Greg Cote's Ode To Greg Cote (A Dog Poop Story) | Local Hour

I'm a little worried, Roy, about how today is gonna go because we've got the laid off and off laid Greg Cody with a-- - Off laid? - You got laid off? - I did get laid off. - Oh boy. - I'm so, I'm so sorry to hear that. - Yeah, so boy. - That's the other reason that I'm worried because Trist is here and she's fiddling with the buttons and there's something she knows a lot about and there are something she doesn't know anything about. Were you not aware that he was laid off from the Miami Herald after 54 years of good service? - No, it's very awkward. - Yeah, in fairness to the Herald, it was only 47 years full-time. - I don't think that we necessarily need to be fair to the Herald on this one. 47 years, 54 years. Would you like to share any of the details with Trista so that she can get outraged on your behalf the way that the entire market and audience did and created quite the rapid-cack? - Yeah, I think the controversy wasn't so much that I got laid off but I got the news on my birthday from somebody I had never met at the corporate level as opposed to somebody who I worked with and the timing was bad. I just started my 36th year of NFL picks in the Herald and if this had happened a month ago, it would've been better and it's just weird all the way around. - On your birthday. - Yeah, how about happy birthday? - Do you think they knew? - No, no, no. If they did, you'd think the guy would've said, "I know it's your birthday." - First off, happy birthday. Just wanted to lobby a call for that. - Exactly, right? - Also. - And happy birthday to him. I don't care. - Yeah, and they didn't-- - Good luck. - And they didn't care, but that's okay. - That's not okay. - Yeah, I have thick skin like an alligator. - I don't know if I would've said yes to being in this room if I knew you were laid off. - And off-laid, according to-- - Off-laid, you're not getting laid anymore? - Offed. - Off-laid. - Off-laid. - Off-laid. - Off-laid. - Off-laid. - Off-laid. - This is why I'm worried about today, those ads low, okay? Because Trista and I haven't done the show with this seating arrangement before I see. I'm reminded, actually. I don't know if you guys remember how truly, truly confused and terrible Meena Kimes was at the beginning of just not understand-- - Is that right? - Oh my God. Oh my God, dreadful. Like the worst we've ever had. - Really? - Yeah, no, and it was always funny. She didn't know how to do it. She was a business reporter. One of the funny things about what happened is that Meena has gone from business reporter to gas bag and Pablo has gone from gas bag to business report. And so when Meena came in here, she just doesn't know how anything works. And that's the other reason I'm worried about today. 'Cause Trista's trying to talk to you guys with the buttons and she's pressing all the wrong buttons over here. - No, it's all good, Greg's got a handle on everything. - Damn right, I do. - How come you can't hear me at all, Chris? I keep pushing every button. - We're getting there. - Hello, can you hear me? - Yeah, I'm worried about how this is gonna go, but I wanna ask the rest of you this question as we celebrate Greg Cody a little bit today. The fact that it was on this birthday makes everyone mad when that's kind of random and silly. One day, a year, Greg is sitting here telling you if they'd done it a month earlier, they would have missed his birthday, but what they still would have done is him talking to someone he's never talked before by phone. Like, that's more insulting to me by miles than they didn't know what day his birthday was. - You wanted on Zoom? - I want someone in person who he knows to tell him with some feeling why that happened, not the chief revenue officer. - Like, over Saviche? - I would have liked something even casual. Like, my direct boss, the boss of the sports department, John DeVine is a wonderful person, a great man. I love him as a boss. - DeVine, you might say. - Yeah, he is. And I would have liked him to have had the information and been able to tell me one-on-one. Because I told him, when this climate got really bad and I got older, I told him like one or two years ago, when the end comes, I wanna hear it from you. I don't wanna hear it as speculation. I don't wanna get a phone call. I wanna hear it directly from you, but they didn't give him the ability to do that. So that hurts a little bit. - So he was castrated. - Pretty much. - What did he say, did you talk to him? - Well, I've talked to him several times since. Yeah, he feels badly about it. You know, the misconception is that the Miami Herald laid me off. It wasn't the Miami Herald. It was the bean counters at the corporate level who care a lot more about cutting losses than they do about journalism. And that's the way it is nationwide, all newspapers. (upbeat music) ♪ It was my 72nd birthday ♪ ♪ And a man showed up in my door ♪ ♪ And he left a couple of cakes on my living room for ♪ ♪ One cake, I think, said ♪ ♪ You're