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The Oldest Player In Sports History To Do Blank | Hour 2

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The Oldest Player In Sports History To Do Blank | Hour 2

The conversation explores the extraordinary longevity and performance of athletes like LeBron James and Tom Brady, emphasizing that their achievements—especially in their 40s—have no historical precedent in sports. LeBron’s ability to maintain elite athleticism and scoring despite being outmatched by younger, faster players is highlighted as both astonishing and underappreciated. The discussion also critiques modern sports media, arguing it has become more volatile and unreasonably critical, driven by digital access and fan-driven opinions, which often dehumanize athletes despite their accomplishments. A playful game show segment tests knowledge of historical sports records, including age-based milestones, reinforcing how rare such feats are. The episode further delves into a controversy over Greg Cody’s catchphrases, with his brother claiming several were stolen, though Greg disputes this, noting shared or independent origins. The conversation also reflects on the evolution of player safety, pointing out that despite rule changes, high-impact hits on quarterbacks remain common due to increased physicality and size. Ultimately, the segment celebrates the mastery of modern athletes while questioning the cultural climate of sports criticism and media sensationalism.

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[MUSIC] >> Are you about to cough, Greg? >> No. >> Are you about to cough, Greg? >> No. >> No, please. [MUSIC] >> I'm not going to cough, Greg. >> No. >> No. [MUSIC] >> Brad, Brad, Brad. [MUSIC] >> It's manning. >> No, I'm fine now. >> Thank you for your concern. >> During the break, Chris Cody told me that Tyler Hero is no longer in his top 25 Miami Heat Scores at the whole time. >> Wow. >> We will get to his list in a second. Daniel Roberts on Twitter is mentioning of the fanatics deal involving LeBron. LeBron's use of a fanatics branded helicopter is part of his broad deal with the company, which extends to after his playing career is over and includes his use of fanatics aviation. And Doug Gottlieb is writing, three years from now, Pablo Torrey is going to dissect this like a surgeon. >> So he's going to have a helicopter forever. Well, for the rest of his life, I should say. >> He's just going to have it after his playing career, but you cannot really say that LeBron's career is ever going to end. Because it is already a career that doesn't have any precedent in the history of American sports, even as athletes play longer than they ever have. I really don't understand how he is able to do that. It's one thing to be doing what Tom Brady was doing at 45, where it doesn't require a great deal of mobility. It doesn't require much other than get rid of the ball into seconds in terms of how often you're going to get hit. What LeBron is doing against the youngest, fastest, strongest, and best athletes in America at that age. Look at how Aaron Rogers looks at that age. You guys have noticed, right? You guys have seen the way the athleticism has dissipated just when he rolls out of the pocket. Aaron Rogers at a similar age. The things that LeBron is doing at that age are just crazy. >> It's Brady and LeBron. That's the list of players who have been able to do this. >> Correct. >> Well, let me see, I mean, Diana Terassi, there are some people who've been able to do a Vegekin in their 40s. But the athleticism required to play basketball specifically. I just don't even know how anyone who's not just a post player who's bigger than everyone plays among people who are that fiercely athletic. And in their 20s, when he's a generation older than them, I keep telling you guys about how we live in an age of mastery. But because the critics volume has gotten so loud, it's not just that sports television has morphed into. Sports television is very cheap. The producing of content in sports television is just throw some producers on there, throw some microphones up there. It's not what your favorite television show costs to make. It's much easier to make the daily content of just give people a couple of microphones and have them complain about things. So you've got a volume and an acid that feels like sports radio in the coverage. But also the proliferation of the second half of LeBron's career that gives everyone on the internet a right to have an opinion that doesn't have to be based in facts. And doesn't have to be in any way earned. All you have to do is just turn on a microphone and you can complain, makes it so that LeBron James's career gets underestimated because you have so many people at the trough of I need my opinion heard. I need to be someone who has an Instagram following and I've got opinions about sports. So the volume around these guys is louder, it's cooler and it's more unreasonable. That's fine though. I mean, that's the age we live in and LeBron's got thick skin and he can take it. He can take any criticism, including me criticizing him flying in on a helicopter from a different city. That's fine. I admire LeBron. He's a one-man franchise and I put him in the same category as Lionel Messi who's 39 and still playing extraordinary well. They're