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There is too much to talk about, okay? Because we could assemble the argument, could we not, that this is the biggest soccer game in United States history? And we also have Serena Williams playing yesterday. We have Mexico going crazy. And if we get Mexico-England, good God, are you kidding me? In Mexico? Like, that is going to be an insanity if you saw what was happening in Mexico yesterday.

I was gonna say, Dan, did you watch the celebrations? This— we have it on the screen right now. If you're not watching, go watch it on YouTube. It is insane.

It looks like Jesus. They look—

it looks like they won the World Cup.

Mexico hadn't gotten this far in 4 decades. They love their soccer, and I want to get to that, and we will get to that. We can't even get to the poor Marlins who are having The best month in all of baseball. Here's Jeff Passan saying the best team in baseball in June by a decent margin is the Miami Marlins. They're about to go 20-6, and they've outscored opponents by 49 runs with the lowest payroll in baseball. Their third highest paid player is Giancarlo Stanton, who last played for them in 2017. And also Sarah Langs, uh, she's a baseball reporter, great baseball reporter, uh, she says of the Marlins in June, it's not just that the 20-6 is the best record in baseball. The ERA is also the best in baseball in the month, 3.01, and the 53-run differential is tied for the best in baseball. And again, it's against good teams.

Is it real?

Yes, it's— yeah, I think it's real. Like, that the pitching is real and their young players are good. And I think this team is— yeah, it's going to compete for a wildcard. They're not Philadelphia. Philadelphia clubbed them. Philadelphia is unbelievably hot since hiring Don Mattingly. And Atlanta is better than they are as well. But This is, this is the most enticing, exciting Marlins team I would put up there. Bigger than the '83 win Marlins that got Joe Girardi a Manager of the Year. Bigger than the playoff Marlins during the pandemic that got there. I think this is the best baseball team they have fielded in quite a while. Like, that's not— they're playing too well over a sustained period with these players where this, this month is not a mirage. When I tell you they're 20-6, they're also beating good teams like Washington, they're going and sweeping. You may not think much of Washington. Washington's been— they score more runs than anyone in baseball and they win more than they lose. And like, I'm surprised that the Marlins with the lowest payroll in baseball have a legitimately good baseball team.

When they swept Washington, Washington had a better record than them going into that series. And where you got to give the Marlins credit is that they've found ways to maneuver within their roster like they've done this entire month, essentially with two starting pitchers. Yuuri Perez was hurt for a chunk of it. Junk, Snelling, those guys weren't pitching. So they've been using Ryan Gusto. Yeah, they've been using openers. They've been using Tyler Phillips, the guy who slaps himself in the face. He was really effective in his last start. And some of the decisions they've made throughout the year— Heriberto Hernandez was really struggling to start the year. They sent him down, gave him 2 weeks to get right, comes back up. He's had an over an .800 OPS since he came back. Owen Casey, they stuck with him. He's the guy they traded Edward Cabrera for. He was dreadful after the opening weekend, one of the worst hitters in baseball. And since then, he's been really solid as a platoon guy. He's got 10 home runs. And calling up Joe Mack when they did, sending Agustín Ramírez down to AAA, has been a godsend.

That's been crazy.

He's one of the best catchers in baseball.

Well, they can't be run on, and I don't think he's this offensively, but if he is this offensively, you better lock him up for 10 years because nobody can run. He's begging people, him and the backup catcher, are begging people to run. Pero México, 2-0, and the World Cup, uh, because the scene in Mexico was, um, totally crazy. Just— and, and just getting started.

Oh, that's in Guadalajara. That's a square in Guadalajara.

We've been there.

Yeah, that, that, that's incredible. The Mexico City one's awe-inspiring, Dan. They were so impressive. I was worried about the opponent that they drew because what Mexico has is a home advantage is the altitude and their style of play. Ecuador plays that very same style, and you're not going to out, uh, altitude Ecuador famously. And they were so much better than Ecuador. So much better.