laid off ♪ ♪ Your job is history ♪ ♪ And the other one said ♪ ♪ Something meaner to me ♪ ♪ Instead, happy birthday, I don't care ♪ ♪ Good luck ♪ ♪ Because the hedge funds don't care about 50 for you ♪ ♪ Just as long as they save the blood ♪ ♪ So pack up all of your things ♪ ♪ And put them in the back of the brewery, your job ♪ ♪ Happy birthday, I don't care ♪ ♪ Good luck ♪ ♪ Happy birthday, I don't care ♪ ♪ Good luck ♪ ♪ Happy birthday, I don't care ♪ ♪ Good luck ♪ - So that would have been better if Cody had sang it. (audience laughing) - I thought it was kinks on the living room for at first, instead of cakes. - No cakes. - Cake. - That's all I learned. - Kind of dope. - Yeah, well boy. - Cake. - Okay, kinks. The off-layed Greg Cody, the laid off Greg Cody is with us, and he did not want to sing that song. It would have been funnier if you'd been singing that song. - Why do you want to sing it? - Well, he's classy, that's why. He's not a jerk. He's very, look, he's taking the high road on this. You have not heard him, look, 54 years to give a place. I don't know what you expect from loyalty, from an employer of any kind, but 54 years, what I expect is not a phone call. What I expect is somebody calls me, who's not the chief revenue officer, when it's 54 years, and he's taken the high road. And I salute him for that. And he doesn't want his voice or name on a song that would have been funnier if he had been singing it. But this is what happens with corporate bulls. And it's not the only thing. I've learned this the hard way around here. I want to come in and just hire, he haught three, hire that dumb imaginary bird he picks games with, and give him a raise for $1, like I did with his son, just pay him $1 more. And what I'm told from our advisors and consultants, you can't do it. You'll throw chaos into the salary structure. - It's my favorite thing how people believe that you could just do anything you want here, 'cause you're the founder of the company. Just do it, Dan, just do it. - Right, well, so what happened? Listen to this, okay? 'Cause I'm like, just let's hire, he haught three. It'll be funny, right? Cody will get fired. We'll just hire him a dollar more, give him a raise. - Yeah, you're in charge. - Yeah, I'm in charge, no, I'm not. I'm not. That's the funny thing about what happens, because everyone will get mad if all of a sudden, what this progressive company has decided is, what America really needs right now is a high-paid 72-year-old white guy. - Would you consider yourself white, Greg? - Ish, white-ish, yeah. - White-ish. - Oh, white-ish. - You're only not the whitest around here, 'cause we've got damage, check. (laughing) - That's true. - Well, if you could do whatever you wanted, wouldn't you just fire Jeremy? - It's true, that's also true. My larger point here, though, and we will talk about a number of things here, Trista, because I don't know where it is you prefer to start. (laughing) - It did bomb as a joke, but you need to talk quietly into that microphone, Trista. - It bombed. - You have buttons over there to talk privately. - I'm just here wondering why Yeti didn't write a song for me getting laid off. - Where does she on the meanest scale so far? (laughing) - She's gonna keep doing that, and I'm worried about it as I try to celebrate my friend here with subject matter that's difficult and emotional, and Jeremy interrupts me with jokes. Don't say anything, Jeremy. Just sit out for a little bit, okay? Just sit back from the microphone for a second, 'cause Jeremy wanted so badly. Hey, why don't you guys talk about me being let go from the heat, a real icon being let go as opposed to Greg Cody, 54 years in the business as opposed to Jeremy. - I'm gonna let that keep 54 minutes. Stop talking when I'm talking. You'd think you would have learned that by now. - Greg Cody has been laid off by the Miami Herald, but we've got Highly Opening today. We've got the Chiefs are back. We've got the University of Miami. I know you're an Oregon person. Miss Mario Cristobal, Oregon Mrs. Mario Cristobal, where is it that you would like to start today? - I don't know what Highly is. (laughing) - Oh, oh, oh. - Oh, oh. - That's right, it's opening day for Highly and Dan, I would call this season as much tension as there's been in the Cesta Cyclones organization. - The professional or is it amateur? - It's a professional Highly league. We are owners of one of the six teams in the league. And for years, we have been locked step with our players making all the decisions. And this year, there's some tension. This year, if it doesn't get off to a good start, we had more say this season in our roster than we ever had. have. And I'm nervous about a bad start because I think that there could be some tension between the players and ownership. Yeah. First time ever. It's true. And there's also swirling rumors. This may be Menus last season. You just made that up. I just made that up. But it's a great rumor because he's a veteran. So why would you go that inside with the