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My dad has kind of become a diva with the days of the week that he works. If he's scheduled for one day, he says, why not two this week? If he's scheduled for two, he's like, oh, one would have been nice.

If he's scheduled on Tuesday, he's like, oh, so just Tuesday? If he's scheduled on Monday, Wednesday, why no Tuesdays? It's just you can't win with this guy. Well, it used to be Greg Cody Tuesdays. That was like a thing, and now it's like willy-nilly, so I'm just trying to figure out, trying to read the temp. Wednesday is willy-nilly.

It's wild willy-nilly. Tuesday used to be Greg Cody Tuesday. Yeah, what happened? I'm convinced. I don't know if this is true. Mike, you will have to tell me what is true or not true of the Stugatz negotiations. That Stugatz negotiated into his contract that he could just skip the days when the Knicks embarrass him. He won't be in much. Because he was supposed to be in today. He's going to be in tomorrow, but I assume that he's not in today because he's just trying to avoid what will be a hysterically laughing day. The biggest day of the Heat season.

The basketball season concluded for Heat fans with game six in Indiana. That concludes our interest in anything to do with basketball and understanding that OKC will win the championship easily from here. I feel like this is one of the rare times I feel a little young in the show. Like not young in age, but young in show experience.

I don't think I ever witnessed strident Knick fan Stugatz. I've missed that era completely. So when you're talking about, oh, he's avoiding the tears, I'm like, does Stugatz even like the Knicks? He was pretty strident during this series to a frustrating end because every time they would suffer a loss and he was scheduled on the show, he's like, oh, no, the Knicks are better. I know that we're better. And now we don't actually get to have the satisfaction of him realizing that, no, you're not better than the Indiana Pacers. It's a bummer. It's pretty clear that they weren't.

Game six was... It was clear that they weren't when he was saying that as a defense, but I don't know if it was coping or just not wanting to give people the pound of flesh. When they lost the first two games, there's an argument, much as Boston had the argument, like, look, we were up. Sure, they beat us, but we were up. We outplayed them for most of the game, and then they had a hot little streak, and that was cute. You could still convince yourself of that argument.

in the early parts. I don't think it's so far-fetched, even though they did lose two. That series should have gone seven games. Like, one of the most miraculous shots in the history of all of sports went in. Yeah. I also don't want to minimize it by just saying the shot. In the end, it did so much. So many improbable things to put themselves in position for one of the more improbable shots. It kind of sucks for Aaron Neesmith. I know we talked about it last week. He's the one that won game one. Like, Halliburton hit a shot to tie. Understood. But

Wasn't a 10-point lead with a minute left? Yeah, they were up nine with 52 seconds left. That's a game. That series should have gone seven games. We should have been able to eat on a live stream tomorrow night the Knicks losing at home. That game's seven in Madison Square Garden. I'm bummed that we're missing out on that. But we said it after...

hours after that shot went in, people are going to forget. They trailed in overtime. People are going to forget the path that they got to make that shot. All they're going to remember is that shot. It's kind of like the Ray Allen shot. No, they played an entire game after the Ray Allen shot. Can I make a confession here? I love NBA basketball. The playoffs have been amazing. I can't wait for the finals.

I'm glad we didn't get a game seven. I get four nights of just this right here. Like what's on Disney Plus tonight? Oh, Paramount Plus. Oh, Mobland finale. I get to live a life and...

and not have to worry about, okay, well, this is what the Knicks need to do and da-da-da and be kind of consumed by it. Same. Dude, this weekend the Panthers were off. It was nice. Isn't it nice to just feel like there was nothing that I needed to pay attention to? By the way, Mobland, that's a killer show. I mean, literally. Literally, yeah. I loved it. I just discovered it and immediately fell in love with it. It's great.

Oh, my gosh. Love Mobland. Mobland. It's fantastic. Why are you being such a diva, Cody? Cody's been this since the newspaper days. When he'd get sent to Buffalo with the Dolphins, he's like, why do I got to go to Buffalo? When he wouldn't get sent, he'd be like, I should be going. Why am I not allowed? Yeah, the low point was when I started thinking that my column should be played out front above Edwin Pope's.

That was really a low point for me, and I regret it to this day because I was wrong. But here's the thing. Greg Cody Tuesdays used to be a thing, right? Like, I would say 80% of the references I get when I get a cameo request or something, cha-ching, is, we love you on Greg Cody Tuesdays. That's our favorite day of the week. And what happened? What happened? What happened to Greg Cody Tuesdays? Where did it go? GCT? Added.

