Jessica has a blanket, David has a mic without a mute button, and Greg doesn't know how to get a haircut. Greg Cote Tuesday is off to a roaring start. We kick things off with a Luka Doncic themed Not Like Us parody before Dan tries to extract 30 seconds of Luka takes from Greg, Jeremy, and David so we can move on, but David's take stops everyone in their tracks. That said, we have a Gabe in the other room, and we need to hear from him. Then, there is exclusive video of Billy Gil Day in Cartersville via the Greg Cote Show with Greg Cote, but will Billy be healthy enough to make it to the Super Bowl? Plus, David tries to give Greg a pep talk, we learn Greg's wife's mom's mom's name, and Dan gets frustrated over the show's lack of Bucket of Death payoffs. Today's cast: Dan, Greg, Chris, David, Jeremy, and Jessica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Shadow Show. Shadow in it. Shadow in it. Chris, is there any reason that Jessica isn't wearing the, I don't know what that was, the blanket that she was wearing out there because evidently it's cold here, but it's not cold, it's not really winter, but it often feels cold in here because in the humidity we've got a lot of equipment that make it necessary for us to keep things a little cold.
Is there a reason she can't wear that indoors? I'm going to make a ruling.
Go ahead, Jess. You can wear it.
Well, Jessica, are you routinely taking that off? I know you're often cold around here, but I did not know that you were toughing it out every day, playing in the cold elements without a blanket.
I'm okay right now. It's back to warm outside, so I'm wearing sleeveless tops again. So it's a little bit of an adjustment when you go from outside to inside.
We had a good winter. It was good.
We did. It was a nice three weeks. I was wearing sweaters every day. Now it's summer again.
The blanket looks really comfortable. It's important for a blanket. It doesn't seem like a cheap blanket. When I'm looking at you out there, I was jealous of what you had. I'm not cold. I'm not warm. You just seemed in a cocoon that seemed comfortable.
I can bring it in there. It's comforting to have a blanket on.
Okay, Chris, this is a bit of a fire drill today. You may have heard Greg Cody laughing in the background. We've gotten Super Bowl week off to a rough start. Billy Gill is out of commission. He has had to come back with stomach pain. He was fully functional to attend Billy Gill Day at Cartersville, Georgia over the weekend with his family. Super Bowl week starts. He's not available.
He had to push his flight back. He had to go to the doctor. It's legit.
Wait, this is a real thing. This isn't you making this up. He's actually sick.
It's a virus.
I'm going to text him. I didn't know. You mentioned it yesterday. I was like, okay, this is a setup for something.
Jessica, I don't know how I make this a ruling from on high, but all questions about is it a bit, isn't a bit, is it not a bit, off air. Never on air. Please, coming from you. Off air, please. No, so I can't make the ruling? Oh, please. Okay, so that may explain why I have a leadership problem around here, where I'm trying to make a ruling.
Yes, you explain why you have a leadership problem, as you are the leader.
Yeah, I am. I feel absolutely like the hot dog meme, the pointing at each other. This is a terrible start. Hello, David.
I've got a dirty blanket to my left. It's it's gross.
Not my blanket.
And now we're talking about leadership this early.
Well, we've got Billy Gills out. Mike Ryan was supposed to be here, but something requires his emergency presence in New Orleans. We have a lot of people who left for New Orleans. So David just did nothing personal. And I think he did it into his pen. I don't think we had for all the equipment we're trying to keep cold around here. I don't I don't think we had anyone here who could work on it.
It's true. I had to do it on a laptop into a random camera without a mute button. And the people in the control room were yelling, but it wasn't you couldn't even be on the show. There were no cameras.
I'm looking forward to today's show. I don't want to do this in the shadow show, but in the regular show, I need to tell you guys about before the show when my dad asked me how to get a haircut.
That was supposed to be a private conversation. We're not getting to that now, but that's just a little tease for the show.
How to get a haircut?
Well, just the yings and yangs of it. I don't know what that means. Okay. Please talk into the mic. I'm talking into a mic. The world's most giant microphone. Bring it closer to your face. God. Okay. How are you still an amateur at 70? I'm not an amateur. I'm a professional. The haircut thing is just the numbers thing, the fade thing. You start at a 2 and go to a 4.
How does that work? You're 70 years old and you don't know how to get a haircut?