joke that nine people would get? Like, why would you do that? Because I'm like that. That's the way I am. That's why you got laid off. Yeah. It could be. Oh boy. But they took a long time to decide. They tolerated much like me with Jeremy. They tolerated a whole lot of bad jokes for a long time without letting you go. Don't don't turn your mic on Jeremy. Is it like lacrosse? No, it's the pelota is a hard. It's like the size of a tennis ball. Okay. So lacrosse. But it's a hard ball. Got it. Like it's it's baseball hard. But the and the and the Cesta is the basket that's attached to your arm that throws the ball. It's a Spanish words for things. And that's what we I would liken it to handball. Okay. Or racquetball with just one wall on the left side. Yeah. There's not a wall on the right side. But do you care to explain more about what is happening with your team? Because we've we've proudly owned it for a while. We are champions. You are legitimate owners. It's one of the things. I'm not joking when I say one of the proudest things that has happened here with metal arc media is you guys owning a team in this particular sport. If you remember the history of the show, the first time I realized how popular we were. It was the first time is we were at Daniel Highlight trying to save highlight, doing poker tournaments and thousands of people turned up for something that we were doing. This sport only exists here. So explain to her what I mean, look, nationally, it only exists here. I don't think there's another front on anywhere in the United States anymore. I know that we have we've had fun with us being the owners, but it's real. When we get into this draft, we're looking at guys who do this professionally and they're looking at us to make picks. So we've had Manu who's like to consensus one of the best players in the world on our team the whole time. So essentially he's been our GM because we've like when we were first like the first season, we don't know about the players. As we've moved on, we've gained more confidence in our ability to assess players. So this season in what I think is our sixth season, we've finally had some tension on who to take is usually if there was any disagreement, whatever Manu thinks we're going with it. And then this draft was the first draft of the six we've done where there was a disagreement. Mike and I kind of wanted to take one player and the other guys were kind of leaning one way and it was the first time in the six seasons where we just kind of put our foot and we were like, no, we're going with this guy. So if it doesn't go well, I can see the writing on the wall for our players being a little resentful of us, you know, using our power. Now what you have to also understand here, Tristan, this game, like similar to horse racing, like it was based around gambling when it first started, okay? You wait for on the matches. So you got to be careful because a lot of the games are rigged. That's been accusations. That's crazy. What are you talking about? Like what are you talking about? I mean, that's just the idiotic judgment by you, just the idiotic. My daughter has a boyfriend and when I'm out of state, I just give him my login information and he just bets for me. I'd scrazy. So anyway, for draft Kings, Jack, you got to go, I got to go. The chat is loving the chaos of this episode. Yeah, of course. I mean, those two people and their judgements should be sent by catapult out into the sea. Please show yourself that two of them, they shouldn't be shown out. I should take them both by their ankles, hurl them into the sea. Like what's the matter with you people? Not doing so bad anymore, huh, Dan? For you to be the third worst around here. Third worst. Third worst. So Greg Cody was laid off by the Miami Herald and that was some real mansplaining we got to do about Highly, but you should also tell Trista that some of the, because this is a serious thing. It's a real thing and it's not rigged. And you don't it has them is the owner of one of the teams. And Ray Lewis was the owner of one of the teams. Do you have beef with any of the owners before the season starts today, Chris? It's always a little icy with us in UD. We'll give a dap, but there's no friendlies. There's, you know, it's, it's a little icy, I'd say relationship. It might be icy or because negotiations with him in metal arc broke down. So it might be even iceier than it usually is. Yeah. I can feel that. And we do play the renegades his team today opening day and watch it on YouTube. Tell people where to watch that specifically tell them what the time and give them because you guys have done, you guys have done a simul cast. There are a couple of things I would like to promote today. Okay. That's one of them. The other one because one of the things I wanted to do with metal arc is get people ownership over their stuff, give them freedom to own their own things. And Greg Cody has his podcast. And the Greg Cody show I urge you if you want to support a classy legend icon institution