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Billy, what degree of confidence do you have that Greg Cody will execute any of this that we have rehearsed correctly for the show open?

I'm not entirely certain what he's rehearsing today.

So he pulled it off yesterday.

Yesterday was great.

But we're asking for it twice in a row.

Well, that's crazy.

And it seems like we're pushing it because there is something about Greg Cody when he tries at 70 years old.

And the way to get him inspired is just to let him sing, really.

It's an odd sort of development.

He has these arguments.

can you tell me chris what the development what what has been the development of his relationship with yeti on your podcast because i could see yeti being such a perfectionist that your dad gets tired of having to do things four and five times yeah it i actually get a little insecure about the relationship they have like my dad's birthday is coming up and yeti just told me the gift that he has for him like he the effort that yeti puts towards my dad makes me feel like a bad son.

Well, yes.

When we were in Vegas the day before the live show where it it was Greg Cody and the Heeha Threes performing and all that stuff, we went out.

Mike was DJing at like a bar.

We went out to this bar

where Mike was the DJ and Greg was there with Yeti.

And very early in the night,

I think you may still have been playing or you just finished or whatever.

Everyone else was still there, kind of, you know, like socializing, being colleagues and such.

And Yeti made an announcement, okay, Greg and I have to go.

Greg needs to rest his voice.

And he ushered, he's like, Greg, we got to go.

And he ushered Greg out and took him away from the bar where everyone was before everyone else had left.

And he's just like, Greg, you got to go.

You got to rest up your voice.

Big day to day.

And my dad was like a child.

He's like, I don't want to go.

And Chris was pounding shots at the bar.

He didn't even know what the hell was going on.

Lost in the performative aspects of yesterday's open was his voice sounded spectacular on that song.

But I am worried, not just by making him do this again, but our show's natural predisposition to beat jokes into the ground.

Yeah, I think we might be inclined to do that again just to do do it until it's no longer good.

Like when we surprise ourselves.

No, but that's the thing with us.

We're not satisfied on something being good enough and enjoying it and being like, we're satisfied.

We keep doing it.

Yes, that is us.

Well, totally us.

It is us, but there's another place that it's us, and I think people are enjoying it.

And I can't believe the way Zadslow came in here today.

Zadzlow is pissed at Billy.

for a take yesterday.

That's me.

Yeah, I don't even want to, I don't want to even talk about it yet.

Wow.

I'm a shit talker over here.

I've been here all day.

You haven't said shit to myself.

No, take it easy.

I just got here, all right?

I mean, you pipe down or I'll take over your house in five seconds, friend.

I can take you to the ground.

Billy, you were talking a lot about the man's family.

I'll be a top, Zaslow.

Pipe down, he just gave you

a top while threatening to have sex with you.

What a childish response.

The tension between Zaszlo and Billy continues to escalate, but I've rarely seen Zaslow this kind of angry.

Zazzlo, just dumb.

What was dumb, sugar taste?

No, no, not yet.

Not yet.

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Best two weeks of the summer, according to Tony, although I don't think it's because the Sueys are here.

No, Dano, we're in the thick of it right now.

Draft season, fantasy football draft season.

You get all your boys together, you're hanging out, you're seeing who's putting what sticker on the wall, Dan.

It also coincides with the worst time of the year.

And I'm sorry to report, Little Lee World Series sucks.

Sucks.

Greg, quit grabbing at the microphone in a noisy, ham-handed fashion.

Sure.

I know that you're done with your job once you've done your singing and you feel like you've accomplished all that needs to be accomplished.

Yep.

But we've got a whole nother three hours after your big number.

Is that right?

If you could stay with us,

change that shirt fast.

I mean, he's getting good at this.

Outfit change, mid-performance.

You are just.

who are you?

Thank you.

Yeah.

You should have seen him practicing that yesterday and just eating more and more bacon.

His cholesterol went to a dangerous effort, a dangerous place just with

the amount of bacon he was throwing over his shoulder.

Yeah, the bacon here is top-notch.

You know, I mean, I'm not sure if it's hormel

smokehouse bacon, but it is top-notch.

It's not necessary for you to do that.

You to

proclaim your ignorance while not knowing whether it's sponsored or not is not necessary.

We We were just telling Zaz that every run-through Greg did yesterday, he did the bacon toss to perfect it.

So every single time he took one bite of bacon and then threw it on the floor behind him.

And there is a lot of rehearsals.

Yeah, well, him and Stugats are the only ones I've seen who just go over to the bacon tray and don't get a plate, don't get a napkin, don't get tongs, just do it always with their sausage fingers.

No,

bacon's a go-to food that you just pick up with your fingers and you eat.

