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Greg's here.

Hey, Greg. Hey, hey everybody.

How's it going, Greg?

It's going well, Zazz. How are you?

Good to see you.

Good to see you.

Yeah, so we got a lot to get to today. Good morning to everybody out there. Huh, dog looks like he's chewing on something. Let's get that under control, Trista.

He's fluffing.

Okay, all right. It's a little distracting.

You know about that fluffing, Greg?

I do know about that fluffing.

You big fluffer?

I got a dog and a cat.

Yeah, how many times a week?

You like a good fluffer?

I like fluff.

Yeah, fluffer's very underrated role.

I'm into fluffery.

Thankless job.

Very thankless. Yeah.

Okay, Greg, what do you think about Dolly Parton? Dolly Parton passed away yesterday. Yeah, these, these type of like celebrity deaths are always interesting to me because you'll get the news yesterday that Dolly Parton passed away. Iconic, obviously. But we'll get the news that Dolly Parton passed away and people will be really sad, you know? And I think, I think it's always a nice occasion to hear all the great things that this person did, you know? Like, she was 80 years old. She lived a really full, great life. And I usually take the attitude of, of celebrating in that spot as opposed to being sad. And I really enjoyed yesterday hearing and reading all of the tributes, and it's a reminder of all the things that they did throughout their life, the great things, the philanthropic things, and the kind of person that they were. Because all these stories that I'm hearing from people, she seemed like just the sweetest woman. So Yeah, it's sad, I mean, she passed away, but 80 years old, super full and meaningful life, and I've been enjoying over the last, you know, we're talking almost 24 hours, just hearing about how great she was.

Yeah, it was— I think it was a meaningful death to hear about for me. You know, I've followed her career ever since she and Kenny Rogers did "Islands of the Stream," which I think is one of the great songs. I always judge a celebrity's death by how my wife and I interact on the news, and I heard it a little bit before she did. And when I heard it, I texted my wife and said, oh my gosh, Dolly Parton just died.

Which you got to do when you find that news. I know, but you have it first. You tell people, right? So that you can be the person to tell them.

But I never use the phrase, oh my gosh. But I thought it was fitting. Okay. It was fitting to say gosh.

I don't know why, but I just think it was as opposed to like, oh my God.

Yeah.

You're not an oh my God guy.

You're not my gosh.

Yeah. Oh my gosh.

I assume you just wrote OMG.

No, I did not.

You wrote it out?

Yeah.

Oh my gosh, Dolly Parton just died.

Did you dictate it? Oh my gosh, period.

No, it was a short enough text where I actually wrote it.

Wouldn't you put, oh my gosh, exclamation point?

That's true. But I love to hear—

No, because that's the king of doing that. You know, you don't want to exclaim about a death.

Old people love to dictate texts into their phone.

I do. But to your point, the consensus I got from hearing all the reaction yesterday was everybody loved Dolly Parton. Yeah, she was not polarizing. You don't hear much bad about her.

Yeah.

You know, she was across country and pop and Americana. She was all kind of music. Yeah. I mean, it's— I think it's a major loss for the entertainment industry.

My favorite thing I saw yesterday, I loved what Eminem shared. Did anyone see what Eminem shared about her? It was like so sweet.

Hell yeah.

He wrote like this really nice thing, like they never got to meet. All right. But he shared this letter that she wrote him or sent him one time after he won an award, and she went on about how, "I don't know anything about rap music, but you're incredible." And it was the sweetest note she wrote him.

Right, when she lost the award to Three 6 Mafia, she wrote them boys a note as well. So it's like, salute. She's just a great human being, man.

Yeah, I've really enjoyed that aspect as someone who doesn't know a ton about Dolly Parton.

Sippin' on some Sizzurp.

I just, I liked reading all these anecdotes, and for those who are watching on video, you could see Eminem posted on his Twitter account the message, the note that Dolly Parton sent him after an award, and it's just so, you know what, I'll read it real quick.

It's cool he kept it.

