Hour 2: The Little League Theory

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Hour 2: The Little League Theory
Date: March 25, 2026
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

This hour of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz delivers its signature blend of sports insights, comedic tangents, and behind-the-mic banter, focusing on everything from sports betting and studio show chemistry to generational divides in viewing habits and classic Greg Cody eccentricities. Central to the episode is the unveiling and debate of Greg Cody's catchphrases—specifically "The Little League Theory"—and a broader meditation about the evolution of sports broadcasting authenticity, nostalgia for analog rituals, and the beauty and absurdity of being bad at something for a long, long time.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Sports Talk: Betting, Brackets, and Broadcasting

• Betting Picks and the State of American Tennis
  • [01:51-03:25] The crew gives tongue-in-cheek "Against the Spread" picks for the Sweet 16 and the Miami Open, with Chris Cody expressing dismay over American tennis' inconsistency.
    • Chris Cody: “That’s the last time I stick my neck out for Sebi Korda. That was embarrassing.” [02:43]
• The Changing Face of Baseball
  • [05:31-08:39] Conversation about MLB's move to Netflix for Opening Day, the obsolescence of traditional sign-calling, and generational shifts in the "recipes" of the game.
    • Jeremy: "The Marlins have led the way on this, and now the Mets are following suit. They'll be calling pitches from the dugout, so it won't even be the catcher that's calling the game." [08:21]
    • Chris Cody on lost rituals: "There's gonna be a whole generation of kids that are never going to know that a catcher used to put down like a 1 or flash a 2... We're losing recipes." [08:12, recurring theme]

The Deconstruction of Greg Cody On-Air

• Voice Debate & On-Air Ribbing
  • [04:14-05:41, 09:09-11:17] Hilarious confusion and arguments about whether odd gurgling noises are coming from Dan or Greg Cody's throats.
    • Chris Cody: “Those sounds come out of Dan’s throat a lot.” [04:28]
    • Tony Zaslow: "Your voice is trying to escape your body and failing." [09:16]
• Water, Diet, and the Dismantling of Cody’s Voice
  • [11:00-13:09] The panel tries to diagnose Greg’s hoarseness, blaming coffee, lack of water, and age, with jokes about his “swallowing the sands of time.”
    • Tony Zaslow: “He often tells people, you gotta listen to me at 1.5. I sound alive.” [13:09]

The Catchphrase Countdown: "The Little League Theory"

• Greg Cody's Catalogue of Sayings
  • [17:11-19:18] Dan rattles through Greg's catchphrases, building to #28: "The Little League Theory."
    • Standout phrases: “I’m fuller than Vern Fuller,” “Ball in the jack,” “Dummy up, save up,” "Nice hat, asshole," "Very good."
• Debating the Validity and Meaning of ‘Little League Theory’
  • [19:38-21:18] The show pauses to define Greg's theory (doing well when you least feel like it, and vice versa), and whether it's even a catchphrase.
    • Dan: “The Little League theory became: just because you wanted to do something really bad, it didn’t mean you’d succeed. But just because you didn’t, didn’t mean you’d fail. And that has held up throughout my entire life.” [20:44]
    • Chris Cody: “This isn’t a catchphrase. It’s just story time with Grandpa.” [21:01]
• Metacommentary on the Exercise
  • [22:22-22:29] Zaslow: “The fact that he’s doing this in no appreciable order and that he doesn’t know that he’s gonna run out of room because he keeps putting cruddy ones...”

Sports Media Meta: Authentic Laughter & Studio Show Magic

• Highlighting Real Laughter in Sports TV
  • [22:01-31:06] Dan discusses why "real" friendships and unscripted banter on sets like Inside the NBA (and newer, big-budget streaming studios) are rare and valuable.
    • Dan: “How rare is the real laughter where people stop doing the television to laugh?... You need all of those things. Streaming offers you those things.” [30:15-31:06]
    • Notable segment: They play a clip of Carmelo Anthony failing to defend his own "homer" argument for the Houston Rockets, leading to laughter and on-camera surrender.
    • Dan: “If the Hall of Famer is willing to be the clown, you can only do that among guys that you respect and that you trust not to actually embarrass you.” [29:46]
    • “That was unbelievably irresponsible of Carmelo as a broadcaster. And what do you do? You sink into the mistake instead of try and hide from it. It was endearing.” [29:51]
• Industry Critique
  • [27:40-31:06] The show contrasts ESPN's cost-cutting and use of ex-players as talking heads with NBC/streamers now investing in charisma and authentic relationships, revisiting what makes great sports television.

Nostalgia, Generational Riffs & Rituals

• ‘Losing Recipes’ as a Societal Theme
  • [08:12, various] “We’re losing recipes” recurs—about baseball’s changing traditions and, by implication, how digital shortcuts erase old rituals in sports and media.
• Bringing Back Analog Joys
  • [41:42-43:56] Tony Zaslow introduces “Bring It Back Jack,” reminiscing over enjoying magazines in waiting rooms and advocating phone-free downtime.
    • Greg Moore: “Bring it back, Jack. Let's stop using phones in waiting rooms. Let's pick up a magazine.” [43:52]

