Hour 2: Your Wife Is Hard To Please

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[15] Castles are surprisingly affordable.

[16] There are a shit ton in Ireland.

[17] Yeah.

[18] I mean, it's hard to not see a castle when you just look out your window.

[19] It's wonderful.

[20] And so many of them are, like, destroyed.

[21] But I think there must be, like, a law.

[22] Like, you can't knock down the remnant of an old castle or something.

[23] It's great.

[24] They're all over Europe, too, because my in -laws were in Spain, and they'll be driving in Spain, and there's like eight castles that are just abandoned.

[25] There's nothing there.

[26] The reason that I say it's affordable is if you go with 12 people and you split the cost, you can handle whatever it is that you think is an unaffordable castle situation.

[27] Now, I don't know where Greg Cody was staying.

[28] Why are you shaking your head at me, Chris?

[29] I just don't know.

[30] Maybe I'm wrong.

[31] You didn't have the entire castle.

[32] I would assume it's like a regular hotel that there are a bunch of rooms.

[33] It's a castle hotel, they call it.

[34] It's transformed.

[35] Dan would rent out the entire hotel.

[36] Well, it's a little bit of a boutique hotel in that I think there were 44 rooms.

[37] And Dan would be like, they're all mine.

[38] Can it be a boutique and a castle?

[39] I feel like those two things are kind of the opposite.

[40] I don't think both of those things can be the same thing, can they?

[41] A boutique is just, I understand what you're saying.

[42] It's intimate, but I also think a boutique is kind of small.

[43] A castle's never small.

[44] Right.

[45] Yeah, it was pretty impressive.

[46] Not all castles are big.

[47] Really?

[48] Really?

[49] Entanted Castle.

[50] Put it on the poll at Lebitard Show.

[51] White Castle, at Lebitard Show, are all castles big.

[52] Yeah, the mini sliders.

[53] Love White Castle.

[54] Or no. Heaven on Earth.

[55] You know, you need to upgrade your heaven.

[56] I'm not saying White Castle's bad.

[57] Dan, you ever had a hundred White Castle Burger?

[58] Like at 2 a .m.?

[59] Look at me. Look at me. Do you think I can have a hundred?

[60] Come on.

[61] You've been close to heaven.

[62] Yes, of course.

[63] But no, that's not heaven.

[64] Come on.

[65] You need to have a better.

[66] You need to do better on heaven.

[67] if you're thinking that White Castle is heaven.

[68] Come on, a little bit better.

[69] The best is when you have the one at your house in the microwave and you bite into it, it's still cold in the middle.

[70] I want to cover a handful of different things from Greg Cody's vacation.

[71] How annoying was Erlene about your driving?

[72] Because I started the show this way yesterday because I'm a little bit surprised that they were able to get the power away from Joe Biden in a political climate where it seems like people are only interested in power.

[73] when, as I said, I've had some trouble taking any power from my father at his age.

[74] You are about to turn 70 years old.

[75] If I were your wife, I also wouldn't trust how generally flippant and reckless you are about thinking that your judgment is better than it is.

[76] Yeah, it's good judgment.

[77] It's not good judgment.

[78] It's not.

[79] And I don't blame her for not trusting you driving and you wrecked a rental car.

[80] I'm a good, bad driver.

[81] Yeah.

[82] In other words, you know, you violently say, scrape a stone wall and yet you don't lose control you know you never have the feeling that you're going to swerve you're not going to hit anybody head on you're not going to rebound back into the wall you're going to go about your merry way ball on the jack to galway there's a beautiful thing eventually we pull over and we look at the damage my wife's shaking her head like a bobble doll and bobble head the whole time they usually go up and down from side to side so you just kept You sideswiped a wall and you just kept driving?

[83] Yeah, there's the famine wall.

[84] That's the one?

[85] Well, that wasn't the exact one.

[86] Most of them aren't that big.

[87] People know from history, the story behind the famine wall, right?

[88] In the potato famine of the 1840s, which caused five million Irish people to move to the United States.

[89] The ones that didn't move were left behind in poverty to earn pennies a day by creating all of these stone, jagged, ragged stone walls that line the countryside of Ireland.

[90] And the problem is they're all right next to narrow roads.

[91] And so, you know, if somebody swerves to avoid a head -on collusion, you literally have to scrape a famine wall.

[92] Is that what happened to you?

[93] That's exactly what happened to me. Someone swerved to you or you just hit the wall?

[94] I just hit the wall.

[95] It seemed like they were swerving.