Well, I've just begun doing it. You've got to keep in mind, my first haircut was my dad putting a cereal bowl over my head and cutting around it. Is that true? Yeah.
Up until like two months ago, my dad would always just say, take a little off the ears. He never worked in the numbers of like, this is what I would like on the side. Right. I had to teach him that. Talking to the microphone. And now. Oh, me? Oh, that was a good joke.
Nope.
I see fat people. Palenka on the trades, though. Luka being fat, got him traded by Niko. Palenka calling up and tell him, see ya, bro. Go to Dallas, be the hero. Super suit like Frozone. What's up with all these motherfucking Lakers trying to seem competent? The whole damn legal hate them. F**k them all and their drama. How many teammates at LeBron? I mean, it's too many options.
Feels like every Hall of Famer, but John Stockton. But what about Luka Doncic and Wayne Washington? Sometimes he's gonna pop off and score 60. Certified MVP, there's no one else can score with him. Walking down the whole court, the Mavs got some fear in them. Walking in, smoking six, can smell the beer on him. Say like, or you can get him young. You don't have many picks, so we'll take one.
And Anthony Davis and Max Christie, get the jazz involved, call up Danny. So tell me why we're treating AD like a somewhat side. It's because Luka is playing like a goat, right? LeBron got a weird case, why is he around? Lakers gotta trade LeBron, make it right, call him Riles. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, trading for a fox. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, when we got the blocks.
What you do with a dude who's always tired? Trade him for a pick that right now is a minor.
Luka Doncic. Luka Doncic. Luka Doncic. Uh. Luka Doncic. Luka Doncic. Luka Doncic. Luka Doncic. Luka Doncic. Luka Doncic. Uh. Luka Doncic.
Luka Doncic. This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stukas Podcast.
Remind me, please, Chris Cody, at the end of the show to ask Juju what he thought of that as someone who, no, who actually, I'm serious. Just remind me to ask him. I don't want to forget. Everybody, today I want to gather around and celebrate something I did not celebrate yesterday, which is Happy National Monday. Everyone knows how great it is to have PICS Day. Just picks, like getting picks.
We're all about getting draft picks now. And if you only get one instead of five, you have done it poorly, even though we don't know what any of those are. I want to, before we get rolling today and get into other subject matter, just take a little air out of the tires right now, right off the top.
And from Greg Cody, David Sampson, and Jeremy, just get 30 seconds each on everything you've got on Luca. Get it out of your system. Whatever it is you think wasn't said yesterday that needs to be said today. And then we will move on to other subjects.
At the same time?
Well... You know, I'd be okay with that if you actually want to do it that way, or if you want to keep going after 30 seconds and someone wants to start exactly at the next 30 seconds. I just want to get it out of the room before we get started so we can get on and do a Greg Cody Tuesday and celebrate all things Greg Cody. We're hurting today, okay?
Chris, can you tell me whether that person in the other room, who evidently has been working for us for a while, and when I saw him this morning, I'm like, who are you? evidently we've got a Gabe in the other room because we're down a lot of bodies. I did not know Gabe before today. Gabe, you're mic'd up. Go ahead, Gabe. Congratulations to all of the people. Okay, so who are you, Gabe?
What is your story?
I am an editor.
Okay. Good job, Gabe. Thank you, Gabe. Excellent, excellent start. Thank you, Gabe. Good work. One of the best debuts we've ever had around here. Thank you, Gabe. We'll check in with Gabe Cam a little bit later on. Greg Cody... Give me your 30 seconds, please. We're going to get to your gala in a second because I can't believe we're in 21 years.
And I can't believe, can't believe that Chris Cody said to me that at the end of this year's 21st PFPI gala that you actually said, I think it's time to have a Hall of Fame.
A PFPI Hall of Fame, yeah. The laughter when I said that was ridiculous. Particularly... Christopher's wife, my daughter-in-law, howled laughter as if I weren't serious. It's because we all know the writing on the wall. Who should be the first entry into the Hall of Fame, Dad? That's up to the voters. I'm the commissioner. I'm not lobbying for anybody.
David, are you familiar with the PFPI gala? Do you know anything about it? Jeremy and Jess, were you guys tuned in on Sunday night when Greg Cody was this interested in showing everybody the insides of his... Greg.