I'll read it real quick. Yeah, well, and he wrote on his tweet how meaningful this was to him. "Congratulations on your induction into the Rock Hall of Fame," she writes. "Your performance was amazing, everybody said so." Even though I don't know a lot about rap music, I've come to know that you are the very best at it. Aside from that— it's such a sweet thing to say— aside from that, I hope what I have to say will not seem weird or strange to you, but I've always felt some unexplained connection to you, like I know you somehow. I had hoped to meet you at the show, but you know how nuts those things are. Personally, I hate 'em and I missed my chance, but maybe someday we'll meet. In the meantime, keep doing what you're doing because you do it so well, and no matter how complex your world may be, 'Just know you are very special and touch people in ways you don't even know. Love and respect, Dolly Parton.' That's a really sweet message.

Yeah, and there's no— you don't sense an ulterior motive to that. She's not looking for anything from Eminem. I mean, she's just— it's kind, it's sweet.

Yeah, so I've— and, you know, you hear some of the music and it's like, 'Oh, that's Dolly Parton, that song?' Like, I heard some of that yesterday where I didn't realize that was—

I wasn't thinking there was an ulterior motive.

Ulterior motive?

What would that even be?

I don't— it wasn't even in the cards for me, but now—

She's trying to bleep them.

Okay, no, no, here's the thing. Dolly a couple of years ago put out Pound Town, put out an album with, uh, with artists you wouldn't associate her collaborating with.

Go ahead.

Like rock artists and stuff like that. And so it's nice. An ulterior motive, right, might have been, hey Eminem, uh, can we do a duet on my latest album? But there was none of that.

She should have ended it with P.S. we should be together too.

Okay, well, that, you know There are weirder couples in Hollywood.

So, Klay Thompson yesterday, Greg, was introduced to the Miami media.

Yeah, I heard about that.

And Trista, did you see, uh, he was introduced to Miami traffic immediately upon his arrival here, yeah?

Oh yeah, I saw that he basically was late to it because I guess Biscayne Boulevard was action-packed, jam-packed. Good thing he has a boat. From now on, he can just pull up in the sail. Is it a sailboat or a speedboat? I don't know what kind of—

I don't know.

It's the Stallion.

When I close my eyes, I do picture him in a captain's hat.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He loves boating.

Does he?

Oh, yeah. He's like a huge boating— pick the right city, you know, fisherman. I have, by the way, I'll plug real quick. I got Klay Thompson joining me on Zaslo Show 2.0 today.

Hey, did you ask him what he thinks about using the term wench in 2026?

I spoke to him yesterday, so I will let— I'll let you know. It's a taped interview, all right? Although every podcast is taped, right? So does it even matter if it— well, if I taped before the taping?

This one's live.

Yeah, but do you consider this show a podcast?

Wow, yeah, 100%.

Just one of the biggest sports.

I feel like this is a most influential— I feel like this is a—

this is a—

a lot—

this is a show that is— that is then released in podcast form.

I think we've pivoted slightly, but most people still ingest us via podcast.

Okay, uh, can I ask you a question about Zaslow 2.0? Yes.

At what point does it just return to Zaslow Show?

Yeah, never, never. That part of my life is over. That's done.

I got a question. Are you interested in a Zaslow 3.0?

Oh, I don't think so. I don't think so.

You think 2.0 nailed it?

I— yeah, I think so.

Then just go Zaslow Show.

If we get to 3.0, things have gone wrong.

Yeah, I already told you.

Yeah, life happened.

Yeah, Zaslow Show 2.0.

The Zaslow Show, or even The Zaslow Show, which is what it was called on local radio. The Zaslow Show. There's no more the. The Zaslow Show.

So you dropped the the.

I dropped the the.

The ziner.

I dropped the the.

That happened subtly about 5 or 7 years ago. The Miami Herald became just Miami Herald. Yeah.

Yeah, that's nice branding. So I'm suggesting you drop the 2.0.

No, The Zaslow Show is—

I don't like the 2.0.

That's in my past.

I don't like 2.0.

That's not part of my life anymore.

Yeah, but you've reintroduced yourself to a broader audience.

2.0.

I'm with Mike, 2.0's odd.

But you've got a broader audience, and most of the people listening now, thanks to being a part of the Le Batard and Friends Network, don't know about the one— don't know about 1.0.

Well, there was never a 1.0. Is it like when a movie comes out, the movie's not called Part One?

But this is— but you're seeing the sequel for the first time. The bulk of your audience is seeing the sequel.

It's not really a sequel, it's just this is, this is the next version.

What's the implication of 2.0 then?

This is, uh, it's the next version, next phase.

Drop the 2.0.

Yeah, it's confusing.

