Hour 1: Jim's Clothes

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Hour 1: Jim's Clothes
Date: November 11, 2025

Episode Overview

Broadcast from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, this hour of "The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz" brings the crew’s signature absurdity to a range of sports and culture topics, from the Philadelphia Eagles’ oddly unconvincing dominance, performative fitness and South Florida weather, Greg Cody’s unique relationship with exercise (and his “long house”), up to a heated debate about NFL pre-snap penalties and coaching discipline. The episode climaxes with a signature comedic bit: a ranking of Greg Cody’s many catchphrases and a hearty discussion of a major Dallas Mavericks front office firing.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Enigma of the Eagles' Success

[01:34 – 04:39]

• Dan Le Batard opens by marveling at how the Eagles, at 7-2 with wins over top teams, remain “constipated on offense,” despite their firepower.
• Dan wonders about the "maddening" reality for NFL coaches: the sheer precision required for success and the frustration over pre-snap penalties, especially at home.
  • Quote:
    "To my way of thinking, there should not be a false start on offense at home the entire season."
    — Dan Le Batard [03:41]

2. Football Frustration: Coaching, Kicking, and Penalties

[04:00 – 06:53]

• The crew laughs at Dan’s imagined hard-ass coach persona.
• Tony and Roy riff on Dan’s intolerance for mistakes and the overuse of "the punch" (knocking the ball loose), poking fun at football’s idiosyncrasies.
  • Quote:
    "I'm tired of people sending me messages on Twitter when someone punches a ball out."
    — Tony [06:08]
• Greg Cody chimes in about Miami’s tendency for pre-snap penalties, leading into a comic complaint about modern football.

3. South Florida’s “Winter” and Athletic Insecurity

[06:53 – 10:48]

• With Miami’s temperature dipping to 53 degrees, the group jokes about Floridians’ overreaction to cold and Tony’s existential crisis while driving past joggers.
  • Quote:
    "I'm looking over at them like they think they're better than us because it's cold outside and you're running... Fat, slobby piece of shit, you're driving in the car."
    — Roy [08:00]
• Greg Cody boasts about driving past joggers to feel superior and defends his “exercise” of walking around his “long house.”
  • Quote:
    "Yeah, I have a long house. It's like a big L shaped house...I get my exercise."
    — Greg Cody [10:11]
• Teasing ensues about Greg’s questionable fitness claims—walking to the garage barely counts.

4. Greg Cody on Exercise: “Jim’s Clothes” and the Legend of Jim Fixx

[16:17 – 21:41]

• Dan needles Greg about the last time he wore actual gym attire.
  • Quote:
    "I put on Jim's clothes. I borrow his clothes. I put on Jim's clothes. I need your support."
    — Greg Cody [16:49]
• Hilarious dissection of runner/marathon culture versus “car people.”
• Greg invokes Jim Fixx, stating he invented running and died doing it. The truth: Fixx popularized jogging but died from a heart attack, not from running into a tree.
  • Quote:
    "Jim Fixx invented running. Look it up."
    — Greg Cody [17:41]
• The guys break down this rationalization for avoiding exercise, linking it to classic old-man logic.

5. Top Five Greg Cody Sayings

[23:02 – 28:10]

• Tony presents “Top Five Greg Cody Sayings,” leading Greg to recreate his bizarre, vaudevillian hellos and oddball catchphrases (“dummy up”, “baby!”, the infamous burp, “you never know”).
  • Memorable moment:
    Dan insists on replaying Greg’s “hello,” likening it to “someone at the end of a 1950s play come out—an old woman...hitting that last note.” [28:10]

6. Dolphins Soap Opera & Mike McDaniel’s 'Boss' Move

[31:12 – 36:36]

• The segment pivots to Miami Dolphins chaos: sudden confidence in coach/quarterback as management shuffles.
• The group debates whether head coach Mike McDaniel rolling down A1A with his arm out is celebration or trolling in the wake of a win over Buffalo.
  • Quote:
    "It's a boss move. Okay, he's gone from car crying to leaning out into the elbow...He was car crying."
    — Dan Le Batard [34:49]
• Greg gleefully trashes the Bills and their so-called “Super Bowl window.”
  • Quote:
    "What kind of football is that exactly? … Something that hasn't won in 60 years."
    — Greg Cody [36:02]

7. Breaking News: Mavs Fire Nico Harrison – Missed Scoop

[36:40 – 46:36]