Not in a group, though, I don't think.

You got to be precise, though.

It's just that one bacon you're grabbing.

You got to make sure sure that's just the one.

Yeah, the only one I touch.

Yeah, there's a trust factor.

You know, if you're going to do that, everyone's trusting you that you're not going to touch the other pieces that you're not eating.

Right, it's like picking a potato chip out of a crowded chip bowl.

You know, you have to just touch the one you eat.

But I can't tell you what a crime it was for me to have to take one bite of that bacon and throw the rest away.

Wow.

To waste good bacon is really a strong misdemeanor on the criminal arc of life.

Put it on the poll: is to waste bacon a strong misdemeanor on the arc of life.

Did you ever update us on what you did with all that bacon that was sent to you in the giant cooler that we thought was way too much?

You're like, I'm going to go through this very quickly.

That's the bacon he just referenced by Brand.

But did you eat it?

Did you bake it all?

No, he said he was going to eat it all in a month, and I'm sure he hasn't even put a dent in it.

It's still in his fridge.

He's given some away, but there's still a shit.

He's given them away.

Yeah, there were four big packages.

Each one had to weigh like 20 pounds.

I don't think so.

And two of them are gone.

Two of them remain.

I think so, Billy.

I think he was.

80 pounds.

I tried to hold it over my head and it felt like I was doing a kettlebell workout.

Well, you know.

80 pounds of bacon.

I don't know, Billy.

You know what you're saying?

Expound.

Yeah, expound.

We all get older.

Raw bacon is heavy.

Yeah.

You know, when it's cooked, it's lightweight.

Claims he has 80 pounds of bacon.

Yes, correct.

What you held over your head looked like a 20 pound bacon.

I think I agree with him.

I think it was 80 pounds of bacon.

And as someone who would be familiar with what it is to hold 80 pounds of bacon, I feel like you should definitely

defer to my expertise on this.

But I got to get to why it is that Zaz is mad at Billy.

And I've been thinking about Billy this morning because Jason Sanders is hurt.

And now anything that happens with the dolphin kicker, I think of Billy first and foremost.

And I cannot be alone in that regard because of how much Billy dislikes Jason Sanders.

But you just heard Tony say that this is the best time of the year, that he loves these two weeks.

And there is a lot of enthusiasm for the buildup of football.

Football closes off his preseason and gives you two full weeks after a slow time of here it comes.

What pissed you off from Billy yesterday's ass?

Well, I'm watching the show yesterday because, you know, if I'm not here, I want to make sure I keep up with it.

I want to make sure I still feel included.

So I'm watching the show yesterday, and Billy has this half-cocked idea of

we need a break.

in the middle of football season.

We need a fan break.

So you're telling me that Monday through Saturday is not enough to get done what you need done in your life?

That you need an actual week off from the thing that we all love.

You want us to not do for a week the thing that we all love.

The games, the gambling, the fantasy football.

You're like, nah, you know what?

I could do without it this week.

Somehow I can't get done what I need to get done between Monday through Saturday.

You're off your rocker.

How dare you, number one.

If anyone's on their rocker here, it's me.

I'm on my rocker, sir.

Just so you know.

There's nothing wrong with taking a little break.

Ever heard of spring break?

Yeah, you're taking a break from the thing that you hate.

Spring break.

Ever heard of summer break?

Yeah, you're taking a success break.

Ever heard of

winter break?

You're nuts.

Ever heard of recess on a playground?

Do you break?

Ever heard of a nap break?

Yeah, recess is doing something fun away from the thing that's not fun.

Did I just learn that Billy hates football?

No, no, you're not going to put words in my mouth here.

Okay.

Ever heard of fast break, the candy?

Ever heard of breaks in general?

You've never breaks on a car?

Breaks are good things.

Yes, Zazo.

Ever heard of break dancing?

Thank you, Greg.

So that you enjoy the things that you enjoy more.

What's one of the biggest problems with football?

What's one of the biggest problems?

I don't think there's any.

I think I have to do that.

Injuries, concussions.

Whoa, whoa.

Are those not problems?

CTE, are you a a fan?

So you're telling me CTE?

Don't bull wars my mouth.

Oh, my name's Zazzo.

I love brain injuries.

I love people living shorter lives.

I love CTE.

Don't buy a wars of my mouth.

That's what you said, not me.

So you're telling me that in the middle of the NFL season, you're saying to yourself, oh, I'm having such a great time today watching football.

Pace myself.

I'm winning all my bets with DraftKings.

I'm doing all my fantasy football.

I'm winning games there.

But you know what I would like?

I would like to not have this fun experience next week.

Pace yourself.

