Hour 1: The Beauty of Me
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You're going tonight. Greg Cody, can I interest you in a soccer conversation? Can I interest you in an inner Miami conversation? Interesting crossroads on the architecture of the future here, whether Messi will be a part of it, whether Messi will be in the new stadium, whether everything that Messi was brought here to do will end up being anything other than an economic boom for the people who run the team, but not catapult the sport into the stratosphere that it wishes to be in when the World Cup arrives in 2026. All of this

an investment toward that time at Soccer in America, funded by Apple TV+. Messi as its biggest star, Inter-Miami playing interesting games. Mike, when's the last time you were at a game? I thought you were boycotting the way that they were gouging those prices. Yeah, I don't have season tickets anymore, but I got a great deal on game time. I'm going to this matchup because this is a world-class matchup and it's a big-time game. I think

This is going to sound hot takey because they're not going to win a trophy by getting out of the group stage. They've certainly qualified for the Club World Cup by winning things like League's Cup and the Supporters' Shield. I think getting out of this group in the Club World Cup when you're in a group with Al-Ali, the most decorated soccer club on the planet, Porto, a team that has won two Champions League, one of which has been won in this century, and Pamedes, a great team out of Brazil, getting out of the group...

I understand different standards for different clubs and different countries. If you ever get out of the group stage, it's something to be worth celebrating. This is a huge monumental achievement. If they get out of this group, chances are they do. They only need to draw to control their own destiny or for Ali to not make up the goal differential in the group because head-to-head is a straight-up tiebreaker. Let's talk about that. They came back from 1-0 in Atlanta against Porto to win that game

2-1. At that time, they were the first team ever from the Americas to defeat a European club in a high-stakes competition. Now, after that, two Brazilian teams ended up doing that. The Brazilian clubs are playing really well this tournament, and they're taking it very seriously. But MLS has been kind of embarrassed during this tournament, and yet you have Inter Miami, which in that game, they were carried by Messi. Messi had a spectacular goal. If they get out of this group stage into the knockout phase of this tournament...

From a football standpoint, forget business, from a football standpoint, how can you not just stand back and marvel at this move? They're beating teams like Porto, and it's because of the acquisition of Messi. It is a huge achievement and one worth celebrating. I think this is the biggest accomplishment, if they get into the group stage in this tournament, the biggest accomplishment of the Messi era. And it's been a short era, granted, but...

this is the best they've done and they're still the first MLS club they'll be the first ever MLS club to beat a top European club in a recognized competition. Messi's goal that's the goal he's been famous for his entire career goalkeepers know it's coming it reminds me of one of the first goals he scored with Inter Miami in the Leagues Cup match that introduced himself to South Florida and he's been scoring that his entire career it's always brilliant

goalkeepers can never stop it because it's unstoppable, where his left foot kicks it, curls it right into the upper right corner. What are the other things like that, Monet, since you mentioned Monet? I don't know if I want to go to the graffiti artist on this, but what other things are like that in sports where you're looking at a signature goal?

and you're identifying his signature genius with one whistling kick that is an unstoppable thing because of how much curve he puts on. Steph Curry has a couple of them. Impossible fadeaway threes and that really top, almost parabola-like layup off the top of the glass. It was Kareem, right? Kareem, yeah, with the hook shot.

There just aren't very many where you remember them, like all-timers with their all-time moves. I have to do this on delay, though, and forgive me for this. Greg, you said, very matter-of-fact in the last segment, the beauty of me. Yeah, the wonder of me, really.

I'm kidding. I'm a modest man. This is all for show. But the beauty of me is what? You continued during the break to tell me what the beauty of you is, and I thought you should share it with the audience. Well, look, the beauty of me is that I am just having a conversation here, okay? And I'm including the listeners in it.

I'm having a conversation here. I'm in a room with a bunch of friends and coworkers. I lose track of the fact that I should be leaning professionally into a microphone because we're just talking. When I'm having a real-life conversation with real-life friends in my home, I'm not looking for a microphone, and neither am I looking for a microphone right now. And the beauty of me is that I think people can relate to that.

