Hour 1: Jim's Clothes

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Speaker 17 This is the Dan Labatar Show with the Stu Gats Podcast.

Speaker 19 The Eagles are 7-2.

Speaker 23 They have wins over the Packers, the Chiefs, Tampa Bay, and that Rams team.

Speaker 24 They're 4-1 against teams with winning records.

Speaker 23 They're the number one seed in the NFC.

Speaker 21 I know people talk about their offensive issues.

Speaker 24 The number of three and outs they have, alarming for a team that has won 20 of 21 games.

Speaker 20 It's weird to see a team with that much firepower be constipated on offense.

Speaker 29 But that Rams game showed you if you want them to beat you that way, they'll do it too.

Speaker 31 Like, if you want them to go ahead and throw it down the field to A.J.

Speaker 30 Brown, they will on fourth and six.

Speaker 25 And Matthew Stafford will lose a game that if they played it again today, the Rams would be favored. And that's crazy to say.

Speaker 37 Like, because of the problems that Philadelphia is having on offense makes them look like they did yesterday.

Speaker 26 But I want to ask you guys something that I was thinking about during that game because the margins are so small.

Speaker 43 Every week in the NFL, you're looking, oh, the reason that the Patriots beat the Bucs is because Diggs Diggs got his toes in on fourth down in that small sliver of real estate, and it changed the entire football game.

Speaker 29 Do you think you can imagine how maddening to these disciplinarian coaches who want to control everything but can control so little

Speaker 42 pre-snap penalties are?

Speaker 35 And I just, I want to articulate this in a certain way for the audience because what these people do for a living is insane in its precision.

Speaker 25 They practice eight and nine hours a day, so they have this much of an advantage knowing where a guy is gonna be, how

Speaker 30 they can get one step on somebody because the route has to be 8.3 yards and we're gonna practice it all week, eight hours a day.

Speaker 32 And if you don't keep doing it, we'll get a younger person in here who would like this paycheck.

Speaker 43 It's a military school of we will be precise.

Speaker 32 To my way of thinking, there should not be a false start on offense at home the entire season from anyone on my team ever.

Speaker 31 The bare minimum is you know the snap count the way we're practicing all week.

Speaker 30 We're in meetings at night.

Speaker 54 You're away from your family.

Speaker 31 We are doing every single thing to make sure we're this much better than the other guy.

Speaker 53 Don't give me a false start the entire season when we're at home.

Speaker 31 Like you guys explain to me how that happens with military soldiers who are being trained through fatigue and everything else. In the fourth quarter, the snap count is this.
You don't jump.

Speaker 37 Unless you're the Eagles on the tush push, then you can jump whenever you want.

Speaker 51 The refs will never call it.

Speaker 58 I didn't realize you were such a hard ass as a coach.

Speaker 7 Where was this when you were coaching the 13-year-old?

Speaker 8 Cole. Hell dude.

Speaker 45 Did you sit I'm now playing scared.

Speaker 9 Sitting next to Bobby Knight.

Speaker 56 I just don't understand it.

Speaker 8 I just don't understand it.

Speaker 31 All you got to do is don't move until the quarterback does this. We know it, and the defense does it.
Every time they tell it to us in the huddle, I just don't understand how it happens so much.

Speaker 31 I'll give you procedure penalties.

Speaker 35 I'll give you shifting penalties.

Speaker 40 I'm just talking about what they're doing all week.

Speaker 29 I can't imagine how exasperated coaches get with.

Speaker 31 Really, it's fourth and short. I need a yard against them.
They win the Super Bowl because they always get that yard and no one gets it against them.

Speaker 53 Can you not give me a false start?

Speaker 62 You're hitting a coach. You're hitting a player on the sideline like Gannon taking from Arizona.

Speaker 56 I'm not, I'm shivving. Shiv bummed me.
I'm shivving the center with like a

Speaker 56 no, I'm actually. You know the snap count.

Speaker 18 You have the ball in your hand.

Speaker 64 It's the snap count.

Speaker 62 You're kicking players in the ass during a game.

Speaker 8 That's what you're doing. I just told you.

Speaker 49 That's nothing.

Speaker 59 Kicking a player in the ass is not as bad as shivving them with a metallic object that I hid in the locker room.

Speaker 52 I would agree.

Speaker 7 Shivving the center is quite the visual.

Speaker 9 Do we need need more tears?

Speaker 54 Do you understand what I'm saying, though?

Speaker 29 I find this maddening.

Speaker 35 That game was decided by things like that.

Speaker 62 I mean, the Dolphins have to lead the league in pre-snap penalties.

Speaker 67 Definitely pre-game starting penalties.

Speaker 49 Yeah.

Speaker 65 Are you guys with me that you're now at the point where you expect that 64-yarder to go in at the end of the game, even if it's an Lambo winter?

Speaker 66 I hate it.

Speaker 58 I hate it so much.

Speaker 58 One of the most fun things about football, you know, when I was younger, was Marino gets the ball with 50 seconds left, and somehow he's got to get get 60 yards in this final possession to set up a field goal.

Speaker 58 And now, eh, you need like one 20-yard pass, and then the kicker can come in and win the game. I hate it.

Speaker 45 What do you like about football game?

Speaker 18 You don't like football.

Speaker 58 You're telling me you like kicking then. You're a lick fan.

Speaker 17 You don't like kicking.

Speaker 11 You also don't like punching.

Speaker 44 No, no, no. You don't know about that.

Speaker 18 What about the punch yesterday? You know what?

Speaker 8 That was an important punch yesterday.

Speaker 58 Can I give a PSA real quick? I'm tired of kissing. You hate football.
Let me give a PSA real quick. You know what a PSA is? Yes.
I can see you.

Speaker 13 You look like you don't know what one is.

Speaker 45 You want me to tell Chris and Kayla?