who has done great work in this market for over half a century as he begins the next part of his career because he is not retiring. He's going to make his punctuation better than was afforded to him by a disloyal corporate greed monster. Greg Cody is somebody you can subscribe to his stuff on YouTube and the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody with. You should do that as an act of support now. Our audience is very loyal. I would argue it's one of the most loyal in the history of the medium. They allowed us to do all of this and as the media collapses create a safe spot where I can almost hire Greg Cody for a dollar more than he was making at the Harold if I didn't have so much corporate interference. I was downing on that by the way. I was hoping to do that. I was hoping to hire a he-ha 3 but I'm told I cannot throw our salary structure into disarray. And I wasn't looking forward to negotiating with the divas at he-ha 3 anyway because all of this is going to Jeremy's head. Before we talk about what happened with Chiefs last night and before we talk about the Marlins in general because another legend is leaving the broadcast booth Tommy Hutton is four games away from the end of his career. I got really mad at Sandy last night because their ace can't hold the lead because he's pitching too many innings and he just doesn't have anything at the end of the season so the season has fallen apart and it really could have been 15 games ago something that was special if the top of their rotation had done anything but I want to talk to Greg about what happened and how he feels about it because this we can be sad for journalism and Mike Ryan can also be right when he says hey keep up newspapers it's capitalism and if you don't keep up in the modern times the things you care about get trampled even the old legend dinosaurs everything gets trampled because it's not like we don't understand how or why this happened the media is under assault billionaires don't care about protecting it democracies under assault people don't value the idea that local newsrooms matter so that Miami's ever corrupt politicians don't swallow our city hole already when we've got total imbalances when it comes to money Miami is now less affordable than San Francisco or more less affordable than San Francisco and New York because so much money is poured in here and created something that in the town I love people cannot afford to live here not on a reasonable salary it's not possible to live here anymore and now the most corruptive cities doesn't have a newspaper to fight against that corruption Greg Cody didn't do much of that fighting he worked in the toy department but he did so with grace for 54 years and at the end the way they got rid of him was beyond cold it was wrong the way that it was done immoral with no thought to what a company owes someone who has given more than 50 years of service to it he will not say it I will say it on his behalf it's not the Miami-Herald's fault it's the fault of everything that's happening in this country that makes it so the hedge funds have to make their profit margins wherever they are it does not matter what gets trampled in journalism editorial has to be separate from the money otherwise none of it works Greg Cody's gone now and the career ending is the punctuation issue you look fantastic Greg I just wanted to say like you look like you could be 44 wow thank you for lying now I appreciate that and thank you for those words Dan my emotional roller coaster has been crazy since I got this news and that's that's unusual for me I know Christopher always claims I have a temper but basically I think of myself very even keeled emotionally and since this news you know I'm singing to myself and whistling and the happiest guy on the earth one minute alone in my house and then the next minute I'm feeling depressed I'm feeling like I've just disappeared and it's I'm still processing it honestly you know it's it's 10 more days 10 days from today will be my last day 10 day countdown yeah I'll have a farewell column and all that stuff and and then it'll be over and and then the next next chapter begins which I look forward to I'm still going to do this podcast I'm I'm still going to appear on Dan's show I hope and it's going to get healthier. He said he can start walking the dog every day getting active. I walk the dog a lot and the problem is from that from your office to the backyard doesn't count. Okay, the dog never does his business when I walk him. Okay, he will. He doesn't fit that in the backyard on his own. You hear that justification for not taking your dog for a walk. When he's on a leash, he never does his business. Look, I was the employee of the century and they still let me go. How about that? You always pick up after your dog? Uh, not if it's on my lawn. He doesn't walk it. If it's on my lawn, I consider it fertilizer. If it's on somebody else's lawn, that's never happened. What? Yeah, dog poop is. You cannot let dogs sit on your lawn. It's