No, everyone, every— you have a whole room here.

No one's confused.

No, it's, it's confusing. It's rotten. Um, The Greg Cody Show has never dropped the 'the' and will not add 2.0. We like to be streamlined. We like to be old school. We're a small private individual. We're not connected officially with the Levittard Network, and yet we thrive on pedaling as fast as we can.

We may add another Greg Cody to the title, but never 2.0.

That's true. We would add a third Greg Cody.

I put it on the poll. Should, should Zaslo drop the 2.0?

If they say yes overwhelmingly, will you do it?

No, they're not in charge.

I'm about to make a top 5 list of Zaslo, uh, new podcast, uh, name possibilities.

Okay.

Oh good, I like that. Okay, but I want to hear that.

But I'm telling you, for all, all intents and purposes—

what? Did you just give it an intent and purpose?

Yeah, for all intents and purposes. That's not right.

It is. Intents and purposes.

Yes. Okay. It sounded weird though. For all intents and purposes. Yeah.

You have more than one intention.

Right.

Intents.

Okay.

Like I was saying.

Drop the 2.0.

That's, that's in my past.

2.0 should be in your past.

You're not supposed to look in the rearview mirror.

No, we're looking forward.

Supposed to look forward.

You're always looking forward. Drop the 2.0 doesn't mean you're looking behind.

No, it absolutely does.

You already dropped the the.

Studies show that people don't like 2.0.

It's true.

There's never been a study.

Yeah, there has.

Yes. And you've also built the expectation that there will soon one day be a 3.0.

Good.

Leave them wanting more. Wait and see. Hashtag wait and see.

That's not your thing.

I just coined that. Hashtag wait and see.

That's already being used.

That's mine now.

That's David Sampson's.

I own that phrase now.

Quit stealing other people's material.

That's rich coming from you. So Klay Thompson was introduced to the Miami media yesterday. And I spoke to Klay yesterday. It's going to be on Zaslo Show 2.0. Yeah, we heard that today. Yeah, I'm rehashing the story. People forget. All right.

Yeah. Okay.

I got sidetracked by nonsense. And I'll tell you, to me, you know, look, he's a professional. Maybe to put on—

I—

he seemed to me really excited to be here. He seemed really happy to be here. Maybe because he really did not like his last year in Dallas. I don't know.

He was in purgatory.

Okay.

Who would like that?

Who would like that? Okay. To play with Luka, and then Luka ends up getting traded and you're now with Cooper Flagg, which is fine, but you're just sitting there in the middle of nonsense. Everybody's talking about fire Nico and yeah, of course he's happy. He looks a little fluffy. I wish he would have gotten on a treadmill before he got to Miami.

Take it easy.

All right.

So training camp, that's what training camp's for.

Sorry.

Can you imagine if we said that about a WNBA player?

That's right.

We don't live in a matriarchy. We live in a patriarchy. Women are already sexualized. We can continue to sexualize men? That's just leveling the playing field.

It's true! That's only fair. Talk to me— for example let me ask you this: who is a WNBA player who's considered to be...

Oh boy.

No no no go on. Let's not.

This is putting men and women athletes on an equal footing.

I'll take a crack at it here we go.

Okay, it's okay to say that one on whatever team, the Jets or all girls—

Jella tell him this is okay.

Oh boy. Who's a heavy WNBA player? I'm just asking you. Oh boy.

Don't have any.

Okay. Perfect league. Oh boy.

I'll have to take your word for it.

Perfect league. Nobody's overweight.

Oh boy. Juju, put on the poll. Are there any heavy WNBA players?

Oh boy.

I see Juju having an internal struggle right now. Go with this.

Down Levitar.

Baker Mayfield tearing up Tampa Bay. 38 for 45.

Great Cody.

Shred 'em. This is the down Levitar.

The Avatar Show.

Blake kind of looked like an uncle.

Yeah, well, that means he looked old, right?

Yeah, he looks like an auntie.

So like, I got a little scared. I got, I got a little— oh boy, I got a little scared seeing the photo shoot. And keep in mind, you know, we still have training camp around the corner. And Klay's never been like this body guy, but there were people drawing comparisons. Who's a body guy? Klay's not one of them. People were drawing comparisons to like, oh no, he's doing the washed pose.

What's the washed pose?

Washed pose is like when you put the basketball up on your shoulders.