Added to it. Used to be a thing. We've added to it. Yeah? Okay. Back in my day. All right. I'm just saying. What are you saying? I'm just saying that GCTs used to be a thing, and now it's been erased. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast. ♪

I am bumming that Stugatz is not here today. No offense to Amin and Greg. I'm very happy to see them. But I wanted to see how it would feel to be obnoxious New York fan today after losing to Indiana and getting ransacked by Indiana. Those turnover differences made Indiana feel like they're OKC, just being able to play in the open court like that. But before we get to all of the games here, I just...

Things are moving fast during the playoffs. Our local team is in the Stanley Cup final. We will get to that in a moment. But we didn't properly celebrate around here when the Boston Celtics season came to an end. I forgot to use any number of the devices in our arsenal to unleash upon Boston Celtics fans. But today is a day to enjoy the misery of New York. The loudest New York there's been in basketball in 25 years falls as a favorite.

Falls is a favorite on its face when you did the hard thing, you beat Boston, Cleveland got taken out. And so what you did is for the first time in 25 years, Knicks fans dared to hope. So when it collapses like that against the team you were favored to beat, a team you were better than all season,

Now you get to a point where OKC, the best record since the start of the year, are OKC and Indiana. We know this, right? 53-13, OKC, Indiana's 46-18. So they've both been very good since January 1st.

But I want to celebrate here, and Stugatz isn't giving me the right. This is delayed. This is a delayed celebration. This is the suffering of Boston fans. Find somebody who would represent New York so that we can just have Ben Stiller. Is it Ben Stiller's face? Where's Sam? We need that pound of flesh. That's some tears. You want Stugatz's tears. I don't think Stugatz's tears will be good. Sam Morrill's tears? Oh.

I don't know. Stu Gantz. You know, you have to differentiate. The New York Jets beat the life out of Stu Gantz. But he honestly was putting all his emotion into the Knicks. I think he really bought... This is finally the year for the New York Knicks. I don't buy it. I buy it. I don't buy it either. I...

At times I question, does he actually watch Knicks basketball? Is this all a put on? Does he even really care? Is he capable of giving us the suffering if he really didn't sweat it all that much? It'd be great if he were here to talk about it. He will not be today, unfortunately, contractually, but he will be here tomorrow.

God bless football coming soon to a podcast near you. Billy, what do you say? Who got this? Taking inventory of the studio and I noticed the God bless football tile disappeared and it was replaced by a nothing personal with David Sampson tile, which is interesting. Congratulations on your very busy weekend of destroying God bless football with David Sampson.

Is that the name of the podcast? Yeah, yeah. According to Awful Announcing. Well, via Stugatz directly. Oh, Awful Announcing. What happened? You're going to have to inform me. I'm not informed here. Oh, you didn't see it? Awful Announcing runs with the story. Stugatz blames David Samson and Dan Levitard for God Bless Football no longer being a part of Metal Ark's lineup. Wow. Okay.

I mean, to be fair, the tile is gone and it's replaced with nothing personal. Well, that was what Dan was doing all weekend. He physically removed the tile with David's hands. Did he throw the tile? So wait a minute. I'm being blamed? I'm being blamed? That's right. Who else? That's right. For what? For God Bless Football being independent and owned by Stugat? That's right. For him negotiating that. You were to blame. Yeah. Forced him out. Clear as day. Yeah.

Damn shame what happened. Yeah, it really is. Terrible. Mike Ryan mentioned the Ray Allen shot and the idea that people forget that there had to be an overtime after that and then another game after that. Some of the greatest examples of what Mike is talking about there is that many people don't remember that there had to be another game after Carlton Fisk's home run.

that there had to be another game after Bill Buckner's error, that there had to be another game after the United States hockey team beat Russia in order to win the gold medal. What are the examples of that that you can think of any more than the ones I just mentioned of something in history that happened that was so seismic that you don't remember what came after it. You just remember the moment before it because I think Halliburton's shot

ought to qualify because I believe those teams were relatively evenly matched. I thought that should be a seven game series. I don't think it's ridiculous to think that the New York Knicks could go into Indiana and win a game and Indiana could go into New York and win a game seven as well. But we're going to be denied that. I was planning, I was expecting New York to lose at home in seven.

because of how inconsistent they were at home all season and because of how unafraid Halliburton just generally seems. Even as Siakam wins the... Quietly, right?

Is it possible to say quietly wins Eastern Conference Finals MVP for putting up 30-point game after 30-point game and no one will be talking about Siakam after this series? He will be third or fourth among the things you talk about. I wanted to get Amin's thoughts on that because it was a close vote. It was 5-4. Siakam gets it. It looked like Halliburton maybe expected to get it from his reaction. There's no maybe. What was that a put on? Okay, so...

