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It is Little Debbie glazed donut sticks. Donut stick. Perfect for dunking. 370 calories per package. Not the healthiest way to go. So I've got an unhealthy Stugatz over here, and now Greg Cody is playing hurt. And there's a virus running its way through the Cody family because Chris Cody's out. He's been knocked out entirely. I think he's got...

hockey hangover-itis. I believe his tongue's been heavy for two months, but he claims his daughter's sick and his grandfather definitely is. I'm playing tough. I'm playing through it. Her grandfather. Her, yes. Good correction. Allergies, though, huh? It's that time of year, Greg. I don't know what it is. You know, that kind of thing. I have an idea. What? What's going around? You seen the new variant?

No. No. Does your throat feel like razors? It does not. All right, then I think you're good. That's what the new variant does. All right. We're still talking about variants? Yeah. No, my brother got it at 11.

There is a new variant, and that is the main symptom. It is COVID+. Why are you here if you have COVID? No, it's like a 24-hour thing over the weekend. I'm good. You're fine. That's what we heard in 2020. It's a quick variant. But this is COVID+. I feel fantastic. We got to pay for it now? I'm on an 80s. COVID with razors. Yes, it's a new. We should have a new streaming service, COVID+. We should start that network at Metal Ark Media. We should come out with our own plus, COVID+, and it's just Cody's face on it.

Because he doesn't sound good and his eyes are glassy and now his nose is running. And this is straight out of Outbreak. Because your nose is running and those are some nostrils. Yeah. Now, oh, he's got tissues and I've never seen him do that before. I'm doing the best I can. Yeah, you're looking rough. Do you think you're going to have to go early? Do you think the show will get decimated in pieces over today? Because Roy's on vacation. Also, smart. Hockey hangover-itis. It worked hard.

And we've got to get to, I really, really think it is the most intoxicating drug there is.

The Panthers are going to keep everybody? Like, they're going to be able to also not lose anybody. They're going to be the 1972-1973 Steelers. The reason, or no, I'm sorry, that was the Dolphins. The Steeler team that won five championships won because all 22 starters were the same. It was before free agency. Right, it was four championships. You're talking about Bradshaw and Lynn Swan and Stallworth and Franco Harris and the great Rocky Blyer? I'm talking, yes, thank you.

Your wheelhouse. I am talking about whenever Mike Webster. They went back. Steel curtain. What does matter? What is the matter with your voice? Allergies. The steel curtain. I'd say get close to the microphone, but don't. Okay. Sorry. Right.

COVID plus. I know. Super. COVID super. Greg, the last two weeks, I mean, you've always been bad at the details here, but the last two weeks you've forgotten to be near the microphone. Like it's an unusual thing you're doing at the end of your broadcasting career. Yeah.

It's a weakness in technology because by now they should have a microphone that essentially follows you. No, it moves with you. It moves quietly with you. It's got an arm that could not be quieter that would move with you. But it doesn't move automatically. Right. The technology should be that this apparatus realizes that when I'm here, it has to be like that. Adjust itself. Right. But it doesn't. Old technology here.

You or the mics? Both. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast. All right, the show's under it a little bit. I just saw Cody use the same soggy tissue that he had been dabbing his nose with to dab his leaking eyes with because it's the same tissue. I saw you do it. I just saw what happened. I realize tissues all look alike, but.

It's not the same fish. Okay, Greg Cody's playing hurt. This is another day of hockey celebration around here because I'm not real clear on how the Panthers get to keep everybody. I didn't think that was going to happen. I didn't see anyone predicting that that's what was going to happen. Stugatz is hurting. Have you taken a bite out of one of this? Oh, my God. I had an entire donut stick. But you don't break them apart. These are supposed to be broken apart. Are they not? No. I mean, it's my stick, so...

Okay. Don't tell him how to eat. It just seems unhealthy. No? It is unhealthy, but I was hungry this morning. I stopped at the gas station. I needed gas. I got a pack of tissues for Greg Cody. I got some donut sticks and a pack of heaters for myself. Okay, so did you stop for the donuts or the cigarettes? How does that happen? The heaters. You're stopping for the cigarettes and then...

Stumble into the donuts, yeah. And so do you normally get those? Never, never gotten them before, and we'll never get them again. So you just saw donuts and were like, that seems, I'll just have some sugar, I'll chase the smoke with some sugar. Yes, I mean, the options were Twinkies, Hostess cupcakes, and I went with a donut stick. I mean...