[96] There's a potato famine monument in New York City in Battery Park.

[97] If you're in New York, you can go check it out and see what Greg's talking about.

[98] It is a monument to people that died during the potato famine, and they have a whole wall constructed with, like, native plants to Ireland.

[99] It's very interesting.

[100] And Ireland now, as a nation, is obsessed with potatoes.

[101] Like, on every, on every menu, you see some sort of a featured potato dish.

[102] I think there should be potatoes on every menu.

[103] Can that be my heaven on earth?

[104] If I were running a political campaign, I'd put potatoes on every menu.

[105] Yeah.

[106] Badaida All right What Craig As my nana Nelly Dugi used to She didn't pronounce a potato For some reason She said Bada And that's always stuck with me Chris I'm a little worried Okay Because today has been amazing For a number of different reasons But one of them Is your father underestimates how hard it is To get back on this His stamina's gone He's drink Like he's gone He's not with us anymore He's not making sense It's like Bada And he's just tired, and he's going to reel into traffic at the end of this because we're taking advantage of an old man. Bada.

[107] He's a writer, Dan.

[108] Thank you, Billy.

[109] You're feeling this, Chris, right?

[110] The fact that your dad, one out of every six or seven things he's saying isn't meant for air, isn't with him remembering he's on air.

[111] It's taking advantage of an old person.

[112] I was cooking with him.

[113] I was right there with him.

[114] I'm up until the badada.

[115] Then I got really annoyed.

[116] It just reminded me, you know.

[117] Badaida.

[118] fond memory, fond memory of my, my nana, Nelly Dugie.

[119] Oh, Nellie?

[120] Yeah.

[121] Mine's a beautiful thing, huh?

[122] Sometimes it just brings back memories and you never know when they're going to come and go.

[123] Yes.

[124] She was the one.

[125] I've also mentioned she cooked in 100 -year -old oil.

[126] She never threw out oil.

[127] Ugh.

[128] Might have been lard.

[129] Lard was big back then.

[130] Yeah.

[131] But she never, you know, a...

[132] Goose fat.

[133] That's what my great -a -cooked with.

[134] There you go.

[135] Yeah.

[136] But, you know, you can strain that.

[137] and you can cook a hundred -year -old oil.

[138] I never do that.

[139] Like, oil costs more than the turkey, right?

[140] So I deep fry a turkey.

[141] I spend 50, 60 bucks on oil.

[142] You use it once, then you throw it out.

[143] The bird costs a third of that.

[144] Where do you throw oil?

[145] That's a good question.

[146] I want to get back to...

[147] Down the sink.

[148] You do it every year.

[149] Where do you...

[150] I'm asking you.

[151] I'm kidding.

[152] Down the sink, down toilets.

[153] You can't put it down any of those things.

[154] I know.

[155] A fat bird brewing down there.

[156] I disagree with that, though.

[157] Okay, and here's why it cleans the gullet of the toilet.

[158] I'm not sure if that's true.

[159] I believe it does.

[160] It's always worked for me. Let's look it out.

[161] I don't have stuffed up toilets.

[162] Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Lebitard show.

[163] Does hot oil clean the gullet of the toilet?

[164] No, it's cold by then.

[165] Yeah, we have to do it responsibly.

[166] Right.

[167] Does used cooking oil clean?

[168] Does hot used cooking oil clean the gullet of the toilet?

[169] Earl does.

[170] What happened in Nellie's oil?

[171] When she died?

[172] Yeah.

[173] I don't know.

[174] She died around the time.

[175] I barely remember her, to be honest, because she died around the time of Beetlemania, like 64, 65.

[176] So you just forgot everything about Nellie because of the Beatles?

[177] He died of diabetes, but back then they all called it sugar diabetes.

[178] Well, my Grammy called it the sugars.

[179] Oh, okay.

[180] Yeah.

[181] There you go.

[182] Mine called the sugar diabetes.

[183] I'm learning a lot today.

[184] To this day, if I'm referring to, to diabetes in front of your mother.

[185] I say the phrase sugar diabetes because it drives her nuts.

[186] She corrects me every single time.

[187] I would love to go on vacation with you too.

[188] Crazy time, huh?

[189] Beetlemania, the sugars, potato famine.

[190] A lot going on in the world.

[191] Your wife was pretty frustrated with you on this trip.

[192] I can't imagine her getting concentrated old man bickering, Cody, forgetting the passports, having to drive on.

[193] Like...

[194] That was so annoying.