• Breaking NBA news: Dallas Mavericks to fire GM Nico Harrison after a disastrous, franchise-altering trade.
• Zaslow admits he had the story two hours earlier but, thanks to distraction, never reported it on-air.
  • Quote:
    "He was to this story two hours before Shams and he said he had it locked down."
    — Dan Le Batard [38:36]
• The crew eviscerates Mavs’ ownership for letting Harrison make a seismic trade before sacking him, calling it uniquely incompetent and emotionally devastating for Mavs fans.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• Dan Le Batard on coaching precision:
  "We are doing every single thing to make sure we're this much better than the other guy. Don't give me a false start the entire season when we're at home like you guys." [03:37]
• Tony, on social media ball-punch highlights:
  "I'm tired of people sending me messages on Twitter when someone punches a ball out." [06:08]
• Roy, on joggers:
  "They think they're better than us. Guess what? You're not. You're not better than us just because you run." [08:19]
• Greg Cody, defending his exercise habits:
  "Yeah, I have a long house. It's like a big L shaped house...I get my exercise." [10:11]
• Greg Cody, classic old-man illogic:
  "Jim Fixx invented running...died running." [17:41]
• Dan Le Batard, on Greg Cody's “hello”:
  "You became an old timing 90 year old showgirl." [26:03]
• Greg Cody, on Buffalo Bills “tradition”:
  "What kind of football is that exactly? Something that hasn't won in 60 years." [36:04]
• Dan Le Batard, on the Mavericks' executive disaster:
  "The scar that this leaves on Dallas sports is permanent...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." [45:37]

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Highlighted Timestamps

• [01:34] Eagles' record and coaching discipline rant
• [06:53] South Florida “cold” and jogger inferiority
• [16:49] “Jim’s clothes” & exercise avoidance
• [18:07] Jim Fixx myth is debunked
• [23:02] Top Five Greg Cody Sayings
• [34:49] Mike McDaniel’s “boss move” discussion
• [36:36] Greg Cody’s Bills rant
• [38:36] Zaslow’s missed opportunity for breaking news
• [45:37] Dan’s take on the Mavericks’ front office chaos

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Tone and Style

• Rollicking, full of inter-group teasing, energetic South Florida flavor, as ever laced with self-deprecation and absurdity.
• Greg Cody is the comic center—deadpan denial of fitness, bewildered by modern culture.
• Dan plays the exasperated but affectionate host, steering the ship through the show’s beautiful chaos.

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For Those Who Missed It

This episode weaves sharp football analysis (Eagles’ and Dolphins’ fortunes, coaching challenges) with the show’s signature comic exploration of culture, aging, and Miami’s quirks. The centerpiece—Greg Cody’s defiance of exercise science and the hilarious “Jim’s clothes” confession—captures the show’s spirit. The episode closes on NBA breaking news, a missed scoop, and the fallout from catastrophic sports management. Fast-moving, genuinely funny, and full of quotable moments—a classic Local Hour for Le Batard Show fans.

Transcript

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[Dan Le Batard]

The Eagles are 7 2. They have wins over the packers, the Chiefs, Tampa Bay and that rams team. They're 4:1 against teams with winning records. They're the number one seed in the NFC. I know people talk about their offensive issues, the number of three and outs they have. Alarming for a team that has won 20 of 21 games. It's weird to see a team with that much firepower be constipated on offense. But that Rams game showed you if you want them to beat you that way, they'll do it too. Like if you want them to go ahead and throw it down the field to A.J. brown, they will on fourth and six. 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, like, because of the pro. The problems that Philadelphia is having on offense makes them look like they did yesterday. But I want to ask you guys something that I was thinking about during that game because the margins are so small. Every week in the NFL you're looking oh, the reason that the Patriots beat the Bucs is because Diggs got his toes in on fourth down in that small sliver of real estate and it changed the entire football game. Do you think you can imagine how maddening to these disciplinarian coaches who want to control everything but can control so little pre snap penalties are. 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. They practice eight and nine hours a day, so they have this much of an advantage knowing where a guy is going to be, how the. The. The they can get one step on somebody. Because the route has to be 8.3 yards. And we're going to practice it all week, eight hours a day. And if you don't keep doing it, we'll get a younger person in here who would like this paycheck. It's a military school of. We will be precise. To my way of thinking, there should not be a false start on offense at home the entire season from anyone on my team. Bare minimum is, you know, the snap count, the way we're practicing all week, we're in meetings at night, you're away from your family. We are doing every single thing to make sure we're this much better than the other guy. Don't give me a false start the entire season when we're at home 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 unless you're the Eagles on the tush push. Then you can jump whenever you want. The refs will never call it.

[Tony]

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

[Roy]

Where was this when you were coaching the 13th, 14 year old?

[Jeremy]

Holy hell.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm there.

[Tony]

I'm now playing scared, sitting next to Bobby.

[Dan Le Batard]

I just don't understand. I just don't understand it. 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. I'll give you procedure penalties. I'll give you shifting penalties. I'm just talking about what they're doing all week. I can't imagine how exasperated coaches get with. 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. Can you not give me a false start?

[Greg Cody]

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

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm not. I'm. You just bumped me. I'm shiving the center with like, oh, that's worse. No, I know the snap count. You have the ball in your hand. It's the snap count.

[Greg Cody]

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

[Dan Le Batard]

I just told you that kicking a player in the ass is not as bad as shiving them with a metallic object that I hid in the locker.

[Greg Cody]

I would.

[Zaslow]

Shaving the center is quite the visual.