There should be a combo. I think there should be like glazed cigarettes where you smoke half of the cigarette and then you literally just eat the rest of it. That's a good idea. Kill two birds with one stone. If you're as lazy as Sturgatz, something that you... One stone's going to kill me.

Tony is back from Vegas, polluted, I'm assuming. Do we have the video of you fighting a legitimate champion fighter? So here's the thing. We have video of me working out with legendary coach, three-time coach of the year MMA, Eric Nixick from Extreme Couture. We have Brad Tavares also in the picture helping us work out and stuff. But between you and me, Dan, if you want me to be really honest with you, I think that...

that Brad was watching me hit the bags and was like, you know what? I got something to do after this. I don't know if I can hang out with you and spar you after the workout. I've seen a little bit too much. So there was an issue where he had to go and I'm not going to say he ran away from me. I'm just telling you he was there and then I turned my back and he's disappeared.

Stugatz, you are our most qualified liar here. You are our most expert liar. When a sentence starts with...

If you want me to be really honest with you... Yeah, he's lying. What comes after that, is that a tell is what I'm asking you. Like, I'm not even asking you, is that a lie? Because I know, I feel like all of that was obviously a lie. But I'm saying, if that phrase comes out, do you see it as like a poker tell? As another champion liar, are you like...

What's coming next, I know to dismiss. This is going to be a lie. He's telegraphed it. This is an amateur liar. Yes, you don't need to announce the truth, okay? If I'm telling the truth, if you actually are telling the truth, just tell the truth. Why wouldn't I want you to be really honest with me? And what would be really honest with me is that you didn't spar this person and we sent you out to Vegas and you didn't return with sparring video after we promised...

after we promised the audience that you were going to fight this guy. Sure, of course. But when the guy disappears, what do you want me to do? Resurrect him from wherever he went? All of a sudden, damn, we're finished with the workout. I turn around. He's basically out the door running out. How am I supposed to take that? You got to follow him and pick a fight.

Billy, what's in your notebook there that you're looking through? Are you looking? Have you now started? No, it's just my to-do list that I have. I have to call the dermatologist later, text a roofer, maybe go to the Marlins game at 640. My daughter has gymnastics at 4. It's just what keeps me on track. It's a busy day. I woke up and the EP show wasn't on this list, so I have to add that, and I check it off later.

Well, do we believe that Chris Cody has a sick granddaughter? I'm sorry, sick daughter, Greg Cody's granddaughter. If you want to check out the 70 to 7 Olympics or 7 versus 7. 7 versus 7, the Olympics, the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody is a podcast that is occupying that lane alone. Well, that's next week's episode, I believe. This week's episode, they spoke to a bacon salesman, a letter carrier, and a 68-year-old hitchhiker. Yeah.

Two years away from being eligible for 7 versus 70. What a Joe. There's pretty convincing circumstantial evidence that Graceland and Greg are both sick.

I'm going to say, though, that what his show is this week is a bona fide extravaganza. Did you hear that guest list? Say it again, please. Because please say it again so that people understand. And this podcast is really the height of Greg Cody's narcissism. What he has done at the end of his career as journalists fight to evolve in a new media space. He has carved out the space of do you want to listen to the narcissistic?

ramblings of a senile old man who crushes White Hat in the playoffs with his analysis because he is not to be dismissed as a senile old man. Thank you. Yeah, we speak with a bacon salesman from Minnesota, a letter carrier from Queens, New York, and a 68-year-old wandering hitchhiker from Barcelona.

You're a man of the people. This is a man of the people episode. I'm a man of the people and I'm a fan of the people. Right. I don't believe anybody has an uninteresting job. The selling of bacon has to be the easiest of sales, no? I think so. Really? I asked him on because...

I'm such a bacon fan, and he sells bacon. I mean, what a match made in heaven. We also had on Uncle Dick, who is America's number one bacon consumer. Wow. Yeah, so it was a 20-minute confab on America's favorite food, the American food, as we celebrate the Fourth of July. No more American food than bacon, so thank you all the pigs that we slaughter to enjoy you.