No, but this... Greg. Greg, just sit in a comfortable posture and then you won't have to adjust the microphone.
The guy is whispering in my ear, distracting me.
He's just saying, get closer to the microphone. Your son is telling you, he was waving commands to you in ways that were super distracting to me. Exactly. You sound like you're far away from the microphone. You've been doing this for a long time. It's strange that...
Am I close enough to the microphone?
That sounds really good.
Thank you.
You sound like a smooth jazz NPR announcer.
Al Jarreau over here. Sounds way better than this. Yes. Okay, sorry about that. All right, I'm going to eat the microphone for the rest of the show.
All right, David, give me your best 30 seconds, please, that haven't been said anywhere in the world on Luka.
It is impossible for me to believe that both LeBron James did not know, but most importantly, that Nico didn't shop this trade. I believe that there were teams who call on players. We did it every day. You're calling on players you think are untradeable, and you call on them, and either a deal can get done or not. You do not get one trading partner and make the best deal for your team. Period.
So I don't believe him.
Well, all the other like front offices have more or less corroborated that. You think they're all lying?
We corroborate anything. I mean, we're so.
No, the reporting has been done on this. And anonymous GMs everywhere have said we're shocked and can't believe we weren't offered a chance at the bidding. I don't think everyone's in collusion lying to us.
You have to understand that the GMs are trying to answer to their owners who call them up and say, are you telling me that we were not in on Luca? And then the GMs say, I had no idea. That's not the real world, because the owner would say to the GM, you didn't call just during the course of your day.
I understand your skepticism. Just curious, though, you think. Just to be clear that the truth is so hard to believe that everyone is in cahoots in unison on lying about this.
Self-preservation is one of the great tactics of people in the sports world.
And you also think no one would have leaked it.
Did anyone leak this trade? That's why everyone is so butthurt.
Which is more plausible if only three people knew about it.
There is no trade where three people know about it. There is no such thing as a deal like that in sports.
So we can stay here if you guys want to. I don't actually know when the audience will tire of this during Super Bowl weekend. As Stugatz has landed, are we checking in with Stugatz? Because God bless football is about to take over the entirety of this week if we can get Billy out of the hospital to go do Billy things. Again, do we know if he got sick in Cartersville?
Do we know his Billy Gill day that was not... He wanted even fewer people there for Billy Gil Day. It was one of the most awkward things that I have seen. There is the picture of Stugatz landing on Radio Row. He will soon dominate and take over the entirety of the premises.
But, Chris, in the history of us doing things, I think this, while wildly on brand for Billy Gil, is one of the funnier things.
things that has been done around here where somebody went to celebrate a day in their name but wanted to do it even more quietly than they did it, so was disappointed, I gather, or I think, that 12 people showed up to a banquet hall somewhere in Cartersville as opposed to three or four people or just one person with a video camera. Billy was looking to make that awkward, correct?
It's like a weird juxtaposition. The less people that know about it, the funnier it is, but the less people that get to... Partake in the funny. Thank you, David. But I'm just saying, it's just an awkward thing that Billy did because if there's cameras there and we get content from it, then it's part of the show. But Billy was just like, no, I don't want anyone there.
But luckily, we did have cameras.
Hold on just a second. David, you're new around here, all right? Was that fewer really necessary? Like he's talking and I don't see your face and he's stumbling toward a word and he needs support. He clearly is in need of some buttressing. And you get in there with fewer in a way that just distracts him and makes him worse at his job. Like, why would you do that?
Because I hope that's the last time he uses less incorrectly.
Yeah, it was instructive. I support David. Thank you, Greg. How about David talks less about that?
That's a perfect use of the word less.
Damn it.
Talk fewer.
How about David talk fewer? But what I was trying to say before Billy, uh, David's got me rattled. We got, we have video Dan of Billy Gilday. He didn't want our cameras there, but I sent Yeti block from the Greg Cody show.
Get it together.
We have coverage of this. Let's play the video now.
Back in 2019, one of the more fun days of my life, um, was when I came up with a harebrained idea about naming a day after somebody who was associated with one of the, or really the favorite podcasts and has become an unhealthy obsession over the last 10 plus years. Up came Billy, so it was a fun day, and since then we've been able to communicate from time to time.