[195] She actually took a victory lap on how she handled him losing the passport.

[196] She's like, I handled that well.

[197] You drove 100 miles before realizing, like just through countryside?

[198] Yes.

[199] This is before or after you've gotten into the accident and before after you've locked yourself in the castle.

[200] Before both.

[201] But I'm going to tell you this, and I tried to explain this to her.

[202] I had to be very, very careful.

[203] Anybody in a relationship knows it.

[204] If you're telling your partner something that might not hit the right way, you've got to be very, very careful.

[205] How did you say it?

[206] I explained to her that there's a little bit of a pie chart going on here in terms of whose responsibility it was.

[207] Blamed her for...

[208] No, no. A pie chart.

[209] What I said was, it's my briefcase.

[210] It's totally on me that I left it in the rental car we had to turn back in.

[211] On the other hand, you might have said, you sure, where's your brief?

[212] Are you sure you got the briefcase?

[213] Did you check that?

[214] I'm going to look that.

[215] And she didn't do that.

[216] So, yes, it's my fault.

[217] But, you know, a little slice of the pie.

[218] What's a reading, the pie chart, Greg?

[219] What's it reading?

[220] I'm going to take 80 -20.

[221] Yeah, that's fine.

[222] That seems fair.

[223] You travel with a briefcase, huh?

[224] Well, it's not a briefcase.

[225] I say briefcase.

[226] It's one of those, there it is right there.

[227] It's one of those satchels.

[228] That helps the audience.

[229] Yeah, it couldn't quite see that.

[230] Lift it up.

[231] It's next to his shoe.

[232] Grabbing the bag now.

[233] Yeah, your father's.

[234] It's like a laptop bag.

[235] I think it's like a briefcase.

[236] It's a laptop bag.

[237] That's exactly what it is.

[238] It's a businessman's case.

[239] Let me rewind.

[240] laptop bag what let me rewind to greg kodi returning from a trip and deciding that very evening i'm going to honor the country i've just been in by cooking a dish from that country i want to go back to that particular bit of wonderful how long have you been doing that and what is the lamest cheapest shortcut version of that that you have done that hasn't been to celebrate the country and it's just because you have to adhere to the particulars of, I do this every time I return from a trip, so I'm going to just fart out an Irish stew.

[241] Oh, it was, it took me all afternoon to make.

[242] First of all, just harvesting the meat takes a while.

[243] I bought like a big four pound truck.

[244] We don't need the recipe.

[245] He's asking other examples of you doing this.

[246] Can we do a recipe of the day?

[247] So what I do is, let it marinate.

[248] It's like, They didn't ask you that.

[249] By harvesting the meat, you've got to cut off the fat.

[250] Yeah.

[251] And that's tough.

[252] You know, it's a combination of knife work, kitchen shears.

[253] Other examples.

[254] When I came back from Barcelona, I had to make a pizza with pineapple on it, only because that's what I tasted over there when I was there for the Olympics.

[255] Wait, wait a minute.

[256] No, in Spanish, got like a seat.

[257] The Olympic, early 90s.

[258] I thought he was going to say paella.

[259] Five years ago.

[260] But I don't think the pineapple piece.

[261] Pizza is a Spanish dish?

[262] Let's hear them out.

[263] I had a, by the way, I came home from Rome and made paella.

[264] There you go.

[265] I had an Italian paella.

[266] Went in Rome.

[267] That's right.

[268] In Barcelona, I had a Hawaiian pizza.

[269] So I had a Hawaiian.

[270] And I don't make many pieces from scratch, by the way.

[271] That's difficult.

[272] I admire the pizza flippers.

[273] That's not a Spanish dish, the pizza with pineapples on it.

[274] But he had it in Spain.

[275] I do that every Friday here.

[276] But he had it in Spain.

[277] What are you guys not getting?

[278] Exactly.

[279] Making a pizza from scratch sometimes more expensive than just buying a pizza.

[280] It is.

[281] But you have that sense of accomplishment afterwards.

[282] Often tastes like crap, but you have that sense of accomplishment.

[283] Yeah, I keep meaning to buy myself a pizza oven, but I haven't done it yet.

[284] That would be a great 70th birthday present for him, Dan.

[285] Oddly enough, the first Hawaiian pizza was in Canada.

[286] There you go.

[287] It's not a Spanish dish.

[288] I don't understand.

[289] If I eat it in Spain, it's a Spanish dish.

[290] That's right.

[291] That's not true at all.