Speaker 18 He gave me a PSA.

Speaker 68 I know what it is.

Speaker 69 Hey, that's my gimmick.

Speaker 58 I'm tired of people sending me messages on Twitter when someone punches a ball out to me.

Speaker 34 No, you're not. You love it.
I'm tired of it.

Speaker 33 No, you're not.

Speaker 69 Do you know what?

Speaker 58 It's too much.

Speaker 66 No, that'll definitely stop.

Speaker 58 I'm so tired of getting. Do you know about that landman?

Speaker 67 Do you know? What you're doing now will definitely stop it.

Speaker 58 That's literally the message I'm getting. Do you know about that landman?

Speaker 56 Every time there's a punch anywhere in a high school game, college game, or professional.

Speaker 60 Last night it was a huge one. I mean, fast.

Speaker 56 You never see Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 59 That never happens to Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 62 Should have been a little illegal. I agree with Zaz.
The punch, do away with it.

Speaker 66 Boxing ring?

Speaker 64 Okay. That's right.

Speaker 62 Football field?

Speaker 66 Nope.

Speaker 28 That's right.

Speaker 58 You're literally allowed to. See, a guy got thrown out of a game the other day, Rex.

Speaker 63 He punched another player, but if that guy was holding a football, it'd been totally okay.

Speaker 44 Make that make sense.

Speaker 27 Tony, Tony has made me laugh, okay, today a couple of different times, but nowhere harder than when he comes in this morning, okay? We have something interesting happening in South Florida.

Speaker 70 We are the envy of the world in this respect.

Speaker 43 Yeah, well, you say it's cold, but it was 53 was the low this morning.

Speaker 35 So the rest of the world is going through a winter, and there is legitimate cold all over the United States that is going to be really deeply unpleasant for people.

Speaker 65 But yes, it's 53 in South Florida, and all of us were rattled by this.

Speaker 29 But Tony came in, and this doesn't happen to him very often.

Speaker 27 He's a confident individual.

Speaker 22 He came in feeling a bit judged as inferior

Speaker 20 as he drove in, and I was surprised by it because it doesn't happen to him very often.

Speaker 28 What happened?

Speaker 1 So on a beautiful day like this, you like to drive the car.

Speaker 68 You got the windows down a little bit. You're cruising, Greg.
I know you like that. That nice little cool breeze going in.
Thank you. Obviously, we come in in the morning early.

Speaker 73 I'm usually here about eight o'clock.

Speaker 68 And today was especially easy because there's no traffic.

Speaker 8 You're out there at bay.

Speaker 8 So thank you the truth, Pike. Thank you for your service.

Speaker 51 Thank you for your service. Thank you.

Speaker 11 So I'm driving in.

Speaker 74 People are out. I see joggers.
A lot more joggers today. And I'm looking over and I'm like, they think they're better than us

Speaker 74 because it's cold outside and you're running.

Speaker 68 And you think, you're looking at me in the car saying, ha,

Speaker 11 fat slob, you piece of shit. You're driving in the middle.

Speaker 31 So a lot of shirtless joggers.

Speaker 8 A lot of people smugging.

Speaker 60 Smug, smug, shirtless joggers.

Speaker 11 They think they're better than us. Guess what?

Speaker 17 You're not.

Speaker 11 You're not better than us just because you run.

Speaker 74 They are fitter than us.

Speaker 76 Not as good as us.

Speaker 8 It's debatable. Let alone though.

Speaker 73 Sometimes they're a little bit fitter. You don't see a lot of big people running.

Speaker 68 That's fine.

Speaker 68 You see thin people running, and that's fine too.

Speaker 43 Superior people, they would say.

Speaker 68 They would say that, and I would probably tend to agree if they are running in times that we would not be running.

Speaker 68 They are probably a little bit superior to us, but I felt the judgment from the car, and I looked at him, and I was like, I wanted to scream, you suck!

Speaker 8 All right, put it on the pole.

Speaker 8 Put it on the pole. You do that?

Speaker 62 No, I belittle joggers. Like, I will pull up next to a jogger with my car and start going at the exact same pace that they're running, and then all of a sudden, I'll gun it and leave them in the dust.

Speaker 62 And the car driver is superior.

Speaker 66 I mean, the jogger.

Speaker 8 What's he doing?

Speaker 62 He's going like five miles an hour.

Speaker 77 What do you got there?

Speaker 8 It takes him five.

Speaker 76 It's forever to get there.

Speaker 66 Yes, it takes him forever to get there.

Speaker 8 Put it on the poll at Lebatard show.

Speaker 65 Does the jogger feel superior to you?

Speaker 11 Don't even let me start up on the bikers, too. The people that think they're Lance Armstrong, the people that think they're on the Tour de France.

Speaker 68 Guess what?

Speaker 61 You're not.

Speaker 8 You don't have to wear the skin-tight shirts and the pants that I can see.

Speaker 73 You're

Speaker 44 I don't need to see it. Terrible.

Speaker 18 How about you just your fruit?

Speaker 8 You can see it all. Dan, I know you talk.
I feel like they do that.

Speaker 43 I feel like you guys are feeling judged by exercisers.

Speaker 26 Just yesterday on the show, Greg, you walked in with a cane.

Speaker 26 A couple of weeks ago, we were dissecting your trick knee on the board there, and it seemed like that happens because you sleep crisscross applesauce.

Speaker 23 Your knees are in bad shape.

Speaker 26 And I asked your son just yesterday, when do you think your father, last time he just put on clothes and went to go exercise?

Speaker 26 And he didn't know how to answer the question, but he thought that it was decades old and it had cobwebs on it.

Speaker 62 Well, I'm not wearing biker shorts, I'll tell you that.

Speaker 39 But when was the last time you purposely went out and said, because he said that you told your doctor, when your doctor asked you, do you get any exercise?