At first, I said, oh my God, he thought he was going to get it. Then I remembered when we went to the screening for Friendship,

They had a whole panel before, and there's a big buildup. And I can't remember whether it was you or maybe it was Carlos who said, our next guy is really big on social media and movies and stuff like that. Please give it up for him. And as a joke, I did this right here. And then they called up the kid superhero. What's his name, Superman? Supes. Supes. There you go. You are flirting with a penalty right now. Well, I am.

Finish the thought. Finish the thought as a communicator. Well, I was communicating with him. So I sat back down. You know, like I did the little thing and then they did it again and I was like, oh, this one, oh, nope. And I sat back down. It's funny. It's like a funny, I love doing that whenever they're doing the, hey, the guy that this couldn't have happened without,

Do a little one of these. So you think Halliburton knew? I think he knew. Like, I don't think that was a genuine. Dude, he has his arm around someone. And then as they're like, and the winner. And he, like, takes it off, steps forward. Like, this is my time. Sorry, man. Sorry, guy. I had my arm around. I need to go get my award here. It's a funny move, man. I'm fairly certain there's a field producer telling them beforehand who wins the award so they can make sure that they're alert and ready to step into the mark. Yep.

Billy, what are your thoughts here? Does anyone have any thoughts here? These are two very different things. If Halliburton is doing this as a joke, it's one kind of funny. If he's not doing it as a joke, it's funnier.

I mean, he's probably trying to be funny, I think. He mimics everyone's celebrations. I think he just likes being a funny guy. All right, but as it relates to Siakam, I don't know if we have the sound of Siakam being testy with Greg Doyle because this is Siakam's worst public moment. I was there. Siakam, you were there for that? I was behind Greg Doyle! All right, so we'll get to that in a second. But first, Roy, when are you going to pay your penalty here of having to stick an entire bag of Big League Chew in your mouth?

over the show here. I'm going to do it right now. Oh, no. Oh, God. All right, so it's the whole bag. Oh, man, this is not just starting. There's more? Oh, my God. Yeah, this is just the start. It's a giant bag. Now, Chris Cody tried to do this and failed. I don't believe that.

He failed. He failed at putting something in his mouth? Well, he swallowed it. It's a lot of big league chew. I don't think it's safe to do the entire bag in your mouth at once, is it? I believe that whole bag will make it very, very difficult for Roy to speak after that. I like the idea that you don't think it's safe. Like, Roy's going to open it. So now a second person is doing it.

This is a choking hazard. I'd worry about his teeth. Do we have a dentist on call? Oh, this is a dentist dream. I feel like dentists give you bad advice so that they return business. You know what I mean? Like, oh, you should brush three times a day. Really? You're just like brushing the enamel off of your teeth. I think that they give you advice that damages your teeth so that you come back for repeat business. I think you're 100% right. Thank you. I'm going to take the under on 100% right. Nobody's got a perfect mouth.

according to a dentist. You could have a perfect mouth and they're like, well, you have a little sign of a cavity in your lower right molar neighborhood. I feel like once a week, I feel like once a week someone comes in onto their chair and they're like, you have the perfect mouth. I wish I could have a hundred of you. Nope. I'm telling you. My dentist, Dr. B, great dentist, great dentist. But for about 18 years,

Every time I see them, we've got to get those wisdom teeth out. They're not a problem. They get a commission on that for sure. They will be. They haven't been a problem. Ever. Ever, ever. And you know what, Billy? To also bolster your point, up until like 2003...

When you take your kids to the pediatric dentist, you know what they give them at the end? A lollipop. What was that about? How about that? Keep them coming back. Ironic, isn't it? Like the iPhone or the Apple where they're purposely, they've had to pay money, right? Because they make products that are meant to break early so that you have to replace them. The battery life and all that. Yep. As a business model. Although famously, they got sued for...

Pennies on the dollar for that. In the six games versus the Pacers, Carl Anthony Towns had one block. One block. Oh my God. From the center. That doesn't happen very often. And he went the entire conference finals last year without registering a block, and it got him traded. Well...

I mean, right after that. They didn't get him traded. Right after that, he was traded. That and his salary. But my point is that this was a bad defensive team. Like when Haberstroh writes that Brunson, Bridges, Hart, Ananobi, and Katt was the second worst defensive unit in conference finals since 2008. Only one that was worse was 16 Toronto with Luis Scola out there. Oh, my God.

Luis Scola makes me smile. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Does Luis Scola make you smile? They seem to be a very flawed team. And I don't know if they're going to convince themselves that they're close. They spent a lot of capital on trying to get Bridges on their roster when they're actually pretty close right now.

