The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: THE RETURN OF BACK IN MY DAY! (feat. Ron Magill)

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

Ron Magill is back from his venture to the Galapagos that he funded by laundering through his substantive endowment and we've got plenty of questions for him. What do you do if a cassowary approaches you on the beach? What's the latest on his Sex And The Animals presentation? How often do mountain goats slip from the sides of mountains while traversing them? If you short changed a dog, would it know the difference? Also, we revisit one of our favorite animal videos in show history of an iguana escaping a swarm of snakes. Then, it's Tuesday so of course Greg Cote has a back in my day and this is is about cruise ships. Why would Greg Cote want to do anything besides 12 ounce bicep curls with Miller Lites? Plus, it's a vintage Ed Cote Tuesday and he tries to explain how the Venmo Fine Bucket works to all of us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Tony's story is charming and amazing as one of these loyal gorillas who will Run with our show no matter where it goes in terms of leaving run with our show no matter where it goes in terms of leaving the safety net so that he can go chase some of the things that he wanted in Miami where there are not media companies. Tony has hustled his way into something with those MMA hangouts that he's doing where a lot of people are gathering they are getting popular sponsors are around him and he's doing it till he's satisfied and now he's brought a kid into the world and we haven't celebrated here or or we haven't talked about i didn't feel like billy got enough paternity leave i

don't even know how much is it about sister is the right uh... how much he says that i have a lot of people in fun in these days that's not that's an old school snack Is it not? Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Are Funyuns still popular? I loved Funyuns, but I haven't had one since I was 17. Did you love Funyuns at 11 a.m. in the morning? Well I was gonna say not many people eating Funyuns at 1044 a.m. I ate one of my daughter's snacks the other day that I used to crush when I was a kid. The fruit roll-up just

doesn't slap the same as when you were younger. They've changed the fruit roll-up and we don't need to get into that today because we'll be on that for a while. I wanna get to a number of things with you, including Funyuns. This is an, am I wrong in saying that that's an old school snack? I would assume that many people are still eating Funyuns. I'm just not, I'm not used to seeing what I just saw.

Not at 11 a.m., not at any time. Well, I mean, here's the weird thing. I'm not a fan of onions, I had an incident, but Funyuns I'm still good with. Funyuns are the fun onion, you know what I mean? I'm pretty sure that's why it's called Funyuns, right? Ah, the word there. Sure. So they did it before you, Chris. I love Funyuns because they're super salty

and super crunchy, which is what I love in a snack. Put it on the poll at LeBittardShow. Did you know Funyuns was short for fun onions? I don't know that that is so. What else would it be short for? I just thought it was a fun way of saying onions. Yeah, Funyuns. Funyuns, yeah.

And they're like onion rings, you know onion rings. Have you heard of onion rings? Yeah, delicious. I love onion rings. Onion rings are one of the most underrated of all of the snacks. In general, I would make onion rings a hall of famer for underrated, criminally underrated,

I don't know if it's a snack or if it's a loose end or what I would call it, an appetizer. I like this though, a hall of fame for the underrated. This is great. But they're also on the all don't travel team. They don't travel well. It's not a good thing to get to go. Yeah, they gotta be thin as well.

And they can burn your mouth easily. Do they have to be thin? Yeah. Crispy, I don't know about crispy. Yeah, I mean, I hate a wet flaccid onion. I hate the thick onion ring though. When the onion is like that, it's- You hate that?

Yeah. Yeah, too much. It's a different appetizer. You gotta have the thin You gotta have sharp teeth because if you don't you bite into it once and the onion comes out of the the outer shell I like the onion strings. Those are my favorite Onion yeah, the blooming onion that was good little pieces though still is yeah Yeah, no no no no no no no, no, they were pretty thick. But they were small though.

They weren't big, thick rings. Yeah, they weren't rings. Yeah, they were like petals. Yeah, yeah, they were petals, exactly. Of a blooming. Of a beautiful flower, that's right. That's right. Exactly. That's right.

