guy took a coffee. I think he did take a dive. He dramatically fell. No matter how square the punch landed. The guy took a dive. He exaggerated.

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 of a lion, this book. He already checked out when we played his song at the beginning. He has enough for today. Once he gets his thing, he just wanders away because it's the only reason he's actually.

He took a dive and you know it.

That would have been better than what you did.

Yeah, I just did it.

It's the exclamation point. Exactly.

That was in your headphones.

All right. Oh my God.

I love you.

Greg's ray.

I slept in too late.

I took the dog outside.

Now I will be raised.

Your laziness. I will chide a little heads up. Just look it up for yourself.

Would have been nice.

Why is technology your advice?

It's cold enough for snow flurries.

Greg could google it in a hurry.

Feel the chill rush through the door.

The high today is 74, couldn't you say? There's no need to tell you that it is cold outside.

That is the debut of a singing Erlene Cody. I wish it had never happened.

Barely singing.

I was going to say that was sing talking.

Like 2 hours of recording with Yeti.

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. Aren't we all? The day is.

Or he talks about me like I'm not even here.

Well, I talk about you in the meetings when you're not there.

I bet you do. The same way you're trying to work an end game. You're trying to figure out how to get rid of me. Without hurting my feelings.

No. The end game is I'm worried you're going to end us all before we get to whatever it is pays your son in ten years because he's deferred all his payments and we still own a company that works that you have not destroyed. But the thing that I want to 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. There are very often, most of the time, maybe 100%, 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 head that just happened to come in your son's voice. Because I'm going crazy.

Right.

And you're making it worse.

Your thoughts in Chris's 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? 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. 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 going like this. He's speaking like this. And if you don't do that. Yeah. If you speak to me in your regular voice, then I know that it's good idea on the air. 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 still didn't.

Oh, really?

Well, this is the part 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 on the air, literally doing what he has. That's Mike Ryan. You're laughing.

You pinched your.

It was funny. When I hear something funny, Greg, it's.

A joke that's provided for you. It's trying to fix this. It's a work in progress as we do the show. But the response, 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 multi syllabic 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 another teammate.

Exactly. Who says the Indianapolis Colts?

Nobody says that.

Nobody says that. They're the only Colts in sports. Is there even a college team nicknamed 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, 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 are 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 can his inner dialog. Tell him to 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.

Talking to guests and doing the best he can. But when it's time for 3ft and no one understands why. Like Dan the rambling man while 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. Mike wants him to bring it home.

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. About like you imagined it would go.

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