[292] If you're drunk at a bar in Spain and you end up at some pizza shop that has a pineapple.

[293] Look, I'm in You just got a piece of pizza.

[294] I don't understand.

[295] Okay, not the answer I was expecting my question, but I've got many questions about your vacation.

[296] How much of a backseat driver was Erlene and how mad was she about the fact that you wrecked a rental car?

[297] Yeah, very.

[298] Keep in mind, And I'm driving on the wrong side of the car on the wrong side of the road.

[299] So I'm not used to the – it's really discombobulating me. It took days to adjust to the fact that I'm doing the opposite of what we get in the States.

[300] My whole driving career, I've never driven a car in Europe until this trip.

[301] And so it was an adjustment.

[302] And so I want to hug the left side so that I don't head on somebody.

[303] And my wife must have said a thousand times, Greg, move over.

[304] You're about to hit a wall.

[305] You're about to hit a curb.

[306] Greg, move over, move over.

[307] And it's just so annoying.

[308] He's right.

[309] I only hit one wall.

[310] You were her.

[311] I drove her eight days.

[312] I hit one wall.

[313] That's pretty good.

[314] How many of you pass?

[315] Hundreds.

[316] There you go.

[317] Thank you.

[318] Not even one percent.

[319] Now, I hit a bunch of bushes, though.

[320] They have a wall of bushes.

[321] And so, yeah, and you're driving, and you hear the court go, thw -flat, twat, twat, twat.

[322] Didn't you sit in all these bushes?

[323] Didn't you clip something in a parking garage, too?

[324] Yeah, we had a minor mishap in a parking garage.

[325] Minor.

[326] You have to drive a Fiat to park in the parking garages in Ireland.

[327] They're six feet wide.

[328] I'm driving an SUV.

[329] I have zero chance.

[330] There's your problem.

[331] You rented a SUV to drive in a country.

[332] My wife and trip organizer does that.

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[340] Don Lebertard.

[341] It's been a lovely cruise.

[342] Oh, man, that's my outro.

[343] That's, you know, as my casket is being low.

[344] Jesus.

[345] You know, I'll have been cremated a week before, but we'll do the casket thing just for show.

[346] And as my casket is being lowered.

[347] Well, we'll be empty casket?

[348] Yeah, it'll be empty, you know, just for show.

[349] Well, what's the redundancy there?

[350] You know, I mean, we're going to put on a public display.

[351] Yeah, naturally.

[352] Stugats.

[353] What do you do with the ashes?

[354] You're going on a lovely cruise.

[355] Exactly.

[356] Maybe we'll throw them over, my wife will throw them overboard.

[357] I would assume.

[358] She's nicking with her new husband.

[359] This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats.

[360] On the pie chart of blame, I will, for those of you who do not listen all the time, I will remind you that Greg Cody, an adult human being, has blamed his wife for not telling him it was cold outside when he wandered out into the cold and could have seen for himself.

[361] He expects his wife to take care of him the way that a mother would take care of him.

[362] of a fetus, not a toddler, a fetus.

[363] She doesn't trust him with driving for very good reason.

[364] He is an old man and his judgment is getting worse and worse, and he thinks it's the same or better.

[365] We just got done telling you the story of he locked himself inside of a castle and got into at least two accidents and he hit a lot of shrubs and is wondering why his wife is telling him a thousand times, Greg, you're not in the middle of the road.

[366] You need to get out of the middle of the road.

[367] Is it possible the castle is also not entirely, his fault?

[368] He was sent to...

[369] Yes.

[370] That's why they comped our room.

[371] There was some, you know, aberration in the lock that prevented me from unlocking my own deadbolt.

[372] You know, I'm unscrewing it, doing the work of the maintenance crew.

[373] I'm unscrewing my own deadlock, or dead block.

[374] You got it.

[375] Whatever it's called.

[376] Deadlock.

[377] Yes, he's falling apart, as I said.

[378] He's having a lot of trouble with just speech, thought, and knowing where he is.

[379] But, Chris, this part, I'm serious about.

[380] My father is 10 years older.

[381] The last time I drove with my father anywhere was a few years ago.

[382] It was Christmas Eve night.

[383] Notia when I got in the back seat of a car on a night.

[384] This was several years ago and I'm like, my father shouldn't be driving anymore.

[385] I was in the back seat and I'm like, this is deeply unsafe.

[386] What is happening right now?

[387] And it's the last time I got in a car with him and I've been trying to get him a driver since and it doesn't work.

[388] It's absolutely not.