That's right. Yes, a fried flower. My favorite kind. My most romantic kind of flower. Ron McGill, before I ask you animal questions, can I get your opinion on both funions and onion rings? I hate onions, any kind of onions. Onions and pickles, totally out of my league. I don't want to eat them. I hate them and they're disgusting. It's minus pickles and onions

for anything I ever order. Wow. Roy, are you noticing like I am that the jacket that Ron is wearing, clearly animal skin bought with some of the charitable funds are listeners and fine animal skin bought by money that our listeners have donated to his endowment. The open shirt and the chain, where is Ron McGill coming from looking like this? I'm going to give a presentation right after I have the pleasure of speaking to this wonderful crew.

What will you be presenting? Your can't have been presenting on on pride of the line uh... nice allow quads as well that's all that what you're doing a presentation where you're going on door-to-door with presentation selling out the book pride of a lion done by you and greg cody yes i'm doing a presentation for the Broward

Public Library system up in Broward County this afternoon. Do it to your satisfied. What kind of crowd will that draw? How many books will that sell? Is there a minimum admission? Don't know. It's generally seniors. Well that's why I was so stunned to see AJ Brown holding a physical book on the sideline. I didn't think that people his age did that anymore. That book is number one on Amazon. That's great. That is such a man. Product placement. That is so good. People want to know I have one catch for four yards. That is the truth. I sent AJ Brown a whole box full of Pride

of Alliance. Did you? I did the same. Funny you did that. Wow. Look, I've got more respect than I did for him before. I thought that bamboo reed thing was a joke. I can't, we're just gonna move right back. I mean, unbelievable. We haven't had an ending to a segment that dramatic and that victorious for Greg Cody and I do not know how long.

Amazing work by you, Greg Cody. And it overshadowed the follow up of, was that when you were on LSD? Yeah, yeah. Bamboo was doing a great job. Well that's what I wanna do. I want imaging going forward of Chris Cody as Bamboo Reed. I want you to have like a bit of an Indiana Jones character

of what you could have been vastly more interesting than the character I get today. If you had indeed become Bamboo Reed Cody, outdoorsman Back when your dad was on LSD. Let's uh, let's show Ron some video here I want to show some b-roll here of a lioness She is snarling and swiping at a male lion after what looks like just a greeting a friendly greeting here Tell me what's happening and do play-by-play for this on on this run

This female lioness is trying to get the lion's attention. This is actually her way of getting attention. She wants to be bred, actually. See how she's raising her tail, raising herself, putting right in front of him like that? She's kind of getting his attention. She'll probably end up coming back again, but this is just basically,

they're kind of a little bit of a foreplay thing, and the female basically runs the show when it's that situation going on. Once she's in the total peak of her heat they'll breed every 20 minutes for about three days. Whoa. Wow. Baby. Wait a minute. What is the, and not insect kingdom, but what is the most prodigious of the animal kingdom

in this regard in terms of appetite? The Shaw's gerd, it's a little rodent, it looks like a gerbil, does it about every 20 seconds. Do it till you're satisfied. Yeah, and often. But never satisfied. Exactly, because in that 20 second interval, it has to have a few seconds for recovery,

so it's a very quick thing. I mean, it's, you know, it's not something that maybe some of you guys are used to, but... That's why Earlene gave it up so easily. She's like, yeah, I'll be gone for seven seconds and then come home Let's let's speak of sandwiches. Let's let's play the cassowary. The cassowary is very dangerous the cassowary will disembowel This is terrifying do not turn your back to a cassowary The cassowary has a clawed talon and what is happening here Ron? She's got a sandwich. Somebody's being stupid for a selfie. I don't know what she was doing

there but that's a sandwich. She's got a sandwich and the cassowary is... Oh okay well this is a problem with people probably feeding this cassowary on this beach and this cassowary now associates people with food and is looking for the food and this woman's running away and the cassowary is going after her because he wants the sandwich. And they all think it's cute until somebody gets disemboweled. What would you recommend though if I'm on the beach with my wife and I see a cassowary, like,

do I throw my sandwich far away from me? Yes, yes, exactly, Chris. That is feeding it, technically. Well, it is, but you're already, the point of no return, okay? So this is a situation where now you either, you know, this cassowary has already been acclimated to associating people with food damage has already been

done now you're in a situation you got to protect yourself get the animal away from Ron is that related to the ostrich it's got to be right it's it's a type of you know of a you know a flightless large bird I don't know if it's quite in the rat type family like the em emus and the rias are, but it's very similar, I guess, in structure. And it's not as big, right? The ostriches are bigger. The ostrich is the biggest of the flightless birds, right?