Speaker 20 Well, I walk around the house.

Speaker 63 Yeah, I have a long house.

Speaker 62 It's like a big L-shaped house. No, I do.

Speaker 8 Oh, you don't.

Speaker 8 I would say it's just a standard house. No, it's a long house.

Speaker 52 It might not be a...

Speaker 60 It might not be a standard house, but it's not so long.

Speaker 40 It's just, it's a pool room, it's a family room, and it's three bedrooms and a kitchen.

Speaker 62 Yeah, I fired that doctor, by the way. He's belittling my workout regimen.

Speaker 43 I'm walking up and down my house he's going no i mean yeah cardio and sweat chicken look just to be clear on what is long house dog it's it's two hallways it's two hallways long hallways a kitchen a living room a family room it is three bedrooms

Speaker 66 it

Speaker 29 it okay but that's that's the okay the family room and a pool room yes that don't It's a substantive house, but when I think of length, I'm going to say 3,000, 4,000 square feet, 4,000 feet, something like that.

Speaker 60 4,000

Speaker 20 giant house

Speaker 67 I'm telling you guys Roy I've seen your house it's very similar size to your house okay okay my parents house like they they spend their money on vacation my parents house is not a lavish house greg greg's uh children's bedrooms are small children's bedrooms right small children

Speaker 62 I need your support. Especially when they were young, they were like really, really small.

Speaker 37 You have three bedrooms on one side of the house, a master bedroom and two bedrooms.

Speaker 28 That's one hallway.

Speaker 46 Then you have a living area and a kitchen and a pool, table area.

Speaker 62 And an eating area.

Speaker 51 That's the kitchen.

Speaker 11 The commissary.

Speaker 39 The house is a normal length.

Speaker 25 No one would consider this exercise.

Speaker 8 The point is, I want to work out every day. I'm going to do this.

Speaker 67 Next time I go to your house, I'm going to show, because when you say walk around the house, what you're talking about to your doctor is I walk from my office to the garage and back and forth.

Speaker 67 That's what you literally say. And that walk is probably 30 steps.

Speaker 49 And it's to get a beer. Right.

Speaker 62 But when when I'm going into the garage and out, I'm ascending and descending.

Speaker 8 One step.

Speaker 8 There's one above average step.

Speaker 69 There's one step into the garage.

Speaker 60 There's one step.

Speaker 62 And another one back out.

Speaker 60 That's the same step.

Speaker 45 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Twice, though. Different exercises.
It's not once, it's twice. Once you're descending,

Speaker 60 if he had an Apple Watch, it would say two steps. It would say

Speaker 45 plenty.

Speaker 66 Believe me.

Speaker 62 I get my exercise. That's exercise to you.

Speaker 66 It's about getting the heart rate up.

Speaker 58 What would not be exercise to you, like the grandparents and Willy Wonka?

Speaker 45 Sleeping.

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Speaker 76 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 27 I got somebody here making fun of me. How old do you have to be to reference Shecky Green?

Speaker 25 Man, I went comedically there with the funny name of a comedian.

Speaker 38 That's on you for not knowing who Shecky Green is.

Speaker 51 Oh, you gotta know who Shecky Green is.

Speaker 27 No, you don't have to know who Shecky Green is, but I.

Speaker 61 No, no, I don't like my allies.

Speaker 14 Stugats.

Speaker 67 I have the soul of a Borschbelt comedian. I should be in the Catskills in 1945, opening for Shecky Green.

Speaker 35 That's who I was destined to be.

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Speaker 83 Greg, what is the last time you purposely tried to exercise?

Speaker 62 I mean, I exercise every day of my life.

Speaker 24 Greg, you put on gym clothes, you put on pants, and you said, I'm going to go for a walk outside, something.

Speaker 62 I put on Jim's clothes. I borrow his clothes.
I put on Jim's clothes. I need your support.

Speaker 8 But I see people running a marathon, right?

Speaker 62 And I'm like, all right, you're huffing and puffing for three and a half hours. You know how fast my car can go 26 miles?

Speaker 62 The distance that you take four hours to run, my car can traverse in what? A few minutes?

Speaker 68 Yeah, 20 minutes.

Speaker 58 I like the idea of Greg riding side by side with the marathon and just screaming out his window.

Speaker 14 Why?

Speaker 30 Yes, grinning maniacally at them,

Speaker 59 keeping the same pace and then speeding off with a cackle.

Speaker 45 He peels out.

Speaker 45 Why?

Speaker 64 That's a perfect question.

Speaker 18 To be fit.

Speaker 35 To be healthy.

Speaker 62 Come on, Jim Fix died.

Speaker 62 He crashed into a tree and died. The guy who invented running dies running.

Speaker 85 Who invented running?

Speaker 66 Jim Fix invented running.

Speaker 60 Who the hell is Jim Fix?

Speaker 45 Look it up.

Speaker 60 Everyone stop right now.

Speaker 25 This is a good segment.

Speaker 43 I want imaging for the next time he says look it up because this is actually a priceless one and he can help us with a back in my day. But I would like you to look up the history of Jim Fix, please.

Speaker 43 I would like the years of Jim Fix.

Speaker 22 And I would like to verify Greg Cody's accusation that Jim Fix, who invented running, died running by running into a tree.

Speaker 62 With a tree thing I'm a little vague on, but the inventor of running, recreational running, exercise running, died running.

Speaker 71 Okay, that's a good reason not to run.

Speaker 65 What is the back story of Jim Fix?

Speaker 27 Can I get the back in my day music so that I can get the support, the factual support for what it is that Greg Cody is saying?

Speaker 71 Because again, I will tell you that the key element to that story to me, which appears to be untrue, is that Jim Fix, the inventor of running, died running into a tree.

Speaker 18 That's the part of the story that got my attention.

Speaker 62 Look at trees all around him.

