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Stugotz
Welcome to the Big Suey presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBatard podcast? I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables, grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys.
Greg Cody
I've done it.
Stugotz
And now here's the marching man to Nowhere Fat Face and the Habitual Liar.
Dan Le Batard
This episode is presented by DraftKings DraftKings. The Crown is yours.
Stugotz
A number of different things that I wish to get to including Greg Cody. I don't know what controversy this has caused in the house. I know Greg Cody does not want us to play a video that we are going to play anyway over his objections because he's embarrassed by it. But I don't know the nature of the embarrassment. And before I play the video, Chris, can you give me some family context to this? Why is your father embarrassed that we're doing this against his will?
Chris Cody
My mother celebrates her birthday this upcoming weekend and this past weekend her work family took her out for their which they do whenever someone celebrates a birthday. My dad goes to these dinners I believe you complained about and maybe I'm revealing too much because some People might listen. You only knew like 2 or 3 of 17 people or something.
Greg Cody
I probably knew 3 or 4 of 18 people well enough to have a casual conversation. But that's all. Okay. It's her party, not mine. Right.
Chris Cody
You know, so then they get to the end of the meal where they're of course singing Happy Birthday. And you would think, other than my mom, who needs to be the most interested in the, like this song, like.
Billy
We can't have for a raise, you know, that's true. And as a boss, and this is a work thing, it's a bunch of kiss asses.
Chris Cody
Oh, trust me. And this is everyone here. Like, my mom is the boss here. So Billy's nailing it. Like, everybody for sure is, like not wanting to be at this dinner. And they're all just putting on a show for my mom. Like, that's undeniable.
Greg Cody
Well, wait a minute. Everyone loves your mother.
Chris Cody
That's. That's what they, you know.
Greg Cody
No, at work, believe me, that's bona fide.
Chris Cody
Well, so what we have here is the. We're going to jump.
Stugotz
I don't want you to throw it to the video just yet. I want to set some of the family context of this because we have 17 people at a dinner. And I know your father. He wants her birthday to be about him. Like, he can say it's her party. It's not what he wants. It's her party. But he'll cry if he wants to. Like he wants. He wants to be seen here. And these are people who work for your mother.
Dan Le Batard
And.
Stugotz
And he doesn't really want to talk to any of them. Talk to two or three of them. They're going to ask him, hey, dolphins, seven and a half over under his board. He doesn't want to be there.
Greg Cody
Okay. All right. There's another backdrop to this video, and it's that I probably shouldn't have had that third Old Fashioned.
Chris Cody
My mom always criticizes him when he gets into the brown. It's a scary thing. And I love how he says third Old Fashioned while in this video he's holding a glass of wine.
Dan Le Batard
So mixing.
Greg Cody
Oh, no, we ubered. There may have been a couple of beers before we left the house in a pregame party.
Dan Le Batard
Well, I have a theory about this video because I did see it before the show and that applies some context.
Greg Cody
Yes.
Chris Cody
And what we're going to play here, this is more visual. So all you're going to hear here is them singing Happy Birthday. But what you're going to see is a very uninterested husband of the birthday girl. Let's play it.
Stugotz
Oh no. Oh no. Oh no.
Greg Cody
Oh no.
Chris Cody
So as he's. So what you missed there, if not watching, is my dad just in the middle of the song, not singing, not mouthing the words, just casually looking at his phone.
Greg Cody
Okay, well, what a. What a side profile there on the. Cody knows. I was scrolling my phone real quickly to try to take a video of them singing happy birthday before.
Chris Cody
Come on.
Dan Le Batard
That was my theory. That was my theory.
Stugotz
It was like. Like you gave up.
Billy
He was struggling. You could see the screen never changes. He couldn't do what he was trying to do.
Chris Cody
We're three quarters of the way into.
Greg Cody
The song and I've been crying the whole.
Dan Le Batard
You could have been singing along, but.
Stugotz
You were trying the whole time.
Chris Cody
We see you grab your phone to lift it up.
Greg Cody
Okay, the logo, the camera logo on my phone has disappeared. I now have to click. Poking the camera to click a button and start spelling camera to get.
Stugotz
Everyone please back off because this is a gold mine. There is a gold mine here. On what you guys are noticing here is this is your father, Chris, after quote, I probably shouldn't have had that third old fashioned. Oh, look, there's a father is wrecked here and his. His functions are not going to work correctly. Look, he's bad at technology under all circumstances. The funniest part of this is that nothing on your father's phone changes. He's simply. He's stuck at password and there are.
Chris Cody
Clearly people already videoing this. So like. But 2/3 of the way through the song, you have the idea someone should be videoing this. Let me get my phone. While seven people around the table are videoing.
Greg Cody
I wanted to be the guy videoing it. By the way, I haven't fallen down any flights of stairs lately.
Dan Le Batard
Oh, come on, man.
Greg Cody
I'm just saying. Fair.
Stugotz
Neither have I according to them.
Dan Le Batard
I mean, you know, you fell down some stairs. Different.
Chris Cody
Okay, but it's just like uninterested, like, oh, what, should I take a video? Oh, that's not working.
Greg Cody
It wasn't even a birthday cake. It was like a brown.
Billy
Yeah, that's a very sad little piece of pie.