For those keeping score at home, it is starting to feel more like 4th of July week. We were talking about it earlier. It wasn't feeling like it. Greg, you said you don't think anyone has an uninteresting job. I discovered a job today that I didn't know was a job.

What's that? Theme park journalist. Really? Yeah. Sounds like a job for you. It's a job out there. Theme park journalist. It sounds like a PR flag. I think we should create that for you here at Metal Art Media. No, it exists. But I think we should create that. I think that you should have that as part of your job titles. Wouldn't you want to be Metal Art's theme park journalist? Billy, take him up on this.

I suppose so. Get to write off all your trips. Yeah. Really? Are you kidding me? I mean, can I... It's like Disney passes. He really should not be running a company. Hold on a second. Can I like...

I suppose so. If I have an expense in the past that affects my future theme park journalism, can that be expensive? Yeah, I think so. No, I don't think that's going to pass immediately. You're rolling into a new job. It depends. You have previous experience with your new job. You've got to talk about Tower of Terror every time you've ever written it. Now you get to write that off. Well, no. For example, let's say I was suckered into getting Disney Passes.

And I will then use said Disney passes for my theme park journalism. I should be able to expense that. No doubt. I would think. It's already paid for. He's going to do content based off of his previous experience. So yes, he gets to write that off now. I'll go out there, guys. Just wait for it. I'm going to spar with Mickey Mouse. And then I come back on Monday. No, Mickey left. Yeah.

Billy, I want to talk about all of this for a second because you were thrust in the EP role at a last minute because Chris allegedly has a sick daughter. He does. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Are you required when you say confab?

to shake your shoulders the way Cody did while saying "Con fact." - I shook my shoulders? - You did. - Really? - You did. - Again, I wanna go back to what Tony did where he said, "If you really want me to be honest with you," and then told an assortment of what I think are lies. But Billy, I saw your head down.

When I asked for the Vegas video of Tony, okay, and then I heard a disembodied voice on one of the speakers here. Did you hear what that voice said? What are you laughing about? No, I heard the voice. It was funny to listen to. All right, so do you remember what was said? I want to put people in a room with us when I ask, Tony, the Vegas video, where is it? And then I hear...

A disembodied voice that doesn't have, there's not a human being in the room. This is coming from somewhere else. That person said what? Do you remember what that person said of Tony's video by way of endorsement? Okay, I don't remember verbatim, but it was something to the effect, I guess you could air it. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

So you're talking to the guy that has the most enthusiasm and the guy that has the least enthusiasm. You're going to go with the guy that has the least enthusiasm's point. Well, I'm going to go with the guy who worked for Craig Ferguson and knows how to make funny videos. And he works here now, so he doesn't work for Craig Ferguson or whoever else you're going to say after. He works here for you. Tony worked for Ariel Hawane. Thank you. How about that? And the mouse. What does that mean, he works here now?

Because Dan is like, oh, he worked at all these places. You're saying this is like a town grid or something. No, what I'm saying is he's not working there anymore. He's working here. That was very mean. I don't like that. ConFab. It's hard to say ConFab without shaking. ConFab. ConFab. You have to go left to right. ConFab. It's a

Fun words. Fun fact. I didn't realize I did that. You were feeling yourself because it's 20 minutes of Uncle Dick in your narcissism warehouse. So you were like really feeling like, oh, I get to talk about me and promote me. Bacon. It's why I'm here. 20 minutes of Uncle Dick. Who knew Uncle Dick was the number one consumer of bacon in the world? He loves bacon. He puts salt on bacon. Really? He makes bacon bombs, which is... Oh, bacon bombs. A bacon bomb is one of the greatest things I've had. It's divine. What's that? It's basically...

A sausage cake wrapped in bacon. We just don't care about talking into the microphone anymore, huh? I'm sorry. You should follow him. I don't know what to do about it. He's painting a picture. I don't know what to do about it. He's just having a one-on-one right now. So is it sausage or is it bacon? He's getting worse at doing this. Sausage wrapped in bacon? Yeah, sausage and veggies on top of the sausage. I could do without that. No, no, no. When I say, you know, like onion and...

J.D.: We were supposed to do a sausage and lentil off today, but your son's not here because he's allegedly sick. And I also... No, his daughter is sick. J.D.: Whatever. That's a five. J.D.: She doesn't drive. He wouldn't let her take an Uber to the doctor, so he's... There's a virus running its way allegedly through the Cody household that doesn't allow Greg Cody's son to do his job.