Speaker 56 The part that got my attention was that Jim Fix was just running around and the dangers of running are so bad that he ran into a tree, hit himself, and died on the side of the road.

Speaker 62 This is a still photo, so it doesn't show it. What's about to happen? And this photo is that Jim Fix

Speaker 62 sees Diana Rossini's kids being attacked by a deer and he runs to save Diana Rossini's three-year-old and he runs into a tree and dies.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 26 Jeremy, what is accurate here?

Speaker 9 James Fuller Fix was an American who wrote the 1977 best-selling book, The Complete Book of Running.

Speaker 9 He's credited with helping start America's fitness revolution by popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regularly jogging.

Speaker 12 He died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age.

Speaker 61 Hello.

Speaker 9 Now, in Greg's defense, no tree.

Speaker 9 In Greg's defense, we don't know whether or not when he had that heart attack, if he happened to stumble into a tree, he maybe could have died while running into a tree.

Speaker 67 This gym fix thing is... You'd think my dad's joking.
This is his reasoning for not being active. He has examples, friends of his who who were very active and have passed on.

Speaker 12 He has examples of people who were workout people and they've passed on.

Speaker 43 So he won't wear Jim's clothes.

Speaker 12 So he just has this theory of he doesn't believe it.

Speaker 9 He thinks he's like, he's gotten to where he's at without working out.

Speaker 67 So he's just like, I'm good.

Speaker 7 Dan, this is like when your dad was like, oh, the guy that ate the salmon.

Speaker 68 That's why I don't eat salmon because he was healthy.

Speaker 66 Thank you.

Speaker 49 But he didn't die.

Speaker 72 It's a great story, Tony, and thank you for bringing it up because my father has been stubborn about this. And I need to tell this story.

Speaker 19 My father for years has said, tells the story this way.

Speaker 20 Fred Dreyer, former Rams, tough guy, detective on television, famous football tough guy.

Speaker 86 He's like, Fred Dreyer, every day for 20 years, all he ate, salmon and broccoli and went running.

Speaker 24 Salmon and broccoli and went running.

Speaker 23 Fred Dreyer died running, and that's why I don't eat salmon.

Speaker 48 He ain't lying.

Speaker 26 No, he was lying because Fred Dreyer's not dead.

Speaker 61 Well, still, technicality.

Speaker 72 No, but this is the thing.

Speaker 29 This is the part that my father's been telling this story for years now, and we called him on the internet.

Speaker 33 We showed him, we called him on it.

Speaker 43 We just showed him, hey, dad, that story's not true.

Speaker 35 Fred Dreyer's still with us.

Speaker 72 He is not dead. He did not die from salmon while drugging.

Speaker 29 You can eat salmon now.

Speaker 27 And he's like, I don't believe that.

Speaker 66 Yeah, plus he'll die eventually.

Speaker 87 Well, he's 79 years young right now.

Speaker 51 Yeah, he goes.

Speaker 78 He's still alive.

Speaker 20 And you have not answered the question of when was the last time you exercised.

Speaker 25 I guess you're here not to take a quiz, but you have evaded the question.

Speaker 33 So it's been more than 10 years, though, yes?

Speaker 62 Yeah, I'm not going to take a quiz, like you say.

Speaker 62 And I'm not belittling people who work out. I'm just saying it's not a panacea for

Speaker 62 health or longevity. You know, if you want to jog, if you want to run marathons, more power to you.
If I want to run past you with

Speaker 62 a grin of a donkey eating briars, while I run past you and leave you in the dust, I'm going to do that too.

Speaker 20 Tony, he's been using that.

Speaker 52 I don't know what to do with that.

Speaker 61 Tony, he's been reading dead fish.

Speaker 84 He's been writing,

Speaker 8 grinning like big salmon just fell right on the table, Dan.

Speaker 69 Listen, Tone.

Speaker 20 Tone, he has been writing

Speaker 24 grinning

Speaker 88 like a mule eating briars.

Speaker 61 Or a donkey.

Speaker 62 They're interchangeable.

Speaker 38 Yes, either one.

Speaker 62 Yeah, God rest his soul, Edwin Pope the Great.

Speaker 42 It's not even his line, Tony.

Speaker 65 He stole it from Edwin Pope.

Speaker 69 Stole it from Pope.

Speaker 61 That's all his line.

Speaker 30 Listen, not only did he steal it from Edwin Pope, I recall laughing with your father at how overwritten it was.

Speaker 41 Like it wasn't, it wasn't a compliment to the late Edwin Pope, no longer with us, I'm like Fred Dreyer.

Speaker 22 The late Edwin Pope legendary columnist, Greg Cody, steals his lines, but that one we mocked.

Speaker 72 Grinning like a donkey eating briars, yet you can imagine it.

Speaker 29 A donkey just chewing on hay.

Speaker 40 But that's so, so you jaw, so past joggers, you're grinning like a mule or a donkey eating briars, and then you speed up and leave them in the rearview mirror.

Speaker 57 And if they were to look in your rearview mirror, what they would see is some, a human being grinning like a donkey eating briars.

Speaker 16 While I'm shouting out the window, hee-haw three.

Speaker 80 Badeau.

Speaker 40 Come on, Greg. Tom now for top five.

Speaker 60 Tony's top five.

Speaker 55 Greg Cody says he doesn't know his own lines.

Speaker 8 Don't you know? You got to help him with them.

Speaker 35 Hee-haw three.

Speaker 35 Badeau.

Speaker 44 Luckily, that's OLI. Hee-haw three.
Badeau.

Speaker 38 Thank you.

Speaker 20 Roy, do me the favor of, of, I'd like to get from earlier in the show his dueling hellos when he was right about something.

Speaker 70 I want to hear.