[389] You're not, no, I will not.

[390] Your father.

[391] is in worse general shape than my father.

[392] He's 10 years younger, but it's been a battering.

[393] The Greg Cody experience has been to this vessel of a body for a long time.

[394] You're going to have such a hard time, and your mom is going to have such a hard time getting those keys away from him, because he thinks this is an aberration, and all it is is the beginning.

[395] It's the beginning of this.

[396] Two things.

[397] Number one, I'll take a driver if you're buying.

[398] number two, this is going to sound like I'm bragging.

[399] I'm going to out drive everybody in these two rooms.

[400] Really?

[401] Okay?

[402] What's your BMI?

[403] I'm a daily driver, okay?

[404] I'm a daily driver.

[405] And I haven't had a speeding ticket, just as an example, in who knows how long.

[406] Years, plural.

[407] You came back from vacation where you were just hitting shrubs, walls, and things in parking garage.

[408] But at the reverse, essentially.

[409] limit too.

[410] Exactly.

[411] He didn't get a ticket.

[412] In Greg's offense, he didn't get a ticket.

[413] Greg, Lehman and I actually have, we have a system when we're in a place where you have to drive on the left, which is the person in the passenger seat, points to the lane that you're turning into.

[414] Because if you say right left and you get confused, and then if you're making a left, it's like a close left and not like a far left, like if you're on the right side of the road.

[415] So we point to which lane you're turning into.

[416] Yeah.

[417] And another thing was everything in kilometers over there, of course.

[418] So all of a sudden you're going a hundred, You see a sign that says the speed limit's 140.

[419] And so mentally, you're like, I can't go.

[420] I don't want to go that fast.

[421] When, in fact, that's probably, what, 80 or whatever the thing is.

[422] But fabulous trip, despite all the harrowing.

[423] How was the food?

[424] I would love to go with you next time.

[425] We'll bring you along, Jess.

[426] Awful?

[427] The food was awful?

[428] It was really bad.

[429] It was so mediocre.

[430] And everything on the menu is like, you know, beef and Guinness and fish and chips and potatoes, badadas, and, you know.

[431] Shepherds pie?

[432] There were a couple of topped beef and guineas with the topping.

[433] Why would you feel the need to remember the land you came from with your culinary respect if the food was awful?

[434] I wanted to outdo the Irish at their own dish.

[435] And he said he did as he's eating it.

[436] He's like, this is better than what I had.

[437] Well, listen, your wife who's hard to please.

[438] Whoa.

[439] He's a little shy with her compliments.

[440] Whoa.

[441] What did Christy?

[442] What did Christy say about my...

[443] She said it was good.

[444] She said it was good multiple times.

[445] That's actually hilarious because she is critical of your food.

[446] Like there are times we leave and she's like, eh, not his best work.

[447] I know.

[448] Believe me. I still have Chris's top five from the sex therapist here.

[449] Didn't she not like shrimp?

[450] No, she hated my shrimp.

[451] Oh, man. She's allergic to shellfish.

[452] Yeah, she can get over that.

[453] Yeah.

[454] You know, if you've had my shrimp.

[455] Exactly right.

[456] You're going to forget the allergy because it tastes so good.

[457] She's never tried Greg's shrimp.

[458] That's right.

[459] I thought the food in Ireland was great.

[460] Where were you eating?

[461] I did.

[462] It was phenomenal.

[463] I had the worst steak I've ever had at the castle hotel restaurant.

[464] You don't eat at the hotel restaurant.

[465] That's just not even if it's a castle.

[466] Yeah.

[467] Where else are you going to go?

[468] It was a beautiful restaurant, and they had a nice menu.

[469] I ordered a fillet.

[470] You shouldn't screw up a filet, okay?

[471] You give it a nice, crusty, hard sear on the outside, and beautiful medium on the inside at most, maybe medium shading to medium rare.

[472] It was tough.

[473] They overcooked it like crazy.

[474] In my own country, I'm going to turn that back.

[475] Jack.

[476] But in Ireland, I played the polite.

[477] I didn't want to be the ugly American.

[478] I ate it.

[479] Now, later at the Shelbourne, one of the great hotels in Ireland.

[480] Does anyone else hear that car alarm?

[481] As our functions around here continue to fail on the doing of this show.

[482] Chris hit the car alarm button.

[483] That's why I didn't.

[484] Only half of you hear it.

[485] I am not, I've been hearing a car alarm for two and a half hours, for two and a half straight hours.

[486] Stop talking for a second.