Chris Cody
And at the end, half hearted, just like, oh, good, that song's over.
Dan Le Batard
I love when he looks up defeated, like, let me just get back to programming. I won't jump in and sing. And again, you're throwing stones here. While you haven't fallen down some stairs. I'm pretty sure Dan's arms haven't gushed blood because he just ran into a threshold.
Greg Cody
All right, that's fair. But, you know, that kind of thing.
Billy
When's her actual birthday? This seems like it was a fake birthday.
Greg Cody
The Birthday is the 22nd. It's birthday month in my house. I mean, I do nothing but celebrate.
Chris Cody
Because we're taking her out to dinner this weekend. So she did her work thing the.
Greg Cody
Weekend before, and she and I are going off Friday night. I mean, it's like a big birthday month.
Billy
Enough.
Greg Cody
And so the fact I didn't sing because she's blowing up the candle and a cupcake, you know, is not a big deal.
Billy
How old is she turning?
Greg Cody
We don't want to talk about that.
Billy
Well, just. Is it, like a significant milestone?
Greg Cody
It's not a major birthday.
Billy
Why do you even need to go to a work birthday? You don't work with her.
Greg Cody
Well, you know, that. That could be said, but I wanted to support my wife, you know, Nobody supports her like I do.
Chris Cody
I'm living not financial, but otherwise, no one supports her. You're literally in the video not supporting her.
Billy
I mean, I'm looking at the people in the back that are. Seem somewhat disinterested in even the singing. There's a guy at the end that. He's, like, faking the, you know, Bob.
Stugotz
Nodding his head.
Dan Le Batard
What do you mean?
Billy
Yeah, that's not enthusiasm. That's not singing. Like you're really wishing someone a happy birthday.
Dan Le Batard
It's like the Jay Z gif. What is. It's happy birthday.
Chris Cody
That's effort right there.
Stugotz
Guys, Mom's office.
Billy
Lewis over there. Happy birthday to him.
Chris Cody
By the way, it is Lewis's birthday, actually. Eye roll.
Billy
He just did. I hope that guy's not getting a bonus. Watch the eye roll at the end. Hold on a second.
Chris Cody
Let's see.
Greg Cody
Oh, wow. Whoa, whoa.
Billy
Greg didn't roll his eyes.
Stugotz
Okay, so a lot to examine here.
Chris Cody
They are. So they're uninterested lawyers.
Billy
Could they sue?
Stugotz
Examine here. I want to examine all of it because I am going to defend my friend here. Even though the optics on this are horrible. Like, he picks up his phone, it looks like he's distracted immediately. No interest in happy birthday for his wife. The optics are horrible. And this is what I'm telling you, though, Chris, I've seen your father in this condition when he still doesn't know what order to drink these drinks in. He ruined my. My brother's very first exhibition knocking paintings off the wall because he does not know the order to. So if he's already had beer and wine you can't go three old fashions. Like you can't start mixing these in orders where he's already screwed up. No matter what his tolerance level is. This is your father at his very cognitively slowest. He can't.
Chris Cody
I should pick up my phone.
Greg Cody
I'll put it back.
Stugotz
He can't do shit here. Like he's along for the ride. He didn't want to go in and be out with these people. He's so tired of office Louis and his fake ways overlapping and mom's jokes bobbing his head.
Chris Cody
Yeah, good song.
Stugotz
These people are dead inside. They don't want to be there any more than your father does. And your father handles it every year by drinking too much.
Greg Cody
No, that's not true.
Stugotz
Greg. There's a story I remember from you ruining one of these things where you actually had a lampshade on your head.
Chris Cody
In his defense, he doesn't need a birthday party to do that.
Stugotz
Greg, how many. Greg, how many years ago was the office party that you had to change your office party behavior because at the end of the night you a lampshade on your head?
Greg Cody
I don't, I don't catalog all that kind of stuff. You know, it says there's so much going on. This, this video does one thing. It shows how much I love my wife.
Stugotz
No, it doesn't.
Greg Cody
Okay? Because my, my priority right then was being hell bent to record this song.
Chris Cody
Three quarters of the way into the song, you know, you had the idea, late reaction.
Billy
You just need the wish. At the end of blowing out of the candle, you, you fast forward through the rest of the Happy birthday.
Chris Cody
I love the half hearted like him clapping, trying to like. Look, I've been involved the whole time.
Greg Cody
I mean, the idea you got to sing Happy Birthday is such a. I really don't like that song at all. Nobody likes it. Nobody wants to sing it, you know, and, and, and if it's like. If you're singing it for somebody who's like a, A wife to you and an aunt to you and a Nana.
Billy
To you, what name do you say?
Greg Cody
Nobody knows what to say when it comes down to the name. And everybody murmurs it because they don't.
Billy
Know what to say. Kids. Now, also Brune. I know you guys have kids. They say cha cha cha after every line. It's so annoying.
Greg Cody
So annoying.
Billy
Shut up, kids.
Greg Cody
Yeah, exactly.
Stugotz
Put it on the poll, please. At Levitage show. Shut up, kids. Okay, fine. Shut up kids. Cha cha cha. Because it's your day, Billy. But Billy is right about this annoying Thing. What do you guys have a go to move when you know, when you arrive at the name of somebody who. Whose name you do not know?
Chris Cody
Mumble.