And out of the blue, Billy has decided to come back with his family, and I thought there was something that we should do to mark the momentous occasion, what is the sixth anniversary.
Hold on, fade that down. I'm sorry to laugh during the middle of this. I'm laughing because someone just cued me to my headphones. Two minutes left in this video.
The Dan Levitard Show celebrates 20 years of content this year while continuing to be one of the most downloaded podcasts each day. Whereas Billy Gill is recognized as the Guardian's fourth ranked, fourth best NFL analyst in the country, if not the world.
Whereas Billy is part of the creative genius behind the award-winning God Bless Football podcast, which, by the way, was just named best football podcast in the last 48 hours. God Bless Football. God Bless Football. In addition to being part of the FIU football and now baseball broadcast, and whereas Billy... One minute left. Stop.
Just stop. It's lovely. Lovely, funny, and 100% on brand for Billy.
This is Cartersville, Georgia, right? Do they have a Trevor Lawrence day or did Billy get a day before the star of their hometown?
Well, Billy certainly got it before the star of their town because he got it like six years ago. This is the anniversary. He's returning for the anniversary of this. Trevor Lawrence was barely a sparkle in Clemson's eye.
I think he won the national championship six years ago against Alabama, but that's fine, Dan. Close enough. Semantics.
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Wait a minute. Lewis just yelled three minutes at me. How did that get longer out of nowhere?
The best part of this video is what Billy is doing throughout it, which is just like absentmindedly looking out of the window and not knowing where he's supposed to be focusing his attention.
I will say that sinking deep into the awkward and Greg Cody, I don't know, he may have learned this from Greg Cody. 21 years of the PFPI gala is a beast. We use the hard A. Okay, sorry. The idea that Billy would be hearing his resume given to all. And he would have his hands in his pockets and be shuffling around looking at the floor a lot because his wife and daughter are there with him.
He spent the weekend there. And I think in Billy's ear, this is going on too long. This needs to be, I'm fully embracing the awkward. I need the awkward to be 90 seconds instead of a minute and 20.
This can't be still going on. This can't be still happening.
You've got to fade that down. Get that out of here. I cannot.
This is cute. What's the problem with this? No problem. It's wonderful.
It's wonderful.
Getty, just edit next time.
What's going on on the other side of that drape? Because it seems like the room was cut in half. It's a great question.
It's a Peloton class. It's weird. Plus, Billy's dressed like he's about to go duck hunting. I want to make clear that that beautiful expert video is courtesy of the Greg Cody Show podcast. We actually sent a special correspondent to Cartersville. And on my latest podcast episode, we actually interview the throng of nearly a dozen fans was there. And we interviewed. Oh, really? Yeah.
And we really some of them. Yes.
while continuing to be one of the most downloaded podcasts each day.
This just can't be still going. It's real. So you're trafficking off. You're smart about this. Your producers do good work. So you are going to have the exclusive interviews with all parties involved on what Billy Gilday was at Cartersville. But it wasn't. Billy only attended the sixth, right? This is the sixth anniversary, sort of. It's not even the right week, I don't think, but sort of.
But he didn't attend the first, did he or did he? I don't remember. He did, right?
Yes, he was up there for the original Billy Gilday.
But not for any of the others?
Correct. Okay. As one does, celebrate the 1st and 6th.
Do you want to tease anything from the episode of The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody?
Well, we get into the controversy of... Of who, what? That wasn't Samson. My dad looked at Samson like that was his correction. That's just Dan playing the hits. Oh, okay.
Greg, you are, hold on. You're on fire today, buddy. This is terrible. Well, Greg is getting confounded. Look, I will tell you that as soon as the shadow show ended, as soon as it ended, Greg Cody looked up disoriented by the lights and just said to me, what happened? Because he was still talking. Right. And he didn't realize that he doesn't know quite where he is.
I don't know what's happened here this morning. Have you taken any medication?
No. Well, my normal array of pills in the morning. Yeah, they're kicking in now, though.
The reason I worry about your health is because I said the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody. And for many years, you have corrected me. You didn't even hear it. You just launched into, you know, saying podcast things, promotion. I'm not used to you mentioning my podcast.
This can't still be going on. All right. PFPI. The PFPI Gala, 21 years.
We've always pronounced it gala, not gala. It's just an annoyance to me when somebody mispronounces that.