But Mike, the, the, the whole— I don't think people who are uninitiated, when you talk about whatever home field advantage would be, I don't believe there's a crazier environment, and I'm taking all of Europe and I'm taking that this sport can be crazy anywhere, than fans who throw cups of their urine at you on the corner kicks because they are breathing on you. They are on top of you. It feels like the country is on top of you.

So there's this show, The S-Word, that Master Tesfatsion co-hosts, and it's on this World Cup. And the dynamic is, you know, smug English people making Americans apologize for their very own existence. Existence. And we've been warning— Americans have been warning the English, like, there might be a date where you have to go to Azteca and, and win a match in, in an environment that you don't know anything about, in, in an altitude that you've never experienced in your life. You have for decades convinced yourself that a rainy night at the Bet365 in Stoke is what a true hostile atmosphere is. No, my friend, you don't know what it's like to go to Azteca dying to get a point. You have no idea how hard it is. When Harry Kane gets hit in the face with a used condom full of urine, you will know.

I need that.

You don't know it's a used condom. You don't know it's a used condom.

Well, it was certainly used to pee in.

They used it to pee in it.

Well, but that does not qualify as a used condom. It's not a fresh condom, but a used condom. I'm just saying they You gotta use the condom for what the condom is used for. You can't fill it with urine.

No, you can fill it with holy water. Have you not seen From Dusk Till Dawn?

Put it on the poll at Le Batard Show. Is it a used condom if you've only filled it with urine? That's a poll I never thought we'd put up.

I love Master. The S-word, the show, the concept is what exactly? Smug? Smug British people making Americans apologize for their very own existence? Like 1776 would like a word to life.

Fourth would like a word, Brits. Sorry.

Well, that's not the official bio, but that's what I've deduced it is.

That one.

You don't sound sorry.

Hang with them.

Colonial. We have the— we have the possibility of colonialism trying to take a corner kick in that stadium, a stadium filled with people that we have built a wall to keep out because they're rapists.

We haven't built it.

And let's keep us out of this one. That's between those two countries. When that goes down, I am telling you there are scenes—there's Cameron Indoor; there's The Big House; there's what we've seen this World Cup. No! There's nothing like that. There is going to be absolutely nothing like England against Mexico—in Mexico if we get that—it is going to be the single biggest scene in the history of sport—we all need to be rooting for it.

Is that where England goes if they win today? Yes. Have you not been listening to your show?!

Nono nono nooo...

Maybe I'm being too harsh on them but maybe just have fun man!

2 rounds right now.

No, no, no, maybe you'll be in 2 rounds.

I've not been listening to the show. See you, buddy.

That's a terrible— for not listening to the show.

Yeah, really blew that one, didn't he?

Wow. I'm gonna tell you something, Dan. I'm using my challenge.

We have 2 challenges as a team. Every team has 2 challenges.

We'll go check in with the ref. You don't have 2 challenges.

I'm using my challenge. Z-A-S. Here we go. I'm using my challenge. I— it could have been in 2 rounds from now. I don't— I don't know what the bracket looks like. I haven't filled out a bracket.

We already said, though. We said—

we said a number of times, be bracket aware.

Disagree. You were not bracket aware.

Listen to me. Listen to me. Just be abundantly clear. If England wins, they go to Mexico City and they play Mexico.

What's that voice?

That's your very stupid voice. That's me?

Yeah, it's a stupid voice. I would work on that.

You don't have to be bracket aware, you just have to be listening to our show where we said Dr. Congo. You were listening when you made your Dr. Congo joke. You were there. You, you, you were in the middle of the conversation.

If someone's a doctor, you better call me doctor.

No, but it was in the conversation where you weren't listening because you were going to make the joke where Mike is saying You need to root for Dr. Congo to lose today so that then the next round we get England and Mexico and you're like, oh yeah, Dr. Congo. Like, so in that conversation right there where you had the joke is where you were informed challenge is rejected.