I don't want to have a professional. I don't want to be speaking like a broadcaster. Is that your impression of me? No, you don't have a broadcaster voice. You're the opposite. I've already said you're the opposite. You're more like Mike Francesca. Yeah, he's Francesca. That's not an insult. Eric Reid is the broadcaster whose voice you mock. Glenn Rice from The Three. He's got five...

Three pointers today. I want to say. Five out of seven. I want to say that that's what he does for only Eric Reid. That's what he does any time he hears any broadcaster. A baseball game could just be like, two-one count, and he'll just be like, and it's a two-one count. It's Shekin and Shevin from the Shevin Teen. Al DeRogatus used to be one of my favorites because he'd always speak like this.

And I don't want to be that guy who has that broadcaster voice. I'm a regular guy having a regular conversation. You're taking this the wrong way, Dan. Like you're making this as though Greg's some sort of unprofessional broadcaster. When in reality, it's a compliment to you. You've created such a comfortable situation for Greg that at times he just feels like he's talking to some friends and coworkers as he continues to describe them.

Which I wonder where the line is. Like who, if we were to draw a line right down the middle, who falls on the friend side, who's on the co-worker side. But we don't need to get to that. No, let's do that. We don't need to. No, you know what? Let's have you host the game show right now, friend or co-worker with Greg Cody. No, I'm not going to do that. No, I want you to bring... It's basically, if you were invited to his 70th party... I want Greg...

Greg Cody. I want Billy to host the game show, friend or co-worker, with three or four people here. I would like to do that before the end of the show, but for the moment, I'm going to penalize him retroactively here. I was looking for this, and for some reason they took it out of the studio. Greg Cody, major penalty. Five minutes. Me maximum. Ha ha!

That's a penalty? Yeah. You're going to have to go. Why is that a penalty, me maximum? It should be celebrated. Put it on the poll at Levitard shows. Should Greg Cody's me maximum be celebrated? Just go into the other room, and I would like, Billy, at some point for you to host the game show. I'm ready right now.

Oh, you're ready to do it right now? I don't have any imaging or anything, if that's what you want, but I'm ready. Oh, we got a song. No, we've got a song already. Well, we need to get everybody mic'd up in the other room. We've got to do however it is that we're doing this, because we are doing this on the fly. And the thing that I wanted to talk about that came over the... I didn't even understand what it was. Did you guys watch any of these Fanatics games? Because...

Tom Brady wins again. It's fans competing against athletes. And is it, what is, it's not Michael Cohen. What's the fanatics guy's name? The guy who owns fanatics. That's the party guy who has. Michael Rubin. Michael Rubin. Thank you. Party guy. Well, but he's friends with all these athletes, right? Oh, doesn't he do that white party? He can get all these athletes to a place and get Tom Brady. He has whatever clout it is you need to have. I,

I don't know if you guys have been seeing sort of the power brokering that goes on at the top of sports, but Kevin Durant's got one of these business managers who's with him all the time. And the economy of Durant has a guy that knows how to run business for Durant.

Michael Rubin has these relationships all throughout the industry and left the Philadelphia 76ers. This dude is a shark. Like, he is the highest of business things that there are. And Fanatics is a giant, and he can get... He's got clout. Like, these videos, these professionally made videos of white parties that have everyone from Jay-Z to Tom Brady at them. Rich Kleiman is the guy that you're talking about with Durant. Yeah, Michael Rubin's always had a huge network, loves posting photos with his famous buddies. What would seem like to be...

like an antiseptic type of atmosphere for that for fanatics fest he's manufactured into an event if you're an autograph seeker to go to and they've done a real good job capitalizing on social media making it seem like this is a place that you want to be when the first edition of it was kind of like a lot a lackluster convention he wanted to make a sports comic-con and i think with more viral moments so in years of branding he'll actually be

be successful at doing it, which I thought was kind of like a lame concept at first. He left the Sixers and Embiid and parlayed whatever the relationship was with Embiid to... Well, he did that because he didn't want to get caught for tampering with James Harden. Great access beyond the NBA. Basketball ownership was small, given how he's thinking about reinventing money and the game at the top of sports. They have a monopoly over sports merchandising.