The Absurd, the Meta, and the Greg Cody Mystique

• The Mount Greg 4 Bracket Challenge
  • [34:17-36:40] Dan details his whimsical bracket (categories: nets, hoops, pools, 64s), including examples like "hairnets," "hula hoops," "a pool of blood," and the Beatles’ "When I’m 64."
    • Chris Cody: “Give the man some grace.” [36:03]
• On Being Bad at Radio, and Outlasting the Medium
  • [37:28-38:09] Dan, Zaslow, and Chris joke about Greg Cody’s “defiance” of professional standards and whether his idiosyncrasy has both "killed" and outlasted radio.
    • Zaslow: “Greg Cody has outlasted the industry.” [37:57]
    • Dan: “Damn right I have. Helped kill it in outlasting it.” [38:04]
  • Chris Cody (Little League callback): “All while not trying at all to be good at it? Wait a second. That’s a Little League theory.” [38:22]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Losing Rituals in Baseball
  • Chris Cody: “We're losing recipes. There's gonna be a whole generation of kids that are never going to know that a catcher used to put down like a 1 or flash a 2...” [08:12]
• On Greg Cody's ‘Little League Theory’
  • Dan LeBatard: "Just because you wanted to do something really bad, it didn't mean you'd succeed. But just because you didn't, it didn't mean you'd fail. And that has held up throughout my entire life." [20:44]
• About Studio Show Authenticity
  • Dan LeBatard: “I’m telling you how rare it is for friendship and respect and confidence to be good enough that everyone can laugh in a way that’s not canned or rehearsed.” [29:46]
• On Being an Industry Outlier
  • Dan LeBatard: "Damn right I have. Helped kill it in outlasting it.” [38:04]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Against the Spread picks: [01:51-03:31]
• MLB’s evolved sign-calling and “losing recipes” riff: [05:31-08:39]
• Greg Cody’s gurgling voice saga: [04:14-05:41, 09:09-13:09]
• Greg Cody catchphrase rundown (including "Little League Theory"): [17:11-21:18]
• Meta on sports TV laughter, Carmelo studio meltdown: [22:01-31:06]
• Greg's Mount Greg 4 bracket explained: [34:17-36:40]
• Bring It Back Jack—nostalgia for magazines in waiting rooms: [41:42-43:56]
• Debate: Has Greg Cody killed/outlasted radio? [37:28-38:22]
• Classic sign-offs and winding down: [44:35-end]

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Tone & Language

The show maintains its signature blend of affectionate mockery, meta-media critique, and surreal absurdity. There’s a family-of-misfits energy, with Dan serving as both ringleader and self-aware commentator on the show’s own foibles, particularly as they relate to Greg Cody’s charming ineptitude and the way the industry (and the games themselves) are always evolving.

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Summary Takeaways

• "The Little League Theory"—the idea that effort does not guarantee success (and vice versa)—is both lampooned and canonized, serving as a metaphor for Cody's entire broadcasting career and, more broadly, the show's relationship with traditional media.
• There is a recurring nostalgia for rituals being lost to efficiency and digital progress, most notably in baseball and the death of waiting rooms/magazines.
• The value of real chemistry, vulnerability, and authentic laughter on sports television is extolled, contrasting the increasingly manufactured feel of corporate studio shows.
• The episode is a love letter to imperfection, absurdity, and the kind of communal traditions—catchphrases, bracket challenges, familial harassment—that have defined the show for decades.

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For those who haven’t listened, this hour offers sports takes, laughs about the business, a passionate defense of doing things the wrong way long enough to become lovable, and the comfort of a team—on air and off—still having fun together.

Transcript

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Tony Zaslow]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Broom Bruins at Savers Tonight the matchup of the Bruins and Sabers in Buffalo has seen the favorites cover the puck line in nine straight games and the Bruins have lost seven straight row games on the second leg of a back to back. So go with the Sabres who are the favorites tonight.

[Tony Zaslow]

Spread.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's the spread. Cancel the spread Spread.

[Greg Moore]

I'm going to the sweet 16. Darius Acuff Jr. And them Razorbacks against number one seed Arizona. The Razorbacks are getting plus seven and a half seven and a half points for the better player on the court, Darius Acuff Jr. Give me the Razorbacks plus seven and a half against Arizona. Nice little upset. I've got them going to the final four. I like Darius Auff jr. As I've spoken about but Coach Cal's got some

[Chris Cody]

boys playing very good and I'm going to go with the Miami Open, the fifth major. I'll tell you, Dan, that's the last time I stick my neck out for Sebi Korda. That was embarrassing.

[Zaslow]

American tennis. You got. You fell for the Okie doke. You fell for the bait and switch.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, I mean, classic. Classic comedown. After beating the world number one, he loses a much lower seat. However, there are still two Americans, I believe, perhaps three alive in the quarters. But we're gonna turn our attention to Argentina. Francisco Cerundolo, I like him. Plus one and a half sets against Sasha Zverev. I expect Zverev to win, but Serendalo's had a nice little crowd support at the Miami Open. The Argentinian, he's been tough lately. Let's take him plus one and a half.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, against Hillsborough, against Elspreads.

[Tony Zaslow]

You put a B at the start of that bug against the spread.

[Zaslow]

Bug in the spread, against the spread, against it. Did you feel.

[Dan LeBatard]

I've been putting consonants in front of vowels my whole life.

[Zaslow]

You guys think his voice sounds good? Like that's. You guys think it's better.

[Tony Zaslow]

I'm going to find a clip. I can find a clip of it being worse.

[Zaslow]

Greg, again, your coffee, breakfast and the fact that you eat or drink thermoses of coffee for breakfast has made your stomach make a sound while you're talking that you don't hear. We have it again. This is not altered just so that you hear. I can hear the sounds of the gurgling and the dancing swords next to me. Listen here to what your stomach does.

[Dan LeBatard]

Coach, in this today's landscape, sounds like

[Tony Zaslow]

a cat purring in the middle of it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Coach, in this today's landscape, that's AI.

[Zaslow]

It's not AI unless the I is foreign.

[Dan LeBatard]

Iverson made that sound.

[Chris Cody]

Are we certain that's Greg? See, I'm pretty sure because I gotta tell you, I got the hi Def headphones on. Those sounds come out of Dan's throat a lot.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thank you. I didn't want to say it.

[Chris Cody]

I would like to hear it one more time.

[Dan LeBatard]

Coach, in this today's landscape.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, that's a Dan one for me.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, could be Dan.

[Chris Cody]

That's a Dan one. That's you, Dan.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

It's a shocking development.

[Tony Zaslow]

I don't think we know that.

[Chris Cody]

No, it's more likely than that.

[Jeremy]

We also don't know that it's Graham stomach.

[Chris Cody]

Look, I have never heard Greg's stomach do that noise.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thank you.

[Tony Zaslow]

I have heard mid word.

[Chris Cody]

I have heard Dan do that noise all the time.

[Dan LeBatard]

Coach, in this today's Landscape. Yeah, that was.

[Tony Zaslow]

Well, now I don't want to look at Dan.

[Chris Cody]

Dan, was it you?

[Zaslow]

It was not me.

[Dan LeBatard]

Admit it. Own up.

[Zaslow]

You're the one that.

[Chris Cody]

Two denials.

[Zaslow]

Drinking coffee.

[Chris Cody]

Was it you?

[Mike Ryan]

No.

[Dan LeBatard]

Whoa.

[Chris Cody]

I never suspected him until that answer.