Minor penalty, 2 minutes for not listening to the show. Baflana! We didn't even go to VAR.

Glad you said I don't have to be bracket aware. That's exactly my point.

Gotta go to bracketaware.com/GregCodyShow.com.org.

Thank you very much.

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By the way, it's going to be a crazy atmosphere for England playing in Mexico. England's going to win by 2 goals anyway. But I want to say this about the Mexican fans. They're not just in Mexico.

Catch your breath.

When the U.S. team has played in L.A., it's been like a road game for the U.S. national team in L.A. No, it hasn't. Yes, it has.

No, it hasn't. Their crowd against Paraguay was incredible in Los Angeles.

I'm talking about when the US plays historically against Mexico.

Historically. But I will say this is where capitalism has really calcified us with a secondary market being what it is, with the ticket situation being what it is. American sports fans have built up such a callus and unfortunately have such experience in getting hard-to-get tickets that we've kind of prepared our whole lives for this moment.

I am promising the people who may not be familiar with this, okay, we did a documentary at Metal Ark about, uh, the uneasy, uh, rivalry between Mexico and the U.S. It's the first documentary we did. We have another one out on Netflix now, Chris and Martina. I urge you to check it out. A lot of people of a certain age are remembering that that was sort of ground zero in America for women's sports. And so A topical and timely documentary is out on Netflix now on Chris and Martina. If you're watching, you know, Serena Williams at 44 at Wimbledon, so that you could see what the roots of that sport looked like back when that sport was challenging things we're still fighting about today in press boxes and in San Francisco with Gay Pride, when Martina was polarizing because she was trying to make it in that sport as someone who was gay and was a pioneer in that regard in a number of different ways. The Mexico-United States, uh, rivalry. In that documentary, you will see how insane Mexico is about its soccer, and you can make the argument that several generations of Mexicans haven't felt the way they do today.

Multiple generations of Mexicans who really love that sport do not know what it's like to get this close and have England coming to your place when that place is a zoo? Mike, you got to give me some context for this. Where else can I go in the world? Because Europe has no shortage of insane places, and hooliganism is not something that, that's, that's that far in the past. There are plenty of insane, dangerous places to play soccer in the world. Where do you put Mexico when you're saying this is going to be the big— you're saying this is the biggest— this has the potential to be the biggest scene in the history of sports at a stadium in terms of hostile atmospheres.

I mean, FIFA has tried, CONCACAF has tried, every governing body has tried and failed to stop the homophobic chant that they do. In terms of, oh, this, this is violent, this is hard to get to the stadium. Yeah, you have like some club soccer teams, and man, you don't want to mess with their supporters, but on the international stage, nothing like Mexico. And people in Europe kind of look down on us because we're not a proper soccer nation. But I can look at them. I know what I'm talking about when it comes to soccer. I've seen all these international matches. I know all the hostile atmospheres. I will stack Azteca Stadium in a meaningful match as the most hostile atmosphere up against anything in the world in sports. It is impossible. This is decades running. Trying to go to that stadium and come away with a point. It doesn't happen, folks. And yes, that's United States, right? But England doesn't know anything about that. They, they famously fold. Dude, Saka crapped his pants in Wembley Stadium. What is he going to do when he goes to Azteca?

What do you guys think of this here? When you think of in all of sports in America, okay, when you think of famously hostile environments. I'm giving you all of sports. I think college football does this a little better than most, and I think LSU is viewed because Cajuns are drinking all day as one kind of thing. Okay, this is Mexicans drinking all month. Like, this is loaded up on tequila waiting for this day for decades. Like, whatever you think LSU football is, and I don't know, I don't know what you put at the top of the class of hardest places to play because of just insanity around you and up to and including getting to the stadium, like problems for your bus. You're going to need police help. It's all scary. If you think the Germans were indeed scared to take penalty kicks because the world is on their shoulders, here it feels like it's hot tequila breath on your neck and they're throwing urine.