Oh yeah.

And people were doing the side-by-side of him next to Shaq.

Oh, Celtic Shaq.

And him next to KG and in a Nets uniform.

Okay, so hold on a second. If those poses, the ball on the shoulder and also the holding the ball in front of your stomach with two hands, if those are the wash poses, what other poses are there with a basketball?

I don't think—

Do you want him spinning it on his finger?

I think it's more— I think it's more his face.

It's this one.

Maybe he can't palm it.

Ball out.

Palming it straight out.

Yeah.

There's also two hands on it, kind of like with your elbows out.

Yeah, I saw the images and I'm like, oh, see, now we got Paul George doing the wash pose. Oh, good look. I saw the image and I was like, look, I'm hoping that this works out, but I can see a future in which this is in some sort of social media montage of guys' last stops that you wouldn't think.

Mm.

Right up there with like the Patrick Ewing Sonics.

Is that the weirdest—

Yeah, that happened.

Great player, washed, stop.

Olajuwon was with the Raptors.

Yep.

Patrick— do you go Patrick Ewing Sonics or Patrick Ewing Magic?

Both uniforms looked really bad on him.

Yeah, yeah.

Shaq Celtics is a good one.

Patrick Ewing never changed his aesthetic while the uniforms did. Wow, Keith Van Horn. I mean, that was when Keith Van Horn still had it cooking.

No, Keith Van Horn had great years with the Nets.

Great socks too.

Yeah.

Remember Keith Van Horn? But he does look like a bad basketball player in that pose. It's, it's not really easy to look good.

Yeah. Good bicep though.

Remember Keith Van Horn got traded after he was retired? That's a flex.

Yeah. How many times did Luke Ridnour get traded like in one month?

I don't know.

And I don't even think he was playing basketball at the time.

Go look it up.

Nah, I don't care enough.

Maybe that's why I know these, I've been seeing random guys that I didn't know still played basketball announcing their retirement. Maybe they do that so they don't get traded.

Yeah, look at that. Zion Williamson, active player.

Is that the washed pose?

You can't do that. And he's doing a point.

Oh, he's doing the Sam Darnold out indefinitely mononucleosis.

So you're not worried about this Klay thing? You think it's going to work out?

Yeah, I'm pretty—

speaking with him, did he give any insight as to why you might feel even—

well, look, Greg, Greg, I feel like you may not know this about me, but when a player comes on my show, I automatically like them.

Of course you do.

Now I'm biased toward them.

Yeah, you are.

I can be bought. And that's what happened yesterday with Klay Thompson. I'm in on Klay now.

Yeah, low price. Yeah, well, you can be bought.

Yeah.

Okay.

Luke Ritterhauer was traded 4 times within 5 days.

I don't feel you have any loyalty towards your friends.

That— I don't think you could say anything less true than that.

There's one thing I know about Zazz.

Well, 2 things.

Yeah, 2 things. Number 1, he's a cuck. And number— I'm sorry, I screwed that up. He's not a cuck. And number 2, he's very loyal to his friends.

Very, yeah. I don't think you could be— I don't think that statement could— I don't think there could be anything more wrong.

Wait, he's also a 4-3-3 guy in soccer.

Everyone knows that. No, I'm very loyal. I think it's my best character trait.

So Klay Thompson is your guy for life. He could start the season 3-for-21 on 3-point shots and you'll be like, Too early to give up on him.

Yeah, great. Klay Thompson, not even a month ago, called me a wench with the 3 instead of the E. That is true.

Oh boy, he was defending his dog.

He said, keep Rocco's name out of your mouth, you wench.

Okay, but now why don't you— why don't you rewind and tell Greg why he said that? It wasn't just Klay Thompson randomly seeking out Trista Crick and calling her a wench.

Well, I mentioned Rocco, his dog. I didn't know Rocco had passed away.

Oh, RIP Rocco.

You're obviously super tight with your dog.

I don't understand why you didn't see where where it was coming from.

I did see, but the wench, I feel like, needed to be mentioned by Jeremy at the press conference, by you, by someone. And now you're—

no way I was asking him that.

Now you're claiming he's your friend and you're gonna support him. Oh, what about us?

I don't know.

Me and you.

I don't know. I don't think wench is that bad.

I think it's like—

I think it's like calling somebody like a rabble-rouser.