That is correct. The ostriches is bigger, yes. But this one is more dangerous? Oh yes, because it can be aggressive. This one will feed on a lot of different things, including small animals. So it has a very huge middle claw that it will kick with and will disembowel you. The ostrich is also-

You said the most dangerous bird in the world to humans. Really? The ostrich, put it on the Poll Lab at Labrador Show, did you know the cassowary was the most dangerous bird in the world to humans? The ostrich is not carnivorous or it also eats more? The ostrich is a fine-tuned eating machine. They'll eat everything from metal screws to ping pong balls, but they're not as voracious a feeder as the cassowary is.

All right, so I was saying, but they do eat meat, do they not? The ostrich doesn't eat meat? Not really, no. I mean, it may do so, you know, on a whim, but it's not the mainstay of its diet. So, but wait, are you saying that basically the ostrich is kind of like a giant buzzard in terms of nutrients? That it's not a classy bird in terms of what it eats?

No, it puts almost anything into its mouth. You know, people who keep them under human care, the big challenge they have with them, there you see the claw of that cassowary. The big challenge people have keeping ostriches is keeping them from eating things that they're not supposed to eat. I mean, we've had ostrich in captivity that we have found everything, like I said,

from screws to springs to coins in their bellies. The claw of the cassowary we just showed, that's the closest thing we'll find in the animal kingdom to looking like a dinosaur claw, correct? I agree with you, 100%. Yes, that's kind of like a, you know, it's modern day velociraptor type stuff. Billy, you were asking earlier in the show a question about fighting with a sword, a bull or a tiger.

What was the question? Ron McKill is perfect to talk about this. Well, Ron, so someone broke into Roy's car. So he dressed like a gladiator so no one else would break into his car today. And then one thing led to another and we started talking about lions versus tigers in terms of modern day gladiators versus bullfighters. And which you would rather fight with a sword? Would you rather fight a bull with a sword or a lion with a sword?

Oh a bull, 100%. There's no question about it. Keep in mind a bull is not a predator that feeds on carnivorous things. The bull is just being aggressive, trying to defend itself. You've got two horns as opposed to a whole set of teeth and 10 claws in both of those animals that are born killers. Ron, I recently went to the zoo and- You did. And I got to tell you, Billy, I ran across you and I cannot believe that you produce such an Absolutely gorgeous baby. That is one of the most gorgeous babies ever seen in my life. Why are you so shocked? I mean I'm just pretty amazed because I'm trying I'm sure you guys have seen this kid this kid and I'm not a big I usually

Think that most babies look like lizards that need to be put back Do most babies look like lizards who need to be put back for the cooking. Put it on the poll please, Juju. Do most babies look like lizards who need to be put back for the cooking? Yeah, but I gotta tell ya, Billy's little girl was one of the most precious things I've ever seen. Thank you, Ron. So anyways, I saw you by the tiger exhibit and I have two questions about my visit to the zoo. One, we were told that when you can't see the tigers,

sometimes they climb up into the trees and they're hiding in the trees to get shade. And I said, you know, it seems like a little, little maybe the tigers are just hiding and we don't see them, but they're telling us they're in the trees. And then the follow-up to that question is, I then saw the chimpanzees,

and you were just talking about ostriches eating everything and you find screws and whatever. And on a previous visit to the zoo, I told you, I saw someone throw some ice cream to a chimpanzees and you're just talking about ostriches eating everything and you find screws and whatever. And on a previous visit to the zoo I told you I saw someone throw some ice cream to a chimpanzee because they asked for it. And I noticed this time when I saw the chimpanzees, there's now a speaker with Ron McGill's voice blasting saying do not throw anything to the chimpanzees or we will prosecute you and you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of law law in both English and Spanish on a non-stop loop. Is that good for the mental health of the chimpanzees hearing your voice

over and over and over again? I'll tell you, it's not good for my mental health. It's not one of the things that I supported. They asked me to make the recording. I will say that you're being a little bit extreme in that, you know, I don't say that you will be a little bit extreme in that, I don't say that you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

I don't think that's what we're saying. It's embezzled, I heard. Well, yeah, well, anyway, I think basically what we say, listen, please don't feed them because they have a very specific diet. And by feeding them something that's not on their diet can get them pretty sick. So that's what I say.