They've just sealed it off, made it theirs. They dominate sports merchandising now. Everybody has to have a partnership with Fanatics. You guys see that Monopoly is going moneyless in the end of this year? They're no longer printing money. It's going to be an app that keeps track of the money for you. What? Where you scan something, you don't have the paper money anymore. Oh, that's convenient. Now we're talking about it. We mentioned Monopoly, and it seemed apropos to sneak it in here because I feel like, Dan, you were probably a big Monopoly guy growing up.

I played some Monopoly. Really? I didn't have that as the detour in the conversation because I thought you were interested in this fanatics competition that Tom Brady won. The fanatics games? I didn't know that Monopoly is what it is. I learned something this weekend. I'm an onion, Dan. I did not know. You make me cry. I have many layers. Do you? Yeah. Oh, that sucks, though. It's a great way to teach children money, really. Yeah.

Or you can still do it just on an app, which is really how money works now anyways, right? Money's just an app. I wasn't aware that there was a fanatics game, so I just saw these clips. It was new this year, I believe. Is that what Cody Rhodes was doing? Yeah, terrible basketball. That was bad. Was it because the suit was too tight? Very embarrassing. That was a tough look for our fellow Cubans. I don't understand. Why does Cody Rhodes volunteer? He's supposed to be a representative, a top guy in WWE. Why does he even pick up a basketball? He has to know he's going to look awesome.

awful doing it. Dude, that was so bad. It was really terrible. He needs to have a business guy around him like KD that doesn't let him do those things because then he knows this is going to look bad. KD, by the way, was a participant in the Fanatics Games. It seems as though he didn't really put much of an effort as he finished 97th place out of 99. He was traded during it. Yeah, but he competed in all eight competitions. He only amassed 56.4 points. Spoiler alert for those of you who are kind of going to catch up on the Fanatics Games on your own time. The winner is

tune out if you don't want to know the winner was tom brady 399.1 points he won a million dollars which is good because tom you know divorce has a divorce he gave it away he gave it away eli attacking him was cringe yeah that felt forced that was well that was one of the competitions so the competitions were wwe superstar entrance so that was tom brady's entrance there was the pitching accuracy contest

which Joe Burrow made look like it's the hardest thing in the history of the world. He was hitting the side of the net every time he threw the ball. There was the washer-dryer puck shooting contest. And again, spoiler alert, Gronk won that one with 37.5 points. The QB skills competition, Tom Brady finished second above...

Many active quarterbacks at the time, which is kind of crazy. Finished second, though? The only quarterback that finished ahead of him was C.J. Stroud. Rattle off some of the names in the passing that Tom Brady today just beat. Again, spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. If you're going to catch up on the Fanatics games at your own pace, C.J. Stroud won, then Tom Brady finished second.

Followed by Russell Wilson, Eli Manning, Jaden Daniels, Ron Cooper, a fan, Matthew Bailey, a fan, Mark Gronick, a fan, then Joe Burrow. Then Dwight Howard, then another fan, then Bryce Young.

Dwight Howard ahead of Bryce Young? Yeah, then Jack Settleman, another fan. And then Nick Foles. Tyreek Hill was in there. That checks out. The worst quarterback finish here. Gronk finished ahead of James Brown. What happened to the—did the Noah Lyle—did that race with Tyreek Hill get canceled? Yeah, Noah Lyle's backed out. What happened? Said personal. Because he almost lost his speed. Personally didn't want to lose. Really?

Really? You mentioned speed. Speed finished in first in the Around the World contest. That guy's incredible. He's going to be president one day. Greg Cody is in the penalty box still. He's been listening to the show, and I want to play this game with him, with Billy as the game show host, with the opposite of prude, Greg Cody. Greg, you're going to need to grab that microphone. You're going to need to take your feet up off the desk.