And the story going into it, the story around this English team, Dan, is they have a ton of talent. They're one of the more talented sides in the world, but they're missing the guts. They're missing the heart. They're missing the mental fortitude. So if they actually go into Azteca and they come out with a result, guys, England is winning this World Cup.

Not against France. Nobody's beating France.

No, no, no, no, no. What this English team is missing is the moxie to go into a tough situation I'm not even talking about like an environment. I'm talking about, man, this is stress. We got the weight of our own crest on our hearts. This is hard. Do we— are we mentally strong enough to overcome that? That has been the deal with England. This is as talented a generation as they've had. They've been really good for a while and they've fallen short. Even when they hosted a final against Italy, they fell short because of the weight of expectations and the pressure of that moment. Now you got to take that to a host nation.. And that host nation is Mexico, playing the style they do in front of their own fans. Man, the storyline's endless. You're rooting against Dr.

Congo. Yes.

I need England-Mexico in Mexico City. That is going to be the craziest scene in the history of sports. England's a better team. Doesn't matter.

You're talking about everything that surrounds the pitch. It doesn't matter.

No, it doesn't matter who the better team is, especially against a host nation. Italy was better than South Korea in '02. Spain was better than South Korea in '02. Spain was not—

was much better than Russia. This is so great though. These people waiting this long for this is just really, really fun. Before we go any further though, and I've been remiss in not handling this earlier, Greg, please help me. We have a crime scene in the eating area, and I saw it when I walked out there. We've got a bunch of Wolverines around here, people who have not been trained how to eat properly, how to use the bathroom properly. Uh, it is, uh, pretty unpleasant. Pleasant in terms of just generally what the men here do with the hygiene. But this crime scene— if you're not watching on YouTube or on the DraftKings Network or on any number of the assortment of video platforms where you can find us— Samsung TV Plus, the Roku channel, uh, Vizio— when you look out at our eating area, you will see the crime scene with the question, who did this? Because there appears to be a quarter of a donut that was simply thrown on the floor, and I'm not sure it was with the napkin under it. I don't know what was done here. I don't know who found this, but Greg, if you had to, uh, if you had to guess, like, if we were doing betting favorites on DraftKings, now available in all 50 states, DraftKings Sports, if you were, uh, if you were taking favorites on who is most likely to have just— like, that's not near a garbage can, right?

Look at how far from anything that would be a garbage can that is. It's, it's at least 10 feet on a wooden floor.

So I do have some info on this. Earlier I was getting some water and they said somebody did this. What they did is they took a knife and then they cut a piece of the, of the donut until it got to that little, you know, morsel that you see there and didn't eat the little morsel. So they ate everything else around it but not that. So somebody put it there and was like, all right, who did this?

I apologize, I— what? I dropped the donut. I had to get in the studio, I was in a hurry. Do I pick it up? Do I keep Dan way? He's gonna yell at me. Yeah, you're a minute late. I apologize. What can I tell you? I should have eaten it. I should have picked it up off the floor and eaten it, which I would have, by the way.

Okay, see, I believe that you're doing all of that for effect. I don't believe anything that you're saying. And what I'm gonna ask the crew to do right now— video, do me the favor, please. You could check surveillance and you could find out who was having that donut for breakfast, and we're gonna get to the bottom of this because this stuff can't keep happening around here where you guys are jackals and wolverines Uh, you guys saw we have, we have a new HR person. We have somebody around here who's making sure that this is an environment that isn't run by apes and hyenas and honey badgers. And we can't have pieces of a donut on the floor just thrown on the floor because nobody knows how to use a garbage can.

Well, you know how it is, Dan, right? Like, you don't want the whole donut, so you get a knife, you cut half the donut.

You're like, I'll eat half the donut. Put it on the poll at Le Batard Show. Are you an animal if you're using a knife and fork on a donut? And are you an— yes, an animal. If you're— you're sophisticated. Are you— no, are you a creature that cannot be trusted if you are using a knife and fork on a doughnut? And also put this on the poll @LebatardShow: worst thing to use a knife and fork on, a doughnut or a slice of pizza?