Greg Cody
Yeah.
Stugotz
None of you have a go to, like, just anything.
Dan Le Batard
Get a little of this guy.
Stugotz
So during Happy Birthday, if you can't summon the name, what do you do? Because you guys, this is a perfect time for that. Or everyone there is close enough to say Earlene.
Greg Cody
Oh, yeah. Here everyone would say Earlene. But if it's at our house, nobody knows what to say because she's Earlene to some of us. She's mom to some of us. She's Nana to some of us. So when it comes down to the name, everybody's going, man, I strive for.
Dan Le Batard
The day where I can casually get invited to a birthday dinner where I don't know the person well enough to know their name.
Chris Cody
You're asking the person next to you.
Billy
What'S their name again?
Dan Le Batard
Yeah. This birthday seems capped.
Greg Cody
I know.
Dan Le Batard
It feels like the birthday floor is know their name.
Greg Cody
She's the boss of these people. Why would they not know her name?
Stugotz
No, I thought that perhaps the significant others or the kids or other people who might not know that her name is Earlene because they're there as a family event and it's not just work people. I did think that most of those songs end up with somebody mumbling.
Chris Cody
Dad, did mom do the thing where she makes people get up and talk about her?
Greg Cody
There was a couple of those.
Chris Cody
That's. My mom's big on that. Wait at my birthday. But it's like, all right, now, everybody stand up. And I. Crazy.
Greg Cody
I actually stood up and said something that despite the false allegation that I'd had too much to drink, I actually stood up just before that and said something that your mother acknowledged was very sweet.
Chris Cody
I'm sure you spoke quickly.
Greg Cody
You know, I. I like to be concise.
Dan Le Batard
Did you say that kind of thing?
Greg Cody
To conclude, No, I don't think I did.
Billy
Wait, so, like, she makes all of her employees stand out? Like, say something nice.
Chris Cody
Well, makes. Makes is might.
Greg Cody
Maybe putting it a little voluntary.
Chris Cody
She's for sure gonna be mad that I'm saying this, but yes, at all. My mom's yearly birthdays, there's usually speeches, right?
Billy
Were they gifts? Did anyone. Did you notice any, like, over eager gift givers.
Greg Cody
There were gift giving?
Billy
Yeah.
Chris Cody
It's another pressure. It must suck for these people.
Billy
Well, it sounds terrible. I'm not gonna lie. You're painting her in a horrible light.
Stugotz
I just. I now want to Recreate it. I want to put you guys in that position. Make each of you stand up and say nice things about Greg or me. Just make all of you stand up in front of people and say it. Like, what is she doing there? What's happening?
Greg Cody
She's not making anybody say it's a voluntary.
Chris Cody
There's a pressure, though. Like, there's thing of, like, we gotta do the thing now.
Greg Cody
Well, especially if somebody is the first one, right?
Chris Cody
If somebody does it, then it's like, all right, who's next?
Greg Cody
Yeah, like, I don't recall. I don't think I was the first one to do it. But when somebody else stands up, all of a sudden I feel obliged.
Chris Cody
I bet Louis the head nodder said something, didn't he?
Greg Cody
No, I don't think so.
Billy
This boss, bro. Oh, I'm here for some Flanagan's hot sauce, bro.
Stugotz
I am here for limited Fake Lewis. Where's he been? Has he made an appearance before today? Well, please, please. Limited fake Lewis is somebody I want more of.
Dan Le Batard
You went three weeks with making an imp and not asking for more immediately. Congratulations, Billy.
Stugotz
But that is office Louis. He's right there. And at the end, though, I don't think Louis would like the appraisal very much that his enthusiasm is counterfeit, because I think that's where he would object. He comes in here, good mood every day, trying to give off gratitude, and you guys just bury him with your bitterness.
Dan Le Batard
I'll start saying good things about Louis. Louis, your hair is small.
Greg Cody
What?
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Greg Cody
Don LeBatard Quiet, man. Yes. You know, I'm a married man. I don't cheat on my wife. Despite that gratuitous line in back in my sts. I wish you were here. My wife. I really miss her. No, I don't. That's the thing about being married, you know, you're not allowed to say, I don't miss my wife. I've been gone two days. I haven't been gone long enough to miss my wife. I'm sorry. I call her. I'm on the phone with her. 30 seconds. You know, what am I? Hello? All right, all right. We'll see you. All right. And then, you know, I'm going to see her in two days. I was jumping Charlie. Good.
Billy
This is the Dan Levatar show with the St. Gods.
Stugotz
Again. Quote I probably shouldn't have had that third Old Fashioned is a place that I want to put it on your father's tombstone. Honestly.
Chris Cody
In fact, I'd like Crowded Tombstone.
Greg Cody
But we can fit. It's Crowded Tombstone.
Stugotz
I know. I'd like to find. Please. Let's have a competition, shall we? Let's have a DraftKings sponsored competition that makes fun dark comedy. If I had legs, I'd kick you. It's A dark comedy. What do you put on Greg Cody's tombstone? Winner gets a great prize. Winner. The winner of Greg Cody's choosing gets a great prize because a good nominee to start the bidding is quote. I probably shouldn't have had that third old fashioned. I mean that's been a life motto for him. Wordy, do you understand? Is it, is that, is that it's too wordy for, for tombstone.