I mean, a lot of Knicks fans are lamenting, like, we could have used those five picks for Giannis now that he's in the picture. Well, what does it mean that 93% of their money is tied up in six players and they got less from the bench than anybody and they got less from the bench all season? Like, I'm asking you the question structurally. People now wonder, are the Celtics going to trade Jalen Brown or what are the Celtics going to do to counter, however it is that...

OKC needs to be countered. When I say the conversation today, Amin, goes very quickly. Roy, how much of that you got in your mouth so far? It seems like half the bag so far. When I say, Amin, that 93% of the salary is tied up in the six guys.

Yeah, I think this is a glass half full kind of way to look at it, which is they've got six guys who are under contract that they don't have to worry about. Towns, Ananobi, Brunson, Bridges, Hart, Robinson. And that's a really good start. I think they could do better with their bench.

I also think Tom Thibodeau could do better with trusting his bench. Landry Schammett was a nice little discovery. Would have been nice if he had been playing all year long as opposed to just the last couple of games. Same thing with Precious Achua, who played when Mitchell Robinson was hurt earlier this year. Would have been nice to be able to turn to him earlier in the series rather than later. So I think part of it is coaching, a coaching decision. Part of it is they've got to get better at finding talent in the margins because that's how this thing works. You don't pay everybody.

You pay a certain number of people, in this case for them six, which is actually a pretty good number to have locked up. And then you've got to do a great job with your scouting, with your first round picks, second round picks, with your minor league scouting, with your guys, young vets that kind of

pop up somewhere and help a team, that's the next phase of that that the front office has to go through. But can you actually win a championship with two out of your starting five being that bad at defense, people that you can target right up the spine of your defense? And moreover, I don't know if you saw Becky Hammond's quotes, but is Jalen Brunson just too small? Can your best player be that small for you to win a championship? So shout out to Master Tesfasio, who grabbed that flag and ran with it.

You have to understand when Master posts anything, there is a Dallas narrative underneath. So his narrative is that Dylan Brunson isn't that good because he was at the Mavs and the Mavs let him go. And now it's like, oh, yeah, he's too small. Becky Hammond said that two years ago. Right. That's all well and good. Also, they made it to the conference finals and they were up in two, you know, three of the six games. Right. In the fourth quarter. So, yeah.

Yeah, but what does that mean? They're not good enough, and they needed Cleveland to get knocked out, and Indiana did all the killing, and Tatum got hurt, and they're not good enough. And Brunson's their best player, and if he's your best player, that's about as far as you're going to go. This is the revisionist history that you were just talking about. They did win the majority of the games in that series with Tatum on the floor.

Well, yes. They were up 3-1 with Tatum, and this thing was crumbling for Boston. Crumbling. And then Tatum got hurt, and then they had one win of the Pride win, and then they lost. Yeah, but what are we doing? Explain to me what you're doing. I'll explain it. I'll explain it.

You don't have to preamble. I'll explain it. They're good. Guess what? Only one team wins. They fell. They fell because Indiana had a better game plan and they executed their game plan better. It's not because the Knicks clearly were out-talented. No. It's not a talent issue. Nobody's saying it's a talent issue. You're saying they're not good enough to win with Buntz as your best player? They just lost to a five. Okay. They lost to a five. I'll just explain how. No, and they're a three. They beat one of the two that were better than them, but...

Maybe they're better than Cleveland next year, and maybe they're not better than Cleveland next year. And I don't know where Giannis ends up, but when we're talking about Boston realized during this year

that they might have to make a change while watching what OKC was doing. A structural, architectural change. If Boston is the champion is doing that, I feel like we've sped up. What are you looking at me? What was Boston realizing it had to make a change? There was a conversation happening during the season as people realized, like you did, OKC has gotten better than Boston.

What might that team have to do to change if it loses against OKC? No, that's not a conversation that was happening. So it's a conversation that's happening now, is it not? It was a conversation that was really tied to the purchase price because they had to avoid the luxury tax. It was all a money conversation. It was another, oh my God, OKC's really good. Their elimination has changed it, though. Of course, and Tatum being hurt and being out for the next year changes it. Yeah.

There's a lot of stuff that is accelerated because of the circumstances. Most of them are financial. It's not a basketball like, oh my God, they're so great, we have to change. Number two, because I have to correct something else you said, Indiana was a four seed, not the five seed. Number three, Indiana had the best record in the NBA outside Oklahoma City from January 1 on. So you frame it as, oh my God, the Knicks shouldn't have. No, they shouldn't have.