Why? Okay, but did you have any thoughts on Tom Brady winning the Fanatics games? I love the Fanatics games. I love the whole idea of athletes and celebrities going up against regular people in regular events like this. I look at that competition and I'm like,

I feel like I could do very well in that competition. Dad, this might be a time to tell the audience what the Greg Cody Show has planned in terms of competitions coming up. Well, that's true. And you know what? We might take a page from this and do some of these events, but we're having a grandfather versus granddaughter Olympics that

That'll be on our podcast coming up. Say the fun name that we came up with. Yeah, 7 vs. 70 is the subtitle of the Olympics. And we're looking forward to that. We have several events in store. We have no idea what they are yet, but they will be in store and super exciting. But this fantasy thing or fanatics games, whatever it's called, the events are perfectly constructed.

I feel like, I'm not saying I would have beaten Tom Brady, but I think I would have done very, very well in that competition. Well, there's other competitions, Dan. There's the striking challenge. That's for UFC. That one's harder. The goal scoring and then finally closest to the pin. Yeah. Uncle Dick has a hole in one. I mean, he might be the closest you can come to the pin. They call me Mr. Nine Iron. Okay. I'm sorry. Nobody calls you that. No one calls you that.

called you Mr. Nine Iron. Some do. I've heard one person do that, actually. When we played golf together, we were driving by on a golf course. Someone said, Mr. Nine Iron. Chris Cody, help me corral Billy and this game show that is friend or co-worker. Now Billy's got this. All right, Billy. All right, it's time for America's

Favorite game. Friend or co-worker. Co-worker, yeah. The audience is in on this, Dan. Let me stand up for this. Yes. I want to welcome everyone in to friend or co-worker. Thank you. You already did that. Hold on. I'm setting this up for those who are new to the program. This is how the game works. F-O-C.

We have a big cash prize to the person who can most correctly identify whether or not Greg thinks this person is a friend or co-worker. The name of the game is Falk, just to be clear. Wait, so we're all playing? I thought this would be you ask my dad a name and he says whether they're... He will, but we're playing. We have to guess if Greg considers that person a friend or co-worker. That's simple. Can he hear us or are we going to put him in a soundproof booth?

Oh, wow. So you want to do this Family Feud style. I don't know. It's your call. It's your game. Yeah, well. Fuck me. Let's fuck. Fuck me or fuck you. Today's contestants who are going to be deciding whether or not Greg considers this person a friend or co-worker.

Our two person who know Greg very dearly, it is Chris Cody and Dan Levitard. So you are the only two who are going to be guessing if Greg considers this person a friend or co-worker. I like it. All right. Do you have your writing utensils in hand? Well, he's going to lie, but I'm going to tell the truth. So I'm going to be honest. But he'll lie, try to be friendly in public when he considers very few people friends. Go ahead. Okay. So, Chris, you ready? Okay. Mike, you're the official scorekeeper here today. All right. All right.

The first option, and again, the winner wins a big cash prize. Roy is bobbing his head to this music. Like, he really nailed it with this music. This is childhood right here, man. He was so proud of himself. The first person, Roy Bellamy. Does Greg consider Roy Bellamy a friend or coworker?

Huh. I'm going to say he's going to say friend, but he's going to be afraid to say co-worker. Well, that's not your, what's your guess? Yeah, you need to lock it in, Dan. He's going to say friend. I'm going to get it right. Okay, Dan says friend. I know that my dad really likes Roy. I think he genuinely, this is a genuine one. He'd say friend. Greg, is Roy a friend or co-worker? Friend. Yay!

Yay! All right. Congratulations, Troy. It is a great game. They both get a point there, but Dan wanted to make sure you knew that Greg doesn't actually think you're a friend. And more to the point, I'd say, Greg, here's the thing. If I said to Greg, give me a number of friends that you have. Give me a number that you consider friends. What is that number?