A doughnut is such a commitment though, especially the communal doughnut thing. You kind of want to be considerate of others and here, hey, sample this flavor. I think using a fork and knife knife in a communal setting when someone brings donuts to an office is a play on for me. But if you tore that with your hands, you're a savage.

I eat my pizza with fork and knife all the time. All the time. Two reasons. Number one, my pizza slice of preference is Sicilian, all right? And there's nothing wrong with having a slice of Sicilian with fork and knife. Number two, if the slice of pizza is really hot I don't want the cheese dripping everywhere or have the cheese burn the roof of my mouth. You know about that burnt roof of the mouth, Dan? So I will use a fork and knife plenty with my pizza.

It also depends on the size of the pizza. That's right.

You get one of those giant slices.

Yeah. You gotta use that fork and knife.

I'll make an exception for Sicilian, no others. Oh man. No others.

Hot pizza needs to be in there too though.

Sicilian's the thinnest of them all. Sicilian's thick as hell. You have no idea what you're talking about.

No, I thought Sicilian was the Italian style. You sound like a nut to me. No, that's Chicago deep dish. That's Roman style. That right there, that's Detroit style.

I've always called that Sicilian as well, though. Since childhood, I have always called that style of pizza there that is thick and crusty. I've referred to that as Sicilian. So let's put it on the poll, see if Mike has this right. @LebatardShow, Sicilian pizza, thick or thin? Your thoughts here, Greg, because I have called Detroit, deep dish, Chicago, all of those I call Sicilian. I call that Sicilian pizza.

I don't know if that's Sicilian or not. I do know this pizza is a hand food. If you're seen eating pizza with a knife and a fork, you should be kicked out of the establishment.

So he asked you a question and you just answered something else. So right.

I apologize. It's very similar to Detroit. I always call that Detroit. The play on— I'm sorry.

Am I right? I— I—

The Sicilian is the blocky thing that you see.

You're wrong about deep dish though. Deep dish is not Sicilian whatsoever.

No, that's Chicago deep dish. Yeah, it's like very saucy.

It's too saucy, but it's the same kind of thickness. It's super bready. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. If you're eating a slice of pizza with a knife and fork, should you indeed be kicked out of the establishment? Establishment.

Also, Detroit pizza has the sauce on top of the pizza.

Yeah, I like it. Understood. I am allowing an exception for the kind of pizza that Zazz is talking about, which is a thicker kind of— and it's super buttery too, so it's like, it's super sloppy. It's a doughier pie. But the part that I'm objecting to is a knife and fork on a just a regular New York slice that has to be eaten with the hand. You can't be Philip Seymour Hoffman taking all of the oil and Along Came Polly and putting it on your plate. You gotta just eat the thing. You gotta eat the thing the way that it comes out. You gotta honor New York and honor Italians and honor food. You don't know this about Zazz though?

Famously, ribs, not a thing. He doesn't like his hands getting messy.

I know. Wings. He is a food weirdo. We are uncovering these things at all times. Dan Levitar! Ah, Jonathan Sasslow!

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I wanted to ask you guys about something though happening right now in the media, as, uh, you've got factions that has been really funny to observe, and I include us among this, and I hadn't noticed it until the Damian Lillard Portland stuff. The Boston media, and in our case the Miami media, such different perspectives on an assortment of different things that other people would look at and not even understand the extremes in perspective. So right now what you have happening with Kevin O'Connor, uh, used to be of The Ringer, uh, worked with Bill Simmons for a long time, is now at Yahoo. He is somebody who is, uh, getting more and more name because he is saying more and more things. And I came in here today And everyone in here was clucking about Kevin O'Connor because they've all got an assortment of scars and all of these brawls with the Boston media that go back to racist WEEI taking out my dad with an assortment of stupidities and then defending themselves. And we've been fighting with Boston ever since in some shape or form around here. But what's the issue with Kevin O'Connor? Because what's happening now that you guys are so mad and you're making Kevin O'Connor the face for the media when he's not the face for the media.