They shouldn't have. That was a great team that they played. They were also only one game worse than Knicks record-wise for the season. There you go. There are three teams in the conference, I can argue today, are better than the Knicks. At least three. And I don't know what Philadelphia's going to be. I understand if no one trusts anything regarding Joel Embiid. But I do believe that when a season ends, you can either say...

that you believe, oh, they're good enough as is and they can add a thing. Or you say, ah, they need to add something better than Brunson. And Brunson is plenty good, but they need to add something structurally that changes their fortunes because 93% of the money is tied up in six guys. I mean, and I do believe it's fair to have a structural conversation about the Knicks today. I agree.

I agree. I mean, we've seen teams, Carolina and another sport is kind of the same way. Are we good enough? We made it to the conference finals. But then when you peel it apart, well, the conference finals are a little kooky in that sport. You can make an argument that the four best teams are from one division that you totally avoid. New York has been in this position before and they traded away popular players, Hartenstein, DiVincenzo, guys that were really making contributions and they realized they

that they have to be aggressive. Now, it's a bit different because they have a hand tied behind their back because they just gave up five picks for Bridges. They don't have the same kind of flexibility that they had before. But they got rid of Julius Randle when most Knicks fans were celebrating in the streets thinking that they were close, but they recognized and they were self-aware enough to know that they weren't actually close. So, Hartenstein, they didn't give him up. The rules said, we can only pay you this much. And Oklahoma City said, we'll pay you double.

So that wasn't a choice. If it were up to the Knicks, they would have kept him.

The Bridges trade, if you want to pick on the Knicks for an office, that's where you go. Because at the time, I said, everyone was, oh, it's the power of friendship. It's not about friendship. It's a Toyota Corolla. You don't pay $500,000 for a Toyota Corolla, even if you know there's a million dollars in gold bricks in the trunk, because it's still a Toyota Corolla, right? And in that sense, you spent that $500,000 or five first-round picks on a Toyota Corolla, and now...

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Wait a minute. How many gold bricks were in the trunk? A million dollars. I'm going to keep that car. I'm going to keep that car. What year was it? I could turn in those bricks, get money, and now buy an even better car. Greg, Greg. Let's see if it's a low mileage Toyota. Gold's hard to move. If you go to the dealership. Right. Multiple ways. And...

A genie says to you, by the way, that Corolla right there, it's got a million dollars in gold bricks in it. Nobody knows. The dealer doesn't know. The other customers don't know. There's a genie. It weighs a lot. Why is the genie there? The genie is Greg's guardian angel. But if I have a genie, what am I going to do? There's a car with gold bars, a genie's in it who's a guardian angel.

Is it a genie or a guardian angel? Why does the genie need to whisper? A genie doesn't give you choices. Do guardian angels can't be genies? Is that what you're saying? No way a Camry's trunk is big enough to hold a million dollars in gold. When you say a genie, do you mean Robin Williams as Greg's guardian angel? You take the sire out, you know, you've got plenty of room. It's going to be weighted to the floor.

You're going to know there's a million dollars. You're not going to be able to drive the car. Put it on the Pollak Levitard show. Can you move a Toyota Corolla? Can you drive a Toyota Corolla that has one million pounds worth of gold weight? A million pounds? No, no, no. Dollars. Dollars. Not pounds. Now we're talking. This is in the South End, innit? Forgive me. Innit? Forgive me. I love it.

Wait, hold on, I gotta do my Tom Hardy. You gotta keep talking like this. See, Kev, me and the Aragons, we've got a problem, ain't it?

I love that. It came up on Mobland. It was not any good. No, it's great. Isn't it? I did some research. In today's market, a million dollars in gold would be 516.65 pounds. So you could. Light work. That's like two dead bodies in a trunk. My bad. Light work. I thought it was heavier than that. My bad. Roy, you have the entire podcast.

pack of big league gum chew big league chew gum in your mouth now yes sir all right so are you are you chewing it or you just put it in like like it's behind my cheeks right now okay but have you chewed it have you made it inflate in your mouth yes

Okay, can you give us your best Stanley Cup preview here as Edmonton faces the Panthers in a rematch of last year's finals? As Paul Maurice says, this is the best team he's ever coached. This one right now. Yeah, he's absolutely right. It's the deepest and has the most talent on the team. I believe that the Panthers will win a six, but I won't be surprised that this series goes seven games.

It's a big blow to the Oilers that Zach Hyman is out for the season, but they still can make this a summer game series. Stuart Skinner has been consistent over the last series versus the Dallas Stars. We'll see if the Panthers will put traffic in front of them and get the flexions.