[Jeremy]

Do we need more tears?

[Dan Le Batard]

Do you understand what I'm saying, though? I find this maddening. That game was decided by things like that.

[Greg Cody]

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

[Zaslow]

Definitely pre game starting penalties.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

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 in a Lambeau win?

[Tony]

I hate it. I hate it so much. 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 60 yards in this final possession to set up a field goal. And now you need like 120 yard pass and then the kicker can come in and win the game. I hate it.

[Greg Cody]

What do you like about football game?

[Tony]

I. I like.

[Roy]

You don't like football.

[Tony]

You're telling me you. You like kicking, Then you.

[Roy]

You're like, you don't like kicking. You also don't like punching.

[Zaslow]

No.

[Tony]

No.

[Roy]

You don't know about that. What about the punch yesterday? You know, that was an important punch yesterday.

[Tony]

Can I give a PSA real quick? I'm tired of football. Let me give a PSA real quick. You know what a PSA is?

[Greg Cody]

Yes.

[Tony]

I could see. You look like you don't know what one is. You want me to tell Chris in.

[Greg Cody]

Case you gave me a psa?

[Roy]

I know what it is.

[Zaslow]

That's my gimmick.

[Tony]

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

[Dan Le Batard]

No, you're not. You love it.

[Tony]

I'm tired of it.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, you're not. That Landman.

[Tony]

It's too much.

[Zaslow]

That'll definitely.

[Tony]

I'm so tired of getting. Do you know about that, Landman?

[Zaslow]

What you're doing now will definitely stop it.

[Tony]

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

[Dan Le Batard]

Every time there's a punch anywhere in a high school game, college game or professional. Last night, it was a huge one. I mean, you never see Jalen Hurts. That never happens to Jalen Hurts.

[Greg Cody]

Should have been illegal. I agree with Zaz. The punch do away with It. Boxing ring.

[Tony]

Okay, that's right.

[Greg Cody]

Football field.

[Tony]

Nope, that's right. You're literally allowed to see a guy got thrown out of a game the other day. Rex, he punched another player. But if that guy was holding a football, then totally. Okay. Make that make sense.

[Dan Le Batard]

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. We are the envy of the world in this respect. Yeah, well, you say it's cold, but it was 53 was the low this morning. So the rest of the world is going through a winter and there's. There is legitimate cold all over the United States. That is that it's going to like, be really deeply unpleasant for people. But yes, it's 53 in South Florida and all of us were rattled by this, but Tony came in and this doesn't happen to him very often. He's a confident individual. He came in feeling a bit judged as inferior as. As he drove in. And I was surprised by it because it doesn't happen to him very often. What happened?

[Roy]

So on a beautiful day like this, you like to drive the car. You got the windows down a little bit. You're cruising. Greg, I know you like that, that nice little cool breeze going in.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you.

[Roy]

Obviously, we come in in the morning early. I'm usually here about 8 o' clock, and today was especially easy because there's no traffic.

[Dan Le Batard]

Salute to the truth, pilgrim. Thank you for your service.

[Roy]

Thank you for your service.

[Tony]

Thank you.

[Roy]

So I'm driving in, people are out. I see joggers. A lot more joggers today. And I'm looking over them like they think they're better than us because it's cold outside and you're running and you think you're looking at me in the car saying, fat, slobby piece of shit. You're driving in the car.

[Dan Le Batard]

A lot of shirtless joggers, a lot of people jogging. Smug, shirtless joggers.

[Roy]

They think they're better than us. Guess what? You're not. You're not better than us just because you run.

[Dan Le Batard]

They are fitter than us.

[Greg Cody]

Not as good as us.

[Jeremy]

Debatable.

[Greg Cody]

Let alone not better.

[Roy]

Sometimes they're a little bit fitter. You don't see a lot of big people running. That's fine. You see, you see thin people running, and that's fine.

[Dan Le Batard]

Superior people, they would say.

[Roy]

They would say that. And I would probably tend to agree. If they are running in times that we would not be running, 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.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, put it on the pole. Put it on the pole. You do that.

[Greg Cody]

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. And the car driver is superior. I mean, the jogger, what's he doing? He's going like five miles an hour.

[Zaslow]

What do you guys take forever to get there?

[Greg Cody]

Yes, it takes him forever.

[Dan Le Batard]

Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Does the jogger feel superior to you?

[Roy]

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.

[Tony]

Guess what?

[Roy]

You're not. Okay. You don't have to wear the skin tight shirts.

[Greg Cody]

Yes.

[Roy]

And the pants that I can see your.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, my God.

[Tony]

I don't need to see it.

[Greg Cody]

Terrible.

[Roy]

How about you just your front. You see it all. Dan, I know you talk.

[Dan Le Batard]

I feel like they do that. I feel like you guys are feeling judged by exercisers. Just yesterday on the show, Greg, you walked in with a cane. 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. Your knees are in bad shape. 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 and he didn't know how to answer the question, but he thought that it was decades old and it had cobwebs on it.