one-man franchise. They don't care about anything around them nor should they because they've earned that right. They don't care about Lionel Messi hasn't done an interview in Miami in three years. That's fine. He's allowed to. LeBron flies in on a helicopter. That's fine. He's allowed to. But there are consequences, Lionel's going to get criticized for not doing local interviews. LeBron's going to get criticized maybe by some sense. Those are real consequences. Somebody complaining isn't a real consequence. I wanted just to ask you something though. I just said something is louder, cooler and more unreasonable and your response was that's fine. No, because if it were you. If it were you, yeah, he could take it. Yes, he can take it. Louder, cooler and more unreasonable. If I made that the criticism of you, would you think it was fine, would your whole reaction be, well, that's fine. I mean, louder, I accept, cooler and whatever that other thing is. More unreasonable. Okay, cooler and unreasonable. I'm not sure what you mean by that. Louder for sure. Greg, you don't believe that the criticism of athletes is louder, cooler and more unreasonable than it's ever been. Because of the changes in sports media over the last 20 years that has allowed sports radio to win as the standard setter for how it is people talk about these athletes and everyone who's mad has a microphone now. Every single person who's mad has a microphone. You think when I say unreasonable and cruel, why are you shrugging your shoulders and just saying that's fine because I think it's part of the game. I think the, I think the modern athlete accepts that as part of being a modern athlete is that you have all this noise coming in from every direction. Some of it's going to be unfair, some of it's going to be ridiculous. But it's worse than it's been though. The last 15 years, is anyone disputing this? Does anybody agree it's worse than it's been. But I don't think it's unreasonable that there's going to be that much maniacal attention on these athletes who are making more money than ever and bigger stars than ever. I don't think cruelty is fine. I just don't accept cruelty and I'm like, well, I'm entitled to be cruel. I'm a fan, I'm entitled, I'm a critic, I'm entitled, therefore I'm entitled to be dehumanizing and cruel. Look, you don't have to appreciate this the way that I appreciate it. But somewhere in where it is that people love sports and celebrate sports, something gets lost here. When there's a cruelty as an undercurrent that doesn't allow you to enjoy the Babe Ruth of our time, when he's doing something we've never seen before. It just does all other athletes in their early 40s are looking at what LeBron is doing in that sport and are like, how is that possible? It's not him in the post is Karim Abdul-Jabbar just being taller than everybody else at 40 and scoring 10 points a game on Skyhooks and not being able to move up and down the court. LeBron statistically, top 25 player last year when he could play? Yeah, it's a sign, like it just, it's so not normal, it doesn't have a precedent of any kind and it's underappreciated. He was the best fast break player in the sport last year. I don't think it's underappreciated at all. I think LeBron James gets more adulation than any athlete on the planet right now. Your muttering because of that eye patch today is at an all-time high right now as I'm doing that. I don't think there's any difference. Can you translate what you were saying here and can I just take without context? I really can't tell what Zaz is saying here. Can any of you, let's see if we can. You guys know what I'm saying? You sound like Brad Pitt in Snatch right now as I'm doing that. What was that? Right now as I'm doing that? You don't even know what you're saying there. Try now as I'm doing that? Oh wow, he is. That is the correct translation. Yeah. What are you saying? Alright, this game, I just created it, it is called the oldest player in sports history to do blank. Oh, I'm good at this. Alright, question number one. The oldest they're gonna start all easy. Okay, don't get excited old this player in NBA history to score 40 points Elgin Baylor That means wrong Lebron As you know you alleged you were good at this. Yeah, but I thought it was easy. He apparently tried to start easy Michael Jordan Right Michael Jordan oldest player at age 40 to score 40 points I legitimately did not realize that Michael had even played till he was 40. I thought he retired at 38. - He's with the wizards. - All right, all this player to register a triple double. Feel like if you didn't get Jordan, this one might be tough. It's a big name. - Russell West broke. - It's a good guess. - Oscar Robinson. - Lebron. - Wilt. - This guy, kind of a POS. - Carmelon. - That's right! Thank you for the hint. - That's a good hint. - All right, next one. - All this player, this one's for Roy. - Why'd he? - Why the kind of a POS? - I mean, allegedly. I don't know. - I'm scared of everything. - I don't think it's alleged. - All right. - I think it happened. A verified POS. Oldest NHL player to score a hat trick. Everyone's looking at Roy. This one's easy. - Lemme go. - He's easy. - Dresky. - A Vetchkin. - A Vetchkin. - Who was still playing it like 60 years old? - Gordy. - Yager. - Yeah, Yager. Woo! This is fun. - All