It's the same as David Sampson with fewer?
That's a grammatical thing.
But you guys are just wandering around doing janitorial work on corrections? I have been told in the past, because I have been guilty of this, If the person knows what you meant, to make the correction makes you an asshole. To assume that that's a teaching moment for someone or that someone wants that teaching, I would have assumed I would want that correction.
I would want to know that I had gotten something wrong so that I don't keep getting it wrong. But it's a personality type and most people would say that's assholian behavior. If you know what they meant, you don't correct them.
No, because he makes his living with a microphone, and we're trying to uphold the standards of actually of intelligence, not of babbling. No matter what is going on with the show, you don't want to mistake less and fewer.
You think the point of this show is to uphold the standards of intelligence?
I do, actually. I think that's why it's such a popular show, and I think that that's the beauty of the show, is that we are actually smart people. We do that good. We do this show.
Greg Cody, you're in agreement with this?
With what in particular?
To correct. The words that were just spoken.
Oh, yeah, for sure. The conversation.
You know what? You know what, Greg? I'm going to just kick you out for a second and allow you to gather yourself. I'm gathered.
I'm fully gathered.
No, you're not. You're not.
Minor penalty. Two minutes. Delay of show. You just don't know where you are.
I don't know what's happening, but you haven't been prepared. I don't know if you're disoriented from a different seat, but you don't know what's going on. When you say what, it's what we were just talking about. Like, all you have to do is listen to the previous couple of sentences.
Well, we were talking about several things. Okay. And you're continuing to mispronounce the name of the PFBI gala. I'm simply wanting to correct you.
I want to know all about the gala. But you need to leave for two minutes. Okay. And thank you for being here today. Bring in Gabe.
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Don Levitard. I heard that as a woman faking pain. I didn't think that sounded real. I really didn't, you know. It was not fake. It was in no way fake.
You can spot a woman faking it.
Stugatz. Yes, I can, Jess. Expert. I've been married 40 years. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.
Gabe, come on in here. I'm told you have a beautiful voice. Gabe, come on in here. Good suggestion, Jessica. Thank you. Now we've got some real leadership around here. Now some things are happening.
He's trying to uphold the standard of intelligence. Thank you.
Gabe, come in here. No pressure. Gabe, just come on in here and uphold the standard of intelligence.
What does he think about Luca?
If Mike Fuentes sees that Gabe gets on a mic before he does.
Gabe, sit down. Go ahead, Gabe. I've been told that Gabe has a wonderful voice. Gabe, you don't have to put that on. I just need your best 30 seconds on Luca and that trade, and then you can get out of here. Welcome to the company as an editor. Go ahead. I'm told you have a lovely voice. I've been told by one person, really. Okay, so you want to enunciate, though. You want to get in and broadcast.
A bad spot we're putting Gabe in.
Taylor's loving this. Well, and hating it, because Taylor wants so badly to be in that seat. So, Gabe, give us your best 30 seconds on the Luka trade.
I think the Mavs choked on that trade. I don't think it was a good trade. I don't understand the whole purpose of the trade. I don't want to hate on AD, but... You just gave up a franchise player and gave it to the Lakers. I'm assuming for LeBron.
This guy's a natural.
Thank you for being on with us a terrible spot I perch you and welcome to the car. I want to see his armpits right now Yes, so good work by you gave Your rising star it took me four years to like get comfortable talking on a mic and as you can tell how comfortable I am now
But good God, if you would have done that to me my first day here, I would have literally shit myself.
Look, we need to speed up the curve because, yes, you guys didn't speak for years around here. Yes, that is true. I remember Amin coming down, flying in for three years and trying not to say anything at the wrong time.
You thought he was a Clevelander waiter.
That is no longer the standard. The standard has been diminished by Gabe because we'll allow anybody to have a microphone around here.
We need it better from Greg. It's a short staff today. It's not a crowded room.
I thought you would have prepared. You know what? Help me. Do me a favor. Do me a favor. Go into the penalty box. I need some leadership around here. Go into the penalty box. Get mic'd up. And I would like you to give Greg the motivational speech to get him back in here and get him to be better because he really is unusually disoriented today.
Chris, even you who get very frustrated with your father, it's been weird how much he's trailing the show today where he doesn't seem to know where he is exactly.