You go out drinking.

You're a lush.

We all know it.

You go out drinking.

What is this character?

You get a little ahead of yourself.

You drink too much.

You end up throwing up all over your face.

You have to call your bully kids like I'm driving.

You're throwing on your face.

You understand how gravity works?

All over your chin, right here.

Over that puss over there.

That's what you do.

It says face.

That's what you call face.

Yeah.

Put it on the poll, please, at Lebotard Show.

Over

100 years old, people arguing who say pipe down and you're off your rocker.

Because the two of you just had

an argument that felt like old people on a porch or in a nursing home throwing tapioca.

It's not the way I wanted to start the day.

Shut up.

You came in looking for that fight and you blindsided me.

You didn't even come and lay it down.

Like I mean, say, hey, I have a bone to pick with you.

I'm not looking for a fight.

I'm a squalm of sorts.

But if I hear a crazy person want to ruin everybody else's fun,

I got to stand up for them.

I'm trying to prolong the fun.

If you know one thing about me, you know.

I stand up for people.

I know that.

So Billy is making advocacy here for being a...

I just want to go to Disney World for a weekend and not miss any games.

Is that such a crime?

What happened on Monday through Saturday?

What?

Six of the...

What?

What happened on Monday through Saturday?

I have a job.

I can just leave, leave all my responsibilities behind.

My kids go to school.

My kids aren't school skippers like your kids, okay?

They have to be there.

They have to learn their A's, their B's, their C's, their D's.

I mean, maybe I live in a house of learned people.

Yeah.

Maybe.

What are you doing there?

Greg, your glasses are fogged up.

I know.

That's because

I'm so much on Team Billy here.

Thank you.

Oh, what a shock.

No, because, you know, Zaz has never heard of the phrase, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Exactly.

If you have a hat, what amounts to a half hour?

He learned that.

His wife dumped him, remember?

Yeah, that's right.

That's that is such a low blow i don't even know what to do with that

what did you think of that that little break you came back stronger than ever jesus i hated the break what are you talking about the break from my wife then she was my girlfriend the break from my wife was like the worst two months of my life yeah breaking bad made you love her more yeah

Do you know what breaking bad means?

Yeah, it's a great show.

Another example of a break serving us all well.

That's not what it means at all.

Yeah, sure it is.

Absence.

Thank you.

Good timing on that.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Abstinence also makes the heart grow fonder.

Billy is sitting here and he is saying to you that he's somebody who likes

because he mentioned that he would be on top for some reason.

I don't know how that happened.

Because he has a thing where his delinquent children have to knock him to the ground.

So I would be on top of him.

I would knock him out.

Boom.

You know?

Well, Zaz, Avery Johnson, the Kansas State quarterback, his father stole your move.

Oh, my God.

That was terrible.

I was shocked watching that.

I was shocked that they would so blatantly take my gimmick.

I mean,

that's what we got going on.

Do you think they heard us talking about it?

You are getting physical with your children.

What is the age of the child that called you Sugar Tits the other day?

16.

16 years old.

It is clear at that point, right?

The people in our audience, I know they're playing with you with this, but nobody has the experience that you do with their 16-year-old where it's going to end up in a fight because your 16-year-old thinks of you as his older brother instead of his dad.

I mean, I don't necessarily agree with that.

Can, you know, is your older brother going to be able to put you down on the ground like it's nothing the way that your father can?

I mean, you saw that video, Avery Johnson's father, you know.

Well, I chased my brother into the street when tidy whiteies because he pulled a butter knife on me.

I was about 43 or 44 years old.

But the older brother does technically, it usually is somebody who could beat up the little brother.

Is he not?

Like, I don't, what's happening in your household is not something I have had, it's not something I've seen with functional, loving people like I imagine that you and Tamara are.

Yeah, but it's not, it's not a regular occurrence, though.

Like he had an opportunity.

Now he's got to wait six more months to try again.

I mean, look, he's out of the house at 18 years old.

So So if you want to do the math, Dan, I don't know if you have your abacus with you over there, but if you want to do the math, six months, we're talking, he's really got four opportunities before he's 18.

One of them, check it off the list.

Can we fix this?

I don't know what we're fighting about.

Like, I don't need to be coming into a hostile work environment here.

We're fighting about a half-cocked idea.

Yeah.

Excuse me.

I said on the front end, this will not be well received by many.

You, obviously, are a many.

You are a sheep.

I am Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison.

I come up with with ideas that others view as kooky at the time, and 100 years from now will be viewed as the norm and progress.

You tell me you think taking a week off of the things that everybody likes to do.

Have you ever heard of Thomas Edison?

Edison?