Speaker 41 I want you guys to hear the difference between

Speaker 78 Greg Cody roaring in the first hour with a hello that hasn't lost steam and his hello in the third hour when he is losing steam.

Speaker 72 In the interim, top five Greg Cody sayings, Tone?

Speaker 69 OLI, we had...

Speaker 18 Hee-Haw 3.

Speaker 80 Badea.

Speaker 18 OLI number two.

Speaker 16 Bae.

Speaker 3 Which doesn't work with Jumpin' Charlie, I'm guessing.

Speaker 67 Everyone was disappointed in that video last night that there was no bird.

Speaker 61 What happened?

Speaker 61 There should have been.

Speaker 50 Well, so this is the backstory. He called him a jerk.

Speaker 48 Wait a minute.

Speaker 62 He is a jerk at times.

Speaker 66 Greg. Yes.

Speaker 19 Before sending your dog that chews up sofas and pillows, and you say is trained, away to boot camp, you told us that the way that you train the dog, Jumpin' Charlie, is by disorienting him with a sound that was bay.

Speaker 75 So that stopped working and then you sent him off to boot camp.

Speaker 65 So you stopped doing the bay because the bay.

Speaker 64 Now it's like, Charlie, stop it. Charlie, no.

Speaker 62 No, the bay continues to be a disarming sound. Like,

Speaker 62 if I need to distract him for whatever he's doing and I hit him with a bay, it does get his attention. He gives me that cute...

Speaker 8 I love when dogs do that.

Speaker 62 The ear, you know, the head tilt.

Speaker 85 The head tilt.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 52 This is a hell of an OLI.

Speaker 73 It's a good OLI. Another OLI.

Speaker 14 Trailers for sale

Speaker 16 rent

Speaker 62 tony honors me with this list

Speaker 75 50 rooms to rent is it rooms to rent 50 cent right

Speaker 78 number five this is a this is a deep cut but i like my greg cody deep cut okay number i would love if this ends with him weeping sobbing or some form of just getting emotional because of how you've touched him number five dummy up

Speaker 68 can you explain dummy up to the audience that hasn't heard dummy up greg

Speaker 67 It's more like when you got to get ready for something.

Speaker 14 Like, get ready. Dummy up.

Speaker 67 Like, I'm coming inside right now. Dummy up.

Speaker 62 If people are chattering and extraneous noise and everything, I'm like, dummy up.

Speaker 66 Just basically get focused. It's a very polite way of saying quiet down.

Speaker 27 Weird for you to choose that, Tony, given that I've never heard him say it.

Speaker 52 Oh, no.

Speaker 8 He's right.

Speaker 16 Dummy up.

Speaker 68 The audience doesn't understand him.

Speaker 12 It would be a way like out here before our pre-show. Like, hey, let's go, everyone.
Dummy up.

Speaker 66 Let's go. We're going to talk right here.

Speaker 63 Perfect. Yeah.
Number four.

Speaker 16 Hello.

Speaker 6 Get me the dueling hellos because he was so right in the first hour.

Speaker 78 Or injured Blanche.

Speaker 77 Hello.

Speaker 57 It's amazing.

Speaker 45 You became an old-timing 90-year-old show girl.

Speaker 77 Hello.

Speaker 62 Yeah, that was Ethel Myrma. There's no question about it.

Speaker 16 Or injured Blaney. Hello.

Speaker 89 Lois from Family Guy.

Speaker 16 Or injured Bland.

Speaker 77 Hello.

Speaker 73 Capita. Number three,

Speaker 69 Brad.

Speaker 66 What a great list.

Speaker 45 Whoa,

Speaker 60 Zaz just got hit with a taste of wetness.

Speaker 53 Zaz was truly disgusted by the gurgling bubble that came out of that first sound.

Speaker 58 I mean, I could smell that clip.

Speaker 21 Thank you.

Speaker 80 Well, it's Brad.

Speaker 69 Brad.

Speaker 45 Number two, baby.

Speaker 76 Baby.

Speaker 76 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 67 Much different than Berry.

Speaker 62 It is. Totally different.

Speaker 74 That's why baby's, you know, number two.

Speaker 68 Obviously, it stands in the pantheon of Greg Cody sayings.

Speaker 3 Thank you.

Speaker 74 And number one. Oh, come on, we all.

Speaker 68 There is no other phrase that Greg Cody

Speaker 1 is remembered by, says that kind of thing.

Speaker 78 That would have been your number one as well? It might have been.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 67 Or it might, you know, what about, you know, he forgot.

Speaker 74 You never know.

Speaker 68 You never know.

Speaker 68 Forgot it.

Speaker 52 Forgot it while

Speaker 8 offering up dumbing up.

Speaker 46 I know, but

Speaker 62 and you know it, though, is Vince.

Speaker 61 Oh, and you know it. Yeah, and you know it.

Speaker 33 No backjack.

Speaker 78 That's a fact, Jack.

Speaker 69 It's my list, and you create your own list.

Speaker 51 He's got, yeah, do it at home.

Speaker 60 Best list wins nothing.

Speaker 57 Have a contest.

Speaker 60 You might get some tears.

Speaker 75 I think it would have been wonderful if at the end, somehow you had gotten the cadence on this on a nostalgic, emotional cane using Cody.

Speaker 51 If you got him just weeping at the end to Brad, to his burp where he's just so touched and so honored that your list was so good.

Speaker 27 Listen to the hello again and tell me you're not seeing someone at the end of a 1950s play come out, an old woman,

Speaker 30 an old woman coming out and really hitting that last note with she's really pleased with how everything's going.

Speaker 16 Or injured like hello.

Speaker 62 It's like a vaudeville stage.

Speaker 69 That sounds like papers.

Speaker 16 Hello.

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Speaker 76 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 52 Is there Back in My Day?

Speaker 8 There is, actually.

Speaker 8 Are you not going to tell anyone?