right, let's keep going. Oldest MLB pitcher to throw a no-hitter. - I mean. - Nolan Ryan. - Rich Ryan. - Yeah. - This one made me want to do this game. Oldest player to hit a grand slam. - Julio Franco. - Fuckin' that! - Wow. - I think he's got the list in front of him. - Check it. - Oldest NFL player to run for a touchdown. - Not a running back. Oh, the DB. No. - The DB? The DB? - Yeah. - What was that? - Daryl Green? - Yeah, that is who I was thinking about. - It was a good job by him because I said no. So now you know all DBs are happy. - That is who I was thinking of. - Steve DeBurg. - No. I don't know why I've gone away from this to no. I'm gonna get back to this. - Brady. - He just guessed George Blanda. - Y-A-tittle. - Montana. - Johnny United. - Brady. - Smaller quarterback. - Flutty. - That's right. - That's right. - What? - What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what (laughing) - Did you just laugh? Did you just laugh out loud at something Lewis said in your ear? - Great courty. - Yes. (laughing) - I couldn't help but it was funny. - Yeah, but do you? - Thanks, Lewis. - You're amazing. - Gang in the goose. - Of course. Choke in the frog. I mean, there's a million of them, of course. Half of them would sound dirty if we keep doing it. - DC's the Dalabatar show. (dramatic music) - Snatch is one of the best movie experiences of my life because I was in London with my brother. Is it Piccadilly Square? It was just an unusual theater. We had it to ourselves, middle of the day. And the two best movie experiences of my life in the theater, I don't know if you guys have stuff you would want to nominate for this, has very different feelings around it. Snatch was a movie I wasn't expecting anything from and I was being introduced to Guy Richie as a director. I recommend just about anything Guy Richie makes. All of it is personality driven in a way that is just aesthetically pleasing and fun to watch. And I've told you before that the movie The Matrix because I was not someone who liked science fiction or wasn't at the time a very big fan of Keanu Reeves. And when I saw the movie, it exceeded very small expectations that I had. Do you guys have movie theater experiences? I'm not talking to Cody because he hasn't been to the movie theater in about 40 years. Movie theater experiences that you associate with a movie because it's discovery, because there are extenuating circumstances that make it something more memorable for you. - Yeah, like I think people have seen the videos that circulated online afterward, but Avengers Endgame in the theater with a crowd full of comic book fans was a pretty awesome experience. - I should add Tropic Thunder to that because we watched it with a bunch of fans of our show. We watched it as sort of a celebration of just a bunch of weirdness and Tarell Owens was there. There was a whole bunch of star power there. - Did a let it ride happen for you in that way? - Why are you smiling that way? - Because that was just a tremendous night that we had. - I hid behind a curtain there because nobody came because we were watching let it ride Richard Dreyfus 20 years after it had come out because it's David Samson's favorite movie. And it's the first thing and the only thing we've done that didn't summon a crowd of fans to it. - No one came. - No one, I mean, there were like nine people there. - There's a monsoon. - It was raining torrentially as well. I was hiding behind a curtain. Like the people who did come in found me hiding behind a curtain. - 'Cause you're embarrassed. - Yeah, I was embarrassed. I was embarrassed. We spent, we spent a good amount of time promoting the fact that we were watching a 20-year-old movie just, well, what happened there is it had all gone to our heads. We got a whole, we got a thousand people to come to highlight and we're like, if we can do that, we can get a thousand people to come anywhere and then it ends with me hiding behind a curtain. - I remember I went to one of those that you guys did. It was for a die hard, live free or die hard. And you guys thought it was gonna be an awful movie. So I did that, it was not awful. It was fun. - Chris Cody. - Everyone relax. - We've got a bit of a situation like everyone in controversy. - Relax. - Now, the site that I got this game show from, was it from 2015? - Yes. - But only one of those was incorrect. LeBron has scored 40 points after 40, it's not MJ. - Twice. - Other than that, perfectly well done. Good job Chris. - I can almost guarantee, hold on a second. I can almost guarantee Tom Brady had a sneak touchdown at 45 years old. So there's no way that Doug, you're saying no and you just told me a list from 2015. Can't be flirty. - Bruce Rillis was standing on a fighter jet in a die hard movie. - I'm ridiculous. - Chris, I think Tony's got you cornered. I do believe that he's right. - But he was 45 years old. - Tom Brady probably had a sneak at 43 or 44 that was a rushing touchdown. I read yesterday, I don't know which of the football stats were interesting to you, Greg. It's good to have you in on the Tuesday 'cause we haven't gotten any of your NFL thoughts and I would like some of them. But. - Tom Brady had a rushing touchdown at 45. - He had a little bit of cherry picking going on his balance. - I think you might want to look up Russell Westbrook's age to on