And I do say it in both languages, even though my Spanish is a little bit left to be desired. Having said that, that loop only happens when people move in front of it. It's set up by emotion sensor so it's just it's not playing continuously around the clock but the chimps have to listen to it, God forbid. Ron, what is the status right now of your sex and the animals? Your sex and the animals yearly presentation that for many years is one of the most iconic sold out events that we've ever had in South Florida.

I don't do it, it's been put on the shelf. The only way I will ever do it is if Dan Levitard asks me to do it for something for him. Oh wow. Wow. I think I might do that. A little one on one thing. Thank you.

You're welcome. Wow. That is the two of you. might do that. A little one-on-one thing. Heck! Yeah. Wow. That is the two of you, huh? Private show, yeah. That presentation now is part of the Dan LeBretard show. You guys, okay, that's great. Let's do it. I will find a way to do that for our audience

at some point in the future. I don't think you were invited, Greg. Oh, yeah, sorry. Will Greg Cody, Dan, and still got to have sex with the animals because that's what's about to happen insinuating no but it's a very popular thing that he does uh... because it's just science and i'd like for you to explain with your expertise because i've said this before i know

were spoiled around here but in terms of national authorities in the animal realm now that steve irwin has passed and we don't really have a lot of people who do this between languages, Spanish and English, Ron McGill represents the, I think, the most famous caretaker for the animals right now that we have in America speaking on behalf of can we just care for the animals? And this video right here that I want to show you, Ron, I want you to explain to me how mountain goats do this What these goats are doing because I don't understand how they traverse a mountainside This way when this seems to defy the laws of physics that they can That that they can have that kind of facility on the side of a mountain where if they were to slip all of them would Slip to their death and it does on occasion happen. I will say it does on occasion, but rarely happen.

It's just a wonderful adaptation, Dan. It's a matter of survival. It's a matter of growing up in an environment that you adapt to. These animals, if you looked at their hooves, their hooves are almost like pointed. So they are able to actually grasp the tiniest little ledge, and they are able to survive that way I mean, this is how they escape predators things like leopards and other carnivores But I will say that I have seen an occasion where they lost footing and they died So it's not like I bet it's more common than you'd imagine like we just see the good ones because they're good at it, right? I don't know that's possible. I do know that it does happen

because they're good at it. Right. I don't know that's possible. I do know that it does happen. But you know the fact that, you know nature is a circle of life and the ones that don't succeed, they become food for something else. But again, these animals have adapted to an environment

that enables them to do things that are absolutely incredible. What would you say Ron, because I will remind again the audience, I haven't done this in a while, the audience, the reason that Ron is so good to the show and so available to the show or someone who has never made any money off the show except for the charitable contributions

with which he buys expensive cars fancy trips and the jackets jacket is presently wearing him uh... he does as a lot of big work with the help of our listeners who represent the biggest donations that he gets at Miami Zoo because of how much they appreciate how great he is with the animals. So if you want to help the animals directly his endowment is always available to you. If I were to play for you a bunch of video here that would amaze you the way that that one did. What represents the most amazing thing like that that you believe exists in the wild? An adaptation so amazing that it defies the law of physics.

Well, I'll tell you what, Dan. I looked at, you know, when I looked at that video, it reminded me of another one, which is probably the most jaw-dropping video I've ever seen. I'm sure Stu guys can find it. Find a snow leopard actually going after one of those animals and getting it and both of them plummeting down well over a hundred and fifty feet against the rocks and Surviving watch that video. It is one of the most incredible videos I've ever seen of an animal defying Everything to survive so except of course didn't because that ended up being killed by the leopard But look at the leopard never letting go and plummeting down on these rocks hundreds of feet down a sheer cliff unbelievable Okay, another thing that's unbelievable. Look at the golden Eagles