Speaker 61 Wait a minute.

Speaker 45 You guys,

Speaker 45 guys,

Speaker 51 it's a Tuesday.

Speaker 14 Stugats. Here's your guy, Greg Cody, with Back in my day.

Speaker 14 Shut up, hold my.

Speaker 16 Okay, here it is.

Speaker 76 Sorry.

Speaker 14 Adultery.

Speaker 16 That's all. Yeah.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Wait a minute.

Speaker 8 I've been waiting for this one.

Speaker 17 This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Speaker 62 Where's as he's going? Can we talk about Norman follows a lot?

Speaker 83 Actually, Mike McDaniel is where we're headed.

Speaker 91 The sound has has now been confirmed. The video has been confirmed.

Speaker 24 The audio has been confirmed.

Speaker 23 That was indeed in a black mat cart, a black mat car.

Speaker 24 Mike McDaniel trolling past the elbow room.

Speaker 88 The elbow room is filled with Bills fans.

Speaker 88 One of the most

Speaker 27 confirmed.

Speaker 43 Confusing victories of the year after a confusing week in which the Dolphins do the rare thing of, hey,

Speaker 49 this is a rare thing, right?

Speaker 40 Everyone's in trouble.

Speaker 52 A week ago, all of us around here were howling, oh my God, I've never seen it this way before with the Dolphins.

Speaker 23 It's going to be GM,

Speaker 20 coach, and quarterback all swept out to see who's next, what's next, everything starting over.

Speaker 34 And then the owner says, nope, I'm going to get rid of the GM in season.

Speaker 19 Weird, unusual,

Speaker 28 but not the coach.

Speaker 37 I believe in the coach.

Speaker 43 I'm not going to trade the wide receiver.

Speaker 20 And now I'm betting on the quarterback for another year.

Speaker 30 I am going to bet on Waddle, McDaniel, and Tua.

Speaker 42 I'm stuck.

Speaker 65 I'm stuck because that contract's going to be hard to move.

Speaker 37 And so next year, I'm going to bet on maybe McDaniel, Waddle, and Tua can dig me out of this.

Speaker 25 They've got an easy schedule for a month.

Speaker 31 By the end of this month, we're not going to be saying McDaniel's lost his players anymore.

Speaker 88 Like, whatever happens the next couple of days in England, they may lose one of the games.

Speaker 38 They may win all three.

Speaker 30 Whatever it is, is, it's not going to be McDaniel.

Speaker 31 We're not thinking the next three opponents are so bad that if they put up a six points against Cleveland or a six points against Baltimore, you'd be confused by it.

Speaker 58 I'm pretty sure they're going to be successful over this stretch. Like, I think they're going to be winning some games.

Speaker 35 So here's McDaniel, and in his own words, let's get the sound because he has confirmed that that was indeed him swinging past.

Speaker 8 Well, he hasn't confirmed it.

Speaker 35 He did not confirm it.

Speaker 39 Okay, you tell me what it is you guys hear here.

Speaker 92 But there's a picture of you strolling down A1A, strolling down the elbow room, I guess, near A1A.

Speaker 92 Looks like your car, looks like you, looks like your watch.

Speaker 92 Is that AI or is that real?

Speaker 73 Well, you know, that's the

Speaker 93 good old days, you know,

Speaker 93 the throwbacks of your where you could trust, you know, the internet and the images. Because, you know, that is pretty detailed.
You know, I do live in that area, but I mean,

Speaker 62 AI, right?

Speaker 69 so

Speaker 64 well I mean

Speaker 93 are you confirming or did not I mean I live in that area AI is real

Speaker 3 that's what I got for you that's great the jokester's back

Speaker 58 they're three and seven

Speaker 58 like they're three and seven you know I don't know I

Speaker 64 I

Speaker 58 Look, honestly, I think it's lame. I think it's lame.
They're three and seven. The Buffalo Bills, despite what the Dolphins did to them this past weekend, own the Dolphins.

Speaker 58 They own them for like a good 10 years now. They never beat them.
So it's cool that the Dolphins beat them this weekend, but it's still three and seven on the year.

Speaker 58 And like, McDaniels doing a victory lap around elbow room.

Speaker 79 Is it lame if he literally is just driving to his house, though?

Speaker 45 Why is his window down?

Speaker 81 And the arm out the window, too.

Speaker 67 It's a nice Sunday evening after he finally has a happy thought for the first time in six months.

Speaker 60 It's a boss move, okay?

Speaker 28 He's gone from uh car crying to leaning out into the elbow yes he was car crying look man this dude was car crying he had elbow room by the way when you drive down a1a even if even if you're not around elbow room

Speaker 9 no that come on that's deserving his arm was out of the car that's

Speaker 18 rim

Speaker 61 It's a boss move. It's a

Speaker 45 boss move.

Speaker 66 That kind of thing.

Speaker 12 It's a boss move to roll down your window.

Speaker 67 When you're driving down A1A, you just roll down your window.

Speaker 12 Yeah, you do.

Speaker 76 Hell yeah.

Speaker 77 Wow.

Speaker 45 Tony, you had the hammer.

Speaker 56 You just ended my hand again in the back.

Speaker 16 Where did you get the rim come from?

Speaker 45 You got to use it.

Speaker 45 Elbow room?

Speaker 71 Where did the rim come from?

Speaker 59 McDaniel stuck his elbow out and says, defend it.

Speaker 74 Driving a Bentley, too.

Speaker 68 Again, doesn't like football. Guy does not like football.

Speaker 58 Just corny.

Speaker 79 There's no seven.

Speaker 8 Let me tell you something here.

Speaker 61 Okay. Woo, kiddies.

Speaker 62 With everything that McDaniel's been through this season, he's allowed to enjoy a big win over

Speaker 62 the opponent.

Speaker 58 Everything he's been through, you say that like somebody's done something to him.