He came in very low energy. I've been giving him little pep talks in his ear when you're talking like, come on, I need you today.
In the meantime, while David's out there, we should have Gabe back in to talk about the Spurs trade, I think. Please don't.
I'm sweating now.
Jessica, you have risen to straight evil. You have learned well. Thank you. You have learned so well about how it is to just beat up on somebody as soon as they arrive.
I'm doing the Billy role today. That is something Billy would do. More Gabe.
Just stunning. Just flog poor Gabe. Gabe, do you realize that in the history of media, very few people are going to drive home from a work day and revisit, oh, the things I could have said. if I hadn't been put on the spot. Like if I had unspooled in those 30 seconds, something that had like mesmerized us, it would have made for instant stardom, just like Rose around here.
You mentioned that someone said he had a good voice. I thought you were gonna have him sing. That would have been a better spot to put him in, because he's more comfortable there. I assume when they say he has a good voice, they mean singing voice, or do they mean just his voice talking?
Hold on, hold on. I just want to be clear on what your executive producer judgment is here.
Oh, it would have been a lot funnier, Dan.
Oh, wait, okay. But for Gabe... You may be right, but are you also trying to flog Gabe here and trying to teach him the lesson early? Hey, show comes first. You singing poorly is funnier pressure to put on you.
And I also think he's more apt, if he knows how to sing, to just pull a song out of his ass than give a sports take when that's not really what he does.
So you think that we could have had an America's Got Talent moment where we go viral because all of a sudden what Gabe unleashes stuns the nation because he's such a songbird.
I'm being told the YouTube chat is going crazy for Gabe right now. The people demand their king.
Well, we will see. Somebody take care of Dave right now. I feel so bad for Fuentes. Tell me when it is that I can go, please, to David Sampson in the other room with Greg Cody. Okay, David, thank you. Please, just give him a pep talk because we've got three more hours. It's a long week, and we need a lot of help from a lot of different people. We've got sick people. We're understaffed.
Please give the old man a pep talk so he comes in here and gives us three better hours than the one he's given us so far.
Greg, I want you to think back to when you were young and you didn't have open sores on your arm and you were totally writing and talking as though you were a professional Hall of Famer to be. I want you to channel that and recognize that we need you. We need you at Metal Ark.
Dan, your friend, your mentor, the one who has given you the very platform that you take advantage of every single day to his detriment mostly. You need to come through for us in a way the start was so bad that I would have benched you. Dan wants you to come back strong. Can you do it?
Jesus. He's striking me. Literally, he's hitting me on the chin with a microphone. And this guy is supposed to be the professional? By the way, Samson, let me give you a quick tip. When you're giving someone a pep talk, you don't start...
pep talk by referring to open sores on their arms when he doesn't have any open sores you know i'm having a bad arm life granted that's why i've been wearing long shirts lately but i am perfectly fine i'm not disoriented i'm an oriented person i lead the i'm a professional at orienteering which is a little known sport i i am the opposite of disoriented and uh and all i need is an opportunity i'm no gabe but i'll tell you what you put me behind a mic again you're gonna get fire out of my mouth
Yes! Yes!
Yes! Winning. Good job, Samson. One, two, three, Brett.
All right. Get in here, Samson. That's good work out of you. Good Lord. He hit him right in the face with the microphone, and he pissed him off, and those aren't open sores, and I'm not his mentor.
They're closed sores. Thank you.
That's exactly right. He's having a bad arm life, though.
He knows what he's doing with the Hall of Fame and the PFPI, right? Like, he's doing it, like, I just, when he said that, the way the family laughed at him, just, it's, my brother's like, you want an award for the award show? We already have a gala.
Let me explain this to Samson, who might not understand, and please put the video up again, because I do enjoy going through Greg Cody's house, and you don't understand, okay? how strange Greg's brother is. Greg is very strange. Uncle Dick, though? Uncle Dick did not have an Earline, did not have kids.
So Uncle Dick is whatever Greg would have been if he'd been roaming the earth alone and then went to sleep at 3 o'clock just after having a TV dinner. Just wouldn't know how to take care of himself in any way. Just wouldn't know. He's 70 years old, doesn't know how to get a haircut. When he leaves the house and he wants to know how cold it is, he blames his wife for not telling him before she left.