Chris Cody
I think we could fit it across the top.
Stugotz
He's a writer so he'd want to be efficient. He want to be remembered immortally with something that was well written. I really would like to do this as a competition to have Greg pick his what. What a listener suggests should be the words on his tombstone. I mean, should it just be that kind of thing?
Greg Cody
Yeah, hey, that's, that's at the end.
Chris Cody
That's towards the bottom and you know.
Greg Cody
Thing and you know it.
Stugotz
But so it's just. Wait, so it's just going to be his catchphrases like that's a fact. Jack. No, come on.
Greg Cody
Is he really dead? You never know.
Stugotz
Would you be willing to do this? Would you be willing to have a draft king sponsored contest that, that gives away your tomb, your actual tombstone?
Greg Cody
Yeah. And. And then if I happen to pass away suddenly and unexpectedly, it'll be ironic.
Stugotz
What are you allowing at the very end to draft kings to sponsor your tombstone?
Greg Cody
Yeah. Well, in real life or.
Stugotz
Yeah. No, not as a bit in real life.
Greg Cody
Oh. I mean, you know, first of all, I'm probably going to be, you know, cremated or something.
Stugotz
You just think it's going to say Greg Cody from 1843 to 2025. That's.
Greg Cody
There'll be a saying on it. I don't know.
Chris Cody
I think you have a say in what happens to you. You're like, they're going to cremate me. I don't know what they're going to do with me.
Stugotz
It's not like a grab bag.
Chris Cody
And we figure out what to do with the body.
Greg Cody
You know, what, put it on the ear. Your wife and I probably have. Or your mother and I probably have to have that conversation.
Chris Cody
What are your thoughts?
Greg Cody
You know, I go back and forth.
Chris Cody
How would you like to be remembered?
Greg Cody
I don't know. I go back and forth.
Billy
You quoted yourself yesterday on the dry erase board. You want that quote on your tombstone.
Greg Cody
That's a little serious.
Billy
Okay.
Greg Cody
Yeah. Live your life with aplomb and alacrity. I was thinking more of thousands waited in line to see my toenail. I think that would work.
Stugotz
A bit self involved. Not much of a legacy. I like it is a tombstone. I like the poem and the word play of. Because it'd be a tombstone and he's not cremated. I don't want to earn. Urn guy don't want to learn.
Greg Cody
That's good. I like that. If I had a personal assistant, he or she would be writing that down right now.
Billy
Have you ever thought of maybe, like, for immortality, making a cast of your great toe? Like, you could go and you could make a mold of your great toe and then it could live on beyond your years.
Greg Cody
I think that's a great. I should do it right now because my right great toe is chipped. And so it looks even more gruesome than that. Yeah. And. And so I should do that. I should have a cast made. Yeah. One of the.
Stugotz
One of the most amazing things in this show's history is that thousands of people did a pilgrimage to see his toenail. And I don't know where that is now, but I would like to have that as an heirloom that carries on beyond you. I saw that Josh Johnson last night was doing a comedy routine about a Steelers fan, wife, husband died and she kept his tattoo. She kept his tattoo in a. In a frame. Took off. Took it off the body and kept it in a frame. We should have this way to remember Greg Cody by his sponsored toenail, which would become then, you know, an artifact and a religion that celebrates his death. That we got. It's one of the most amazing things the show has ever done. Thousands of people gathered to see his toe. That. That Stugatz is now cut twice. Where is that toenail? Do we know?
Greg Cody
I have a toenail in a plastic case, but it's not that toenail in my office. And I think it is that.
Stugotz
Well, why would it be? A great question. All right. I think that's worth a lot of money.
Chris Cody
Like, I have a toenail. I just got to make sure it's the same.
Stugotz
I believe that's worth a lot of money right now.
Greg Cody
Yeah, I think it is the same one. Now that you mentioned it.
Stugotz
It must be. We're going to need to get that authenticated because you could just start pretending and now it doesn't become an heirloom or a collectible of any kind.
Greg Cody
We'll do a DNA test.
Stugotz
But he's got disgusting feet. And they.
Greg Cody
They're muscular feet.
Stugotz
They're warlocky.
Greg Cody
Okay, Warlocky. I like that.
Stugotz
I mean, but am I wrong?
Greg Cody
I'm proud of my feet. They're.
Stugotz
You can't be proud of them.
Greg Cody
They're muscular. They're vain.
Stugotz
They're talons.
Greg Cody
They're masculine.
Stugotz
Now they're a giant bird of prey, an ostrich.
Greg Cody
Okay.
Chris Cody
Speaking of celebrating my dad, Dan, while you were out, we AI made a statue of my dad and recreating his famous.
Stugotz
I love that.
Greg Cody
Tell me that doesn't look like pop.
Chris Cody
When you zoom in on the face. When you zoom in on the face, there are poppy vibes to it, but.
Stugotz
It'S clearly you Down, Greg Cody. I don't know if we could do this visually, but Greg Cody has. Throughout his career, he has teetered. And this is a strange thing. I don't really understand it between people saying that he looks more like my father or Jeffrey Lauria, the former owner of the marlins, that. That if you did a. An evolutionary chart of how people would look as they age, that somewhere between Laurie and my father, Greg Cody resides. Even I think Greg is younger than Lauria.