Speaker 62 Another thing, nobody deserves a comeuppance more than the Bills and Bills fans.

Speaker 66 Plus, get out of our elbow range.

Speaker 62 I was grinning like a donkey eating Briars earlier today when we were talking about has the Bills window closed? Has it ever opened?

Speaker 62 Listen, they haven't won anything since 1965.

Speaker 62 They haven't been in a Super Bowl since 1993.

Speaker 62 When Sean McDermott says at halftime, we got to get back to playing Buffalo Bills football. What kind of football is that exactly? Something that hasn't won in 60 years?

Speaker 62 What is Buffalo Bills football?

Speaker 8 The window was never open.

Speaker 62 The Bills were never better than the third team in the AFC when Lamar Jackson's healthy and Mahomes is playing.

Speaker 62 It's a fallacy that the Bills ever had a Super Bowl window. It hadn't shut because it hasn't never opened.

Speaker 22 That is fire from Greg Cody. 60 years of losing football in Buffalo.

Speaker 20 This is the best hope they've had since those Super Bowl teams.

Speaker 26 But we have breaking news here that might make some of you grin like a mule or a donkey eating briars.

Speaker 42 Nico Harrison has been fired by the Mavs.

Speaker 22 I don't know what Greg Cody is celebrating, but

Speaker 70 he's throwing his hands up in the air.

Speaker 8 What do you say?

Speaker 62 I'm celebrating because for what, two years now, this has been a story that only that city cared about, but it's somehow become one of the biggest stories in the NBA because he makes an unpopular trade.

Speaker 62 His fans won't get over it. And now all of a sudden they get what they wanted.
And now all the fans are happy again because they have the escape.

Speaker 67 Just to be clear, the report is that he will be fired at a 10 a.m. Central meeting, which will be in six minutes.

Speaker 58 Well, Sham Sharania followed up that tweet saying the Mavericks are fired in Harrison.

Speaker 66 Just wanted to make sure.

Speaker 58 I am so annoyed, Dan. I am so annoyed because you can confirm.
Everyone can confirm. Tony, confirm.

Speaker 14 Oh, wait a minute.

Speaker 38 You know what?

Speaker 69 You know what? I'm sorry.

Speaker 37 He should be annoyed.

Speaker 39 We got distracted with Greg Cody Kane talk, and Zaszlo had this story story

Speaker 35 hours ago. Zaszlo had this story.

Speaker 39 He came in here saying, he did say this.

Speaker 29 This is true.

Speaker 54 Shams is two hours late to this story.

Speaker 29 Zaz came in here today saying, I've got locked down.

Speaker 31 Nico's going to be fired.

Speaker 43 I'm so annoyed.

Speaker 58 Tony, I said that, right?

Speaker 8 You said that. No, you came in.
I was like football, but you said it.

Speaker 31 We didn't get to it because

Speaker 35 Greg Cody was weeping and hugging a piece of wood. And that's what we said.
But you had that story before that.

Speaker 29 Zaszlo the journalist, Zazlo the insider.

Speaker 62 Here's the thing about journalism: if you have a big story, you sort of have to break the news.

Speaker 45 You're right. You're right.

Speaker 66 You have to tell somebody.

Speaker 61 Well, no, I didn't. No, no, I did tell them.

Speaker 58 I didn't say it's the microphone.

Speaker 65 He had it, and I got distracted.

Speaker 46 Look, I'm going to take

Speaker 46 it.

Speaker 29 This is on me. Zaz has so much news.

Speaker 37 Zaz has so many journalism credentials.

Speaker 31 Zaz is spilling content.

Speaker 35 He told us before the show, hey, I've got that Nico Harrison's going to be fired.

Speaker 38 And I didn't get to it.

Speaker 35 That's the God's honest truth.

Speaker 41 He was to this story two hours before Shams, and he said he had it locked down.

Speaker 58 8.47 a.m.

Speaker 58 I looked at you guys and I said, I'm going to mention on the show today that Nico Harrison is getting fired.

Speaker 62 Yeah, it's a Shams that you never got to it.

Speaker 27 I still don't understand why you threw your arms up in the air when Nico Harrison was fired as if you had won something.

Speaker 45 No, because finally, I didn't predict it.

Speaker 46 I'm sorry.

Speaker 69 I mean,

Speaker 62 I never predicted it.

Speaker 71 That's not what Zazz was. I didn't predict anything.

Speaker 86 Zazzle was going to report it.

Speaker 47 He was not going to predict it. He was going, he won.

Speaker 8 And he never got around to it.

Speaker 19 We had graphics and that's true, but it's my fault. It's not his fault.

Speaker 25 It is absolutely my fault because, again, I was distracted by you hugging a piece of wood.

Speaker 8 What was a snap penalty by you?

Speaker 27 I had to get to my take on false starts.

Speaker 63 It was going going to be.

Speaker 42 That would have been a good place to get to it, but instead I was railing for nine straight minutes about the idea that there would be pre-snap penalties.

Speaker 62 Nobody hates a false start more than you.

Speaker 58 Had to talk about Jim Fix. Instead, I could have my name up there.
Sonathan Saslo is reported.

Speaker 62 I broke the news he died running into a tree.

Speaker 16 Wow.

Speaker 16 Thank you.

Speaker 58 Dan, I'm so annoyed.

Speaker 59 No, you should be. I'm just still laughing at how right Greg Coney is.

Speaker 65 Thank you. And how good that hello is

Speaker 78 because I want to show you the difference at some point between the first hello and the second hello so you see how you peter out.

Speaker 62 No, the second one's better.

Speaker 16 Hello.

Speaker 78 We'll get to the second one in a second.

Speaker 19 But before,

Speaker 27 Zaslo, I'm sorry.

Speaker 43 I want to publicly apologize to you, privately apologize to you.