Triple W. - Yeah, because I believe your list is really bad and it's 11 years old and you got everything wrong. You were proud of your game and-- - That shit would have slapped at the Clevelander though. - You, yeah, you-- - It was LeBron. LeBron at 41 years old. - I already knew that one. - Russell isn't 40 yet. So that'd be tough for him to have a Triple W after if you were to come back yet 40. - Thank you, Tony. I appreciate how gentle you were with that correction. What I was saying about Josh Allen is Josh Allen now has, I believe the number is 88 touchdowns from Scrimmage and it makes him the only franchise leader in touchdowns from Scrimmage who's not a wide receiver or a running back. You're legitimately talking about Josh Allen. You're talking about a player who doesn't have a precedent to be at this stage in his career, still in his prime and be someone as a quarterback who has that many rushing touchdowns because of his size, his athleticism and what he does on the goal line, which nobody can really stop. - He's absolutely phenomenal. Best quarterback in the league. Best all round quarterback in the league. Knock on wood, he stays healthy. He's built like a linebacker. I'd rather have him on my team than any other passer in the entire league, which all of which magnifies that the guy needs to win a Super Bowl. Not because he has to have one to make the Hall of Fame, but for his legacy because he's that great. He deserves a, I felt that everybody felt the same way about Aaron Rogers before he finally won a Super Bowl. The guy is so great, he deserves a Super Bowl. - He deserves it unless he actually wins it. - I think his career merits a Super Bowl. I think it'll come form eventually. But I think, if you're not a Bill's fan, but you're a football fan, I think you root for Josh Allen. I do, I think he's that great. - Tom, it's offense fan. I don't want the Bill's to win anything. - Okay, but you're arrival of-- - That's right. - Okay, I'm not, I think a general football fan is going in the same way with L. Jack. Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen are so great, they deserve Super Bowls. - When you look at my homes in Allen, it's almost like the merino Montana of our time and that you have someone who's so great in Josh Allen who is yet to win. And he just keeps climbing up the ladder of the greatest quarterbacks to ever do it. I don't trust the decorative ladder. (bell dings) - Do you guys, do you guys agree with me on what it is that I was saying yesterday and I should mention with the Chiefs another stat that was interesting from yesterday is that Patrick Mahomes already has 450 plus yard plays this season, only had two of those all of last season. But can you guys look up for me some Joe Montana's, we did this with Rothless Burger yesterday. How rare it was for a quarterback to get injured once upon a time and midday. miss a lot of time versus what it is that we're presently seeing in the league where you have already a rash of backups all over the league even though they keep changing the rules so that we've actually done the hardest thing. We have gotten fans to change their mind on how they view football and you rarely hear anybody anymore on a giant hit say something like they used to allow them to play football. Like people have gotten used to the change narrative, we've gotten their attention with the idea that brain injuries or something that none of us would want to have and the way that fans largely, not everybody, but largely the way that fans consume football, they're not doing a great deal of complaining when there's a penalty on a giant hit over the middle on a defenseless receiver. The only place they're doing that complaining is that the quarterback since Tom Brady was injured are playing a totally different sport than everyone else who's out there amid the violence. They get to have a position that's almost like the kicker in terms of they are just insulated from some of the violence in a way that makes it super unusual and yet still they're getting hit at a rate. Just look out for me Joe Montana and how often he missed games due to injury. Every time we see these hits on quarterbacks, like for instance, this past weekend with the penalty on or two weeks ago with the dolphins and the chiefs, every time we see a hit like that, I try and think back how much quarterbacks, 80s, 90s, I mean, they must have been getting murdered back there because it wasn't just, okay, you were allowed to hit him however you wanted as long as it was in a timely fashion, but late hits, they gave you a lot of grace with late hits too. You were able to dive at their legs. If you hit him in the head, it was okay, you know, as long as you didn't grab the face mask, these quarterbacks must have been getting murdered back then and they still stayed in the game. Yeah, you mentioned Joe Montana, you mentioned hits. I think about that 49 is Giants game where he took that head. I think it was from Lawrence Taylor, one of the, yeah, he got murdered on that. Yeah, and these guys, they just, and they didn't come out like they kept playing. It was crazy. Well, when did concussions come into the football lexicon? Because I remember throughout Dan Moreno's entire career, I'm sure he had concussions. It was Troy Ackman and Steve Young, the two of them. Okay. So that