[Greg Cody]

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

[Dan Le Batard]

But when was the last time you. You purposely went out and said. Because he said that you told your doctor when your doctor asked you, do you get any exercise while I walk around the house?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I have a long house. It's like a big L shaped house. No, I do. I don't. Long house.

[Zaslow]

I would say it's just a standard house.

[Greg Cody]

It's a long.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's. It might not be support. It might not be a standard house, but it, it's not so long. It's just. It's a pool room, it's a family room, and it's three bedro.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I fired that doctor, by the way. He's belittling. My workout regimen. I'm walking up and down my house. He's going, no, I mean, yeah. Cardio and sweat.

[Dan Le Batard]

Look, just to be clear on what is longhouse 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, game room. Okay, but that's, that's the. Okay, the family room and a pool room. Yes, that, those. Look, it's a substantive house, but when I think of length, I'm gonna say 3,000. 4,000 square feet. 4,000.

[Greg Cody]

Something like that.

[Dan Le Batard]

4,000, whatever.

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[Zaslow]

I'm telling you guys. Roy, I've seen your house. It's very similar size to your house.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, okay.

[Zaslow]

My parents out like they, they spend their money on vacationing. My parents house is not a lavish.

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg. Greg's children's bedrooms are small children's bedrooms.

[Greg Cody]

Right?

[Dan Le Batard]

I said small children all you've got.

[Greg Cody]

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

[Dan Le Batard]

You have three bedrooms on one side of the house, a master bedroom and two bedrooms. That's one hallway. Then you have a living area and a kitchen and a pool table area.

[Greg Cody]

And an eating area.

[Roy]

That's the kitchen, the commissary.

[Dan Le Batard]

The house is a normal length. No one would consider this exercise.

[Greg Cody]

The point is you're going to work out every day.

[Zaslow]

I'm going to do this. 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. I walk from my office to the garage and back. And that's what you literally say. And that walk is probably 30 steps.

[Dan Le Batard]

And it's to get a beer, Right?

[Greg Cody]

But when I'm going into the garage and out, I'm ascending and deserting. One step.

[Dan Le Batard]

There's one above average one step into the garage.

[Greg Cody]

There's one step and another one back out.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's the same step.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Roy]

Twice though.

[Greg Cody]

Different exit. It's not once, it's twice. Once you're descending.

[Dan Le Batard]

If he had an apple watch, it would say two steps.

[Tony]

Steps.

[Greg Cody]

I do plenty, believe me. I get my exercise.

[Tony]

That's exercise.

[Zaslow]

It's about getting the heart rate up.

[Tony]

What would not be exercise to you? Like the grandparents in Willy Wonka sleeping.

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[Dan Le Batard]

Don LeBatard. I got somebody here making fun of me. How old do you have to be to reference Shecky Green? Man, I went comedically there with the funny name of a comedian. That's on you for not knowing who Shaky Green.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, you're gonna know who Shaky Green.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, you don't have to know who Shecky Green is, but your ally. No, no. Yeah, I don't like my allies. Stugats.

[Greg Cody]

I have the sou. A borsch belt comedian. I should be in the Catskills in 1945 opening for Shaggy Green. That's who I was destined to be.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the D. Levatar show with the St. Gods. Great. Greg, what is the last time you purposely tried to exercise?

[Greg Cody]

I mean, I exercise every day of my life, Greg.

[Dan Le Batard]

You put on gym clothes. You put on pants, and you said, I'm gonna go for a walk outside. Something.

[Greg Cody]

I put on Jim's clothes. I borrow his clothes. I put on Jim's clothes. I need your support. But I see people running a marathon, right? 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. I get the distance that you take four hours to run. My car can traverse in what, a few minutes?

[Roy]

Yeah, 20 minutes.

[Tony]

I like the idea of Greg riding side by side with the marathon and just screaming out his window, why?

[Dan Le Batard]

Grinning maniacally at them, keeping the same pace, and then speeding off with a. With a cackle.

[Tony]

He peels out.

[Greg Cody]

Why? That's a perfect question.

[Dan Le Batard]

To be fit, to be healthy.

[Greg Cody]

Come on. Jim Fix died. He crashed into a tree and died. The guy who invented running dies running.

[Roy]

Who invented running?

[Greg Cody]

Jim Fix invented running.

[Roy]

Who the hell is Jim Fix?

[Greg Cody]

Look it up.

[Dan Le Batard]

Everyone stop right now. This is a good segment. 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 it back in my day. But I would like you to look up the history of Jim Jim Fix, please. I would like the years of Jim Fix and I would like to verify Greg Cody's accusation that Jim Fix, who invented running, died running by running into a tree.

[Greg Cody]

With a tree thing I'm a little vague on. But the inventor of running, recreational running exercise, Running, died running.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, that's a good reason not to run. What is the backstory of Jim Fix? 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? 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. That's the part of the story that.

[Greg Cody]

Got my trees all around him.