Like, you understand that your father is a toddler, correct? and he's got this celebration that he has and it is a family heirloom it is a sports treasure for twenty one years in the family Be careful with that hand gesture. What are you doing? For 21 years in the family, in that room, right? In that room.
And that's just 21 years in the modern era. What do you mean? Well, PFPI began in the late 60s. This was actually our 29th season overall, but our 21st continuing season.
When you and your brother were kids? Yeah. Fantasy football? Yeah.
No, no, no. Always picking them, and my dad claims to have all the records back then, so me and my brother are skeptical of the record keeping. There's no record keeping? There's no books? There is record keeping. Where is it? It's just a list of who won.
Okay, but from the 60s? Who won? Somewhere? Where is it? In the garage?
It's in the archive, the PFPI archive. We're a professionally run operation. Wait a minute, there's an archive? Yes, of course. In Canton, Dan. The Google Doc. No, it's an archive, and we're professionally run. I take my job as commissioner very seriously, even though people love to mock me. It's a family tradition.
It's been going on in the modern era since 2004, but overall since 1968, I believe. And so... You know, I think after all of that history, after all of that heritage, we've had 10 members over the years. I think it's time to honor the pivotal members of PFPI in a newly formed PFPI Hall of Fame.
Now, like baseball with its Hall of Fame vote, we need a 75 percent majority, meaning we need six of eight current team members to vote yay. So will that happen? I don't know, but I'm proposing that. I'm also proposing a penalty for late picks every week. Just me and Michael. Always.
Who are you proposing to, exactly?
To the membership. Six other people sitting in his living room. To the eight teams.
Who decides who the Hall of Fame nominees are?
Well, that's to be determined.
What is the Hall of Fame criteria, Greg? And also, I might add, you look dashing in that black button down with the black blazer. Thank you.
I didn't even know this was referred to as a blazer. He's talking about a video. Oh, okay. Oh, man. I'm sorry, Dan.
I thought I had him. It's okay. You know what? Minor penalty. Two minutes. Delay of show.
You're going to have to try again. I promise for the listeners out there, the house does not look as sad in person as it does in these videos. That is true, actually. I'm telling you, when you're in the house, you don't say, oh, this is a sad room. But when I see this on video, it's one of the saddest places I've ever seen.
Because walls the color of jaundice. are part of the problem. Walls the color of jaundice, like of liver failure, like of the 80s. It's the popular color for walls. I'm not even saying it hasn't been repainted. I just assume that Greg isn't repainting. And so this is a home. Look, I will tell you that wandering through this home, there in the back somewhere, a Ms.
Pac-Man machine and a pool table, it's like walking through my childhood. But it also hasn't changed all that much. Greg Cody has lived as a comfortable man. for as long as I've known him. And there he is, the center and star of his own show. The blazer we were asking you about, please be careful with that gesture. Get out of here. What gesture? Get out of here. Go two hours. Why am I leaving?
Because you delayed the game. Two minutes.
You delayed the game. Samson delayed the game.
No, it was you delaying the game because you don't know where we are in the show. He asked you about your blazer and you looked at your shirt and said, I didn't know this was called a blazer. Right.
It was Jess who made that remark. She was complimenting my blazer. I thought she was looking at me right now. I thought this shirt. You look good now, too.
Thank you. What decade was that rocking chair made in?
Oh, that's a family heirloom.
Oh, I feel like a jerk.
I had it. It was your mother's grandmother's. I should have known that. Yeah.
What was her folksy name? Oh, my God.
That's such. Oh, man. You will not know her name. You forgot mom's mom's name.
No, I forgot mom's grandmother's name. Her mother's name was Mary Alice, but I don't know her grandmother's name. I barely met the woman. I literally barely met her. I saw her like once or twice, and she passed away. Coincidental. I had nothing to do with it. And so, no, I don't know her name. If it was told me, I would go, oh, yeah.
Multiple choice. I do this all the time. If it was a multiple choice question, I'd get it.
No, text your mother. Ask what her grandmother. I'll ask for three options.
Do you know that 80 percent of the people cannot name all of their eight great grandparents? And so we are merely three generations away from being forgotten.
Yep. That's a good point. I was just about to judge my dad. I don't know Nana and Pop's parents names at all. No, there you go.
You're in the 80%, Chris.