was a little bit later, but not that much later. He was late 90s. Yeah. Troy Ackman says in that Jerry Jones documentary that there is an NFC championship game that he played in, played well in, and advanced to the Super Bowl in that he does not remember, just doesn't remember playing in it at all because, and, and his career ended earlier than he would have liked because of the number of concussions. But just look up for me, because I, I want to know if I have this wrong Bernie Kozar, some of these older quarterbacks who played on Astro Surf, played by the pre Brady rules that allowed people to dive at their ankles and you saw how Marielda was hurt on Sunday, right? It's basically a guy landing on his ankle, who's 300 something pounds, and the people are so big that once upon a time, William the refrigerator Perry was considered a mammoth gargantuan person who was much bigger than everyone else at 325 pounds, like he got commercials and stuff for being 40 pounds heavier than everyone else. If you go back to the 60s and 70, Larry Little was a whole of famed guard at 260 pounds. That's what the linebackers are now. Josh Allen is down lebertar, and you do eat but all the time, correct? Great Cody. Oh yeah, I just had some, a couple of weeks ago, this is the down lebertar show. Is that the best theory any of you have on why it is the quarterbacks, while the rules are all being changed to protect them, can't actually be kept healthy, it's because everyone who's out there is moving at a rate of speed that is 50, 60, 70 pounds heavier than it used to be. Yeah, and the athleticism, we've talked about this across sports, the Achilles injuries in the NBA, Tommy John in Major League Baseball. We're trying to maximize athleticism in a different way than we used to, and when guys are building themselves up to run that fast, jump that high, hit that hard, you're going to see more injuries. With Joe Montana, he had two major ones. He had a herniated disc that he suffered week one, it was a ruptured disc. He came back, despite them saying he probably wouldn't play again. He came back eight games later, and he finished out the rest of that season in '86, and then the elbow injury you guys talked about, he missed two full seasons because of that, played one game at the very end. Bernie Kozar out of 12 years in the NFL played a full slate of games, only three times in his career. But what's the lowest number of games that he had? Let's see, he had three, two, four. Yeah, you may be looking at years that he was a backup. Look at years with the Browns. Bad, played one where 12 games, 12 games, nine games, 13 games, and the position of quarterback is so crucial in football that there's no rest built in, there's no time off built in. Unless it's the last game of the season and your team has already clinched, you take the day off. But other than that, you're never given rest. I mean, if you're healthy, you're going to play. If you're not healthy, you're going to play if you can. Everybody's bigger and everybody's faster. You mentioned Larry Little. The guards now are like 340. Look at Proctor, the first round draft pick for the Dolphin. Huge. Doesn't the University of Florida have a 415-pound player? I believe they do. I've got two Greg Cody and Chris Cody lists here. I've got Chris Cody's top 25 scores better than Tyler, Hero, and Miami Heat history. And I also have a great deal of controversy surrounding Greg Cody and his catchphrase list. Uncle Dick, his older brother is on the latest Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody with. And in it, he accuses Greg Cody in Uncle Dick's style of having stolen 12 phrases from him and then because of the general sloppiness of the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody with their only 10 now. I am learning Greg Cody has now listened to the podcast, his own podcast three or four times as he does every week. Usually twice. And he's gone through it and he has found that there are now 10 objections that Uncle Dick has. Can you tell me how it is, Chris? That you guys discovered that Uncle Dick has an assortment of complaints about Greg getting a lot of attention for his list when he doesn't deserve it and one seventh of the list is stolen. Yeah. He presented it as a dirty dozen. 12 of them. He just forgot to do one. He just left it off. So it was 11. But one of them that he actually said wasn't on my dad's top 75. It was just one of my dad's. It was a good one. My place you're in, which my dad's been saying for as long as I can remember. And what was the other one, dad? Like what would the old football coach say that involved urine? Some Phillips used to say about how great Don Schule was that he can take urine players in urine and beat his in. No, he can take his and beat urine and urine and urine and beat his. So you just said that what Bum Phillips said is he can take urine. That was your famous saying for Bum Phillips. I never knew Bum. Oh boy. So there was 10 that he actually were on the list. And for about half of them, he actually had the biggest one. So just get into it. The biggest one that I actually think he has a legit gripe with, Uncle Dick is the creator of. Very good. What? What? I dispute that. What? I was also on his list, but he didn't say it that way, so give us the 10 that he said that he claims. Okay. Number. Well, I'm