Nope.

Never.

It's a freedom cocked idea.

It's great.

Thank you.

Cocked and loaded.

Fully cocked.

FC.

I'm coming for you guys.

I'll tell you that right now.

Fully cocked.

FC.

FC.

He's coming for us.

Red coated FC.

Hey guys, fully cocked it on top of me.

No, that's what's being thrown at me.

It's really threatening.

It's threatening.

It's hostile.

It's not appropriate in the workplace.

It's not appropriate anymore in 2025.

Good luck finding that.

Boggy again.

I'm wearing a big wool jacket here.

It's like you look great.

Take the jacket off.

You can take it off.

Take the jacket off to reveal that

throw rug from the 1940s.

Is that a Samson collection?

I was just going to make that joke.

Yep, that is a definite Sanskrit collection.

Those buttons are bejeweled, and he is wearing the kind.

It's a wonder shirt, too.

It's a move.

What is the material on that shirt?

Is it rayon?

Is it silk?

What's the material?

Can it be felt?

No idea.

I'll feel it.

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Hey, Mike.

Hey, man.

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There's no way.

There's no way.

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Don Lebatard.

It's been a lovely cruise.

Oh, man.

That's my outro.

That's, you know, as my casket is being lowered,

you know, I'll have been cremated a week before, but we'll do the casket thing just for show.

And as my casket is being lowered,

empty casket?

Yeah, it'll be empty, you know.

Just for show, we're going to.

Well, what's the redundancy there?

You know, I mean,

we're going to put it on a public display.

Yeah, naturally.

Stugats.

What do you do with the ashes?

We're going on a lovely cruise.

Exactly.

Maybe we'll throw them over.

My wife will throw them overboard.

I would have to say that.

She's nicking with her new husband.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

The Dolphins have gone into the discount bin.

This is not good a couple of weeks before the season starts.

Everyone is saying the Dolphins have the worst corners in the league.

Just yesterday on our show, Greg Cody argued on behalf of the culture change that's in play because of merely Jalen Ramsey not being here anymore.

So they have given a one-year contract to Bills discard Rasul Douglas because they're panicked at the position.

What could possibly go wrong against the Bills if you don't have cornerbacks?

Nothing, right?

Like, they'll be fine.

No pass rush as a bonus, right?

Because their pass rushers are hurt too.

So explain to me, Greg Cody, you're homorific.

You're saying that the Dolphins plus seven and a half, that that number is too low for their season wins.

And I just don't know how they're going to stop people if they can't cover them and they don't have a pass rush.

Well, the pass rushers are going to be back.

Those aren't serious injuries.

And they are going to have a great...

Whoa, wait, what do you mean those aren't serious injuries?

They are going to have a great front season.

You think they've got...

Jalen Phillips isn't serious injuries.

All he's had is serious injuries.

Yeah, but they are technically all supposed to be back, right?

Chubb, Phillips.

Yeah.

And they got the second-year guy.

Right.

And Matthew Judon is a great pickup at a reasonable price.

He's smart.

That's a smart pick.

So wait a minute.

What are you expecting?

Their linebacking is good.

I think their defensive front seven is good enough to

help mask the lack of secondary.

And they have a great safety.

And Rasul Douglas, he's a proven corner.

He's what they don't have, which is veteran experience at cornerback.

All the good corners are free agents the whole offseason, usually.

I did take a a little flyer on Chop Robinson to lead the league in sacks.

That's a great pick.

Chop Robinson is a rising star in this league.

Can you guys get me some metrics, please, on pass rush?

Because I want to know where it is that Cody is coming up with the idea that the people who have been injured, who have provided them pass rush,

that they're not going to get injured again when the last couple of seasons, their edge rushers, have gotten hurt.

Okay, that's the Tua argument, though.

Because someone's been injured before, you're you're assuming they're going to be injured again.

But Greg, that's a reasonable thing to do.

Once one part of the body starts breaking down, all sorts of other parts of the body start making compensation.

But in Greg's defense, this is why they have lined up depth.

And yes, these are guys, Jalen Phillips, Redley Chubb.

These are guys that have dealt with injuries, but you have Chop Robinson.

You bring in Matthew Judon, who on a passing down can get after the quarterback.

He could probably do that into his 40s.

And Zach Seeler, they just extended one of the better defensive tackles in the league, who has a lot of sacks.

He's not just a run-stopping DT.

He can get to the quarterback.

Buffalo does not have a great offensive line.

When you talk about how are they going to defend Josh Allen without great cornerbacks, it's because the pass rush will get to him.

Kenneth, Kenneth, I'm sorry.

Kenneth Grant's going to be really good.

