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Without knowing that you guys were about to turn the microphones on, Greg Cody just said to me, like as you were counting me in, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, because he didn't have his headsets on, heard you had my nemesis Zaslo on yesterday. Zaslo says he's invited to your birthday party because you said everybody who's on air here is invited to your birthday party. That's open to debate.

Sorry, Zaslow. Don't count on it. I'm not in charge of that list. Okay? I didn't even want it brought up. Christopher brings it up. All of a sudden, it's in the ether. David Sampson wants to go, too. Oh, he's invited. We love David Sampson.

No, he's a big fan. Not sure about the and one. He's a big fan. Of yours? No, I'm a big fan of David Sampson's. I always have been. All right, I'm a little worried, Chris. He didn't know the microphones were going to come on, and he hasn't been really alert this week about everything that's happening around here. His stamina on Tuesday became a wonderful problem in that the whole show derailed for the last hour in the most wonderful way because...

His stamina fell apart because he'd been off for a month and he'd forgotten what it's like to get back on. Him doing two shows this week, you see how sluggish he's come out of the gate, right? Sluggish? Doesn't know he's on air, doesn't know are we talking privately, are we talking publicly? Tony, that is good. That is good analysis by you. Real lazy slop right out of the gate. Not giving us great strength out of the seat, but...

In honor of the spirit of the seat, Maximum Lazy. Because Jeremy came to me before the show today and said, the WFAN subreddit, and God Almighty, that's a phrase I never wanted to utter. I don't want to be, I believe that to be

the path in hell that has flames on the side and every once in a while somebody jumps out of the shrubbery and stabs you with a pitchfork, it's the WFAN subreddit. Like, whatever that comment section is. But evidently, it has turned violently on Stugatz. Stugatz thought he was going to go to New York and get some sort of hero's welcome because he's back in sports radio. And they're telling me that's not what's happened. Absolutely.

I thought the subreddit was bad. So I went to Twitter and was like, oh, maybe that'll be different. And then saw the first tweet. This tool, Stu Gatz, is the most annoying, non-talented person in sports media. How bad is it?

How bad has the reception been? That bad. Well, because Taylor around here has it's been interesting to watch Taylor, who thinks of Stugatz as a bit of a hero. And at the very beginning of all of this this week, Taylor was very excited. And now he's mortified because he's seen the inner workings of the machine.

And he wrote me at 630 this morning. It's just breathtaking how he goes to host New York sports radio and still refuses to watch what people want to talk about. I'm insulted how he cannot be bothered to watch what people are talking about. The worst part of it is all he needs to do is fake it through the Mets. It's his team. It's his team.

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Chris Cody, what kind of dad are we going to get today? Is Greg Cody ready to rise above the slop that he just gave us in the first four minutes and give us greatness today the way that he did at the end of Tuesday's show when he became delirious and fell apart and the whole show fell in a ditch? I think he's going to do fine, but I don't think he's going to be able to recreate Tuesday because that was a good show. He was on it and he wasn't on it, but that's how it works with him. Yeah.

All right. He is here and he is already swigging vigorously from the cup, which is something he normally does only when he has done something great, which he has not yet done today. I'm anticipating greatness. That's why I'm taking a pre-greatness swig. Okay. You love to refer to a swig as vigorous.

Well, because of the way, I mean, look at the way you do it. Show me. Do it again. No, because you do it, because you do the Kermit sipping tea. I'm so good. I love all the things that I am. My God, my farts smell like roses. Like, I'm so great. You're getting all of that out of the way I sip coffee? Does give it off. You're getting all of that?

Like, I'm saying how great I am by the way I... Put it on the poll, Juju. Does Greg Cody sip coffee as if he's incredibly pleased with himself? It's not ridiculous. It's how it happens every time. Again, he's anticipating greatness, Dan. He's getting his mind right for the swigs of greatness later on by establishing the greatness of swigs now. I tell you, Tony's got it right, man. He nailed it.

We'll see how good you are today without the constant support of Billy. Let's see if Tony can give you what it is that you need. He's already done it. Yeah, let's see. Nobody said it better than Tony. Thank you. We will see together as a show. Look, I am intent. We celebrate our 20th anniversary this year, and I am intent over the course of the next year of really showing people that

the innards of our thing in all of the unpleasant ways because Stugatz isn't faking it with this is a contract here. You know how I'm going to get a big contract? By being my worst possible self and let the bidding war start. And so we're going to have some messiness here.