[Dan Le Batard]

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.

[Greg Cody]

This is a still photo, so it doesn't show it what's about to happen. And this photo, is that Jim Fix, that's not true. 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.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, Jeremy, what is accurate here?

[Jeremy]

James Fuller Fix was an American who wrote the 1977 best selling book the Complete Book of Running. He's credited with helping start America's fitness revolution by popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regularly jogging. He died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age.

[Greg Cody]

Hello.

[Jeremy]

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

[Zaslow]

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 were very active and have passed on there. He has examples of people who were workout people and they've passed.

[Dan Le Batard]

So he won't wear Jim's clothes.

[Zaslow]

So he just has this theory of he doesn't believe it. He thinks he's like, he's gotten to where he's at without working out. So he's just like, I'm good, Dan.

[Roy]

This is like when your dad was like, oh, the guy that ate the salmon. That's why I don't eat salmon, because he was healthy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you.

[Tony]

But then he didn't die.

[Dan Le Batard]

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. My father, for years, has said tells the story this way. Fred Dreier for former Rams tough guy detective on television. Famous football tough guy. He's like, Fred Dreier. Every day for 20 years, all. He ate salmon and broccoli and went running. Salmon and broccoli and went running. Fred Dreier died running. And that's why I don't eat salmon.

[Greg Cody]

He ain't lying.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, he was lying because Fred Dreier's not dead.

[Greg Cody]

Well, still, technicality.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, but this is the thing. This is the part that my father's been telling this story for years now, and we called him on the Internet. We showed him. We called him on it. We just showed him, hey, dad, that story's not true. Fred Dreier is still with us. He's. He is not dead. He did not die from salmon while jogging. You can eat salmon now. And he's like, I don't believe that. Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Plus, he'll die eventually.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, he's 79 years young right now. Yes, he's still alive. And you have not answered the question of when was the last time you exercise? I guess you're here not to take a quiz, but you have been. You have evaded the question. So it's been more than 10 years, though. Yes.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. I'm not going to take a quiz like you say. And I'm not belittling people who work out. I'm just saying it's not a panacea for. For 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 a. You know, like a grin of a donkey eating briars while I run past you and leave you in the dust, I'm gonna do that, too.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tony, he's been using that. I don't know what to do with that one. Tony. He's been dead fish. He's been writing, grinning like big salmon.

[Roy]

Just fell right on the table.

[Dan Le Batard]

Listen, Tone. Tone. He has been writing, grinning like a mule eating briars or a donkey.

[Greg Cody]

They're interchangeable.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, either one.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. God rest his soul. Edwin Pope the Great.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's not even his line, Tony. He stole it from Edwin Pope.

[Roy]

Stole it from Pope.

[Zaslow]

That's all his lines.

[Dan Le Batard]

Listen, not only did he steal it from Edwin Pope. Pope. I recall laughing with your father at how overwritten it was. Like it wasn't. It wasn't a compliment. The late Edwin Pope no longer with us. I'm like Fred Dreier. The late Edwin Pope. Legendary columnist Greg Cody steals his lines. But that one we mocked grinning like a donkey eating briars. Yet you can imagine it, a donkey just chewing on hay and that. But that's so. So you joy 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. And if they were to look in your rearview mirror, what they would see is some A human being grinning like a donkey eating bride while I'm shouting.

[Greg Cody]

Out the window, he haw3 bute.

[Roy]

Come on, Greg.

[Dan Le Batard]

Time now for top five Tony's top five Greg Cody sayings he doesn't know his own lines. You gotta help him with them. He haw3.

[Roy]

Luckily, that's a.

[Greg Cody]

Well, I.

[Roy]

He haw3, but thank you, Roy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do me the favor of. I'd like to get from earlier in the show his dueling hellos when he was right about something. I want to hear. I want. I want you guys to hear the difference between Greg, 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 in the interim. Top five Greg Cody saying stone.

[Roy]

Oh, lie. We had Hee Haw 3 Oli number two, baby. Which doesn't work with jumping Charlie.

[Zaslow]

I'm guessing everyone was disappointed in that video last night that there was no berg.

[Greg Cody]

What happened there should have been.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, so this is the backstory.

[Zaslow]

Called him a jerk.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wait a minute.

[Greg Cody]

He is a jerk at times.

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg.

[Greg Cody]

Yes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Before sending your dog that chews up sofas and pillows and you say his train a way to boot camp, you told us that the way that you train the dog jumping Charlie is by disorienting him with a sound that was ba. So that stopped working. And then you sent him off to boot camp. So you stopped doing the bay.

[Zaslow]

Because now it's like, Charlie, stop it, Charlie.

[Greg Cody]

No, no. The bay continues to be a disarming sound. Like if I'm. 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. That cute.

[Zaslow]

I love when dogs do that.

[Greg Cody]

The ear, you know, the head.

[Zaslow]

The head tilt.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I love that.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is a hell of an oli.

[Roy]

It's a good oli. Another oli.