Greg Cody
Yeah, I'm definitely younger than both.
Chris Cody
We actually. We actually have a photo from yesterday of my dad, Carl Pavano, David Sampson, and Mike Hill we can put up right here.
Stugotz
Now, look at this weirdo. What is David Sampson doing on his toes there? Somebody explained.
Chris Cody
Well, also the tan line. If you zoom in on those Samson feet. Good golly.
Stugotz
Okay, look, Sampson's having all sorts of problems here. Why is he on his tippy toes? Does he always do that?
Chris Cody
Yeah, that's his move in photos.
Stugotz
But he's. But wait a minute.
Billy
He's only 65 inches.
Stugotz
Inches. He still looks like he's their toddler.
Chris Cody
But that is my dad in that photo. Yeah, no, I know they're zooming in on the feet now, but that's. That's clearly Greg Cody.
Greg Cody
I wish I looked like Jeffrey Laurie's bank account, I'll tell you.
Stugotz
Okay, that's my dad's joke right there. That my dad has said, I love Poppy. My father has made that joke forever. I don't want to look like him. I just want to have his money.
Greg Cody
Okay, that.
Stugotz
Now that's you. That's.
Greg Cody
You're going to use bank accounts a little funnier than the word money. Money.
Billy
What would Poppy do with his money?
Chris Cody
Like, if he had his money right.
Billy
Now, what would he do?
Stugotz
This is what my mother keeps saying to him. What are we saving it for? We're in our 80s. Like, what have we been saving? What? This is the exile mentality. My parents have been afraid since they got here. And, like, you think what's happening in this country Right now isn't scary too. Like, my parents have been saving money since they got here. Terrified. Grateful to just live here. Grateful to have this country give them all sorts of freedom. Him and my mom's now riding him into the ground. Disney. This is the wonder of it. Disney still paying my father. This is like Bobby Bonilla in retirement because he's retired on however it is that the pensions pay out.
Greg Cody
Wow.
Stugotz
So my father is sitting here. He's the only one still collecting from Disney. My father now just owns 10% of the NFL or how does that work? Or what's the math on that? Bobby was asking the other day, how much, how much of ESPN do I own now that the NFL owns 10% of ESPN, does he still get those passes?
Dan Le Batard
Lifetime, huh?
Stugotz
I mean, my father, I don't think there's been a mercenary in the history of ESPN or Disney who've gotten away with more than my father did. They're still paying him. At the end, he pretended he was holding out because he just wanted to quit and couldn't tell me. And he said, they're not paying me enough. He strong armed them like they caved. He didn't want to raise. He just wanted to leave. He didn't want to work anymore and didn't want to tell me.
Greg Cody
Good for him. Good for him. Him. I'm glad he's. I'm shocked he's still being paid by Disney. More power to him. Looks like me.
Stugotz
Who do you get that most with, Lauria or my or my father? Because it doesn't make any sense that you would look like my father. He's an old Cuban man.
Greg Cody
I know, but look at, look at that gold statue. I mean, to me, that's your dad in that statue, not me. So we must look alike. And I, I used to hear Lauria all the time. Mike says, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, Lyndon B. Johnson for me.
Stugotz
Lbj.
Greg Cody
Lbj. Of course, everyone knows that. In my youth I used to be liking to Tom Cruise. He used to call me Greg Cutie.
Chris Cody
So Kristen, Kristen, who works for us here has been asking me like, do we want to do this? And I'm like, that probably would be expensive. I would like. She's like, where would we put it? I want to, I want this thing. I think we need this.
Dan Le Batard
Let's, let's start at the big toe. We'll make a bust of it.
Billy
I put a foot casting project inside the slack. So like figure out the supplies we need to cast his feet.
Greg Cody
I'd like a real statue, you know Rather than me one deep frying a.
Billy
Turkey, what would you be doing?
Stugotz
Oh, come on, Greg, you're gonna sack yourself. So seriously, at the end, this is. You want it? All right, let's have artists concoct yours. You want a Civil War statue of you being serious, like commemorated as a great writer.
Greg Cody
That would be funny too. Don't get me wrong.
Stugotz
Which one?
Chris Cody
What's your idea?
Stugotz
Remembered. How do you want to be remembered?
Greg Cody
I just noticed that you can actually see the turkey either submerging.
Stugotz
It's great.
Greg Cody
Or rising from Chris.
Stugotz
When Chris says I want that, it's not as a joke. That's a loving reminder. That's what you look like doing.
Greg Cody
All right, let's do that statue. Let's make it slightly larger than life.
Chris Cody
Where would we put it?
Greg Cody
Make me about 6, 1. Yeah. A slightly larger than life. That's what you do with a statue. Ron Fraser's statue at, um, is like 65 or something. Is it still there in front of or did they quietly remove it?
Dan Le Batard
No, I think it's okay.
Greg Cody
Good.
Stugotz
Don LeBatard.
Greg Cody
My wife says this is a sexy voice.
Billy
It really is. Yeah, I'm hard.
Greg Cody
Thank you. You. Wow. STS so am I, actually. I don't know why.
Billy
This is the D Ler show with.
Greg Cody
The st. No, I like the idea of a statue. I obviously would like it in my own front yard, you know, like.
Stugotz
Oh, you.
Chris Cody
You would? Would not.