Some of the stuff that broke up Joe Budden and Rory and Mal, like some of that stuff is going to make an appearance. And I want everyone to see the innards of this. It's going to make people uncomfortable. But one of the things I want to show them is...

The constant Billy support that Greg gets on Tuesdays, that Greg has somehow been fooled into thinking is real and has made Billy one of the most popular characters in the history of this show because he's faking it on Tuesdays in his support of you. No, it's real. And I told Tony before the show, if he supports me in a Billy-ish way, he's earned an invitation to my... Another great point by Greg, Dan. Thank you. Thank you, Tony.

The kid's learning. Tony's not yet invited to. Is Jessica invited? Jessica's invited. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah. You've got to draw the line somewhere. Tony's in. He's in with the in crowd. But where's the line for you? What's that? Where's the line for you? Lewis, probably. Oh! I'm kidding!

I know. What does that mean? If you're on the line, though, is it like Ty goes to the runner? Or is it like when it's on the line in tennis, that's in. That means that Lewis is in, but he's right on the line. It's like Mission Impossible where Tom Cruise slides right under the garage door. He's like, just get in. Yeah, that's all up to my wife. Anyone insulted by not being invited, blame Erlene.

Is Jeremy invited? Oh, he's a member of the Hee Haw 3. Come on, Dan. Insane. Don't try to sow division. I'm asking. I don't believe the audience knows who's invited to the 70th birthday party. It doesn't sound...

Are you busy with your texts? What's going on with your texts? Look, I can't do everything at once. Right, but so how about you just do the show? Okay, how about I'm doing... What I was doing just now was turning down my volume so that you wouldn't hear... Mid-show, that's the perfect time to do that. You know, the phone goes off and then you're yelling at me because I'm...

It didn't turn my phone off, so that kind of thing. Yeah, Jeremy, he's a valuable member of the Hee Haw 3. Of course he's going to be there. There's a rumor that the Hee Haw 3 might perform a song at the party. I can't confirm that. I just made it up, just a second. Lovely birthday cruise, perhaps. It's been a lovely cruise. Birthday?

We'll see. Speaking of Greg Cody-related rumors, I am told that you question Ron McGill's almost died at the hands and the feet and the horns of a buffalo in Africa. I am told you question that story by sources. And I'm told, after you said, I'm a very good bet... See, that was not a vigorous wig. That was a...

I don't know. What's the opposite of vigorous? That was a languid swig. Casual? A very casual swig. Conveying not overconfidence or greatness, but the opposite. After you announced that you are a very good bad driver and we learned you ran into only one hunger wall in Ireland and also... Famine wall. I'm sorry. My bad. My bad. Kind of the opposite. I mean, is it?

I feel like they're kind of synonymous there. If there's famine, there's hunger. But still, my bad. Famine wall. Great potato shortage of 1840. My bad. The thing that I was saying about his driving. He claimed to be a good, bad driver. And we then learned he ran into a famine wall. He ran into something in a garage. He ran into shrubs. And then I was told by a source that you recently were in the car.

With some other people, I don't know whether you ran over the curb right then or earlier, but that the car had to be taken in for all four rims to be readjusted because of how poorly you generally drive. I mean, like many people, I'll hop a curb occasionally. Pardon me. Sitting in this Stugatz chair has gotten to my voice. Not the coffee.

No. Greg, coffee. What? Greg, just hit the off button. That's $15 in fines. Just hit the off button. I already gave you a Euro 10 the other day. Would you invest that? Greg, just hit the giant button. Hit the giant button that says off the lower left-hand corner. Okay. He usually doesn't sit there, and he usually doesn't have control over his own microphone button, so we should give him a little bit of time to adjust. Thank you.

$15. You're already invited. You don't got to butter me up. Okay. I'm hoping for a plus two. What, Willow? No, no dogs allowed. Sorry. No children other than my beloved granddaughter and no dogs allowed. Unless they're service dogs. You don't want to get in the way of that. Heaven forbid I would prevent a dog from going on my birthday yacht because somebody claims they need a support animal. All right, relax.