Grabbing grabbing Shammy, which is a type of antelope grabbing them babies that are twice the weight of the of the darn eagle No, look at this. Watch this. Oh my gosh, this is unbelievable Now it's gonna grab and and then when it grabs it, they both plummet look at now. Watch this watch this. Oh my gosh. This is unbelievable now It's gonna grab and and then when it grabs it they both plummet look at now watch this watch this Go get away wait get him get him get him get him get him get him get him Is this the one this isn't the one this isn't the real good one? But why now this isn't the real good one? There's one that it's like death for sure of this snow leopard grabbing a sham, but no that's that that's a crappy one There's a much better one, but look at the golden eagle. That's a good one

because it got away. That wasn't a bad one. That was a good one because it got away. It was bad for the snow leopard, but here's the deal. Look at the golden eagle. Oh man! Alright, Stugatsa is watching it by himself. He's not helping anybody. He's doing his own. It's unbelievable. But that's not helping anybody, Stugatsa. You're doing your own. I mean he asked me to look it up. You're doing his own. It's unbelievable. But that's not helping anybody, you're doing your own... I mean he asked me to look it up, I'm looking it up! You're doing your own private show, Stu Gantz. Look at a golden eagle grabbing an antelope and then it's too big for the golden eagle just to kill the antelope, so what does it do? It grabs it, it weighs more than the eagle, flies way

up in the air and then drops it to its death so it can eat it. It's unbelievable stuff. All right. We are looking for it. And now is this the video? Here it is. Here it is. OK, this is the one right here. Look at this. Watch this. It's not really what this goes across the cliff. Grabs it. And then look at this. Look at this. Holy shit. This doesn't seem well. It's not over. It's not over.

It's not over. It's not over. Watch this. It's not over, brother. Boom, boom. oh, boom. Wow. You're saying this as if this was the plan. It seems like this thing was trying to catch the food and just started falling down a mountain. Oh my God.

I mean, this is unbelievable. I mean, it doesn't let it go. Come on, Dan, come on. No, it is amazing. I'm not gonna dispute that. I'm just, I'm just still. It's beyond amazing. All right. No, it is amazing. I'm not gonna dispute that. I'm just I'm just amazing still All right. Don't yell at me. I don't If I had a hamburger in my hand and I'm going down that mountain I'm holding on to that hamburger

Okay, what do I have to say so you're sufficiently satisfied do it Grabbing the chamois. I'm glad you guys find this stuff. And then it takes it up in the air. It flies with this thing. It flies with it. Look at this. And then it'll take it to its death. Oh my God.

Yeah, that's horrifying for that poor thing. This is unbelievable stuff. This is unbelievable. Oh, wow. Jesus, that is a gruesome death. Just took that thing, threw it to its death. I didn't like that video. That is horrible. That's a snuff film

You just showed us it's this is irresponsible what we're doing I don't I like the animal videos where the animals get away I like I like the iguana running a while man was in snakes in the desert not how nature works dead Everything's got to eat that Incredible animals are to adapt to get their food. Yeah You gotta think of how incredible animals are to adapt to get their food. Yeah, okay, look, I am not- It's not how nature works. It's not how nature works.

Alright, listen to me. Anything can happen. Okay, listen to me. I'm well aware the wild is terribly cruel. More cruel than I could possibly imagine. Show me the videos where the iguana gets away from a thousand snakes. I like those better. Oh yeah.

I like those better than the videos of the thing dying at the end because a giant bird has taken a wonderful stuffed animal and thrown it off a cliff so it could fall 700 feet to its death. Amazing that the bird is that smart. Don't want to watch it as a video entertainment experience. Thank you. Show me a video where the igana didn't get away no this one gets away I think are you showing me so I think he gets away wait for it hold on hold on a second

yeah yeah yeah Derrick Henry of Iguanas broken tackles so many broken tackles in the open field Joe Mixon! Beautiful. Hey listen the bottom line is why life is amazing whichever way you look at it. That is correct I prefer it alive though so let's play for Ron McGill here the

last video of the day explain to me what a service dog is doing here in the paying of groceries because I know Greg Cody has lamented service dogs as if they're not useful comfort animals here's a service dog learning something I did not know that service dogs knew how to do which is pay pay cash money or pay credit card for for a purchase at a grocery store is this stupid pet tricks or is this a real thing it's it's it's it's basically stupid pet tricks that you know it's the dog with a lot to take something that the owner gives it and to present

to someone else i'm sorry ron let me interrupt you for a second greg muttered something drunk into the microphone because he starred for two hours in his kind of board what were you saying grand just remarking that you could shortchange a dog and it would know the difference you know i mean that and you are you are correct that's... You are correct, Rick. You're right, yep. You are correct.

Thank you. That dog has been trained to give whatever the owner gives it to the person and whatever the person gives back, back to the owner. It's not counting the change. Why would you not say that loud enough for all of us to enjoy it? Why would you slur it board into the microphone?