It's not an easy question or answer because everyone has different tier levels of friend. He's trying to pin you down, Greg. Don't let him. And that'll do it for this edition of Friend or Coworker. It ended as a tie. Thank you. Excellent game, Billy. I'll date it. We'll circle back. We'll play again.

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I'm just trying to live up to be the version of me my dogs think I am. Don't be an Izzy. They assume I've got it all together. Meanwhile, I'm Googling, can dogs eat watermelon? And realizing, hey, we're out of food and I forgot to flee meds. Total chaos. But Chewy had both delivered fast. Now they're well fed, itch free and still convinced I'm a responsible adult. Chewy makes it super easy to get everything your pets need. Food, treats, meds, even toys.

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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 Dan Levitas Show with the Stugatz. Stugatz.

Circling back to the NBA, home teams in Game 7s and the finals are now 16-4. So basically four out of five times, just if you're playing at home, if you've got Game 7 at home, that's the biggest advantage to have. And last night, you guys are with me on the idea of OKC as an absolutely historically great regular season team that was ripe for the taking at the end because of all of the youth things that you associate with not being able to win a championship.

stopped because in four of the seven games, they allowed a lesser team to dictate the entirety of the game to them and made them play four of their worst games of the season. The result of these finals is that the best team won, but the best team won because they got lucky that Halliburton wasn't around for the second half. That seems like a crazy thing to say. It was a lot harder than it needed to be because that Indiana team is simply not as good as that OKC team. Not at defense,

- Okay, see this here is a bit of an outlier in terms of recent history. But the sport, when I was growing up back to the mid 20 teens,

It did probably the best job in making sure that the people that followed the sport knew this was quantifiably the best team. The team that won the championship was always the best team. When you look back, we're alternating championships at a rate that we've never really seen in our lifetimes. No, we never have seen. Seven. Seven straight different champions. Crazy. It feels a little bit more random. And while the best team won this year, and you make an argument, the best team won last year, they're getting...

the benefit of injuries that I'm not really sure. I'm sure if we dove into it, maybe I've forgotten some other injuries, but it's odd that injuries are playing a bigger part of the story in these championships lately when we're in a recent era of low management. What the hell was that? What was that? A sneeze, man. Was it a sneeze? We're good. Unprofessional. I didn't,

Oh, not a professional broadcaster. Oh wow. So Dan makes everyone comfortable so they just think that they're hanging out in the room talking to him. So Kyrie Irving gets injured last year. Jimmy Butler gets injured. These were players that had load management programs around them. We're in an era of load management and yet in the postseason we had three Achilles injuries. You could go entire NBA seasons without seeing that type of injury.

Why, in an era where we're so attuned to the athletes' bodies, where we're trying to avoid injury, are you seeing so many more of the most, arguably the most catastrophic, outside of death, the most catastrophic injury a basketball player could suffer? This was considered a death sentence before, and now we're seeing it all over again.

all the time routinely when we're trying to stop injuries. So is three a trend? Because Boogie Cousins was never the same after this, and this is one of the places that I remember learning of how it is that a potential can go to die where athleticism can go to die if the Achilles is...

In a way, it's a gunshot. People can hear it. Halliburton knows what it is. That's why he starts crying. He knows immediately that that is not something he gets up from. We saw this happen to Kevin Durant kind of the same way, right, where we don't know what these guys have to do to mask to get out there. Like, we do a – man, we put a lot under that umbrella if someone's banged up.