I mean, and maybe they do. Don't get me wrong. Are you against service animals? Is that the take? It's gotten out of hand. You can't go on an air... You can't walk anywhere now. And Levitard brings a dog into a supermarket, which is ridiculous. You can't... I'm walking... I dealt with a lot of airports recently, going to Ireland. And you can't go in an airport now without seeing dogs being walked through an airport. Right.

But you never see a dog take a crap in an airport. I always say to my wife, what are you doing? The dog's got to go when it's got to go. You say that to your wife. But you never see a dog take a crap, but they must take a crap.

I mean, what happens when a dog takes a crap in an airplane? The guy sitting next to him is like calling the stewardess or flight attendant. Most dogs are potty trained, right? Are they? Yeah. Not my dog. Jumping Charlie. They don't go to the bathroom that often.

I mean... Anytime someone comes over my dad's house, Charlie starts peeing all over the floor everywhere. It's ridiculous. Oh, he's an excited peer. I guarantee you, Levitard's dog is taking a crap in the middle of the vegetable, canned vegetable aisle. Well, we know that. Yeah. And he didn't pick it up. There's no question about that. At Levitard's show, I've got a number of different questions. You guys think I'd buy canned vegetables. You buy zero vegetables. That's funny.

Tony's on it today, man. Thank you, Greg. All questions to be put on the poll at Levitard Show. Have you ever seen a dog take a crap in the airport? Is it okay to bring a dog to the grocery store?

And are you for or against service animals? Because Greg's going very close to... Look. Look what? No. You don't... Talking to the mic. Greg, the microphone. That's right. What is that picture? What's the picture, Greg? This guy's microphone keeps falling. Don't paint me anti-service dog. Please. What I'm saying is...

you know a lot of fraud going on with the service dog situation okay if you truly need a service dog more power to you bring it anywhere you like except on my birthday yacht that's my row what's that except in your row oh i mean it's it's just i don't want to be in a row with a i would rather be in a uh sitting next to a caterwauling baby infant than um

It's just a bad decision by you. It's not true. Catterwalling? Catterwalling? What does that mean? You know, bawling. A bawling baby. B-A-W-L-I-N-G. How are you feeling right now about how everything's going? I feel great. You know, I'm taking vigorous swigs out of my coffee, so I must feel great.

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That's the formula, man. Me being mean to the co-host is what allows Stugatz to take a very wealthy vacation right now. Stugatz. It's a winning position for everyone but me. Have you guys not figured this out yet? That's the whole thing is me being rotten straight, man, as everyone else gets to be incompetent and I yell at them for being incompetent. And here's the miracle of it. It's the magic elixir. Bad, which is the only thing Greg Cody can be, becomes good and lovable.

And it's because standing next to obnoxious strident me makes everyone look that way. And the brush with death helped. Yeah, that was planned by me. The whole thing was contrived. This is the Don Levitas Show with the Stugats. To reiterate, I am not anti-service dog. I don't mean to... The last thing on earth I want to do is demean people who genuinely need a service dog. I'm pro-dog. I've owned several dogs. Buried all but one of them. What?!

The current one, yeah. Yeah, Jumpin' Charlie is alive and well. Riley was not buried. Well, you don't use the word buried literally. Well, you actually literally buried a few of your cats many years ago. Right, yeah, in shoeboxes. Puddin'. Puddin'. Yeah, yeah. Wow, Puddin'. I'd forgotten about her, or him, whatever it was. I think it was a gal, a gal cat. A gat. That's right. Ha ha ha!

Imagine being dumb enough to bury a cat in a shoebox as if that's a casket. As if the shoebox will not disintegrate in the earth in a matter of weeks, but somewhere in my backyard. Aren't your deck shoes back there, too? Yeah.

And you never remember where you buried something, you know? So Puddin's over here. The deck shoes are over here. You know, it's just a crapshoot whether or not you dig. You didn't make a little marker, though, Greg? No. A tombstone? No. For Puddin? Unmarked grave.