Greg Cody
I would prefer we did this last.
Billy
Week that we turned it into a mailbox.
Greg Cody
Yeah, it could be a. Well, it's a little big for a mailbox.
Dan Le Batard
We can just put it in the Riley corner. He hasn't done anything lately.
Greg Cody
Is he wearing a hat?
Stugotz
No, that's a plant.
Greg Cody
Looks like a green bird.
Stugotz
Look at this.
Chris Cody
This is the old dildo.
Greg Cody
One or the other. Listen up. Time to think fast. Is this a real or fake podcast?
Stugotz
Wait a minute, wait a minute. The placing. The placement of Riley has made it that because a plant is behind him, a confused Greg Cody just made it. A green dildo that we had put on Pat Riley's head.
Greg Cody
Tell me it doesn't look like he's wearing a green beret.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, a little bit.
Greg Cody
Thank you for your service, Pat.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, that angle. I even get the Doe reference. Dan.
Greg Cody
Thank you. Thank you.
Dan Le Batard
Let's see. Let's hope that you're sharp. After three and a half weeks away, we've had a handful of games. Yesterday we had a really tightly contested one. We learned together that Darren Ravel actually does not actively have a podcast defying the Odds. As Greg said, he's the one.
Greg Cody
Yeah, I mean, like that.
Dan Le Batard
Cafe Con Lindor with Francisco Lindor.
Greg Cody
No.
Dan Le Batard
Real or Fox Fake.
Stugotz
It's not a podcast. I don't believe that Francisco Lindor has any interest in doing a podcast off the field.
Dan Le Batard
That is a real podcast. Get the hell out of here.
Stugotz
No, no, it is not. Look it up.
Greg Cody
I love it.
Dan Le Batard
Club 619 with Rey Mysterio. Real or fake?
Stugotz
Do you know who Rey Mysterio is?
Greg Cody
He's a wrestler, right?
Stugotz
One of the most famous acrobatic. Acrobatic. Mask wrestler. The most famous mask wrestler of all time, right?
Greg Cody
Is that right?
Dan Le Batard
Look, there's evidence of Cafe Con Lindor on our screen.
Stugotz
That's unbelievable. So it's a breakfast show. Is he doing it in English or Spanish?
Dan Le Batard
I don't know if it's a breakfast show.
Greg Cody
That's a nice logo.
Dan Le Batard
Look, man, I just learned about this thing yesterday. I couldn't believe it.
Stugotz
It's stunning. He has a host, right? He has a host.
Dan Le Batard
The host name ain't on Cafe Con Lindor.
Chris Cody
You don't think he can carry a show?
Stugotz
Oh, I just. The last time I spoke to him, his English was. I don't know whether he's doing it in English or Spanish.
Dan Le Batard
Spanish.
Stugotz
But his. Yeah, that's what I was asked.
Dan Le Batard
Now that it's real, you can subscribe.
Stugotz
Look, he's going the.
Greg Cody
The.
Stugotz
The. The marketing on this. This is why I will celebrate this. Please put this up on the screen here so that we can advertise. I'd like a relationship with Cafe Con Lindor if he. Especially if he's doing it in Spanish. This is a Spanish style kitchen. This. It looks like my grandmother's kitchen. This. This would only be a breakfast time show and it would be in Spanish. I don't know. I don't think he can do that show in English from the last time I talked to him when he spoke English.
Dan Le Batard
Well, the beauty of a podcast is it doesn't have to be a breakfast time show. It could be an anytime show. Stop running away from Club 619 with Rey Mysterio. Is it real or fake?
Greg Cody
I say yes, real.
Stugotz
And I was asking questions about Mysterio. He is the most famous mass wrestler of all time. Zaslow's been bothering me. Look, Zazloz on a hot streak. He's been bothering me about. He wants to do a wrestling show badly. Wants to do a wrestling years. I've been trying for years. He wants to do a wrestling show and I just Threw out there. Mysterio. Most famous mass wrestler of all time. Right. Who's second? I don't know. And it went nowhere, I think.
Billy
Yeah, probably.
Chris Cody
Most famous luchador.
Stugotz
Gracias.
Dan Le Batard
Real or fake podcast?
Stugotz
That's a fake podcast. I don't believe that that's real.
Dan Le Batard
It is a fake podcast. Now what with Gary Vee or now what with Gary Vee?
Stugotz
Well, but. Yeah, Well, I don't know if that's the name of it, but Gary Vee is doing something like that. If. Is that the name of it?
Dan Le Batard
Gary could be a guy that has plenty of podcasts.
Greg Cody
Who's Gary Vee?
Chris Cody
That's what Dan said once on our.
Stugotz
Show to Gary Vee's face, an entrepreneur of great fame, that that's an influencer who has a lot of voice and.
Chris Cody
Big into garage sales and is really.
Stugotz
Good at making money.
Dan Le Batard
Is this a real or fake podcast? Now what with Gary Vee?
Stugotz
I'm gonna say it's real. Yes.
Greg Cody
Real.
Dan Le Batard
Fake.
Stugotz
That's not the name of it. Right. Okay.
Dan Le Batard
Get in the game with former Detroit Lions kicker Jason Hansen. Real or fake? Get in the game with Jason Hansen.