great natural fertilizer. It really is. It's biodegradable. How long does it take, though, to biodegrade? It dehydrates. It becomes dried out and then it becomes powder. And the powder is a great fertilizer. Anybody'll back me up here. Lawn man out there, lawn cutters. You know what I'm talking about. Are you. Like, we live in a society. Yeah. You have people that your wife is walking through the lawn, probably with their bare feet. She doesn't walk through the lawn. She stays in the house. Oh, wow. My wife on a lawn. You guys cut through grass. Like, if you're walking around a house, like, I usually stay on the driveway and decide to walk. I'm going to avoid the grass. I look at the grass before I walk. I'm head down on the lawn. Any particular reason? None of you are seizing on the idea that Greg Cody fertilizes his lawn with his dog's feces. He's not mine. They feel bad for him. And that Trista is appalled by this. None of you seem appalled by this. It does remind me of the story. This actually happened with my father. It's one of my favorite father's stories. The unibomber. He's reading a newspaper sitting in a seat and he's gone into the inside of the paper reading for the first time about the unibomber. And he gets to about the 30th paragraph of the story on the unibomber. And he puts down the newspaper. And he says, this guy fertilizes his lawn with his own feces. This unibomber, he's weird. Not until he got to the 30th paragraph that my father have reason to comment on this. Trista thinks this is appalling. The Cody's lack general hygiene. Not Erlene. But Chris and Greg are known for lacking hygiene. Why is she appalled by this while the rest of you are saying, yeah, the dog should just poop in the lawn and we should just leave it there. He showers in the pool. Like, I'm not surprised by any of this. And he's talking about his lawn. Yeah. If he was saying, I'll leave poop on all my neighbor. Like, that's a jerk move. I mean, I can see the logic of if it's my own lawn. I can do what I want. Yeah, it's my lawn and it's natural fertilizer. Parentheses, the unibomber isn't wrong on that one point. Human feces also is great fertilizer. I don't need to do that because I have a dog who's very active in that department. But to get back to what you were talking about. If you don't walk the dog, your lawn is covered in all that animal's dog poop. Like, you're never picking anything up and always that dog is pooping only there. Well, here's the thing though. Dog poop does not have a great lifespan. Like, it sits there as dog poop, attracting flies and smelling for very few hours. You get a heavy rain. The dog poop disappears into the lawn. Doesn't really disappear. It definitely doesn't disappear. And the flies don't disappear. How big is your dog? How much is your dog weight? 100 pounds. Yeah, I mean, we're talking about mountains of sh-- You guys don't understand how disgusting this is. All of you react that as if Trista was the weird one. Because all of you are perpetually surrounded by Cody Sh-- Well, that's factually true. And while this is disgusting, like, I'm grossed out by the idea that you think that when it rains, all of a sudden the poop is gone and not just now spread out all of you on. It saturates your roots. No, no, it's sud everywhere all over your lawn. But the reason I'm not overreacting is I'm not surprised by this whatsoever. This sounds exactly like something Greg Cody would do. Thank you. But we can't just allow two shenanigans. It's all kinds of weird, non-society, to be normalized. Like, you guys are just allowing it to-- You guys are numb. You're numb to the appalling obscenity of how unhygienic this is. You're numb to how disgusting the Cody's are. Put it on the poll, please, at "Levitage Show." Are we all numb to how disgusting the Cody's are? Well, OK, so when you walk your dog, or she's somewhere else-- And you grab-- I'm telling you, Trissa, you can stop right there. He's never walked the dog. This is the thing that's most appalling about it. It's not just that the dog poops in the yard. It's that it's a big dog. And it doesn't poop anywhere but the yard. So if you never pick it up, you've basically got more sh---- brass in that lawn. Like, it's a lifetime. It's a dog's lifetime. Probably three times a day. Yeah. And like, 100 pounds we're talking about. Now, yeah, we are-- and if the poop is soft, it dissolves all that much quicker. Does he often go to the same spot, Greg? Like, most dogs like certain areas. So oh, so that does mean that the [AUDIO OUT] is piling up on itself. My dog likes the left corner right behind my bamboo tree. Yeah, he does. And near the pool filter. Making it a bamboo tree. If you can picture that. That's the privacy area of the backyard. Right. Well, he can hide around that corner. Exactly. Thank you, Roy. You were quicker to the button than I was. Can you show some restraint, Jeremy? No. My dad also, in his game room of curios, just has pea pads everywhere for the dog. Like, he just accepts that I'm not going to