I have a number. I think that is what Earl Woods' wife did to Earl Woods because she was so mad that Tiger's dad, her husband, cheated on her and shamed her. I'm pretty sure he buried him in the backyard, buried him in an unmarked popper's grave somewhere that doesn't even have a name on it. I'm pretty sure that happened. But I have a number of different questions.

for greg cody based on everything i just learned and what i believe to have been just the articulation of one of the saddest cemeteries i've ever heard of two cats in shoe boxes one of them named puddin i'm assuming no g at the end just an apostrophe hanging in that box that's not a coffin and a couple of 30 year old boat shoes like that's unbelievable and that's a sadder cemetery than the one earl woods is it

That's an unbelievably sad cemetery. Why? Because, what do you mean why? Listen to what you just described. There are many dead cats is there, as there are shoeboxes with dead cats, as there are shoes. What?

In fact, there might be more shoeboxes. I don't remember how you buried the boat shoes. Are they in a shoebox or are they just two straight shoes? Inexplicably, there's two things buried. There's a cat and shoes. For some reason, the cat is in a shoebox and the shoes aren't. Yeah, that's true. That's a good point by you.

I think Yaz is also buried in my backyard. Is that a person or is that a... No, that's... I named... Isn't that a birth control? You know what? That always annoyed me that they purloined the great nickname Yaz into a birth control pill, which I think is now defunct. But my first adult cat, I named Yaz after my childhood hero. And I think Yaz is also buried in my backyard, but I can't remember.

Your mother would know, Christopher. I'll ask her. How is it? I mean, I can't believe there are many people in our audience who have buried something in their backyard and can't remember. Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show. Have you ever buried something in your backyard and now can't remember whether you did or not? It's years ago. I understand that that's what you're blaming the memory loss on, but if I were to bury a beloved thing in my yard, I would remember whether or not I had done it. Doubt it.

You guys think I'm the weird one here? Yes, absolutely. I don't believe that I'm the weird one here. People don't do that, especially today. Maybe that was a thing in the 90s. Yeah, bring it back. Jack. Yeah, what better way to memorialize a dearly departed pet than to keep him or her close to you?

My grandfather also buried dogs in the backyard of my mom's childhood home. Like, there was a dog, Leon, who, lion in English, he looked like a lion, buried him in the backyard. Yeah. Thank you. But in a shoebox? Oh, not in a shoebox. He was a big dog. Yeah. I mean, honestly, Puddin barely fit in that shoebox. Oh, my God. So now you're squeezing a cat, a dead cat, in tightly to a... A dearly departed cat.

Get him a bigger shoebox. Does Puddin... Is there a G at the end of that or not? No, there's not. It's an apostrophe, as you said. Shoeboxes, by the way, are getting huge now. Has anyone else noticed that? Shoeboxes, they always used to be the exact same size. The little shoebox rectangle that everyone was familiar with. Now, a shoebox...

They can be this, they're unnecessarily big. So in the modern day, pudding would have fit very comfortably in today's shoebox. It's only in yesterday's shoebox that it was a tight fit.

Is he right about that? Because I know that some high-end shoes have bigger shoe boxes. But those aren't the ones you're buying. You're not buying anything over $100. I know some of the best stylish, not just dress shoes, but Nike and popular shoes might come in a more ornate

packaging meant to give off this as a treasure chest. Yeah, ridiculous. But not the shoes you're buying. The Skechers you were, I'm sure you're wearing again today. No, I'm wearing my deck shoes. Thank you. My Skechers cost in the neighborhood of $80.

If I'm paying $100 for a pair of shoes, there better be a couple of $20 bills in each shoe because it's ridiculous. It's like people, you know, spending thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of dollars for an autograph or a piece of memorabilia. You know, it's ridiculous. He's right. Bring back cheap shoes. Yeah.

Right. Tony, I'm surprised to hear you say that. That's in support of you, but Tony does not agree with what you say. No, he's a shoeaholic. Tony loves expensive shoes. I've got more questions. One of them being who's to blame for Jumpin' Charlie's lack of discipline? Jumpin', a second pet that you have that has no G, another apostrophe, correct? Yeah. Jumpin'. The irony is you're a big G guy.

you've got you've got both the g's in your name that you wouldn't give to your cats puddin was named puddin was before uh my marriage i mean puddin was named and reared by earlene jumpin charlie is a bad dog because of you jumpin charlie's not a bad dog he's a yeah he's a lot beautiful dog greg greg he pisses himself when the company comes over that's textbook excited that's

He chews up your sofa. He used to. He's not as bad about that now. He won't stop jumping up and down. That's true. That's true. His name's Jumpin' Charlie, Dan. Yeah, I mean, seriously. Stop sitting, Charlie. I ain't lying with that name.