Stugotz
All right, here's my dilemma with this game. You're not that imaginative. You're not that creative. I know you. I've seen your work. There's.
Dan Le Batard
I made a musical guy.
Stugotz
There's no reason there. That's what I'm saying. Wait, what was that guy doing in the middle? I made. As a taunt. I. As a taunt.
Dan Le Batard
Chart topper.
Stugotz
I made a musical guy. You've been gone for a while.
Chris Cody
That's what he calls you now.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah.
Greg Cody
When's that guy coming back?
Stugotz
You're not creative enough to invent that. That has to be real. That's too ridiculous to be fake.
Dan Le Batard
In the game with Jason Hansen.
Stugotz
It can't be real.
Dan Le Batard
There are lots of business.
Stugotz
It can't be real. It should not be real. It is. There's no reason that anyone should pay for that in this economy.
Dan Le Batard
So are you saying it's real? Because it can't be.
Stugotz
That's right.
Greg Cody
I'm saying it's not real.
Stugotz
It can't be. It can't be real.
Dan Le Batard
It can't be. But it can't be.
Stugotz
It can't be. It cannot be. But I'm saying it's real. Just because I'm testing your imagination, you wouldn't make that up.
Dan Le Batard
It's real.
Greg Cody
Wow.
Dan Le Batard
Dan.
Billy
Cold.
Greg Cody
Wow.
Dan Le Batard
All right, final one.
Stugotz
And I know you made a musical guy, and I'm saying you're not that creative.
Dan Le Batard
Last one. Soup son with Jeff Supan.
Greg Cody
Oh, love it, love it. Is soup san sup, though, or is it su. You know, like follow up?
Dan Le Batard
It's conventional spelling.
Greg Cody
Okay.
Stugotz
No, but that's a great question he's asking.
Billy
You want to use it in a.
Chris Cody
Sentence just to see where Mike's at on it. I like it.
Stugotz
Go ahead. Let's. Let's do this. Greg, Go ahead. How does this work? How does this spelled. What is the graphic for this? Soup's on with Jeff. Soup on has to be spelled S u p apostrophe.
Greg Cody
I would think so, but I think you can still get away with a soup bowl with a spoon with a little picture of a tendril of soup smoke coming up from the heat coming up from the soup.
Dan Le Batard
I think you would confuse the audience because they would say, sup, Ann? You know?
Greg Cody
Yeah. What's up? Isn't it?
Stugotz
Yeah. And then we get fouled up.
Greg Cody
Yeah.
Stugotz
All right, so. No, that can't be a podcast.
Greg Cody
I think it is.
Dan Le Batard
It's fake. Welcome back, guy.
Stugotz
Thank you. I've missed that game. I missed you guys. And I want to come up with Greg's Tombstone, sponsored by DraftKings. Please help me figure out what the writers around our show. What are we saying? The limits on this has to be because you don't want too many words.
Billy
I mean, it depends on the font.
Stugotz
You could fit a lot. You know, you will disqualify yourself. I think, if. Well, Greg is so self involved. You saw the most engaged he's been in 10 years is when you guys asked him about his statue and how serious he is about wanting it to be 6:1 and being in his front yard. We made fun of Pudge because he had a giant statue that was in his yard. It was a giant gold statue of Pudge in catching gear here in Miami. That was in his yard. It was ridiculous. It was golden. It was godlike. And the last time I saw Pudge walking through the lobby of a hotel, because I'm so awkward, I just asked him, where's the statue? Because we made fun of it for years that he would have a statue of himself in his yard. And he said it was being shipped to Texas and that they are now having it outside their stadium, which they should.
Billy
Well, no, they. They made a different statue for him, so he might have thought that you were actually interested in the statue they were making in his honor to have multiple statues.
Stugotz
You really want a statue of yourself for your yard? If we got it for you, you would put it in your yard.
Greg Cody
I would love it.
Stugotz
Your wife would let you do that?
Greg Cody
Yeah, I would build a whole thing around it. Like, it would be like in a garden type situation. We would decorate, we would landscape around the statue. And I would also like a. A. A very lightweight version of that statue that I could carry around with me. Like if I'm going on a trip or something. I could carry my. A statue of myself under my arm. If it weighs like 10 pounds or less. Like a bowling. Think of it as like a bowling ball. You know, weight, weight wise.
Stugotz
Why would you want to carry this around?
Greg Cody
Fun.
Billy
Yeah.
Greg Cody
Hey, look at that guy over there carrying a statue. Is that a statue of himself?
Chris Cody
Is that Joe Biden?
Billy
Did he win an Oscar?
Greg Cody
Sitting around the. The kitchen table in Scranton.
Chris Cody
You hear Joe Biden, you're like, all right, time to play the hits.
Greg Cody
Bring back Joe Biden. I mean, my imitation of him. I don't mean Joe, God rest his soul. Not that he's dead. Wait, he's alive. What? Yeah, he's still good. He's still kicking. All right.
Billy
He had legs.
Greg Cody
Yeah, exactly.
Billy
He has legs. We know that. Just Joe Parker.
Stugotz
Yeah, he had legs. He kicked you. I don't understand what that movie's about. And I. And there's not a torso involved in that movie, right? There's not someone without legs in that movie.
Billy
I mean, the title is a little bit deceiving.
Chris Cody
I'll be honest.