[Greg Cody]

Trailers for sale.

[Roy]

Rent.

[Greg Cody]

Tony honors me with this list.

[Dan Le Batard]

50 cents to rent. Is it rooms to rent? 50 cent, right?

[Roy]

Number five, this is a. This is a deep cut but I like my Greg Cody deep cut. Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

Number five, I would love if this ends with him weeping, sobbing or some form of just getting em because of how you've touched him.

[Roy]

Number five, dummy up.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, nice.

[Roy]

Can you explain dummy up to the audience that hasn't heard dummy up, Greg.

[Zaslow]

It's more like when you got to get ready for something. Like get ready. Dummy up. Like I'm coming inside right now. Dummy up.

[Greg Cody]

If people are chattering and extraneous noise and everything along. Dummy up. Just basically get focused. Polite way of saying quiet down.

[Dan Le Batard]

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

[Zaslow]

Oh no.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Come on.

[Roy]

The audience don't understand him.

[Zaslow]

It would be a way like out here before pre show. Like hey, let's go everyone dummy up. Let's go. I gotta talk right here.

[Greg Cody]

Perfect. Yeah.

[Roy]

Number four.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hello. Get me the dueling hellos. Because he was so right in the first hour. Or injured leg.

[Greg Cody]

Hello.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's amazing. You became an old timing 90 year old showgirl.

[Greg Cody]

Hello. That was Ethel Merman. There's no question question about it.

[Jeremy]

Or injured.

[Greg Cody]

Hello.

[Zaslow]

Flow is from family guy.

[Jeremy]

Or injured.

[Greg Cody]

Hello.

[Roy]

PETA. Number three.

[Dan Le Batard]

Brad. Brad.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, what a great list. Whoa.

[Dan Le Batard]

Zaz just got hit with a taste of wetness. Brad was truly disgusted by the gurgling bubble that came out of that first sound.

[Zaslow]

Brad.

[Tony]

I mean I like I could smell that clip.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you.

[Roy]

Well, it's Brad.

[Greg Cody]

Brad.

[Roy]

Number two.

[Greg Cody]

Baby. Baby. Oh yeah.

[Zaslow]

Much different than bur.

[Greg Cody]

It is totally different.

[Roy]

That's why baby's, you know, number two. Obviously it stands in the. In the pantheon of Greg Cody sayings.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you.

[Roy]

And number one. Come on, we all. There is no other phrase that Greg Cody is. Is remembered by says that kind of thing.

[Dan Le Batard]

That would have been your number one as well.

[Greg Cody]

It might have been. Yeah. Or it might.

[Zaslow]

You know what about, you know, he forgot.

[Greg Cody]

You never know.

[Roy]

You never know.

[Dan Le Batard]

Forgot it. Forgot it. Dummy up.

[Greg Cody]

I know but. And you know it though is Vince. Oh, and you know it. Yeah. And you know it.

[Dan Le Batard]

No back chat. That's a fact.

[Greg Cody]

Chat. That's my list.

[Roy]

And you create your own list.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. Do it at home. Best list wins nothing. Have a contest. Just. You might get some tears. 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 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 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. An old woman coming out and really hitting that last note which she's really pleased with. How everything's going or injured lay hello.

[Greg Cody]

It's like a vaudeville stage that sounds.

[Zaslow]

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[Zaslow]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Don LeBatard is there. Back in my day.

[Greg Cody]

There is actually.

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[Dan Le Batard]

Sts, here's your guy, Greg Cody with.

[Greg Cody]

Back in my day. Okay, here it is. Sorry, adultery.

[Dan Le Batard]

Waiting for this one. This is the D Ler show with the two gods.

[Greg Cody]

Where's as he's going. Can we talk about Norman follows a.

[Dan Le Batard]

Lot, actually, Mike McDaniel is where we're headed. The sound has now been confirmed. The video has been confirmed. The audio has been confirmed. That was indeed in a black mat cart. A black mat car. Mike McDaniel trolling past the elbow Room. The elbow room is filled with Bill's fans. One of the most confirmed, one of the most confusing victories of the year after a confusing week in which the Dolphins do the rare thing of, hey, this is a rare thing, right? Everyone's in trouble. A week ago, all of us around here were howling, oh, my God. I've never seen it this way before. With the Dolphins, it's going to be gm, coach and quarterback all swept out to see who's next. What's next? Everything. Starting over. And then the owner says, nope, going to get rid of the GF in season. Weird, unusual, but not the coach. I believe in the coach. I'm not going to trade the wide receiver. And now I'm betting on the quarterback for another year. I am going to bet on Waddle, McDaniel and Tua. Well, I'm stuck. I'm stuck because that contract's going to be hard to move. And so next year I'm going to bet on maybe McDaniel, Waddle and Tua can dig me out of this. They've got an easy schedule for a month. By the end of this month, we're not going to be saying McDaniels lost his players anymore. Like, whatever happens the next couple days, they may lose one of the games. They may win all three. Whatever it is, it's not going to be McDaniels. 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.