Like they are just I can't even imagine what doctors are doing to protect those economies. Just to be clear. Right. Did you guys see that an NBA executive said that when Dallas won the lottery, it's worth between 500 million and a billion dollars to win the lottery in basketball to your economy because of how if you get one of these stars and you ride his body for five years, you can win.

make a giant business around everything that's happening in this sport and these bodies. Kawhi Leonard told you a while ago, don't trust the doctors. Total mystery the way that he won a championship injured, but we don't know the lengths these people go to. But when Kevin Durant breaks because of something else that was wrong with his body, when Halliburton breaks that way where all of us are like, oh, there's the slow motion. That's the Achilles. We know this now. And it's not, it's,

That looks like a move any of them can make at any time unless you're hopped up on so much medicine that you're muting all of your body screaming. And when you're not supposed to move that way, you got so many drugs coursing through your body because you must, right? I'll put all the allegedly's out there, but they'll do anything to play in that game, right? There's no shot game.

that any player in the NBA would not take in order to make sure that they can play in that game last night. We all know this. It's an understood part of it. But it ignores something that now threatens the Pacers next season, and I think it's fair to say, threatens whatever Halliburton becomes next, even if science does allow you to come back from this better. Because Kevin Durant is still a great shooter, but Halliburton does kind of need some of that quickness.

Like, that injury...

That game was being controlled by him with no turnovers last night, and then he leaves the game, and all of a sudden it's 21 turnovers, and that's exactly how OKC is going to win the championship. Wire to wire all season, just stealing the ball from you. I thought about the Orlando Magic last night, too, when that injury went down. The Orlando Magic made an aggressive move, and people are criticizing the amount of picks they gave up, but they got a player that is exactly what they need. A guy that can cut, a guy that can be a 3 and D guy, shoots at 40% from the three-point range,

exact fit for what they need to win in the East. And not only do they make that move, but they're looking at an Eastern Conference that doesn't have Jason Tatum in it anymore, doesn't have Tyrese Alliburton in it anymore due to this injury. Milwaukee too. The Lillard thing is definitely, and they're probably going to get rid of Antetokounmpo because of an Achilles. So you have three teams that were atop that Eastern Conference, a conference that was already wide open, that are just totally devastated for next season.

Man, I'm surprised Orlando could have given up two more first-round picks and the move would have been justified. Is three a trend? Like, I don't... Load management, we're going to great lengths to keep these bodies healthy, and then all of a sudden you get this particular injury. Dan, we went 20 years just saying, man, I remember when Isaiah Thomas had that injury, and it was a wrap. Remember that? When Kobe got the Achilles, everyone was like, man, we haven't really seen this since Isaiah Thomas. And since Kobe...

so many NBA All-Stars, so many future Hall of Famers have had this injury. Yes, but with Kobe, it bears noting that whatever the end of Kobe's flame was, he couldn't move the same way at the end. He was always going to be able to get fadeaway jumpers. No, my point is that when it happened to Kobe, we all like, wow, that

That never happens in this sport. It certainly never happens to a star player. The last time this happened was in the early 90s. This is something that's foreign. And now the second someone's playing through a calf strain, you're worried about, man, is he going to get deranted? It may sound stupid. I'm just going to say it anyway. All these players wear low-top sneakers now. Does that mean anything? Mm-hmm.

There is a theory. I mean, I Googled it, so I'm sure there's a lot of artificial intelligence. But a lot of the stuff that came back was the shoes have changed and there's an argument to be made. Now, a lot of these injuries have happened in this postseason, but that load management actually hurts. Of course it hurts. This is a tendon that needs to be stretched and constantly be active.

And the game is played faster than it's ever been played. So if you're taking several days off and you allow that tendon to actually tighten back up, you're acting against the best interest. More back-to-backs. You mentioned artificial... Playing Chuck Taylors. You mentioned artificial intelligence. I saw that the godfather of AI, he suggests that if you want to survive in whatever the future holds, you should become a plumber.

And I also saw that because of AI, and I did not have this as an early byproduct of AI, but evidently everyone's now cheating at school. There's no point in

There's no point to pay for school anymore because everyone can have all of their work done by artificial intelligence. So you're just burying the teacher in a bunch of fakery because the computers can do it well enough to get you a B plus. Like, what is that? You render schooling almost irrelevant. Pat Sajak gave us that wisdom. You don't have to learn anything anymore. You just have to know how to find it. That's the skill.