Plus the 3 there, it's like, I don't really know what he's saying.

You're trying to be funny. Means of like loose Yeah, but I don't think he's like that typed into Salem.

Is that what wench means?

It means—

I never thought of loose with wench.

It means witch, right?

A wench is an archaic or humorous term for a girl, young woman, or female servant, though it historically also carried derogatory or secondary meanings.

Ah nah, no one thinks of playhouse—

Damn!

Nah, nobody thinks of it that way. Playhouse.

I think it's in the same lane as who are you calling a cootie queen, you went liquor?!

Oh boy.

It's like saying, like, Jezebel.

Also, no.

No one thinks that's—

Winch is gentle.

You haven't seen Handmaid's Tale?

Winch is a gentle derogatory.

It is gentle.

It's gentle.

Handmaid's Tale.

Flapper.

I mean, come on.

All of these are bad.

No, flapper's not bad. If someone calls me a flapper, I'm immediately disarmed. I'm like, all right, I'm a fan of your lexicon.

Handmaid's Tale might be the only show that I ever watched and a couple episodes in, I couldn't do it. Not because I didn't think it was good, it was too heavy. It was like way too heavy.

I felt that way with The Bear.

What?

I did too.

Yeah, like it's not that intense. I've worked in restaurants.

Episode 7, like it's make or break with this grilled cheese.

Like, let's go. Exactly.

Let's get over ourselves.

And here's the funniest thing about The Bear. It's a comedy. Is it?

It's a dramedy.

It was kind of— The same way Barry was?

No, every episode's like uncut gems and just like, what are we doing? Like someone's hiding tomatoes for some reason because they just want to like get one over and be an asshole to someone.

My cortisol level went through the roof watching The Bear. Couldn't do it.

Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy dramatic.

We got a grease fire!

Yes, chef!

It's just enough.

Blessed be the fruit.

I mean, am I the only one who loved The Bear?

No, I loved The Bear. The Emmy Awards consider it a comedy. I loved The Bear for 5 episodes.

And then season 2 started and I was like, all right, you're not getting me.

I'm out.

Season 2 is incredible.

Did you put it on the poll? Which was more intense? Handmaid's Tale or The Bear?

The fishes episode.

That's the one that got me. I was like, I'm out of here.

It might be. I think it might be the best episode of television I've ever seen.

Look, I think I made the call like I was. I'm not even saying that it was bad. I just made the decision. I think I know where this show is going and from where I'm sitting, the 3 seasons that passed since, I kinda nailed it. The show just continued doing what it was doing.

I'll tell you what Mike Ryan might have nailed. Greg, do you know the band Weezer?

I have heard of Weezer.

You've heard of them. Could you name any songs?

I could not name a song.

Not a one?

No. Hum a few bars, maybe I'll know it if you—

I only like the Blue Album and Pinkerton.

Yeah, those are good ones.

They haven't done anything good since.

Yeah. Yeah. Weezer, what about Weezer?

I mean, you know they have a very famous song which I thought you would be into, a song called Buddy Holly.

It's one of the most famous songs. I know Buddy Holly. I don't know.

No, I know you do.

Okay.

More of a, my name is Jonah Scott.

So. Sing Buddy Holly for me.

Not going to do that.

Okay.

Wee-oo, I look just like Buddy Holly. Oh, oh, and you'll marry Tyler Moore. I don't care what they say about us anyways. I don't care about that.

Yeah, never heard of it. Too American.

So. Mike Ryan tweeted at me, so anyone can go see it, right? You can go check Twitter. Mike Ryan tweeted at me a 21st century—

What's with his homies dissing my girl? Why do they got a front?

A 21st century Weezer playlist. And I listened to it between last night and this morning, all right? Because I love 20th century Weezer. First couple albums.

You tweet last night and this morning?

Yeah.

When is that?

I gave him like, uh, you know, pure cuts. A playlist that was digestible within a drive.

Yeah, he gave me like a dozen songs, you know? So between last night, I gave it a start, and then this morning I listened to the rest of it on my way here to work. And, 'cause I love the first two albums, that's 20th century Weezer. But 21st century Weezer, eh, not really my thing. So Mike made me a playlist, and I gotta tell ya, I think I was wrong about 21st century Weezer.

See, all, all it took was a little effort. They have some good stuff.