going to go in order. Number 12. It's all urine. And I say that all the time. I say it as I'm going into a bathroom and the guy coming in. I'm going out. I walk in and I tell him it's all urine, or you say my place of urine, my place of urine. So I do say that. You say that to people coming out of a bathroom. You can answer people. It's all urine. Wow. I can't say my place of urine. Someone said that to me. I feel like they're hitting on somebody. No. My place of urine outside. It's a friendly little as you're walking in there. Well, I just say, hey, it's all urine. No, my place or urine is hitting on you. That's hitting on somebody outside of a bathroom. You're too dirty. No. That is flirting. I don't say that. I don't say that to people going in. I'm going into a bathroom. I say it's all urine. I'm leaving the bathroom. It's all urine. Right. That's funny. How about when I go to the bathroom? No one talks to me. Yeah. It's okay. Just a general rule. I don't follow you into the stall. I mean, I'm just saying I'm being friendly. It's all urine. You're following people into the stall saying, my place or urine? No. You guys are so. This is the head nod when you're walking into the bathroom, or no, you're walking out. I got it. And someone's going in. Right. So I want to know from Greg, answer my question. How many of the catchphrases are you willing to concede our stolen from Uncle Dick? Just give me a number, a number and no elaboration. That's not an easy answer because there's an explanation for everything. How many are stolen? None. Chris Cody. The best that you got to tune in because Uncle Dick, he would be like, you took this one. And we'd be like, how often do you say that? And he'd be like, I say it occasionally, he didn't feel that strongly about any of these. And here's another example. Number 11 on his list was another crisis averted. I say it. another crisis solved, which flows off the tongue a lot better. Another crisis solved flows better. I gave this one on the episode. Thank you. And I never remember my brother saying another crisis averted. And it says the word averted. Another one that slightly, Uncle Dick claims that he invented "he-ha-he" and that my dad took it out to the front yard and took his "he-ha-he" and turned it into "he-ha-three." "He-ha-three." But they-- But they-- Do you-- is he-- is he accurate? Maybe, I don't know. Well, that's a lot of this episode. Neither of them remember anything. OK, "he-ha-he" sounds like a lot more accurate, man. It's an image episode. It's two old people. Literally is-- I don't know. Did you say it? I don't know. It's two, "he-ha-he" and "he-ha-three" are two different things. "he-ha-three." But hey, up. Keep going. All right, number nine. Blank in it. He claims that one. That's mine. I don't know that that's his. Number eight, that's a fact, Jack. Mine. Number seven, you get to eat a peck of dirt before you die. Now. That's doogie, man. That's no doogie. And Uncle Dick's older, so it is-- So he's probably heard it first. So I'm going to give him that. Number six, he did not have an answer. We just went right to five, so that's where the omission was. Number five, it's like a packing house in here. Never heard my brother say that. That is true. I've never heard him say that. Number four, baby. And even if he had that first, his delivery of it is not as good as my dad. So you just get that. OK, number three, he goes, what? Which is a mile and a half from-- [PLAYING] Uncle Dick claims it's like some 50s or 60s radio show that they would listen to, where the DJ would be like, what? And he thinks my dad has turned that radio noise into-- [PLAYING] It's ridiculous. Tony, do it right. If you're going to-- [PLAYING] What? [PLAYING] OK. Number two. Very good. I'm going to partly give my brother credit for that. I can remember as early-- like, my uncle has said-- I don't know. They both have done it. But my uncle, I can picture on the golf course at a very young age, like when I make a putt. Very good. OK, I'm going to give my brother half credit for very good. Half credit. And number one, Trailers for Sailorant, which is a song. OK, we've both heard the song. Which he knew all the lyrics to. You can check out the episode. They go into like a minute them just singing the song. And my dad does his classic, Trailers for Bar-Bar-Dee, and Uncle Dick is like singing all the songs. He does it all the words. Maybe he knows the song better than I, but I'm the one who, outside of the original version, made it famous. Well, several of these, you're claiming that your brother, that it's not his, but that you stole it from someone else. I wouldn't use the word stolen. Like, word, what do you use? If I'm paraphrasing the song, Trailers for Sailorant-- Right, that has become-- You're not paraphrasing. You're quoting the lyrics. You're upgrading the song. If you're mad, if your dad, if your math is not, and I made it famous, then you can just claim anything, because you have a podcast, and he doesn't. He could have a podcast. I tell my brother all the time, he had a podcast. Do you tell me also he should be on Cameo? Uncle Dick Cameo. How much do you think he should charge if he did Cameo? 