And one of the things that I wanted to do with his son today when I had Greg and this crew in that I can't do now because Chris isn't here is last week, out of nowhere, we're doing show and Chris reveals for the first time to my knowledge and anyone's knowledge on this show that there's another uncle next to Uncle Dick and it's Uncle Mike and he doesn't have an eye!

And I learned that last week, and I wanted to put these ingredients together. The one-eyed Uncle Mike I'd never heard about. It's just spelled M-K-E. What? As an aside, Uncle Mike died about 20 years ago. It doesn't matter. Yeah, he told us. It's sad. It's not the point. There's a one-eyed uncle, and we're sitting here talking. I'm so sorry.

I am so sorry that your Uncle Mike died. I should be more respectful. You should. He had a three-legged dog, by the way. What? One eye and a three-legged dog? I wanted to put these ingredients together, but your son's not here. Yes, I'm aware that we stumbled with the three-legged

dog into one-eyed Mike and then another uncle Richard who he said he his words not ours careful said was kind of a dick but then uncle Jake is not right DCK yeah we loved uncle Richard a little bit of a know-it-all really yeah in what sense well I remember once trying to construct in my backyard a

I had a tree, an avocado tree at the time, and I wanted to build a wood...

table around the tree, you know, just to put plants on and... - Yeah, say it if you need to. - Well, no, because it was like five feet off the ground. But it was like a table top. And I did it myself, but he at the time was very hands-on in terms of, "Oh, you should do this." "No, you should do that." "No, you need a bigger nail than that." "You need an angle bracket that's gonna connect the two," you know, and...

I appreciated it, but at the same time, it's like, let me do this myself. I'm a handyman. That's one of those things, right? Sometimes you take on a project and you have people come over to help you, and they don't actually help. They're just going in trying to take over, and that's not the role you agreed to. Right, and it reminds me of there's a commercial on TV. I forget advertising what. I don't know, but it's a guy trying to start a fire. Hmm.

and three of his friends were all there going, oh, no, no, no, no, you don't do that. You stack the wood like this, and, you know, lighter fluid, what are you doing? You've got to do that and this. And it's the same thing. You know, everybody's a know-it-all. When you have information, you want to impart it. And I can relate to that, you know, because now he hands me down the know-it-all, so if I'm around somebody trying to build a table around a tree, I'm going to go, the first thing you need is four big angle brackets. You can't do it without an angle bracket. Wait, so he was right.

Yeah, he was. Oh, okay. Well, no, this is specific. But you didn't ask. You guys have to understand how male this is and how Greg this is to prefer to be stubbornly wrong than just do it right. Yeah. It sounds like he's helpful. He did know it all. He helped, yes. He did know it all. He did know it all. And Greg didn't like that. It made him feel inferior. But the project... I mean, Greg thought he knew it all. I wanted a fake knowing it all. The project that Greg undertook

of building a table around a tree. I've seen it done in mansions by multi-million dollar architects because it's hard to do. You can't just, you just saying that you're a handyman is ridiculous and I wish we could talk to your son about it.

I think poor people have tables, too, not just multimillionaires with architects. I know, but I'm saying that I've seen that when that to do that well is complicated because you're allowing a tree to grow through a table or through your home. I don't know. I don't know about you, Greg, but sometimes I go and I'm on vacation. I remember I was in Siesta Key. I don't know.

couple years ago, four nights ago. And I looked and I saw these wooden stools. I like to go on vacation where the house is themed because it's a beach house and it had kind of like a tropical Jimmy Buffett vibe, right? Perfect, yeah. And I saw wooden stools and I remember thinking, not just thinking, I said it out loud to everyone that was there, I go, I can make this stool.

And then I was telling them, like, I was looking and I was taking pictures. I was like, when I get home, I'm going to make this stool. Sure enough, I didn't make the stool, but I think you can make a table. I think you make a stool, Greg. I think so, too. Yeah, I think, look, next week when Chris is back, we do our cook-off. And then I think maybe a couple weeks from now, we buy some wood and we have a contest where we make tables. You're going to try and you're going to make a table. It's going to be a table off. But I don't think of

Greg is a handyman. Well, here's the thing. I'm the son of a master carpenter. That's true. Okay. Wild Bill. And I inherited a lot of that acumen. Okay. I grew up in a house where most of the key furniture was built by hand by my father. Can you guys please call or lean or call?