[487] So we're going to hear it.

[488] Terrible for the podcast.

[489] I don't hear it.

[490] I mean, we hear it.

[491] The audience might hear it.

[492] Continue your story, Greg.

[493] I'm sorry.

[494] No, no. That reminds me of the latest Greg Cody Show podcast episode where Christopher is, his lawn is being cut as we're recording.

[495] So the entire time we're recording Chris Cody's lawnmower is going in the backyard.

[496] You got a lawn guy, Chris?

[497] I do.

[498] Wow.

[499] You think he's going to cut his own lawn?

[500] He didn't know which end of the lawmour to hold.

[501] That's not true.

[502] So back to the Shelbourne?

[503] The Shelbourne is one of the great hotels in Dublin.

[504] In fact, I forget how it might have been mentioned on the podcast, and I get a text from Dave Barry saying, yeah, we stayed there.

[505] Beautiful hotel.

[506] They served me one of the great fillets I've ever had in my life.

[507] Okay, so you can do it, Ireland, but you just got to be more consistent.

[508] complain about Irish food is that it's a lot of the same.

[509] You know, the menus all sort of read the same unless you're at a upscale restaurant and then they're, they know how to do it.

[510] You never got that often.

[511] I didn't hear the phone go off.

[512] That's a fine because of the sound your phone just made.

[513] You owe five.

[514] Yeah, it is your phone.

[515] Oh yeah, you're right.

[516] You owe five dollars.

[517] Before we end the segment, Jessica, I meant to ask you something that I'd forgotten to ask you about because Lucy last week and you guys can, vouch for this.

[518] Lucy and Jessica have become very good friends in a way that allows Jessica the great comfort of leaving Willow behind with a friend and so that she can go places.

[519] But Lucy was having a hard time with Willow because Willow, what kind, you just...

[520] Pay a fine with a fine with European money that makes Jessica go convert it.

[521] It's worth more, Dan.

[522] It's $10.

[523] What is this worth now?

[524] Is it worth $5?

[525] Isn't it close to one to one now, isn't it?

[526] I think it's pretty close to one to one.

[527] All right.

[528] But Jessica, are you aware that Willow was pulling, dragging Lucy to ice cream shops and sitting in front of them?

[529] And Lucy was unable to move her in any way.

[530] Yeah, I heard about this.

[531] I feel terrible about it.

[532] Willow does have a little bit of a bully streak in her.

[533] She can judge character very well.

[534] She can tell if someone's going to be too nice to her.

[535] and if she can get away with getting a pup cup and for some reason she knows that the ice cream places have pup cup she's never been to this ice cream place before but she dragged Lucy there every day and I feel very bad about it.

[536] She didn't respect Lucy and she could spot that Lucy was a pushover She doesn't respect me either for what it's worth She will constantly hump my leg when we're home Okay well that's disrespectful but she wouldn't have done that to you You wouldn't have trouble pulling Willow if you were trying to pull Willow That's true I would just drag her down the street She doesn't, I mean, I wouldn't really do that because dog owners are listening to this now and they're going to be like, you're a bad dog owner, which is not true.

[537] But I did feel bad because when I came home, I was like, how was Willow?

[538] And Lucy was like, well, she could tell that I, I didn't, she didn't respect me very much and it didn't get better throughout the week.

[539] And I feel bad.

[540] Lucy's got to get better at that.

[541] You shouldn't feel bad.

[542] Lucy's got to do, it's the, it is the dog caretaker's job to make sure.

[543] that the dog behaves.

[544] The dog wants to behave.

[545] The dog behaves so well with Lehman.

[546] The dog loves Lehman.

[547] Anything.

[548] Kids are the same way.

[549] My wife says the same thing about my daughter, that she does well for me, but when it's just with her, that she turns into this.

[550] I'm not tough enough on her, and I know I need to get better.

[551] I need to put some bass in my voice and tell her.

[552] Yeah, Lucy should have been taught the Bay call, because I guarantee you, that's a beautiful trainer.

[553] That's Willow, right?

[554] It's a handsome dog.

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[568] It's the classic first ballot hall of famer, the musical fart.

[569] Okay.

[570] It can be a creaking door.

[571] It can be an orchestra.

[572] uh tuning up before a concert and the bassoon is a little bit off key and it comes out like that stugats the musical fun it's a beauty it is a beauty me sorry shit this is the dan lebatar show with a stugats under the circumstances i will say with stu gott sabotaging us from beyond and great Cody sabotaging us while sitting in Stugats's chair.