But it's going to be a close series. I think the Panthers will take it. All right. Stay on here. I want more analysis from you faster and more. Edmonton is 12-2 in their last 14. They started the postseason and they were down early against the Kings. And then in games three and four, they were also down late. The Kings could have killed them.

The Kings could have put an end to this. The worst challenge in the history of sports. That series ended with that challenge. The Panthers have been great during the last 12 games. Edmonton has been better. Especially on the road for the Panthers. And they are going on the road for this series. The Orioles have a whole nice advantage in this series. And I think the Panthers take full advantage of that one. The Hyman thing is huge. What? Ayo. But...

What Bob struggled with so far this postseason, what certain teams were affected, Toronto mainly, until Mikolo woke up and realized he had to get ultra-physical, is putting a big body in front of Bob, screening him, making it tough to read the puck. Zach Hyman, that's what he does. They call him Shaq Hyman. He scores all his goals inside of one feet. But now that he's out, what big body can they put up there? Is it Nugent Hopkins? Is...

He's very effective at that, even when he's not scoring goals for them at the same clip. This is a former 50-goal score, so Florida's benefiting from this injury, no doubt. Corey Perry's going to end up in front of the net as well, and he's been getting his goals out work. Yeah, he's been very good for them lately. This Google AI thing seems to still be figuring itself out because it seems as though a million dollars in gold might only be 27 pounds. Ha ha!

Not 516. When Dan started saying that, I'm like, this is... See, it says, a million dollars of gold at today's market price would weigh approximately 516.65 pounds. This equates to about 83,083 troy ounces, or 27.46 pounds.

Of gold. Now, is it pounds of gold? Is it pounds of gold in it, governor? If you ever find gold, by the way, gang, if you're ever treasure hunting and you find gold, melt it down and remake your own bars. Because if it's stamped and it belongs like to Spain, they're going to come and claim it. I'll just melt it down. No, you really have to find someone to melt it down. Because if it belongs to like the kingdom of Spain or like, you know, the

Irish, whatever. They come and they claim it. Just like hold it up to a lighter? No, you'll see if it's coins. Find a cauldron. Yeah, no, you got to... Guys, I'm trying to help you here. It's really a curse to find gold because they come and they claim it and you really get nothing out of it. He's right. You ever seen the movie The Score with Robert De Niro? Robert De Niro and Ed Norton, they get it and then they melt it down and they make it into like the bars on the ship. And everyone thinks it's just golden. What was that, Greg? Hey, Norton.

Yeah, no, I heard that. What is it? Greg's right, though. Oh, it's Ralph Cramden. Honeymooners. Yeah, the Honeymooners. The Honeymooners. Hold on a second. Greg, Roy, can you stop chewing gum long enough to get the Back in My Day live here so that we can now get on a Monday Greg Cody's live rendition of Back in My Day where he tells us the inside reference that he was making there to all the 90-year-olds who are listening to our podcast. Roy got it. No.

The Honeymooners started airing in 1955. So at Levitard's show is the poll question, is it really a curse to find gold –

I liked his perspective on that. It's true. They always come back and claim it. You don't want to let, if you find it, don't tell anyone, number one. And then two, melt it down and make your own gold because you're not going to be able to do anything with it. That's when you need to start researching the black market and how you move gold on the black market. I don't even know how you would do it because of the internet these days. You search, how do I illegally move gold on the black market? They'll find you. Roy, you're giving me the thumbs up there. Launch.

I mean, everybody knows who Ralph Cramden is, right? The world's most famous bus driver. Ed Norton was his neighbor. And, hey, Norton! You know, and so an actor named... It's almost like a, you know, a Michael Jordan thing. Odd corny.

Art Carney, right. Played Norton. Hey, Norton! It's really all you've got, huh? Can we transcribe this? I want to transcribe this and have someone else read it. Okay. Hold on. I know you're so good at this that you don't need to practice it. Hey, Norton! I want to see this in black and white.

I need to see this transcribed. You haven't written a Back in My Day in a while. You continue to publicize your books here off of old recycled work. You haven't done a lot of new. You're not cranking out fresh material. I'm cranking out fresh books. I'll tell you that.

I just bought a racehorse, flew down here from Argentina to Miami, Isla Grande, in quarantine right now. They went the other way. And then she's going to be shipped up to Ocala for some training. What's the name? Isla Grande. Ah.

The big island. Now I'm just picturing a plane full of horses, and there's a cart going down the middle. You guys want some hay here? There's some hay. No, we have video. You should play the video of my horse boarding a plane. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just go run and get that for him. No, because we did this on his podcast, and it's not the horse boarding a plane. It's just the horse moving from one vehicle to another vehicle. How do they like planes versus riding on the expressway?