But here, you could learn from me because I'm a guy, I'm a guy who can admit when he's wrong.

The others, they all learn from me.

That's right, you can learn from me.

I love that about you. Yeah, maybe I know another thing about you. You're like me, no shame in admitting when you had that one wrong. All it took was a little effort. Tell you what, me to get you to put in even less effort.

Tell you what, Pork and Beans, it's a good song.

That Red album.

That's a good song.

That Red album is pretty damn good.

I never heard it before until this morning. That's a good song. I enjoyed that. So I think I'm gonna go to this show when they're coming here in October. Nice. Now I've seen Weezer a lot, but like not in a long time. Yeah, I think I'm gonna go.

I think this one has Silver Sun Pickups and The Shins opening. Okay, that's a good bill.

All right. I think I'm gonna go.

We're gonna do the hands together?

Nah, probably not.

Come on.

I can't believe they have 20 albums. 20!

I can believe that. That's insane. They release a lot of music and a lot of times you're like, nobody asked for any of this, just do the '90s stuff. And then they do, but people like you before, Zazzle 1.0, wouldn't know it, notice it at all or give it the time of day.

Juju, you got a top 5 for us ready?

Yes sir, man. Top 5 names that The Zazzlo Show 2.0 should change its name to.

No the, but okay, go ahead.

Number 5: Zazzlo Returns. Mystical, you know. I'm interested, I'm locked in.

I like that.

Number 4: Zazzlo 2: Judgment Day.

Ah, you feel me?

Number 3, Zazzlo Endgame.

I like that one.

Yes, because you don't want to be anywhere else.

Exactly. Number 2, The Super Zazzlo Show. And the number 1 name you should change it to, Too Zazz Too Furious.

That is a good list, Juju. Excellent job.

Dale Lebotard!

Is there Back in My Day?

There is, actually.

What?

Were you not going to tell anyone?

It's a Tuesday.

Wait a minute, you guys, guys, it's a Tuesday.

Greg Cody, here's your guy, Greg Cody with Back in My Day.

Okay, here it is. Sorry.

Adultery!

Oh yeah, wait a minute, I've been waiting for this one.

This is the Dan Levatar Show.

Which one are you picking?

I, I, I gotta, I gotta let it marinate.

I would nominate Zazz Show. Is that a Zazzlo?

Jonathan Zazz Show.

How about the Lo Show?

Zazz.

That exists.

God, so many great options.

Just Zazz.

The Lo Show.

Just Zazz.

Zazz!

Like pink! With exclamation point!

Zazz!

That's not bad.

Really?

Zazz with an exclamation point.

Zazz!

I have to yell it.

All caps like the Miami Heat put in press releases.

Zazz!

Do you do that?

Zazzle Show 2.0 is all caps.

Yeah.

There's also no cap.

Do you read press releases and they're like, Klay Thompson agreed to terms with Miami Heat?

Yeah, they always capitalize Heat. It's so weird. Nobody abides by that. Nobody writes HEAT all in caps except the Heat.

That's their thing.

So weird.

That's the thing.

But to what end? Like, why would you do that?

Ask them next time you go over there. Say, to what end?

In Buffalo, they don't go SABRES, S-A-B-R-E-S, in all caps.

It's weird that that's the team you would choose.

Just, it came to head. They made the playoffs finally, right?

I think you should ask that the next time you go there. Say, what's up with the Caps?

That would be great.

That's Washington.

Yeah, that's a Pat Riley question though, right? Yeah, I mean, you got to go high to get the answer to that.

Okay, although I think it started before he got there.

Did it? Are you sure?

Nothing started before Pat Riley got there.

Nothing. You think Roth Rothstein said, let's go all caps? I mean, he might have.

He might actually just call Roth Rothstein Roth and Kevin Lockery, and that's why he did that.

Do you remember covering Kevin Lockery?

Vaguely.

Harold!

Not really.

Harold!

Yeah, there you go. Backdoor!

Oh man, always looked 80 years old. He's a good shooter. God came here looking 80.

Those were the days.

Were they?

No, they weren't.

No, they really weren't.

The days were last decade.

The D-A-Z-E. Clinching the 8th playoff spot in game number 82. Those are the days.

Kevin Willis?

No. No.

Oh, with his T-Rex arms?

Yeah. The days were LeBron James and Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Those, those indeed were the days.