Stugotz
That's the greatest title I've ever heard for a movie. Put it on the poll at Le Batard show. Have you ever heard a better title for a movie than if I had legs, I'd kick you?
Dan Le Batard
Well, I would assume that someone does not have legs or is bound to a wheelchair. If not, that's a terrible title for the movie, right?
Greg Cody
I think it's great. I think it sounds like a comedian's biography title.
Stugotz
I want to know. I want to watch this movie, and I want to know what it's about. I should know what it's about. And you said it was not horror. It is dark comedy asap.
Billy
Rocky's in it.
Stugotz
Can we please examine for a moment how Erlene Cody is going to feel about today's show and the talk of her office? Your father is not a good friend. Friend by his definitions. I would not say that. I think he's a masterful, wonderful friend. I love him. I'll always love him, obviously, but he. He doesn't think he's a. He's a very good friend. And it's because he can make it to be hard to be friends with him. You have to chase after him. It's not. He's not coming to you. It's not. He's not making phone calls. He's not trying to. And I think that's why he identifies as a. As a self proclaimed bad friend. I don't think he is one.
Greg Cody
Yeah. I'm not an attentive friend. I would say if I'm self analyzing.
Stugotz
And so when I'm saying that there's a birthday party with office workers who I don't think he would call any of those people his friends. They're your. They're your mother's employees, I think coworkers, but yes. Yeah. And so. And he likes them and he's close to them, but only so close. Correct.
Greg Cody
I mean there's a couple of people in that room that I think I would call friends.
Chris Cody
But if you're asking what my mom's going to think of this, I think she's going to be fine with most of it. Except for me saying that she makes people talk about her.
Stugotz
All right, so you go.
Chris Cody
That's the part that I'm worried about.
Stugotz
You keep crossing the line and we'll see how we enrage Erlene Cody because that's. I want to get to the bottom of how she feels about all of this because I think she has to get people up to speak about her because she's raised three toddlers who are not likely to tell their mother how much they love and respect and admire her in ways that she has heard very often because they're all constipated reprehs, young boys. Even her husband. Husband. And so. But, but I've never heard your father speak more lovingly or more poetically about anybody then when jumping Charlie when he speak. Except for jumping Charlie when he speaks of his love for your mother. Which is the very most of the romantic things.
Greg Cody
Yeah. I can't express how much I admire not just love, but admire her. But I think something needs to be said about that video that I am just now realizing. She never noticed until she saw the video that someone else took. Took that I was on my phone during the song.
Chris Cody
Why does that make it different?
Greg Cody
Because it's not like she was upset by it. It's not like she was elbowing me. Like what are you doing? You know, she didn't even know that.
Chris Cody
Why does that make it better?
Greg Cody
Because it in. In real time. It didn't hurt her feelings. It didn't insult her.
Billy
And yesteryear he would have been able to get away with that.
Greg Cody
Yeah, because everybody. Everybody's a photographer. Everybody's got to.
Billy
Except you.
Chris Cody
Including you.
Billy
I would argue that you did more to pay attention and give her your full attention than the person videoing it because they were on their phone. You were not. You were only for a portion of the time, but you were trying to be in the moment. I was very essentially treating her birthday like an Erykah Badu concert, whatever that means.
Greg Cody
Yeah, you're right. Yeah.
Billy
I know. She took away people's phones.
Greg Cody
I heard.
Stugotz
Oh, that's the best Miami there is.
Greg Cody
Erica Bad Badu by. She wears a. A hat, right?
Billy
Oh, boy.
Greg Cody
She's the hat.
Billy
All right, do you know the names of any of the people in that video? Let's just move on to something else.
Greg Cody
Sure, I do.
Stugotz
Good work by you, Billy.
Chris Cody
What are their names?
Dan Le Batard
She was wearing a hat last night from the video that I saw.
Stugotz
Thank you.
Dan Le Batard
And it was cell phone video from another venue.
Chris Cody
Dad, what are those?
Billy
Co workers.
Chris Cody
What are those co workers names?
Greg Cody
Well, that's Cam and. And his wife. And. And the nodding person at the end. I'm not positive.
Stugotz
So you got one third. One third. If Cam and his wife. All right, all right. So if we quizzed you on you. If we quizzed you on the 17 people that were there, how many of the names would you know? More or less than half?
Greg Cody
Less in terms of being able to name them?
Stugotz
Yes.
Chris Cody
That's part. That's how you know someone's name?
Greg Cody
Yeah. Less than half.
Billy
But what if it was, like, a lineup for, like, a crime and you just say criminal? Orleans co worker. You could pick them out of a lineup.
Greg Cody
Surely most of them, maybe more than against criminals.
Stugotz
Too far. But how else would you know someone's name other than to know their name to name them?
Greg Cody
I mean, you know, I don't. I don't. I don't take a quiz. I never go to my wife's office. I don't socialize with these people. Some of them I do, but not the people in that room.
Billy
How many people here could you name everyone? Oh.
Stugotz
Oh, let's play that game next.
Greg Cody
I'm not gonna take a quiz. No, I'm not doing that.
Dan Le Batard
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Summary by segments:
For listeners or non-listeners alike, this episode is a classic example of the show’s charm: the personal is always public, the mockery is loving, and the details (whether toenail, tombstone, or turkey) are always larger than life.