let the dog out as often as I should. So we're going to put pea pads inside, just assuming that throughout the day, I'm going to forget for a few hours. OK. And the dog's going to have to pee. That's an extraneous detail by you. I think that's a really important detail. I agree. OK. You're filthy. No. We have pea pads there in the event of Mishap. What? In the event of Mishap. And the event that you don't let the dog out and the dog has to go to the place in the house, it knows to go. It knows. No, but that's your failure, not the dog. But he does bullseyes on that thing. Yeah, but that-- But because it's used to being neglected by you and not being let out to its normal lawn filled with shit in order to pee. He is the opposite of a neglected dog. I get down at his level. I look at him, eye to eye. I hug my dog. Nobody loves his dog, like I love jumping Charlie. OK, this is not where I expected the homage to my friend and mentor. And you know it. And-- I did want to mention one more thing on the point of homage. Not only am I going to continue doing my podcast and hopefully this one, but I'm going to continue writing. I haven't decided yet or announced it, but whether it's sub-stack or someplace else, I'm going to announce very soon that here's how you can continue to read. You should go door to door and drop it on people's front door. The poop? No, you're correct. The poop. I wasn't sure where you meant. We were talking about pooping. The big poop again. Yeah, so I should like get a bike and start throwing my column on people who lost. If we're talking about some of those deadline columns, he's had to write with four minutes to write, they smell of the same. Yeah, no, you're right. And it's funny. I wrote a column off the Dolphins last game. And it was the first thing I'd written since it became public that I was late on. It was awkward, just a random Dolphins raiders column. It's like Carl Ravitch doing the college world series. Two hours after he announces his-- I've been laid off in an hour. I'll have my raiders dolphins call him. And it was not a great column, but man, the business that did. All right, hold on. Because I would like people to support the business of Greg Cody as he launches improbably the latter part of his career. I was going to say the second half of his career, but then he'd be living to 144. No, I planned it. It's not 126 as my target. He has career remaining. And Metal Art is going to milk as much as it can out of Heaw 3, the imaginary bird, and Greg Cody. But I want to remind the audience right now. Go find wherever it is you get your podcasts and on YouTube, Greg Cody stuff and subscribe to it so that he can have a softer landing with some of what he's going to try to do independently as the media breaks apart. Down Levitar. Can't trade Moreno. Nice hat. Nice hat. It's what he's supposed to know for. It's like, I'm holding onto it. Greg Cody. Nice thing he went high in and too. But it's Moreno. And then the next time we saw Moreno, after Greg Cody trade him, he threw for five touchdowns. And he went in the man on the cover with Joe Straiton. You can't trade Moreno. Nice hat, asshole. This is the Down Levitar show. [MUSIC PLAYING] But I want to talk about the squirrel of emotions here for you. And you and I will do this long form in another setting. But just so that the people here who care about the local hour, you raised me in this business, this city, newspapering, everything that lives here, lived at the Miami Harald in a building that no longer is there because the McClatchee Corporation, at the end, couldn't do anything other than sell property too low to try and save their business, because they weren't very good about protecting journalism. So they sold what used to be the beating heart at the center of this, a vibrant and corrupt city. They sold that land to cheap and at the wrong time, so that the Harald would not have offices and wouldn't be able to make profit to allow Greg Cody to continue. working there after fifty four years. And what a piece of land right on Biscayne Bay, right across the Causeway. Oh my God, what a beauty. Yeah, they sold it because the newspaper, they didn't know how to make money with the newspapering. So they sold a piece of land and, you know, the herald died then and there in some ways. You, after the emotion of the last week and as a human being, that I know to be sort of delayed in emotional response to things, it sort of takes you two or three days to really know how you feel about whatever when emotion strikes you. What have the last few days been like as you've gotten a bit of a eulogy while you're still alive? Yeah, that's the weirdest thing about it is, is hearing the reaction and feeling like I should, I should be in a coffin listening, listening to this because it does feel like a eulogy. People praising me and telling me how much I've meant in their lives and they grew up reading me. I've read so much of this and I've gotten so much, David Samson said some very kind things on the air. Dave