I think they like it because they disguise the plane. They try to make it look like they're just in a stall or something. They even put like a bale of hay there. Plus, Isla Grande had big earmuffs. Listening to music, I imagine those are like AirPods. Watching Mobland. It's like watching a show on the flight. Hey, Roy, can you feel your lower teeth rotting in your head? Yes. Okay, I'm just checking.

But the other thing that occurs is that when you melt a gold brick, why does it have to be made into a brick shape? Like, if you put it in a squirrel bowl, you can make a gold squirrel. Like ice cubes, they have ice cubes with dimples like a golf ball. Why can't you do that with gold? That's a good point. I mean, it happened in, what was that Ben Stiller movie? The one where there was a hotel mat? Tower Heist. So Tower Heist, spoiler alert for everyone. Oh, it's a classic. Such a bad movie.

It's a classic Thanksgiving movie. So anyone who watches Tower Heist will know this. If you haven't, maybe tune off now if you're getting around to Tower Heist. It came out in 2011. So Tower Heist, it was kind of like a Bernie Madoff situation where the guy came out and he ruined everybody's retirement. And what happened was he hid all of the money in a gold-shaped car that he had in his penthouse. And then it was painted so everybody thought that it was a car.

But really, every piece of it was gold. So at the end, again, spoiler alert, Ben Stiller went and everybody that had lost out on their retirement, he mailed them in the mail. He sent them like a mirror. He sent them like the steering wheel. And it was solid gold, all of them. Boom, retirement back. Then he went to jail. Spoiler alert. Well, he committed crimes. He had to do the time. Don't commit the crime if you can't do the time. Right, Greg? That's exactly right, Billy.

Only bet what you can afford. Anyway, Greg, we were on the honeymooners, but first I'd like to just retreat for just a moment. I'm the truly ignorant one in thinking that a million dollars in gold would be heavier than it was. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you came up with like a

crazy poundage. You said it weighed a million pounds. Gold is famously very valuable. You said the car wouldn't be able to move it. What do you think weighs more, a million pounds of gold or a million pounds of feathers? Ooh, good question. Wait, is it a million pounds of gold? A million dollars, sorry. Thank you. All right, it's a million pounds, Governor. So put it on the poll. Is it really, I know we put it up already, is it really a curse to find gold? Because Billy is maintaining, I just want to make sure I've got this right.

you're maintaining that you would rather not find gold than find gold. I'm not saying I would rather not. I'm just saying once you find it, then the treasure hunt has just begun. Now you need to move it. And how do you move it? Hey, by the way, friends, fun facts, Greg, because you mentioned the honeymooners. How many seasons do you think it had? I,

I would say six. It had one. 39 episodes. That was it. Yeah, but nowadays that'd be five seasons. 39 episodes. Yeah, 39 episodes. 39 episodes. This show's been so ADD that I've been trying for 20 minutes to legitimately get in with the Bartman game. That was a game six. A whole other game had to be played after that. That's a good one. That's a fine. That's an excellent one. Yeah, it is. Why is that a fine? For someone. Someone.

I don't know. We don't even remember talking about that. Yeah, the barman game, that fits. I was actually going to say Herb Brooks, who's in the Herb Top 20 countdown on my podcast. We're in the top 10, by the way. Wait, wait, wait. So it's Top 20 Herbs? Yeah. Dad, you want to give them the 23? No, no. I saw this the other day. I will continue to tell people that what Yeti and Chris Cody are doing with Greg Cody on very low budget is...

is fun and funny and it's a ransacking and last week it was top 20 herbs well it's every week we revealed this week was i believe what eight i cheered when cilantro was number six not to spoil it not to spoil everything for everybody time come on now time was already used i believe oh okay i

I don't believe it was. Okay. That's rosemary. My bad. I'm thinking of rosemary. There's still time for time? There's still time for that. Do you realize how shitty your Honeymooners back in my day was? Do you want to give it another crack on what the Honeymooners was, or did all you have was Hayden Orton to take us back to this 39-episode run through one glorious season of the Honeymooners? Well, that's how it came up, was...

hey norton right and then we asked you to elaborate and you keep going back to hey nor so do you know anything about the honeymooners because back in my day there was a television show it was black and white it only had 39 episodes do you remember how to do back in mind i do i do but but the honeymooners the whole riff was uh ralph being annoyed by ed

Okay, so Ed would, like the classic scene was where he's teaching Ed Norton how to hold a golf club. And Ed Norton, instead of taking a swing, he just, he just... They're better when they're written. Check out his book, Back in My Day, The Chronicles of Recycled Corned Beef Hash.

with Greg Cody. Thank you. It's a great Father's Day gift. It is, now that you mention it. Are you not fascinated by the way this man's brain works? Because I'm fascinated. Well, I will tell you there is one thing I am fascinated by and thank you for bringing it up because if you hadn't brought it up it would have escaped my attention.