I'm with my dad.

If you're seeing anything positive this offseason from the Dolphins, it's the front seven.

Like, he's right about that.

And the other thing is, their first eight games are easy, relatively speaking.

At Buffalo, they're getting that one out of the way.

All eight of those teams are looking at the Dolphins and saying that week is easy for them.

Indies looking at their jobs.

Like, Greg, I think we did that last year, too.

The Dolphins

early part of their schedule.

It didn't go so hot.

Well, you know what?

This team is capable of being 6-2 at the break, 5-3 at worst.

At worst?

Yeah, I think so.

Craig,

you don't...

At worst, it could be really bad.

At worst, it could be really bad because the quarterback.

Last year, they started worse than that.

Okay, I've seen one of those

over and under things, one of those high and low, best-case, worst-case scenarios.

I don't know what that thing.

Can you describe that thing to me?

What thing?

The over-under thing.

What is that?

The over-under on wins is 7.5, but ESPN does this thing where...

What's the ceiling for this team and what's the worst they can be?

And for Miami, it's 6-11 at worst and 11-6 at best.

Is it not that for every team?

No, it isn't, actually.

No.

For New Orleans, I think it's 15 or something, is the worst.

What are you guys doing when you're doing this and the Ringer just ranked all the defenses in the NFL this season and the Dolphins were 26?

Ringer, what do they know?

Like, you don't have corners.

Yeah, but that's not the argument that he's making.

I think he's conceding that they don't have corners, and hopefully their edge rushers can make the corners better.

I mean, the way that you would hide the lack of cover corner is a tremendous pass rush.

If you have a tremendous pass rush, I mean, you know,

NFL player games.

Yeah, it is what you guys just said.

And I would say if you've got the worst corners in the league, ain't a front that covers it.

It doesn't exist.

I'll buck up against that.

You don't notice that they're the worst corners in the league if your pass rushers are getting after it.

Look, Miami, look at the college game.

Miami's corners were exposed last year because the defensive line did not live up to the billing because of all the injuries and the fact that there was just a terrible DC.

You're not...

explaining anything.

Any of you aren't explaining anything that isn't understood that the best thing to have in the league is a pass rush.

You're more convinced that it's going to stay healthy than I am.

You're more convinced that anything you've seen this preseason of any kind is indicative of anything.

I think the Bears won all their preseason games last year.

It means nothing.

And I've never suggested it does.

Well, you just did.

You said it's look, their front seven is the one positive everyone here has said that they have, and I don't trust their front seven to be able to cover worst in the league deficiencies at corner.

Okay, but I don't relate that to the preseason at all.

They had their first unbeaten preseason since 1998.

It means zero.

It means nothing.

But the pass rush is going to be good.

I think the offense is going to be much better.

I expect bounce back years from Tyreek Hill and from Waddle.

They have a pretty good running back room.

They have a kid, the seventh rounder, who looked really good in the preseason.

That's the one thing I judge the preseason for is the development of young players.

Being a homer, bro.

That's fine.

I've been called worse than a homer.

Am I the only one who is really concerned about Tyreek Hill?

I mean, we haven't seen him yet this preseason.

That's true.

And it doesn't seem like the quarterback is necessarily enthused with the wide receiver these days.

And, you know, Tyreek Hill, we saw what went down the end of last season.

First sign of trouble, really in his career.

Really in his career, Tyreek Hill.

He's made the playoffs every year of his career before last year.

And the first sign of adversity, we saw he quitting the game and then quit the team they got off to a slow start this year we feel good about the way Tyreek Hill is going to behave I would look he had less than a thousand yards last season which in a 17 game season a thousand yard season is no longer anything special at all I expect him to be in that 1500 range I expect him to have a really good season I'll take the under there's no I also will take the under there's no substitute for speed Now the betting over under well wait a minute there's no substitute for speed how about his his diminished speed?

Because he's in his 30s and

he's not going to be faster than everyone else in the league going forward.

Well, diminished speed, I'll grant you, but it doesn't mean he's still not a fast wide receiver.

Jalen Waddle is fast.

Tua gets rid of the ball fast.

They have a good running game.

What would it take to mute your enthusiasm before a season?

Like, what would it actually take?

You know what?

It would take them getting their ass kicked at a really bad Indianapolis team in the opener, okay?

Now, the university, and maybe Mike would agree, maybe he wouldn't.

The University of Miami can lose narrowly to Notre Dame, and nobody's giving up on the U.

But if the Dolphins...

To me, the Dolphins have very little faith.

They've created very little buzz.

They need to prove early on that they have a chance to be a decent team, and that means beating the Colts.

The Colts are not very good.