Chris, I need to get there's no one here to independently verify. I don't believe any of what he's saying. And we started the show with him, with Tony saying, if I really need to be honest with you. Yeah. And now I'm now I'm just surrounded by liars. Well, no, I think here's the thing is when Chris is here, Chris's role is to discredit his father, where when I'm here, my role is to support Greg. So I feel like the fact that Chris decided to not come in today, whether he's tending to his child or whatever, that's

Now we just have to kind of believe Greg today. It's Yes Day with Greg. No, it's not Wild Willie Wednesday. That's a different day. This is not Yes and Tuesday. But it's a Greg Cody Tuesday. Yes, it is. Is that back in my day? Damn it, I left it at home. Allergies. No, I'm under the weather. Yeah, exactly.

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I want to get back to where it is that I started because what the Panthers are doing

is not just a testament to architecture, right? Because Vegas and Tampa taught them how to game the salary cap system. And so they hid Kachuk there last year and they got the two pieces, Seth Jones and Brad Marchand, that makes Greg Cody furious that Bill Zito doesn't win executive of the year. And now they signed him after I thought Ekblad was leaving and they're getting all these guys discounted. So Mike's been doing a little bit of reporting here. Is this an...

Is this a happen to know situation or is this a you know for a fact situation? - I know this one for a fact. There were plenty of teams interested across the NHL in Aaron Ekblad and they were told

that they're not going to entertain any offers no matter how big, provided that Florida gets to a certain number. Now we know what that number is. As long as Florida got to $6 million, Aaron Eckblad would have turned down any offer from any other team. He flatly wasn't hearing any team out, even though plenty of teams had big offers ready for him. He was going to stay in Florida, provided that Florida got to $6 million annually, and they did.

I know that people are interested in the mechanics of how you GM and how you piece things together under the salary cap. But the reason that I'm like reacting to this with a little bit of, whoa, okay, so this is what it's going to be.

They've realized they've got the momentum and here's the money and they're gonna keep spending and they're gonna keep reinvesting They know what it takes to be on top They have proven that they know what it takes to be on top and as an added bonus all of these hockey players Love that they play in this little swampland over here where they can live the rest of their lives otherwise in private in the way they never could in a in a bustling hockey town now

Less so than before because if they stay in Broward now, they've got a problem, but they can come to date and have a different experience with the world as if they're in the Caribbean and they kind of like the trophy in the ocean. So the idea that the Panthers now have exactly the momentum you need to do exactly what Tampa did, which is make it a hockey peninsula,

for a decade beyond this because a generation of fans like what the beach feels like on parade day. Year over year, you see the growth. You see more down in Miami-Dade County. You certainly see more interest. The crowd at La Careta grows year over year. Incremental growth for the Florida Panthers. We know what it's like over here in hockey. This was a nowhere franchise that was constantly rumored to be relocating for about 25 years of its existence. But Florida has positioned themselves, and this is what you love about sports, right?

We're not for the copious amount of steroids. This team is a team that loves each other, that plays the right way, that takes less money to keep winning. They should be beloved. But I understand why there's a fair amount of Panther fatigue across the league. Well, and Ekblad was suspended during the season. You guys hated Ekblad, and then he took PEDs and was great, and you loved Ekblad again. Awesome. We were bouncing off each other before the show. This guy's a Hall of Famer problem.

I mean, I don't know how they're going to look at the PED thing, but he has a Calder. He's got two cups. He's still 29 years old. How many years did they give Marchand? They gave him six. That's crazy. That's the first thing I thought of. Like, how old is he? He's 37. A lot of this is confusing, right, because there's a new CBA, and a lot of the CBA changes don't take into effect next year. It's the year after. So Matthew Kachuk's going to have surgery.