10 bucks. Greg. Yeah. Your older brother is accusing you of this. And how did this come up in conversation? How did the accusation come up? And you just said a couple of your banger phrases, and there seem to be some real questions about who the inventor was of some of your banger catch phrases that he's alleging are stolen. Well, he gave us 10 examples. His dirty dozen. Eight of them were totally-- Uncle Dick's dirty 10 just doesn't have the same ring to it. I refuted several of them. I gave him part credit for some. It's like, you've got to eat a peg of dirt before you die. You got three minutes, Bob. That's Nellie Dugies. I mean, that's neither of ours. Roy, Roy, you're the only one who knows there are three minutes. It doesn't remind a day. No, it's so good. Never stop. Every day, the rest of the show history. You're the only one who knows there are three minutes left in the segment, and you're giving us clock based on cam ward walking into a press conference that is unfair sound that we have treated poorly and taken out of context, because he walked into a room where only Troy was. And Troy-- Troy's not even a member of the media. Troy is just someone who works on Titan staff and ruse. Every day, he has to go into work, because he thought he was going to work for the NFL and instead, he works for the Titans. You have three minute warning. Chris, where are you on your top 25 list of scorers better than Tyler Hiro and Heat History? All right, so we all agreed that he's 13th, based on my previous segment. No, you had two players in who have never scored a basket for the Miami Heat being better heat scorers. That's right, Yannis. All right, so I'm going to-- I have 10 more names here. You guys could just play yes or no with me here. We can go quick through this. I feel good about a lot of these. Michael Beasley. Yes, clearly. They're off of the fucking offense? No, the greatest score of all time. Obviously not. OK, I think that's really close. Jamal Mashburn. No, yeah. Borderline, debatable. Lamar Odom. No. See, you guys are just doing this thing. They don't know what they're doing. This trick of just like, I'm just talking about a certain thing. I'm just talking about like, who would I-- I'd rather have that dude. I completely understand. Michael Beasley's a bust. Yes. About Beasley, I'm just talking about offense. Everybody. That's all we're talking about in general is just offense. Michael. He's a better score than Tyler here. I'm sorry. No, he's not. No, he's not. He's a different category of-- He's a bucket-getter. He is a bucket-getter. No, that's what Tyler here are. No, that's a different category. Yeah. Bucket-getter means score. Yeah. Yeah. Can I continue? Yeah. You guys are understanding the differences between score and bucket-getter? Jason Williams. Wow. You're an insane person. Oh, no. Yes, yes. Goren Droghitch. Wow, the dragon, yes. No. No. I think a lot of these are close. Antoine Walker. Absolutely. Tipitoo, three guys. Go on. Steve Smith. The smitty. He's talking about unstoppable moves. Smitty on the baseline? I don't like what you're doing. Zaz. Zaz. Zaz. Are you asking me if he has a better hesitation, triple, and top hero? I'm talking about unstoppable move. The smitty. OK. That's your next list, Chris. Unstoppable moves. That's not the game. Ray for Austin. You're a good guy. He has a nickname. You're wasting my time. He's Ann 1. Why are you in the ledges? Sean Marriott. Yes. Sean Marriott. That's right. Sean Marriott. Let's go. It's a better score for the heat. The Sean Marriott. The Glove. Wow. Gary Payne Legends. You're ridiculous. Ricky Davis. Oh, Ricky Davis. Caleb Martin. You got it! You got it! You got it! You thought his day was Kevin Martin. I never knew, bum.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. LeBron James's continued elite performance into his 40s is unprecedented, especially in basketball, where his athleticism and scoring ability surpass the norms of other athletes at that age.
  2. The discussion highlights how modern media has amplified criticism of athletes like LeBron, making it louder, more unreasonable, and increasingly dehumanizing despite being a product of digital access and fan-driven content.
  3. Comparisons are drawn between LeBron and Tom Brady, who also defy age limits in their sports careers, emphasizing that such longevity lacks historical precedent and represents a new era of athletic mastery.
  4. The conversation includes a playful game show segment where participants guess historical records of athletes scoring 40 points or achieving milestones at older ages, revealing a mix of factual knowledge and humor.
  5. A debate arises over the origin of catchphrases used by Greg Cody, with his brother, Uncle Dick, claiming several were stolen; Greg disputes this, asserting many were either invented or independently developed.
  6. The discussion touches on the evolving nature of sports violence and player safety, noting that despite rule changes, quarterbacks still face high-impact hits, and injuries are more common due to increased player size and speed.
  7. Joe Montana and other older players are cited as examples of endurance and resilience in the face of injuries, contrasting with modern players who face greater physical demands.
  8. The episode underscores the cultural shift in sports media, where fan noise and personal opinions dominate coverage, often overshadowing factual analysis and diminishing respect for athletic achievement.