Lawrence, one of the probably the most accomplished Miami herald publisher of all time called me personally last last evening and he was I rate about what's happened to his business, to his newspaper. And he's a very decent, nice man. Am I rate is not something I've ever seen was, how did he feel about your ending, like the specifics of did you get into the details of that with him? Well, yeah, he thought it was terrible the way it ended and that sort of struck me because Dave Lawrence is the imprimitor of class and doing all the right things. It's appalling. Yeah. Well, it's appalling. Let me be clear on that. It's outrageous, like it has no heart in it. It's unbelievably cold. Yeah. It's the man's entire identity, like he's got a family, but this is his identity, 54 years, the identity, like I'm imagining that one of the reasons you're sad is because in some ways you're grieving the person you used to be because you don't actually know who you are if you're not a herald columnist who writes off the dolphin game. Well, and that's part of the reason why I want to continue writing, whether on sub-stack or what have you, I'll make that decision and tell you all soon, but I feel like I have to keep writing because that's my identity. That's what I want to do. That's what I've been doing since 1972. And even before that, when I was like 10 or 11 years old, I wrote a family newspaper newsletter called The Cody News and that's hilarious to read some of those things. We read them on the Greg Cody show some time. Yeah, because I still have a lot of the copies of that, which are written typewriter, of course, on an old yellow piece of paper, notebook paper. But anyway, I've been writing, I feel like my entire life and I still enjoy it, still gives me a lot of satisfaction. No more writing. We're going to turn them into an influencer. Subscribe to that Greg Cody show YouTube channel. We're going to, we're talking mukbang videos. You want to see Greg Cody crushing 10 chicken wings? That's the **** you're going to be doing. Slurping on some noodles? Yeah, all of that stuff. Writing, please. You know what? Back in my day, the newspaper columnist was the original influencer, right? The original influence and David Samson even kindly said on the air that when he was the Marlins president, the Marlins would read my columns and 50% of the time they hated them, but 50% of the time they agreed and that I was actually influential on the way the Marlins were running. He used the right Marlins columns, huh? I did. You have back in the day. That's crazy. Yeah, it was crazy. Now that you mentioned it. Bit of an upset. Now mentioned in the moving of the last day, last few days, David Samson more than anybody else. Yeah. A bit surprising there. Well, I think the world of David Samson back, I do and I really appreciated what he said. He called my career extraordinary, which I think is a strong word, but if he said it, I'm going to buy it and thank him for it. No, yeah, but the music is playing because back in my day, the major newspaper columnist was an influencer in a lot of different ways and that's disappeared. Yeah, it's just, I'm so fathoming all of it. It hasn't set in yet. Maybe it won't for another 10 days when it's official that I know I got to start putting the Miami Herald in the past tense and I never will. I never can. He's not a little dry. Have a little more of that milk. I'm going to die referring to the Herald as we and us because 54 years will do that to you. Was there a moment or were there multiple moments where you felt like the role of columnist changed? Yeah, I think so. First of all, it became less exclusive because it used to be that the beat writer could give no opinion whatsoever. That was purely the columnist and that line blurred over time and then all of a sudden the beat writer could write in an analytical way, quote unquote, not opinion, but analysis, which was closer to column writing. So the distinction of the columnist became different and then everything crumbled under our feet and the earth started moving in the sense that in its heyday in the I would say mid 80s to early 90s, the Miami Herald had a sports staff of almost 40 people. And right now with the latest layoffs of myself, Michelle Kaufman and Andre Fernandez, the staff is maybe five, maybe four, just Omar Kelly and Jordan McPherson and one editor. So that's what's happening. I told you guys the other day that the LA Times is only going to cover the Lakers, the Dodgers and USC. It's only going to travel with those teams. It's one of the great sports sections of all time. And the time he's talking about with the Miami Herald, the Miami Herald was as good as any sports section in the country, like legitimately as good as any of them. I mean, the writers that have grown up with and been proud to call colleagues, the writing staff, I mean, yourself, Edwin Pope, Scott Price, SL Price, Peter Richmond, I mean, on and on. We had an all-star staff at one time, you know, and I'm happy that my career was in the