Speaker 25 This one is all my fault.

Speaker 21 He had this story two hours ago.

Speaker 27 But what do you make of it now that it's so? Because rare as an executive, I was confused, Greg, by your take, something only people cared about regionally, whether a GM.

Speaker 50 That's not true.

Speaker 32 We learned this man's name.

Speaker 25 I would say the general public learned this man's name as a reason to laugh at incompetence, as a joke on the internet.

Speaker 25 The Dallas Mavericks, who used to be run by Mark Cuban, are now run by a buffoon as they go through an ownership

Speaker 20 transition because nobody ever in the history of sports makes this trade without at least calling around.

Speaker 47 It's not Anthony Davis, broken player for huge superstar in his prime.

Speaker 26 Lakers are going to be fine for 10 years if he stays healthy and they have their transition out of LeBron.

Speaker 42 Nico Harrison is the face of sports executive incompetence.

Speaker 43 He's been running afoul of ownership here since lucking into Cooper Flag, who's supposed to be a franchise player, but the Mavs don't look very good for a lot of reasons.

Speaker 58 And his response to that was, I'm glad the fan base is finally starting to see the plan.

Speaker 5 The plan to get lucky?

Speaker 44 Get that luck?

Speaker 58 They have like a 1% chance.

Speaker 68 He would have had that spot by the way.

Speaker 8 The plan.

Speaker 45 The plan. Look,

Speaker 58 he obviously deserved to be fired. The team is 3-8.

Speaker 58 He said the window to win is right now, which is why they're making the trade.

Speaker 58 And the guy that they made the trade around, the guy who, the reason that they only called the Lakers and did not call around, was because of everyone in the league.

Speaker 58 Nico Nico Harrison identified Anthony Davis as the guy that he wants. And that guy never plays.
He's never available. The team is three and eight.
They're terrible. But here's also the thing now.

Speaker 58 The ownership is firing Nico Harrison and it's like, holy shit. You allow the general manager to make a franchise altering move.

Speaker 58 At the very least, you can argue that the ownership wanted him to make the deal. I don't believe that, but you do have to agree that the ownership has to sign off on the deal.

Speaker 18 So you sign off on that deal.

Speaker 30 And as an added bonus, just so people understand sort of the

Speaker 57 reverberating historical context on this, it is the single most stunning and heartbreaking trade in the history of all sports in that market.

Speaker 37 There has been nothing close.

Speaker 58 There's nothing a close second place to you allowed an executive who is now fired 18 months ago to to make the single most stunning and heartbreaking uh decision in the history eight months ago in in the history of the market yeah eight months ago you allow him to alter the course of your franchise and then you don't let him see it through Now, it never should have happened in the first place, but you can't allow him to make this move and then fire it.

Speaker 45 It's all you get to do over on the move.

Speaker 18 So like, what do you see through?

Speaker 58 An Anthony davis who doesn't look great who's not playing kyrie irving who's hurt we don't know when he's gonna come back cooper flag who okay he's good right now but let's see what it is like how long he said if you're willing to if you're willing to say you got it wrong in such a short period of time you can't allow this big of a this big of a move to be made in the first place

Speaker 46 if he's if eight months later he's worthy of being fired that's not a that's not a person who should be in charge in the power structure of being allowed to do that.

Speaker 29 If eight months later, you're going to decide this person is not the person for the job.

Speaker 31 It's crazy.

Speaker 21 And so what ends up happening there, and this is the part that doesn't get talked about enough, like you had an ownership change there that didn't have an appreciation for what the value of this asset was.

Speaker 31 And so they desecrated everything that Mark Cuban did there.

Speaker 31 Like they just didn't understand what they were doing because they put a boob in charge and allowed him to make the most seismic trade and then becomes the fall guy for the economics of you didn't want to give the guy you worried was going to be fat hundreds of millions of dollars.

Speaker 62 I think this signifies what you don't see all that often, which is the power of fans. I think if the Dallas fans hadn't reacted as if their

Speaker 62 franchise

Speaker 8 committed mutiny.

Speaker 78 This is not the power of fans.

Speaker 20 This is the weakness of ownership.

Speaker 27 This is not the power of fans.

Speaker 62 I don't think if those fans reacted the way they did, that he would necessarily have been fired right now.

Speaker 58 The Dallas Mavericks had like a 20-year sellout streak at home.

Speaker 9 It ended last night.

Speaker 88 Greg, I understand that the groundswell would have happened in any market with this superstar.

Speaker 33 Any market, like this, Dallas is not a unique sports market.

Speaker 34 Any market would have been outraged by the everything of that.

Speaker 62 Yeah, but this was sustained. This was 18 months later or whatever.

Speaker 52 No, as he said, eight months later, and I'm going to say it again to what Zaz is saying.

Speaker 37 Like, as a show of incompetence from leadership,

Speaker 32 the scar that this leaves on Dallas sports is permanent you will rarely find in the future you won't find in the past something that will hurt the dallas fan base like this to know that a bozo traded away a superstar in his prime who's never available and eight months later new ownership decided that he was a bozo oh yeah you were right like that's a that's a level of of of leadership and competence that has very little precedent in in a market like you just don't get a superstar like that that has that emotional connection of, oh, we get to watch the next 10 years of hope there.

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Speaker 5 Well, I do know that to be true, but even during ad reads, like, Cuervo. I think you could lay out, especially for one of our great partners.

Speaker 6 Sweet, delicious Cuervo.

Speaker 7 Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots.

Speaker 3 The same family, the same land, the same passion. Cuervo.

Speaker 1 So, enjoy the tequila that started it all.

Speaker 2 Cuervo.

Speaker 16 Cuervo.

Speaker 1 The tequila that invented tequila.

Speaker 8 Proximo, cuervo.com. Please drink responsibly.
Cuervo.