[Tony]

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

[Dan Le Batard]

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.

[Zaslow]

Well, he hasn't confirmed.

[Tony]

He did not confirm it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, you tell me what it Is you guys hear here, but there's a.

[Tony]

Picture of you Strolling down A1.

[Dan Le Batard]

Strolling down the elbow room, I guess. Good.

[Tony]

Near A1A.

[Dan Le Batard]

Looks like your car.

[Tony]

Looks like you. Looks like your watch.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is, Is that AI or is that real?

[Greg Cody]

Well, you know, that's the, that's why, like the good old days, you know, the, the throwbacks of yore, where you could trust, you know, the, the Internet and the images because, you know, that is pretty detailed that, you know, I do live in that area. But I mean, AI right. So that doesn't answer the question. What I mean, are you confirming or did I mean, I live in that area? AI is real.

[Roy]

That's what I got for you.

[Greg Cody]

That's great.

[Tony]

The jokester's back. They're three and seven. Like, they're three and seven. You know, I, I don't know. I, I, I, I. Look, honestly, I think it's lame. I think it's lame. They're 3 and 7. The Buffalo Bills, despite what the Dolphins did to them this past week, weekend own the Dolphins. 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. And like McDaniels doing a victory lap around elbow room.

[Zaslow]

Is it lame? If he literally is just driving to.

[Tony]

His house, though, why is his window.

[Roy]

Down and the arm out the window too?

[Zaslow]

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

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a boss move. Okay, he's gone from car crying to leaning out into the elbow. Yes, he was car crying. Look, man, this dude was car crying.

[Roy]

He had elbow room.

[Zaslow]

By the way, when you drive down A1A, even if, even if you're not around. Elbow room.

[Tony]

No, that, Come on, that's deserved.

[Dan Le Batard]

His arm was out of the car. He had a rim.

[Zaslow]

It's a boss.

[Roy]

Whatever. Boss.

[Zaslow]

It's, It's a boss.

[Roy]

That kind of thing.

[Zaslow]

It's a boss move to roll down your window when you're driving down A1A. You just roll down your window.

[Greg Cody]

Hell yeah. Hello.

[Dan Le Batard]

You had the hammer. You just had to hit in my head again in the back.

[Roy]

Come from.

[Greg Cody]

You gotta use it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Elbow room. Where did the rim come from? McDaniels stuck his elbow out and Zaz.

[Zaslow]

Defended driving a Bentley again.

[Roy]

Doesn't like football. Guy does not like football.

[Tony]

Just corny. There's no seven.

[Greg Cody]

Let me, let me tell you something here. Okay. With everything that that McDaniel's been through this season, he's allowed to enjoy a big win over a opponent. Everything's been through.

[Tony]

You say that like somebody's done something to him.

[Greg Cody]

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

[Zaslow]

Plus, get out of our elbow room.

[Greg Cody]

I was grinning like a donkey eating priors earlier today when we were talking about has the Bills window closed? Has it ever opened? Listen, they haven't won anything since 1965. They haven't been in a Super bowl since 1993. When. When. When Sean McDermott says it have to be. 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. What is Buffalo Bills football? The window was never open. The Bills were never better than the third team in the AFC when. When Lamar Jackson's healthy and Mahomes is playing. It's a fallacy that the Bills ever had a Super bowl window. It hadn't shut because it hasn't never opened.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is fire from Greg Cody. 60 years of losing football in Buffalo. This is the best hope they've had since those Super Bowls bowl teams. But we have breaking news here that might make some of you grin like a mule or a donkey eating briars. Nico Harrison has been fired by the Mavs. I don't know what Greg Cody is celebrating by throwing his hands up in the air.

[Greg Cody]

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, his fans won't get over it. And now all of a sudden they get what they wanted. And now every all the fans are happy again because they have this scapegoat.

[Zaslow]

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

[Tony]

Well, sham Sorania followed up that tweet saying the Mavericks are firing Harrison.

[Zaslow]

Just want to make sure.

[Tony]

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

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, wait a minute. You know what? You know what? I'm sorry. He should be annoyed. We got distract with Greg, Cody, Kane talk and Zazlow had this story hours ago. Zaslo had this story. He came in here saying he did say this. This is true. Shams is two hours late to this story. Zaz came in here today saying, I've got locked down Nico's Going to be fired.

[Tony]

I'm so annoyed, Tony. I said that, right?

[Dan Le Batard]

No, you came in like football.

[Roy]

But you said it.

[Dan Le Batard]

We didn't get to it because we too, because Greg Cody was weeping and hugging a piece of wood and that's what we you. But you had that story before that. Zaslo the journalist. Zaslo the insider.

[Greg Cody]

Here's the thing about journalism. If you have a big story, you sort of have to break the news.

[Tony]

You're right, you're right.

[Greg Cody]

You have to tell somebody. Well, no, I did. No, no, no.

[Tony]

I did tell them. I didn't say it into the microphone.