[573] Under the circumstances, we have slapped together a show, a show that talked too a little too much, but ignored Heat Summer League championships with Jeremy and Mike Ryan not here to the reprieve of the audience.

[574] But Greg Cody just got done harrumphing under his breath.

[575] After many years doing this, he'd forgotten about the stamina it takes to get back in the chair when you've had a month off, and he doesn't know where he's been, by his own admission, for about the last 70 minutes.

[576] He's been disoriented.

[577] He's throwing a badato over here.

[578] And he's up a bay over here.

[579] It's a fine.

[580] He gave me 10 euro.

[581] But he does it.

[582] What is happening, Chris, let's examine for just a moment.

[583] There have been a lot of obstacles around.

[584] Microphones breaking, car alarms going off, video falling apart.

[585] Stuff's happened that has caused chaos around here today.

[586] And we've slapped something together.

[587] But also, your father, there have been times I feel like he's not remembering he's on air.

[588] Like he's just like, hey, Ron, I'll send you a text the way you would if you were leaving the office, just sort of forgetting that he's performing in front of a lot of people.

[589] Yeah, that bag over there.

[590] Like stuff like that.

[591] Well, the video, no, look, your father's never going to get the part that this is now a video production as well, and he's never going to get the part.

[592] I prefer, actually, that your father only think of this as an audio product, and we stop.

[593] Should be.

[594] Yeah, I'm fine with that portion of it.

[595] But it's when he doesn't know that he's on video or audio and just sort of forgets that he needs to come up with a sentence of thought.

[596] If he knew he's on audio, you know to give more context.

[597] Like, that's him not knowing he's on audio.

[598] He just thinks he's only on video.

[599] He's the worst.

[600] It's strange that your father, after this many years.

[601] doing this, approaches 70 years old, and lacks some of the general fundamentals of remembering when he's broadcasting.

[602] Well, that's a different thing, though, because, you know, you go from newspapering to radio and the...

[603] To a nap.

[604] And the original incarnation of the podcast was an audio only.

[605] And so now the video element, you know, it's confusing.

[606] But you're on a studio with a lot of lights, and we're clearly all in front of microphones performing something.

[607] But, Dan, you do get rusty, and also you forget sometimes how bright the lights are.

[608] They hurt your head a little bit.

[609] I can barely look up right now without, I feel, this migraine coming on.

[610] I know Greg probably feels the same way.

[611] It's very, very bright, unnecessarily bright.

[612] All right, let's turn off all the lights, guys, if you can.

[613] They're kind of necessary.

[614] Do you think you'd be better?

[615] Let's make them comfortable.

[616] Okay, let's turn it off.

[617] Let's see if it gets any better here.

[618] Just let's see how this goes.

[619] Baby, that's what I'm talking about.

[620] All right, let my boy cook.

[621] Go ahead, Dad.

[622] No, I mean, this is this is the way.

[623] way it should be yeah okay i feel like i'm i'm walking into my my bedroom closet whoa i'm surrounded by you remember the first podcast i ever did from the great cody show was in my closet because back then i thought all of the sound would be would have a great sound room uh by doing it among all my closet my my wife's clothes take up literally 70 percent of that closet pie chart yeah always always been unfair um but anyway i love it in here right now Now, this is how it should be.

[624] Yeah.

[625] You know?

[626] It's how it used to be before.

[627] I have a ghostly quality there as well, which is perfect.

[628] Ooh, a scary story?

[629] You got any?

[630] No. Hell no. Way to play the improv game.

[631] I don't tell scary stories.

[632] No. My life is a scary story.

[633] Believe me. Oh, I like that.

[634] The silhouette.

[635] Look at the hand.

[636] Look at him.

[637] Can you see my wrath in the silhouette?

[638] He looks thin.

[639] You look thin.

[640] Can you see how much rage is in my face in the silhouette?

[641] That is thinning.

[642] the general darkness of concealing all of me?

[643] Right.

[644] Let me look dark.

[645] Why can't I do that?

[646] Well, your laptop's giving you light.

[647] Your laptop way, yeah.

[648] Close that up a little bit.

[649] Hang on just a second.

[650] Yeah, hold on.

[651] But now you've got to move in front of the screen so you can see your profile.

[652] Yeah, or maybe switch camera shots, yeah, from the side or something.

[653] Hold on.

[654] Yeah, I got this.

[655] Oh, wait.

[656] There you go.

[657] Okay.

[658] There it is.