How do I find this? How do I write code to find things? That's what you need to start training in now. You guys worried? I mean, it's... Yes. I mean, it's going to lead to a lot of back in my days. No one can do what I do. It's going to lead to the dumbing down of America, and we can't get much dumber. But, you know, in this case...

There's a shortcut to finding out that makes us not want to learn anymore, makes kids not want to learn. I don't care about myself at my age, but I think about that. What kind of a world is my granddaughter going to grow up in when there's AI in every facet of life except plumbing? We better be getting our kickbacks. If we're out of work, we...

better be getting are AI kickbacks. What is AI built on? All the information that human beings have put into it. AI reparations. You're welcome. AI reparations. I don't know about that. No, absolutely, AI reparations. This is a prevailing theory, too. Read the book Abundance. This is something that has been talked about. Once AI does actually come for the jobs and starts replacing the workforce, human beings need to be getting their cut. Okay, it's better for the... What? What?

Minor penalty, two minutes, asshole. It was read the book abundance that was the sentence that got you going. Wasn't Mike asking for reparations? It wasn't. It was the phrase read the book abundance. You just gave us a reading assignment. Read the audio book. This is going to age so poorly for you in ten years. I'm getting kicked out for invoking something that is going to be like, what? Okay, I brought up the threat. There are many, many existential... I think we already are dumber.

They are many, many. We are surrounded every minute by existential threats. This weekend brought an almost literal apocalypse of I don't recognize the America I live in when we're at war this flippantly, I'm going to say. I'm back. I'm back. I'm back. I'm back. I'm back.

Can we just invent like a computer virus to take out AI? Like a computer COVID. Go on. You go and the AI is compiling all these problems for us, taking our jobs. We're losing our recipes because of AI. But if you make a computer virus, let's call it like a super virus, a bug that shuts down all of AI. Like an entity. Can we not win? What if the key...

to this virus is buried beneath the Arctic Sea. - Hmm. - Mr. Nine Iron?

Do you know what he's referencing there when he says we're losing the recipes? I believe it's the greatest moment in the history of University of Miami football broadcasting was Warren Sapp and Michael Irvin on the set of an NFL product. That's all I had for about a decade. No success on the field. It was just the NFL morning show and that segment of Sapp and Irvin.

What are you laughing about? I don't remember the Sapp and Irvin show. Sorry. What? It was a segment inside of NFL Game Day where they would talk about all the games, but Sapp and Irvin had like a five-minute segment where they would just be over the top. Real manic energy. I'm not really sure what was going on there. Uh-huh.

I don't think I've told you this. I was supposed to host a show for the NFL Network with them, but I had to fly to Los Angeles every week to do it, and I wasn't willing to do it. Let's play this sound right here, and I aired, by the way.

because this could have been my life and I would have rocketed to television stardom all over the globe, carried on the whimsy and general recklessness of these two men on television, neither of whom should ever be on television except they're both great at television. - Oh my God, this is what's wrong with the day. The young ladies today, they're not learning from mom how to cook with those recipes. - There you go. I can relate. How?

Recipe books, man. Oh. I mean, Nana, you know, had a... Doogie. Nana Doogie had a thick recipe book, this thick, with all hand... Some of them were clippings she had cut out, but most of them were handwritten recipes.

recipes and where is that book today but the problem is now and it's a version of a higher google or whatever now you wanna make a chicken parm and you're dumb you don't know how to do it without a recipe you google chicken parmesan in in you just get it like that you know you're even need a recipe book anymore let alone

long-standing family recipes. You still print recipes. I'll go to your house on a Sunday, and you have the printout from the website. If it's a recipe that I haven't made very recently. You do it for everything, and you're always like, I got my own way, but I just need this here. I made steak and baked potato and asparagus yesterday. You think I had recipes for those

Staples of cuisine there was something charming Greg. I think you'll agree with this There was something charming about a handwritten recipe book where sometimes maybe they're a little splish splash from the stove gets on the recipe Is that a teaspoon is that a tablespoon? We'll figure it out splash I'm gonna taking a bath Yeah, so You don't need a recipe book anymore. I feel bad for the people still writing recipe books who's buying those and

You know? I mean, AI, you know, it's crazy. You're selling two books right in front of you. Well, these aren't recipe books. You can't get this anywhere else. Oh, but that's a recipe for recycled. Oh, back in my day? Says the guy whose last nine episodes of South Beach Sessions have been best ofs. Oh!