shadow to a great extent of Edwin Pope and then yourself. I am absolutely fine with that because we had an all-star staff and the fact that I was able to rise to colonists in what was once a great newspaper, 15, 18, 20 Pulitzer Prizes won and it's what it is now, and it makes me sad. Do you have a column that you are especially proud of? Like we know that trade marino is low point, but do you have a column that you are especially proud of? Huh. Wow. Out of thousands to pick, the trade marino column, oddly enough, I am proud of, not because it hit both things that a column should be. It was controversially enough to become a talking point, probably the most known column I've ever written, but also I'm proud of it because I think it was a good column. I think it was for sightful. I mean, 30 years later, I'm still referencing it, and it made a great point and it created an industry, I think your friend, the freezing takes guy, began his little industry because of that column. That column was a topic of conversation amongst us in high school. It's a little industry. And so that's why I named that column first. The Macau. You're proud of what is your most embarrassing column? No, not embarrassing, most well-known, provocative, provocative, and I defend it to this day. You were like the first Stephen A. Smith. Well, thank you. I don't know about that, but it's the reason marino and I have a frosty relationship to this day. Yeah. Deserved. So everyone wrote that column about him. No. I'm just saying because he's frosty. No, but nobody would ever write that column about him except one human being ever. I can't believe he's saying that he's proud of it. I can't believe it. I would say that it's the reason that Zaz before he knew you hated you. Yeah. That's fun. Were you nervous when you wrote that column? He appeared in front of that former Harold building on a local television interview with his face pixelated and his voice distorted. They can do that technology back then. Yeah, what a great idea by that station. I was so happy to do that. No, because you have to be both sides as a columnist as you know, Dan. Greg. Greg, you were not somebody who had over the course of your career strident or strong opinions. That's not the kind of column writer you were. You were a very eloquent writer who occasionally had opinions, but it wouldn't be overwhelmingly strong. That's why that column is shocking. That's shocking. Like, it's so far from what all of a sudden for one day, he was Jay Marriotti. Like that's every column Jay Marriotti ever wrote was feeding on that particular hacker. You're getting rid of the athlete. We love more than anyone ever. Right. I'm sorry. I had to do it. When we're talking about regrettable columns, what about the defending Aubrey Huff column? Oh, no. Oh, my. You are not. You are not. Whoop. Happy that we are talking about this. You can't be proud of that column just because it got attention when it was such a bad column. It was not a bad column. It made a good point. It raised a topic that people really hadn't considered. And I'm because of how asked and I. It was, nobody considered me today, like the trade who called, like the trade in the home's college. What he's talking, yes, what he's talking about there, you guys are joking about him being the original influencer or the original columnist or the original sports radio guy. What he's talking about there is I am proudest of having a sports radio opinion seven years before anyone had it because it was shocking. It's only remembered because people realize how dumb it was. No, you're right. It would be ridiculous. It would be like saying Josh Allen, it'd be like if a Buffalo writer was like trade Josh Allen. Yes. No, it wouldn't. It'd be like if the Panthers made the playoffs last year and you wrote a column, the Pan that you trade barcoes. Yes. No, and no. And I can address both of those points separately if you'd like. It also would be like me daring to say Conor McDavid is overrated, which he is. And I said it. It's like someone writing right now, trade Josh Allen. No, that's absurd because he hasn't won a Super Bowl just like. That was the only criticism of Marino as he hadn't won a Super Bowl. He was great. Those games when I wrote that column, Marino had played 10 years. He was in his 30s. Josh Allen is not hit. It's a bad analogy. Mind you, the first game Marino played when he came back after that column, he threw five touchdowns. I know. Take that. I get it. I mean, take that. Who's taking it? The reason I wrote it when I the reason I wrote it when I wrote it is that he still had trade value. They weren't going to win a Super Bowl. Right. Josh Allen has played a decade in his 30 years old. You did the same thing. You traded Josh Allen. Are you telling me Josh Allen has played 10 season nine year nine right now 30 years old on the dot? Okay. So he's played eight. He's still younger than Dan Marino is younger than Dan Marino was younger than Dan Marino was then. The Harold should lay him off again.