[Dan LeBatard]

Really?

[Jeremy]

Whoever denied it supplied it. We all know that.

[Mike Ryan]

Everyone knows.

[Jeremy]

That's a basic rule.

[Dan LeBatard]

Everyone.

[Jeremy]

Just like you being a cuck.

[Zaslow]

Jeremy. Whatever. Say that if. If people want more. Whoever denied it, supplied it. They can have it live tomorrow on Pitch Clock. As you're beginning to kick off the segregated baseball season that we talk about around here, what are you doing tomorrow?

[Jeremy]

When very excited for this, Dan. So tomorrow from three to five, we're going to have a live stream on the LeBatard Show YouTube page. Myself, Chris Cody. I know against your wishes, but Ethan Badowski will have a microphone for portions of this so that we can play some of our trivia that we do on Pitch Clock. We're going to be some guys naming dudes going back to the 90s and

[Tony Zaslow]

early 2000s, but mainly just watching ball.

[Jeremy]

We're watching opening day. So there's opening day. Tomorrow is the full opening day. Tonight is opening night.

[Chris Cody]

Do you know where tonight's opening day festivities are going to be broadcast?

[Dan LeBatard]

No.

[Jeremy]

Netflix.

[Chris Cody]

I learned this one recently. Netflix has an MLB package.

[Tony Zaslow]

Al Duncan. Okay.

[Zaslow]

I was Wilbond the other day trying to find Heat spurs because I just go all the time. No, I just always go to Eric Reid. I'm expecting the game to be there and only there. I'm always surprised when Eric Reed is not on my broadcast. It's been happening since the beginning of the Miami Heat. Greg Cody not feeling confident in his fake Eric Reid.

[Chris Cody]

The pitcher just shook off the. The. The catcher signal. Although I learned baseball's not doing that anymore, which sucks.

[Tony Zaslow]

I pushed the button.

[Chris Cody]

Y. Did you not know this?

[Zaslow]

I didn't know.

[Chris Cody]

Did you know this? Signs not a thing.

[Tony Zaslow]

Well, for catchers and pitchers.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Tony Zaslow]

Still a thing for third base coach.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, but like this is that when

[Greg Moore]

they're bygone era in the world Baseball Classic, they were going like this to their glove. They haven't pitched.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

And it's just some dude's disembodied voice going fastball.

[Tony Zaslow]

No, I don't think it's voice.

[Chris Cody]

It can be a voice.

[Tony Zaslow]

Yeah, I believe it's just get out of here.

[Chris Cody]

It can be a voice. Which leads me to believe like one of those voices better be Morgan Freeman. Like you should be taking liberties with the voice.

[Jeremy]

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[Chris Cody]

Jeremy, I've already gone through the whole emotional spectrum of finding out about this thing existing, being mad what happened to my great American pastime. We're losing recipes to realizing this thing's happened for a couple of years now, and that's on me.

[Tony Zaslow]

It's because they didn't want to. Runners on second stealing signs.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, it's the Astros. It's related to the Astros thing. They ruined all the fun. Because now, Kit, there's gonna be a whole generation. We're losing recipes. There's gonna be a whole generation of kids that are never gonna know that a catcher used to put down on like, a 1 or a 2 or flash a 2 and then go to a 3, and the pitcher is gonna go, like, shaking them off. They're not gonna.

[Dan LeBatard]

They're not gonna have that.

[Jeremy]

I got one. Even better for you. The Marlins have. Have led the way on this, and now the Mets are following suit. They'll be calling pitches from the dugout, so it won't even be the catcher that's calling the game for the pitcher.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, how does the catcher know what pitch is being called?

[Chris Cody]

It's a hit comm.

[Jeremy]

It's the same thing.

[Mike Ryan]

He has the same thing.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, all the recipes are just gone.

[Dan LeBatard]

Terrible, man.

[Jeremy]

It's just more efficient and better for the team.

[Zaslow]

Greg, do you know the reference that he's making there when he's saying we're losing all the recipes? Do you know what that's in reference to?

[Dan LeBatard]

It's in reference to Nelly Doogie's handwritten cookbook from the 1950s and 60s. It was about 5 or 6 inches thick, and it was at Uncle Dick's house, and it disappeared. I can't find it anymore.

[Tony Zaslow]

Can we get some water, please? What's a glass of water?

[Chris Cody]

No, Greg's right.

[Jeremy]

This guy sounds terrible.

[Dan LeBatard]

Seriously, call up Uncle Dick right now. Ask him where Nana's cooked for.

[Jeremy]

Please, please call Uncle Dick.

[Tony Zaslow]

I'll do it live on air.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't care.

[Chris Cody]

Your voice is trying to escape your body and failing.

[Tony Zaslow]

So we're looking for Nana Doogie.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, the thick Nelly Doogee. Nelly Doogie. Nelly Doogie. Well, she was my nanny. The Big Thick.

[Zaslow]

Yeah, I don't want to do this. I'm going to just say if you don't call him, don't live on speaker, don't call.

[Jeremy]

This is really simple, Dan. Nelly is Nelly to Greg, but Nana to Chris. And a Greg Moore is four.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes.

[Jeremy]

But a Rushmore is also four, but the four is about the five, which is a Greg four.

[Dan LeBatard]

Greg Moore is five.

[Jeremy]

Greg Moore is five.

[Dan LeBatard]

Greg four is because of the four brackets.

[Jeremy]

Got it. Five within the four.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right? Yeah.

[Jeremy]

Okay. Just wanted to clarify.

[Tony Zaslow]

Uncle Dick unavailable. He's preparing for dinner.

[Zaslow]

He eats dinner. He does eat dinner. Very early. Eats dinner at 4 o'. Clock.

[Chris Cody]

That one got me. Bad time to sip of water.

[Zaslow]

One of the strangest people in the world. I will just tell you guys, if you're bookmarking, as we are around here, the just total descent of Greg Cody. I'd like to remind you that this week's Greg Cody dissent began because I rarely have the exact marking of where this stuff begins, with him looking at a piece of paper at the start of an hour, smiling to himself. Because on that piece of paper, he was thinking about Joe Biden calling into his podcast. And then we played a full 90 seconds of an interminable flu. Sick cruise. Sick. Drinking too much sick. Greg Cody impersonating Joe Biden poorly and not funny for 90 seconds. And that's where the dissent began this week. And it's been an epic descent.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right. That was Biden, not me.