I imagine they're going to exploit this long-term injury list rule one more year.

and either wait for somebody on the roster to get hurt and they can sash them away or make a move in the middle of the season. But guys like Evan Rodriguez or Jesper Boquist, who you'd think would probably be on the way out with these deals coming in, they have a shot at sticking around, at least for the time being, if Matthew Kachuk does indeed end up on the long-term injury list. Greg, can I bring you in here, though? Because I really do just for a second want to step back from it so that

We can in the moment realize what history feels like and how it feels to be truly excellent at the top of sports in a way that this market has only had a couple of teams ever that have felt this way, that have this particular connection where it's like not merely that the team is excellent and has given you the feel good, but on top of this, Stugatz, and I cannot state this enough,

The ownership of Panthers before this ownership has been a turnstile of awful and incompetent grifters who have come and tried to steal, sell ice near the Everglades like snake oil salesmen to see this organization run this way where it's like, no, and here we go. We're going to invest it right back into the team. We're going to build it down here because we're building it down here. We've done the hardest thing. The hardest thing is everyone in the sport

knows we're the best and now we treat our players better and now the owner's spending big you're erasing you're doing what james dolan can't do with even the rangers like you're erasing 30 years of incompetence down here right with the best of excellence we've ever had at the top of sports and a team that the rest of the continent

doesn't particularly have an affinity for. They're having a conniption right now because this team is sticking together and they can't really piece together why. I mean, these contracts are so below market value that it really doesn't matter about state taxes, which is a myth.

The Brad Marchand deal, we don't have full confirmation on what the deal looks like. With the new CBA, it's a little confusing. Players north of 35, if they retire and sign a long-term contract, provided that the annual average value is consistent and it's not front-loaded, once they retire, they come off your books. Now, I haven't heard anyone assume that Brad Marchand is going to play to the end of this contract. It seems a little...

like a long-term contract for a 37-year-old. You saw what they just did. They gamed the end of the system. It's a reward for past play. And yeah, we'll just get the rest of your career. We're punctuating the Hall of Famer's career. Play as long as you want. It appears that the avenue from what there is on social media and reporters poking around on this, it seems as though...

the deal for Brad Marchand is going to be front-loaded, which means if he does indeed retire during the term of this contract, some of that money remains on the books, but that money, that cap number will be smaller if they do indeed front-load it. So Bill Zito had a couple of options here, and he's still working all the options. Matthew Kachuk, taking advantage of this last term of the long-term injury list, too, is going to provide them some optionality, I think, when it comes to their roster. Mackie Samsonkevich,

is a really good restricted free agent. I'm not exactly sure on what other teams can offer him, but if Matthew Kachuk is out for an extended period of time, you'd like to see Mackey come back because Mackey can produce offensively on the puck. He is very talented, and if I were another team like Boston or Tampa or Carolina, I'd do whatever I

can to get a player like Mackey. Well, this roster is so deep that, you know, you talk about the four lines. They had the equivalent of fifth line guys who couldn't get on the ice. And Mackey's one of those guys. But it isn't just the money they're offering. It's the length of contract and the winning. Yeah. Marchant for six years is one thing. Not many teams are going to offer Aaron Ekblad an eight year contract at age 29. And they did.

And they have everything going right now. Everything. Vinny Viola is not an out front owner. People don't talk about him too much. He's a quiet owner, much like Mickey Arison is. But state of the art right now. Ownership, coaching, general manager, roster. Everything. All of this stuff is easy to say. It's victory after victory after victory. The part that I'm telling you about, though, that bears celebration as history

a genuine sports nobility. There has been no Panther ownership that felt secure enough to give eight year deals 'cause they'd be around for eight years. - Right. - You're talking about-- - It was year to year. - You're talking about top level wealth distribution here with an owner who's now running the program the right way and it's flogging the rest of hockey. They're dismantling, over the last couple of years,

The blueprints of Boston and the Rangers and Tampa have been dismantled by these people. Probably add Toronto to the list now. Maybe Carolina. Carolina's going to sign Ehlers today, I think. But Carolina's been sniffing around every big potential name that's out there. Marner. They certainly wanted Ekblad. They swing and miss a lot, but I think they finally connect today. Mike, you end...

You end Carolina by simply saying that they want to try and figure out how to beat it. Carolina will not be able to beat. They know they're not as good as the team that the Panthers have built, and the Panthers team isn't going to get any weaker. If I may on Carolina, Carolina is a byproduct of this –

kooky playoff format that sucks, by the way, because the Florida Panthers play in arguably the toughest division in hockey. They cannibalize themselves, and you have a fraud-ass team in Carolina that, by happenstance, makes it to the Eastern Conference Finals because they have a much easier path. If you rank the Eastern Conference one through eight, it would have been Carolina versus Florida in the first round. And let me tell you something, that gentleman's sweep lands a lot differently if it's in the first round than if it is in the ECF. They are not that good. They are tricking themselves into thinking they are.