God damn. What are you doing? That's not recycling, though. Reality was last week. What are you talking about? No, I'm a South Beach Sessions fan. I see it. You know, greatest hits. Am I wrong?

What do you think Sapp and Irvin felt when they were like, yeah, the Levitard doesn't want to fly out. So that's that. They could have relocated. They could have done the show from SoFla. They chose not to. No, the show had to be in Los Angeles. SoFla? Yeah, why did you do that? I've been saying SoFla for years. I haven't really gotten off the ground, but that's my nickname for South Florida. I would lose that. What's your greatest professional regret, Dan? Uh...

My greatest professional regret. Not counting me. I've got to think about that one for a second. All right, think about it and probably don't even answer it. Apparently it's a long list. No, I've got to think about it for a second so that I don't – you're asking me – I may blindside somebody here, so let me think about it for a second. That's why I'm saying probably don't do it. I know famously on the show you said that you were once offered –

like seven figures to move to Detroit and be a columnist there, but you were like, no way. No, I just, actually, no, I was not, I was offered, it was not a seven-figure job. Those jobs, column jobs don't pay like that. Never have. That's what I was thinking when he said that. Never have. I mean, you're good, but not that good. But yes, I would not live in Detroit. I didn't want to live in Detroit. Yeah.

Wow, it's time again for America's favorite show. Friend or...

Co-worker! Alright, for those just joining us, today's contestants are Dan and Chris Cody. I'm going to name a co-worker. Mike is keeping score here. And we are going to have Dan or Chris Cody guess whether Greg considers this person a friend or co-worker. We have a tight one right now. We're tied up 1-1. Is this a new game? And the last one ended in a draw? Yeah, this is the second edition. Okay. So...

But it is a tie one right now because it's tied 0-0. It's a tie one all time. Yeah. If it was a seven-game series, right now it's tied 0-0-1. All right. Jonathan Zaslow. Does Greg consider Jonathan Zaslow a friend or co-worker? Yeah, that's a co-worker.

I don't think he likes that. Is there a third option? Chris? Friend or coworker? Is there a worse option than a coworker? I'll go coworker. Or enemy? Okay, coworker or enemy. That's a different game. That's a different game. I don't post that one. Friend, coworker, enemy.

Greg, is Jonathan Zaslow a friend or co-worker? I would say a co-worker. If that. So I get extra points. You should. The if that deserves an extra point. It does. Dan tried that last game. Yeah. We didn't allow him. All right. So that's a tie. All right. And that'll do it for this edition of Friend or Co-Worker. Thank you. Fuck.

Do you guys, I was made aware of something this weekend that I was not aware of, and I'm guessing I'm going to shock you when I tell you that. Can we guess? So you're not going to get it right. Is it that there's more microplastics in glass than there are in plastic bottles? What? It was that, actually.

The minibar is endangered. The hotel minibar, it's a bad business and it's going under. And very few places are still doing it successfully because it is either on its way to extinct. It's just a terrible business for hotels. They get stolen. Things go bad. And even though they're charging you four and five times what they should be charging you, I had no idea that the minibar. Did you guys know this? I'm shocking all of you with this, correct? No, I didn't know that.

I mean, I've seen my dad put in some work on them, so I thought they were blooming. I love the mini bar. Yeah, put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Did Greg Cody for about 10 years single-handedly keep the mini bar business alive at Levitard Show? Although, my dad's move at a hotel is go buy a six-pack somewhere and then fill his... Put it in the bathtub? No, no. Well, that would be if he had like two dozen. It's sink. He fills up the sink. No, I've seen the bathtub. He's slowing down, you old man.

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