[Tony Zaslow]

All right, we just heard his voice there. Chug a big sip of water here and then talk back into the mic.

[Zaslow]

He doesn't drink enough water. I have this conversation with my father all the time because he's always drinking diet orange juice like the generics. Yeah, you're going to sound a lot better here.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yellow.

[Tony Zaslow]

See, like instantly huge difference. Your body right now is like.

[Zaslow]

Yes. Yeah. He doesn't take care of. Thank you. No sugar.

[Chris Cody]

It might start rejecting him.

[Zaslow]

Yes. Yes.

[Chris Cody]

What is this? There's no coffee in this.

[Dan LeBatard]

Having withdrawal symptoms from drinking too much water.

[Zaslow]

Can you guys please get for me as I requested?

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm sorry.

[Zaslow]

You're not sorry, Greg. You just talk whenever you want to. You don't care about anything.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's omitting the glass already.

[Chris Cody]

I just want the record to show that when I was saying they're losing recipes, I wasn't indeed talking about Nelly Doogie.

[Tony Zaslow]

See, we have the Nellie's Diner commercial if you want it.

[Jeremy]

That's Greg in The corner.

[Zaslow]

It's the sight, the sound, the smell of it morning, night or noon. It's the feeling you're always welcome. And when you leave, we'll see you soon. It's the place you always go to when you're with friends or you're all alone. It's the taste of Nelly's Dine.

[Dan LeBatard]

Step back in time when you step into Nelly's Diner. It's the only place in town to taste Wild Bill Cody's bison burger, deep fried in Nana's one year old lard. Or try a tall stack of our award winning the FBI pancakes. Dig into the signature Thanga Thang salad. Or try an Uncle Dick footlong. Anything you want and anytime you want it, we got it all served up with a free side of smiles. We are right where we've been for 60 years at 1440 Zagaki Street, Downtown Nelly's Diner. It's the taste of home you never had because your mom sucked at cooking.

[Zaslow]

It's the taste of Nelly's Diner that makes you feel at home.

[Chris Cody]

All right, I know that the voice is sped up, but it sounds so different than what it does.

[Zaslow]

Healthier.

[Chris Cody]

It does. Let's put it on the poll.

[Dan LeBatard]

I was younger then.

[Chris Cody]

Let's put it on the poll. Does Greg Cody's voice sound like he has swallowed the sands of time?

[Tony Zaslow]

He often tells people, you gotta listen to me at 1.5. I sound alive.

[Dan LeBatard]

I do. I sound younger, more vibrant.

[Tony Zaslow]

I do.

[Zaslow]

It's the thing he listens to most, is the sound of his own voice.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm surprised. Doesn't slow his sound, his voice down when he listens back to himself.

[Chris Cody]

It's harder to do that when you listen to your own episode four times.

[Dan LeBatard]

Sometimes three.

[Chris Cody]

Once as a critic, once as a consumer, once as a watcher on YouTube.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right?

[Jeremy]

A seer, everybody.

[Tony Zaslow]

That's right.

[Dan LeBatard]

I admit it.

[Tony Zaslow]

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[Chris Cody]

Hey, Roy, buddy.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yo.

[Chris Cody]

You know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody all together in unison knows to stand up on their feet?

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, absolutely.

[Chris Cody]

Mike.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

You've been at many big time sporting events. You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take your first sip of Cuervo.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, delicious.

[Chris Cody]

It's the signal that says, we're not checking the time anymore, pal. It's when small talk turns into stories. Cuervo, man. It's that high five. A random stranger effect. That's right. The game is popping. You're hugging people you never met before. That's the kind of energy that Cuervo brings. It's so smooth, so delicious. That's the Cuervo effect. Keep it, Cuervo.

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[Zaslow]

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[Chris Cody]

I do.

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[Dan LeBatard]

Don LeBatard it's all about me Stugats.

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[Dan LeBatard]

This is the Dan Le with the Stugach.

[Zaslow]

I want to get to Greg Cody's catchphrases which you can find updated every week on the Greg Cody show feature featuring Cody. Does he have them? I want to go all the way Back to number 50. Are you ready?

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, I'm doing them all.

[Zaslow]

I'd like to. Yeah, I'd like to catch us all up. That's a. That's a winner. Number 50.

[Dan LeBatard]

I am Fuller than Vern Fuller.

[Tony Zaslow]

Just you go dad. Start rattling him.

[Dan LeBatard]

49. 49. Where's my click click? 48. Eh. But a finger. 47. Punt. 46. Scranton. 45. I'm busier than a one armed paper hanger. 44. George up Georgia. 43. I'm the kind of guy that. 42 ball in the jack. 41. Hey.

[Zaslow]

Hey.

[Dan LeBatard]

With the monkeys baby. 40. Thank you, Billy. 39. I love him like a pet. 38. Who made it a salad? 37. We're rolling now. Huh? 36. You're brain beating me. 35. Let's go states.

[Zaslow]

You guys think he sounded worse than this?

[Chris Cody]

No, this is the worst.

[Jeremy]

He's feels almost impossible.

[Dan LeBatard]

34. Driver comfort is paramount. 33. Dummy up, save up.

[Tony Zaslow]

32 was parenthetically Uncle Dick added that one say bup.

[Dan LeBatard]

32 catches catch can. 31 doesn't make it right. 30. So on and so forth. 29. Very good. 28. These are new.

[Tony Zaslow]

Wow.

[Chris Cody]

I am so excited.

[Zaslow]

Wait, wait wait, wait, wait.

[Tony Zaslow]

Can I. I don't wanna. This was a bad week.

[Chris Cody]

Or podcast didn't think of this.

[Mike Ryan]

Why is it bad if it's number 28? It's better than everything we just heard.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes. Including very good.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, you shut up.

[Zaslow]

That parrot is dying like that.

[Tony Zaslow]

That's an old parent.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Tony Zaslow]

82 year old parrot.

[Dan LeBatard]

That is old.

[Chris Cody]

A couple more cups of water, he'll be all right.

[Zaslow]

That is a sick old parrot.

[Chris Cody]

Stop teeing off on Greg Cody. He's doing fine.

[Zaslow]

Let's see if the parrot sounds anything.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm.