I wanna cut up how he said it originally. Please do that for me. Just go somewhere. Slurred. Look, at the end of this segment, I want nothing but a gladiator in the room. Nothing but a gladiator. I want you to go cut up for me what Greg Cody asked as a question. So bored is he by the daily doing of our show that he's gassed by the third hour of doing it I mean, it's back-to-back days for Greg Look Travis Kelsey says this is the toughest job in the world

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You guys, guys, it's a Tuesday. StuGuts! Here's your guide, Greg Cody, with Back in My Day. Shit, I hope I don't... Okay, here it is. Sorry. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the StuGats. Greg Cody does no longer have the stamina for what this requires weekly every day and by now of two consecutive days he's usually fading. We will find that sound and we will play that sound for you in a second. But I'm hearing from the team back there that you can't even make anything out. I'm about to hear the honor. It doesn't matter.

You don't understand. Okay, listen to me. I want everyone to know what the frustration of my general Tuesdays are. He's had nothing since shouting into a crowd, do it till you're satisfied. He's run out of material since then. Look at him, drinking vigorously from the cup of satisfaction. What about that guy thing? And the bobs.

And the bob hairdo. It was all before that. You had a spree, you had a hot streak, we fed you the ball, you took seven straight shots, you nailed all of them, you haven't listened since. Hey, you guy turned into that guy? That wasn't you. It was a long time ago. He's done his work for the day. I have.

I only have. And he has it back in my day. Oh, I heard he has one. Yeah, it's Tuesday. It's, of course, it's Tuesday. You know what, Ron? I've got no more questions for you. You've got to run to this presentation.

Would you like to be here for a Greg Cody Back in My Day? We're about to unveil the first fresh Greg Cody Back in My Day, and I'm going to say about eight months i maybe more than that maybe i got here now i'm staying those people can wait wow okay excellent uh... he's coughing here at the beginning of it are you okay you ready to do this correct will say all right

it is time to take a trip down memory lane here's your guide, Greg Cody, with Back in My Day. Cruise ships. Ah. Okay, first a quick disclaimer. More like a preemptive strike. Way back in 2019, I did a Back in My Day about theme cruises, which are awful.

Now I'm here to talk about an even bigger and more pervasive trend in the cruise industry. If you've seen any of the many TV ads for cruises lately, you know what I'm talking about. It's all about the action and excitement now. You see any of these ads? Just watching them makes me exhausted. People dive-bomb bombing feet first down terrifying vertical water flumes, bungee jumping out over the ocean, surfing simulators, tidal

waves, indoor skydiving, scaling a rock, zip lines. What am I in a marine boot camp? I didn't sign up for a thrill ride. I don't want to compete. I want to relax on my cruise. Get my money's worth on the drink card and doze on the deck in a chaise lounge with a dog-eared paperback on my lap, preferably Pride of a Lion. Can't even do that! Nowadays the decks are a raucous boulevard with serpentining conga lines of dancers and Carmen Miranda hats and ping-pong tables. Tell me the genius who thought that up. A ping pong ball weighs less than a tenth of an ounce versus gale force ocean wind.

You can't relax anymore on a cruise deck because the ship has jogging trails as health nuts who forgot they were on vacation or huffing it past constantly checking their smartwatch to see if they're on pace. On pace for what? To be a more fit corpse? And why are there gyms on cruise ships in the first place?

It's an oxymoron. It's like having a cocktail lounge in a synagogue. I don't need a gym to work out. I'm doing 12 ounce curls with a Miller Lite bottle. You won't catch Greg Cody doing anything more strenuous on a cruise than playing a couple of holes of mini golf, watching my wife lose at bingo, getting annoyed during some trivia contest, or praying at the roulette wheel. One other thing, it's not a Broadway or a Cirque du Soleil. I'm on a big slow boat. I don't need a concert or a show production. Just

give me an open buffet and a bar every 25 feet. Make cruise ships dull again. I'm Greg Cody and that's how it was back in my day. So hold on a second, Greg, and a very worthy return. You're saying that a gym in a cruise ship is like a cocktail bar in a synagogue. Yeah, cocktail lounge, I believe I said. A cocktail lounge, an important distinction because it's a funnier word