Daniel Jones as quarterback.

I think they're okay.

I think they're better of the AFC South South teams if you look at them.

Tyreek Hill's over-under, according to DraftKings on receiving yards for the season, is 975.5.

Wow.

See, I would take that in a minute.

Can we find an under my dad would take for the Dolphins?

Not seven and a half wins.

Hiding under his desk when the season's over.

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Don Lebatard.

All right, we got to go back out there.

That was big.

Wake him up.

Uh-oh.

He doesn't want to be bothered anymore.

Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that as a result.

He needs something that happens.

You can see it, Mother F.A.

Can we bother?

Are we bothering you right now?

Turn on your microphone, Greg.

My microphone's on.

Stugats.

Paint the scene.

Paint the scene is: I gotta go to work.

Good night.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Let him be excited.

This is the time of year where you get excited.

I just like a different surprise opinion from him one year on what the Dolphins are going to be doing.

He's not informed.

He had conviction.

He bucked up against you on the front seven.

He had his talking points.

He goes to camp occasionally.

This kind of thing.

Occasionally.

There's nothing wrong with hope.

Greg's been to camp more than all of us combined.

Have you been to camp this year?

Yeah, you know.

Occasionally.

Greg, is Miami Herald?

Is Miami Herald still doing those big football sports editions where you get a dolphin?

Special sections of college football preview.

Seven football

statewide college.

Every year there would be seven sections of just football.

High school football.

High school.

College football.

Where's Willie Williams going?

As a matter of fact, today, when I get home from this show, I am finishing and filing for publication my annual NFL team rankings.

Wow.

1 through 32.

It's why my dad won't be in the rest of the week.

I think we wanted him in one more time this week, and he's like, I got a lot of sneakers.

Well, it's due today, but three times a week's a big issue.

So doing Friday was just, you just

wait for you.

I'm such a big fan of you, too.

Those football editions, when I was a kid, it meant the world.

When does it come out?

You file it today.

When does it come out?

Well, it'll be online probably later today.

I'm not sure when it prints.

Any sneak previews for

the forest?

They're going to be ranked number one.

They're going to be number one at favorite to win the season.

The Dolphins, better than you think.

The Dolphins will not be in my top 10.

I can't.

But the fact that they'll be in the top 15 is weird.

Will they be ranked high enough to be one of the top seven teams in the AFC and make the playoffs?

You never know.

You're going to have to read what I'm doing.

I feel like I do know.

I do know.

And Cody,

I don't know why.

I would love to know if in Indianapolis there's an Indianapolis Greg Cody

Pravitz, who's been a columnist for 50 years, who's doing a show today saying that the Colts, if the Colts don't beat the Dolphins, who are a very bad team, then the Colts season is doomed with Daniel Jones.

I don't think the Colts look at the Dolphins and see a team that's much better than them.

I think the Colts say they had Anthony Richards, a quarterback who had started all of 15 games in college, high school, and everywhere.

What an arm, though, Dan.

What an arm.

Occasionally,

a great throw.

But look, Daniel Jones has won a playoff game.

Tua?

Can you say that?

I mean, Tua, play in the playoff game, for heaven's sakes.

As of right now, Indianapolis is favored by one and a half.

I want you to write this in stone.

By kickoff on September 7th, the Dolphins will be favored in that game.

Wow.

Because there's going to be a lot of money that realizes how bad Indianapolis is and how under-regarded the Dolphins are.

That line will flip.

The Dolphins will be favored by one or two points on kickoff day.

Hold me to that.

Can I just ask a question real quick, Greg?

If your...

Column is due today.

Why can't you come in the rest of the week, playa?

Friday, I believe, was the other day we wanted you.

You know, as a real journalist, Saz, as someone who has...

Are you...

I know you're looking at me, but you're talking to somebody else?

No, no, I'm talking to you.

I have other responsibilities.

I have other things I have to write.

I have a column I have to write Wednesday.

I have an interview with Mario Cristobal later in the week for

an advanced column on the biggest game in the history.

But you're getting them again.

We just got them like a week ago.

But now I'm getting them, you know, fresh stuff, different questions.

Let the adults speak in this this one.

Different long-winded questions?

No, no.

I know you're not talking to me.

I'm not talking about you.

I was talking about this other interview.

This other interview where, you know, there are people interrupting, shenanigans, hijinks of plenty.

Yeah.

Not letting Greg get his questions out.

I know.

Christopher interrupted me.

That's what I was alluding to.

It's all good.

It's all good.

But the point is, three times, you know, I do have a full-time job.

So three times a week in here, as much as I'd love to, is just a tall ask.

Where did you get that shirt?