Yeah, and he won't get a nail clip at the vet. That's a problem. The vet gives me sedatives to give the dog now. Next time I bring the dog in for a nail clip, four hours before the appointment, I have to give the dog sedatives so he won't go so crazy getting his nail clipped. At Levitard Show.

Is your dog a bad dog if the vet has to drug it to calm it down? I don't know how you define a bad dog if all of the things I'm putting in front of you, chews everything up, won't stay off the furniture, won't stop jumping around and pisses itself when the company comes over and we have to sedate the holy hell out of it in order to get it to interact with the vet.

I'm insulted. I'm insulted here. Why? Because when I used to pee on company, you'd get really mad at me, but Charlie can do it. Yes, exactly. Charlie's still an old puppy. He just turned two in March or April, and so he's still a young dog, learning, teaching, absorbing, getting better. Doesn't chew Barbie dolls and furniture nearly as much as he used to.

Can you guys get for me what's happening with the WFAN subreddit? Is Taylor out there ready so that he can give me an update on everything going on with Stugatz? Because we are headed into a contract year, and while some of you are going to get tired of me talking about Stugatz here or not being here...

We kind of have to fill the chair when he's not here. Greg Cody has done so magnificently this week. A lot of you loved Zaslow here. I believe that this chair is the best chair anywhere in sports media. Wow. I want to get to...

everything that's happening in sports media because I don't think Tim Legler is going back to ESPN. It seems like Around the Horn is going to be gone soon and so in pieces ESPN is making fundamental changes that I want to talk about because the media, I don't know, Tim Legler is great and I look around and I'm like and where's he going to work next?

Like, where are the places for great people now that the market is shrinking? Stugatz seems to think he's still living in the golden age of media when you can go to WFAN, star for a week, and parlay it into something. But he doesn't seem to be noticing that all of media is...

is collapsing all around him. Taylor, is Taylor now ready? Chris Cody, so that I can go to him. Taylor, what is going on so far this week with your experience listening to Stugatz? I felt for you, right? Because sports radio is terrible. New York sports radio is a special kind of acidic and Stugatz not trying?

and doing New York sports radio is not something I would ever want to listen to. So how has that gone for you? Yeah, I'm perusing the Reddit right now on WFAN. It's not going well, to say the least, but I'm insulted that Stu couldn't even be bothered to watch the Subway Series with this dead period in sports. The Yankees and the Mets are playing. It was basically served up for him on a tee. Hey, you just have to watch these games.

And to be honest with you, I'm more embarrassed in myself that I thought he would try this week. Well, here's a funny thing about you thinking that he would try. In terms of on a platter, how little effort he's being asked to make, it's not even two baseball games he has to watch. He's just got to watch the Yankees play against the Mets.

They could talk about that for four hours there. It's just one regular season game. The Mets won 12 to three. Hey, grimace is great. Let's talk about that. Can you, do you have any sound there, Chris? Because you told me before the show that the hosts have already figured out that he is not in a good camouflage, that he doesn't know what he's talking about. Do you believe me now that the Yankees are in trouble? Did,

Did this game and this series prove to you that this team right now... First off, did you watch the game last night? I did not watch the game. As I mentioned before, Eddie, I was walking around the street smoking joints. Did you watch the highlight package? I didn't watch the highlight package. What I do is I let Gio set the scene and then I just respond to whatever it is.

That's why. This is why your takes are what your takes are on the Yankees because you just look at the record. It's not so bad. Anybody who thinks that Aaron Boone's going to be fired this morning, he's not going to be fired this morning. He's not getting fired. What do you want him to do? What is he supposed to say to Garrett Cole?

before he goes out. And, you know, gives up six runs last night against the New York Mets. How do you like that, Eddie, for a guy who didn't watch the game, huh? It is wonderful. You pulled that out of the song. Let me just say this. He's got the box score up in front of him. Listen, I have made a career out of reading box scores. You really, you are the patron saint of slackers. You really are. Well, thank you. You are pure sloth. I appreciate it. And it's really admirable. That's awesome.