lounge cocktail bar not as funny as it is right this is a prideful word thing of the other you're sure it's tough to do with every week which is why we get them once every eight months right yeah eight or nine months yeah are you guys in agreement that every gym i've ever gone to on a cruise ship is filled with people i know so i didn't know they had a gym yeah same sad put it on the poll. I never get past the casino. At the Levitard show, did you know they had gyms on cruise

ships and also is a gym in the cruise ship like a cocktail lounge in a synagogue? Yeah. Sometimes when I'm at that bar at the top by the pool, I'll see the track where people are walking and I always am like, get out of here, guy. Seriously. Do a little mile before you go to the boat. You're on vacation. I just got back from the Galapagos Islands on a yacht, doing Galapagos cruise, this is a wildlife cruise, and there was a flipping gym on that yacht. Can you believe it? I can't believe it.

I can't believe it. Is this another one of these paid for trips that you've embezzled from the endowment? Absolutely. Tell me more, because you haven't been around for a couple of weeks because you've been in the Galapagos. What have you been doing? Another amazing trip. Ron McGill sees the world while wearing fancy leather jackets. I'm going back to the Galapagos in May and then to Australia in June. Nice.

Alright, thank you Ron. Good seeing you. See you. Appreciate it. Always good seeing you. And thank you as always to our listeners. That segment never gets old. It really doesn't. I don't understand how it never gets old, but it never gets old because there's always new stories to talk about with him. I'm very happy about the return of Back in My Day. I'm very happy and thrilled that our audience has supported these books so much. I will say that it is a great career honor for our show, for the audience to respect the written word enough to make books successful.

The Pride of a Lion is wildly successful for a local, a small local publisher that continues to publish multiple Greg Cody books because it's profitable to publish Greg Cody books if the people from our world are involved in them like Ron McGill and Stu Gotts and the listeners can support those things. Yep, Greg, do you have a third book on the horizon?

Or a fourth book, I should say. Yeah, counting fins at 50, which I don't really count. Because you didn't sell it through the show. If you had, you would count it. Exactly, yes. They've approached me about another book. Nice. Yeah, I'm thinking about it.

Look at you. My plate's a little full right now, but we'll see. I like that Jeremy continues to take chances by trying to make songs quickly. We will go to a new collection of music from Jeremy in a second, but as it relates to just Ron McGill in general and everything he's doing with and for the animals and Pride of a Lion, you guys are very happy

with your book sales, correct? Like are we done selling books? Are we, how does this work? Are you gonna tell the audience at some point what it has done for you other than get you more publishing deals? Like are you gonna thank the audience for supporting the project?

I mean I will thank the audience to the end of the earth. They've made all the books successful including Stu Gatz's book, personal record book. The great thing about books is that they age well. You put out a book and it really never gets old. People are reading it all the time, right? It's a great bathroom book. It is. It's a book. It is the perfect size. Back in my day is easy reading in the bathroom. What I have learned about the book industry, Dan, and books in general is you're never done selling your book.

You're never done with it. And so Father's Day is right around the corner, and that's a whole new revenue stream for me and Greg on the same book. I think that's how everyone thinks of Father's Day. It's the most romantic way to think of it as a whole nother revenue stream. That is the way to think of fatherhood parenting in general.

Chris, I've been watching here, Billy had to run. Billy's hair's on fire all the time, he's always producing, always producing. And so he had to go do underdogs, and he ran out of the room. And you have been working in the shadows with Stu Gottz, concocting, I can see you guys working while we do a live show. You've been trying to find this sound

that Greg Cody made, and I've worked with you guys long enough and we can communicate without talking well enough that you guys are disappointed by the sound. I can tell that it's not good enough to get us the punctuation we need on this segment, but even not having heard it, the part that I want to reveal to the punctuation we need on this segment. But even not having heard it, the part that I want to reveal to the audience is Greg Cody is a professional broadcaster

who at this point in his career is largely bored with what we're doing around here. And he doesn't have much stamina for what we're doing. So after two hours where he's really been the star and wonderful, like this has been an epic Greg Cody Tuesday. Epic, an old school Greg Cody, Ed Cody epic Greg Cody Tuesday. Yep. Epic. An old school Ed Cody. Ed Cody. Greg Cody Tuesday.