[Tony Zaslow]

The feathers on it so bad.

[Chris Cody]

This week's best.

[Zaslow]

No, but this. Go ahead.

[Chris Cody]

Some dermatitis on it.

[Zaslow]

Do the very good. Again, just so that people can see the difference between when you drink water and when you don't. Very good.

[Tony Zaslow]

Instantly, 20 years younger.

[Chris Cody]

I thought he had played something from the computer. I didn't look at you.

[Zaslow]

Chris doesn't like your latest batch. He's embarrassed by your latest batch.

[Tony Zaslow]

Not even worth mentioning.

[Dan LeBatard]

Honestly. That's fine. Number 28. The Little League theory.

[Zaslow]

It wasn't worth mentioning. You were right.

[Chris Cody]

Hold on. Let's. Let's get the. Let's get the history behind this one.

[Dan LeBatard]

And there is a history.

[Chris Cody]

I would love to hear it.

[Dan LeBatard]

My late parents.

[Zaslow]

It.

[Chris Cody]

Cody slam pace again.

[Jeremy]

Like Levante David.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm not going to turn into Levante Davis. But my late grandparents heard this when I was a ute. When I was 11 years old. And Baggy Adler's drugs. Baseball uniform. Sometimes I didn't feel like playing. I'm like, dad, do I have to go to the game today? And he said, yes. That's when I would have three hits and make a great play at the first sack. When I felt like. Right.

[Chris Cody]

This is. This is a timeline of Cody slam paces drugs.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes, exactly. When I'm. When I felt like playing, when I was really gung ho, that's when I would go over three with an E. And so the Little League theory became.

[Zaslow]

Drink some more water so that you can just get through this.

[Chris Cody]

Stop interrupting the man.

[Tony Zaslow]

This is not a saying. It's just like a thing.

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He.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, it's a thing. It's a courtesy theory.

[Chris Cody]

We're losing recipes.

[Dan LeBatard]

The Little League theory became when. Just because you wanted to do something really bad, it didn't mean you'd succeed. But just because you didn't, it didn't mean you'd fail. And that has held up throughout my entire life. At bowling last week, I'm doing great during practice, I'm throwing strikes.

[Zaslow]

And your son is right. This isn't a catchphrase. It's just. It's just story time with Grandpa.

[Chris Cody]

Maybe you're not finding inspiration in this, but many are.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thank you. And so I'm bowling in practice. Little League theory. I bowl like shit during the game. It.

[Tony Zaslow]

You always bowl like shit.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's a real thing. The Little League theory. That's number 28.

[Zaslow]

That does not deserve to be.

[Greg Moore]

That was better than very good.

[Dan LeBatard]

Get your own list.

[Chris Cody]

Trying to follow the story.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thank you, Mike. Number 27. Nice hat, asshole.

[Zaslow]

That's a good one. That's a good one.

[Tony Zaslow]

That was a great one. Said it one time.

[Mike Ryan]

So proud of himself.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, I Mean when. When somebody says, that's a good one. I'm smiling, kind.

[Zaslow]

Congratulations, Zaslow. You are the origin point of Nice hat.

[Tony Zaslow]

Better than horror.

[Zaslow]

And you're right in the middle of his long list of phrases.

[Dan LeBatard]

We're nearing the halfway point.

[Zaslow]

Yeah, we are. And you can tell when he drinks the water.

[Tony Zaslow]

Now, you get close to the mic.

[Zaslow]

Let's play something that I wanted. I want to play a couple of different sounds for you guys. One was the promised Mike Schmidt sound. Do you guys know what it is that I'm talking about here? Because when I think of people laughing at great athlete who's super emotional about retiring, the first thought I have is of the hall of Famer Mike Schmidt, who I think falls into his locker weeping. Let's see if I remember this correctly.

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[Zaslow]

I thank God that dream came true.

[Tony Zaslow]

That I should have laughed at Shout

[Chris Cody]

out to Moose, a forgotten hair product.

[Zaslow]

Good hair on Mike Schmidt.

[Chris Cody]

That whole puffy look, it's gone. And it was all thanks to Moose.

[Zaslow]

I want to play for you guys. Another sound here that I don't think that you saw. And I want to offer some reference to this on the front end. Okay? I've been telling you about the fact that throughout sports media before the streaming services arrived, there had been a movement into making everything cheaper. Cheaper by paying the Eagles and starving the turkeys has been a phrase that's been used, and perhaps you guys have noticed, maybe you haven't, that at ESPN generally over the last 20 years, the only time that they get somebody who's an all time great to appear on the daily studio shows that are the churning grinding of the industry is when they're bad at broadcasting. It's Emmett Smith, it's Scotty Pippen. It's somebody who. Who's willing to do the grinding. But generally it's the average player or a below average player that does that. But you see that NBC, you're describing

[Chris Cody]

the Little League theory.

[Zaslow]

That is not the Little League theory. That is. You're not getting. You're not understanding the Little League theory. You made us listen to all of that because you forced.

[Tony Zaslow]

Don't bring his.

[Chris Cody]

No, no, no. It's a guy that ends up performing well when he's not really trying. Nope, that's a Little League theory.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes, it is. Exactly.

[Zaslow]

The bad broadcasters at ESPN who are great players. Jerry Rice was another one. You can't get the great player who's Also great at broadcasting to work at discount fees. But NBC and Peacock are spending big Money on Tracy McGrady, Vince Carter, Carmelo Anthony. That's a. That is three people that you have to pay a lot in order to get them to sit there. The same way that Amazon is paying, you know, Dirk Nowitzki, 20 different guys, and Blake Griffin. Yes, they're spending money on Giant names. But what I want you to hear here is Carmelo Anthony's entire game fall apart right in front of your eyes when he is arguing on behalf of the Houston Rockets making the Western Conference finals. Listen to how incredulous Tracy McGrady is and listen to Carmelo surrender at the end of this.

[Dan LeBatard]

Houston.

[Zaslow]

Minnesota can make it to the Western Conference finals.

[Chris Cody]

Yes.

[Zaslow]

You say so.

[Chris Cody]

Houston.

[Dan LeBatard]

They can.

[Zaslow]

Houston. Yes. Oh, my gosh, they can. With no point guard. They can. No point guard.

[Dan LeBatard]

Mel.