I need more information on one-eyed Mike. Billy, I'm going to need your help here because I'm asking Chris Cody. He has imaging of I happen to know or I know for a fact. And we need to start reporting Mike Ryan's reports because they've all been credible. He's batting 1,000. He's never gotten one wrong. I was wrong for the soups on Noah Dobson. Carolina thought that they had Noah Dobson. Then Columbus thought they had Noah Dobson. There was a

feeding frenzy around Noah Dobson from Sugata's Islanders. He ends up going to Montreal. But I was transparent with that, but I do think Ehlers is going to Carolina. But with facts, you're usually pretty good. Yeah, I know for a fact that that was what the deal was. I'm going to get the imaging that Chris wasn't here to give us. We had good imaging for that. I see here something that says happens to know potential imaging. I don't know why you would say something as potential. Okay, well, he was sending it to me to see if he was doing a good job, and I haven't heard it yet. Was he? Well, I haven't

heard it yet. You want to just hear this? Let's hear it together. This is the potential. Maybe Mike can choose his own imaging. He doesn't like what Jason's doing with Mercurial Mike Mondays or Manic Mike Mondays or Mike Mild Mondays. Maybe Mike can approve or not approve of this imaging. Mike, you want to hear this? Hold on a second. Two-eyed Mike. He happens to know. Great Scott, he happens to know. He happens to know. Gather everyone. Get the children. He happens to know. So wise.

There's one more here hold on oh my god, he knows Come everyone come and listen He happens to know well informed

Nailed it. It's great voice acting. Let me tell you what, it feels good. I don't think Mike likes it. A little lukewarm on it. Yeah. I did like the ending, though. You want to play it again? Yeah, play the second one. I think the second one's the one. Wait, hold on. This is very vulnerable for him to not be here. This is like the eye doctor. Hold on a second. One or two here. Hold on. Here's one.

He happens to know great Scott he happens to know he happens Gather everyone get the children he happens to know So wise he's a nobleman that was one. Oh my god, he knows Come everyone come and listen

He happens to know. That's good. Well informed. I think it's number two because Chris has this weird thing where he occasionally has this Wisconsin accent come out of nowhere sometimes. It's when he says the word both. And listen to the start of this second one. It sounds like he's from Wisconsin. Oh, my God. He knows. Oh, my God. He knows. Come, everyone. Come and listen. Francis McDormand. Oh, we missed the whisper. The echoing.

Hopefully Chris's daughter will be okay and the viral strain that is running through the Cody's will heal itself. How are you feeling right now? I've heard you sniffling a lot. You drink. You okay? Yeah, that's one of the reasons, and this is going to sound like a lie, one of the reasons I'm

not eating the mic is that I don't want my breathing and my sniffling to constantly be audible. - Billy, why are you laughing? - I'm trying to think of which is a better thing, not trying to sound like a lie or Tony just saying this is the truth. - No, Greg was right. He was just telling the truth. He didn't need to say anything. It's Tony, when you announce that you have the truth, if I'm telling the truth, that's when you're lying.

I'm telling the truth. What do you want me to do? I guess if you say, if I'm telling the truth, it's more like... Billy, should we... I might not. What are your thoughts? If I am, I may not be, though. I want, since you're in the EP chair, I want you to help make an executive decision here. Oh my God, he knows.

Okay, yes, this could be look let's use that and that's you as the EP and that is God Behind you and making an executive ruling on this Chris is God No, yes, it's you appearing as God the decision-maker and and and Chris is an odd Servant who has just appeared. Oh my god. He knows so make a ruling on this. Oh

Tony thinks his video from Vegas should air. Matt Coogler, who I've seen you aligning yourself with on South Beach Sessions, says you can air it, which shouldn't be our standard around here. It shouldn't be you can air it with indifference. So who do I side with? Tony's saying, do I side with the unfunny guy? Oh, that was Lewis. I'm sorry. That was Lewis who was saying that. That wasn't Tony. Do we side with Matt Coogler or do we side with Tony?

Oh my god, he knows. He happens to know. Come, everyone. Come and listen. He happens to know. Well informed.