He works for Yahoo, used to work at The Ringer, and he's getting better at saying things.

Yeah, so I just find it ironic here because Kevin O'Connor, who like you mentioned is one of the media, you know, one of the NBA guys out there, he's out there and he, he, I guess he has a show on YouTube, he has his own show, and he, he thinks there's this big conspiracy. This is funny, right? He thinks there's this big conspiracy against Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics. Give this a listen.

All I know is that the whole Jaylen Brown situation with basically every media member pooing on Jaylen Brown out there right now, every executive I talked to pooing on Jaylen Brown right now, it feels very coordinated to me. Yeah, it all does. To try to drive down the price on a guy who just had an unbelievable regular season, 6th in MVP voting, dragged the roster without Jason Tatum to 56 wins, the 2-seed in the East, is a former Finals MVP, has gotten better every season of his career even after winning that Finals MVP. I don't really buy that these teams don't want Jaylen Brown. I don't buy that the Clippers don't want Jaylen Brown. I don't buy that the Blazers don't want Jaylen Brown. I think crazy talk to me. I think it's just negotiating through the media is all this is.

Well, isn't that interesting, Dan? Isn't that interesting when for years you got people like this Kevin O'Connor, Boston folk— that's right, that's how I refer to Boston media, Boston folk, folk Boston— and you got Boston folk who is every time trying to put the player on a different team. I got a little bit hung up in the air and what I wanted to say there. You really did get lost.

You're passionate, but you're not quite as confident as I thought you were at the start of this.

Mike, I'm tagging you in.

Good choice.

All right, cool, cool. I was gonna say we could edit it out for the Social Club. Let me tell you something, Kevin O'Connor, you are absolutely right. Yeah, it is indeed. Yeah, a coordinated effort, at least on our part to make a mess of things, dilute your offer, make your house a mess. Yes, it is. And you know where we learned it from? We learned it from you. You gave us a template. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely made the Damian Lillard thing impossible. Go on. For Miami. I mean, Jeremy, what did Kevin O'Connor say about Miami's offer—

tagging you in, Jeremy—

of an offer of Tyler Herro, Kyle Lowry, Jaime Jaquez, Nikola Jović, two first kind of pick swap, so damn near the package that just got Giannis Antetokounmpo. He said, quote, this return for Portland would go down as one of the worst trades in NBA history. Kevin O'Connor, we followed your model. When Jayson Tatum came back, we said, huh, could that cause a problem for Jaylen Brown? We said, hey, this guy tweets like a wide receiver. We said, you know what, maybe Jaylen Brown should demand a trade.

We followed your path. Mike's tagging you back in.

You put down an offer that ended up netting Giannis, and you put over Time Lord, who we said had one working knee, if that. Yeah, it— what you did in making sure Damian Lillard didn't go to Miami was pitch perfect. It was all of Boston media coordinated, organized. We were in a whole new war. Drones. Were impacting us. Our million-dollar weapons couldn't stand a chance against your $13,000 drones. We didn't know what we were doing. It took us years to recover, but now we're a well-oiled machine. Tagging you in, Seth.

Tagging me back in. I got the hot tag now, Dan. And it all ends, Kevin O'Connor, your nightmare, it all ends with Giannis, maybe LeBron, but it all ends with Giannis on the Heat. Heat and the Celtics, they're floundering. They don't know what to do because nobody wants Jaylen Brown. Nobody want— nobody wants Jaylen Brown, Boston folk.

Folk Boston, you didn't tag. You gotta tag it.

I was never tagged by anybody. I thought it was a bad decision to tag in Jeremy. I thought it was a bad decision.