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Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Cause we got a matchup now. It's about matchups.

[Zaslow]

Who we matching up with?

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, four at the end of the season.

[Zaslow]

If you say you're saying Houston has to be.

[Mike Ryan]

Jamal.

[Tony Zaslow]

Start with the first matchup. They got to get past the Nuggets.

[Dan LeBatard]

They have who?

[Zaslow]

Houston.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah,

[Chris Cody]

let's start with the first matchup.

[Zaslow]

I try to hold my guys down. Down over there.

[Chris Cody]

That's what I'm saying.

[Zaslow]

Listen what I'm looking at when I'm looking at the field. I can't hold him down, bro. Because no point guard. We watched him against the Lakers last year. You got me, Matt. I digress. That never happens on television. Right there, where a guy just puts down his sword. Yeah, I was just trying to do PR for my. For my guys.

[Chris Cody]

Classic Little League theory.

[Zaslow]

Yeah, it was the programming around all this stuff has gotten better with the competition. Those three guys losing it, laughing. There's all sorts of fake chuckle fest on television. Rarely do you get to laugh at the hall of Famer's face in a way that everybody falls out of their chairs laughing at somebody.

[Chris Cody]

This turn has happened real quick where everyone loves the new studio shows that are in the game and all the complaints are against. Inside the NBA.

[Zaslow]

You have it like that.

[Jeremy]

It's generational, like the.

[Tony Zaslow]

It just happened like six months ago.

[Jeremy]

But it happened with baseball where everyone was complaining. Everyone was complaining. Everyone was complaining. And then they put Big Papi and Pedro Martinez. They're not better. Better not Jeter and Jeter all on TV together. And even if you don't like the individuals like that collective where you're going back to the generation of the early 2000s. And throughout the aughts and saying, hey, you guys were the stars. Talk about the game now, and they embrace it with love for the game now as opposed to complaining, even if it's a little bit different. It's the same thing you're getting now. We're getting these guys who were drafted in the early 2000s or in the 90s who were all guys who played together and are saying, hey, we love the game.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, I'm sorry, Dan. It's. It's not exclusive to that because, I mean, how long, you know, were we talking about ESPN studio show and they would have former players? And it's like, we don't love it, you know, so it's.

[Dan LeBatard]

It.

[Tony Zaslow]

It depends.

[Jeremy]

I'm saying it's about the generation, though, because the former players that they had were complaining about the game because they were guys from the 80s as opposed to on ESPN.

[Chris Cody]

You think? No, I think the problem with ESPN is when they were players, it was John Barry.

[Zaslow]

Yeah, I think that it's the confluence of these things, and I think it matters. And it's important. Inside the NBA didn't have a competitor because ESPN wasn't spending the money to really compete. Like, that's how this is what you have to. To do if you want to actually knock off the best studio show. You have to get reps to the guys who are the hall of Famers, and you have to get money in order to get the hall of Famers. That. Seeing those three guys on a set. Tracy McGrady got his start at ESPN doing the jump, but graduated out of it. Seeing those three guys together on one set is not something ESPN has ever tried to do to compete against inside the NBA. And ESPN also can't compete because they've got so many commercials that everyone's talking for 12 seconds and then they got to go back to a commercial. So there's not even time to build the reps and the camaraderie. I'm telling you how rare it is for friendship and respect and confidence to be good enough that everyone can laugh in a way that's not canned or rehearsed. The only other show that I've seen that does that is the NFL on Fox, because all of those guys have been together for so long that they could welcome in a stray hand. They can welcome in anybody. And they fit. Because Brad Shaw and Jimmy Johnson loved each other, because Howie Long's been working with him for 15 years. Because they've got the confidence of. You can make. You can't embarrass me. On television. I'm too good and trust you too much. My teammate who's up here with me, I trust too much that you love me for real. And so you're not gonna actually embarrass me. That, for Carmelo, could have been wildly embarrassing. He's copping to. Yeah, I was just bullshitting. I hadn't done any of my research. I hadn't thought for a moment I said matchups just by reflex. And then you told me what the matchup was and, oh, shit, it's Jokic. And I hadn't considered. I just said matchups. That's Carmelo not doing any of the prep. If Carmelo's willing to be the clown, if the hall of Famer is willing to be the clown, you show me all the hall of Famers who are willing to be the clown. You can only do that among guys that you respect and. And that you trust not to actually embarrass you. That was unbelievably irresponsible of Carmelo as a broadcaster. And what do you do? You sink into the mistake instead of try and hide from it.

[Dan LeBatard]

It was endearing.

[Zaslow]

Well, because they all lost it laughing.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Zaslow]

How rare is the real laughter where people stop doing the television to laugh? You see chuckle fests all over the place. How often do you see people on television just lose it laughing? Tracy McGrady and Carmelo were crying. They lost it with tears because of how they were laughing at each other. And they just sank into the laughter of it. You just don't see it on television. Television doesn't allow that very often. Tell me all the times. Think of all the times you see it happen. Why do you think Inside the NBA is always the best studio show? Because they have the reps, the friendship, the trust, and the space to do it. You need all of those things. Streaming offers you those things. It's like when the Internet arrived and knocked out newspapers. The space to do things matters.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

We never fake laugh around here.

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[Dan LeBatard]

Don LeBatard. He has been great. He's made great hires.

[Chris Cody]

I said all.

[Zaslow]

We've said all.

[Dan LeBatard]

He said all. The first time I heard any of this.

[Zaslow]

Greg, everything you're saying, it's all been okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

You got to understand one thing. St me maximum. That's right. I say it, it hasn't been said. Okay. Understand that until I say it hasn't been said.

[Zaslow]

Me maximal. Me maximal.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is the D Levatar show with the two gods.

[Zaslow]

Greg, how do you feel about your performance today? Was it better than yesterday's performance? How are you generally feeling about how you're doing around here? Because you have been limping around here today.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't self judge as much as others judge me. And I've always been like that. I mean, I just don't speak into the mic, leaning back. I'm. I'm relaxing here. I'm among friends. No, I don't know. You tell me. I don't think I've been limping around. I mean, my voice is shit and shot. Like. Like when Biden called me the other day from Scranton, you know, his voice was shot, which he said at the end of the. At the end of the call. But yeah, my voice is bad. I admit that.