We have breaking news on the hockey front. Florida's made another move. I wanted Billy to make a ruling. We've got breaking news, though. We've got breaking news. If you paid attention to the Panthers' socials, they already said goodbye to Nate Schmidt, who's going to hit the free agent market. Oh, that's too bad. Schmitty. Had a cat named Schmitty. Had a cat named Schmitty. He died. He died. So half of...

The two most recent PED violators are now gone from the Florida Panthers roster. The cheetahs. Yeah, it just leaves Aaron Eckblad. But Tomasz Noszek is re-signing with Florida for one year. He was an incredible fourth-liner for Florida. They probably don't make it to the Stanley Cup Final. We're not for that fourth-line's performance down 2-0 to Toronto in the second round. Noszek was a huge part of that. He signs for $775,000. Yeah, that's why they had that line on the ice when they clinched. Mm-hmm.

I wanted to get to another local story, but you just reminded me of something and how perilous and fickle and fragile these things can be as I'm talking about, you know, what is going to go down as some of the best sports ownership we've ever had in sports in this country, given what they built and how they built it. Like just scrapped a model that was the best Panther team any of us had ever seen in the regular season.

and turned it over into what it is now, which is... - Don't you think it's still Mickey, but in a very short amount of time, Vinnie Viola is narrowing that gap, and he seems, with his core locked in,

They might very well catch Mickey in terms of titles. Are you saying Mickey is the greatest owner in the history of South Florida sports? Really? I mean, Huizenga would be up there now. I think it's Mickey. What did Huizenga bring to... All the sports? Well, he was polarizing, but I agree with Stugatz. He doesn't get the credit he deserves. I think he got plenty of the credit on his way out. Screw him. My point was that, yes, not only...

Is that the conversation that you're allowed to enter when you have this excellence? But I was just sort of marveling at how fragile it is because they were done against Toronto. Like a random deflection happens in overtime of game three, Stugatz, and none of what we're saying is so right now. None of it. We're not talking about any of the stuff we're talking about because they would have lost that series to Toronto in the second round and they would have been

something that felt like it had underachieved somehow because we were dreaming of this. Like it would have felt one championship in three years, that would have been an epic disappointment and it was an ice skate razor blade from happening and it's just epic.

It's an absurd thing to think that they now have maximum stability when it was on a razor's edge. Like, it wouldn't have felt like this to Gots at all. Never mind no parade. It wouldn't have been re-sign everyone eight years. It would have been, oh, that was disappointing.

Oh, oh, Marchand and Ekblad aren't worth re-signing. But now they're an historic team, Dan. They're going for three straight Stanley Cups, trying to make it to the Cup for the fourth time. They play in a state with no state taxes. Why would you want to leave? If you're any of these guys, Ekblad could have got out in the free agency market and gotten himself $9 million a year. He stayed here for six. Why would you want to leave this organization? If they'd gone out in the second round, some of those guys would have left.

Oh, no doubt. Because it wouldn't have felt like a parade at the end. Yeah. I agree. These guys genuinely do love each other. I had a friend that was in the Bahamas at the same time they were. And he's like, the wives are just like on the phones watching their boyfriends and husbands just love each other's company. In the pool, just being guys, growing out. Right.

It's then when you realize, I don't think anybody actually wants to leave. And provided that Florida just hits the low end of what their hopes and expectations are in terms of offers, these guys are going to stick around. Brad Marshan didn't really have this huge loyalty to Florida. We reported yesterday that if Florida just merely matched what Boston had for him, he would just 50-50 to take it. And he did for Florida, not for Boston. I feel like them coming down from two games against Toronto...

had nothing to do with kismet or luck. It had to do with how good the Panthers proved that they are. No, no, no. Listen, what you just said is the nature of sports. You could put every dynasty hinges on that kind of thing that you just said. On a couple of plays, a couple of moments. Most dynasties aren't down 3-0 after three games. They weren't. They were down two. I'm saying they would have been down 3-0. Would have, could have. A deflection in overtime that has nothing to

do with whether or not they're better than Toronto. Something random happens in an overtime as it can. A penalty. A bad call happens in overtime. They would have been down 3-0 and they would have been done. Nature of sports. Yeah, destiny. It's still Toronto. If anybody can blow it, it's them.

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