You're my guy, Eddie. I'm looking at the shipping container, the shipping container. I can't register what is happening there. It feels like cringy disgust from people who love him. He's playing his hits. Like, this is, we know this monster. So, like, I've heard that.

sound a dozen times where he's just like, yeah, look at the box score. And they're just, I love, like, they're marveling at it. Could argue that he's in peak form. He's doing Stugatz the best that he possibly can in that clip. Yeah, but he's supposed to be doing it so much better now at WFN. Like, watch the game. Have a take. Come on strong. And then you can come back here and be like, see, Dano, look how good I was. I still got the fastball. Let me know. Taylor, what do you got out there? It's one thing when he's doing it on this show.

I'm in South Florida, away from New York. I listen to WFAN because it's cathartic for me. I want to hear the host bass, DJ LeMayhew, Glaber Torres, a lack of hustle, a bad pitching staff. It's like he's in my house now and he's making a mess.

Taylor's disgusted. Taylor was, at the beginning of this, he was buoyant. Like, on Tuesday, he was floating on clouds around here, and now it's as if those clouds are covered in battery acid. I'm going to defend Stugatz, okay? He's too big to give you an audition, okay? Stugatz is what he is. We all love him.

He's going on WFAN to be Stu Gatz, not to all of a sudden transmogrify into this expert who watched all the games and has this unique takes. No, he's bigger and better than that. Taylor? I do have to give him some credit, though, because he started to win me back today because he –

he played a great game if George Steinbrenner was still alive, where you say if George Steinbrenner was still alive and then you give a take. So I think his was if George Steinbrenner was still alive, Juan Soto would never hit free agency. And he said that, and I was kind of like, I'm back. I'm back. Yeah, good take. Yeah, he's totally right about that. You're always one good game away from getting everybody back, by the way. One good game.

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Chris, what are you yelling at your father about? Your father's disgusted at the start of the segment. This is now, I think, the fourth or the fifth straight segment going back to Tuesday where you've had to yell at your father as they're counting us in. Five, four, three, two, one. Headphones! Headphones, Dad! Headphones! The one thing he has to do before the segment. What is that photo?

It's a photo of myself when I was... That's you? Yeah, when I was about 17 or 18 years old. Oh. Thank you. That Cody knows. I just noticed it today in my office. Why? I'm going to take a nap now. I don't know. I, you know, I noticed it. Chris, this is what it's going to be for Bronny when he plays late in his career with LeBron. Dad!

Dad, the ball. Bring the ball up, dad. Imagine LeBron dribbling up the court. And then I found a picture of myself. Then he just dribbles out of bounds. He's like, dad. Just dribbles out of bounds. A little more energy. Now, his narcissism. Chris, I feel for you, honestly, because my father, I've dealt with this. And your dad has aged more rapidly than my father because he drinks. You drink 12 beers a night. My father didn't do that. Why not? Why not?

But I'm saying your deterioration has been faster than my father's. I appreciate you saying that, Dan. Thank you very much. That's so kind of you to say. But, Greg, why are you – you're sitting here. Instead of focusing on the show we're doing – I've got a laser focus, and you know it. Instead of focusing on the show that we are presently doing – pretty popular show –

A lot of people listening, a lot of people watching. Right. You're doing the side project of neglecting the audio audience that we are still beholden to more than any other. Love the audio audience. So you show a picture. So you're preoccupied at the start of a segment not putting your headset on because you're very busy putting out for an audio audience that cannot see it a picture of you as a 17-year-old that you've explained to no one in the room. Right. Correct.

Yeah. What's wrong with that? Are you trying to build our YouTube audience? What are you doing here? Use your imagination. I refer to a picture of myself at 17 or 18 years old. You don't see it, so what are you going to do? Use your imagination. What did I look like at 17 or 18? What did any of you look like at 17 or 18? Macaulay Culkin? I feel like.

Thank you, Tony. That's what it looks like from back here, at least. Macaulay Culkin? Yeah, it's kind of hard to see, but... It's black and white. It is like one of those photographs that was taken by a guy with gunpowder hiding under a curtain in the 1910 saloon. The one picture of your great-granddaddy that still exists from back then. He wouldn't understand the iPhone at all, your great-granddaddy, who had one photograph of him taken that way. Chris, you should save this for your...