Since singing in Las Vegas, diva and ego has consistently come to Greg Cody, who now thinks he's the star of every show he's in. Yeah, I did carry Vegas. Agreed. Agreed. So that you guys may have noticed this because it made Mike laugh out loud in the other room.

When he shot out his left arm because he was about to give off some material, like because he had a line or two for the audience and he was winding up. That's Greg feeling himself on. Look out, here comes some of the good 100% pure. Don't melt it down like gold, Greg Cody. You get me. It's shitty. E-Hall's right.

Ladies and gentlemen, makes no sense. So Tom Cruise and Father's Day, I link these two. I love this. I link these two because as Father's Day approaches, Tom Cruise had the single most Tom Cruise answer to what I thought was just a lobbed question at the red carpet from a celebrity interviewer. It's not meant to sort of rummage around in his past or ask him whether he loves his kids or not. But

But what a shocking answer to this question. The most shocking I've heard on a red carpet to this kind of question. Also, I got to ask Father's Day is just around the corner. What would an ideal Father's Day look like for you? Hey, you know, just having fun, man. Making movies, big adventure, having a great time. He is not seeing those kids. I don't see what's wrong. That made me sad.

There's sadness there. Why is he treating Father's Day the way that Bill Belichick would treat Cincinnati on his schedule? Play that again, please, because I was just simply shocked by this answer. Also, I got to ask, Father's Day is just around the corner. What would an ideal Father's Day look like for you? Hey, you know, just having fun, man. Making movies, big adventure, having a great time. I love it.

Sounds like an awesome Father's Day. Do you think he didn't hear the question? And he just had one in the whole set? No, I think that's what he thinks an awesome Father's Day is. What's the other option? Brunch with the in-laws? His version is so much better. So much better.

Oh, my God. Father's Day is not about fathers. Let's be honest. It's such a softball question, though. I mean, come on. You know what he did? He went yard with that answer. Did he? Yeah. Okay. Play it again. Play it again. Listen, listen, listen to him process and then like deliver. Also, I got to ask Father's Day is just around the corner. What would an ideal Father's Day look like for you? Hey, you know, just having fun, man. Making movies, big adventure. Having a great time. That shit left the park, man. What are you talking about?

Did you guys know that the Texas Rangers were an out away from winning a World Series in 2011 twice in Game 6? Went on to lose that series. It was an amazing World Series. Josh Hamilton had one of the great forgotten moments by just putting them two up. Kind of like the Jermaine Kersh catch in that Super Bowl. You guys remember the Derek Fisher shot that he hit to beat the Spurs? That had to win the series. It did win the series, but even better than that,

Tim Duncan hit an incredible shot right in the heart. Tim Duncan's shot was even more incredible than the Fisher one. Seconds before. Seconds before. Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show. Is Father's Day for fathers? It's not. You think Tom Cruise just walks around everything and says, I could jump off of that.

No, he just does. Put that on the poll at Levitard Show. Does Tom Cruise just walk around saying I can jump off of that? Again, I just want to play it one more time because it's amazing. Annabella, he's not thinking about you at all. He's only thinking about himself. When it comes to Father's Day, it's me, me, me on Tom Cruise.

Also, I've got to ask, Father's Day is just around the corner. What would an ideal Father's Day look like for you? Hey, you know, just having fun, man. Making movies, big adventure, having a great time. That'd be like if I asked my dad that. He'd be like, oh, just, you know, writing columns. Love to write a column. Big adventure. That's a dude I can't wait to get back to Anadarmus. He doesn't have time to see his kids. He's strapped to the side of an airplane. His face is vibrating.

All right, y'all. The Super Bowl is in the rearview mirror. The draft has come and gone. So now what? Now it's time to get the crew together. You keep the fandom energy going. It doesn't stop when the Super Bowl's gone. We gather. Exactly. And look, just because the pads are off doesn't mean game day stops. Around here, we do game days, even in the offseason. And what better way to do that than with a cold drink?

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in the sporting calendar. And with the weather outside warming up, it's just perfect to hop in a pool, maybe grill up some food, but most certainly crack open some Miller Lights. I just described a pretty perfect day, didn't I? And it culminates with Miller time. There is something about a perfect grilling day. The sun's out, friends show up, and that first sip of Miller Light just hits different. I've been stocking up the cooler with it for years. This year, Miller Light turns 50.

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