I know my mother's side of the family very well. I don't know. I never met my father's father.
Yeah, my bad. I played that game wrong. I do know their names. Okay. It's your great-grandparents, Chris. That's the 80%. Everybody can name their grandparents.
I know my great-grandparents' names.
All eight? Yeah.
I'm not going to tell you, but I know them.
I'm not going to take a quiz.
Yes. I go over my ancestry with my grandma every time I see her, and she tells me all the family gossip, and a lot of it's not good.
Well, I will say that as much as we've made fun of this gala over the last 21 years, I have had conversations with Chris about like, what's the stuff that you will end up remembering when it is that you, you know, talk to the old people about what the past was. And you do disrespect your father, Chris, you and your brother both do it by not taking this as seriously as he does.
To him, to him, he views it, the fact that he does this every year for hours, goes and gets dressed up, your dad ain't getting dressed up for much of anybody these days, goes out in the middle of the room and videotapes something so that you can have it.
Forever, ridiculous though it is, as a snapshot for who he is, your dad is trying to pass this down and I'm not sure he has anything better to pass down. Like in sports, like in terms of things he cares about, quirky representations of his personality, right? Like if you could put it in a time capsule, hey, who was grandpa? Who was he? Give me something better than this thing.
And put it on the poll, Juju, what's better? What do you trust more, an archive or a Google Doc?
An archive, for sure. I don't understand. I thought two minutes means you have to get out of the chair. Do you give him different treatment?
Thank you. Good leadership. You know what? Go on and get out of here.
Samson ratted me out here. He is right.
Look, I want everyone to see the snitch in plain sight so people can see what Samson does.
He looks like a snitch. You look up snitch in the dictionary, you see Samson's picture.
Snitch, not snitch.
Listen, you did snitch. You are right. You upheld the accuracy of the penalties around here. Not a lot of people do it. I was complaining just before the show today. You weren't even there. I was complaining. I'm like, okay. So how many times do I have to tell somebody that they have to pay their grid of death penalties? Like this is going on three years and I'm not doing this on behalf of me.
The audience wishes to have its payoffs. Like what are we doing every week with the bucket of death if someone doesn't have to come out here and be laughed at? And so I've made it this order several times now for years and it's not an order. It's just, it falls flat.
because nobody's actually in charge of it except that anarchist, Billy Gill, who is sick with the stomach before he goes to the Super Bowl, but not too sick to go to Cartersville, Georgia.
You can be healthy when you're on your way to a place and then sick at the place. That's a possible outcome.
Is he like stuck in Cartersville, Georgia? Where is he at this moment, Chris Cody? Where's Billy? I'm very concerned.
I know he's flying out. He pushed his flight. He's supposed to fly out this morning. He's like going to the doctor this morning and is getting medicine and is hoping to be able to fly.
These are giant plans, okay? For those who do not understand how many people just left with Billy Gill to support Billy Gill on what God Bless Football is doing this week on behalf of one of the biggest American podcasts that there is at a pretty important time, Billy Gill has done an amazing job with God Bless Football.
Billy Gill's reputation producing that pod with Stugatz beats the Kelseys, beats Shannon Chart, beats Dominique, beats everybody. Best football podcast in America. This is Billy Gill blowing two tires right before the finish line on a season from hell for him.
Trying to chase Stugatz around and then it ends with the punctuation of trying to chase him around this week when all he wants to do is hobnob.
There's nothing worse in my head than the bathroom at Radio Row. And Billy Gill is going to need it because this won't go away with antibiotics immediately. And I'm trying to imagine how the route would be back to his room, whether there's time for that. Or does he have to do the radio row bathroom? In which case, that's a deal breaker.
Completely different perspective for me because those bathrooms are always empty.
I'm going to assume he doesn't go to the ladies room. You kidding me? Are you kidding me?
Did he get sick during the ceremony? Did a viral strain run through the room from that nearby Peloton class on the other side of the curtain?
Will my dad get it together for this show? We've got three more hours.
Look, it was a good pep talk, and it looked to work, but at this point, you understand what happens here, right? There's a stamina issue at seven. He can give you a burst. He can be great for three or four seconds, but he doesn't have the stamina to bring it for a full show anymore. I'm not going to say he's washed, but he's not in his prime anymore. You've got to be shitting me.
God bless football.
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