[Chris Cody]

I thought he was good until there.

[Greg Moore]

Joe Biden called you.

[Chris Cody]

It was Kathy.

[Tony Zaslow]

You missed that. Tony.

[Zaslow]

You can check out the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody if you want to hear that exclusive call again from Joe Biden. That was about 90 second seconds too long.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Also get the. Get the Mount Greg 4 bracket challenge. We're taking votes right now. Hundreds and hundreds have voted and. But we want your vote.

[Tony Zaslow]

Do you want to at least say what the four categories are?

[Dan LeBatard]

Sure.

[Jeremy]

And they each have five answers in them, right?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Yeah. And.

[Jeremy]

Which is like a Greg Moore.

[Zaslow]

And please tell us what the Mount Greg 4 is again.

[Chris Cody]

Watching you age is a privilege.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay. The four. The four categories are nets, hoops, pools, and the number 64.

[Tony Zaslow]

Even though there's 68 teams in the tournament.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, I don't know.

[Chris Cody]

We're losing recipes.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't see for. I don't acknowledge the four play ins. So for me it's still a 64 team tournament. Shall I give them one nominee from each?

[Zaslow]

Sure.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay. This is an ex. This is a random example.

[Tony Zaslow]

Tony, we're talking about his.

[Jeremy]

What are we talking, Greg?

[Tony Zaslow]

Four bracket, where he has four categories.

[Zaslow]

What is the Mount Greg for? Just to reiterate, for those of you who may have been confused by the way that Jeremy and Greg discussed this before.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay. In each of the four categories. Categories, nets, hoops, pools and 64s, I have my five finalists. My five favorite nets, for example.

[Jeremy]

Okay, and that's like a Mount Greg.

[Dan LeBatard]

More. Yes, it's a monk.

[Tony Zaslow]

Jeremy, let him do it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Five, not four.

[Chris Cody]

I'm just clarifying. You're confusing the process.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, I'm giving you one example from each category. Nets, hairnets, hoops, hula hoops.

[Tony Zaslow]

Oh, that's a good one.

[Dan LeBatard]

Pools, Small amounts of liquid, as in a pool of blood. Jesus.

[Zaslow]

Wait a minute. One of the top five pools are a pool of blood.

[Tony Zaslow]

No, small amounts of liquid. He used an example.

[Dan LeBatard]

As in a pool of blood he was cooking.

[Chris Cody]

Stop interrupting.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, and the number 64. An example of that would be Layout.

[Chris Cody]

Give him. Give the man some grace.

[Dan LeBatard]

The Beatles 1967 song When I'm 64. I meant to give a different example of hoops, but I blew it. So anyway, give us a podcast.

[Tony Zaslow]

Give us another one. You can give two in that one.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, another example of hoops that. That I like.

[Zaslow]

He doesn't want to give away the goods.

[Dan LeBatard]

They made my top five. It was the 1993 tag tongue tag team song. Whoop, there it is. Which many, including me, always heard as hoop. There it is. And so that's.

[Tony Zaslow]

So it's a common mistake.

[Dan LeBatard]

There it is.

[Chris Cody]

We should build around you.

[Jeremy]

It's surprising to me that you used When I'm 64 by the Beatles from 1967 as opposed to their 1964 album A Hard Day's Night. Did you consider?

[Dan LeBatard]

I did not. No. Thanks.

[Chris Cody]

I'm glad you just cut his legs out. Just to be sure. It's great.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, that. So go vote now. Wherever you vote, vote now.

[Tony Zaslow]

You have no idea where to vote.

[Dan LeBatard]

Look on Zaz's face. It's like I'm speaking Chinese over here. Mandarin, I should say. Sorry, my friends in China, I'm out of water.

[Chris Cody]

Greg's right. There's a lot of dialects over there. Mandarin, Kinese, just to name the two that I know.

[Zaslow]

Zaz, how are you feeling in general about what Greg Cody is doing to what is not only for you a sacred program, but also a sacred medium? This has been something that has frustrated Zas since I've known him, that Greg Cody refuses to learn the very basic things of trying to attempt to be a professional broadcaster of any sort.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, I was frustrated over 20 years ago before I knew anything about radio, but I knew, like, this isn't the way to do it

[Zaslow]

and how wrong you were, my friend. Who would have known 20 years later he'd he'd be. Greg Cody has outlasted the industry.

[Dan LeBatard]

Damn right I have helped kill it in outlasting it.

[Zaslow]

That's a bar that Greg Cody's career helped kill. Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Has Greg Cody helped kill radio and then outlasted it, yes or no?

[Chris Cody]

All while not trying at all to be good at it? Wait a second. That's a Little League theory.

[Zaslow]

Mike Ryan, wrong camera.

[Tony Zaslow]

You pointed at.

[Zaslow]

Yes, he did. He did. He last one over there pointed at

[Tony Zaslow]

the back of the camera.

[Zaslow]

Were you doing a Greg Cody first down? You were just the referee who did a first down in the wrong direction. Like I want you to imagine.

[Dan LeBatard]

Turnover, Turnover. The camera follows me. I don't follow the camera.

[Zaslow]

Camera.

[Dan LeBatard]

That kind of thing.

[Tony Zaslow]

It's not how it works.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well said how it works.

[Zaslow]

Radio follows you, you don't follow the others.

[Dan LeBatard]

They all learn from me.

[Tony Zaslow]

Oh, is that gonna be on there?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, it will maybe.

[Tony Zaslow]

Really?

[Zaslow]

Maybe he doesn't wanna.

[Tony Zaslow]

We are gonna have so many good ones left off.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, you won't.

[Zaslow]

Oh, yeah, you will.

[Tony Zaslow]

Yeah, I'll be able to do such a good top 10 of the omitted ones when this is all done.

[Chris Cody]

I can't wait for the list to come out and then like, baby, I'm

[Tony Zaslow]

telling you, every week he's adding another one to this already created.

[Chris Cody]

Well, you had to make room for Little League theory.

[Zaslow]

The fact that he's doing this in no appre appreciable order and that he doesn't know that he's gonna run out of room because he keeps putting cruddy ones.

[Tony Zaslow]

I'm telling you, Little League theory was added in the last week. Like, that is not one we had on our master list.

[Chris Cody]

How about I'm the kind of guy that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, that's on there.