Your father as a young man almost predates photography. Your father as a young man is something that your granddaughter is going to want to remember because your dad has been drinking 12 beers a day for 30 years and he's deteriorating at a rapid rate of speed. And so ridiculous. I mean, Craig, you've been coughing for six straight years. I haven't coughed in six years.

Greg, you passed out at High Life from trying to stifle coughs. Yeah, but that was a while ago. The new me doesn't cough. You fell at bowling like two months ago. All right. I tripped. What happened? I tripped and fell. Sue me. I thought you fainted. People do that. I may have fainted. I don't know. What difference does it make? Greg, I mean, they got greasy. The lanes are greasy, though. That's the thing, too. Yeah, Bob Greasy. What? Whether I tripped or fainted, what difference does it make?

Water under the bridge. Jeremy, I know that our audience is getting irritated with this, but I really do want to know what the reaction is to Stugatz because Stugatz is trying to parlay WFAN into a career move here or elsewhere. Like he's not hiding that. That's something that he's trying to do as we celebrate our 20th anniversary. Yeah.

And so the reaction, what else as part of the reaction has made you wince and cringe in the commentary on? I can't believe that what I'm using for content here is the WFAN subreddit. Who the hell is he? He sits there like he's freezing. Cap pulled down and a smirk on the whole time as he carries on like some big shot guy come down to sit with the kids. OK, let's see what he has. Dot, dot, dot. All capital letters. Nothing. What the f***?

I mean, the first one, it wasn't all that right about him. Stugatz is big man on campus, coming down with the hat tilt down, a little grin. Stugatz is bigger than anybody at FAN not named Boomer Esiason. Bigger than any one of them. That's not up for dispute. And also smaller. And also smaller. And also trying the move. He's been hiding under his hat for four years, hoping nobody notices he doesn't know anything. And the move that he's doing...

I remember, God, what was the name? I think it was Jose Robles, a University of Miami second baseman, baseball player who was like five foot four. And his teammates would just yell at him from the dugout in the field. Hey, who left the cap on the field at second base?

Because he was so small. That's funny. Stugatz is trying... Stugatz at the end of this just wants to be a baseball cap that is in front of a microphone and you don't even notice whether it's there or not. It's just Chris Cody hitting a laugh track on his behalf because he's trying to physically hide. But...

He rolls like a big shot because all he's doing in New York is collecting parking fees. What's the sound that you said that you had for me, Chris, on him explaining how it is? I don't even know. What do you need a car for in New York? What do you? I don't believe the grand majority of people in New York do not have a car, correct? Yeah, it's very expensive, as we will hear about in this clip. Unless you got someone else covering the bill. And you found free street parking, I'm sure. I did not. No, no.

parking garage for four days oh my god i mean leviton's paying for it so it doesn't matter oh is he well you're not well i know we're not yeah i mean i wouldn't personally nor would the company it's been sitting there uh see i got it monday oh so it's been sitting on the lower west side uh for three or four days now all right that's that's over under 1200 bucks

What do you think? Over or under $1,200? $1,200? Yeah, yeah. If I show up there and the guy tells me, hey, $1,200, I'm telling you right now, I'm walking out, I'm leaving the car there. You can't do that, right? He's saving you money. He's saving Dan money.

We are not paying for that. Although I guess we are paying for that in that he's being paid to work there this week. And so that money will go to paying him wastefully parking his car there. I wonder if Lower West Side is like a generational thing. I've never heard anyone say that except Stugatz.

Do we know if he's been to Metal Ark? Our offices are right across the street from there. Do we know if he has visited everyone else? Is there anything he can steal from our office? Gonna take the under. There's some dude wipes there, I think. Quote, he also laughs at everything he says, no matter how unfunny it is. How can you get a sports talk radio job and not like sports? Like, what the f***?

What's the point? Harsh. That's tough. I feel for Stu Gantz. And subreddit. I mean, what an insult. Why is it called subreddit? This guy's thing is that he just laughs like a lot? What? Stu Gantz is Stu Gantz, man. He's one of a kind. Dan, I also have an update. Jorge Robles. Not Jose. Jorge. He was 5'7".

Small for a second basement. Thank you, Tony. I appreciate that correction. We pride ourselves on accuracy around here.

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