[659] Oh, Hitchcockian.

[660] Now that's television.

[661] Or YouTube, whatever the hell we're on.

[662] what channel is this channel 4 7 or 10 usually I can read how this is going based off dan's face and I can't see it right now so I don't know if he's like enjoying this or he's crying I don't know what dan's doing let's keep it that way I like it this is much easier on the eyes I feel good right now yeah it's it's invigorating yeah Greg I have a question for you yeah when you go on vacation I assume that you're like me you're not responding to emails and work texts while you're gone when you get back how How long will you push it before you start replying to people that you need to talk to who tried to message you during your break?

[663] Wow, that's a good question.

[664] I'm still not getting email on my new phone.

[665] I've got to get that taken care of.

[666] Oh, no. But the texts kept coming.

[667] You know, I'll give them a glance.

[668] I mean, I look at the text every day, you know, that kind of thing.

[669] But I don't answer all of them.

[670] You know, the work -related text, they know better than the text me. You know, Hugo from Mango calls me, text me, you know, about the deadline on the...

[671] back in my days and everything so we get back to him but for the most part man when I'm on vacation I am on vacation okay I'm doing it up I'm leaving work behind you know looking for looking for dimly lit places like this which is another reason it's beautiful reminds me a vacation can you turn the light towards Dan a little so I can get a read on him because I'm terrified right now do you come back reinvigorated Greg I do but you know what Billy I've never been on a vacation that I wasn't glad and really yeah it's true especially the longer the vacation like if I'm if I'm away seven eight days by that sixth or seventh day I'm looking at the watch I never wear symbolically to say I'm done we've had a good time I'm ready to get back into my routine you know I'm a creature of a habit I'm a creature of routine do you miss your bed like you miss your bed at home yeah I do you miss Chris yeah somewhat he misses bed yeah yeah no I do jump in Charlie jump in Charlie I'm miss. What was old J .C. up to?

[672] You know, we board him.

[673] No, wow.

[674] That is, you make, they send him to like some lady's house.

[675] Right.

[676] It's like the best.

[677] He's like, I get pictures from my mom all the time.

[678] Like, look how much fun Charlie's having.

[679] I can only imagine how much they charge you for that.

[680] It's, you know, it's a fair amount of money.

[681] You come back and he's like, shit.

[682] You know what?

[683] He exerts himself so much on his vacation at this woman's house that he's like a zombie for the first couple of days he comes back.

[684] But when I saw a picture of Willow on that picnic table, it warned my heart because dogs love to jump on top of picnic tables.

[685] They really do.

[686] Yes, she loves to sit on a table and we're like, get off.

[687] Like this is unhygienic.

[688] And Charlie does that.

[689] And the woman who's hosting them always text us photos of Charlie at play and everything.

[690] It's so funny because my mom is always like, she loves Charlie so much.

[691] And I'm like, mom, she tells everybody that she loves their.

[692] dog.

[693] Like as if this lady, this lady that's charging two grand for the weekend is going to be like, your dog's a real piece of shit.

[694] She is kind, though.

[695] My mom's like, no, she likes her the best.

[696] I'm telling you.

[697] I'm telling you.

[698] I'm like, mom.

[699] Well, Charlie has such a beautiful disposition.

[700] She really is.

[701] That's why you can't stay angry at her, him, whatever.

[702] Charlie could, is a name that can work both ways.

[703] Yeah, but.

[704] Dan, just say something.

[705] And there used to be a, a perfume called Charlie.

[706] I think so.

[707] Let me look it up.

[708] Yeah, I think there was.

[709] Brought Summer.

[710] Aimed at women, if I remember correctly.

[711] Is Dan awake?

[712] I had a dog named Charlie once.

[713] Did you?

[714] Yeah.

[715] I heard that that is the most popular dog's name.

[716] Really?

[717] Yeah, it shocked me. Huh.

[718] I don't, almost don't believe it.

[719] Really unoriginal, Greg.

[720] Well, you know, I mean, I named my kids Christopher and Michael.

[721] I mean, how original are we?

[722] Revlon makes a Charlie Blue for women.

[723] Hello.

[724] That's what I'm talking about.

[725] Yes.

[726] Oh, Greg, I missed you.

[727] Thank you, Jess.

[728] I missed you, too.

[729] We'll take you next time we go to Ireland.

[730] That was going to say that.

[731] Let's go together.

[732] Let's all go together.

[733] She invited to the birthday, or...

[734] I think that's a pretty good chance to that.

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