No, like, like that, that is what they did throughout the entire Lillard Pursuit. They, they trashed Miami's offers so well. They had convinced everybody these are bad players. Bad players. Robert Williams, incredible player. Bad players on Miami. One of the worst trade offers ever. And it was because the Miami Heat made an NBA Finals, made two, with a player not as good as Damian Lillard. And they all knew what would have happened to the Eastern Conference had Damian Lillard gone to the Miami Heat and stayed healthy. Ended up being a bad trade, but it was It was incredible how well they coordinated that effort. Tagging you in, Greg.

Yep, Greg, you're tagged in.

Yeah, yeah, one last thing about Kevin O'Connor. Or is it O'Connell? O'Connor. He had two guitars on the wall in the background. Doesn't even play the instrument. He's a fraud.

You don't know that. I know that. I've researched it. You don't know that. He's a fraud. You didn't know whether he was O'Connor or O'Connell. Kevin O'Fraud. O'Fraudle. Very good. That's right. So you were tagging people in. There was a lot of tagging in. You lost some confidence. I thought you were going to soar into the sky going after Kevin O'Fraudle. Won the match, Dan. I understand, but since we're tagging people in, I thought it might be time to bring in the lefty to debut an all-new segment where we bring in the lefty from the pen because we need help to bail us out on a segment. Because all of you were talking to cameras and yelling and screaming, and you think you won the match, and I think Kevin O'Connor won the match without speaking during, uh, what it is that you were doing.

So we need to bring somebody in to make the show more left?

Uh, yes, that is correct. Uh, let's bring in the lefty. Call in the lefty! Oh, I'll be back. This not great for the audio audience or video audience either.

Video audience would also like sound too. Do we restart it?

Yeah, let's do this again because I regret— you know what I regret? Never mind. Take it back. I regret tagging in. I regret tagging him in. I regret going to his segment. I regret all of what just happened there, which seemed to be pretty simple, but it's not quite bringing in Ricky Vaughn. No, it wasn't quite bringing in anything that helped us in any way, actually. Absolutely. So moving on to catchphrases. Greg Cody has now more, I am told, and I'm really disappointed with what's happening here because Greg Cody is not respecting in any way the 50 countdown that we started with. Yeah, you're gonna be mad. Top 50 catchphrases. I heard while he was on vacation, I heard that Greg Cody officially expanded the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody has now expanded to how many catchphrases?

Phrases. 70. But it's the final expansion, we think. We guarantee it will not.

It's not in your hands though, Greg.

We don't know that. I know it's out of my hands as well, but I have been told— as well— I have been told that it's 70, top, hard ceiling.

So wait a minute, the last time that we talked to you about this, we were on like number 11, were we not? Yeah. So what are we on now? I am—

today I'm going to reveal numbers 20 and 19. Oh my God.

So we're back in the top. We're back at the start of the top 20 when we just got to 11 last week.

Things happen. We were good.

We were just coming up on the top 10. I know.

And now we're cracking the top 20. We're in the teens. We already did that.

We already did the— hadn't been done yet. So wait a minute. So just help me with the math of this. So are you saying that what had been in the top 20 are now the first 10 in the top 30?

Yeah, that's the way lists work, Dan. Let me give you a quick example. At one point, Babe Ruth was number 1 on the home run list. He's not anymore. Lists change. They're like tectonic plates.

No, no, when you make a list— The earth is shifting. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. When you start with a top 50 list, should it be 70?

Yes, for sure. Be with me, voters.

So what are we— Be with me. So am I asking you right now to start on number 70? We don't have time for that. No, we gotta come back with it. We don't have time for that right now. I'll talk real quick.

Quick. Number 7, and number 19, that kind of thing. No, I'm just kidding.

That hasn't been— No, no, you're disrespecting the whole thing.

Now you're just— Not been listed yet. That is not in the top 19. You're not—

you're not honoring the correct way to do these things.

I'm honoring it, baby.

No, honoring it. Now we've run out of time, and it's 70 of these. Yes.

And I don't know, it was going to be the top 250 in honor of the US holiday, but I'm going to keep it at 70. I'm a man of my people.

Do we go back to the lefty?