Greg, did you hear about Dolphins practice yesterday? Malik Willis. So apparently, look, in the preseason games, the first drive of the preseason is the only drive that Malik Willis has played, right? They looked awesome. Yeah, Malik was a great—

yeah, 90-yard drive or whatever.

Very pleased. He looked great. He has not played since, and the offense has been abysmal.

Yeah.

Okay.

The rest of that first game and the entire second game yesterday, apparently in, in practice, the Dolphins offense was so bad, like they struggled so bad that Malik Willis apparently gathered the entire team mid— like mid-series— gathered the entire team for like a pep talk. Apparently it didn't exactly help. You know, they were still lousy. Yesterday, uh, what have you been hearing about Dolphins training camp, Dolphins practices so far?

They're desperate to find a backup quarterback. The, the— they thought it was Quinn Ewers.

He's been bad.

He's been really bad, and they don't know who their backup quarterback is, which is a big deal in practice and training camp, in, in the preseason. And that's a major thing for them, is finding a backup quarterback.

How can— like, Quinn Ewers, he played the last couple games last season. He wasn't good, okay, but he wasn't unplayable. So how did we get to a place where he can't even be the backup for this team?

I mean, he looked so bad in the first preseason game.

And he's been injured during the preseason.

Yeah, he's been hurt. I mean, it's just been a— and he knows that there was no open competition. I think that one of the things I've heard is that Quinn Ewers didn't love the fact that they gave that money to Malik with the idea that he's the starter, everybody else is playing for backup.

Well, you showed us, Quinn, by playing like shit this preseason.

Were you upset, Quinn Ewers?

But before they signed— before they signed Malik— he signed Malik, I think Quinn Ewers thought it was an open competition. So his mindset's probably not really good.

He might be turning into a cautionary tale. He had a lot of money available to him to go back to college, and he wanted to do the pro thing.

Yeah, I do like the move though that Malik Willis did, because there's— we've seen this a few weeks ago from other people. There are things you can do at training camp that are just easy wins. The media will run with it. It doesn't actually take any on-field play, and you're going to be impressing people. Yesterday, Malik Willis, you gather people around you during a stop to practice. Everybody on me.

Yeah.

No one's going to say that's not—

that is just a good look.

Yeah.

Any scenario.

It's a—

another one. What Reuben Bain did a couple of weeks ago, the after practice.

Yep.

I'm working by myself out here. If there's another player out there, you're waiting for that guy to leave. So there's the shot of you out there alone. The only other thing I can think of that's in this realm, it's not players doing it. Well, it is. It's players with the media. You bring the media first day of training camp. Donuts. We've seen that move before. These are just easy things that will make news and it gets the positive vibes going.

Greg, that's something that gets the media room excited. The donuts.

Have you ever seen that move on the first day?

I do love a donut. I have to admit.

You know, coach comes in first opening press conference. Here you go, guys.

There's no piece of bacon, but it's a, it's a great gift.

Are there other things like that?

I have another one. Remember Anthony Richardson when he cleaned up trash?

Yes.

Picking up.

Let me help the staff. Around training camp.

The Jameis Winston after the, uh, uh, uh, what was that World Cup games?

Like Japanese fans, him and the Japanese fans. I love how they do that.

Easy victory.

Why can't we— why don't we do that?

I know, that isn't that great?

What, staying?

Japanese fans are cleaning up the bleachers.

Yeah, it's like, like they're civilized. We're not civilized.

You're saying that you don't want to stay and clean up? No, your section at the Panthers game?

I don't. No, who would? God bless the Japanese. Who would?

I mean, I have to force myself to take like my candy out of the movie theater when I'm done, you know, and throw that away.

You do that? So like there's one cinema where I clean up after myself.

And what others you don't?

Correct.

Really?

Well, I call it a cinema, huh?

No, that's where I clean up after myself. No, because it's Gables Art Cinema. Yeah, and so I clean up after myself there.

So like a regular movie theater?

There's a difference between the cinema and the movies.

Oh my God.

And I don't clean up after myself at the movies.

You just leave, like, let's say you had popcorn, you'll leave the bucket.

Yeah. You know what? I'm listening to that feedback. I don't like the way that that sounds.

So trashy.

You'll see sometimes they will put a trash can like in the main area as you're walking. I used to throw things. Like if I don't see that trash can there, like what am I going to like carry?