Did someone get it for you?

Or you went, did you go to a store?

Was this an online purchase?

Did you watch Modern Family one day and you said, that's me?

The shirt where you like go in blind and then just pick stuff.

I love this.

Where did you go?

I've always liked Paisley.

Not Brad Paisley.

Not a huge fan of his, although he thought that.

Why not?

A little underrated.

But.

Wait, he's underrated.

Can we get a clarification on what your opinion is of Brad Paisley?

Yes, please.

We're confused.

It seemed to be contradictory.

Brad Paisley.

Is he underrated?

Is he overrated?

What is your status right now?

Because it was confusing.

Properly rated?

I just wanted to throw a Brad Paisley joke.

I know you did.

It's the Kornheiser move of get over 65 years old.

Somebody says a word.

Somebody says, I love that guy.

Kevin Love.

Yeah, yeah.

That's a good line.

Well done by you.

You're learning, kid.

Listen.

TJ Max.

We went.

My wife talked me into going on a disco cruise a couple of years ago.

Swinger screws.

Well, whatever you want to call it, and she said, dress accordingly.

How are you feeling about that microphone?

Yeah, talk into it.

I'm talking into it.

So, you went to buy a disco shirt.

Where'd you buy the disco shirt?

I don't remember.

Might have been, might have been Target, might have been.

First of all, you didn't go.

Mom got it for you.

She might have gotten me.

Of course, she did.

Right.

She might have.

You have not shopped for clothes at a store in decades.

I bought a pair of walking shorts

before my Vancouver trip.

Walking shorts.

Right.

Hell yeah.

So shorts.

So shorts.

They don't walk in shorts.

You can get on that.

What do you think makes them walking short?

Running shorts?

I guess that

there are running shorts.

The opposite of a running short.

I think.

You got those sitting-down shorts?

They're not cargo shorts.

They're dress shorts.

Chris, I'm going to give you an assignment, okay?

An assignment for content.

I would love to go through your father's drawers, drawer.

Oh, my God.

Because he's got to have underwear in there that are older than both of his sons.

This would be a good bit.

Like, if you went through his,

when you ask, I cannot imagine

the last time this man purchased socks or underwear for himself.

I get underwear for Christmas every year.

I ask for it on my list.

Santa brings me underwear.

And, you know, I'm decades over the tighty whiteys.

All I have now are boxers.

You know, Haynes, the

brand of choice, quite frankly.

Boxers or boxer briefs?

Boxers.

I believe, yeah, he goes.

Jalen.

Boxers are walking boxers.

Like the cloth ones?

He goes boxers, like not the tight ones.

I have the best boxers since Ali.

Is that so?

Yeah.

To say Jake Paul now in reference to good boxers, Greg.

Chris, do me the favor of just rummaging through some of your dad's drawers to see what kind of old stuff you can find in his house.

What else is on your Christmas asks every year where you ask Erlene to make sure and just replenish things that you need that you don't know how to get on the internet.

I generally ask for a pair of blue jeans,

a pair of black jeans.

Don't worry about the microphone.

You know, boxers, maybe a couple of dressers.

Why wouldn't we want him in more?

Why wouldn't we want him in more days a week?

It's a credit to how Relaxi is in that studio.

I'm very particular about my socks.

I don't know what the material is, but I like those thin socks.

I don't like like a woolly, cottony, heavy sock.

I like a thin sock.

And she knows.

Your mother knows.

Dan's mom knows.

My mom.

What?

What are you saying?

What are you saying?

What my mother knows?

What about that?

Ask your mother.

What about your undergarments?

Why do you get jeans every year?

I've had jeans for like years and years.

I recycle my jeans.

What?

You know, some of them

barely fit me.

I'm retiring them.

I'm about to bury another pair of deck shoes in the backyard.

Really?

You are?

You have a service?

Wow.

Yeah, another funeral.

that's correct what happened with these just long life or oh yeah i mean they have they have holes bad smell like holes in them and dude i'm telling you these things

they smell so bad i could wear them another 10 000 miles but i just don't want to yeah because he does everything

he does yard work in them yeah like he does everything in these shoes the smell after like a couple months

only when they get wet right but don't let them get wet you got those yard work shorts i have yard work shorts yeah

yeah

thank you.

So, Greg Cody for the uninitiated has the feet of a gargoyle.

He often wears leathery deck shoes without socks.

And his son is correct when he says he'll do yard work in those shoes with those gargoyle feet.

There will be a swamp of water in there, not absorbed by the socks, and he will wear those shoes for 30 years until he buries them with a shulagy at a shooner.

And then he'll leave them in the garage.

Like they're wet.

So he'll leave them like in the garage.