[Tony Zaslow]

That's a great one. I'm the kind of guy was on

[Chris Cody]

the main and driver Comfort is paramount.

[Tony Zaslow]

Yeah, that one was on there.

[Zaslow]

Are you disgusted by him, Zaslow? Are you? You can't even look at him. You're looking away.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, because I don't want to be rude, you know, like, I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want to make a face at someone and make them feel bad about themselves.

[Dan LeBatard]

You couldn't do that. Go ahead, give me your face. Give me that face. That would make me feel bad about myself.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't want to. I'm a nice person.

[Zaslow]

He can't look at you, though. This is well. But there have been two of them today who have hidden. The last time I saw this kind of shame hiding behind a microphone, it was when Chris Cody didn't know that Levante David had lost both of his parents.

[Tony Zaslow]

That's right.

[Zaslow]

And called him a blubber. Zaz is now doing the same thing where all I see is a backward hat behind a microphone.

[Dan LeBatard]

Asshole 27.

[Zaslow]

But Zaz appears to me to be seething. And I believe, as somebody who can be both fluent in Zaz and body language, that it's an affront to the medium that Zaz cares about. Have we made it clear enough that I want them to fight? Let's try one more time.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes. Because let's hold sacred a medium where we have a looks like contest and have fun with other folderol. Let's hold sacred.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know what that word means now. I don't know what that word means. Fonderal.

[Dan LeBatard]

Folderol.

[Mike Ryan]

Folderol, Yes. I don't know what it means. I'll take as disrespect.

[Zaslow]

What does Falter all mean? Put it on the Polette Lebatard show. Have you ever heard anybody use the word folderol?

[Dan LeBatard]

Just nonsense. Just, you know, silly talk.

[Zaslow]

Speaking of nonsense, I heard Tony, of all people, longing for the waiting room the other day. Tony was doing a sort of. Back in my day, I have not heard a young person long for the waiting room. Why were you longing for a waiting room? And what does folderol mean? I don't know what it means either. Greg, I'm talking to you.

[Mike Ryan]

I know.

[Dan LeBatard]

I already told you what I think it means.

[Jeremy]

It's trivial or nonsensical fuss. So exactly what Greg said.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Zaslow]

Thank you.

[Greg Moore]

Give me the music.

[Zaslow]

You know what? I'm sorry, though, because I wasn't listening to him. And I really wasn't listening to him because so much of what he has spewed has Just been nonsense.

[Tony Zaslow]

Minor pellet.

[Chris Cody]

Two minutes for not listening to the show.

[TurboTax Advertiser]

Thank you, Dan.

[Greg Moore]

That was big of you.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right, give me the music again.

[Greg Moore]

All right, so what I want to do in paying homage to the great Greg Cody, who's done an incredible job not only today, but this year, to be honest, he's been on Fire in 2026 to pay homage to the legend he's got back in my day. What I want to do is called

[Chris Cody]

Bring It Back Jack.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay?

[Greg Moore]

These are things from the two that. From the 2000s and before. So everything in the 20th century, I want to bring back into what we're doing today.

[Tony Zaslow]

Right?

[Greg Moore]

We did so many great things back then. Now everything is being destroyed by this thing, our phones, Right? So I went to the accountant yesterday to do my taxes. Greg, you would appreciate this. I walk in, the phone's buzzing off the hook. My wife's texting me. News is coming in. What's happening in Iran, what's happening here? I'm like, you know what? I don't want to do this anymore. So I put my phone in my side bag, and then I walked into the accountant's office. They said, it's going to be a couple of minutes. I said, that's fine. I looked down at the chair. What's next to the chair on a little table?

[TurboTax Advertiser]

Oh, a magazine, Greg.

[Greg Moore]

Magazine of the history of Coral Gables. Guess what I did. I picked it up, up, started sifting through, started reading it. I said, this is beautiful. This is nice. I'm reading about a lake somewhere in Coral Gables that isn't. As a, you know, aquifer of some sort. And I was like, man, I didn't know that. That's beautiful. You know, historic Coral Gables, 1936 or whatever it was.

[Chris Cody]

Where was Stephen Morris's 500 yard game?

[Greg Moore]

They didn't have that one in there. The editor had a really big picture of himself, though, which I didn't really much like. But that's not the point. The point is, as I'm sifting through and reading and watching and looking at all these different things, things, all of a sudden, countenance comes in, hey, it's your turn. Passed a beautiful 20 minutes just reading about a city that we passed by every single day.

[Tony Zaslow]

Did you. Did you lick your finger to turn the page?

[Greg Moore]

My hand was a little dusty, so, yeah, I had to, like, wet it a little bit. But the beauty of just sitting there, leaving my phone away and enjoying the waiting room by looking at a magazine of a city was beautiful. Bring it back, Jack. Let's stop using phones in waiting rooms. Let's pick up a magazine scene and

[Tony Zaslow]

that's Bring it Back.

[Chris Cody]

Bring it Back. Jack.

[Dan LeBatard]

I like that. Thank you, Tony, for that homage. Get your own music. But other than that, I really like the idea. That reminds me of a. Back in my day, I did along similar lines about how you. There's no in flight magazines anymore. On an airplane. I used to be able to kill an hour with an inflight just skimming through it. Yeah, what they call it on Delta. The Delta Skyliner or some ridiculous thing. What was it called as the Delta Skyliner. This is a new and unimproved Dan Levitar show with the stugats gamble on by DraftKings.

[Tony Zaslow]

Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right?

[Chris Cody]

Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is won when it hasn't hit triple zero.

[Tony Zaslow]

Always drink your Jagermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion.

[Chris Cody]

Everything else?

[Tony Zaslow]

Everything else.

[Chris Cody]

Wearing clean underwear every day, well, that's

[Tony Zaslow]

just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth, obviously smart, but not a rule.

[Chris Cody]

Never pee pee on an electric fence.

[Tony Zaslow]

Okay, maybe there are two rules. But the one that is a hundred percent that I insist on completely. Jagermeister must be drank ice cold or don't drink it at all.

[Chris Cody]

Damn, that's cold.

[Tony Zaslow]

Exactly. You're finally starting to get it.

[Chris Cody]

Drink responsibly. Jagermeister, liqueur, 35% alcohol by volume. Imported by Mass Jagermeister US White Plains, New York.