Summary:

The conversation explores the extraordinary longevity and performance of athletes like LeBron James and Tom Brady, emphasizing that their achievements—especially in their 40s—have no historical precedent in sports. LeBron’s ability to maintain elite athleticism and scoring despite being outmatched by younger, faster players is highlighted as both astonishing and underappreciated. The discussion also critiques modern sports media, arguing it has become more volatile and unreasonably critical, driven by digital access and fan-driven opinions, which often dehumanize athletes despite their accomplishments.

A playful game show segment tests knowledge of historical sports records, including age-based milestones, reinforcing how rare such feats are. The episode further delves into a controversy over Greg Cody’s catchphrases, with his brother claiming several were stolen, though Greg disputes this, noting shared or independent origins. The conversation also reflects on the evolution of player safety, pointing out that despite rule changes, high-impact hits on quarterbacks remain common due to increased physicality and size.

Ultimately, the segment celebrates the mastery of modern athletes while questioning the cultural climate of sports criticism and media sensationalism.

FAQs

LeBron James is part of a broad deal with Fanatics that includes using a Fanatics-branded helicopter, which he will continue to use after his playing career ends.

The transcript highlights that LeBron James' athleticism at age 40+ is unprecedented, with comparisons to Tom Brady and Aaron Rogers, and is considered physically extraordinary given the level of competition.

The discussion argues that criticism of athletes has become louder, cooler, and more unreasonable due to changes in sports media, where anyone with a microphone can express opinions, often without facts or earned credibility.

The transcript suggests that Elgin Baylor was the oldest NBA player to score 40 points at age 40, not Michael Jordan, who retired at 38 and did not play at age 40.

Greg Cody's brother, Uncle Dick, claims that several of Greg's catchphrases were stolen from him, citing a 'dirty dozen' of phrases, though Greg disputes this and claims only a few are actually borrowed or misattributed.

The transcript mentions that Roy Worters is credited as the oldest NHL player to score a hat trick, though the specific age and details are not clearly confirmed.

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