That's a fine, man. A Venmo fine. It's double on Tuesdays with Greg here. You know what? You're right. I've got to figure out. I've got to, you're right. I do.

I owe. Find the Venmo penalty. Tell me what it is. No, no. You got to do it now. I'll find it. You got to, we got to get the payment now. We can't just get the payoff.

A mistake is one dollar. I'm timed it. No, it's not a mistake though. Mistake? It's not just, I called do it now. I'll find it. We gotta get the payment now. We can't just get the payoff. A mistake is one dollar. No, it's not a mistake though. I called him Ed Cody and that's a mistake on a name. It's a mistake. What is the Venmo Fine Bucket? What are the costs? The Venmo Fine Bucket chart, one dollar for a mistake, two dollars for a cough or phlegm into the mic,

three dollars for pestering, five dollars for tone, seven dollars not listening, ten dollar phone interruption, 50 dollars if you kill someone. Fines are doubled on Tuesdays only applies. I mean technically you killed Greg and made him mad So I didn't tell him he could have lived somewhere else in witness protection as Ed And I did not kill him. There was no there was no suggestion that I killed him No, I love the name Ed so I'm gonna give you a special dispensation and wave your fine really yeah I'm gonna wave do you have that power? Well? Yeah, I do he owes two dollars. How about just one dollar?

All right put in a buck call Venmo It's not all Venmo You know send Venmo a buck any ballgame right call Venmo Whoever Venmo is Venmo. I assume it was somebody's name. Send them a buck, you don't need two bucks. Because I've waived a dollar. Yes. Are you in charge of the fine bucket?

I'm not fined according to this fine system. I'm not charged by this. Oh, well you should be. I mean, that's absolutely a fine when you misname someone. Especially one of your oldest friends. Yeah, I mean Ed. Nobody calls me Ed. Well, my wife does sometimes, but that's like a, we won't get into that. someone especially when you're all this red yeah nobody called me and well my wife does sometimes but that's like a so let me hear this sound please without any further ado because I am told that the sounds not good enough now and that

there's none of me no payoff but I just want the audience to see what my Tuesday experience has been for 20 years okay which is I've watched Greg Cody get more and more tired, me and the woman who loves him just agreed, my God, the comedy has gotten lazy, late in age. He just throws out a couple of farts and expects everyone to laugh, because hey, buy my books, that's who I am, I'll be working on Broadway, I deserve Las Vegas shows, I'm He-Haw Three's Greg Cody.

Way to speak for me. I sell books and I sell out Las Vegas shows, I'm a musician, I'm a talent, haw threes Greg Cody. Okay, way to speak for me. I sell books and I sell out Las Vegas shows. I'm a musician, I'm a talent. I could have sold out a church, but for some reason that event got canceled. Yeah, I have an approach to do Broadway, but that's a whole nother story. Continue.

You'd be good at it. Let me hear Greg Cody. Broadway Joe. I just wanna tell you, this is, Ron McGill is talking, and Greg Cody,'m throwing with rolling into a video of a service dog that is on a counter paying a cashier in either cash or credit card greg kody's trying to make the joke

that the dog would not know if you short changed it because the dog does not know denominations here is that sound of g of Greg Cody making that joke in the bored laziest way possible. The dog's been taught to take something that the owner gives it. That's what you're supposed to know what it is. Right in the middle of Ron. Professional broadcaster. I think you should. Yes, yes, yes. Let's go, please again. The dog's been taught to take something that the owner gives it What was the exact mutter

In respect for Ron not when it interrupt him I murmured I did a little I make it out now. You can hear him saying I feel like you could Something that the owner gives it I mean did you finish the? Did you finish the thought was it half a mutter? It was is that even it was half a mother We knew what he was thinking. Yeah, I mutt muttered for a dog get it Mutt mutter you're you did not even finish the thought you belched out four syllables of bored Muttered commentary that just gets in the way and isn't a complete thought. Right. Out of respect to Ron.

The dog's been taught to take something that the owner gives it. The mutter. You talked over him. He sounds so indifferent. The dog's been taught to take something that the owner gives it. It was a personal aside, not meant for the air. I muttered. I murmured.

You spoke into a mic. He shot his cannon on. Do it till you're satisfied. The dog's been taught to take something that the owner gives it. From fireside conversations to football Sundays, winter means more moments with the coolest people in your life.

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