[Dan Le Batard]

He had it and I got distracted. Look, I'm going to take I 100%. This is on me. Zaz has so much news. Zaz has so many journalism credentials. Zaz is spilling content. He told us before the show, hey, I got that. Nico Harrison is going to be fired. And I didn't get to it. That's the God's honest truth. He was to this story two hours before shams and he said he had it locked down.

[Tony]

8:47Am I looked at you guys and I said, I'm going to mention on the show today that Nico Harrison is getting fired.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, it's a shams that you never got to it.

[Dan Le Batard]

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.

[Greg Cody]

No, because finally I didn't predict it. I'm predict, but I never predicted it.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's not what Zazzle. Zazzle was going to report it. He was not going to predict it. He was going, he won and he.

[Greg Cody]

Never got around to.

[Dan Le Batard]

We had graphics and that's true. But it's my fault. It's not his fault. It is absolutely my fault. Because again, I was distracted by you hugging a piece of wood.

[Roy]

Snap penalty by you.

[Dan Le Batard]

I had to get to my take on false starts.

[Roy]

It was more could have fit in right there.

[Dan Le Batard]

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.

[Greg Cody]

Nobody hates the false start more than.

[Tony]

You had to talk about Jim Fix. Instead I could have my name up there. Jonathan Saslow is reported.

[Greg Cody]

I broke the news. He died running into a tree. Hello. Thank you, Dan.

[Tony]

I'm Dan. I'm so annoyed.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, you should be. I'm just still laughing at how right Gregory is.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you.

[Dan Le Batard]

And how good that hello is. Because I want to show you the difference at some point between the first Hello. And the second one. So you see how you peter out.

[Greg Cody]

No, the second one's back letter.

[Dan Le Batard]

We'll get to the second one in a second. But before Zazzle, I'm sorry. I want to. I want to publicly apologize to you. Privately apologize to you. This one is all my fault. He had this story two hours ago. But what do you make of it now that it's so? Because Rare has an executive. I was confused, Greg, by your take something only people cared about regionally, whether a gift. We learned this man's name, and I would say the general public learned this man's name as a reason to laugh at incompetence, as a joke on the Internet. The Dallas Mavericks, who used to be run by Mark Cuban, are now run by a buffoon as they go through an ownership trade transition. Because nobody ever in the history of sports makes this trade without at least calling around it's not Anthony Davis. Broken player for huge superstar in his prime. Lakers are going to be fine for 10 years if he stays healthy and they have their transition out of LeBron. Nico Harrison is the face of sports executive incompetence. 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.

[Tony]

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

[Roy]

The plan to get lucky.

[Tony]

A 1% chance he would have had.

[Roy]

That spot, by the way.

[Dan Le Batard]

The plan.

[Tony]

The plan. Look, he obviously deserved to be fired. The team is three and eight. This, he said that. He said the, the window to win is right now, which is why they're making the trade. 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 Lake League. Nico Harrison identified Anthony Davis as the guy that he wants. And that guy never plays, he's never available. The team is 3 and 8. They're terrible. But here's also the thing. Now the ownership is firing Nico Harrison and it's like, holy. You allow the general manager to make a franchise altering move. 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. So you sign off on that deal.

[Dan Le Batard]

And, and as an added bonus, just so people understand sort of the reverberating, reverberating historical context on this it is the single most stunning and heartbreaking trade in the history of all sports in that market. There has been nothing close. There's nothing a close second to. You allowed an executive who is now fired 18 months ago to, to make the single most stunning and heartbreaking decision in the history. Months ago in the history of the market.

[Tony]

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. Move and then fire. It's all you get a do over on the move.

[Roy]

So, like, what do you see through an Anthony Davis who doesn't look great, who's not playing Kyrie Irving, who's hurt? We don't know when he's going to come back. Cooper flag who? Okay, he's good right now, but let's see what it is, like how long.

[Tony]

He said you're willing, you're willing to say you got it wrong in such a short period of time. You can't allow this big, this big.

[Dan Le Batard]

Of a move to be made in the first place. 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. If eight months later you're going to decide this person is not the person.

[Tony]

For the job, it's crazy.

[Dan Le Batard]

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. And so they desecrated everything that Mark Cuban did there. Like they just didn't understand what they were doing because they put a boob in charge 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.

[Greg Cody]

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, their franchise committed mutiny.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is not the power of fans. This is the weakness of ownership. This is not the power of.

[Greg Cody]

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

[Tony]

The Dallas Mavericks had like a 20 year sellout streak at home. It ended last night.

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg, I understand the groundswell would have happened in any market with this superstar. Any market like this. Dallas is not a unique sports market. Any market would have been outraged by the everything of that.

[Greg Cody]

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

[Dan Le Batard]

No, as he said, eight months later. And I'm going to say it again to what ZSAS is saying, like, as a show of incompetence from leadership. 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 leadership and competence that has very little precedent 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. He's better than everybody and we chose a GM over him and a player who can't ever.

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