And then like hours later, you'll walk into that garage and just like this musty

smell of just like, oh, the shoes are in here.

You walk into the garage and you're like, there's wet deck shoes somewhere.

Where are they?

This is a musty smell.

What are you going to take them into the house, leave them out in the rain?

Greg's doing the right thing.

Don't do yard work in them.

Well, I mean, if anyone would, you know, abide by Datter Day, he wouldn't have to do the yard work.

But no one, there's never a Datter Day that's observed in the Greg Cody household, so he has to do his own yard work.

I don't know what to do.

I'm still waiting for that.

I'm still waiting for a Datter Day.

I went over and helped you guys with some stuff recently.

What did you do exactly?

I think it was on a Sunday.

What did you do?

I helped you guys with your mailbox project.

No, you did not.

No, I didn't help you guys.

I hired somebody to do that.

No, I'm not talking about building it.

I'm talking about moving stuff like in the pre, before, like, helping you.

Would you get the mail?

For the mailbox?

Oh,

I've helped him do shit.

Don't let him paint a picture.

What did you do exactly?

Because you can't really say what you did.

What did you do?

I moved

the stuff he was using as his mailbox into the garage.

What does that mean?

Stuff he was using.

You're being really coy about that.

Old mailbox and old box.

He had a mailbox on like a TV tray table.

I did.

It was held up with pieces of plywood.

Like that's what he had for like years.

So what I did was.

Can I get a picture?

You moved a TV tray table.

No, and the plywood next to it, like helping it stay up.

I helped.

Seemed like a big job.

Sorry the project wasn't bigger.

I went over to help him.

It was only after I got my new mailbox professionally installed.

It was funny, though, that

my neighbors dared make fun of my TV tray table that was up there for like three years because nobody would help me.

Three years.

Yeah.

It was up there a long time.

I know.

Yeah.

Just three years, I think.

I think we're coming up on the third anniversary of me asking for a daddy day.

Yeah.

How many have you had?

None.

Zero.

Wow.

Zero.

Now I got to hire a landscaper.

I just had a driveway done.

Now I got to hire.

You wanted me to do your driveway?

No, but now I got to hire a landscaper because none of my sons will help their dad.

Driveway does look good.

Thank you.

Your wife is the head of a giant law firm.

Why is she getting her mail on a TV tray that's embarrassing to the neighbors because her husband is a total incompetent, but then she has to watch him go out there in those shoes with those gargoyle feet to the TV tray to pick up mail he doesn't understand about documents that he doesn't understand.

I get the mail.

I bring it in.

She never has to go out to the mailbox.

You are a 70-year-old toddler with shoes that stink up a garage that is so old, I didn't know there was a smell in there that wouldn't be from like a crypt.

Like your garage, your garage is

a place with rat problems.

In the distant past.

Norway rats.

Your garage.

That door.

Remember?

That door has looked like that since I was a teenager going over there.

Like, I don't know what he does around the house.

He drinks Miller Lights in that garage.

That is his haven.

That's where he listens to his podcast like five times on a Sunday night.

I listen to it twice.

You'll just hear, like, from the living room, you'll hear it just playing in the garage, his own voice.

And it's dark.

You walk out there.

It's just like.

Quality control.

That's Miller Time.

Brushing Miller Lights,

giving drunk notes to me and Yeti.

Why is listening to his podcast and giving notes a bad thing before he's published?

It's multiple times.

Because they have to go to the garage in order to get the notes.

They've got to go to the garage.

The garage out of saw, the original saw.

Not when they started getting budgets.

The original saw.

It's a normal garage.

It is not.

It's fine.

It is absolutely not.

I disagree.

It's cluttered right now, but it's fine.

It's been cluttered my entire life

the entire life of the garage.

And again,

I'm surprised that there is a smell that can knock out whatever the other smells are in that garage, given the amount of junk that's in there.

We should go on a tour of this garage just to have the things, have Greg Cody take us through a tour guide experience on the museum that is his guitar, that is his garage.

Like, I don't, what do you think is the weirdest thing we would find in there?

The oldest thing that we would find in there?

There's probably something in there that's been there for 40 years, right?

Your pair of your underwear?

No, no, not, I don't know about 40 years.

There's too many things to name in there.

I can picture, like, a dolphin's chair that you used to, like, fold up that you would bring to, like, the Orange Bowl to, like, sit there in, like, the 80s.

Yeah.

No, I think there's a, I think there's a dolphin chair in there that dates from the expansion era.

Oh, okay.

Like, I just always have seen that chair over there, and I'm like, what is that?

I think it's something that my father or mother gave me that's been in there for decades.

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