Like, I guess I kind of treated it like a sporting event where, you know, it just goes on the floor and that's where it's supposed to go.

And it's interesting that you say that because I always clean up after myself at the movie theater. I do. Why not? But at a sporting event, I never carry my garbage out.

Yeah, I don't either. Not that I'm in the stands very often, but I wouldn't.

Especially like at like a Marlins game, you just like slide it to the empty seat next to you underneath there.

Yeah.

Now it's that empty seat's problem.

If they do a national anthem before the event, it's okay to not clean up after yourself.

Really?

Yes.

Hmm.

How? Also, if the owner of the team is spending less than $100 million on player payroll, it's also fine not to clean up after.

Why don't they do a national anthem before the movies start?

If the owner is spending less than $200 on a prostitute, okay to leave the trash in the arena.

Also, if your owner, uh, names Deshaun Watson number 1, leave the trash.

Oh my God, what? That's the most interesting story in the NFL right now.

Oh boy, you got stuff on it.

Browns fans versus Deshaun Watson. It's, it's fascinating.

What side are you on?

Isn't this like a little too late?

It does seem like 3 years too late.

Although, although he did, he did ante up the whole entire situation, right? Like he went at them and he did himself a great disservice, not just with his play, but I think everything that was surrounding him was largely muted. Like we had gotten sick of that discourse. It's word association with Deshaun Watson. He's the one that invoked the past and pointed the finger at the fan base by making it personal, right? And now the fan base is absolutely running with this.

And when you look back 2 or 3 years, he never showed proper contrition. Like, he never asked for any shame.

No regrets.

No regrets. Nothing at all. And so now, 3 years later, Browns fans are going, we remember.

They were—

because you're bad.

They remember it all. They remember the accusations, the lawsuits, the lack of contrition, the fact that you've been out 3 years injured, the fact that you're not very good when you come back, the fact that we— we preferred Shador. All of that.

I drink some milk. Your mouth sounds dry.

I kind of have an issue with it a little bit because at the heart of this, it's because he's bad. Yeah, that's, that's what, that's what this is. Now, are there people that have felt strongly the entire time that are taking the opportunity to make their voice be heard. I know that there was a poster board attached to a Jim Brown statue, uh, a couple of days ago. And yeah, that might be the case, but a lot of what's happening right now is solely because he's bad, and people are looking at the entire situation and being like, oh, remember this too? You're a bad person too. And Deshaun asked for all of that. He invited all of that in, which is why it makes the decision by Todd Monken even more puzzling to me, because it was a bad situation already. You were dealing with that from your fan base and opposing fan bases already. This guy has the most disastrous press conference a starting quarterback can possibly have, and he's made everything— all those off-field concerns, all those intangible things that have gone into your decision-making that much worse.

What are you smiling about over there, dude?

I'm so— I'm sorry if I'm distracting. I'm just watching Sal Pal at Ravens camp. He just had a marching band behind him. I've just decided let's play a new game. Crappy celebrity that if you saw in public, you would get super excited about that nobody else would care about. Mine's Sal Palantonio. If I saw Sal Palantonio at like my local grocery store, I would be so nervous. I would take a picture of him. I would do that thing that I've done a few times.

So you're not into the Deshaun thing?

Oh, sorry. He asked me—

not as into it as your dad.

He asked me what I was looking at.

Sorry. This is an example of how dug in are Browns fans, because everybody, the cynics are going, ah, he has one good game and throws two touchdown passes, everybody's going to be swooning and cheering. Is that the case or not? We're going to find out. I sort of doubt it. I think even when he's good on the field, fans aren't going to forget. There's going to be a lot of fans constantly booing.

Fans remember.

Constantly booing.

Fans remember.

Yeah. Fans hold grudges.

Fans hold grudges.

I'm going to get you some water.

Fans remember.

Tigger from the basement.

Who?

I get to go one second. Tigger got a lot going on right now, so I'm excited. We should be about Tigger. Yeah.

Okay. Well, I was excited when I saw him salute from the basement. Only from the early 2000s. Well, I don't know anything about that.

There's also— there's also a group of Browns fans that remain loyal to the Browns but still booed Deshaun Watson.

Right.

Yeah, Greg, you know about that tigger?

Yeah, I'm a big fan of his or her.

Harold, Harold, back door!